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But then I’ll never use those subscription services that I’m already paying for! /s
This post remind me I need to cancel Dashpass. It’s definitely no longer worth it.
Waiting to speak with SO. But, seems like a reasonable way to save $120/yr.
I could be mistaken but it seems like last year Dashpass covered more or was a better deal.
Tbh it has never been worth it unless you use DD very regularly - which if you're wanting to cut costs you definitely shouldn't be. It's bad enough these days that at my laziest I'll look into ordering something for delivery, see that after fees and tip I'll be paying more than a 100% markup and I'll just decide to drive myself or cook at home.
Imagine that, its gotten expensive enough to defeat laziness!!
Even after a long day of work, when I told myself the day before I can treat myself and not feel guilty, I've had a few drinks so I can't drive, even with all of that, when I see those fees on the last page I simply can't click confirm. I'll just have a bagel or something.
I’ve been there too! You can always pick something up before you start drinking, usually something fatty or greasy is nice with alcohol. Or have some pizza ingredients on hand so you can make it while you drink!
I've had the same experience. Especially with the cost of living rising so much in recent years, I've found that I'm much more aware of costs and how I spend my money. Once I became conscious of that, I flat out stopped using the delivery apps, delivery in general (I live 5-10 mins from everything, why am I gonna pay an additional 10-15 bucks to not leave my couch for 10 minutes?), and for the most part, just stopped eating out in general. I'm still lazy in other ways for sure, but not wanting to be robbed somehow triumphed over my chronic laziness when it comes to eating.
I'm pretty opposed to biden, but why in christ do people need to find a way to fit their political views into everything? Can't go on a single thread for any topic without someone relating it to trump bad/biden bad. It's insane.
I window shop delivery services all of the time. Make my order up, sometime a couple times; once with whatever I would order if money wasn’t an issue. Then another to try and make it cheap. Then I shut it down and make something or go to the store and get something half the price.
Interesterestingly its rhe same reason streaming has falling numbers. When there were 3-4 streaming places and almost all had everything it qas fine. But now its 100000 different ones, so I get up and just torrent shit lmao
It's a self fulfilling prophesy, you use it because you have it so later you trick yourself into thinking it's worth it.
It's entirely possible you wouldn't use services that are cheaper with that pass if you didn't have the pass (I don't know what dashpass is, I mean in general.)
Dashpass is a DoorDash product/service that was a flat $10/mo and used to waive delivery fees on the DoorDash app.
Now it only seems to discount the fees. And (I could be mistaken) bit, the app has also added more fees.
*The food prices are higher on DoorDash (or any delivery service) than they are on the restaurant menu.
*There are service fees (15%!)
*There are delivery fees (usually 2.99)
even with Dashpass.
*Theres a fee for small orders ($2.50)
*Theres the additional driver tip
*Express delivery fee ($2.99) so that the driver picks your food up and brings it straight to you.
*The flat Dashpass “discount” monthly charge.
*Almost forgot Taxes
The meal can now easily be over 200% of its menu price.
It used to be more expensive than menu but not this terrible and especially when you’re sick or extremely busy it was a viable option.
The only “benefit” of having it now is that I’ve been with them so long and as a “premium customer” that whenever there’s a problem they give me basically whatever I want to remedy the situation (refunds, credits, redelivery etc.)
So, to their credit the customer service is good. But, the percentage of orders that I’ve had problems with is also way too high. In a restaurant you can check you order and have them fix it. With delivery- you can get stuck.
Many times when you search a place and click "order online" on google, it'll pull up multiple places to order thru, some have no fee's to multiple dollar fees.
You can just call the place and order over the phone for free, but that takes slightly more effort than clicking buttons with no human interaction to some.
