Quand rajouter la coopération au menu donne le goût de se faire livrer un repas : les défis d’une coopérative de plateforme
Putting Cooperation on the Menu: Challenges Facing a Food Delivery Platform Co-op
En 2020, alors que la COVID-19 bat son plein, un collectif de développeurs montréalais choisit de soutenir les restaurants en élaborant un service de livraison de repas en ville. Leur offre se distingue de celle d’Uber Eats, Doordash et SkiptheDishes, car les membres du collectif s’organisent en coopérative aux visées sociales et environnementales, et non seulement économiques. Concrètement, ils créent Radish, une coopérative de solidarité proposant des services de livraison de repas et de marketing aux restaurants. Les restaurants, les travailleurs et travailleuses (livraison, programmation, marketing, etc.) et les consommateurs et consommatrices ont la possibilité d’y adhérer et d’ainsi participer aux décisions.
In 2020, with COVID-19 in full swing, a team of Montreal developers decided to support restaurants by launching an urban food delivery service. Their offering differed from that of Uber Eats, Doordash, and SkipTheDishes in that members of the collective formed a cooperative with social, environmental, and economic goals. The result was Radish, a solidarity cooperative providing meal delivery and marketing services to restaurants. Restaurants, employees (delivery, programming, and marketing), and consumers had the opportunity to join the co-op and participate in its decision-making.
Characterize the specificities of cooperatives as entities that can replace for-profit enterprises, using the example of a platform cooperative Identify the characteristics of a platform cooperative, taking into account its business model, its democratic organization, and its relationship to technology and the environment Analyze the contributions and limitations of this platform cooperative in comparison to for-profit platforms such as Uber Eats, Doordash, and Skip the Dishes, and project introducing social innovation.