Restaurants to BYO riders in new Deliveroo offer
Deliveroo is rolling out the option for venues to provide their own delivery riders and drivers as it sets out its strategy to double the number of restaurants on its platform to 12,000 by the end of the year.
After rollouts in the UK and across Europe earlier this year, Marketplace+ will launch in Australia today giving restaurants the option to list on Deliveroo but pay a lower fee if they use their own drivers or riders. Those venues can still draw from Deliveroo’s driver pool when they need it.
“They already had their own riders and drivers out there," said Deliveroo country manager Levi Aron, who emphasised that the venues still had to comply with employment laws when employing their own riders.
"We want to engage with them [to check] that they’re doing the right thing. Any restaurant that comes onto Deliveroo, we do quite a bit of due diligence.”
Around 250 businesses have already signed up, mostly across Melbourne and Sydney.
Sheridan Randall, 6th September 2018
