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Uber Eats is taking thousands of online-only brands off its app this week out of concern that the platform is getting clogged by restaurants listing multiple delivery options with different names but the same menu. The number of virtual brands on Uber Technologies Inc.’s UBER -0.08% Uber Eats quadrupled to more than 40,000 this year from over 10,000 in 2021. They now account for 8% of Uber Eats’ storefronts listed in the U.S. and Canada but less than 2% of bookings in…

Restaurants that have struggled for months with escalating costs are getting a break from chicken.Prices for chicken breasts in the U.S. have plunged about 70% since the first week of June, according to market-research firm Urner Barry. Wings and tenders have gotten cheaper, too, as poultry companies have increased production while demand from restaurants and supermarkets has remained flat, said chicken industry analysts and executives. Chicken’s rapid price drop has brought relief to restaurant chains as crispy chicken…

Grubhub recently offered New Yorkers a deal that the online food-ordering company hoped many couldn’t refuse: free lunch.The May promotion, which promised $15 worth of free food to people who ordered through Grubhub’s app, overwhelmed Grubhub’s system, with as many as 6,000 takeout and delivery orders coming in each minute at the peak of the promotion. Once the market leader in online restaurant food ordering in the U.S., Grubhub now lags behind DoorDash Inc. DASH 1.11%…

CHICAGO—Grubhub Chief Executive Adam DeWitt said company parent Just Eat Takeaway.com NV hopes to find a strategic partner to invest in the U.S. online ordering company, though an outright sale isn’t off the table.In some of his first public remarks about the company since Just Eat said in April it would consider selling Grubhub, Mr. DeWitt said no sale was imminent and that Just Eat was exploring options to strengthen Grubhub as its U.S. division encounters challenges. CHICAGO—Grubhub Chief Executive Adam DeWittsaid…