I mostly only order from a Mexican restaurant online and sadly there’s a bit of a language barrier. Not so much they can’t speak English, but more of me just not being able to understand what they’re saying. My fault. But I’ve gotten my orders wrong a couple of times due to it, so usually I just order online. They’re also pretty busy most of the time, so I often have to wait for someone who can let me pay compared to ordering it online and the person up front hands me my order
Grubhub has a feature (at least where I live) where if you find a lower price on one of the other delivery apps, they’ll refund you the difference plus $5. I’ve been abusing this at my local Chipotle for months (Grubhub prices are too high but Doordash prices are correct)
I’ve never used grub hub, Uber eats, or anything similar until this week - and I only used Uber Eats yesterday because I was given a $30 voucher for grading AP Exams from home.
When I started playing around with the app I noticed I had to choose between pickup or delivery, and my first thought was “Why the fuck is there even a pickup option?”
I made a response on the comment above yours in this thread but for me it’s to avoid my order being placed incorrectly and to avoid miscommunication. Which happens frequently when I order over the phone
Some places in Philly don’t have phone numbers so you have to place the order online, which means you can’t pay cash. A couple of years ago we changed our laws and made it so that every place must accept cash. I was wonder if this is their way of working around that
Yes, they offer insane promotions like 50% off up to $15 that makes a $30 order only $20 after tip (many other promotions like grocery orders 40% off that i have now)
Yea for Uber eats it's all about the 40-50% off. It turns a "whew this is too expensive" to hmm it's a bit manageable. Combine that with a few credit cards reimbursing the Uber one subscription it can be pretty good. Also If a restaurant offers a BOGO it's over. Food for days, literally.
People use third parties to book hotel rooms and flights, not hard to believe that *somebody* is getting tricked into paying another guy to order a burger.
Many websites these days have their own online order system. If you are like me and would rather not make that call, check the official website. From my experience, the prices are the same as in person menu prices.
A lot use Clover or something like that. Sometimes there's an extra buck or two for ordering online but I'm happy to pay to to avoid talking on the phone.
To expand - doordash and GrubHub realize most people who use the service are going to have the subscription, so they add margin on top of the restaurant's prices. So not only are you paying a delivery fee and a tip for the driver, you are also paying higher prices for every item.
The restaurants set their own prices on DoorDash, but they take a decent percentage chunk from the establishments so many restaurants will increase their prices on the app to compensate.
When doing a pickup order [which is what this LPT is about] DoorDash doesn’t take any fees from the consumer [but still takes them from the establishment], but whether or not menu prices are higher is up to the restaurant itself.
In my area very few places upsell on DoorDash, and ordering on the app versus ordering on the phone will get me the exact same price [for pickup, for delivery I’ll get fees, but I also get Dashpass free on my Chase card].
There are like 2-3 places around my area though that are relatively cheap to go in and eat, but super unreasonably [to a consumer] expensive in the apps.
I don’t work in the industry and I don’t manage a location [obviously] so I’m not saying it’s right. But it sounds like your owner/manager has determined that phone calls disrupt the flow of orders and that a more streamlined process is better overall.
Whether it’s true or not for your location? I couldn’t say.
Most definitely. Also, they don’t want us taking credit card information over the phone. We have Toast as our POS and are completely cashless. However, people get very upset when we tell them we don’t take phone orders. They will usually blow up our phone and become very hostile.
I rarely order pickup, if I’m ordering, it’s delivery, and nowhere around me has their own delivery anymore.
If I’ve ordered pickup it’s because I’m at school in a classroom I can’t leave, but in a situation where I’m not actively teaching, and am able to quickly go on an app for 2 minutes.
. . .or I’m ordering it before the place even opens, because I know I won’t be available after they do.
But thanks for being a dick about me literally just providing accurate information.
They absolutely do not add any margin to the prices - it is not legal. The restaurants add the margin so they can offset the fees for using the service. Which also is against the ToS of those delivery services, but the restaurant do it anyway until someone reports them.
There’s a pizza place where I am that literally doesn’t answer their phone. You go in and order or go through a shitty app. But it’s one of like 3 good pizza places, so I sometimes go there to order and have a beer while I wait for it to be ready.
