Working in food sucks in general. I would know I’ve been doing it for almost 14 years now. You drive to the store. You enter the store. You order your food. If there are any complications with your order you’re told right then and there.
But I’ll never forget the day my job introduced mobile ordering. It immediately made everything worse in almost every way. Customers ordering shit we ran out of, shit we no longer offer, setting the pickup time 5 minutes after placing the order then getting mad when it’s not done on time. All this while we can’t communicate with the customer at all until they arrive to find the order incomplete because we couldn’t contact them to figure out what they wanted to do.
Then door dash became a thing and all those exact problems became even worse. It slows down the entire store to the point of disrupting the customers who came in to order.
Why the fuck would you go through a third party system to obtain food when you can just go get the fucking food
Basically if you use mobile ordering or a delivery service you’re a big part of why food service has done nothing but get harder and more frustrating. And I do hold it against you.
Edit: I don’t think lemmy understands how unpopularopinion is supposed to work…
Edit 2: Considering how many people clearly disagree with me and seeing how few upvotes this post has gotten, lemmy clearly has no idea how unpopularopinion works.
Glad to know the Reddit custom of ignoring that still lives on.
Why? Because it’s more convenient dude, at least in the UK. Is it lazy?, yes. Is it negatively affecting the takeaway industry?, also yes. Is it more convenient than going out of my house when I’ve finally got the kids to bed and just want to settle down onto the sofa and wait for someone to bring me food? Absolutely it is.
I’d probably direct my anger towards the shitty companies who exploit you, the drivers and the customers rather than the people just trying to get some grub down their throats after a long shitty day.
I’m mad at both tbh. I know I’m being exploited. But I’d be being exploited less if people simply understood that every convenience for you as a customer is another pile on top of the shit load of inconveniences we already deal with daily.
As a disabled person, I’d also love it if people simply understood that what is a convenience for them is a life-changing tool for someone else, and blaming me for your employers exploiting you is another pile of top of the shit load of barriers I already deal with daily.
You left out orders that get reassigned to three drivers who accept and cancel because the tip isn’t big enough, so customer gets cold food and restaurant gets negative reviews.
It’s so bad of a system that in some areas doordash is telling customers to pick up their own food because of wait time/drivers cancelling. So now door dash is causing prices marked up 30%, and you are doing carryout instead of direct ordering at restaurant to begin with.
It’s got to be the laziest generation. Up until now people had to run errands. Now they are too busy watching tiktok to drive 2 mins to get deodorant or takeout.
I was a delivery driver. Most customers were 40+ it’s not a kids these days thing. We don’t have the money to order delivery. We deliver it.