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DoorDash discontinued its AI-powered voice ordering service for restaurants in April 2025, less than two years after its August 2023 launch. #DoorDash #AI #VoiceTech #RestaurantTech #FoodTech #Automation #TechNews #AITrends

Preston Maness ☭2d ago

I am slowly beginning to understand the frustration that leads people to crime, it seems. Even the #GigWork platforms like #DoorDash are starting to dry up on me. Thankfully, I have a built-in safety net in the form of loving family.

And if I didn't? Well, I might not be gay, but I'd probably be doing crime at this point.

Mr Tech King 4d ago

Wild: Ex-DoorDash driver scammed $2.5M+ by gaming the system with fake accounts, stolen credentials & repeatedly marking phantom deliveries complete. Pleaded guilty, faces serious time. Exposes gig economy vulnerabilities. #DoorDash #Fraud #CyberSecurity

ResearchBuzz: Firehose 4d ago

SFGate: California man admits to $2.5M fake DoorDash delivery scheme. “A California man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a fraud scheme where he and several other co-conspirators stole more than $2.5 million from DoorDash through fake deliveries. Sayee Devagiri, a 30-year-old Newport Beach resident, was charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/17/sfgate-california-man-admits-to-2-5m-fake-doordash-delivery-scheme/

SFGate: California man admits to $2.5M fake DoorDash delivery scheme | ResearchBuzz: Firehose

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Houston Public Media 5d ago

A pandemic-era Texas law permitting to-go alcohol sales is still helping restaurants to improve their bottom lines.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/texas/2025/05/16/521531/alcohol-to-go-in-texas-is-benefitting-delivery-drivers-and-the-restaurant-industry/

#Business #News #Texas #Alcohol #AlcoholDelivery #AlcoholToGo #DoorDash #GovernorGregAbbott #TopStories

Alcohol to go in Texas is benefitting delivery drivers and the restaurant industry

New figures released by DoorDash show that Texas is one of the fastest-growing states for alcohol delivery.

Houston Public Media

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD May 14

This is the #Chester Highway Supervisor, an elected official in New York, opening fire on a lost #DoorDash driver, showing once again why being a #DeliveryDriver is far more dangerous than being a cop. We are a diseased culture where shooting a stranger is preferable to helping.

Preston Maness ☭May 14

#DoorDash, instead of helping me "Earn Big" by referring a *new* Dasher, perhaps you could simply pay *me* more so that I *dash* more.

John May 12

Gig companies "leave workers at the mercy of unstable and subminimum wages, little social protection, and in constant fear of termination without recourse" despite meeting criteria for employee status

https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/05/12/us-major-companies-violate-gig-workers-rights

#GigWorkers #GigWork #LivingWage #MinimumWage #HumanRightsWatch #HumanRights #Amazon #DoorDash #Favor #Instacart #Lyft #Shipt #Uber #contracting #SocialSecurity #Medicare #unemployment #union #unions #capitalism #exploitation #ClassWar

US: Major Companies Violate Gig Workers’ Rights

Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights.

Human Rights Watch

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