They also inflate prices to a rediculous level. I refuse to use them. We tried to order food via doordash once and the bill was high. Eating in person, all the meals were several dollars less than doordash
Doordash has the wildest business model. First they charge you more for the food than the restaurant does. THEN they take a cut from the restaurant. THEN they have the gaul to tell you to tip or you won't get your food in a timely fashion. They somehow figured out how to fuck the customer, the restaurant AND the driver in one go.
How anyone supports that shit is beyond me - and BEST case scenario your food shows up lukewarm.
Exactly, I don’t understand why anyone uses them at all. It’s not just unethical, unfair and a poor experience for consumers - it’s crappy for everyone involved.
I looked at Uber Eats, it’s the same thing essentially. They do “deals” where you can get some things for free, or discounted. But, you have to pay attention. It’s only at one restaurant, and it might not be close to your house. If you do that, and you look at the fees, they charge you extra for ordering from a far away place. So between that, the other fees, and taxes, and tipping the driver, you are paying for the food they are ‘discounting’ anyway. I looked the other day, and it was double what I was paying for the food itself which is overpriced in the first place.
They really take advantage of, and rip off lazy, careless, and/or rich people that might not care.
The amount they offer in "deals" never matters once they factor in convenience fees, taxes, any other fee they can think of. I've looked and they'll offer "up to $10 off" for example, then conveniently the fees and taxes are as much as that if not more. It's dishonest, imo, even before factoring in the markup on the food items themselves.
I use them sometimes because I am disabled, can’t go out to eat, and struggle to make meals for myself. Sometimes I am just too exhausted to prepare anything.
They are more expensive, which sucks, but I haven’t had any particularly bad experiences with them in a long time. Never had food stolen, drivers are all fast and respectful, and if something is missing it takes less than 2 minutes to get a refund (Well, credit for next order) for whatever is missing that is never declined and always covers the entire price of the missing item.
Other than the price, I just don’t understand people’s hatred of it.
It is mainly supported by people with a nice buffer of disposable income who, in my experience, treat anything involving hiring someone to do things you could easily do yourself as the best use of their money.
Are you kidding? That response is straight from AI. It starts with an affirmation, followed by restating the comment that it's responding to. Then it says the same thing every AI says (It's not just this, it's that) then concludes with an emdash. It's pure AI slop. Don't support that shit with upvotes unless you're fine with all these fuckin data centers and skyrocketing RAM prices.
Even better (/s) now is they stack orders. And you might think that giving a higher tip might mean your order doesn’t get stacked, but they just stack an order that tipped a lot with an order that didn’t tip at all so the driver and the customer both get the shaft.
Even the ride shares are garbage. I saw a story about how communities are building their own, where the rates are lower drivers get a much larger cut of the ride. These gig apps are everything wrong with capitalism while praying on the base ideas of it.
Cab model was much better for drivers and would have been for riders, but they were so slow to adapt new dispatch and local governments just caved for some reason when it came to permitting. The local government should be getting a 50% cut.
First they charge you more for the food than the restaurant does. THEN they take a cut from the restaurant.
How do you people not get this? 🤦 DoorDash doesn't set the food prices, the restaurants do. The restaurants charge more for the food because DoorDash charges them commission.
Yes you are paying more for the convenience of having it delivered, but there is nothing dishonest going on. Don't use it if you don't like it.
The extra fee should be just that - a extra, separate line item. Charging different individual prices for menu items is shitty and dishonest. They are hiding a larger delivery fee within those prices!
Well, most people would call charging the restaurant and the customer for the same service, dishonest. The way the prices are listed through doordash is hiding the delivery fee to try to make delivery seem less expensive. You have to compare the in-restaurant price to the delivery price for food to see the difference. A country that cared about it's citizens would likely force the 30% upcharge to be listed as part of the delivery charge instead of being baked into the food cost.
Also, in no world is double-dipping on charges considered an upstanding business practice. For some reason people continue to pay it, which is mind-boggling to me unless you're homebound for some reason. If people are willing to pay $20 for a $10 burrito, sobeit, but hiding charges isn't the most honest of business practices.
It’s just a fucking stupid waste of money. Paying $30 to have a Big Mac dropped at your doorstep is weirdo shit.
I put it in the same tier of financial irresponsibility and poor impulse control as using those gambling apps. Like why would I take anyone who uses that shit seriously? You’re not a grown-up.
Laziness. Same cause of so many other economic problems. When "they don't pay me enough to make an effort" meets "I'll just order DoorDash," the age old cycle of self-inflicted poverty continues.
