A class action lawsuit has been filed against the online delivery platform Uber Eats for fraud, conversion, defamation, civil RICO, racketeering, and negligence.
The lawsuit was filed in Clark County on Wednesday by Baby Stacks Café, Manizza’s Pizza, Esther’s Kitchen, and Gaetano’s Ristorante. The restaurants claim that they are not on the Uber Eats platform and that other people pretended to be them on the platform and delivered lower-quality food to potential customers.
“We think Uber needs to make up for the real harm they have caused in our community and to our neighbors,” said Kimball Jones, an attorney at Bighorn Law who is representing the restaurants.
According to an 18-page complaint, Uber Eats, “allowed for any individual to claim to be a restaurant in Nevada, without requiring reasonable authentication from the requesting party.”
The restaurants state since Uber did not authenticate the requesting parties, it allowed unknown individuals to siphon business for themselves using the goodwill created by the actual business owners.