Idk who is using all those expensive ass delivery options. Just pick it up, food is fresher and cheaper.
What even is the point of delivery anymore
Submitted 11 months ago by Stamets@lemmy.world to memes@sopuli.xyz
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jeffw@lemmy.world 11 months ago
PugJesus@kbin.social 11 months ago
Personally, I have no family to take care of and work from home, and as part of that I gave up on cars. Very good for my finances overall. But it does mean that restaurants that were once a 10 minute drive away are now inaccessible except for delivery.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
VaultBoyNewVegas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A) I’ve no licence
B) I’ve no car
C) The only transport near where I live is a bus every hour.
Nudding@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What are you too good for the bus? Also, cook your own food, it’s way cheaper…
Toes@ani.social 11 months ago
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…
BakerBagel@midwest.social 11 months ago
Most dorms don’t have any means of cooking and even ban things like toasters.
Fixbeat@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I do, but am trying to cut down. It became a habit during covid. Restaurants are now jacking their prices up plus the fees and tips on top of that pushes the cost over the top now. Then Uber has the nerve to do multiple deliveries in one shot unless you pay extra. By the time you get your food it’s turned to cold garbage. I am getting groceries delivered, which has added cost, but you can get a lot more food for that money. I guess I just hate getting out of the house.
cm0002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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).
Carighan@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fifteen dollars in tips and fees?! wtf?
Is the food delivered with a Porsche and the delivery person personally feeds you or what?!
Edgarallenpwn@midwest.social 11 months ago
Don’t give them ideas (even though it’s probably already in the pipeline)
noobdoomguy8658@feddit.de 11 months ago
These meals don’t cost the money to be microwaved again, it’s just not that good. Better off ordering groceries in that case.
clearleaf@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Doordash be like $17 + $4 + $6 = $57.86
catfish@programming.dev 11 months ago
And don’t forget to you your delivery driver!
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Skip The Dishes recently made a sneaky update to their app that changed the minimum tip from 10% to 12%. Sneaky bastards.
PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
(industry standard is 200% plus more for fast service, preferably in advance)
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Cooking your own food is pretty cool just saying
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
In a sane world people would be allowed time to prepare food for themselves, sorry it’s like that
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
May I ask why you’re working two jobs? Is it the high rent or something? 🤔
const_void@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
My neighbors get everything delivered. Even a single bottle of water. It’s insane.
maynarkh@feddit.nl 11 months ago
I get everything delivered as well. 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.
evranch@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
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!
callouscomic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
hakobo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
emptiestplace@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I love cooking, but it seems I may love not cooking even more.
autokludge@programming.dev 11 months ago
I only order the original delivered fast food – pizza.
krakenfury@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Same. Pizza and Chinese food travel really well with simple packaging. Burgers and french fries, not so much.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I live 10 minutes from the place I get pizza. I drive to get my pizza, wait for it to come out of the oven and put it immediately into my insulated pizza delivery bag and drive straight home, and then it’s still usually too cold for my tastes. Delivery usually takes close to an hour and by that point it’s basically frozen.
DoctorRoxxo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
phileashog@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Hate to sound like a Karen, but you can try telling the manager. Usually they are pleasant and are willing to compensate you.
dan@upvote.au 11 months ago
You have to try resolve the issue with the store before issuing a chargeback.
Also note that chargebacks cost the company ~$20-50 each, even if the chargeback is ruled in their favour. This means that just threatening that you’ll chargeback is usually successful - they don’t want to deal with the cost and paperwork associated with it. If you do chargeback, they’ll likely block your credit card from being used there in the future.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Every mass venue or event entree ever.
WashedOver@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
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.
FunkyMonk@kbin.social 11 months ago
USA, living on tips since before my old ass got here.
drasticpotatoes@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
This is why I started ordering for pickup the few times I absolutely need to eat out, otherwise I just suck it up and make my own food.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
More like when someone buys you lunch but the food and service suck terribly. I tend to complain and then I catch myself.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
I know that feel
Pixel@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
$25? I call that discount disappointment
kd45@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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 :)
Donkter@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.