One of the other of the 3 good pizza places is impossible to get through to on a Friday. I’ve literally tried calling 20+ times over the course of 2 hours and always got busy signals. I’ve resigned to also just driving there and ordering in person. It’s an even longer wait, but there’s a wine shop a block away, so I go there to pick up some stuff while I wait.
Not really. They get your order and make it within a certain time frame typically. If you’re continually calling the store and no one is picking up, your order isn’t even in their system yet and won’t be until someone finally picks up
My credit card gives me $XX every month that I can use on ubr eats so I order from the same restaurant every month that gives buy one get one free dishes and I drive to pick it up. If it wasn't for that, nope
I’ve only had bad experiences with Instacart anyway. Like thank you for delivering tomato sauce, cheese, bread, meatballs- and no pasta because “they were out”. Typical Instacart delivery. I use Amazon Fresh for groceries and it costs a little more than the store sometimes but they rarely make mistakes.
$200 Uber Credit. $200 Airline incidental fee credit. $240 entertainment credit (like hulu). $200 fine hotel credits (booked through Amex site). $100 Saks 5th Ave credit. $189 Clear credit. There's a new equinox gym credit which I don't think many use.
There's also a tsa pre-check/global Entry credit, but that's like every 5 years. And you also get access to Priority Pass lounges, Delta lounges (when flying Delta), Amex Centrium lounges, and some other lounges.
If you use the different credits, you break even. If you travel, the lounge access is the icing (other cards also give different lounge access...priority pass and their lounge network like Chase/Capital One lounges).
Again, for anyone else reading this, don't get the card for the credits. Get the card if it makes sense for you.
Gold gets you $120 for Uber eats and $120 for grubhub or goldbelly (or the fucking cheesecake factory for some reason) and only has a $250 AF. But you lose lounge access and the MR don't accrue as quickly.
Better yet, order directly from the restaurant website. Price is usually the same.
Ordering through DoorDash/UberEats/GH will definitely get you inflated prices. The restaurant has to make up for the commissions ranging from 6% for pickup…all the way to 30% for delivery.
And look up the actual number and not what’s listed on Yelp or whatever. A lot of those services redirect your call directly to restaurant, so it seems like it’s the correct number, but they charged the restaurant a fee for every such call.
A problem non-existent in Europe. I pay something like $4 monthly for Uber Eats unlimited delivery (the deliveries are free this way) and the food costs the same as in restaurants.
No more than in the US. Restaurants pay commission to the delivery service in both places, only the delivery company screws the restaurant *and* the customer in the US.
Alternatively, often if you go to a restaurant’s own website, they have an online order option that is not through Grubhub/doordash/whatever and does not include the wild fees.
I call cap, although only speaking with experience on DoorDash, the pickup prices are always the same as the restaurant app, plus they give you 5% back in credit
Never used DoorDash but SkipTheDishes and Ubereats are usually priced higher and have less selection than ordering directly through the store app if available in my experience. Only used them when they had promos that made orders cheaper. Haven’t gotten any of those in years.
I can tell you many busy restaurants hate being called. They’re dealing with a constant stream of customers and orders and don’t want to deal with a phone order. They’d much rather get a web order, as they can deal with it when they have a little time. So while I totally agree you don’t want to pay extra fees for your food, consider using their web ordering system if they have one instead of calling.
Pro tip? Been doing this since I started making money, and my parents used to do this growing up. Lost art I guess. Never used a delivery app in my life. I’m only 30.
Ordering online is easier on the restaurant, unless they have a To Go staff. Calling takes me away from serving the person right in front of me, who made the effort to come into the restaurant and order. People calling in are my very last priority and I will place a caller on hold to wait until I’m done with the person already on the premises.
Also - know exactly what you want to order when you call. Don’t make the person answering your call wait for you to get your act together.
