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He's so excited (thelemmy.club)
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"I DoorDashed Dunkin' Donuts for my boyfriend and me. This was the drop-off photo.". Picture of a order of Dunkin' Donuts in front of a glass door with a bunny behind it
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[–] 17 points 6 months ago (18 children)

The delivery fee and tip will cost more than your order. I wish i was rich enough to waste money like that

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

    They also raise menu prices to make even more profit. I 'll never now somewhat understand why non-disabled people use food delivery apps. It's always cheaper to just pick it up yourself. Even if the restaurant does their own delivery, they still charge a delivery fee and you're expected to tip. Quit being lazy/rich and just pick up your own meal.

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  • [+] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)
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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago*

    yeah same. i used it a lot when i'm sick or injured.

    but there are people who over-use it. I had a roommate 5 years ago who made about 40K a year, who was spending $500 a month in delivery food... and another $200 in delivery weed. And he talked a lot about how broke he was... this was a guy who also drove to work when his workplace was 10m walk away.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    They raise menu prices on these shitty services because they're charged 30% to be on them.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (3 children)

    Who is charged 30% of what to be on what?

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Restaurants. 20-30% of every sale to be on either of the shitty delivery platforms.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (1 child)

    That makes no sense.

    So if I order, say, Mcd's through dd, and I want a $10 sandwich, dd takes $3 from mcds? Then why is the price higher? That's just dd charging me 30% more for each order for no reason, on top of "delivery fees"which should already BE that.

    It feels exactly the same as the US terrifs thing. It's just raised taxes charged by the US government. But on dd, since they're charging every company that, there isn't even this bs reason of choice to promote domestic business/products... It's just dd triple or quadruple dipping, and hiding it and then lying about it.

    Gah.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    because it's convenient and time is more valuable to them than money.

    the extra 10 bucks for delivery via app saves me 30-45m of my own personal time.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (6 children)

    that's not true.

    the delivery and tip is usually about 20-30% of the cost, the same as you'd pay in a sit down restaurant.

    when i order from places, my bill is the same pretty much as it would be if I went there and sat down to eat.

    i love these replies saying every order is $50 or something... these people have never used a delivery app. vast majority of my orders it's a 5 bucks in fees and a 5 buck tip on a 25 dollar food order. most of my orders are 30-35 dollars.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    https://www.iorders.ca/blog/uber-eats-more-expensive-food-costs

    I don't know where you live but my sister insists that we order with Doordash here in Canada and it's much more expensive than just going to the restaurant. Plus, the food is cold and there's an error with the order most of the time. It really sucks and I hope she would stop wasting her money on that.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    good for your sister. my experience using food apps has been nothing but positive. on rare occasion something is missing and i report it and i get refunded.

    also i think anyone who expects delivered food to be hot and ready to eat is entitled AF. you should expect to re-heat anything that takes more than 5 minutes to deliver, which would be most anything unless you're like 5 blocks from the restaurant.

    i don't know what universe people are living in where their take out doesn't have to be re-heated. mine always does. the only food that i don't have to re-heat is when i'm in the restaurant. my burritos that i walk to to get take out are always cold when I get home less it's like 80 degrees out.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    i don’t know what universe people are living in where their take out doesn’t have to be re-heated. mine always does.

    Pre gig economy?! I can easily remember the 90ies and early 2000 when restaurants had their own drivers and the food you ordered was still hot when it got to you.

    Also, my food is still hot when I just "deliver it from myself to myself".

    also i think anyone who expects delivered food to be hot and ready to eat is entitled AF.

    I think anyone who expects delivered food is lazy AF. I do it maybe once a year when I have friends over, but I also make sure to order from a restaurant with its own drivers, and avoid any venture-capitalist-gig-economy app. The other times, I just get off my fucking ass and go grab something at the restaurant. Plus, I live in a tower and most of those app drivers will not come up to my apartment. They just leave the food in the lobby downstairs. IMHO, Doordash/UberEats and all those are absolutely not worth it.

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  • [–] -5 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

    cool. i live in a house and they leave it on my porch and it's great. I'd rather not waste an hour of my day to pick up food, that's not very convenient. it's pretty convenient to toss it in the oven for 5m to heat it up after it's delivered though.

    in the 90s and 2000s delivery didn't exist for me. I grew up in a poor rural area we ate out like once every 3-4 months usually during a major shopping trip or family event. so i guess i never had the privilege of any of what you are talking about where restaurants would deliver food.

    I only started using food delivery during the pandemic because it was the only way to eat out at the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    It's not a privilege. It was standard before those shitty delivery services appeared. You should have higher expectations instead of considering poor service as standard and defend venture capitalists that exploit both the people ordering and the people making the deliveries.

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