DELIVERY FEE: A fee charged by a Third-Party Food Delivery Service for providing a Retail Food Establishment with a service that delivers food and beverages from such establishment to customers.
CORE DELIVERY SERVICE: A service that (1) lists a Retail Food Establishment, and makes the Retail Food Establishment discoverable, on all modalities or platforms offered by a Third-Party Food Delivery Service, including but not limited to any website, mobile application, or other internet service where a Third-Party Food Delivery Service lists Retail Food Establishments, (2) facilitates and/or performs the delivery (through employees or independent contractors of the third-party food delivery service and/or such establishments) of food and/or beverages from Retail Food Establishments to customers, and (3) reaches residents throughout the City, provided that a Third-Party Food Delivery Service may adjust delivery area at the request of a Retail Food Establishment, or to protect the health or safety of food, customers, or people performing deliveries. Core Delivery Service does not include any other service that may be provided by a Third-Party Food Delivery Service to a Retail Food Establishment, including but not limited to advertising services, search engine optimization, business consulting, or credit card processing.
ONLINE ORDER: An order placed by a customer, including a phone order, for delivery or pick-up from a Retail Food Establishment located within the City.
PURCHASE PRICE: The menu price of the items contained in an Online Order, minus any applicable coupon or promotional discount provided to the customer by the Retail Food Establishment through the Third-Party Food Delivery Service. Such term therefore excludes taxes, gratuities and any other fees or costs that may make up the total amount charged to the customer of an Online Order.
RETAIL FOOD ESTABLISHMENT: A restaurant, delicatessen, bakery, coffee shop, or other eat-in or carry-out service of processed or prepared raw and ready-to-eat food or beverages.
THIRD-PARTY FOOD DELIVERY SERVICE: Any website, mobile application or other internet service that offers or arranges for the sale of food and beverages prepared by, and the delivery or pick-up of food and beverages from no fewer than twenty (20) separately owned and operated Retail Food Establishments. (Ord. 23-O-2873, eff. 3-8-2023; amd. Ord. 24-O-2893, eff. 5-17-2024)