NH Business Review
Measure would require individual agreements with restaurants
May 6, 2021
Lawmakers in the New Hampshire Senate are moving to regulate the way third-party food delivery apps work with local restaurants, citing complaints that the apps have listed some restaurants without their knowledge.
In a vote Tuesday morning, members of the Senate Commerce and Consumer Affairs Committee recommended, 5-0, to require that food delivery apps enter into explicit agreements with the restaurants before adding them to their apps.
The proposed law, Senate Bill 593, would affect popular phone apps like DoorDash, Grubhub, and Uber Eats. It would require express authorization for the food app “to take orders and deliver meals prepared by the food service establishment or retail food store.”