{"id":2203818,"date":"2024-03-21T22:00:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seattles-food-app-apocalypse\/"},"modified":"2024-03-21T22:05:13","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T02:05:13","slug":"seattles-food-app-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/seattles-food-app-apocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"The Food App Upheaval in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fseattles-food-app-apocalypse%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2203818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Seattle\u2019s PayUp \u200cLaw: A Boon or Bane for Food Delivery Workers?<\/h2>\n<p>President\u200b Ronald Reagan \u2062once humorously remarked that\u2063 the scariest words \u200din the\u2064 English \u2063language\u200d are: \u201cI\u2019m from the government, and\u2062 I\u2019m here to help.\u201d This sentiment echoes in \u2063the recent dilemma faced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uber-doordash-fail-to-block-nycs-minimum-wage-increase-for-app-based-delivery-workers\/\" title=\"Uber and DoorDash unable to prevent NYC's minimum wage hike for app-based delivery workers.\">app-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/micro-mobility-revolution-races-ahead-as-policymakers-and-police-try-to-keep-up\/\" title=\"Micro Mobility Revolution Races Ahead, as Policymakers and Police Try to Keep Up\">food delivery workers<\/a><\/a> in Seattle.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>First passed in 2022, Seattle\u2019s PayUp law intended to boost app-based delivery drivers\u2019 earnings. However, the law, which\u200d commenced in January this\u2062 year, has had unintended repercussions.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Unintended Fallout<\/h3>\n<p>The legislation not\u2062 only established\u200b a mandatory\u2063 minimum wage for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-to-hire-a-quarter-million-new-workers-as-holiday-shopping-season-nears\/\" title=\"Amazon plans to recruit 250,000 fresh employees ahead of the upcoming holiday shopping season.\">delivery\u2063 drivers<\/a>, set higher than Seattle\u2019s existing minimum wage, but\u200d also introduced five bureaucratic \u2062roles to oversee its implementation, incurring \u2064an annual cost of \u200c$1.2 million. The expenses were to be\u2063 covered by \u200ba\u200d new delivery tax imposed on each order.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Prices \u2063Surge Abruptly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Immediately \u2064after the law took effect, prices for items \u2063delivered\u200b by\u2063 DoorDash\u2062 and Uber Eats soared. Consumers were quick to voice\u2062 discontent over \u200bexorbitant costs, including $26 coffees and $32 sandwiches.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Consumer Backlash and Plummeting Demand<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sharp price hikes led to consumers deleting their apps, causing \u200ba drastic reduction in app-delivered \u200cfood demand. Rather than \u200bboosting earnings for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pizza-hut-slices-jobs-amidst-californias-new-fast-food-minimum-wage-law\/\" title=\"Pizza Hut cuts jobs due to California's new fast food minimum wage law\">delivery\u2062 drivers<\/a>, \u200dthe law ended up reducing their income.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re \u2062not telling the whole story,\u201d \u200bexpressed app-delivery driver Mia Shagen. \u201cBecause\u2063 people are not ordering as much anymore, the tips \u200care going down, assuming that we\u2019re making all this \u200cmoney.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to \u200dreports, drivers who used to earn $931 weekly under the previous \u2064system witnessed their income nosedive to a mere $464 due to \u200dthe \u2064dwindling orders. Consequently, many drivers chose to leave the industry altogether.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t get\u200d an order\u200c for, like, six hours, and I was done,\u201d shared Tony \u200bIlles, a\u2062 former Uber Eats driver.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>The Road to Revisions<\/h3>\n<p>The debacle has been such a fiasco\u200d that the \u2062mayor&#8217;s office has \u2064expressed willingness\u200c to consider revising the law. Perhaps,\u2064 instead of misguided attempts to &#8220;help&#8221; app-delivery drivers, the Seattle City Council should steer clear of interventions \u200cthat have backfired disastrously.<\/p>\n<p>To delve deeper into this unfolding story, visit The Washington Examiner for more insights and updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ronald Reagan famously joked that the scariest phrase is &#8220;I&#8217;m from the government, and I&#8217;m here to help.&#8221; Unfortunately, a Seattle City Council law meant to assist food delivery app workers has led to unintended consequences. It has slashed earnings for some workers by half and forced others to leave the industry altogether<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2714,"featured_media":2203819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/YL.foodapp-1024x591.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2203818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/YL.foodapp-1024x591.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2203818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2203818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2203819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2203818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2203818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2203818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}