DoorDash and Grubhub indicated they’ll continue to grow their policy apparatuses even after the pandemic ends.
Consumer and small business advocates are lobbying the FTC to investigate alleged anti-competitive practices among the four major apps.
In the past year, as restaurants closed their doors to diners during the pandemic and became more reliant on the delivery apps that used to provide a sliver of their annual sales, Silicon Valley’s venture capital-backed food delivery darlings established roots in Washington.
In April 2020, DoorDash Inc. hired its first outside lobbying firm and then brought on a second and third firm before the end of the year, per congressional lobbying disclosures. Postmates Inc., prior to its December 2020 acquisition by Uber Technologies Inc., ratcheted up its lobbying efforts by hiring a second firm for the first time in three years and upping its typical budget of $30,000 per quarter to $110,000 that was spent in the last quarter of 2020. And G
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Donald Trump s cabinet and associates have been described as exhausting, impossible and often stingy by a waitress at a high-end Washington DC restaurant who served many of them.
Moe Tkacik, a self-described Bernie Sanders supporter, told how Stephen Miller, Trump s chief speechwriter, expected exhausting detail about his caviar, while multi-millionaire Trump insiders, such as commerce secretary Wilbur Ross and chief economic adviser Gary Cohn, were mean with their gratuities.
The wife of the treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin, Louise Linton, had so many dietary restrictions the whole meal was just awkward, Tkacik wrote in Slate.
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