Uber sues DoorDash, alleging anti-competitive tactics

Ride-Shayer giant Uber filed a case against Dordash on Friday, fearing the exclusive agreement of the restaurant owners, accusing the delivery outpit competition.

Uber suit -complains in mocadamtamt, California’s Superior Court has been filed that its main rival restaurants just bullied to work Dord Uber claims that Dordash, which contains the largest part of the food supply in the United States, threatens restaurants with the removal or decrease in business positions in the Dordash app.

Specifically, Uber claims that Dordash restoned the exclusive or adjacent or adjacent contracts for first-party distribution services, which means that the doodash restaurants had just stored through its own websites, Uber said.

A spokesman for Dordash in an email to TechCrunch on Friday said, “The Uber case has no qualifications. “Their claims are baseless and on the basis of the inability to offer a quality alternative to customers or courier.”

Dordash and Uber Its restaurants, best known for their respective applications for connecting customers and gig economy staff. Customers use applications to find and order food like pizza, egg rolls or pad Thai from restaurants. A Gig Economy worker then picks the customer and provides food.

However, the two companies also compete with their own White-Lelly Delivery Services-the direct and Dordash Drive on-decimand-both which were launched in 2021, while Uber and Dordash operated courier behind the screen.

In his case, Uber claims that Dordash conducts first party distribution for more than 90% of the largest enterprise restaurants in the United States and complains that Dordash used anticipative practice to win the market.

“More than 1 million merchant partners with Uber Ets because we helped them reach more customers and provided them to decide how they want to increase their business with delivery,” Uber Chief Sarfaz Maridia for delivery, “said in an email statement. “We have heard the strategies of the Dordash and we are punishing them for a better alternative. Could take ”.

In an example from the case, Uber states that an anonymous “significant restaurant company” has told the agency that it will not proceed with the long -planned rollout of Uber Direct across several restaurant brands. Uber claims that Dordash has alleged that Uber has threatened to increase the rates that charge to the restaurant company to use Dordash third -party distribution services when it continues to use Uber.

Uber says that it was not one-off event, but rather to multiple customer agencies that they said “they have a gun in their head” that doodash is an ‘exclusive’, and they are being slaughtered by Dordash. “

Uber requested a jury to judge; The company did not specify the loss in the complaint. However, Uber has claimed that the “millions of dollars revenue” for these anticative practices has been spent on the company and the Uber Direct growth has also been restricted.