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Some relief is on the way for Albany County restaurants struggling to survive the pandemic.
Albany area state Assemblywoman Pat Fahy recently introduced a bill to cap the fees third-party delivery services like DoorDash and GrubHub charge restaurants for delivery services.
“We’ve been trying to draw attention to the plate and really encouraging more customers to do takeout to sit outdoors and what have you. We ve also been urging Congress to pass the Restaurants Act as part of this next stimulus package to help the small, independent restaurants. But then I ve also raised the question of why shut down the New York City restaurants where we ve already lost tens of thousands of employees. Why shut them down? If at this point, they re only showing infection rates of 1.4%? So I think that, I know we re at a very precarious time with infection rates going up. But we really have to be mindful of the fact that this industry is being, this this entire sector is being devastated.”
ALBANY, N.Y. â Albany County Legislature Chairman Andrew Joyce and members of the Albany County Legislature are working with Albany County Executive Daniel McCoy to impose a cap on fees third-party delivery companies that charge a business for their service.
McCoy recently announced an Executive Order capping fees and Joyce announced that the Legislature would be introducing a local law that would give restaurants the ability to seek relief and enforcement and to commence legal action if necessary.
Joyce and McCoy announced the measures which restricts a delivery company from charging no higher than 15% of the purchase price during the state of emergency. The local law is expected to pass in early 2021.