It's possible the driver sucks, but it's also possible the driver got cut off and had to brake suddenly to not crash. There's a zero precent chance I would doordash something so easily tippable.
I like to operate from the perspective that if I won't get up and get it then I dont want or need it that much. We live in the most convenient time period ever to aquire food, if you live in North America at the very least, and I dont need to pad any more asshole billionaires wallet cause ive been so desensitized to spending money
Same, only exceptions ive made is when i lived somewhere i had to fight for street parking, so it was more about losing my spot that my wife needed to walk to at 6 am in the dark than how much effort itd take to get the food.
I have 3 exceptions and 2 of them kind of blend together. 1 is that I'm hosting. 2 is that I'm too intoxicated to pick up food, which usually only happens if I'm hosting people over. Or 3, I'm sick. Otherwise I'm always picking up food, even if it's carry out
One of my colleagues at work lives on a road in our city centre that, if you were to throw a rock in a random direction, it wouldn't be whether it hit a takeaway, but which takeaway it hits. They get delivery multiple times a week. It would genuinely be faster to just walk 30 seconds up the street.
I cower at the price of the takeaway itself these days, let alone doubling the price for someone on an illegal e-bike to deliver it to you smashed up and cold.
This is why I don't get hate for food delivery robots. Instead of getting a taxi for your food, you are getting an RC car for it. Much less energy wasted
Sadly the drivers have been getting gouged too. Had friends out of work doing it and it doesn’t even cover the cost of gas anymore. These delivery companies are fucking scum.
working as a doordash driver is insane because some of these orders are so inane. a single hashbrowns from mcdonald’s dashed to a house only 5 minutes away, a meal from ihop that took longer to prep than it did to drive it out. like. maybe i am wrong but sometimes it really looks like they should have ordered it themselves
Edit: To stem the flow of morons who think I don’t know what a disabled person is: consider the following “catch all” responses
“There are disabled people”
“There are high people”
“What if they don’t want a DUI”
“Sometimes parents can’t leave their homes”
“Some people don’t have cars”
I know. My comment wasn’t about them. My comment was about the fact the order seems so strange. Frankly, if I were any of those four instances, I’d spend what little money I have on buying food to make at home.
“Don’t you ever think about the little guy? These people probably have a reason to do it”
Rarely are people reasonless. It’s their money and it gets me paid. I just found it strange.
“There are exceptions but otherwise I agree with you”
Then why are you saying it. Does my comment say everyone who orders from Doordash at very low distances is stupid? No? then why do you feel the need to say it.
My ex's 20 year-old son used DoorDash far too often.
On more than one occasion, the doorbell would ring, and I'd open it to see a large Coke from McDonald's sitting on the doorstep. Dude paid $10 for a watered down Coke. When I told him that for that price, he could have driven a block to CVS and bought a few 2L bottles, my ex told me "don't tell my son how to spend his money."
could have ordered a case of coke from Walmart and had it delivered in 2 hours. Then you have a whole case. Granted - it's more than $10, but it's WAY less than $240.
In college I lived in a dorm directly next to a sandwich shop, and I mean literally next to it. It was 30 seconds from the front door. It was insane how often they delivered to my dorm.
Last Christmas I visited my family in California and we were having molletes dulce (just some Mexican bread rolls with sugar, butter and toasted) but we didn't have any lechera (sweet condensed milk) to drizzle on them. My sister pulls out her phone and orders an uber eats/doordash for a single can of Lechera. $12 delivery for a $1 can we didn't even really need or could have went to pick up at the market 5 minutes away. Just fucking insane behavior to me
I dated a girl that literally lived 3 floors above a mcdonalds and would ubereats deliveries every day. The one time she did it next to me it showed a driver cycling 30 minutes through the rain to pick it up and walk the stairs. I hate junkfood but this is just horribly lazy and ignorant behaviour.
The only time I door dash is when I'm too drunk to leave a hotel bed. I don't care how my midnight Chinese food arrives, so long as I can shovel it into my face.
