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SINGAPORE – Restaurant owners have come together to petition food delivery platforms to lower the commissions they charge as food and beverage outlets here continue to bleed in the coronavirus pandemic. Enhanced safe distancing measures here mean restaurants can offer only takeaways and deliveries.
More than 2,500 restaurant owners and customers have signed the petition on Change.org since it went online on Wednesday (April 15). It was started by #savefnbsg, a coalition of more than 600 restaurants formed by restaurateurs Loh Lik Peng of the Unlisted Collection and Beppe de Vito of the ilLido Group.
It is addressed to three groups: delivery platforms, the Government and customers.
In an open letter to the platforms, of which the main players are Deliveroo, Foodpanda and GrabFood, the petitioners say: “Nobody has ever liked the rates imposed on us but we tolerated them because in the not-so-distant past, the money from your sales didn’t form a core pillar of our revenue streams. We watched in frustration as your commission increased steadily from 20 per cent to 30 per cent.”
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