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December 22, 2020
Fees temporarily capped for food delivery services
Restaurants and hospitality businesses that are experiencing unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic will be provided with immediate relief from the fees charged by food delivery companies, the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General announced today.
“Local restaurants and businesses play a vital role in our communities, and they have experienced a significant decline in sales and traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. “Capping food service delivery fees is another way our government is providing immediate relief to our local businesses to ensure they can focus on retaining staff and keeping their business running.”
The B.C. government has announced a temporary cap on delivery fees to help restaurants and hospitality businesses struggling with high costs during the pandemic.
Effective Dec. 27, food delivery service providers must not charge a restaurant more than 15 per cent of the total cost of the customer order, before taxes, for delivery services.
To make sure that delivery companies don’t shift their costs or charge restaurants under different fees, an additional five per cent cap of the total meal cost, before taxes, has been introduced for other related services, such as online ordering and processing fees.
The order comes from the creation of an Emergency Program Act order from the B.C. Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General to help restaurants that have been struggling for months to keep up with high fees charged by third-party food delivery companies.
Fees capped for food delivery services in BC to 15%
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Restaurants and hospitality businesses experiencing unprecedented challenges during the pandemic received immediate relief from fees charged by food delivery companies.
“Local restaurants and businesses play a vital role in our communities, and they have experienced a significant decline in sales and traffic due to the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Mike Farnworth, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General.
“Capping food service delivery fees is another way our government is providing immediate relief to our local businesses to ensure they can focus on retaining staff and keeping their business running.”
December 21, 2020 - 2:30 PM VICTORIA - B.C. has loosened eligibility requirements for small and medium-sized businesses applying for grants to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Ravi Kahlon, the minister of jobs and economic recovery, says businesses must show a revenue drop of 30 per cent instead of 50 per cent since March as part of the criteria to qualify for grants from $10,000 to $30,000. He says tourism businesses will now be eligible for up to $45,000 in non-repayable grant funding, and the tourism minister will announce more supports for the sector on Tuesday. Kahlon says businesses previously had to be operating for three years in order to get funding, but that requirement has been reduced to 18 months.
Winnipeg Free Press By: The Canadian Press
VICTORIA - British Columbia government has loosened eligibility requirements for small and medium-sized businesses applying for grants to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
VICTORIA - British Columbia government has loosened eligibility requirements for small and medium-sized businesses applying for grants to survive the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ravi Kahlon, the minister of jobs and economic recovery, says businesses must show a revenue drop of 30 per cent instead of 50 per cent since March as part of the criteria to qualify for grants from $10,000 to $30,000.
He says tourism businesses will now be eligible for up to $45,000 in non-repayable grant funding, and the tourism minister will announce more supports for the sector on Tuesday.