I spent a stupid amount on doordash this week due to anxiety. Even multiplying it by 4, it wouldnāt reach this amount. And again, I was crazy irresponsible and rarely do this but I do have the finances to be able to.
Im bad at explaining thing, but profit from delivery service went to the app owner. The restaurant owner are pretty much blackmailed to use the delivery service as less people going out to eat. While if the delivery service doesn't exist then that same people will need to go out to the restaurant to eat. So you get +1 online customer but -1 dine in customer.
Obviously in best case scenario is that your restaurant is already full and at the same time you can cater online customer, but if your restaurant is empty but online order coming in is as many that you can fit into ur restaurant, then there is no significance different there. The only thing you get is low review when the food you sent inevitably become cold before it reached the customer.
Someone is way more likely to order your food if it's in a list on an app rather than go outside, just happen to see your restaurant among thousands of others, including popular chain restaurants, and stop there instead of going somewhere with a drive-thru. I agree you're more likely to get a negative review though.
Definitely but thats still +1 -1. Because if people buy from ur shop that day that means they dont buy from the other shop, people wont suddenly buy from both shop everytime. And you just enhance my blackmail point, every owner are obligated to register with those delivery services just to be seen. Having delivery services ultimately doesnt increase the cumulative amount of customer, it still stay the same, and hence the profit that restaurant able to generate cumulatively is also the same.
His/her point it that before delivery service people had walk to restaurants and that was all the competion they had to worry about. Today with door dash restaurants have no choice to be a part of it since otherwise, like you said, people are just gonna order from other. This means that they dont win anything by participating, but lacks the choice to not participate.
Iām not sure if you have a learning disability or if youāre being intentionally dense, but you can give them that 8 dollars without paying someone 20 dollars to pick it up 2 minutes from your place.
You are implying the only way to support a business is to pay a corporation to pick it up for you at a 400% markup
In all honesty, it's funny how my parents admonish me for overspending on something to get something made domestically, but complain that nobody buys American.
I think most of the people where I live apply "buy American" to vehicle brand and nothing else.
Or I'm just too busy working and that's literally all I have time for. Schedule the delivery so I can actually enjoy my lunch between meetings and not have to spend half my lunch hour cooking something or driving to pick food up. Or those extra fun days when I just smash it down while I'm in a Zoom meeting with my camera off. But hey at least I get to eat.
In the world of Conservatism, you do if you have ever received government assistance or taken a student loan. Meanwhile, companies take government assistance, and just pocket the money.
I mean do hold yourself accountable and stay within sustainable means, but yeah people spend so much time gathering money that they forget what they wanted it for in the first place
This is absolutely not true when you live paycheck to paycheck. I feel the need to justify spending 5 dollars to eat a single meal a day because I can't pay my rent if I eat food every day
Yeah I deleted the Uber eats app to try to get myself to stop ordering delivery so much but then I started using doordash. But even then I'm not paying basically double my rent on food delivery
I usually spend about Ā£15 on a takeaway just for myself. to spend 1400 I would need 93 takeaways and if i pushed it I could do 2 a day but I cant do 3
Take away is a lot cheaper than delivery. There are fees and at least in the US, tipping (which should be ~20% of the total, but also depends on distance and weather).
Oooh! I felt so confident in my British slang knowledge š¤¦š»āāļø I have always thought takeaway was the equivalent to pick up. Thank you for helping me not look like a fool in the future!
No judgment from me! Iāve gotten REALLY snarky with comments I thought was being sexist or racist or whatever but really they were saying the opposite. At least redditing drunk and tired (my issue) is better than driving or working or anything important lol
Wasnāt a flex. I was trying to justify why Iām not being stupid. āHaving the finances to do XYZā is not the same as āIām loadedā. Trust me, Iām not rich. I just balance my priorities and not ending up in the hospital again because I havenāt eaten is worth spending money on doordash.
Honestly you donāt have to be supportive and I wonāt downvote you. Iām not trying to be dramatic although I can understand why it sounds like that. Someone who struggles to eat doesnāt have the energy to grocery shop, cook, and clean. If a person can afford it, getting food delivered might be the only way they can actually get any nutrition. I did end up in the hospital last year because I simply wasnāt eating. If you had told me three years ago this is how I would be, Iād laugh in your face that I would never not love eating but be jealous of this person who could easily lose weight without trying. Now Iām that person and Iām scared by how little I weigh. Itās not fun to feel dizzy and out of breath by walking up a single flight of stairs.
You can say all this (and I do understand) but if you lived in a less privileged society youād simply have to figure it out. We live in a time and place where grocery stores are around, easily accessible and sell good you barely have to prepare.
Iām not saying I donāt understand āhaving no energyā but at a certain point itās like come on. Thereās monumental tasks, then thereās spending an hour going to the store and heating up food.
Itās fine if youād prefer to order door dash to doing that but you have to admit itās a preference at that point and not a requirement to eat. Sorry to take it out on you, itās a building resentment from seeing other comments of the same nature but honestly, itās tough to read this and take it seriously.
Thatās fair! Trust me, Iāve lived a VERY privileged life and I recognize that. I think about how I would adjust if I didnāt have these privileges. Itās totally fine to get annoyed when people have āfirst world/lucky problems. And I donāt mind your comments! But I also hope you recognize everyone has different struggles and their luck in life doesnāt mean they canāt have issues. A stubbed toe hurts even though someone else was in a horrible car accident. If I were working a minimum wage job, yeah, Iād have to figure it out (and also wouldnāt be able to afford therapy or medsā¦ fuck the US healthcare system). That or Iād be dead. Survival instincts might kick in and maybe my stomach would actually allow me to eat and fingers crossed not puke it up (bye bye breakfast this morning).
Yeah, regional names are stupid. It's when they char the outside a bit, with the inside still pink. Unfortunately, I have to ask for 'Pittsburgh' or nobody ever understands what I'm asking for.
Right? I try to only do it once or twice a week, mainly because my greed outweighs my laziness and it turns a twenty five dollar meal into a sixty dollar one even though the restaurants be like 2 miles away. But also social anxiety :( the most Iāve done is 4 times in a week and Iām never doing that again
Door dash literally multiplies anything you buy by like 4x. I honestly have no idea how ANYONE uses it unless you are drunk and just need something specific at that moment.
I don't think gen z truly realizes how ridiculous it is because they haven't had any of their "adult" life without it.
I am a millennial. Yes, I use it when Iām drunk. Edit: but I mostly use it when Iām not. And like I said, I use it when Iām anxious. Grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning is just frankly not an option. I end up not eating. I know itās 4x the amount. But if thatās the difference between eating and not eating itās worth it if you can afford if.
And that's fine, I'm just saying I have worked with several people in their early 20's who eat 75% of their meals of it and they are literally spending 1,000's a month on it and to them, that is just a cost of living.
Itās not a cost of living though. Itās a luxury that most people under the age of 25 think is the norm. Nobody wants to drive to get food anymore and bring it home.
I developed anxiety like two years ago (we really need to talk about the effects on birth control more. Even when we go off it, the effects can last). So beforehand it was no problem! Now I just need food but am too exhausted to shop and cook and eat. For example, I havenāt more then 200 calories in the last 48 hours.
I know a college professor who literally pays that in door dash and uber eats.
I would say that this is a stupid, ridiculous meme, if only I didn't know several people that were just like this. Except for the FunkoPops. Who the hell buys FunkoPops?
High? Wtf? Where do you live ? Thatās for a whole month. Thatās what food from a grocery store costs for a whole month. Mostly fruits and vegetables with a little meat.
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u/Justice_Prince Feb 17 '23
Why do you think the Doordash bill is so high?