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Horror stories about DoorDash delivery workers are piling up
nypost ^ | 07/21/2019 | Lia Eustachewich

Posted on 07/22/2019 10:35:39 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Cindy Orozco didn’t expect to be punched in the head by a delivery worker when she arrived at her job at Good Pizza in Los Angeles last March.

The blow came from an enraged food delivery worker who stormed into the tiny pizzeria demanding, “Where’s my f—ing order?”

When she told him it wasn’t ready, he threw the contents of a tip jar across the small Playa Del Ray eatery, according to interviews and surveillance video footage obtained by The Post.

Things escalated when Orozco and the courier — who was sent to Good Pizza by food delivery giant DoorDash — got into a physical confrontation. The courier fled — without the order.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: deport

“Man delivering food allegedly dips
testicles in salsa”

Was the perp Italian or Spaniard or Chinese?

You do not want to cross mix ethnic foods, such as, pizza, Chow Mein or burritos.


101 posted on 07/22/2019 12:09:11 PM PDT by TheNext (Diversity: Darker Replaces Lighter)
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To: Rebelbase
I just don’t understand the folks on this thread who think the restaurant is at fault or liable for the delay.

Maybe because they caused it by making a commitment to a time frame in the first place?

After all the restaurants are benefiting the most.

Ya think?

102 posted on 07/22/2019 12:11:49 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: TexasGator

If it doesn’t work for that driver, then yeah, it’s unworkable as far as he’s concerned.

I’m not giving investment advice. That said, I’d love to know what assumptions are supporting that market cap.


103 posted on 07/22/2019 12:13:01 PM PDT by Romulus
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

Once again, you don’t understand the restaurant biz. I wonder how much spit you have eaten if you’ve displayed that attitude while dining out.


104 posted on 07/22/2019 12:15:26 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Malsua

That costs extra.


105 posted on 07/22/2019 12:18:18 PM PDT by TarasBulbous
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To: Rebelbase

Biz is Biz, if you can’t meet your commitments you shouldn’t make commitments. Next to used car lots, restaurant’s are the shadiest businesses around. My son has run several, and I’ve seen it first hand.


106 posted on 07/22/2019 12:20:40 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: Lockbox

I saw that the other day. Driver showed up and restaurant: the customer has been calling, this was supposed to be delivered about an hour earlier.


107 posted on 07/22/2019 12:23:45 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Dilbert San Diego

How are drivers paid? By the hour; are they getting docked for down time waiting for orders?


Your assumption is completely wrong. On-demand delivery drivers are not getting paid by the hour. They put the amount delivery drivers get paid into something that is comparable which is an hourly wage. That wage is averaged. Drivers only get paid for the delivery portion This doesn’t count the drive to the restaurant and the wait at the restaurant. Don’t forget the wait between the requests for delivery. Sometimes there is none and other times it could be an hour or longer. Just depends on the market and time of day.

The clock doesn’t start ticking until the food, bagged, in the driver’s hands and s/he starts their delivery run. So the longer the wait the less time the driver makes per hour. Once the delivery is made, the clock stops and once again the driver waits for the next order to be picked up and the process is repeated. In reality, the driver usually gets paid by the time it takes to make the delivery, the mileage and a base rate. The company with the app takes a good chunk out of that for the use of the app. The driver gets what is left.

On demand delivery service is not like a pizza delivery where those drivers get paid by the hour plus tips. I refuse to do UBER Eats because of this. I tried it once. Had a 17 minute, unpaid, drive to the specific restaurant, McDonalds. Waited 45 minutes, unpaid, for the food. Put into the phone the food was picked up and delivered it. I got paid 3.45 for that delivery and no tip. No I did not steal a french fry.

Ignorance is bliss sometimes, but stupidity will never be curable.


108 posted on 07/22/2019 12:23:45 PM PDT by zaxtres
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

He should get another job if he can’t cope with what are every day normal situations in restaurants. I was on the other side of the situation with assholes like him, I have no sympathy for him. What he showed with his outburst is that he needs a mental evaluation, the authorities should have picked him up on a 5150.......here in California that’s a 72 hour mental evaluation hold.


109 posted on 07/22/2019 12:24:21 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Rebelbase
Obviously none have a concept of how a commercial kitchen operates.

**************

I also suspect the restaurant didn't have it ready in the expected time.

110 posted on 07/22/2019 12:25:35 PM PDT by deport
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“Maybe because they caused it by making a commitment to a time frame in the first place?”

You are posting assumptions, not facts.


111 posted on 07/22/2019 12:26:07 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Romulus

“If it doesn’t work for that driver, then yeah, it’s unworkable as far as he’s concerned.”

Apparently it does work for the driver.


112 posted on 07/22/2019 12:28:04 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: Mastador1

You expect an Uber guy to wait for you? Hell no you don’t.

If they treat the mobile guy’s like that, there won’t be any delivery left. The restaurant needs to limit it’s delivery menu.


113 posted on 07/22/2019 12:28:13 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: MrEdd

You assume perfection that is not achievable


114 posted on 07/22/2019 12:29:01 PM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12)There were Democrat espionage operations on Republican candidates)
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To: Romulus

“I’m not giving investment advice. That said, I’d love to know what assumptions are supporting that market cap.”

Doordash has no market cap.


115 posted on 07/22/2019 12:32:48 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

“If they treat the mobile guy’s like that, there won’t be any delivery left. “

LOL! Watch the video and come back and defend the dude!


116 posted on 07/22/2019 12:34:27 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

That’s sane, compared to YOU.

You are the ORIGINAL Crazy Psychotic Schizophrenic Sadomasochistic Manic-Depressive Nutty Bipolar Mental Berserk Borderline Paranoid Delusional Psycho.


117 posted on 07/22/2019 12:35:11 PM PDT by Lazamataz (We can be called a racist and we'll just smile. Because we don't care.)
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To: deport

“I also suspect the restaurant didn’t have it ready in the expected time. “

What was the expected time?


118 posted on 07/22/2019 12:35:32 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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To: TexasGator

Like I say, we don’t see the whole story.


119 posted on 07/22/2019 12:35:33 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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To: bert

No.
I assume a business model where a restaurant who causes it’s product to be late either eats the loss instead of a third party delivery service, or it doesn’t get its product delivered.

The option for the customer is of course to not pay.

All equitable, though not perfect.


120 posted on 07/22/2019 12:35:40 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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