There is no point. You paid $25 for cold fast food, the delivery driver didn’t get paid shit and the restaurant didn’t get paid shit. On the bright side, the shitty delivery app might be profitable next quarter after firing 30% of their staff :)
Weird how no one in that chain is getting rich off of the system, even the app has to fire its workforce to stay profitable. almost like the money gets funneled out of the economy when those apps get used.
Idk who is using all those expensive ass delivery options. Just pick it up, food is fresher and cheaper.
A) I've no licence
B) I've no car
C) The only transport near where I live is a bus every hour.
D) there are no fast food places near me outside of a Chinese takeaway that's a 5-10 minute walk up and down steep hills.
What are you too good for the bus? Also, cook your own food, it's way cheaper..
Yeah! Are you too good for a 4 hour round trip with 50 pointless stops on an empty bus? Too good for that 1 hour wait time if you miss it? You should instead use said bus to go grocery shopping so you can carry that shit home instead of conveniencing yourself and being rightfully upset with the cost and bad product. /s
Jesus christ, if you can't manage to use a bus properly and feed yourself without relying on door dash you should move back in with an adult.
low effort troll
A bike isn't an option everywhere, especially in the US. My parents are from the Netherlands, where almost everyone bikes almost everywhere. When they moved to the US, my dad biked to work. Once. To my knowledge, in the 30 years they lived here, he's never decided to try it again.
One of the games I play on my commute is imagining what the bike route would be like. I looked it up once and every path included a high traffic street with no sidewalk; where I live, that's straight up flirting with death. Cycling in my area requires a large group and/or limited capacity for risk assessment.
The only bikes I see on my drive are there in memorial to someone who died there on a bike.
Not with that attitude.
I'm told the most frequent customers are students. Somehow the people with the least money use it the most. Teach your kids to cook...
Most dorms don't have any means of cooking and even ban things like toasters.
Perhaps in your area. Where I live it's pretty common to have a shared kitchen. Probably a product of not teaching them how to cook and them burning down a few buildings haha
It gets more cost effective the more food you order, 1 meal @ 15$ + 15$ in fees and tips is outrageous, 50% of your total is just fees and tips. But 4 or 5 meals at 50-60$ + 15$ in fees and tips is much more reasonable. The DD fees don't scale to the order size you make (surprisingly lmao).
Fifteen dollars in tips and fees?! wtf?
Is the food delivered with a Porsche and the delivery person personally feeds you or what?!
Over here delivery is like 2-3€, and you tip if the service was above average and well then it's usually by filling up to something convenient (this is based on until recently still mostly using actual cash, so tipping to save the delivery person the time fiddling with change, "just keep the change").
Don't give them ideas (even though it's probably already in the pipeline)
Doordash be like $17 + $4 + $6 = $57.86
And don't forget to tip your delivery driver!
Skip The Dishes recently made a sneaky update to their app that changed the minimum tip from 10% to 12%. Sneaky bastards.
(industry standard is 200% plus more for fast service, preferably in advance)
plus federal tax, state tax, city tax, fuck you tax, and another fuck you convenience fee :)
Cooking your own food is pretty cool just saying
When I'm briefly home after my first job and before my second one, I am physically and mentally incapable of cooking. Either food gets delivered while I pass out on the couch or I don't eat.
In a sane world people would be allowed time and energy to prepare food for themselves, sorry it's like that
I think the saner option would be communal food preparation, but like with real human food and not the capitalist slop that is fast food. A lot of people don't want to, or don't have the energy for cooking. It's pretty time consuming and energy intensive, even when you have the time for it. For most of human history communal food prep was the norm.
When I was at school at a fairly large university I ate at the cafeterias and literally I never ate better and more healthy in my life than when I was there. The food was just normal food, and it was always available and high quality. I feel like cafeterias like it should be possible all over the place, sure it was a well funded school but I don't really see why they shouldn't be possible. I dream of returning to school often for that reason, as well as the walkable layout and close knit community.
University meal plan costs are pretty high from what I remember. Sure it's possible, but you need the facilities, you need the people making food for you and cleaning up after. There's reasons making your own meals from stuff you buy at the grocery store can be a fraction of the cost.
