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I don't understand why so many people can't just go get their own damn food. Uber eats hasn't been around long enough for you all to have forgotten what you did before, has it? How did you survive back then?
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Once a month I get home from work so tired that nothing in the world will convince me not to go home, order a pizza and wait for it while laying on the couch. I deserve that and I will do it, no matter how much "back in the days" you people throw at me, I'm busy and tired
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You could always order the food when you're leaving work, then pick it up on your way home.
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For what, 10 euro less? I'd rather go directly at home earlier and wait in my underwears, money is meant to be spent
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Why use Uber eats why not just call the place directly and have them deliver it? Uber eats takes a large chunk of their profits or they over charge you.
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Some places still do their own deliveries, but most in my area ONLY do UberEats, to the extent that they've cut their delivery staff. The only consistent holdouts seem to be the Chinese places.
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Because Uber Eats delivers all over the place, and a lot of the restaurants I would order delivery from usually have delivery areas that I'm outside of. All the one way roads and the shit parking basically put me off of going anywhere downtown.
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When I know I’ll be too exhausted to go out and grab food, I make sure to get it on the way home so there’s no extra drive or leaving the house.
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Thanks to COVID and work from home and smartphones and Teams/Zoom, I've gone from an hour commute each way to a constant stream of meetings, texts, emails, IMs, etc. that must be addressed immediately, from 8am to 6pm. I don't think the "back in my day" folks fully understand how much more people are asked to do now. I once obliterated an older colleague when he complained that youngs these days don't put in half the hours he used to. I was like "Um, you used to go to the print office and wait four hours for prints to come out, take them back to the office, proof them, then take the documents to the courthouse and file them in person. In the same time, I'm responding to 100 emails, reviewing 20 documents ON MY PHONE, conducting 3 conference calls, listening to 2 coworkers' breakdowns, and drafting, reviewing, printing, proofing, and submitting the documents you used to sit and wait for." To his credit, he said I was right and I never had a problem with him again.
All of which is a long way of saying that, sometimes, more often than I would like, I can't just "go to the restaurant" because of time or because I'm no longer commuting. For all their problems, the apps mean that I'm eating fewer frozen pizzas and more poke bowls and salads.
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If you'd said anything other than pizza I'd give you slack, but you're a damn fool wasting money doordashing/ubering pizza. Order from them directly, it's cheaper and the restaurant gets bigger profits.
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I think the goalpost moved a bit here. I still order trough their website (if they have it) or call
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I just tossed a coin out the window at the nearest child and told them to fetch me the plumpest turkey in the butcher's window.
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ugh, we used to have a REAL country
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Everyone survived. We all survived before the internet too. But the world changes. If I'm injured or disabled it's a great option. If I'm sick, maybe I don't want to expose everyone to what I have.
There are a lot of valid reasons to use it beyond "lazy".
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Except for people without cars and the walk to restaurants is dangerous. Except for invalids. Except for people who work at companies with rules about not leaving your post. Except for people quaranteening. Except for....except for....except for....
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I just have no idea what life was like in the before time. All these poor souls
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They suffered more. Now they don’t have to.
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Some of us only have one car and their wife used it to get to work.
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Some of us don't have a car and don't want the food to be cold when I get home with it.
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I'm curious, do businesses not do their own deliveries anymore? I personally never stopped just ordering directly from the place I'm eating from. Couldn't tell you how common uber eats and others are in my area, I just know I don't use them.
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A lot of places have, yeah. They viewed the delivery staff as a fixed cost, and thought the services would mean they only paid a fee per delivery, making it a net savings.
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Oh, that's interesting.
Elaborating further, small businesses here usually contract a delivery business instead of hiring delivery personnel, I think they just arrange the cost of the delivery instead of a fixed cost, so it's basically no impact to the cost of the business.
Not a perfect system, but at least small places can do cheap delivery without jacking up the prices.
To be clear, I live in a corner of Argentina, even if that sounds good, we have other problems lmao.
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Yeah, what ended up happening is that the services increase the cost of the items the customer buys by a percentage, and keeps that cost. Then they add a delivery fee that they keep, a service fee, and a tip that goes to the driver. Then they pay the driver a small portion of the fee and markup. Overall they take about 30% of the total cost of the order.
Then they treat the restaurant like a subsidiary and make them use their pickup app, and sometimes advertise a menu that the restaurant doesn't actually offer.
They also make it difficult to give feedback on the delivery itself, since they take any negative feedback and forward it to the restaurant.I got a credit for $50 from one of the delivery service, which got me a a normal lunch plate from one of my favorite places (usually $15), and a ~20% tip. Driver tossed the food onto my porch, making most of it spill in the bag, and their system had no way to say "the driver did a bad job", "give me back the tip", or anything like that. All I could do was say the restaurant messed up, which they didn't.
Needless to say, I don't use them even if it's free anymore.
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I felt a better question is why so many people with transportation don't get their own food.
I am fine with driving anywhere so I think in the past 7 years we only had delivery once. But we try to cook mostly at home nowadays
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So, a few use cases, but it tends to boil down to convenience.
Some people work from home, and don't have time to go get food, nor cook anything significant between meetings, and they're just tired of cold sandwiches and microwave soup.
Spending however long traveling to and from the restaurant isn't always a valuable use of time compared to whatever else you were doing.
If I'm playing games alone or with friends, I'd rather do that than drive around for half an hour.If you've got kids, loading and unloading them into the car can be a chore.
Or just plain "comfy, don't wanna leave".
Delivery is a convenience that people like. Companies switching to a service with more fees that drive the cost up so high is annoying.
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I became further radicalized by the indignation of the petty bourgeoisie getting whipped into a frenzy because their sub minimum wage delivery drivers didn't jump through hoops enthusiastically enough for them.
Anything short of the delivery driver beating you with the food while calling you a useless lazy slob is exemplary service as far as I'm concerned.
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I got delivery from the restaurant. They do not do deliveries anymore. To ignore the fact that the landscape has changed significantly and just blame the people ordering is to miss a majority of the picture. Turns out life has nuance.
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Apparently some people love getting their food held hostage for more tips, and not knowing if someone finger banged their food.
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Especially city dwellers. There must be easily a dozen takeaways within half a mile of your house.
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Thought about doing Uber eats/grubhub one time when I had a meeting early in the morning, and I was out of coffee and breakfast items. Went to order my food. Food cost was 6.50, total bill was 20.50, and then it asked for a tip.
Fuck that. I went hungry.
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Before that I ordered online from the restaurant. Before that by calling them.
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