Ride-Share Giant Uber filed a lawsuit on Friday against Doordash, accusing the receiving uniforms of suffocating competition by intimidating restaurant owners in exclusive deals.
Uber claims the lawsuit, which was filed in the California Supreme Court, claims that the chief competing restaurant in work with Doordash only. Uber claims that Doordash, which carries the largest share of the food delivery market in the United States, threatens restaurants with millions of dollars in sanctions, or remove or reduce companies’ location on the Doordash application.
Specifically, Uber claims that Doordash presses restaurants to conclude exclusive or semi -exclusive agreements for first -party delivery services, which means that Doordash insists on dealing with requests that are set only through private restaurant sites, says Uber.
“The Uber case has no advantage,” a spokesman for DooDash said in an e -mail to Techcrunch on Friday. “Their claims are unfounded and based on their inability to provide an alternative to merchants, consumers, or pursers, a quality alternative.”
Doordash and Uber Eats are famous for their applications to connect restaurants, consumers and economics. Consumers use applications to find food and order it like pizza, egg rolls or Thai plate of restaurants. Then the economy factor picks up disturbing and handing over the food to the consumer.
But the two companies also compete with its white brand delivery services-called Uber Direct and DooDash Drive on request-which were launched in 2020. These services are cheaper for restaurants, allowing beneficiaries to request directly from private restaurant applications and web sites, while running Uber and Doordash Monsters behind the scenes.
Uber claims in its suit that Doordash treats the first -party delivery operations of more than 90 % of the largest institution restaurants in America, and claims that Doordash used anti -competition practices to win the market.
“More than a million merchants participate with Uber Eber because we helped them reach more customers and gave them freedom to determine how they wanted to develop their business with delivery,” he said in a statement via e -mail. “We have increasingly heard complaints from restaurants that limit DooRdash tactics this freedom and punish them to search for better options. We hope this deposit will end up for these unfair practices so that restaurants can choose what is better for them without fear of punishment or revenge.”
In one of the examples of the lawsuit, Uber says that a “large restaurant company” did not reveal its name, the company told that it will not move forward by presenting a plan ago for a long time from Uber Direct across many of its brands. The reason, as Uber claims, is that Doordash has threatened to increase the rates that the restaurant company receives to use third -party delivery services from Doordash if it continues to use Uber Direct.
Uber says this was not a single event, but that many customers told the company that they feel that they were “a gun in their head”, that Doodash is “a monopoly”, and that they are being intimidated by Doordash “
Uber request to try a jury; The company did not specify the amount of damage to the complaint. However, Uber claims that these anti -competition practices have cost the company “millions of dollars in revenue” and also restricting the growth of Uber Direct.
