Do you use delivery services for delivering restaurant/fast food?

[Georgiagranny]

What prompted the question is that I was just reading about a company based in California that has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That's not the strange thing; the strange thing is that the company is a salad restaurant. It's hard to believe that there are people who actually would use a delivery service (and the attendant fees/charges) to deliver a salad. A salad? That's what it says. A salad restaurant. They apparently are going under because of the high fees/charges by delivery services.

Now, I wouldn't be averse to going into a restaurant that specializes in salads. I'd sure as heck be averse to using a delivery service to get something so easily and almost effortlessly made at home.

Actually, in any case, I'm not a fan of a delivery service that's not free except maybe in the case of someone who's housebound or otherwise limited in their mobility.

What's your take?

 

[Jules]

Only had it once in 2021.

I can’t believe the numbers of people that order from McD’s.

 

[Georgiagranny]

Gotta wonder how many gallons of gas they could've paid for with the delivery charge, delivery fee, tip!

 

[PeppermintPatty]

No! We deliver our own pizza and other foods.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I'm cheap. Ain't no way I like tipping someone to bring me food. Yeah, if I got in my car and drove back and forth to a restaurant, the cost of the gas would probably equal the cost of a tip. But getting food delivered just fires up the Scrooge in me.

 

[RadishRose]

Used to order a pizza delivery once in a while from a place that's not too bad, but stopped a long time ago. Prices became ridiculous.

The only other delivery I've used in the past was Chinese food. Stopped that, too.

 

[Aunt Bea]

I haven’t used any of the delivery service apps and like others I stopped ordering the occasional pizza or Chinese meal due to rising prices.

I have thought that I should download the apps and become familiar with the services they offer if they will help me to maintain my independence as I age out.

I think of Lon and his experiments with car services and the like that allowed him to remain independent for a few years before he finally went into an assisted living facility.

 

[Alizerine]

Don't use them and hope I don't need to anytime soon.

 

[GoneFishin]

I order out about once a week and have it delivered. Its delivered by their own employee. I always tip. One place is free delivery if your order is $35 or more but I still tip.

 

[Georgiagranny]

In the case of places that use their own employees to deliver and don't charge, I'd use those, too (and tip the person who delivers). It's the ones like Door Dash and Instacart that I object to.

 

[Nathan]

We're too far out, nobody delivers anything except our monthly propane tank refill. I suppose I could hire an Uber driver to pick up a hamberger and bring it, but it would probably cost $50.

 

[GoneFishin]

In the case of places that use their own employees to deliver and don't charge, I'd use those, too (and tip the person who delivers). It's the ones like Door Dash and Instacart that I object to.

Yep I'm like you. I would never use door dash, skip the dishes etc.

 

[Jules]

This is just hearsay. It may just be individual drivers who give very poor service if they don’t like the tip. Many services let you enter the tip directly onto the order. I would prefer to tip when I receive the order.

When I see a certain pizza company delivering, a very common turn is into the subsidized housing complex.

 

[jimintoronto]

We have food delivered at least one evening per week. We live 3 blocks from a main street here in Toronto, ST Clair Avenue. I pay for the food out of my profits on the Toronto Stock Exchange trading I do every week day. I use my CIBC debit card and order using the appropriate app for Swiss Chalet, Pizza Pizza, Montana's, Shawarma, or Thai Lime. Time to get the food at our front door ? 30 minutes or less.

In Toronto there are at least 5 thousand e bike couriers who make a good living delivering food and or alcohol or marijuana to people's homes. Their investment is around $1000 to $1500 for a heavy duty electric bike with 2 batteries and a good I phone. The apps they work with automatically calculate their income taxes per delivery day, and forward that amount to Revenue Canada along with the employer's Revenue Canada contribution. After costs, a full time e bike courier in Toronto can make $35,000 net a year. Of course in order to make that much, they have to be out working ALL winter long in the cold weather, not just in the warm months of summer time. It is a young person's job for sure.

 

[Tom52]

The last time I had a delivery was a pizza probably 20 years ago. I will never use a delivery service unless we become disabled to the point where we couldn't go out to a restaurant under our own power. If it came to that, home delivery of groceries would be welcome and likely I would utilize restaurant delivery as well.

 

[Muskrat]

I would do pizza. This is something i have been know to do when i was holed up in a hotel somewhere. But i will not pay top dollar for cold and soggy food. Nope.

 

[katlupe]

I use Instacart for groceries only. Because I do not have a car. It is something I put in my budget even with my low income I can pay for it. I rarely buy restaurant food.

 

[Feelslikefar]

We use a delivery service for our favorite Italian and Chinese restaurants.
Settled on these two due to quality of food and how they are packaged for delivery.
The packaging is the key. Problem with many places, they just throw some wrapped food in a bag
and away they go.
The good ones understand and go that extra step.
We use them maybe 2 or three times a month, depending on our moods.

 

[Remy]

No never. See it done at work. I plan my lunches and take them to work. I have never had any kind of food delivery. Should I ever have to have groceries delivered, that would be out of necessity only.

It seems to expensive. I was at work one day for a meeting and a co-worker literally had a coffee and pastry door dashed.

 

[AnneTeak]

i never used one and i just shake my head at people who complain that their delivery is late or incorrect. get in your car and go get it, ridiculously lazy.

 

[hawkdon]

I just finished a double cheeseburg from Mc D's....it is 1/4th
mile from me, but I can no longer drive.

 

[debodun]

No! Unless they use a conveyor belt.

 

[Georgiagranny]

I just finished a double cheeseburg from Mc D's....it is 1/4th
mile from me, but I can no longer drive.

See? That's what I said...exception for folks who are housebound or have limited mobility.

 

[papa tiger]

We like to get out and walk around, shopping huge places seems a win win.
Besides the wife is a great cook & I fix up stuff quick when she has to be with
the Kids or a friend for a bit. Only thing I ask the lord is let us do what we have
to do.

Fast food just doesn't tast the same after Covid. Chewy, gaggy, bad after taste. Don't waste near $15 on them apiece.

 

[Pappy]

Once in awhile we order a pizza delivery. Last week was the first time we ordered something different, Panda Express. It was delicious and we got two whole meals out of it. Orange glazed chicken, greens, teriyaki chicken and chow main. Huge serving.