Meals on wheels from Uber
Uber Technologies starts its UberEats food-delivery service in Johannesburg today before expanding across the country and into the continent, it said yesterday. It will begin delivering meals in the northern suburbs before spreading across Gauteng and to Cape Town in 2017, operations and logistics manager Dave Kitley said.Uber is making an aggressive global drive into takeaway meal deliveries, gearing up with a big staff recruitment campaign to enter at least 22 more countries.UberEats already operates in six countries and will also launch in Amsterdam today.Uber launched in South Africa in 2013 and since then the service has grown to more than 4000 drivers in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Cape Town, Durban and Port Elizabeth."Johannesburg was the first city in Africa to have Uber launch and, based on the success of launching in Africa as well as the characteristics of Joburg and where we are right now in terms of our maturity, it is really about testing the product and being the first city in Africa," Kitley said. ..
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