Mildly Infuriating

How did the sub total become $53.96?

Breadsticks and cinnamon sticks we $27.96??

Otherwise, did they do hidden fees in the subtotal, on top of the already hidden fees?

Y'all need some better laws in the states.

There is (off the top of my head) only three types of extra charges in Australia for consumers:

1. transaction fees (provided the lowest you can possibly pay, even with transaction fees, is advertised. i.e. if you accept card only the minimum fee is included in your advertised price)
2. delivery fees (but strictly speaking you ought to advertise "+delivery fees" in your listed price, and only if it's variable. And finally,
3. surcharges based on time. But again, you need to advertise this prominently ahead of payment.

If I were really splitting hairs some restaurants and cafes that do weekend surcharges reeeeally ought to put it on the front cover of their menus, not just at the till.

Anyway, what you have in comparison is maddening.

Taxes? Yeah, that should be in the prices. "Fees"?? Yeah, that's part of the price, bud.

Absolute yikes.

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

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

Stop using it. It's that simple.

Gig economy work is horrible for the workers, and incredibly exploitative. The workers frequently make less than minimum wage.

I refuse to order from any restaurant that doesn't do their own delivery. If enough other people do the same, these places will curl up and die very quickly.

I don't understand how all of these delivery services are so popular when everyone is saying how high the cost of living is. People have money to blow on delivery fees?

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.

Your driver would have been paid a total of ~~$6.50~~ $5.00 on that order.

Thank you for canceling.

Seeing things like this make me happy that I

• live in a state that banned junk fees.
• live just far enough outside of a metro area that these services don't deliver to me so I don't have to worry about being tempted to order from them.

Am I missing something? If these are the prices for the service, who is using this?

Yeah, every time I think about getting Doordash, they sucker me in with promises of $1 delivery fees, etc. Then I take the time to find out what I want, put it in my cart, get excited, and...then I see the final price.

That's when I close out of my browser and go preheat my oven so that I can put in a frozen pizza.

You did it! No delivery fee! You're so lucky!

Oh hey... Unrelated, but let me get $20 in "fees" please.

Really though, congrats on that delivery discount though, you're really coming out in top, putting me through the ringer, bud!

Ive deleted all those apps. They really got greedy. And the crazy part is I think I remember the government giving them money for grocery delivery.

I dont get it.

My sister uses doordash and there's always something wrong. Yet she insists on trying again and again, and I can't understand why.

I have never used them or Uber or others like this, and refuse to do so. They exploit their workers, they charge exorbitant fees, and when something's wrong, it's nobody's fault.

If I want food, I go get it myself. I'm my own delivery boy! And contrary to a lot of people delivering food, I will not park on a sidewalk or in a bike lane.

Where is whatever government agency is in charge of truth in labeling, not ripping off the consumer …. At the very least they are deliberately hiding some of their fees under “taxes and fees” in the hope that some pole won’t realize how high it is for a tax. Taxes should be itemized so everything else is fees

Assuming that agency still exists. Why are these “free market” types always seem to not want the transparency and fairness that makes a free market work well?

OP. How is it 53?

13 for the two pizzas. How much are the breadsticks and dessert?

“Estimated taxes” what is that for bullshit? You can just calculate how much the tax should be.

I know it’s not how it works in the US, but if they advertise it for 13$ they should sell it for 13$ including tax.

I don't use doordash and I don't like the business models that are in practice with many of these types of companies

Do pizza places not deliver themselves anymore?

I'm missing something. If the two pizzas were 13, then the sticks + desert were 40? Then tax and service fee on top (40% lol)

Yeah, doordash can gdiaf. Local burger joint only does delivery through doordash, but adds 20% on top of the base price to cover the fees doordash change them (fair enough), then doordash adds the delivery fee they charge me on top of that as well. They double dip on fees by changing both the restaurant and the customer, what should be a fairly affordable lunch when I don't have time to make something or go out and get it myself would end up being stupid expensive

I stop ordering from restaurants that shuffle orders to Door Dash.

I wouldn't mind a local co-op food delivery company.

As someone who is disabled and known people who are disabled, we don't have the luxury of going out to eat as it is incredibly hard on us, I don't use them but if I want to get nice food from a restaurant I really don't have a choice besides delivery and there's not a lot of places that do delivery without these apps (and some places hide that it's doordash and say it's there own)

For one of the people I knew in the past who couldn't cook there own food because of there disabilities, they heavily relied on doordash type services and they barley ate because being disabled means your incredibly poor, but this anti human society doesn't care about disabled people.