And don’t call during the lunch or dinner rush. We’re not answering…
Would do that If 90 % of my orders wouldnt be something asian , were they sadly cant understand me If I talk to them and have to repeat my order 30 times.
For a pick up order where you can physically get there then yes that's great but when you don't have the ability to go pick up your food and the place itself doesn't offer delivery you have to order through a service
I myself don't drive and if the restaurant was somewhere transit doesn't go I couldn't just go there
I think the better LPT is to not be an idiot paying a premium to go pick up your food…
On the flip side, there are a few food trucks that come by my neighborhood once a week. If you want to go get the food in person the line can take over an hour. However, if you use one of the delivery apps to order the food and pick it up yourself you get your food upon going there. It doesn’t travel well so ultimately I wouldn’t get it delivered anyways. Order online, pay a small fee to cut the line, arrive with food hot and ready to be picked up within any line or wait.
Call someone on the phone? Gross
If a place doesn't have online ordering for pick-up through their own website, I just won't order from them. I'd never use a third party to order for pick-up.
Or go to their website, many of them are setting up their own ordering systems. Calling is outdated, time consuming and there’s always the risk of a messed up order due to a language barrier or miscommunication on the phone.
No.
Now, don't think I'm endorsing using third-party services for pick-up orders, because that's dumb as hell—but it's 20-fucking-24. If a restaurant doesn't have some form of native online ordering, I'm not going to patronize that establishment. There's almost nothing I hate more than calling a restaurant on the phone. You're going to either 1. have trouble getting them to answer in the first place, because it's busy; 2. have trouble placing your order because restaurants are *loud* and the host/hostess will have trouble hearing you; or 3. have a host/hostess whose first language isn't English (most likely with ethnic cuisines). Or a combination of two or all of these. Those interactions *suck,* and in this day and age of technological advancement I refuse to be a part of it anymore.
From a person working in food and the restaurant business PLEASE TIP your bartenders for Togo food just cause your getting it Togo doesn't mean we didn't package up your order and still got you shit even if you forgot to put it on the order if no tip then no food and your going to have to pack it up yourself next time don't be that person.
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But then I’ll never use those subscription services that I’m already paying for! /s This post remind me I need to cancel Dashpass. It’s definitely no longer worth it.
It's been 30 minutes. Have you cancelled yet?
Waiting to speak with SO. But, seems like a reasonable way to save $120/yr. I could be mistaken but it seems like last year Dashpass covered more or was a better deal.
Tbh it has never been worth it unless you use DD very regularly - which if you're wanting to cut costs you definitely shouldn't be. It's bad enough these days that at my laziest I'll look into ordering something for delivery, see that after fees and tip I'll be paying more than a 100% markup and I'll just decide to drive myself or cook at home. Imagine that, its gotten expensive enough to defeat laziness!!
Even after a long day of work, when I told myself the day before I can treat myself and not feel guilty, I've had a few drinks so I can't drive, even with all of that, when I see those fees on the last page I simply can't click confirm. I'll just have a bagel or something.
I’ve been there too! You can always pick something up before you start drinking, usually something fatty or greasy is nice with alcohol. Or have some pizza ingredients on hand so you can make it while you drink!
I've had the same experience. Especially with the cost of living rising so much in recent years, I've found that I'm much more aware of costs and how I spend my money. Once I became conscious of that, I flat out stopped using the delivery apps, delivery in general (I live 5-10 mins from everything, why am I gonna pay an additional 10-15 bucks to not leave my couch for 10 minutes?), and for the most part, just stopped eating out in general. I'm still lazy in other ways for sure, but not wanting to be robbed somehow triumphed over my chronic laziness when it comes to eating.
But didn’t you hear? Biden says we have the money, so it must be true!
I'm pretty opposed to biden, but why in christ do people need to find a way to fit their political views into everything? Can't go on a single thread for any topic without someone relating it to trump bad/biden bad. It's insane.
Hunter Biden’s Laptop!!!!!
