Do you/have you used Doordash/GrubHub/food deliver apps?

[tbwinner]

Specifically talking from restaurants here not groceries or liquor

I don't GET it. What's the appeal of paying 2x already high prices to receive likely lukewarm or cold food?

Are people really that lazy? Are people really that stupid? Do people really need McDonalds delivered to them?

(I do understand the elderly and disabled may have benefit from these services so do understand it could be useful to them)

[JustRalph]

Don’t get me started on this topic….

As a restaurant owner……

[TJDave]

No.

Why would anyone be satisfied with Lukewarm food?

On the rare occasion when I eat fast food I don’t do drive through. If I can’t eat at a table I’ll pass.

[tbwinner]

Originally Posted by JustRalph

Don’t get me started on this topic….

As a restaurant owner……

I know.. this is a bit of a spinoff from reading the CA min wage thread. I have had horror stories of local restaurants (esp. independent ones) having a lot of trouble with doordash and the like.

I just don't get the appeal!!

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by tbwinner

I know.. this is a bit of a spinoff from reading the CA min wage thread. I have had horror stories of local restaurants (esp. independent ones) having a lot of trouble with doordash and the like.

I just don't get the appeal!!

We are pushed hard by our corporate types to increase sales in this area.

We don’t. We did about $300 last week in these sales. The drivers are terrible, always late, and customers love to order fried foods that “don’t travel well”

Then they complain. But we have a much more broad menu than most and some of our customers love it. Mostly elderly and disabled.

Those guys order things like pot roast (our number one menu item all around dine in or dine out) Gumbo and steaks. Believe it or not we have a method that keeps a steak well for travel.

Deserts are popular too……..whole pies etc.

[PaceAdvantage]

Since I'm the only idiot who has answered yes thus far...I'll just say it's wicked convenient...more expensive...and if you don't order stupid stuff that doesn't travel all that well, it's not bad at all.

Aside from the added cost, I don't really see what the big negative is. Hasn't everyone been doing pizza delivery for ages? Who doesn't like a pizza delivery?

Same goes for a lot of other food.

[lamboguy]

i have never used UBER, Lyft, Door Dash or Grub Hub and probably never will.

the delivery services get as much as a third from the Restaurant and then charge for the delivery...what i do know is that there are credit card processing companies that offer business solutions that can bypass the third that the restaurant has to give up to Grubhub.

i am partners in a restaurant, and we refuse to go on the delivery apps, and we have started to do some takeout delivery from this credit card company and so far its been increasing slowly every week. we had the apps and all they did was create to many problems for us and we hardly made anything on the deal.

[Saratoga]

This brings up the situation I has this weekend....

Normally , I order on the phone to the restaurant and pay in cash...

But this time I had no cash on hand , so I had to use the card....

I had these choices to pick.....so I promptly chose the restaurant it self

Made my order , added credit card....clicked submit

Everything came up fine but the 2 $1 fees popped in.....

One for the processing fee and one for the on-line fee....

Its not like the other guys but doing this without any advanced notice is

the scummy practice...

PS- But the younger generation love using these services....don't get it

BTW....Pork Egg Foo Young was delicious...

[Inner Dirt]

My ex girlfriend's son spends over $1000 a month on Door Dash just for himself. From what I hear it costs 2x plus than if you went and fetched your own foot long sub and drink.

[Inner Dirt]

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

Since I'm the only idiot who has answered yes thus far...I'll just say it's wicked convenient...more expensive...and if you don't order stupid stuff that doesn't travel all that well, it's not bad at all.

Aside from the added cost, I don't really see what the big negative is. Hasn't everyone been doing pizza delivery for ages? Who doesn't like a pizza delivery?

Same goes for a lot of other food.

I challenge anyone to try to claim to have eaten more delivered pizzas than I have. I had a year stretch where I ate more than 10 of most people's life times. I started my own business out of my 3 car garage, 30 years ago, no lie I was probably working 140 hour weeks. If it wasn't football season I would often not leave the property for weeks. If it was football season I would work 5am-10am PST on Sunday and then hit the sports bar. Sometimes the pizza deliver man would come twice in one day. I sometimes ate pizza for breakfast lunch and dinner.


The long weeks were due to lack of automation and refusing to borrow money to buy modern equipment. After a year plus of hell I started automating.

[PaceAdvantage]

Originally Posted by Inner Dirt

My ex girlfriend's son spends over $1000 a month on Door Dash just for himself. From what I hear it costs 2x plus than if you went and fetched your own foot long sub and drink.

And I thought I was nuts

$1000 a month on door dash for ONE person? Not a family...not a couple...just one person?

Damn....

[Inner Dirt]

Originally Posted by Inner Dirt

My ex girlfriend's son spends over $1000 a month on Door Dash just for himself. From what I hear it costs 2x plus than if you went and fetched your own foot long sub and drink.

Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage

And I thought I was nuts

$1000 a month on door dash for ONE person? Not a family...not a couple...just one person?

Damn....

One person and that is verified, my ex went through his bank statements trying to figure out why he could not save money with not much expenses
and making like $55k a year. I think the Door Dash expenses average like $1200 a month. Depending on his work hours he gets it 1-3 times a day so at
$20 a pop for a sandwich and drink, there you go.


It would be a different story if he was doing something constructive and did not want to take 30 minutes off, he spends most of his spare time playing video games.


When I was getting those pizza orders daily I saved that 1/2 hour to work and on top of that the 15 minutes or so to shut every thing down and then turn it back on.

[Tom]

I use Door Dash and Grubhub.
DD is much better, lots of drivers. GH, not many in the area, longer waits.

Convenience. I can order Chinesse and have it 25-30 minutes.
Downside, french fries never crispy. I pre heat the oven to 400 and pp them in for 5 minutes, presto!

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$1,000 a month? Wow!

[Inner Dirt]

Originally Posted by Tom

I use Door Dash and Grubhub.
DD is much better, lots of drivers. GH, not many in the area, longer waits.

Convenience. I can order Chinesse and have it 25-30 minutes.
Downside, french fries never crispy. I pre heat the oven to 400 and pp them in for 5 minutes, presto!

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$1,000 a month? Wow!

If I go get my once a month or so fast food I start eating the fries before I make it out of the parking lot.

[JustRalph]

Originally Posted by Tom

I use Door Dash and Grubhub.
DD is much better, lots of drivers. GH, not many in the area, longer waits.

Convenience. I can order Chinesse and have it 25-30 minutes.
Downside, french fries never crispy. I pre heat the oven to 400 and pp them in for 5 minutes, presto!

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$1,000 a month? Wow!

This is the key. If there are plenty of drivers…..it’s not so bad. Where we are it’s a competition between Uber/lyft DoorDash and Postmates/Grubhub for drivers.

We are near the Houston airport (IAH) Bush, and the Uber/lyft drivers working the airport must be 200 or more every day.

I flew back from Florida recently and ordered a Lyft and I was amazed at how the airport has setup an entire terminal underground parking garage for Uber/Lyft. It’s like a huge bus stop with park benches etc and it stays busy I’m told. It was rocking in the afternoon when I was there.

I’m sure working the airport pays much better than door dash.