SkipTheDishes and Just Eat cut 800 jobs in Canada amid restructuring

The chief executive of SkipTheDishes says hundreds of Canadian employees are being laid off by the food delivery service and its parent company.

The chief executive of SkipTheDishes says hundreds of Canadian employees are being laid off by the food delivery service and its parent company.

Paul Burns says 100 Canada-based workers will depart SkipTheDishes.

Some 700 staff members in Canada who work for its owner Just Eat Takeaway.com will also lose their jobs.

Burns announced the news in a LinkedIn post where he said the cuts were the result of a comprehensive review and restructure.

Sylvain Charlebois, the senior director at Dalhousie University’s Agri-Food Analytics Lab, said inflation likely has a part to play in the cutbacks.

“I know a lot of people think that food prices are much higher, but they’re much higher on menus … driving people away from using apps like Skip or Uber, or things like that,” he said.

“It’s unfortunate for some people to lose their jobs, but I think it’s something that was highly predictable, unfortunately.”

Statistics Canada reports food services were a major contributor to inflation over the last year, with prices increasing 3.8 per cent from July 2023.