Your elevator doesn't go all the way to the top, does it bud?
I window shop delivery services all of the time. Make my order up, sometime a couple times; once with whatever I would order if money wasn’t an issue. Then another to try and make it cheap. Then I shut it down and make something or go to the store and get something half the price.
Interesterestingly its rhe same reason streaming has falling numbers. When there were 3-4 streaming places and almost all had everything it qas fine. But now its 100000 different ones, so I get up and just torrent shit lmao
It's a self fulfilling prophesy, you use it because you have it so later you trick yourself into thinking it's worth it. It's entirely possible you wouldn't use services that are cheaper with that pass if you didn't have the pass (I don't know what dashpass is, I mean in general.)
Wtf you pay subscription for food delivery now? Guess I’m an old fart
Dashpass is a DoorDash product/service that was a flat $10/mo and used to waive delivery fees on the DoorDash app. Now it only seems to discount the fees. And (I could be mistaken) bit, the app has also added more fees. *The food prices are higher on DoorDash (or any delivery service) than they are on the restaurant menu. *There are service fees (15%!) *There are delivery fees (usually 2.99) even with Dashpass. *Theres a fee for small orders ($2.50) *Theres the additional driver tip *Express delivery fee ($2.99) so that the driver picks your food up and brings it straight to you. *The flat Dashpass “discount” monthly charge. *Almost forgot Taxes The meal can now easily be over 200% of its menu price. It used to be more expensive than menu but not this terrible and especially when you’re sick or extremely busy it was a viable option. The only “benefit” of having it now is that I’ve been with them so long and as a “premium customer” that whenever there’s a problem they give me basically whatever I want to remedy the situation (refunds, credits, redelivery etc.) So, to their credit the customer service is good. But, the percentage of orders that I’ve had problems with is also way too high. In a restaurant you can check you order and have them fix it. With delivery- you can get stuck.
My only sub is family youtube premium. Don't want to go beyond that.
I paid for +, and damn it, I'm going to keep paying + for my food
I would have never considered used Grubhub for an order that I was picking up.
The only time I ever did was when one of the online services gave a discount that made it cheaper than going directly to the restaurant
Many times when you search a place and click "order online" on google, it'll pull up multiple places to order thru, some have no fee's to multiple dollar fees. You can just call the place and order over the phone for free, but that takes slightly more effort than clicking buttons with no human interaction to some.
I mostly only order from a Mexican restaurant online and sadly there’s a bit of a language barrier. Not so much they can’t speak English, but more of me just not being able to understand what they’re saying. My fault. But I’ve gotten my orders wrong a couple of times due to it, so usually I just order online. They’re also pretty busy most of the time, so I often have to wait for someone who can let me pay compared to ordering it online and the person up front hands me my order
Grubhub has a feature (at least where I live) where if you find a lower price on one of the other delivery apps, they’ll refund you the difference plus $5. I’ve been abusing this at my local Chipotle for months (Grubhub prices are too high but Doordash prices are correct)
I’ve never used grub hub, Uber eats, or anything similar until this week - and I only used Uber Eats yesterday because I was given a $30 voucher for grading AP Exams from home. When I started playing around with the app I noticed I had to choose between pickup or delivery, and my first thought was “Why the fuck is there even a pickup option?”
I made a response on the comment above yours in this thread but for me it’s to avoid my order being placed incorrectly and to avoid miscommunication. Which happens frequently when I order over the phone
That makes sense. It also occurred that people like me who got an Uber Eats voucher would use it since it’s free.
People use food services to place pickup orders?
Some places in Philly don’t have phone numbers so you have to place the order online, which means you can’t pay cash. A couple of years ago we changed our laws and made it so that every place must accept cash. I was wonder if this is their way of working around that
Yes. I hate talking on the phone.
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I don't think that means what you think it means....
