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Sky News AU
25-05-2025
- Business
- Sky News AU
Uber Eats expands into new regional locations in Queensland
Sky News host Paul Murray sits down with Uber Eats ANZ Managing Director Ed Kitchen to go over their bid to broaden accessibility in regional Australia as they expand into the regions. 'There is a great little announcement we have got tonight … it comes from our mates at Uber Eats,' Mr Murray said. 'I am guilty of a late-night Uber Eats order after the show, it has been very easy to do in big cities or major hubs like here in Cairns, but with one in three Aussies living in regional areas, Uber Eats is coming to a place near you.' In partnership with Uber Eats.
9 News
14-05-2025
- Automotive
- 9 News
Book a restaurant with Uber: A world first launches in Sydney
Your web browser is no longer supported. To improve your experience update it here Global rideshare and food delivery service Uber is expanding its product offering with the launch of a new Dine Out option coming to Sydney in a world first. Announced in New York City yesterday (early today AEST) at the company's fifth annual Go Get product showcase, Dine Out will be a global program partnered with restaurant-booking service OpenTable to allow Uber customers to book a restaurant and the Uber ride there and back in one simple process. "It's a thrill and privilege for Australia to be the first market anywhere in the world to test and finesse the new Dine Out product - one we know will benefit restaurants and bring additional convenience and value to Sydneysiders and visitors alike," Uber Eats Australia and New Zealand managing director Ed Kitchen said. Global rideshare and food delivery service Uber is expanding its product offering with the launch of a new Dine Out option coming to Sydney in a world first. (Uber) "I am proud to be able to launch this technology for Australian small business owners in Sydney first, though as a proud Melburnian I've assured my friends and family that the plan is to launch in Victoria in the coming months." It's hoped well-knownrestaurants like Catalina, Wings and Tins, Raw Bar and more will be available at launch next month, while existing Uber Eats partner restaurants who have only been doing delivery orders in the app will also join the Dine Out booking option. Uber also signalled its intention to enter the world of autonomous cars through a partnership with Volkswagen to launch the VW "Kombi" Van as a self-driving ride-sharing option in Los Angeles early next year. This is an emerging space for the future of transport, with Google's Waymo already operating in multiple US cities (including Los Angeles) and Elon Musk's Tesla recently announcing a "RoboTaxi" version of its popular electric car. For Australians, there's no sign of driverless Ubers any time soon, instead, in addition to the new Dine Out option there are a host of new features coming to existing and new users. The new Uber feature was announced in New York City yesterday at the company's fifth annual Go Get product showcase. (Trevor Long) These include new Ride Passes, which allow you as a subscriber to lock in a price on a specific route, ensuring you're avoiding any surges in price due to weather or traffic. A Prepaid Pass will allow you to pre-purchase between 5 and 20 rides on a regular route for additional discounts. Uber is also going back to the future with a carpool-like product called Route Share, offering savings of up to 50 per cent on a trip, you'll share the journey with up to two other passengers where the Route Share operates on busy route corridors. There are also new Member Days for Uber One monthly subscribers where partner organisations will offer discounts to members, and a new Savings Slider allowing you to compare prices on popular grocery items being ordered on the Uber Eats app. Trevor Long travelled to New York as a guest of Uber. Tech uber Australia national food Sydney New South Wales CONTACT US
The Guardian
03-05-2025
- Politics
- The Guardian
Uber Eats offers delivery democracy sausages – but is it ‘unAustralian'?
'Democracy sausages' have long been a fixture of the Australian election – but this year food delivery behemoth Uber Eats is cashing in on the beloved tradition. Uber Eats is offering voters 'democracy sausages' on 3 May for 'hardworking Australians' who don't have access to a snag on election day. But unlike the regular democracy sausages, which are a fundraising opportunity for the schools, churches and community halls where polling centres are located, these snags are prepared at 'democracy sausage stores' operated by Maverick, an external marketing company. In Sydney, for instance, they are being cooked and packed for delivery at a temporary kitchen available for hire in Ultimo, according to Uber Eats. The sausages are only available in certain inner parts of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney on Saturday from midday until sold out, with 1,000 available in each city. Users outside the delivery zone are told they can buy ingredients to construct their own on the Uber Eats app. Guardian Australia ordered a vegetarian sausage and a meat sausage with sauces and onion on Saturday afternoon. It cost $11.60 for both sausages including delivery and service fee. Uber said $3.50 for every sausage would be donated to Australian Red Cross partners, to the maximum value of $10,500. The products arrived in less than 30 minutes, in green boxes which read 'democracy sausage delivered'. Inside the boxes were a single sausage on a piece of white bread, sauce sachets and another quote reading 'exercise your democratic bite'. Sign up for the Afternoon Update: Election 2025 email newsletter The sausages, which were reasonably cold, were contained in a sheet designed to look like ballot paper. But rather than listing candidates, the paper ticked the customer's preferences for sauces, onion and variety of sausage, with a disclaimer noting 'this is not an official voting form'. The managing director of Uber Eats Australia, Ed Kitchen, said 'thousands' of Australians were likely to miss out on democracy sausages as not every polling place had a barbecue. 'For those of you able to make use of a local sausage sizzle, I strongly encourage you to support the community fundraising efforts first and foremost – that's what I'll be doing,' he said. The company enlisted celebrity chef Iain 'Huey' Hewitson to promote the deal. He said he was 'pleased to don my sausage suspenders to help ensure finding a democracy sausage is obtainable this year in areas where the local school might not be turning over these tasty morsels'. Some social media users raised their eyebrows at Uber capitalising on the trend. Many polling centres are located at schools, which take the opportunity to fundraise by offering a barbecue, cake stall, or selling plants or books. Sign up to Afternoon Update: Election 2025 Our Australian afternoon update breaks down the key election campaign stories of the day, telling you what's happening and why it matters after newsletter promotion 'That is so unAustralian,' one user posted on Facebook. 'Schools or community groups are meant to make a few dollars selling a sausage sizzle. Not some big corporations.' Another labelled it a 'thoughtless tone deaf publicity stunt', while a third simply wrote: 'who wants a cold limp sausage? It's democracy manifest.' The democracy sausage has grown in popularity in recent years and was listed as the word of the year by the Australian National Dictionary Centre in 2016, cementing its place in the Australian lexicon. Alex Dawson from the Democracy Sausage project had uploaded more than 1,600 sausage stalls and other stands operating around the nation to its grassroots website days out from the election, 900 more than the last federal election in 2022. There were reports of election day sausage sizzles at every continent in the globe this year – including Antarctica. According to Kate Armstrong at the Museum of Australian Democracy (MoAD), the term 'democracy sausage' was coined around 2010 when a Snag Votes website first listed and mapped polling places offering a sausage in bread. 'The popularity of the democracy sausage is in part due to voting being compulsory in Australia,' she said. 'Polling places are typically primary schools and community halls, and polling days are on Saturday … naturally this presents an ideal opportunity for local associations and parents and friends' groups to fundraise by setting up food- or refreshment-based activities around their polling place. 'Early on it was cakes, jams and even crafts, but with the rise in popularity of the portable gas barbecue in the '80s, this extended to the much-loved Aussie sausage sizzle.'
