re: Top 15 food orders in Baton Rouge via Waitr in 2018

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good point... my lifestyle is different after having kids.

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a second good reason..Sometimes its easier to have shite delivered vs loading up the car for drive thru

Maybe it is the Jewish heritage, or maybe it is that I am not lazy, but I very rarely find the cost of Waitr worth it. I can just go pick up my own food.

Only time Waitr is worth it is when I have food brought into the office for all my employees.

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Wings n More on Plank Road.

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So the NBR folks used the excuse about the $5 delivery fee was actually the drivers tip?

Does waitr take ebt cards?

Blue sto has the best wings

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Blue sto has the best wings

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They're good too, but I know what the inside of that place looks like. If I wanted friend roaches that's what I'd order.

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I'm willing to bet most of those ordering 1 and 2 are not tipping the driver very well.

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I did it for a few months after the professor in charge of my program decided to go back to Austria and I lost my internship. It’s ultimately a shite job. IF you’ve got an older car that you don’t care about, and IF you get better than average gas mileage, and IF you’re willing to roll the dice with your insurance - the company does not cover you and your personal car insurance will NOT pay if they find you were driving for Waitr - then maybe you can make some okay cash. There’s a few that make a “living” doing it, but they are working 50+ hours a week and all of them I knew had a SO at home brining in more money. Anyone who tells you otherwise ether isn’t incorporating all costs or they’re only thinking of their best days (not unlike a gambler only thinks about his big wins and not his losses).

Some of the “restaurants” they deliver from should be shut down by the health inspectors. I’ve delivered from a few that I was surprised didn’t have a World Health Organization inoculation tent out front.

They require you to drive several miles to a shite restaurant, to pick up a $5 order (or less! I had a few deliveries that were a small drink), then you have to wait at the restaurant, then drive several miles to drop off the food in the ghetto... and those people don’t tip shite. And if you’re ever going to have someone complain, it’s going to come from that same group.

Sure, like any tipped job you can have good days and bad days, but the company doesn’t do anything to really help the drivers out. They refuse to institute a minimum order, a minimum tip, and their order assignment system is so archaic I wonder how they haven’t been put out of business yet.

They have what they call DASH. These are the people who assign you orders once you clock in (you have to juggle multiple different apps btw) and these people are located in another city, many of them have not only never been a driver but have no knowledge of the city at all. A driver will ask them for help finding a restaurant or street or whatever and they have no clue.

The system DASH uses is something a first year computer science major could write. It doesn’t incorporate any metrics like traffic, or first/second derivative nearest neighbor analysis. And they use a policy of delivering the latest first. It is quite common to be assigned an order that is 7 minutes late but is 12 minutes for your location while there’s a half-dozen orders within 3 minutes of you that are 5 minutes late. I could go deeper into it, but ultimately they make no efforts to operate efficiently - meaning drivers are going back and forth, crossing paths, and making double trips. The company doesn’t care because they can continue to just throw more drivers at the problem (I don’t see their system working well once they enter a market that isn’t flooded with people desperate for work like down here).

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He’s talking about people ordering a singled out order of edamame without anything else.

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No one does this.

People that order all sorts of sushi or other things add an edamame to their order, hence why it's such a popular item.

Just like fries at BWW.

Yep.