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Say you're the restaurant, I'm the delivery guy. I pickup your meals and deliver them to your customers. On the way the meals go cold (or hot) and get damaged.
by foobar1962 6y ago
Say you're the restaurant, I'm the delivery guy. I pickup your meals and deliver them to your customers. On the way the meals go cold (or hot) and get damaged. Your customers aren't happy and want their money back.
My actions have made your service look bad, your customers unhappy and cost you money. You didn't know I was delivering your food!
- kflzufkrbzi 6y agoAs someone who is working on food delivery in Europe it's weird to even consider someone delivering food without the restaurants approval. I guess it's the only way to scale extremely fast but still it seems counterproductive to me.
- jopsen 6y agoIsn't this exactly the kind of thing trademark laws is supposed to cover? I'm pretty sure that if you tried to resell food at scale from a major fast food franchise without proper licensing, you would get sued.
- enragedcacti 6y agoThe major fast food franchises aren't the people this law is protecting, its Joe Blow's Pizza Shack that can't afford a lawsuit against Doordash.
- toast0 6y agoTrademark law could prevent me from pretending to be the restaurant. If they had a defensible trademark and time and money to litigate. It doesn't really prevent me from acting as a middle man. I'd need to be careful about using their trademarks and making it clear that I'm not connected. The concept of first sale certainly applies, although health code makes it complex. There's also the concept of the right to refuse service.