Pick up or Delivery?

[Spiritual Mask Salesman]

It's pretty crazy that almost any food can be delivered to us with services like UberEats, Grubhub, and other similar ones. I'm wondering how many of us actually use them?

I guess I'm a bit old fashioned, besides getting pizza, I've never used any delivery services to bring me food. I'm just used to either swinging through a drive thru, or placing and picking the order up myself to bring home. I also figure it's cheaper this way, probably.

 

[Mikey the Moblin]

The only place here that delivers is pizza hut, so yeah
I'm not opposed to paying more for delivery services eithet

 

[mαrkαsscoρ]

yeah I haven't used any delivery services either, I imagine that'll change though once I'm on my own, but I lean more on the pick up side

 

[Chevywolf30]

You've hit one of my trigger buttons. I hate delivery services. I hate them as a restaurant employee. They're one more thing to keep track of, you have to work around the food while you're waiting for the driver to show up, the drivers are a pain to work with 90% of the time. Huge pain for restaurant employees.
I hate them as a customer. I got some taco bell from Grubhub once. once. They forgot my drink, and even though the food arrived 5 minutes before the eta window, I got no notification or email or even knock on the door to tell me, so 5 minutes after the eta window, I checked the front sidewalk and there it was, sans the drink. I checked my email from them confirming my order and found out it had been there for about 20 minutes.
I also do not like their business practices. Only thing I'll say on that is that DoorDash added restaurants to their app without the restaurants knowing, iirc there were some restaurants that had said "No, we don't want to be on your list."

EDIT: Plus, it's more expensive that way. They have to overcharge to make a profit.


So I will always and forever go to a restaurant if I want their food.

 

[Mikey the Moblin]

You've hit one of my trigger buttons. I hate delivery services. I hate them as a restaurant employee. They're one more thing to keep track of, you have to work around the food while you're waiting for the driver to show up, the drivers are a pain to work with 90% of the time. Huge pain for restaurant employees.
I hate them as a customer. I got some taco bell from Grubhub once. once. They forgot my drink, and even though the food arrived 5 minutes before the eta window, I got no notification or email or even knock on the door to tell me, so 5 minutes after the eta window, I checked the front sidewalk and there it was, sans the drink. I checked my email from them confirming my order and found out it had been there for about 20 minutes.
I also do not like their business practices. Only thing I'll say on that is that DoorDash added restaurants to their app without the restaurants knowing, iirc there were some restaurants that had said "No, we don't want to be on your list."

EDIT: Plus, it's more expensive that way. They have to overcharge to make a profit.


So I will always and forever go to a restaurant if I want their food.

whew

 

[A Link In Time]

I almost always go with pick up. As you mentioned, SMS, it's cheaper, and I'm usually not in a major hurry for the convenience of delivery. I am usually in the area to wait or I just call ahead of time.

 

[Terminus]

Pick up. I live 2 blocks south of the arbitrary limit my local pizza parlor has set, and there's a 30% chance if I order enough for delivery (usually at least two whole pizzas, considering the limit) that I'm going to get some smug weirdo who will do the "well ackshyually..." spiel.

I do delivery once in a blue moon if I'm at a game night at a friends house, because badgering someone for a dinner run is pain in the ass. My wallet isn't appreciative, though.

 

[twilitfalchion]

I prefer pick up. I don't really care for the idea of some delivery person who I know nothing about showing up at my front door. It's not safe, if you ask me.

 

[Morbid Minish]

I can't even get delivery where I live, so it's always pick up for me. I do remember the first time I went to stay with my brother for a week when he had his own place that I was pretty excited about being able to get pizza delivered for the first time in my life. We were putting together furniture for his place so it was really convenient not to have to stop and leave to get something. So I wouldn't be opposed to delivery if available because it has its conveniences sometimes (especially right now). Though not sure about stuff like GrubHub or DoorDash.

 

[Dizzi]

Ive never done either of them...

 

[ExLight]

Drive thrus aren't common here at all and Pick up only got popular here because of the pandemic. Delivery has always been the way to go here.

 

[Chevywolf30]

I do delivery once in a blue moon if I'm at a game night at a friends house, because badgering someone for a dinner run is pain in the ass.

I'm the type that likes to do things myself, so I'm the one to go and get some food as opposed to having someone bring it to me. I'm opposed to extra, unnecessary convenience.

 

[Jimmu]

I much prefer pickup wherever possible as I think getting delivery is like throwing my money in the toilet and flushing it down. The only situations in which I'll order delivery is if I am at a party and everyone has been drinking alcohol.

 

[ChimeraWarden]

I only really use delivery services during quarantine cause, y’know, global lockdown. But in the future, if I’m feeling especially lazy, I’ll probably use them.

 

[Uwu_Oocoo2]

I really don't like the idea of home delivery, its just a side effect of society getting lazier... Anyway, I'm always that person who rebelliously decides to dine in, even if theres nobody else in a restaurant.