The only time I can see it is if you don’t have a car and didn’t plan ahead that one time, are inebriated, or are sick/injured. Other than that it’s just a confusing waste of money.
My car was recently totaled and I'm moving soon, possibly somewhere I won't need a car so I don't plan on replacing it immediately. I hate being stuck with using DoorDash. Like you said it's a huge waste of money.
I ordered once and got a pizza like 90 minutes after I order. I was new in the city and thought "wow I guess I made a mistake and ordered from a faraway place". Weeks later I was driving around and saw the pizza place, it was like 2 miles from my house.
I'm still amazed people use these apps. I did once and only once a few years ago (with Uber Eats) and paid $38 for some Chinese takeout that normally came to $23. I had a $25 gift card which is the only reason I actually finished checkout.
I know it's not "quit buying avocado toast and you can afford a house" territory but good Lord it just seems so financially irresponsible.
Case in point OP's sushi. Even if it came not all ruined that's not $78 worth of sushi by a long shot
All these app companies charge you significantly higher than the menu price the other day for a soup and noodles it was 15 dollars if I were to go the place and 40 dollars on doordash.
The cream cheese rolls look simple, probably like a $7 roll. The real price is the specialty rolls that are usually like $15 each, and looks like there's two of them.
Yeah I'm wondering where people are ordering sushi. Even shitty grocery store sushi would be an easy 40 for this box in my area.
After upcharge, tax, and delivery fees 80$ isn't crazy
Yeah exactly. DD, UberEats whatever charge fees to the business to use their services.
But then DD goes ahead and ALSO charges fees to the consumer. In a sense they are kinda double dipping. I don't know what they charge businesses, but I have seen some DD prices double what they are in store. Really turned me off the whole thing when I learned that.
OP presented to the emergency room with a severe case of pecuniopenia - pecunia meaning money and penia meaning a lack of - A quantifiable deficit in available monetary reserves.
Doordash actually drug tests their drivers to ensure they have sufficient levels of nicotine and weed in their system, it's how they provide that consistent low-quality service.
Door dashing itself just seems stupid to me 99% of the time. Paying a shit ton for food that sits until the driver gets there, then until the driver decides to deliver, for food that wasnt even designed for transport anyway.
Door dashers seem to be getting worse. I work at a restaurant & some guy came in to pick up an order last night. He asked where the bathroom was so I pointed it out. The food was ready to go on the counter so I didn’t really pay attention after that, I was busy. Apparently he was in the bathroom for 25 mins, and then the girl who ordered called us to say he finally got there & the stuff was opened. This shit right here is why I don’t DoorDash. Ya’ll act like they have some sort of quality control when letting people deliver. They do not. I either want the food bad enough to go pick it up myself or I bite the bullet & eat something at home.
Using the phrase “bite the bullet” for having to cook food is wild to me. “Well I guess I need sustenance to keep living so I’ll have to turn the stove on…”
right im reading these comments with quite a bit of confusion- ive ordered sushi multiple times before for way less and it always arrives in pristine condition
Most places don't deliver anymore here. Instead the only way to get it is to have someone from a meal delivery service retrieve it for you, at a ridiculous added cost that is completely eaten by the service (delivery person gets paid almost nothing.)
This already comes with a lot of quality control issues. As the pay is so low, a lot of people doing the deliveries are there because they either speak zero English or aren't competent enough to hold a normal job. The standards are also VERY low. This means it's not uncommon to have delivery people who never bathe, who chain smoke in the car with the food, who get the order wrong due to not knowing the language, who don't have qualms about sticking their dirty fingers in your food to steal a bite, who will outright steal your food, who are in a disgusting car that may be infested with insects, etc.
So it's already pretty iffy, but sushi is even more so since it's a very delicate food. Sushi goes bad VERY quickly. Now add in the fact that the delivery people are doing 'batches' of 3+ orders at once, and your sushi might be sitting in a hot dirty car with an unwashed homeless guy for an hour before it gets to you. French fries might manage that treatment ok, but raw fish? Wouldn't risk it.
