Just Eat offers £10m support package for restaurants

Online food delivery firm Just Eat said it was launching a £10m-plus emergency package of support for UK restaurants over the next 30 days to help soften the blow of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The company said it would be giving a 33% rebate on all commission paid by independent restaurants, removing commission on orders collected by customers and waiving sign-up fees for new restaurants.

Just Eat said it would also start paying restaurants weekly and relaxing any restrictions on independent restaurants working with other delivery partners to help ensure cashflow and source other revenues.

The company's UK managing director Andrew Kenny called the crisis “some of the most challenging times the restaurants we work with have ever been through”.

“The food delivery industry has a crucial role to play at this time of national crisis and it is only right that as the market leader in the UK Just Eat steps up to help our independent partners so they can keep delivering for the communities that need them.”

Just Eat was also working on other initiatives to support groups including the vulnerable and isolated, frontline workers and couriers, the company said.