USA Times Data Desk
The USA Times Data Desk is the newsroom’s data and investigations unit. It collects prices, fees and public records directly from the source, verifies them item by item, and builds the charts and tables behind USA Times investigations. Every figure it publishes is traceable to a named, dated source.
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At a Queens Peruvian Kitchen, Uber Eats Costs Barely More Than the Counter — Because Kantu Eats the Fee, Not You
USA Times priced 60 items at Kantu Peruvian Cuisine’s Forest Hills counter against the same store’s Uber Eats storefront. Half cost exactly the counter price – including every big plate, from a $79 grilled platter to a $47 ribeye – and the rest carry only cents more, for an average markup under 3%. That is…
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At Rubirosa, One of New York’s Most-Loved Pizzerias, DoorDash Costs Exactly the Counter Price — So Rubirosa Eats the Fee
USA Times priced 35 items at Rubirosa’s Nolita counter (235 Mulberry St) against the same kitchen’s DoorDash storefront and found the delivery markup on every one was zero: a $41 Tie Dye pizza, a $22 salad, a $5 Coke – all the same price on the app as at the register. That is far below…
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At Emily, the West Village Pizzeria, Uber Eats Costs Exactly What the Counter Does — Because Emily Eats the Fee, Not You
USA Times priced 31 items at Emily’s West Village pizzeria against the same store’s Uber Eats storefront and found the same price on every one — a $20 vodka pie, a $28 Ezzo, a $32 Emmy burger, all identical. The markup is zero, measured against Emily’s own independent ordering site. That is far below the…
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At Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar, Uber Eats Costs No More Than the Counter — So the Shop, Not You, Pays Uber’s Cut
USA Times priced 51 items at Blue Ribbon Sushi Bar’s Rockefeller Center counter against the same store’s Uber Eats storefront and found a flat 0% markup: every item, from an $8 piece of tuna and a $2.50 bottle of water to a $27 sushi platter, costs exactly the same on Uber as at the counter.…
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At Up Thai, Uber Eats Costs No More Than the Counter — So the Restaurant, Not You, Pays Uber’s Cut
USA Times priced 51 dishes at Up Thai’s Upper East Side counter against the same store’s Uber Eats storefront and found a flat 0% markup: every item, from a $3 fried egg and a $19 Pad Thai to a $42 short rib, costs exactly the same on Uber as at the counter. The Uber food…
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At Roberta’s, the Bushwick Pizzeria That Went Global, Uber Eats Costs Exactly the Counter Price — So Roberta’s Eats the Fee
USA Times priced 18 items at Roberta’s Bushwick counter (261 Moore St) against the same kitchen’s Uber Eats storefront and found the delivery markup on every one was zero: a $26 Bee Sting pizza, a $23 Margherita, a $6 Mexican Coke – all the same price on the app as at the register. That is…
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Uber and Lyft Now Keep Roughly a Quarter of Every New York Fare, City Data Shows — But Not the Way You’ve Heard
New York’s own trip-by-trip records show the platforms’ cut has roughly tripled since 2019 and has leveled off around 23-24 percent. The oft-repeated claim that individual rides run 50-80 percent turns out to be rare — true on about one in thirty trips, not most of them.
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At junzi kitchen, Every Uber Eats Item Carries the Identical Markup — and It Matches Uber’s Commission Exactly
USA Times priced 43 items at junzi kitchen’s Columbia store against the same store’s Uber Eats storefront and found the same markup on every one: a flat 30%, from a $18.17 rice bowl to a $3.24 can of Coke. It is the most uniform markup in the series – and it matches the top rate…
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At Luke’s Lobster, Uber Eats Costs No More Than the Counter — and the Rolls Cost Less
USA Times priced 25 items at Luke’s Lobster’s Upper West Side shack against the same store’s Uber Eats storefront and found no markup at all: every drink, side, soup and dessert costs exactly the same on Uber as at the counter, and the six signature rolls run a dollar cheaper on Uber. With prices held…
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At Joe & The Juice, the Same Item Costs More on Uber Eats Than at the Counter — and the Customer Covers Uber’s Cut
USA Times priced 15 items at Joe & The Juice’s 430 Park Avenue store against the same store’s Uber Eats storefront and found a markup on every one: a JOE’s Club Sandwich is $12.60 at the counter and $15.90 on Uber, an average of about 18% more across the basket. The markup roughly recovers Uber’s…