Paying a premium just so you dont need to talk to a restaurant employee doesnt scream minmaxing money to me
Yes, they offer insane promotions like 50% off up to $15 that makes a $30 order only $20 after tip (many other promotions like grocery orders 40% off that i have now)
Yea for Uber eats it's all about the 40-50% off. It turns a "whew this is too expensive" to hmm it's a bit manageable. Combine that with a few credit cards reimbursing the Uber one subscription it can be pretty good. Also If a restaurant offers a BOGO it's over. Food for days, literally.
Amex gold 10 bucks every month. Each for Uber eats and grub hub we do.
A lot of places around me only allow pick up orders through food apps. I know because I always try to call or go to the website first.
People use third parties to book hotel rooms and flights, not hard to believe that *somebody* is getting tricked into paying another guy to order a burger.
Many websites these days have their own online order system. If you are like me and would rather not make that call, check the official website. From my experience, the prices are the same as in person menu prices.
A lot use Clover or something like that. Sometimes there's an extra buck or two for ordering online but I'm happy to pay to to avoid talking on the phone.
Half the time when I do that, the restaurant doesn't check that order queue and I have to wait while they start making my food after I arrive.
To expand - doordash and GrubHub realize most people who use the service are going to have the subscription, so they add margin on top of the restaurant's prices. So not only are you paying a delivery fee and a tip for the driver, you are also paying higher prices for every item.
The restaurants set their own prices on DoorDash, but they take a decent percentage chunk from the establishments so many restaurants will increase their prices on the app to compensate. When doing a pickup order [which is what this LPT is about] DoorDash doesn’t take any fees from the consumer [but still takes them from the establishment], but whether or not menu prices are higher is up to the restaurant itself. In my area very few places upsell on DoorDash, and ordering on the app versus ordering on the phone will get me the exact same price [for pickup, for delivery I’ll get fees, but I also get Dashpass free on my Chase card]. There are like 2-3 places around my area though that are relatively cheap to go in and eat, but super unreasonably [to a consumer] expensive in the apps.
So the restaurant I work at ONLY allows for online or in person takeout orders. It is against policy for us to take orders over the phone. 🤷♀️
I don’t work in the industry and I don’t manage a location [obviously] so I’m not saying it’s right. But it sounds like your owner/manager has determined that phone calls disrupt the flow of orders and that a more streamlined process is better overall. Whether it’s true or not for your location? I couldn’t say.
Most definitely. Also, they don’t want us taking credit card information over the phone. We have Toast as our POS and are completely cashless. However, people get very upset when we tell them we don’t take phone orders. They will usually blow up our phone and become very hostile.
Ummmm…. What are you doing over in this sub? Get back over with the Star Wars nerds where you belong sir!
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I rarely order pickup, if I’m ordering, it’s delivery, and nowhere around me has their own delivery anymore. If I’ve ordered pickup it’s because I’m at school in a classroom I can’t leave, but in a situation where I’m not actively teaching, and am able to quickly go on an app for 2 minutes. . . .or I’m ordering it before the place even opens, because I know I won’t be available after they do. But thanks for being a dick about me literally just providing accurate information.
Who the fuck doesn’t realize this?
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They absolutely do not add any margin to the prices - it is not legal. The restaurants add the margin so they can offset the fees for using the service. Which also is against the ToS of those delivery services, but the restaurant do it anyway until someone reports them.
The OP is not talking about delivery, so your comment about delivery fee and tip for the driver is irrelevant here. Read the post.
The problem is that the restaurant doesn't reliably pick up the phone when I call
There isn't a dedicated employee just answering phone calls. It's typically whoever is available on front of house.
Then wait a couple minutes and try again... lime people have done since the frigging thing was invented.
There’s a pizza place where I am that literally doesn’t answer their phone. You go in and order or go through a shitty app. But it’s one of like 3 good pizza places, so I sometimes go there to order and have a beer while I wait for it to be ready. One of the other of the 3 good pizza places is impossible to get through to on a Friday. I’ve literally tried calling 20+ times over the course of 2 hours and always got busy signals. I’ve resigned to also just driving there and ordering in person. It’s an even longer wait, but there’s a wine shop a block away, so I go there to pick up some stuff while I wait.
