{"id":272303,"date":"2020-04-28T16:39:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T19:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=272303"},"modified":"2020-04-28T17:11:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T20:11:23","slug":"small-food-businesses-in-dubai-pull-together-for-app-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/small-food-businesses-in-dubai-pull-together-for-app-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"Small food businesses in Dubai pull together for app launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Over 100 small and mid-sized food and beverage businesses in Dubai, UAE got together to launch their own delivery app. The app should be ready to go in three months\u2019 time, <a href=\"https:\/\/gulfnews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Gulf News<\/em><\/a>\u00a0reported, in a bid to take on existing apps by exonerating customers from servicing fees.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em>Gulf News<\/em>, the decision came after talks between the outlets and the existing delivery applications led nowhere. Servicing can make up as much as 35% of an order. After discounts and other costs, not much is left for food and beverage businesses, which argue that these high rates are only justified when restaurants and caf\u00e9s are working at full capacity.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed in the food and beverage industry that business will not be back to pre-Covid-19 levels before Q1 2021, in the best of cases. \u201cMost restaurants and caf\u00e9s will not have sufficient income to cover monthly expenses to reopen,\u201d <em>Gulf News<\/em> quoted a group of business owners as saying.<\/p>\n<p>There are over 11,000 F&amp;B trade licenses issued in Dubai, <em>Gulf News<\/em> reports, with more than 200,000 people employed in the industry. KPMG reported a 30% to 80% drop in sales by F&amp;B informa as a result of the pandemic. \u201cOperators expected food delivery to compensate to some extent,\u201d according to <em>Gulf News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-272300\">Karim Sahib\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over small and mid-sized caf\u00e9s and restaurants in the emirate are about to roll out an app of their own to work around the high servicing fees of delivery services and try to stay alive in the pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":272300,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[4507,13637,14891,14633,15127,9621,15126,15002],"class_list":{"0":"post-272303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-app","9":"tag-cafe-en","10":"tag-covid","11":"tag-delivery-en","12":"tag-delivery-dubai","13":"tag-dubai-en","14":"tag-entregas","15":"tag-restaurant"},"wps_subtitle":"Over small and mid-sized caf\u00e9s and restaurants in the emirate are about to roll out an app of their own to work around the high servicing fees of delivery services and try to stay alive in the pandemic. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}