if an 8 minute round trip saves you $15, then you’re essentially paying yourself $112.50/hr to be your own delivery driver
Anon orders food
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arctanthrope@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
And yet the delivery driver makes fuckall.
jballs@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
That’s the part that’s criminal about delivery fees not going to the driver. My nephew used to deliver for a pizza place but then switched to Uber Eats after his pizza company outsourced and fired all the drivers.
People place orders and see that they’re paying a delivery fee, a service fee, and a higher menu price than ordering in the store and then think that they don’t need to tip much (if anything) because surely that money is going to the driver doing the actual work and deliverying the food.
But nope, the driver gets paid very little for taking an order. The tip is the vast majority of their salary. My nephew will show me screenshots of orders that he gets that will be like “drive 10 miles to pickup the order, then 5 miles to picked the second piece of the order, then 10 miles to deliver it - for $2.00.”
What’s worse is that since companies have figured out they can hide this from consumers and get away with it, they’ve expanded to stuff like “same day delivery” from retail stores. Customers think “same day delivery” is the equivalent to an item being shipped, so would never consider tipping. But it turns out those services are also going through delivery drivers like Uber Eats, meaning someone will pick up a retail order in their own car and get paid next to nothing without tips (which most people don’t even think to pay).
Tipping in lieu of salary is a scam.
Ice@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
Yeah that’s some pretty insane cost/benefit for time.
It’s one of those things I like doing to encourage myself to do things. “OK so if I do this thing by myself, what am I ‘getting paid’?”
…and then I compare that to the number of hours I’d have to work to earn the same amount of money (after taxes).
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
That’s something my father taught me. Always consider what your time is worth. Invest 2 hours just to save 8 Euro? Not a great deal for most people.
daggermoon@piefed.world 17 hours ago
If it’s 4 minutes away why not walk? The fuck?
Zorcron@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
They probably mean a 4 minute drive, which would be like a 30 minute walk, assuming you can cross the 6-lane monstrosity of a road that the pizza place is on without being smushed by a lifted F-250.
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Or half a mile if you have a couple junctions with red lights ahead, like around the block. Anon could’ve been living in a flat over said pizza joint for all we know. Or they are just a liar, who also have a crush on delivery driver, so they order pizza to see them again.
protist@retrofed.com 11 hours ago
$10 + $7 + $2 or $3 = $19 or $20. Sales tax would be less than a dollar. Anon’s unhealthy lifestyle is causing cognitive decline
tmyakal@infosec.pub 9 hours ago
sales tax would be less than a dollar
Entirely locality dependent. Where I live, tax on a $20 tab would be a little under $2. I know there’s some municipalities where it’d be as high as $2.40.
So, sure, technically still not $25, but once you need more than a $20 bill, it’s not obscene to round up to the nearest $5.
protist@retrofed.com 8 hours ago
Where I’m at, I’m pretty sure sales taxes aren’t assessed on the fees, only on the product
bequirtle@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
you see, the delivery fee is $7, but then you also have to pay $5 in “other fees”, whatever that means
Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Probably an “online convenience fee,” as if it’s more work to have an order print up at the restaurant than to make someone there take a phone call.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Second anon is an illuminati shill tryna get people to eat bugs.
Bad_Ideas_In_Bulk@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
While there is nutrition value to some bugs, most grasses pass undigested through the human gut. We are not ruminants Also if you leave bugs for a chicken to eat, you can have eggs instead.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s remarkable how much people will complain about delivery fees and refuse to cook themselves, or even go out and buy premade food
ddplf@szmer.info 12 hours ago
I don’t usually buy premade food in the supermarkets, but when I do - I’m super picky. The thing about them is that even the best meals I can find have too much salt. The ingredients are fine, it’s really not hard to get meals that aren’t superprocessed for cheap, but the macros are always off.
<2 grams of salt per serving is what I find unusually few in premade meals, and it’s still an awful lot compared to what I’m personally adding when I cook.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
salt tastes good
protist@retrofed.com 12 hours ago
People who are used to eating that much salt just don’t even notice when good is way too salty. I grew up eating whatever processed shit was put in front of me, but after reducing my salt and sugar intake years ago, I’m now acutely sensitive to food when it’s too salty or sweet, which is a serious departure from my tastes when I was young
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
they are lazy and entitled.
and they think people who cook are privileged assholes.
ask me how i know this.
whereitsat@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
has nothing to do with being lazy or entitled.
despite all the rugged individualist propaganda, the anti-intellectualism of our culture hinders anyone from attempting anything new and we act like anything who does is some kind of wizard or supergenius; like with everything else, we act like cooking a decent meal with flavor is best left to the experts.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Many Americans don’t have healthy grass if they have grass in the first place. In many places in the US keeping a pristine grass yard requires a shit ton of human intervention, which means fertilizers and a ton of chemicals. Since grass isn’t native to those areas.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
where isn’t grass native? are you referring specifically to their lawns? because like, even our deserts here have grass.
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 13 minutes ago
Yeah I mean lawn grass. Most people don’t use native species.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 13 hours ago
Frozen . Pizza
iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.app 13 hours ago
I don’t know if they deliver to the USA, but this electric pizza cooker is amazing:
https://a.aliexpress.com/_EHPM5iA
It gets twice as hot as a normal oven in a few minutes and makes amazing pizza. You can buy dough, pizza sauce, and shredded cheese - or make all of these from scratch very easily.
It doesn’t take a lot of space. My rough estimate is that it uses the same electricity as cooking pizza in an oven.
If you’re spending $25 on pizza then it will quickly pay for itself.
One downside is that it does take some space, so if you’re in a really cramped living environment (dorm room, Manhattan apartment) then you might not have room. Also, you may end up eating a lot more pizza than you should…
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
no
DonkeyStar@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
One of the food delivery apps labeled something “long distance delivery” at five miles. I could walk that. I didn’t, but I certainly didn’t pay someone else to drive it.
ddplf@szmer.info 12 hours ago
No wonder if you’re living in a metropolitarian area, 5 miles is quite hefty in big cities
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
i mean you joke but fried cicadas aren’t half bad
TheFerrango@feddit.it 11 hours ago
Joke’s on OP
nullspace@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ordering a personal taxi for your food instead of walking a few blocks is peak American.
abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
To be fair, typically in America (outside of major cities and certain planned neighborhoods), 4 minutes away implies by car. Even if driving only 20mph (unlikely), the pizza shop would be a minimum 1.3 miles away, which would be more like a 30+ minute walk for a pizza.
On top of that, there’s almost no safe walking paths by design. You would likely have to traverse major roads with no sidewalks, crosswalks, or even pedestrian stop lights.
It’s an unfortunate design that many are stuck with.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Unironically, yes.
It doesn’t occur to most Americans to walk a bit instead of drive.
This is exacerbated by the design of American neighborhoods that discourages walking and encourages driving, which of course becomes a feedback loop where Americans don’t walk because their neighborhoods aren’t designed for it - or worse - designed against it.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 hours ago
4 minutes is 2 miles.
dil@piefed.zip 3 hours ago
It was cheaper and faster to doordash a restaurant quite literally across the street in college, I tested it a few times when my friends would go to buy food there and mine would come like 10 minutes before they got back. Literally across the street, like a 1 minute walk max.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
what’s peak American is the fact you think you are better than the delivery driver.