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The Mercury News » Food Delivery
9M ago
By Samantha Delouya | CNN
A judge has blocked New York City’s minimum wage law for food delivery workers from going into effect on July 12 until there is a hearing for a lawsuit filed by DoorDash and Grubhub against the city.
The law, announced last month, would increase pay for app delivery workers to $17.96 per hour before tips on July 12 and bump up the minimum wage to nearly $20 per hour in April 2025. Delivery worker pay would also be adjusted annually for inflation.
However, a lawsuit filed jointly by DoorDash and Grubhub to the Supreme Court of the State of New York alleges that the cit ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
Federal workplace regulators have fined San Jose food-delivery startup Locale $140,000 for employing more than six dozen teenaged drivers in violation of child-labor law.
The drivers, aged 16 and 17, made deliveries for Locale between July 2020 and July 2021, U.S. Department of Labor officials said Wednesday.
“Performing time-sensitive deliveries has the potential for an inexperienced driver to get into a car accident and hurt either themselves or somebody else,” said Martin Otero, an Oakland-based community-outreach specialist for the department.
Federal authorities were not aware of any acci ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
LOS GATOS — Jonathan Friedland wondered why his favorite local bakery, Manresa Bread, wasn’t using food-delivery services such as DoorDash or Uber Eats, especially during a pandemic shutdown that kept customers home.
The simple answer, he learned, is that some restaurants and eateries that partner with those widely popular apps can’t know ahead of time how much food they’ll need in stock when orders start flooding in at rush hour. Miscalculations can lead to shortages or waste, sometimes a combination of both.
Friedland, a 2019 UCLA engineering graduate, began investigating how to solve that p ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
A “micro food hall” that showcases Bay Area food favorites is set to open in Los Gatos and Campbell this summer.
Local Kitchens is a new dining concept that allows diners to mix and match their order from various restaurants in a single order.
“So let’s say you’re a family of four, and the dad wanted a bowl of curry, the mom wanted a sandwich, and the kids wanted chicken nuggets. They all could order from the five to 10 (restaurant) concepts on that one iPad kiosk,” said Hannah Koury, spokesperson for Local Kitchens.
The Los Gatos Local Kitchens will be located at the former Pizza Studio site ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
Robots might be taking over the world, and the pandemic could be hastening the takeover. But if you ask the people at Starship Technologies, that’s a good thing.
Starship, with headquarters in San Francisco and an engineering center in Estonia, is an autonomous robot delivery company, started in 2014 by two of the founding members of Skype.
The company’s robots are equipped with an array of sensors and cameras, and an empty hull that can be filled with groceries, meals or packages before rolling off on their six wheels to take goods to someone’s doorstep.
Around the U.S. in cities and on colle ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
PLEASANTON — The robots are coming.
With groceries.
Grocery delivery via robot is now available from the Lucky California supermarket in Pleasanton to about 1,500 homes nearby, after the grocer announced a partnership Wednesday with San Francisco company Starship Technologies.
“I can’t wait to receive my first delivery at my home,” Pleasanton Mayor Carla Brown said Wednesday during an unveiling of the robot fleet at the Lucky store.
The concept is pretty simple. People who want their groceries delivered can download the Starship app, pick out items on the app and pay. A grocery store employee ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
By DEE-ANN DURBIN | The Associated Press
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Robot food delivery is no longer the stuff of science fiction. But you may not see it in your neighborhood anytime soon.
Hundreds of little robots – knee-high and able to hold around four large pizzas – are now navigating college campuses and even some city sidewalks in the U.S., the U.K. and elsewhere. While robots were being tested in limited numbers before the coronavirus hit, the companies building them say pandemic-related labor shortages and a growing preference for contactless delivery have accelerated their deployment.
“We saw ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
By Danielle Wiener-Bronner | CNN Business
Amazon Prime users must soon say goodbye to free Whole Foods delivery.
Starting on October 25, every Whole Foods delivery order placed through Amazon Prime will include a $9.95 delivery charge. Amazon Prime members were notified of the change via email Friday.
The new fee is designed to help cover operating costs associated with delivery like equipment and technology without raising grocery prices, a Whole Foods spokesperson said, noting that Whole Foods delivered three times as many orders in 2020 as it did in 2019. Whole Foods piloted the new fee in ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
As COVID-19 spread across Santa Clara County in March 2020, local charities heard the first pleas for help and developed a new food distribution system that would get 17 million free meals to the community in the first year and a half of the pandemic.
Before the pandemic, Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County served an average of 40,000 people a year. But organizations including Second Harvest, Catholic Charities, and other members of Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster predicted the impending hunger crisis. An estimated 153,600 jobs were lost in the county in March and April, 2 ..read more
The Mercury News » Food Delivery
1y ago
Locale expands
Locale, a boutique South Bay delivery service started by Los Gatos High School alumni, is expanding its delivery zone to the East Bay. The delivery service partners with local businesses, curating a list of more than 50 places they deliver from, including Manresa Bread, Cowgirl Creamery and Oren’s Hummus.
Locale started during the COVID-19 pandemic as a way to bring local goods to homebound residents. Goods from the South Bay are now available to residents of Walnut Creek, Dublin and Pleasanton via https://www.shoplocale.us.
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