re: Waitr sucks worse than fast food.

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BUT...better personal inspections should be done.

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ahh the weekly, local service/restaurant/business/etc. "sucks" thread

"the food sucks!"

"the service sucks!"
What does this rant mean? Of course it is me,me, me
"me! me! me!"

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Without reading this thread, I'll say this: Driving for waitr is apparently just like driving for uber. Possibly literally the same people. Just like uber will show them who is requesting to get picked up from where and brought to where, waitr will show them from where to where and how much food. That influences the tip they'll receive. From what I've read the only deliveries that make sense are large orders or ones that they can chain on their way with others. If drivers don't want to take your order, they just won't and it will sit. Basically from what I understand, don't use waitr unless it's a short common route from the restaurant or you have a fairly expensive order. That or you don't mind waiting for cold food.

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If they don't do it, there must be a reason, but I would think Uber drivers would jump in on this. If they drop someone off, they can look to see if there is any orders that need to be delivered, that is on their way to wherever they are going next. And pick up a few extra dollars.

But how does it work. You make an order, go to Waitr and put in your pickup order information and then someone goes pick it up and drops it off? (in other words, restaurants are not involved at all right?). I can't imagine it cost the consumer all that much for the service... I am just guessing, but I would think $6-$7). If they give the driver 20% that's $1.40, so they really make it on tips. I am trying to think this out really, but yeah..when you think about a driver having to go all around to different restaurants (opposed to a pizza place, where they leave pizza place, drop off pizza, go back to pizza place).. It really doesn't sound all that appealing.

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Waitr went DOWN hill pretty quickly. I stopped Waitr after having too many mess ups by the DELIVERY driver. If I do order I make sure to write in the notes section- “Please double check my order and tip is based on correct items” etc. I used to tip very well when checking out but it’s just worth the money if the driver sucks. Waitr makes it too complicated to call and complain and I’ve noticed that the drivers # to contact them isn’t always available. It’s just a really big pain in the arse.

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