Competition gets cooking as food-delivery apps turn up the heat on price war
Food-delivery services in South Africa continue to do battle, with neither side prepared to get out of the kitchen. A price war has been simmering between UberEats and OrderIn, with each slicing its delivery prices at alarming rates. UberEats cut its prices twice last year, to R10 from R20 — spurring OrderIn to chop its delivery fee to the same level. UberEats and OrderIn operate on slightly different models, but they are both gunning for the same slice of the pie in a sluggish economy where consumers' pockets are under pressure. One is backed by the international financial muscle of the mighty Uber empire. UberEats operates in more than 60 cities in 21 countries and is being launched in new locations every week. UberEats South Africa delivers food from 1500 restaurants in Cape Town, Pretoria, Johannesburg, Stellenbosch and Durban. And the other is a considerably smaller, South Africa-based company that refuses to be cowed. OrderIn CEO Dinesh Patel has accused UberEats of dishonest ...
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