What’s the insecurity for? When in London and staying at a luxury apartment, using the Uber Eats app to order food, you might want consider moving to a faraway location.
Chances are, if you don’t, your delivery rider won’t get to you. Sad, you won’t be able to try your order. You also don’t want your order consumed by a different guy, do you?
Well, case in point: You really have to find the best alternative. Uber Eats delivery riders, along with those from other huge food delivery apps in London, have been barred from entering a specific luxury flat complex.
If you refer to the authorities’ decision, you’ll say they have a point in implementing this rule. This luxury apartment complex is near the area where protests against asylum seekers are being held. Remember? Those protests saying that food delivery apps in the city are hiring undocumented workers? As reported by Ridesharing Forum, of course.
Well, ridesharing media reported and confirmed there are really protests ongoing in the area, even involving women and children.
Nevertheless, not only was the issue about being near the venue of the protests, but the apartment that barred delivery riders, Parkgate Aspen, was near the Canary Wharf Hotel, the place believed to be housing those “illegal food delivery staff.”
In a “security notice” the Ridesharing Forum has obtained, the complex’s residents expressed concern about the security arrangements designed to contain the rallies.
“With this new situation arising just a five-minute walk from your estate, this needs to be implemented immediately,” the notice stated.
It also added the official warning that security and concierge staff will no longer allow food delivery riders to enter the apartment grounds.
A spokesperson representing the lambasted apartment company Parkgate Aspen said the plan had been in the works for months and that they were just finding the perfect time to implement it.
The apartment specified in its notice that this move had been in discussion for so long, primarily due to the increasing incidents of bad behavior, including riders relieving themselves in stairwells and verbal abuse of residents, which are all still alleged for now, by the way.
Uber Eats has released its official statement on this matter, saying, “Uber Eats takes a zero-tolerance approach to illegal work. This includes introducing state-of-the-art identity and video verification technology.”
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