Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants

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Post by daenz » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:09 PM UTC

Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants
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Post by lucasyvas » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:22 PM UTC

While a wonderful gesture, something about this feels a bit... tangential to the real issue to me in a way that's distracting. Am I off base here? It feels like it's leaning toward opportunistic.

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Post by SpicyLemonZest » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

I respect what they're going for here, but an explicitly race-based discount seems very illegal.

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:31 PM UTC

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Post by throwawaysea » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:32 PM UTC

This seems racist in a very explicit manner.

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Post by HaloZero » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:33 PM UTC

lucasyvas wrote: post #2

While a wonderful gesture, something about this feels a bit... tangential to the real issue to me in a way that's distracting. Am I off base here? It feels like it's leaning toward opportunistic.

It's virtue signaling 100% from a corporation. But w/e.

I won't consider Uber to be "good corporate citizen" for it. But it helps a bunch of small restaurants in a time period where margins are tight so net positive maybe?

At least they're putting money down on it vs just issuing some statement.

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Post by denago » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:33 PM UTC

lucasyvas wrote: post #2

While a wonderful gesture, something about this feels a bit... tangential to the real issue to me in a way that's distracting. Am I off base here? It feels like it's leaning toward opportunistic.

Feel the same way, curious how long the gesture lasts and where they end up accounting the loss

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Post by BiteCode_dev » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:35 PM UTC

lucasyvas wrote: post #2

While a wonderful gesture, something about this feels a bit... tangential to the real issue to me in a way that's distracting. Am I off base here? It feels like it's leaning toward opportunistic.

Something can be both.

And we can enjoy the bright side of it, while not being naive.

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Post by ThrowawayBandit » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

lucasyvas wrote: post #2

While a wonderful gesture, something about this feels a bit... tangential to the real issue to me in a way that's distracting. Am I off base here? It feels like it's leaning toward opportunistic.

How is that a wonderful gesture?

This is a corporate PR stunt that has nothing to do with anything and that perpetuates racial discrimination.

This is awful.

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Post by kmfrk » Sat, Jun 06, 2020, 4:38 PM UTC

lucasyvas wrote: post #2

While a wonderful gesture, something about this feels a bit... tangential to the real issue to me in a way that's distracting. Am I off base here? It feels like it's leaning toward opportunistic.

It's less a ploy to make Uber Eats look good than one to make people feel less bad about using Uber Eats.