Dude what is wrong with people? Instant gratification of clicking a button on an app. The restaurant will still be just as slow responding
Not really. They get your order and make it within a certain time frame typically. If you’re continually calling the store and no one is picking up, your order isn’t even in their system yet and won’t be until someone finally picks up
Send a message
A severed horse head usually does the trick.
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My credit card gives me $XX every month that I can use on ubr eats so I order from the same restaurant every month that gives buy one get one free dishes and I drive to pick it up. If it wasn't for that, nope
Yep same for me but it's door dash and instacart
Which cc is that?
Chase Sapphire reserve. Although the instacart credit is ending next month.
I’ve only had bad experiences with Instacart anyway. Like thank you for delivering tomato sauce, cheese, bread, meatballs- and no pasta because “they were out”. Typical Instacart delivery. I use Amazon Fresh for groceries and it costs a little more than the store sometimes but they rarely make mistakes.
Which cc is that?
Amex Platnium...don't get it for the Uber eats credits ($200/yr), there's a $700 annual fee for the card
So what other benefits justify the $700 fee?
$200 Uber Credit. $200 Airline incidental fee credit. $240 entertainment credit (like hulu). $200 fine hotel credits (booked through Amex site). $100 Saks 5th Ave credit. $189 Clear credit. There's a new equinox gym credit which I don't think many use. There's also a tsa pre-check/global Entry credit, but that's like every 5 years. And you also get access to Priority Pass lounges, Delta lounges (when flying Delta), Amex Centrium lounges, and some other lounges. If you use the different credits, you break even. If you travel, the lounge access is the icing (other cards also give different lounge access...priority pass and their lounge network like Chase/Capital One lounges). Again, for anyone else reading this, don't get the card for the credits. Get the card if it makes sense for you.
Gold gets you $120 for Uber eats and $120 for grubhub or goldbelly (or the fucking cheesecake factory for some reason) and only has a $250 AF. But you lose lounge access and the MR don't accrue as quickly.
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They’re people, they’re nice, they’re even paid to be nice
1 out of 3 ain't bad.
If I want food from restaurant X, I call restaurant X and place my order and pick it up. Not hard.
Better yet, order directly from the restaurant website. Price is usually the same. Ordering through DoorDash/UberEats/GH will definitely get you inflated prices. The restaurant has to make up for the commissions ranging from 6% for pickup…all the way to 30% for delivery.
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And look up the actual number and not what’s listed on Yelp or whatever. A lot of those services redirect your call directly to restaurant, so it seems like it’s the correct number, but they charged the restaurant a fee for every such call.
A problem non-existent in Europe. I pay something like $4 monthly for Uber Eats unlimited delivery (the deliveries are free this way) and the food costs the same as in restaurants.
Does this mean that Uber is screwing the restaurants?
No more than in the US. Restaurants pay commission to the delivery service in both places, only the delivery company screws the restaurant *and* the customer in the US.
in nyc they tell you to use grubhub over the phone -_-
Alternatively, often if you go to a restaurant’s own website, they have an online order option that is not through Grubhub/doordash/whatever and does not include the wild fees.
doordash / grubhub are the biggest scams on the planet for consumers and its “employees”. I genuinelly cannot believe people use them
I call cap, although only speaking with experience on DoorDash, the pickup prices are always the same as the restaurant app, plus they give you 5% back in credit
Never used DoorDash but SkipTheDishes and Ubereats are usually priced higher and have less selection than ordering directly through the store app if available in my experience. Only used them when they had promos that made orders cheaper. Haven’t gotten any of those in years.
That’s a pro tip?
Doesn’t always apply. You can call some restaurants and they’ll just tell you to order through the apps.
