California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
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California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
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Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#2Why does this even have to be a law boggles my mind.
I think there are laws against impersonation already. If I went around purporting to sell services in the name of Microsoft, their lawyers would act quickly.
Not that I disagree with this new law
Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#3Why does this even have to be a law boggles my mind. I think there are laws against impersonation already. If I went around purporting to sell services in the name of Microsoft, their lawyers would act quickly. Not that I disagree with this new law
Maybe the apps thought they were doing the restaurants and users both a service, but not every restaurant always feels that way.
Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#4Why does this even have to be a law boggles my mind. I think there are laws against impersonation already. If I went around purporting to sell services in the name of Microsoft, their lawyers would act quickly. Not that I disagree with this new law
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Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#5Why does this even have to be a law boggles my mind. I think there are laws against impersonation already. If I went around purporting to sell services in the name of Microsoft, their lawyers would act quickly. Not that I disagree with this new law
The law is not just about impersonation, it says the platform can't arrange for delivery of food without having an agreement with a restaurant. So if it's not impersonating anybody, and just orders food on your behalf with you knowing it's a middleman, that would still violate the law, if I understood correctly. I think that wouldn't normally be illegal because it's not generally illegal to do things on others' behalf (there would need to be misrepresentation of some sort), so if they want to ban that they would need a law.
This is the entirety of the law, by the way:
> 22599. A food delivery platform shall not arrange for the delivery of an order from a food facility without first obtaining an agreement with the food facility expressly authorizing the food delivery platform to take orders and deliver meals prepared by the food facility.
Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#6There was a post a few months go about a pizza place that started getting customers complaining about their food arriving cold and damaged: except they didn't offer delivery. They discovered that a popular search engine was offering free delivery. The story ended with them ordering dozens of pizzas from themselves to themselves and making a nice profit.
Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#7Why does this even have to be a law boggles my mind. I think there are laws against impersonation already. If I went around purporting to sell services in the name of Microsoft, their lawyers would act quickly. Not that I disagree with this new law
The law is not just about impersonation, it says the platform can't arrange for delivery of food without having an agreement with a restaurant. So if it's not impersonating anybody, and just orders food on your behalf with you knowing it's a middleman, that would still violate the law, if I understood correctly. I think that wouldn't normally be illegal because it's not generally illegal to do things on others' behal…
I'm not even sure it's buying on anyone's "behalf" either. But rather just buying and then reselling goods.
Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#8Why does this even have to be a law boggles my mind. I think there are laws against impersonation already. If I went around purporting to sell services in the name of Microsoft, their lawyers would act quickly. Not that I disagree with this new law
Maybe the apps thought they were doing the restaurants and users both a service, but not every restaurant always feels that way.
no, this was just another means of money extortion. they masquerade around like the companies they're preying on, then effectively blackmail those companies for connecting them to these customers.
unnecessary man in the middle. they're essentially the capitalist version of the cymothoa exigua parasite species.
Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#9This is a silly law. If someone feels like sending a courier to buy take away then that should be legal.
Re: California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
#10Why does this even have to be a law boggles my mind. I think there are laws against impersonation already. If I went around purporting to sell services in the name of Microsoft, their lawyers would act quickly. Not that I disagree with this new law
The law is taking a food safety angle: restaurants have a duty of care to their customers, which extends through the delivery chain.