There is no point. You paid $25 for cold fast food, the delivery driver didn’t get paid shit and the restaurant didn’t get paid shit. On the bright side, the shitty delivery app might be profitable next quarter after firing 30% of their staff :)
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Weird how no one in that chain is getting rich off of the system, even the app has to fire its workforce to stay profitable. almost like the money gets funneled out of the economy when those apps get used.
Doordash be like $17 + $4 + $6 = $57.86
And don't forget to tip your delivery driver!
(industry standard is 200% plus more for fast service, preferably in advance)
plus federal tax, state tax, city tax, fuck you tax, and another fuck you convenience fee :)
Skip The Dishes recently made a sneaky update to their app that changed the minimum tip from 10% to 12%. Sneaky bastards.
Cooking your own food is pretty cool just saying
When I'm briefly home after my first job and before my second one, I am physically and mentally incapable of cooking. Either food gets delivered while I pass out on the couch or I don't eat.
In a sane world people would be allowed time and energy to prepare food for themselves, sorry it's like that
I think the saner option would be communal food preparation, but like with real human food and not the capitalist slop that is fast food. A lot of people don't want to, or don't have the energy for cooking. It's pretty time consuming and energy intensive, even when you have the time for it. For most of human history communal food prep was the norm.
When I was at school at a fairly large university I ate at the cafeterias and literally I never ate better and more healthy in my life than when I was there. The food was just normal food, and it was always available and high quality. I feel like cafeterias like it should be possible all over the place, sure it was a well funded school but I don't really see why they shouldn't be possible. I dream of returning to school often for that reason, as well as the walkable layout and close knit community.
University meal plan costs are pretty high from what I remember. Sure it's possible, but you need the facilities, you need the people making food for you and cleaning up after. There's reasons making your own meals from stuff you buy at the grocery store can be a fraction of the cost.
When I was in college me and six friends had a dinner coop going where one person would cook a meal each night of the week (the dorms had kitchens). It worked great except for the one girl that would make things like bulgar wheat - like, just a big bowl of boiled bulgar wheat and nothing else. We made sure her night was Thursday, since the tavern in town had all-you-can-eat spaghetti for $1 on Thursdays.
Two of my former coworkers live next to each other. Both are married, but one has a wife who stays home to raise their kids (couple #1), while the other has a working wife (couple #2) and their kids are older. #2 buys groceries for both couples, and #1 cooks the dinners for both couples.
Seems like something like this arrangement could work for others. Free food in exchange for cooked meals.
My neighbors get everything delivered. Even a single bottle of water. It's insane.
I get everything delivered as well, I mean groceries. It costs me 20 EUR a month to get unlimited free deliveries from Albert Heijn. Prices are similar or the same as in store, I even get the same store discounts, sometimes they give me a free bottle of beer. They also take away my old plastic bottles, and deliver to my door of my umpteenth floor flat. Tips are not expected, no option in the app, the drivers actually run away to the next place as fast as they can after I pay.
I don't see the problem with it. It's good on the environment as well, since I'm better able to plan groceries, I have less food waste, and it is more efficient to truck the groceries to me than everyone making the trip separately.
Questionable whether it's actually better for the environment as the truck runs every day.
I would say it's better to have a large deep freeze as the energy it consumes yearly likely wouldn't even get you to the store and back once.
I go to the city about once a month and go to Costco, which is really a central location that they truck all of the groceries to, and fill my vehicle completely full of the things I can't grow and store way out here in the middle of nowhere.
I run 2 freezers actually, one I fill with meat when we butcher in the fall, the other with vegetables and fruit from the summer, as well as carbs like perogies, tortillas, breads and buns etc.
I know that obviously most people can't do this to my extent but you can buy a 1/4 beef from a farmer, 1/2 pork, frozen fruit and veg from Costco, sausage from a butcher and so on. Then you barely have to shop at all.
The convenience sounds great but I would say that's the main purpose, not environmental reasons. Also, I would be in for the free beer!
The environmental gains come in when me and my 1500 neighbours don't all go to the supermarket one by one, by car or even public transit, but the supermarket delivers a truckload of stuff to us at the same time. Saves the energy of getting 1500 people to the supermarket and back. Consequently, there are fewer people in the supermarket as well, so those are smaller, need less parking spaces, the city has less traffic and all sorts of knock-on effects.
