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The legal complaint alleges Grubhub regularly misrepresents information on its app and site.

Yesterday, the District of Columbia hit food delivery service Grubhub with a lawsuit on the grounds that the service regularly displays false or misleading information on both its app and website. This includes examples like not properly disclosing delivery fees, showing out-of-date restaurant prices and menu, and adding local restaurants to their service list without actually consulting the restaurants.

“This deceptive conduct significantly impacted District of Columbia consumers, as the menu offerings, prices, and hours for Non-Partner Restaurants were more likely to be out-of-date or incorrect, and there was a greater likelihood that orders from those restaurants would take longer to fill, would be filled incorrectly, would be delivered cold, or would eventually be cancelled altogether,” reads the case, filed by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine.

Grubhub has asserted that all of their practices are on the level, both in general and in D.C. in particular, and that they have every intent to fight the charges. “We will aggressively defend our business in court and look forward to continuing to serve D.C. restaurants and diners,” the company said in a statement.