"It depends on the company".A win-win consultative group for delivery apps is discussing 'differential fees'.

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Recently, there has been a growing conflict over brokerage fees for delivery platforms.

The government's win-win consultative body is looking for a solution, and it is known that the "difference fee" is being discussed.

Fees are differentiated according to the company's sales, but it is unclear whether the restaurant company will accept it.

Reporter Oh Dong-gun reports.

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A famous lunch box company has announced that it will apply separate sales prices to the three delivery platforms.

The delivery platform took 30% of the delivery sales, and the problem was publicly targeted on its website.

As of last month, delivery platforms accounted for 59% of Baedal Minjok and 24% of Coupang Eats, with 97% of the three delivery companies.

The conflict is intensifying as the franchise industry accuses Baemin of the FTC of raising fees by 3 percentage points to 9.8%, the same as Coupang Eats.

[Park Ho-jin / Secretary-General of the Korean Franchise Industry Association: Baedal Minjok, a thorough monopoly operator, has continued to engage in price unfair trade practices that can arbitrarily determine prices and fees and change conditions.]

While the delivery app win-win consultative group, which was launched in July last year, put its heads together five times to solve this problem, but failed to come up with a clear solution, the consultative group is reportedly discussing the "difference fee" proposed by Baemin.

The plan is to classify companies based on delivery sales and apply a low commission rate to operators with low sales.

However, the effect of the differential fee method is not clear, and it is unclear whether the restaurant company will agree.

[Lee Yoo-seok / Professor of Business Administration at Myongji University] There were some cities in the United States that tried to cut the fees of individual small business owners by half. As a result, there were side effects such as recommending large franchises with high fees first, but the expected effect was not now achieved.]

The issue of fees for delivery platforms has also emerged as an important issue in politics and is expected to be a key agenda item for the parliamentary inspection, drawing attention to what discussions will take place on differential fees.

This is YTN Oh Dong-gun.


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