Ben Robertson of Carroll & O’Dea Lawyers
argued, some might say somewhat reasonably,
that such a “fiction” imposed on restaurants
represented an attempt by Uber to minimize its
responsibility: “The real nature of the problem is
[Uber’s contract] shifts the responsibility and the
risk of delivery and logistics onto the restaurant,
but the restaurant really has no control over the
routes the driver takes.”
Uber, for its part, maintained in a statement
in response to the story that: “Uber Eats is
a marketplace that connects restaurants
with delivery partners and eaters through
our technology.”