So, did the Customer end up getting their Pizza or not?
Doesn’t sound like a good business model.
The privately held company is the fastest-growing Silicon Valley food delivery business,
The people are nicer where I live, on average.
Can you blame the drivers? If the driver is there on time the restaurant should be held totally liable, maybe $5 per minute while the driver’s waiting.
The driver is getting totally hosed.
It’s bad enough to have strangers make your food and if you get delivery offered by the restaurant, yet another person handle it. At least that person works for the eatery.
Now you mix in a stranger? Sorry, no way. This third party could be dipping his testicles into your salsa.
So far mine have been really nice. I don’t like having to order delivery but because I’m a caretaker sometimes it is just unavoidable when all hell breaks loose in Dementia City.
The courier fled to confront another day.
Better than sticking and getting waxed:
How much does the delivery add to a moderate purchase?
Hiring help via a computer system can let idiots slip past much more easily.
Idiots are more likely to be members of the irregular workforce.
I know a half dozen Uber and Lyft drivers through my siblings and nephews. Long hours, not that great of pay, fair number of jerk customers. Anything but a dream job.
It’ll be interesting to see how this format evolves in the next 5-10 years.
That’s why Ubereats is growing, the driver doesn’t get hurt because of actions of the restaurant.
Will normally increase productivity, now delivery company just needs to learn to not hire drivers on meth!
Uber eats and door dash are just adding another layer of untrained, irresponsible people who can spit in your food.
Don’t mess with an Italian pizza worker. Ever.
This would appear to be a clear conflict of interest. The driver is motivated to minimize his time involved in each delivery. The food supplier is motivated to load his staff with orders to maintain productivity and this can result in delays due to having too many orders at one time.
When I worked for a Chinese kitchen years ago I was paid by the kitchen and by the hour. Extra deliveries meant extra tips, so I was especially motivated to move quickly in making a delivery so that I could quickly return to the restaurant to be assigned another delivery.
One solution here might be for individual drivers and/or the driver's employer to measure the typical delays and charge slightly more for food establishments that keep drivers waiting. Pass along the extra charges to the customer and the extra income to the drivers.
My son does this but you don’t make much money. Though he’s a skinny young guy and sometimes he gets to keep the food if the order gets canceled.
His funniest delivery was to a mansion in Bel Air; two people wanted peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Probably too stoned to make it to their giant kitchen.
Third party food delivery is a bad business. Because of my semi-remote location, I use these services from time to time and they’re rarely timely and always too expensive.
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Pull up his Air Force automatic Gatling guns, and if the food is not ready, your Uncle gets it. Pow!
Why on earth would ANYONE use such a service?
It’s bad enough to tust strangers to prepare your food. But to trust an unaccountable stranger to deliver it?
Asking for trouble, and spit on your burger.