I agree to some extent. But then I have to NATO-spell everything ...
I can tell you many busy restaurants hate being called. They’re dealing with a constant stream of customers and orders and don’t want to deal with a phone order. They’d much rather get a web order, as they can deal with it when they have a little time. So while I totally agree you don’t want to pay extra fees for your food, consider using their web ordering system if they have one instead of calling.
This is hilarious that people actully don't konw this.
Pro tip? Been doing this since I started making money, and my parents used to do this growing up. Lost art I guess. Never used a delivery app in my life. I’m only 30.
A restaurant near me forces you to use DoorDash even for pickup orders when you try calling. Yes the prices are still different too
Man I wish more restaurants had good online ordering. Hate talking to ppl on the phone
Counter argument: i work in a restaurant and hate when people call to place their orders
Ordering online is easier on the restaurant, unless they have a To Go staff. Calling takes me away from serving the person right in front of me, who made the effort to come into the restaurant and order. People calling in are my very last priority and I will place a caller on hold to wait until I’m done with the person already on the premises. Also - know exactly what you want to order when you call. Don’t make the person answering your call wait for you to get your act together. And don’t call during the lunch or dinner rush. We’re not answering…
This isn’t a LPT unless you are a total moron
So a pro tip for 80% of America! 😃
Would do that If 90 % of my orders wouldnt be something asian , were they sadly cant understand me If I talk to them and have to repeat my order 30 times.
For many restaurants that isn't possible- one is auto directed to a service.
Restaurants always mess up my order when I call
I'll happily pay $35 to not have to talk to someone.
For a pick up order where you can physically get there then yes that's great but when you don't have the ability to go pick up your food and the place itself doesn't offer delivery you have to order through a service I myself don't drive and if the restaurant was somewhere transit doesn't go I couldn't just go there
The OP isn't talking at all about delivery. Your response is unrelated.
Well duh. That’s not what he’s talking about. He’s talking about pick up and you are talking about delivery 🙄 …dumb
I know this, I'm just saying that I am far less likely than he is to be able to pick up at all
But why do we need that information
I think the better LPT is to not be an idiot paying a premium to go pick up your food… On the flip side, there are a few food trucks that come by my neighborhood once a week. If you want to go get the food in person the line can take over an hour. However, if you use one of the delivery apps to order the food and pick it up yourself you get your food upon going there. It doesn’t travel well so ultimately I wouldn’t get it delivered anyways. Order online, pay a small fee to cut the line, arrive with food hot and ready to be picked up within any line or wait.
Idk what is going on with Americans but I usually get charged a 0.1€ service fee on every order and either free or up to 1€ delivery charge.
Call someone on the phone? Gross If a place doesn't have online ordering for pick-up through their own website, I just won't order from them. I'd never use a third party to order for pick-up.
Or go to their website, many of them are setting up their own ordering systems. Calling is outdated, time consuming and there’s always the risk of a messed up order due to a language barrier or miscommunication on the phone.
No. Now, don't think I'm endorsing using third-party services for pick-up orders, because that's dumb as hell—but it's 20-fucking-24. If a restaurant doesn't have some form of native online ordering, I'm not going to patronize that establishment. There's almost nothing I hate more than calling a restaurant on the phone. You're going to either 1. have trouble getting them to answer in the first place, because it's busy; 2. have trouble placing your order because restaurants are *loud* and the host/hostess will have trouble hearing you; or 3. have a host/hostess whose first language isn't English (most likely with ethnic cuisines). Or a combination of two or all of these. Those interactions *suck,* and in this day and age of technological advancement I refuse to be a part of it anymore.
From a person working in food and the restaurant business PLEASE TIP your bartenders for Togo food just cause your getting it Togo doesn't mean we didn't package up your order and still got you shit even if you forgot to put it on the order if no tip then no food and your going to have to pack it up yourself next time don't be that person.
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Why can’t restaurants use what’s app? I using my phone to call