Uber extends to Panama service with application to order food at home and reaffirms its interest in Latin America

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Updated to 07/26/2018 – 15:52

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PANAMA, July 25 (Xinhua) – The Uber technology company announced today. the Panama rating service to order food that it offers through the Uber Eats free download application, and which one of its representatives pointed out is already available in more than 35 countries, and in the framework of a strategy that reaffirms the interest for Latin America.

Julie Robinson, head of communications for Uber Central America and the Caribbean, explained in an interview with Xinhua that Panama is the seventh country in Latin America where the application works, which can already be used in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica and Guatemala. Uruguay, the latter country was also launched Wednesday.

"Our goal is to take service everywhere, as we have done with mobility, and to be in service between the end of 2018 and 2019 in the rest of the countries in which we operate in Central America and the Caribbean, "said Robinson.

He noted that Uber Eats has grown faster than the company's mobility system, in which they are in more than 60 countries around the world, in 10 years of operation, while the growth of the first application (for the house) was reached in just two years.

The fact that nine out of ten people in Latin America have a mobile device, With an average of 18 applications downloaded, it is recognized by Uber as an opportunity to make every day more possible to solve the daily needs to applications, the company said in a statement.

"In Panama we have more than 100 affiliated restaurants, and more than 150,000 in the world," badured the executive on the extension of the resource.

Robinson identified as benefits of the service, which is competing in the Panamanian market with courier and platform services and Apetit or 24, allowing to qualify at the end of the delivery of non-food only at the restaurant and the person who brought it, but also at every item included in the purchase

"This helps the restaurant to find out if an item works or it does not work when it is not. he is sent home, and making business decisions, "he said. He added that it can also be helpful to know the movement of a product that the restaurant wants to try.

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