2023 District of Columbia Code › Title 48 - Foods and Drugs › Chapter 6A - Third-party Food Delivery › § 48–651. Definitions

§ 48–651. Definitions.
*NOTE: This section includes amendments by temporary legislation that will expire on March 29, 2024. To view the text of this section after the expiration of all emergency and temporary legislation, click this link: Permanent Version.*
For the purposes of this chapter, the term:
(1) "Agreement" means the written contract between a restaurant and a third-party meal delivery service required by this chapter.
(2) "Core delivery service" means a service that lists a restaurant and makes the restaurant discoverable on all third-party meal delivery platforms where a third-party meal delivery service lists restaurants and facilitates or performs the delivery through employees or independent contractors of the third-party meal delivery service of food or beverages from restaurants to customers. The term "core delivery service" does not include any other service that may be provided by a third-party meal delivery service to a restaurant, including advertising or other promotional services, search engine optimization, business consulting, or credit card processing.
(2A) "Covered restaurant" means a restaurant that elects to receive only core delivery service.
(2B) "Delivery radius" means the circular delivery area from around a restaurant within which customers can search for and order from a restaurant.
(3) "Online order" means a food or beverage order placed by a customer through a third-party meal delivery platform for delivery or pickup from a restaurant in the District of Columbia.
(4) "Purchase price" means the menu price of an online order, excluding taxes, gratuities, or any other fees that may make up the total cost to the customer of an online order.
(5) "Restaurant" means an establishment that is held out to and known by the public as a food-service establishment.  The term includes an establishment defined in § 25-101(43) and (52).
(6) "Third-party meal delivery platform" means any website, mobile application, or other internet service that offers or arranges for the sale of food and beverages prepared by, and [] provides the same-day delivery or same-day pickup of food and beverages from, restaurants.
(6A) "Third-party meal delivery service" means a person that operates a third-party meal delivery platform.
(7) "URL" (Uniform Resource Locator) means a web address.
(Mar. 10, 2023, D.C. Law 24-292, § 2, 70 DCR 898; Aug. 17, 2023, D.C. Law 25-38, § 2(b), 70 DCR 9412.)
Emergency Legislation
For temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see § 2(b) of Food Delivery Fees Transparency Congressional Review Emergency Amendment Act of 2023 (D.C. Act 25-199, July 26, 2023, 70 DCR 10748).
For temporary (90 days) amendment of this section, see § 2(b) of Food Delivery Fees Transparency Emergency Amendment Act of 2023 (D.C. Act 25-108, May 24, 2023, 70 DCR 7927).
For temporary (90 days) creation of this section, see § 6 of Post-Public Health Emergency Protections Extension Emergency Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Act 24-564, Oct. 17, 2022, 0 DCR 0).
Temporary Legislation
For temporary (225 days) amendment of this section, see § 2(b) of Food Delivery Fees Transparency Temporary Amendment Act of 2023 (D.C. Law 25-38, Aug. 17, 2023, 70 DCR 9412).
For temporary (225 days) creation of this section, see § 2 of Fair Meals Delivery Temporary Act of 2022 (D.C. Law 24-231, Dec. 21, 2022, 69 DCR 14031).
For temporary (225 days) creation of this section, see § 6 of Post-Public Health Emergency Protections Extension Temporary Amendment Act of 2022 (D.C. Law 24-226, Dec. 21, 2022, 69 DCR 13983).