When I was in college me and six friends had a dinner coop going where one person would cook a meal each night of the week (the dorms had kitchens). It worked great except for the one girl that would make things like bulgar wheat - like, just a big bowl of boiled bulgar wheat and nothing else. We made sure her night was Thursday, since the tavern in town had all-you-can-eat spaghetti for $1 on Thursdays.
May I ask why you're working two jobs? Is it the high rent or something? 🤔
Edit: Confused about the downvotes over a simple question. Where I live, barely anyone works two jobs.
My neighbors get everything delivered. Even a single bottle of water. It's insane.
I get everything delivered as well, I mean groceries. It costs me 20 EUR a month to get unlimited free deliveries from Albert Heijn. Prices are similar or the same as in store, I even get the same store discounts, sometimes they give me a free bottle of beer. They also take away my old plastic bottles, and deliver to my door of my umpteenth floor flat. Tips are not expected, no option in the app, the drivers actually run away to the next place as fast as they can after I pay.
I don't see the problem with it. It's good on the environment as well, since I'm better able to plan groceries, I have less food waste, and it is more efficient to truck the groceries to me than everyone making the trip separately.
Questionable whether it's actually better for the environment as the truck runs every day.
I would say it's better to have a large deep freeze as the energy it consumes yearly likely wouldn't even get you to the store and back once.
I go to the city about once a month and go to Costco, which is really a central location that they truck all of the groceries to, and fill my vehicle completely full of the things I can't grow and store way out here in the middle of nowhere.
I run 2 freezers actually, one I fill with meat when we butcher in the fall, the other with vegetables and fruit from the summer, as well as carbs like perogies, tortillas, breads and buns etc.
I know that obviously most people can't do this to my extent but you can buy a 1/4 beef from a farmer, 1/2 pork, frozen fruit and veg from Costco, sausage from a butcher and so on. Then you barely have to shop at all.
The convenience sounds great but I would say that's the main purpose, not environmental reasons. Also, I would be in for the free beer!
The environmental gains come in when me and my 1500 neighbours don't all go to the supermarket one by one, by car or even public transit, but the supermarket delivers a truckload of stuff to us at the same time. Saves the energy of getting 1500 people to the supermarket and back. Consequently, there are fewer people in the supermarket as well, so those are smaller, need less parking spaces, the city has less traffic and all sorts of knock-on effects.
Can you freeze fruit and veggies like that? Me and my ex always meant to get a chest freezer but then covid happened and they were nowhere to be found for two years 😂
Stop ordering delivery. I never have used these shitty apps. I also never order pizza delivery. I can't believe how many people trust their unsealed food with strangers who nobody is watching.
Half of the places I order from seal the bags with stickers that make it obvious if someone has tampered with it. And also, I don't really worry about it because I have never done anything to this stranger to make them inclined to tamper with my food. And if they're doing this job, they probably really need the money and don't want to risk getting banned (can't really say fired because they're not technically employees) and are also in such a hurry because every second counts on picking up enough orders in a "shift." Not everyone is out to get me. I've mostly had good experiences with delivery and most of the screw ups are from the restaurant, not the delivery person.
All that said, I should order less delivery. For my health and my wallet. But I just value my time probably far higher than I should.
I love cooking, but it seems I may love not cooking even more.
I only order the original delivered fast food -- pizza.
Same. Pizza and Chinese food travel really well with simple packaging. Burgers and french fries, not so much.
Literally bitching to my friend how I just spend $13 fucking dollars at McDonald’s and the food was cold and disgusting, I’m tempted to calll my credit card company and issue a chargeback.
Hate to sound like a Karen, but you can try telling the manager. Usually they are pleasant and are willing to compensate you.
Every mass venue or event entree ever.
I've not really used the new food delivery services and with the cost of fast food and freshly made food in supermarkets rising so much as it was, I've actually started making basic dinners at home for myself instead.
I also now buy premade frozen things that I can just pop into a toaster oven for those lazy nights. Probably on par or better than the fast food anyways despite the extra effort of buying ahead of time.
USA, living on tips since before my old ass got here.
More like when someone buys you lunch but the food and service suck terribly. I tend to complain and then I catch myself.
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