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Ordinance#211131Passed
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This ordinance defines "core delivery service" for food delivery companies and allows them to charge restaurants a maximum of 15% per order fee for this service without additional costs. It also requires these companies to inform restaurants about this option and to clearly outline all fees in their contracts.

Ordinance amending the Police Code to define core delivery service to mean a service that both lists a covered establishment on all of a third-party food delivery service’s platforms, including websites and mobile applications, and facilitates and/or performs delivery of food and/or beverages from the establishment; to exempt from the 15% cap on per-order fees, starting January 31, 2023, third-party food delivery services that offer restaurants the option to obtain only core delivery service at a cost of no more than 15% of the purchase price of an online order without requiring the purchase of additional services, and that notify all covered establishments with which the third-party food delivery services have an existing contract of this option no later than December 1, 2022; and to require that contracts between a third-party food delivery service and a covered establishment clearly define the fees, commissions, or charges associated with contracted services.

Introduced: Jun 28, 2022
Final action: Jul 28, 2022
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How it got here

Related / predecessor legislation
↑ predecessor#200398— not yet in database
↑ predecessor#201256— not yet in database
↑ predecessor#210492— not yet in database
↑ predecessor#210708— not yet in database
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How they voted

PASSED ON FIRST READING
Board of Supervisors · Jul 19, 2022Pass
5-0
RECOMMENDED
Rules Committee · Jul 11, 2022Pass
2-0

Legislative journey

PresidentOct 26, 2021
ASSIGNED UNDER 30 DAY RULE
Clerk of the BoardNov 4, 2021
REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
PresidentJan 13, 2022 – Jun 28, 2022
·TRANSFERRED
SUBSTITUTED AND ASSIGNED
Clerk of the BoardJul 1, 2022
REFERRED TO DEPARTMENT
Rules CommitteeJul 11, 2022
RECOMMENDEDPass
Board of SupervisorsJul 19, 2022 – Jul 26, 2022
PASSED ON FIRST READINGPass
FINALLY PASSEDPass
MayorJul 28, 2022
APPROVED