{"id":135595,"date":"2016-09-05T14:24:07","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=135595"},"modified":"2016-09-05T14:24:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T12:24:07","slug":"uber-launches-food-delivery-service-in-johannesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/135595\/uber-launches-food-delivery-service-in-johannesburg\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber launches food delivery service in Johannesburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubereats.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>UberEats<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 an on-demand meal delivery service powered by Uber \u2013 will be launched in Johannesburg before the end of\u00a02016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Tech\/ubereats-to-hit-joburg-by-december-20160903\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The City Press reported<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Uber managing director for sub-Saharan Africa Alon Lits said that Johannesburg will be the 13th city in the world where UberEats will go live.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen UberEats is launched in Johannesburg, it will at first be focussed on a small area, but over time, the aim is for UberEats to be available throughout the city,\u201d stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>UberEats partners with local restaurants in a city and allows customers to order meals using the Uber app. Delivery time is claimed to be 10 minutes or less.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChoose a signature dish from the Instant Delivery menu and you\u2019ll be eating in as little as 10 minutes,\u201d states UberEats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave something specific in mind? By tapping into the Uber network, you can get anything from our roster of local restaurants, fast. The average order takes 35 minutes from start to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Uber<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/129714\/uber-to-try-its-hand-at-food-delivery-in-sa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Uber to try its hand at food delivery in SA<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to \u2018Uber came to Africa to abuse Africans\u2019\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/129126\/uber-came-to-africa-to-abuse-africans\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u2018Uber came to Africa to abuse Africans\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Uber takes electric cabs to Cape Town\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/126259\/uber-takes-electric-cabs-to-cape-town\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Uber takes electric cabs to Cape Town<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Uber raises prices for South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/technology\/125861\/uber-raises-fare-prices-for-south-africa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Uber raises prices for South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UberEats \u2013 an on-demand meal delivery service powered by Uber \u2013 will be launched in Johannesburg before the end of 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":115702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,6457],"class_list":["post-135595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-uber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135597,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135595\/revisions\/135597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}