Blame other consumers. I’ve worked food service my entire life and when these delivery “services” were implemented I knew all it was gonna do was raise prices and drop food quality and make my job harder but everyone acted like I was crazy.
Now all I hear is people complaining about the higher prices and lower quality and I just laugh because you fuckers made my life 10x harder and you have no one to blame but yourselves.
Don’t forget where the prices of the food are higher on the apps than on the menu in the store.
I started a door dash order the other day and it ended up being like $110, so I made the same order on the restaurant website and it was only $60.
why even use door dash in the first place when the restaurant has a website?
that’s always the first thing I check
no website = no order from me I’ll even pick up the phone and call if I absolutely have to, but I’m not paying third party delivery apps that can’t even pay their staff
Whenever I’m using my maps app to find somewhere local to get food from, it is all ready to provide me with Doordash or Yelp. If there’s a “website” attached at all, it’s usually a frickin’ Facebook page.
But I can usually plug the name + town into DuckDuckGo, and wouldn’t ya know it, they do have their own website! With lower prices!
I’ve submitted corrections to the map app before, listing the correct websites. I’ve done it numerous times for my favorite places, over the course of years. Nothing ever changes. I’m 99% certain it’s all part of some grift - Doordash et. al. probably have some kind of deal to make their pages the main/only options. I have no evidence of it, but nothing else makes sense.
This pissed me off today. My girlfriend asked me for McDonald’s, the cart total was $18.76. Then 13.99 for a delivery fee. Then 6.87 for “taxes and other fees”. Plus a tip to the driver. It was over 40 dollars for less than 20 dollars of food.
What the fuck?
Don’t forget the actual item being priced higher in the delivery apps as well a lot of the time. Even before you get those fees tacked on.
I would be livid if apps did that in my area. Here you can get even supermarket food delivered and other than the delivery fee (and tip if you decide to give one but they aren’t usual here) the cost is the same as in store.
The price hikes come after all local competitors or alternatives have been run out of the market.
Not sure exactly how things are setup now for the various apps, but a few years ago some of the apps would charge the restaurant for their delivery service (sometimes a set monthly cost, sometimes a set cost per delivery, sometimes a percentage) so the restaurants would often recoup that cost by increasing prices in the app.
Heck, Doordash has an entire support page for merchants about setting prices in the app and whether to have them marked up.
https://help.doordash.com/merchants/s/article/How-to-Maximize-Visibility-and-Order-Volume-on-DoorDash?language=en_US
The success of those apps is adding to my pile of reasons to be pessimistic about the future of humanity.
Service fee is probably what their infrastructure costs. Delivery fees are to pay the driver. Tips are the bonus if they are really nice or are very fast.
Is it different in other places because where i live that’s only a few dollars extra on top of my order and it’s worth it since a whole person just got my shit to me in 20 minutes instead of me moving my lazy ass off the couch.
Says right ony receipt the deliver fee is not for the driver. 1
Not where I live. The delivery fee goes to the driver. Hence my asking if it’s different in other places.
