“Even if there is language in the contract, I suspect many restaurateurs don’t understand what it means: That they are losing control of their business.” “There’s certainly ethical questions,” Andrew Rigie, executive director of the New York City Hospitality Alliance, told The Post. 345 Steakhouse confirmed its lower prices when contacted by The Post.
The Seamless Web site for 354 Steakhouse in Cliffside Park, NJ, charges $7.95 for onion soup, or $1 more than the restaurant itself charges, while the 26-ounce porterhouse for one costs $43.95 via Seamless - or $2 more than the restaurant’s actual price. But on Grubhub’s dummy site, many of the same salads cost $11 or $11.25. While the duplicate Web sites typically have the same menu as the restaurants do, the prices can be higher than the prices customers would have paid if they had ordered from these restaurants directly, the data shows.įor example, all of the signature salads on Chicago Salad House’s Web site, cost $10. In all cases reviewed by The Post, Grubhub’s copycat sites use the restaurants’ logos - even as they direct customers to its Grubhub and Seamless sites. In some cases, Grubhub creates a version of an existing restaurant site by changing a dot-com to a dot-net. The online food-ordering giant, which also owns Seamless and Menupages, has scooped up more than 34,000 URLs since 2010 with names that are similar to restaurants’ own Web addresses, according to a database obtained by The Post. Grubhub has created thousands of Web sites that masquerade as the sites of restaurants - a practice that can jack up prices for hungry customers, The Post has learned. Grubhub lobbies to loosen NYC's pandemic-era fee cap law - as it sues city 'Outraged': NYC restaurants blast Grubhub over 'phony' lobbying pushĭidn't make a Valentine's Day reservation? Get Grubhub+ free, and enjoy 20% offĦ-year-old orders nearly $1.5K in pizza, jumbo shrimp and 'endless' chili fries on dad's phone
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