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Doordash deserves it's fate (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/mildlyinfuriating

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2 pizzas, a small order of breadsticks, and wanted to splurge and get cinnamon sticks.

Pizzas are a "Buy one get one deal!" at 13 bucks a pizza. Figured what the hell, I'll splurge on desert then with the deal. Get to checkout... hold on a minute.... 50 dollars for pizza?! Wait a minute 80 dollars after fees and taxes?!

Usually I only use Doordash for finding something, then I order direct from the store. I just saw the sweet "buy one get one" deal and thought eh, fine I'm here. Right, that's why I stopped using door dash. I'm not spending 80 dollars on freaking pizza. I'll just go pick it up and spend a quarter of that price.

At least I would have saved the $3 dollar delivery fee. Phew. Thanks DoorDash.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

You know, for 26 bucks a delivery, why the hell isnt there local competition?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Probably because the real trick is getting recognition. In the fog of a million voices on the internet all vying for your attention it is hard to make yourself a brand name. When people think of delivery now they automatically think of doordash.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

But I don't need millions of voices I just need local. I'm thinking I could get a couple of cardboard signs and say I will pick up the food you order and deliver it do you for 15 bucks.

[–] shortrounddev 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Network effect. People want to order online, and they don't want to have to create a new account to do so. Doordash already exists, so it's easy to go to the app to find food, rather than looking up your favorite pizza place and signing up through whatever weird 3rd party payment system they use

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm just thinking that eventually people won't be able to afford double the price for DoorDash and they be willing to call the restaurant order the food with their own credit card and pay somebody $15 to pick it up instead of 30

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Do pizza places not deliver themselves anymore?

[–] asdfasdfasdf 3 points 23 hours ago

I've had several places say they only deliver through DoorDash.

[–] Glytch 18 points 1 day ago

Does this pizza place not have their own drivers? If they do you're already paying at least 30% more because of the DoorDash surcharge. Also, judging by the dashers who pick up from where I work, there's a 60% chance they don't have an insulated bag and you're getting cold food.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I cook a lot so I have never used DD and for pizza the place near me does their own delivery. I really hate extra fees.

[–] spongebue 2 points 22 hours ago

I don't mind driving, and I'm such a weirdo about paying/tipping when I can do something myself. I can probably count on one hand how many times I've had food delivered in the last decade

[–] satans_methpipe 69 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I will always get a good laugh at people who are shocked that private courier services are expensive.

[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool 2 points 1 day ago

“Oh shit I forgot my passport at home and my flight leaves in an hour!” “I’ll uber it over!”

Is the only time I’ve used Uber and felt like it as worth it and necessary, not for food. Just bite the bullet and eat crackers and ramen for the night or walk to a nearby place

[–] Darkhoof 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will always get a good laugh of corporate bootlickers that can't distinguish expensive from robbery.

[–] satans_methpipe 1 points 23 hours ago

Are you on drugs? Please share.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

2 pizzas from lieferando in my country cost 30€

They too are a private Courier.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Actually no. Lieferando just offers digital menus and orders. The drivers themselves are employed by the restaurants. And the Lieferando fees are hidden (paid by the restaurants).

Luckily my favourite pizza place now has their own website that works better than Lieferando's and all the proceeds go to them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It might be the case that restaurants have their own drivers, but Liefefando has drivers too.

See for example this Add (in German) looking for drivers

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[–] Redex68 37 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I mean, it shouldn't be that expensive. Where I live basically every pizza and fast food place used to offer free delivery. Nowadays because of delivery services this has died out a bit, but it still exits, yet ordering through the delivery services is way more expensive.

I honestly don't even get it, because for a long time the delivery services were operating at a loss, not even sure if most of them are in the plus even now, yet they should be more efficient than every fast food place having its own drivers.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use delivery services because restaurants have terrible phone service. It's always their cousin Mumbles who answers the phone, surrounded by people banging on pots and pans. He doesn't read my order back to me to make sure it's correct. He doesn't tell me how much it's going to be. He doesn't tell me how long it's going to take. So I have no idea if I'm going to get the right food, if it will be the right temperature, and if I have enough cash to pay the driver.

And there's no way I'm going to give out my credit card info to some guy I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't order delivery, but I do order pickup, and I like when restaurants have online ordering using the same system they use in the restaurant. It's common with restaurants that use modern PoS systems like Toasttab. Prices are the same as if you order in person, since they don't have to also pay another third-party (DoorDash, etc).

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 1 points 1 day ago

It would be awesome if ordering systems had a standard API, so I could order delivery directly from any app

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[–] But_my_mom_says_im_cool 1 points 1 day ago

Most pizza places have in house delivery, I won’t order otherwise. Place I order from has a free delivery over $30 which I always get anyways. I gladly tip the guy well in that scenario

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