How DoorDash, Grubhub & Uber Are Robbing You

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[celieboo]

I refuse to use these services. I did it once when i was on call, and my sushi dinner cost me $63. More than half was on fees. I said "never again".

[madcatjo]

Techbros are just the new Rentseekers.

My local pizzeria of 40+ years employs their own drivers, and I'm happy to support them.

[dabluflcn]

I uninstalled DoorDash when I attempted to order $35.00 worth of sushi from a place a little over a mile away and the total bill was $75.00. I am not exaggerating and was totally floored. I’ve returned to driving and even biking myself.

[LilySnow]

Uber Eats also rips off customers by not providing refunds for missing items stating your account may not be 'eligible' for a refund for no reason. FUN!

[dinkypinky]

It seems like we are collectively getting more and more poor all around the world. What a scary prospective

[LapNgo-hu]

I've NEVER paid for anyone to deliver food to me. I have plenty of disposable income, but my philosophy is that if I don't want to go out and get it, I won't buy it.

[timetowakeup]

Poor people pay tax. Rich people pay accountants. Wealthy people pay politicians

[beaniemac]

I have a car and bicycle. I Refuse to use these apps. They r a total ripoff.

[asdion]

Stop using their service and make your own food, or go to the restaurant yourself to get your food.
People who are unwilling to sacrifice convenience are the reason why the current state of the industry won't change.

[buddylee]

As a food delivery driver for the apps, I can tell you a HUGE portion of the delivery fees paid by customers are NOT going to us couriers. It's NOT profitable for us to deliver an order without reasonable tips & good pay-to-mileage ratio.

[tylerking]

This is why Dominoes didn't need to raise prices, they kept their own delivery drivers as employees. Good decision Dominoes Pizza

[GrantMerle]

I work at Pizza store, the prices are all higher on doordash and ubereats, the customer might get a waived delivery fee but they still ALWAYS end up paying more.

[henriquenakamura]

Ordering food used to make sense. You paid a little extra for the convenience, and it was worth it. Nowadays is more like "are you willing to pay an extra $20-25 and wait an hour for cold food so you don't have to go to the place 10 min down the street ?" . I can't remember the last time I ordered delivery.

[aprildawnsunshine]

You forgot what it did to grocery delivery. It used to be the stores offered it for free to customers with disabilities that made it hard or impossible to shop in person. Now we're paying all these fees and mark-ups just for being disabled. I've had to stop buying from the grocery store at all and now shop at Walmart simply because it's all I can afford and it's the definitely the added costs of going through the app that makes the difference.

[MarioSpeedwaggen]

This is an easy one: don’t order food delivery. Go to the restaurant. Or better yet, go to the supermarket and cook at home.

VOTE WITH YOUR WALLET.

[anthonydelfino]

Wait. So a company established a monopoly and then raised prices?

I’m shocked!

[fgoindarkg]

Door dash driver here. The jacked up prices and lower pay is cutting my pay in half

[danieljones]

Did people really think that hiring a private taxi for their food wasn't going to get absurdly expensive? They're going to push those fees as high as they can.
Get out, pickup your own food, or better yet, dine in at the restaurant and interact with other members of your community.

[yargnad]

I was going to order a pizza the other day because they had a deal for a 3 topping, large pizza for $9.99, that's a good deal. After spending about 5-10 mins deciding what all I was going to get, at the checkout I was informed that I had to place a minimum order of $17.95 for delivery. Then the delivery fee is $5 and the tax was $2 and then I am supposed to also tip the driver. That $10 offer came out to $27 and some change. Of course, I closed the app and made a sandwich.

[myNamezMe]

Such companies should never have existed in the first place. If they can't survive by paying fair wages from the start, it's a sign that their business model is fundamentally flawed.