Third-party food delivery apps are required to have a Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) license to operate in New York City. This law was the first part of a suite of new legislation regulating online third-party food delivery apps and enforcing brand new labor standards for delivery workers. Delivery workers who deliver restaurant food for any app—not just licensed apps—have new rights that start on January 24, 2022; April 22, 2022; and January 1, 2023.
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From fair pay to safer routes, learn more about food delivery workers' rights.
New City laws require many food delivery apps to have a license and establish requirements that apps must follow concerning consumers, delivery workers, and restaurants.
Read the Third-Party Food Delivery Service License Application Checklist and apply online now!
Read new requirements concerning consumers, delivery workers, and restaurants.
Does your restaurant use an app to take customer orders for delivery or pickup? Know your rights and responsibilities.
Starting January 24, 2022, consumers who use food delivery apps have new rights:
If you do not opt out from apps sharing your data with restaurants, you have rights.
Beginning January 24, 2022, you can file a complaint about unlicensed apps; apps that do not provide required disclosures; and restaurants that misuse your data.
Email your complaint to consumers@dca.nyc.gov. Please be as specific as possible about the problem.
Please continue to monitor this page (nyc.gov/DeliveryApps) for additional information about these regulations.