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Council Member Salamanca explains benefits of Intro 762-B for restaurants and consumers
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Council Member Rafael Salamanca, Jr. delivers remarks on Intro 762-B, emphasizing its benefits for local restaurants and consumers. He describes the bill as a compromise that maintains fee caps on delivery services while providing flexibility for marketing services and safeguards for restaurants.
- The bill allows restaurants to access vital marketing tools and in-app promotions to reach new customers.
- It includes protections such as transparent pricing for marketing services and prohibitions on delivery platforms purchasing a restaurant's name as a keyword for advertising.
- Salamanca highlights the bill's potential to particularly benefit small, family-owned, and immigrant-owned restaurants operating outside central business districts.
Rafael Salamanca, Jr.
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Thank you madam chair.
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Good morning.
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Intro seven sixty two b is a long overdue compromise and is a major win for local restaurants and consumers.
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And as a result of extensive negotiations to ensure small independent restaurant voices were heard and their needs met.
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Let me be clear, this compromise maintains a cap on delivery fees while providing the flexibility for marketing services making it without exaggeration, the strongest food delivery commission cap of its kind in the country with key safeguards in place.
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The enhanced safeguards in this building ensure transparent pricing for marketing services, clearly outlined so restaurants avoid surprises and can opt in or opt out as needed.
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Restaurants will also retain the ability to set their own menu prices, the ability to include marketing materials in every delivery, and delivery platforms are prohibited from purchasing a restaurant's name as a keyword for use in advertising.
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From the beginning, the focus of this legislation was to better enable small and independent restaurants to grow and support the unique character of the neighborhoods.
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Seven sixty two b restores restaurants fundamental ability to invest in marketing, expand the consumer reach, and compete with big chains in this highly competitive market.
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This bill also provides restaurants with more choices and autonomy to leverage delivery platforms in ways that work best for them, allowing them to tailor their services and change them as needed.
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This moves away from a one size fits all approach.
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This bill also allows restaurant now restaurants can now access vital marketing tools like an in app promotion and target campaigns to reach new customers and increase their visibility.
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Tools they often lack the resources to implement on their own.
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For small and family and immigrant owned restaurants often operating outside central business districts, this legislation will serve as a potential lifeline as they lack the larger budgets and marketing teams of established or national restaurants.
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This bill is a common sense compromise that would empower small businesses, bring more order to local restaurants and create more earning opportunities for delivery workers.
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A win win for all stakeholders in our delivery ecosystem.
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Subsequently, intro seven sixty two bill acts has extensive and diverse support from a wide range of restaurant business organizations including borough chamber of commerce and bids and community groups who understand the tangible benefits it will bring.
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Lastly, securing the passage of this bill ends a proactive legal battle between delivery apps in the city that could have placed a significant financial burden on the city and taxpayers and led to unintended consequences for restaurants and the countless New Yorkers who utilize third party delivery apps.
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Thank you.