Bill Quirk voted Yea (Concurrence Vote) on this Legislation.
Title: Prohibits Delivery Platforms from Charging Restaurants for Forwarded Calls
Title: Prohibits Delivery Platforms from Charging Restaurants for Forwarded Calls
Vote to concur with Senate amendments and pass a bill that prohibits delivery platforms from charging restaurants for forwarded calls unless those calls resulted in an order.
Specifies that a food delivery platform shall not arrange for the delivery or pickup of an order from a food facility without first obtaining a written agreement with the food facility expressly authorizing the food delivery platform to take orders and deliver or pickup meals prepared by the food facility (Sec. 3)
Establishes that this legislation will all of the following (Sec. 3):
Web-based platforms that provide information about food delivery services should provide accurate business information, and consumers have the right to know who they are doing business with;
The Legislature believes that it is an unethical business practice to reroute telephone calls without consumer consent or knowledge through a third-party platform in order for the third-party platform to collect a referral fee, and third-party platforms should not charge food establishments for calls routed through their service that do not result in orders; and
The Legislature considers the practice of leading customers to believe they are ordering directly from a food establishment, when they are actually being rerouted through a third-party platform in order to charge a referral fee, counter to public policy.
Specifies that the written agreement will clearly and conspicuously disclose all of the following (Sec. 4):
All possible charges or fees the food delivery platform may levy on the food facility;
Detailed information of how each possible charge or fee may be applied to the food facility;
An estimation of each charge or fee and the percentage costs associated with them;
Listing websites that are partnered with the food delivery platform; and
The clear and conspicuous disclosures will be placed immediately above the signature line in the written agreement between the food delivery platform and food facility.
Title: Prohibits Delivery Platforms from Charging Restaurants for Forwarded Calls
Title: Prohibits Delivery Platforms from Charging Restaurants for Forwarded Calls
Title: Prohibits Delivery Platforms from Charging Restaurants for Forwarded Calls