Posted on 07/08/2023 11:34:54 AM PDT by Libloather
Just yesterday agents from GrubHub were holding me at gunpoint forcing me to order a hamburger for $20 plus tip.< /S>
The excerpt didn't give any indication of force or trickery. Did the rest of the article? Charging a fee for a service isn't a crime. If the customer doesn't like it then just don't order it. Personally, I've only ordered food for delivery when I have guests and no one wants to drive. When it's just me I always pick up so there's no delivery fee or tip. (And,no, I never tip for counter service unless it is a something like a twenty pizza order for work)
XD XD.... Thanks!
So getting food delivered is expensive. Huh.
Are so many people suffering from agoraphobia?
My son worked for a brief time with a food delivery service, not any of these, and he wasn’t paid very well. I think after 2-3 weeks he decided it wasn’t worth the wear and tear on his car. Also, people tipped very little, sometimes didn’t even leave a tip, even if he had to drive 20 miles to deliver the goods. Certainly isn’t a career by any means, just extra money to pay rent, and trying to keep up with inflation in Joe’s economy.
He’s a hint: look at the bottom line on the bill.
Bonus holes,
You say?!
Say no more,say no more!
Picture o’ health that Dennis Rodman.
Looks like Ray Charles with a mouse trap on his tongue.
The only reason “junk fees” exist is because people whine about paying $10 for something, but are OK with paying $1 each for ten things. So they find 10 ways to “slice” the something, and there you go. I use the delivery apps, I know about the “junk fees” and don’t really care. I know that a 3rd party picking up something for me is going to cost me more than just doing it myself. Cause I understand capitalism, and everybody’s gotta get paid. Really if people wouldn’t be so whiny the services could be honest, and just straight up say “yup we’re adding 10% to the bill for our pocket”. But people gotta whine. So instead they pile on a bunch of little fees, to get to 10%, which one should be totally OK with if using a delivery service. Cause everybody’s gotta get paid.
It’s not only the “junk fees”. The price of the menu items are jacked up as well, compared to prices on the regular menu.
You are correct, the drivers get less than minimum wage. Even with tips. Source: I have delivered for them, while out working anyway and needing to kill some time.
You sit in your car, you get a ping to go to Adolfo’s, you drive there for ten minutes, sometimes having to pay to park or else risk a ticket.
You go into Adolfo’s, wait for ten more minutes until it is ready.
You drive for ten minutes to the customer’s apartment. You spend five minutes getting buzzed in and finding their door. Voila you have spent 35 minutes and maybe $2 in gas and maybe $1 to park and you get. . . $6 maybe? $10?
Not even minimum wage.
OH AND the cost of having a car and keeping it maintained and insured and all. . . and you get to pay 15% tax on your “income” at tax time.
It’s a total rip off.
From the customer’s point of view you just drove ten minutes from Adolfo’s to their house and then parked and got buzzed in and whatever.
They don’t consider the time you spend waiting for an order, driving to the restaurant, and then waiting for the food to be ready.
Completely understand as a Bo e marrow transplant patient.
Hope you give her a day off here and there:
And you can bet no body fluids are added by a disgruntled employee.
It is true there are lazy people who habitually use these services when they could pick up or prepare food themselves. However, there are also many people who are housebound, chronically ill, or have temporary situations that prevent their going out either to shop for groceries, cook, or pick up take out. You see the cruelest comments on conservative boards from people who assume the worst about everyone.
Irrelevant.
The lion’s share of revenue from these apps comes from blue city shit box dwellers that haven’t a clue as to how to cook or food shop (i.e., fend) for themselves.
Let ‘em burn.
They’ll be statistics when the SHTF.
I drive for Doordash. I wouldn’t cuss at ya. I might smile and wave, which seems to annoy some of my customers.
Amen. There IS an investment being a DD driver. Car, gas, mileage. I retired after 45 years as a legal assistant and 16 years as a top level personal fitness trainer. I am having so much fun with Doordash that I don’t even (much) mind the customers who can be so rude and unfriendly. It supplements my Social Security and it beats sitting in a noffice. But, people can be VERY, VERY rude.
Incidentally, Doordash pays us $2.50. We are grateful for our clients who realize that we use our gas, our cars, our time to deliver their food.
Yep.
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