Random question: Doordash, Ubereats, Grubhub, etc....

[Eric P]

A food delivery service dropped about $100 of Chinese food at my door. I didn't order and left it there (townhome). No one picked it up by the next morning and it went to the garbage. What a waste.

I don't get why any restaurant would pay another companies delivery fee. It should be the restaurant gets its full price & tax and the customer pays the delivery fee.

I also hate waiting in line behind virtual customers.

[Ah Pook]

I tried a secondary food delivery twice. Both times the food was cold and took forever. The fees for secondary deliveries cuts into the profit of the restaurant.

I only order carry out from restaurants that offer "in house" delivery. I tip well (cash) and the delivery drivers remember it. I can get Asian takeout, in 20 minutes, on a weekend evening.

Lived in Nederland and had to get off my keister to get food. My favorite thing about Lakewood is food comes to my house.

An aside: Didn't CA pass a law against the "gig" economy (musicians, contractors, lyft...)

[arbol]

<-- Never has used Uber, never will.

Uber (stealing money from highly regulated Taxi Companies)

Now, imagine taxis bringing your dinner.

[StagLefty]

The clubhouse where I live constantly has McD's bags in front of the door. I took a couple of them into the Mgr. thinking she had missed seeing them since she comes in the back door when she arrives. Both times it wasn't a delivery for her and she told me McD's does it all the time and the receipt on the bag never has a name or lot #. I've had several knocks on my door with food deliveries that weren't for my address !!!

[FoxtArt]

Does McDonalds qualify as catfood?

[tactical_2012]

I recently spent 23 day in the hospital for a work related injury and can tell you hospital food might as well be garbage. I used door dash several times and half the time I got the food brought to my room other half the time I had to message the driver got figure out what they did with my food as they would leave it at the first desk they could. All Nd all food delivery service while be stuck in the the hospital is a must.

[Gman]

Got a notification when we ordered dinner last night that Door Dash now has an annual subscription. Basically 3 months free compared to month-to-month and refunded this month's charge.

[XJ]

Never used any of the new-fangled services, and have no plans.

Only used Domino's once in the last ~20 years, the day that I got my positive COVID notification. Asked for the driver to leave it on the porch, and they waited to see me open the door then waved. Would order again.

[MrPrena]

I really do not have anything to contribute to this thread, but I have never ordered from those 3rd party delivery.
Heck , I am too cheap to even order delivery.

I would rather pickup a food before/during/after meeting with 12-15mpg vehicle to save $10-20.




this is how I think sometimes (not always). I would rather for sure save $10-20 in-hand than maybe save $100-200 potential/possible opportunity cost.

[Martinjmpr]

Well, my overall point is that it seems to me that the likes of GH, DD, etc, along with Uber and Lyft, are ultimately not sustainable business models.

The reason I say that is that it seems to me (as an outsider) that if the people doing the driving actually sat down and figured out what it was costing them in fuel, wear-and-tear on their vehicles, and idling time waiting for an order or waiting to pick someone up, they would quickly realize that they are in essence working for probably $5 - $6 an hour. IF that.

So, these businesses stay afloat by having a stream of people who will act as "employees" only until they realize it's not a good deal for them. And pretty soon, the companies run out of drivers and have nothing else to fall back on.

Maybe I'm wrong, who knows? My wife has a friend who drove for Uber Black and apparently that was a good deal for her, at least she thought it was. Certainly I understand the appeal of "work when you want, as much as you want" but it seems like if you really factored in the costs and the time, you'd see that most of these drivers aren't making very good money at all. Not even minimum wage in most cases.

I'm particularly thinking of the likes of Uber and Lyft where you not only have to pick up and drop off your passengers, but you also have to make sure your car is clean, vacuumed, have bottled water for your passengers, maintainance, etc, and all that stuff is on your own time and your own dime.

I wonder how long most of these services actually "keep" an employee?