Commissar Rush Moves to Regulate the Food Delivery Apparatus: Cold Soup and Unanswered Phones Now a Legislative Matter

Commissar Rush Moves to Regulate the Food Delivery Apparatus: Cold Soup and Unanswered Phones Now a Legislative Matter

Senate petition SD.3939, introduced by Senator Michael F. Rush of the Norfolk, Bristol and Plymouth district, would establish mandatory refund standards and minimum customer service requirements for food delivery platforms operating within the Commonwealth Soviet.

The decree targets the private logistics intermediaries — DoorDash, Uber Eats, Grubhub and their ilk — whose current refund and dispute practices are governed primarily by their own terms of service, which is to say, not meaningfully governed at all. Under the proposed framework, consumers who receive incorrect, missing, or substandard orders would have an enforceable right to redress rather than a customer service chatbot and a closing ticket.

The bill was referred to the Joint Committee on Rules on May 28, 2026, where proposals of this nature are sent when the People’s Legislature has not yet assigned them a standing committee hearing. Senator Rush petitions alone; no House co-sponsor appears on the docket. The platform economy, it turns out, has not yet been collectivized, and the commissars are still deciding who owns the complaint form.