New Illinois law regulates food delivery apps – Center Square

The Fair Food and Retail Delivery Act prohibits third-party delivery companies from posting a menu, registered trademark, or any intellectual property on their website without the restaurant's consent.
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3 years ago

One of the cleverest things GrubHub did in its infancy is include all restaurants in its listings, irrespective of whether they signed up with GrubHub. That took significant effort to collect the menus. That made the service particularly useful. I see no point in this law except to protect restaurants bitching about negative reviews.

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