Bay Area Sports DoorDash Delivery Guy Walks Onto Floor During Basketball Game, Internet Debates If It Was Publicity Stunt Wednesday night’s Loyola Chicago-Duquesne college basketball game was interrupted by a fake DoorDash delivery person wandering onto the court, and angry school officials insist it was a publicity stunt.
Business & Tech DoorDash and Grubhub 'Pause' Their Lawsuit Over SF’s 15% Delivery Fee Cap, Offer ‘Opt-In’ Compromise The dominant food delivery apps Gruhhub and DoorDash "have paused" their lawsuit over San Francisco’s 15% delivery fee cap, and instead pushing a compromise deal where restaurants can agree to pay more for better visibility in the app.
SF News DoorDash Driver Pleads Guilty to Strangling, Threatening to Kill Someone Who Told Him the Mask Goes Over Your Nose A South San Francisco DoorDash delivery went south when a liquor store clerk reminded a DoorDash driver that the mask goes over your nose, which resulted in a death threat and attempted strangulation.
Business & Tech DoorDash Engineers Furious They Have to Deliver Food Once a Month The delivery service DoorDash is requiring employees with cushy desk jobs to perform a couple deliveries every month. Some of the cushy-desk-job types are throwing fits about it.
Business & Tech DoorDash Settles for $5.3 Million Over Stiffing Drivers Out of Health Care and Sick Leave New city attorney David Chiu’s first big settlement means cash in the hands of some 4,500 local DoorDash drivers who had tips swiped and didn’t get mandated benefits, with some drivers getting more than $10,000.
SF News One DoorDash Carjacking Kidnapper Indicted on 12 Counts, Other to be Arraigned Friday Morning The duo who in February allegedly stole a DoorDash delivery van with two toddlers in the backseat have been in County Jail ever since, and their grand jury indictments are being handed down this week.
Business & Tech Reddit's Five-Second Super Bowl Ad Outshines Bigger Spends By Uber Eats, DoorDash Following a week in which Reddit was center stage in one of the biggest stories in the country — the Gamestop thing — the San Francisco company decided to buy five seconds of ad time to talk about that, in text.
SF News DoorDash Founders Become Billionaires After Company Goes Public On Wednesday, the San Francisco-based food delivery app offered its first IPO — which, in just a day's time, has made its three co-founders overnight billionaires.
SF News SF-Based DoorDash Planning IPO as Revenue Doubles to $1.9B This Year After clearly waiting for Proposition 22 to pass in California, DoorDash has put in motion plans to go public after filing papers that signaled its intent to do so on Friday.
SF Politics Uber and Lyft’s Prop 22 Only Up By 3 Points in Poll, Despite $186 Million War Chest An all-time California record of campaign cash has not yet sealed the deal for Lyft and Uber in their campaign to ensure their drivers are not classified as employees.
SF Politics DA Boudin Seeks Injunction To Force DoorDash To Make Its Drivers Employees Boudin had already sued DoorDash in June over classifying drivers as contractors, now he wants a court order demanding that they hire their drivers as employees before the October trial.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink After SF Restaurant Complains, DoorDash Apologizes For 'Error' In Which It Was Violating 15% Fee Cap DoorDash, which like other delivery apps must abide by a 15-percent delivery commission cap in San Francisco that was imposed back in April, was charging at least 10 local restaurants an outrageous 30-percent fee on delivery and pickup orders as recently as this week.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Class Action Suit Claims Delivery Apps Are Using ‘Monopoly Power’ To Increase Meal Prices Ever felt a bit say, ripped off by a delivery-app order? A recent class-action lawsuit filed in New York claims companies like Bay Area-based Uber Eats and Postmates have “monopoly power,” unfairly charging diners inflated amounts for meals that might otherwise be cheaper.
Business & Tech Gig Workers Uniquely Vulnerable to Coronavirus, No Employee Protections in Place Many on-demand delivery companies are cleaning up as the shut-in economy surges, but the rideshare industry is taking a hit, and gig workers are forced to put in extra work under high-risk conditions.
SF News Another DoorDash Driver Is Caught Stealing a Package A second DoorDash driver, this time in Santa Clara, was caught on surveillance video being a porch pirate just moments after handing off a bag of food to a customer.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DoorDash Acquires Caviar To Create SF-Based Delivery App Empire The delivery-app wars are seeing some consolidation as SF-based DoorDash announces the acquisition of rival Caviar for $410 million. That's a tidy return for Square, which was the last buyer of Caviar back in 2014, when the price was $90 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Eat24 Is Now Delivering Via Robot In The Mission And Potrero Another service has officially entered the fray to make us put up with their delivery bots on our sidewalks, and that's Yelp's Eat24, which just launched robot deliveries in the Mission and Potrero
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink DoorDash Delivery Robots Now Crawling Bay Area Sidewalks Spotted in Redwood City- testing Doordash delivery vehicle pic.twitter.com/uF3mBpMT7O— Lou Hong (@louhong) March 10, 2017 They may not be the Star Wars-style droids we were looking for, but they say
SF News Your UberX Driver Is Also Probably Your Postmates And Washio Delivery Person A new survey by a dubiously named outfit called SherpaShare which itself is a service portal for workers in the gig/sharing economy confirms that many drivers for services like Uber and Lyft
