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Seattle City Council weighs permanent cap on food delivery fees
The Seattle City Council is considering a permanent cap on how much services like Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub can charge restaurants to deliver their food.
When Seattle's then-Mayor Jenny Durkan issued the city's civil emergency order at the outset of the pandemic in April 2020, she included a provision that limited third-party food delivery commissions to 15% of a total order.
On Wednesday, the council's economic development committee advanced a measure to make that cap permanent, led by Councilmembers Alex Pedersen and Dan Strauss.
If approved, the measure would keep the limit on commissions to 15%. Before the cap, restaurants paid as much as 30%.
https://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/news/2022/07/27/food-delivery-fees.html