the guy at washio gets munchery for dinner. the guys at munchery do washio. the problem is, if any one of those begins to slow down in the economy, and you have to decide, should i get my dinner delivered or should i pay my rent? you see where i'm going? these are high-end services that san francisco seems to have created kind of for itself. >> we aim to be the every day option for the masses. so you see our menus in the old days when i first started the company. used to be $25 a meal. you can name a handful of people who can afford that meal on a day-to-day basis. over the years, we have made progress with scale and purchasing power. now our meals are in the $9 to $11 range. we tend to -- we intend to do even better. so we don't think we'll be really successful until we are the default option for most people on a day-to-day basis. that makes us different than most other companies because they don't control the margin of their food. they don't have a say on that. so for us, the economy, if it's bad or if it's good or whatever, yes, it probably has some impact

other companies, including washio handy, instacart and postmates have been hit with similar lawsuits. home joy just recently folded on july 31st citing a pending lawsuit against the company as one of the reasons it was unable to raise capital. one of the big questions that remains in the uber case is how much it could cost the company to reclassify workers as employees t could cost upwards of $209 mile general including unemployment insurance and that doesn't include gas and mileage reimbursement which is two of the things plaintiffs are claiming in the case. the employee versus independent contractor debate has regulators across the country fired up. >> we want to make sure that they are compensated fairly and same safety net as other workers. >> reporter: even 2016 contenders like jeb bush and hillary clinton have entered the fray to weigh in on this. >> i'll crack down on bosses who exploit employees by misclassifying them as contractors or even seal their wages. for "nightly business report," i'm kate rogers. >> the so-called gig economy and changing labor market could be a hot to