Deliveroo

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Deliveroo
legal form Limited
founding 2013
Seat London , UKUnited KingdomUnited Kingdom 
management Will Shu and Greg Orlowski
sales 275 million US dollars
Branch Online services
Website https://deliveroo.de

Deliveroo is a British online delivery service that supplies its customers with dishes from various partner restaurants. It was founded in 2013 by Will Shu and Greg Orlowski in London . The company now also operates in the Netherlands , France , Belgium , Ireland , Spain , Italy , Australia , Singapore , Dubai and Hong Kong . The company operates in the gig economy , placing small jobs with drivers who are formally freelance or marginally employed . Business activities in Germany ceased at the beginning of August 2019.

Employee

Deliveroo bike courier

The drivers at Deliveroo are not employed , but are, just like the competitors, employed as independent small businesses .

Some therefore accuse the company of employing bogus self-employed . The Tagesspiegel wrote about the employees that strikes are not intended for the self-employed and that there are hardly any opportunities for effective complaints.

In the summer of 2016, Deliveroo introduced a new remuneration system for its drivers in the UK, which led to a six-day protest from drivers. In the new contracts, only food couriers who are ready to drive to new delivery areas should receive a concession.

In the UK, self-employed drivers were paid a base wage of £ 7 an hour, plus £ 1 for each delivery. According to the new system, only deliveries will be remunerated with 3.75 pounds. The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy intervened in the conflict, demanding that drivers earn the “national living wage” of £ 7.20 an hour.

In Germany attempts were made to prevent the formation of a works council.

Task for business in Germany

On August 12, 2019, Deliveroo informed registered customers in an email that it would cease operations in Germany on August 16, 2019. This is justified with the development of more lucrative markets in other countries. As early as August 2018, the company had stopped delivering to smaller places in Germany in favor of the metropolises of Berlin , Munich , Cologne , Hamburg and Frankfurt and worked there with over 1000 drivers and 2500 restaurants. A year later, the company withdrew from Germany in order to "accelerate growth and expansion in the other European markets and the Asia-Pacific region", according to the company.

Investors

In 2019, Amazon participated in a financing round in Deliveroo and discontinued its own delivery services Amazon Restaurant and Daily Dish .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Imprint - Deliveroo. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2017 ; Retrieved March 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Adam Satariano: Deliveroo Raises $ 275 Million to Escalate Food-Delivery Wars. In: Bloomberg.com. Retrieved August 15, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Berlin economy: Is Deliveroo going from a beacon of hope to an exploiter? (No longer available online.) In: www.berlinonline.de. May 24, 2016, archived from the original on August 15, 2016 ; accessed on August 15, 2016 .
  4. ^ Hilary Osborne, Sean Farrell: Deliveroo workers strike again over new pay structure . In: The Guardian . August 15, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed August 16, 2016]).
  5. ^ The Government says employers like Deliveroo can't 'simply opt out of the National Living Wage'. Retrieved August 13, 2016, August 16, 2016 (UK English).
  6. ↑ Deutschlandfunk , Campus and Career: Digital Day Laborers. Exploitation through crowdworking, platform economy and startups , broadcast on April 27, 2019
  7. ^ Matthaes Verlag GmbH, Stuttgart Germany: Deliveroo leaves the German market. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Delivery services under pressure: Deliveroo leaves ten German cities . In: Spiegel Online . August 16, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed August 12, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Deliveroo: Delivery service leaves Germany. Retrieved August 12, 2019 .
  10. ↑ a b Delivery: Amazon withdraws from restaurant business. In: food-service.de. June 17, 2019, accessed June 23, 2019 .