While delivery was already an important growth segment of the restaurant industry, the pandemic accelerated the trend. As with any major market shift, the rapid growth of third-party delivery companies opened many new opportunities and also introduced some unwanted friction and pain points.
It was clear from talking with restaurant operators nationwide that a set of national guidelines was needed to provide structure, consistency and protection for restaurants. In response, the National Restaurant Association recently released Public Policy Principles for Third-Party Delivery, a set of seven principles centered around providing transparency and clarifying permission in the relationship between restaurant operators and third-party delivery companies .
On our first Quick Bite episode, Mike Whatley, the Association’s VP of State Affairs covers each of the seven principles, explains how they were developed, and how the major third-party delivery players were an important part of the conversation.
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