McDonald’s wants to now also deliver in Switzerland, Burger and fries to the guests home. The service McDelivery is now launched in Geneva, other Swiss cities are to follow.
For the delivery service works in the fast-food chain with the travel placement service Uber Eats, such as McDonald’s announced on Thursday. With the Bicycle or motorcycle, the driver shall deliver the ordered menus within a maximum of half an hour. And pay the customers can order via the App. Per trip delivery costs 4,90 francs.
In Geneva, with 13 Restaurants in McDelivery. Customers that are a maximum of 2.5 km away from these, you can order via McDelivery. McDonald’s is also considering Expanding the service to more cities later this year, McDelivery is also in the German part of Switzerland. In Switzerland, there are almost 170 McDonald’s Restaurants.
The U.S. fast food giant McDonald’s had called McDelivery in 2017. So there is the service already in the USA, Germany or the UK, the Swiss had to give up. McDelivery-Partner Uber Eats, however, is started only at the end of November in Switzerland and in Geneva.
Uber Eats is an App for Food delivery, founded by the California travel brokerage company in 2014. Users can order food from participating Restaurants and delivered to your home. In Switzerland, Uber Eats pushes, however, the resistance of the trade unions.
trade Union calls for CEA duty
After the launch of McDelivery, requested the trade Union Syndicom of Uber, a total work of contractual obligation for its drivers. With the courier-CEA, as of 1. May come into force, a collective employment contract.
Otherwise, the same fate as the taxi drivers, Uber has threatened the courier drivers: “you are working as a bogus self-employed without accident insurance, social insurance, and to Dumping wages,” wrote Syndicom, in a message from Thursday. The Union will not apply to trade Union funds, if Uber Eats take its social responsibility. In addition, Uber also McDonald was asked: As a Customer, the company must ensure that its business partners to handle in a socially responsible way.
In the case of taxi drivers is currently being fought in court, whether Uber in Switzerland as an employer and, therefore, social insurance contributions must be paid. (Dec/sda)
Created: 24.01.2019, 10:30 a.m.