Can you freeze fruit and veggies like that? Me and my ex always meant to get a chest freezer but then covid happened and they were nowhere to be found for two years 😂
Super easy, we don't even blanch. We grow like 20lbs of bush beans, cut tips and tails and chunk to an inch or so long, freeze in bags. Toss straight into a soup or stir fry from frozen. Same for beet tops when we harvest the beets, rinse and chop the tops into packable size, dump into just about anything and they are like fresh.
Some vegetables just do not freeze though, no salads of course, only the kinds that you cook.
I rarely buy fresh fruits except for apples these days as they are always poor quality here, and frozen are excellent and far cheaper. Especially berry type fruit like cherries, blueberries, strawberries etc as they go straight from the field to the freezer plant when they are ripe unlike the supermarket crap.
We keep our own apples in the fridge and cellar, same with carrots, beets, potatoes. Onions hang in the basement. Crabapples we have a huge bounty of and core and quarter and freeze, they are great in a fruit smoothie, pie, applesauce etc.
I would highly recommend an upright freezer over a chest aside from secondary bulk meat storage. I have both, the upright you can select your food much better instead of just eating what's on top. Everyone says they will dig in the chest, NOBODY DOES. Modern uprights have similar efficiency and power failure performance, and nothing ends up freezer burnt at the bottom.
Questionable whether it’s actually better for the environment as the truck runs every day.
Albert Heijn makes me think Netherlands, and tall building probably means big city (Amsterdam or maybe Brussels in Belgium..i think AH is big there too) so there's a good chance it may be a cyclist / cargo bike delivering the food. It flips the American shop-bulk-and-store method on its head.
I'm in the Randstad, guilty as charged. Not quite Amsterdam though.
It's actually an electric microtruck or sometimes a full truck, since a bunch of people order out here and a single truck carries many people's groceries. The guys usually get a dolly and have a few laps up and down the cargo elevator.
If I order anything for quick delivery like a pizza, it's always a cyclist or rarely an electric moped. A car wouldn't even find a parking spot, much less get through the city in time.
I only order the original delivered fast food -- pizza.
Same. Pizza and Chinese food travel really well with simple packaging. Burgers and french fries, not so much.
I live 10 minutes from the place I get pizza. I drive to get my pizza, wait for it to come out of the oven and put it immediately into my insulated pizza delivery bag and drive straight home, and then it's still usually too cold for my tastes. Delivery usually takes close to an hour and by that point it's basically frozen.
Every mass venue or event entree ever.
Literally bitching to my friend how I just spend $13 fucking dollars at McDonald’s and the food was cold and disgusting, I’m tempted to calll my credit card company and issue a chargeback.
Hate to sound like a Karen, but you can try telling the manager. Usually they are pleasant and are willing to compensate you.
You have to try resolve the issue with the store before issuing a chargeback.
Also note that chargebacks cost the company ~$20-50 each, even if the chargeback is ruled in their favour. This means that just threatening that you'll chargeback is usually successful - they don't want to deal with the cost and paperwork associated with it. If you do chargeback, the store will likely block your credit card from being used there in the future.
Stop ordering delivery. I never have used these shitty apps. I also never order pizza delivery. I can't believe how many people trust their unsealed food with strangers who nobody is watching.
Half of the places I order from seal the bags with stickers that make it obvious if someone has tampered with it. And also, I don't really worry about it because I have never done anything to this stranger to make them inclined to tamper with my food. And if they're doing this job, they probably really need the money and don't want to risk getting banned (can't really say fired because they're not technically employees) and are also in such a hurry because every second counts on picking up enough orders in a "shift." Not everyone is out to get me. I've mostly had good experiences with delivery and most of the screw ups are from the restaurant, not the delivery person.
All that said, I should order less delivery. For my health and my wallet. But I just value my time probably far higher than I should.
I love cooking, but it seems I may love not cooking even more.
I've not really used the new food delivery services and with the cost of fast food and freshly made food in supermarkets rising so much as it was, I've actually started making basic dinners at home for myself instead.
I also now buy premade frozen things that I can just pop into a toaster oven for those lazy nights. Probably on par or better than the fast food anyways despite the extra effort of buying ahead of time.
USA, living on tips since before my old ass got here.
This is why I started ordering for pickup the few times I absolutely need to eat out, otherwise I just suck it up and make my own food.
More like when someone buys you lunch but the food and service suck terribly. I tend to complain and then I catch myself.
I know that feel
$25? I call that discount disappointment
Idk who is using all those expensive ass delivery options. Just pick it up, food is fresher and cheaper.