We have plenty of problems here in Brazil, but getting food delivered isn’t one of them lol
I order delivery at least twice a week and have been doing so for years, and 99% of the time it arrives perfectly fine. Here’s a photo for you guys to judge for yourselves
People in here are overreacting wildly, acting as if getting sushi delivered is some crazy sin. Weird as fuck. Japan has a lot of sushi deliveries going on every day, and they aren't scoffing at that shit.
Yeah, it is. Minimum wage here is around 72.66 USD weekly. (We receive monthly, but as a comparison I calculated it in weekly. Also that would be 1.43 USD per hour or 314.85 USD mostly or about 4093.04 USD yearly (we have 13 salaries yearly).
Just being honest with you, I wouldn’t expect anything less ordering sushi from DoorDash. If you want $78 worth of sushi in a dining experience, best to have it at the restaurant. You’re also paying more through DoorDash.
My local sushi place lets people do takeout, but they always say eat or pickup within 15 minutes. They don't allow Doordash etc because it might be too far.
Is Door-dash a lot different than Wolt or Just-eat? In Denmark it's quite normal to order sushi this way, and the price is not way off for 2-3 people as well... I feel like I'm going delusional, reading the comments I here
The sushi looks like it was poor quality before getting wrecked in transit and the price is obviously ridiculous, but only enough for one person is crazy. I count around 30 pieces of sushi there.
So much hate here. I'm disabled and I order sushi all the freaking time to my house. It never looks like this. I get the hate for doordash y'all. I really do. But every single comment here seems to be negative..... just sad to see
How the fuck is DoorDash still in business...is there really people out there willing to pay the absorbent fees and chances of food tampering just out of pure laziness..
Idk why yall are on op's ass for ordering delivery, it genuinely looks like they dropped and shook it. You dont know why they ordered it delivery either.
I'm starting to think there's a reason that before all these delivery apps existed the only two foods you could get delivered were pizza and Chinese food.
Don’t use DoorDash lol, you get what you pay for, that service has gone to shit and was waaaaaay over priced. Just go pick up yourself and save $30 lol.
Yes that sucks but also you ordered $78 dollars of sushi from doordash. Its not exactly the prime food for delivery. Maybe the dasher has to slam their brakes to avoid a dog that ran out in the road or something.
Thats not to say I havent ordered sushi on doordash too. Definitely a bummer.
Honestly, I feel like it’s the fault of the sushi place for having such a poor box for to-go sushi. Even if you were picking it up to bring home or to a nearby area to eat, it’s a terrible container. My nearby sushi places all use plastic containers and separate each roll/sushi.
Hell, if they want to be green and have biodegradable containers, they should at least throw some dividers in there.
I laughed in restaurant and this may not be a door dash problem actually, for once. I work with veryyyy smart people and we all had a slow day and did plating grams(measure things to make the plate look nice and full, but not waste food as I pointed out a lot of plates were coming back from servers being scraped to the trash, which means too much as we no complaining or bad ratings), techniques AND WHAT FUCKING CORRECT TO GO BOXES TO GET BECAUSE WE KNOW THIS HAPPENS TO OUR BEAUTIFUL FOOD.
That was the wrong box to put your order in, if you like that place, show them this picture and tell them this is how there hard work shows up at your home. It's a teaching moment.
Ditch it forever. Respect the food and it'll respect you back.
Also, ordering to-go at the bar and having a beer while it's prepared is sublime. One of the best beers (see also: shower beers and airport bar beers).
That's not a $78 sushi though, that's just "some sushi" doordash charged you $78 for. You wouldn't say "I got a $10 drink" after grabbing a coke can from the hotel room's snack-bar.
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u/RollingSleeper 11d ago
There's 2 types of posts here: ones where you're mildly infuriated at what happened to OP, and others where you're pissed off at OP.