{"id":11249,"date":"2023-03-28T16:24:57","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=11249"},"modified":"2023-03-28T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T16:24:57","slug":"uber-eats-ghost-kitchens-shut-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gustavopineda.com\/?p=11249","title":{"rendered":"Uber Eats wants to shut down those fake ‘ghost kitchens’ in your neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the more scammy practices on delivery apps is getting curbed on Uber Eats<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The spin-off service from Uber’s ride-share app is going to substantially reduce the number of “virtual restaurants” on its app, per the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. These are delivery-only restaurants that may not have a true physical home, or are listed at the same address as another restaurant because they’re actually run by that other restaurant. <\/p>\n

According to the WSJ report, Uber Eats is now home to more than 40,000 virtual restaurants (or “ghost kitchens”), up from just 10,000 in 2021. <\/p>\n

The same report gave a few examples of the kind of thing Uber Eats wants to remove from the app, like a New York City deli listing the same menu under 14 (!!!) different names.<\/p>\n

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To be clear, Uber Eats is only cracking down on the extreme cases, with plans to remove about 5,000 of those ghost kitchens from the app. <\/p>\n

Creating a virtual restaurant is not only allowed on Uber Eats, but there’s an entire webpage<\/a> with new official guidelines on how to do it. For instance, a virtual restaurant’s menu needs to be at least 60 percent different from the menu at its parent restaurant or any other businesses operating out of the same venue. <\/p>\n

In the meantime, always use Google Maps to find out if the place you’re ordering from is actually real or not.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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