NYC will not enforce restaurant customer data-sharing law while DoorDash sues

  • 10/5/2021
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NEW YORK, Oct 5 (Reuters) - New York City agreed to hold off on requiring food delivery companies to share customer data with restaurants, the subject of a recent lawsuit by DoorDash Inc (DASH.N). In a joint filing on Monday with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan, the city said it will not enforce a new law requiring the disclosures while the lawsuit is pending, and DoorDash withdrew its request for an injunction to block enforcement. DoorDash sued the city on Sept. 15, calling a requirement that food delivery app companies provide customers" names, phone numbers, email addresses and delivery addresses to restaurants a "shocking and invasive intrusion of consumers" privacy." The San Francisco-based company also said the law would let restaurants "free-ride" on data they would not demand from in-person diners. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, New York City has tried to help restaurants that had resisted food delivery app fees as high as 30%, but which became more dependent on delivery as dining rooms closed or limited capacity and people ate at home. In a separate case, DoorDash and rivals Grubhub Inc and Uber Eats (UBER.N) sued the city on Sept. 9 over a law capping fees that delivery companies charge restaurants. They said that law has cost them hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. The case is DoorDash Inc v City of New York, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 21-07695.

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