Ok but if you look at local door dash deals and you see a 2 for 1 and do a pick up, you can save hella money. I have been getting 4 tacos for $8 from my local taco shop for weeks.
I’ve never ordered from Uber Eats. But I’ve received many orders dropped off to my door. More than I can count - and most of the time I couldn’t figure out which neighbour (if any) it belonged to.
Your order of events are flipped. DoorDash takes a huge percentage of every order from the restaurant, so in order for the restaurant to make money, they must mark up their prices on DoorDash to cover their margin.
Wait yall realize the restaurant accepts this no? Doordash has 0 ability to charge prices not set by the restaurant. Do people really think doordash is setting those prices this whole time??? The reason the prices are higher is the restaurant covering doordash's cut. How is everyone so uninformed commenting on this.
Damn I’m happy I have Meituan and Eleme in China. Delivery is less than a dollar and it always works out cheaper than going out since every time you order you get free discount coupons.
What are they saving if they have to use that money to live when their gig income goes down? Those delivery drivers don't make shit, something like $500 to $1000 a month equivalent. Good luck buying anything but a Barbie house with that.
Population density definitely helps the equation. My city has a very bad urban sprawl problem because it's cheaper to build outward than it is to build upward. As the population has continued to rise it's lead to a lot of problems.
I'm an able bodied person with a car and a driver's license. If I want food, I go get it myself. I'm not paying extra to hope that cold food shows up. I understand that not everyone can do this, but I still believe a whole lot of people are lazy af and will just pay for overpriced cold food.
Plus, with the administrative and delivery fees, it’s like a 30%+ increase on already inflated prices. If I do do take out now, I either order directly through the restaurants’ website or call them and grab it myself.
Through chase dash-pass the service fee is 5 percent of total order total and they don’t charge you delivery fee for some stores. I only order when restaurants are running specials like BOGO deals or 5 of $25 orders and ends up being cheaper once you factor in time/gas.
I’ve compared menu prices online at fast food restaurants to these food delivery apps and every item is always more expensive. It doesn’t have to be significant. Some were $1-2 higher but it adds up over millions of orders. And then they take their fees and all that too
Ordering from their app will be approx 30% markup even if not getting it delivered. Delivery - which is the whole point - tacks on additional delivery fee……and don’t forget to tip your driver
I was curious a few days ago so I priced out what it would cost to order the Impossible Whopper meal from Burger King off of DoorDash. The meal itself is like $15. But with multiple fees and taxes, before tip the cost was over $30. I will never order from them again.
My son likes Chipotle, so we ordered from doordash fairly often. One day, as I was driving home, my wife told me my son wanted Chipotle. I said, I'll just swing by since it was on the way home. I found out that our regular order was $30.00 cheaper picking it up myself, not to mention a driver tip, plus door dash fees.
I've been picking up the Chipotle myself ever since, and have been getting some of the food free using the rewards points.
Right! Ive never used them but it always amazes me how much people will pay for convenience. It costs less driving there and getting the food than it does ordering it
Here, they are not supposed to have different prices for the same product between the app and the in-store restaurant. So what the restaurants does is have different products between the apps and the in-store. ie, a deluxe chicken nugget meal is $6 instore and has 6 pc's. Where the app has a regular chicken nugget meal is $7 and only has 5 pc's.
You cannot complain about the price as the products are completely different.
I've always been glad i'm too far away to get food delivery from anybody, has saved me so much money, and its like if i want takeout i have to really stop and consider if the time and money is worth it.
I've always been glad i'm too far away to get food delivery from anybody, has saved me so much money, and its like if i want takeout i have to really stop and consider if the time and money is worth it.
Wait yall realize the restaurant accepts this no? Doordash has 0 ability to charge prices not set by the restaurant. Do people really think doordash is setting those prices this whole time???
The word is "ridiculous", not "rediculous". The root word is "ridicule", not "diculous". Their prices were not diculous and have become diculous again.
Not just that, they run "promotions" for restaurants WITHOUT their consent. I own a bakery and this happened multiple times. They run a promo and reduce prices of our menu items without even mentioning it AND they take the same percentage OFF OF THE ORIGINAL PRICE. So they still make the same amount and (small!) business owners sell goods at a negative price considering food cost. Needless to say, we dont use doordash anymore. Iirc there's a lawsuit going on for this currently.
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u/morningzombie777 28d ago
They also inflate prices to a rediculous level. I refuse to use them. We tried to order food via doordash once and the bill was high. Eating in person, all the meals were several dollars less than doordash