The boss of Just Eat Takeaway.com has said the Government's scheme to give diners half-price restaurant meals has not damaged his business.
Chief executive Jitse Groen said that, despite takeaways being excluded from Eat Out To Help Out, Chancellor Rishi Sunak's deal which gives diners a 50% discount, he is seeing little effect.
He said: "Food delivery is rarely in direct competition with restaurant visits, and that doesn't change under these circumstances.
"We don't believe that there will be a material impact on our figures because of these relief measures from the UK Government."
Groen said he was not concerned that the Competition and Markets Authority cleared Amazon to take a stake in its UK rival, Deliveroo.
But he added: "I am an entrepreneur, I don't particularly care who's competing with us. I think the UK consumer should be upset that that happened.
"And that has nothing to do with Deliveroo, that has something to do with Amazon."
Just Eat Takeaway.com, which is buying US peer Grubhub for $7.3 billion US (£5.6 billion), processed around 257 million orders in the first six months of the year as takeaway companies supplied food to people in lockdown.
In its half year results, the company said that had pushed up its revenue, while it added a record number of new restaurants and customers to its system.
The number of active customers increased from 44 million to 54 million compared with the same time last year, it said.
