re: Door Dash having a rough few months

Aren’t you on disability?

Do that many people really live in places without food delivery? I’ve been able to get pizza, po’boys, Chinese, shawarma, etc. from local restaurants with their own delivery (fee + tip) my whole life. Delivery driver has been a career in NY and L.A. for decades. This is nothing new. It just gives consumers more options.

For instance, I door dashed some missing ingredients preparing thanksgiving food the day before. It allowed me to keep working without wasting 30 minutes and it gave someone a little money in their pocket going into the holidays. Some of y'all are wound entirely too tight.

for people with a supposed large amount of money, yall mfs cry like some pussies over spending money on convenience

Door dash is one of the stupidest most wasteful ways to blow money.

And for the record, I pick up my pizza. It’s less than 10 minutes away and saves me like $20

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simply not true. i have used it and never paid anywhere near double menu price. And plenty of restaurants charge fees for pick up now.

I ordered pizza hut a few times and they used dd for delivery instead of their own drivers and there was no extra charge.

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What I'm saying, and why I stopped using the apps, is that the menu prices are marked up. A hamburger that you would pay 9.99 if you went to the restaurant or called them for takeout would have a base menu price of 12.99 on the food app. I read that for the average restaurant, there is a 30% markup on menu prices so they can cover the fee that the apps take from them on food.

This is not transparent in the app. This is actually what played a large part in Waitr getting killed off, they started prohibiting restaurants from charging higher prices for menu items than their published menus at the restaurant.

So yes, that markup you don't know is there, combined with fees plus tip, is going to make an item cost double what you'd pay at the restaurant unless you're ordering for multiple people. This may not happen at every restaurant for example Pizza Hut may have a special agreement with them, but the burger joint down the street has to mark up their prices to pay for that service to cover them.