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2 pizzas, a small order of breadsticks, and wanted to splurge and get cinnamon sticks.

Pizzas are a "Buy one get one deal!" at 13 bucks a pizza. Figured what the hell, I'll splurge on desert then with the deal. Get to checkout... hold on a minute.... 50 dollars for pizza?! Wait a minute 80 dollars after fees and taxes?!

Usually I only use Doordash for finding something, then I order direct from the store. I just saw the sweet "buy one get one" deal and thought eh, fine I'm here. Right, that's why I stopped using door dash. I'm not spending 80 dollars on freaking pizza. I'll just go pick it up and spend a quarter of that price.

At least I would have saved the $3 dollar delivery fee. Phew. Thanks DoorDash.

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[–] KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Makes me so grateful I have Starship where I live. No price markups, no tips, only a $3 fee.

[–] killwill@feddit.nl 6 points 2 weeks ago

My 1 year dashpass expiring was the best thing to happen to me. Lost 10+ pounds in a month just eating pb&j or pb&banana for lunch. Also saved like $300 a month.

[–] dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Even taking away all these delivery services I hate having food delivered as you don’t know how long it’s sat in the car whilst they deliver other orders. The fries are soggy and it’s just not good.

I use those sites to browse the menu then i call the restaurant, which is cheaper, then go and collect it myself.

These services have also ruined fast food. McD although shit is convenient on the commute home It’s just filled with Uber eats and Just eat drivers and really makes it slow now to get food. Then they have these screens to order on so you can’t even get hold of a member of staff to ask for salt cause they’re too cheap to leave it out like they used to.

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[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

What is standing in the way of an open alternative to these services? Both customers and workers getting a terrible deal, you'd think anyone would switch to something else at the first opportunity

[–] bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Turns out hiring a cab for your pizza is expensive, who would have thought. Personally when ordering out, I always choose pickup, and fortunately can bike to most places to pick it up. If the weather is too shitty to bike, why would I want to put a delivery driver in those conditions.

The alternative isn't an open platform, but maybe prioritizing 10 minute city in urban environments where you don't need a car to get/deliver everything you need

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[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone would need to host and manage that thing, in the case of dispute. For the gig worker, they would need someone to know that these alternatives exists, and that require marketing and marketing cost money.

But i bet someone can make a cooperative of this service and only run locally, and restaurant and delivery worker can both help promote their alternative.

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[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do pizza places not deliver themselves anymore?

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

I've had several places say they only deliver through DoorDash.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Sometimes when I find deals like this on doordash or Uber eats, I buy them and select pickup at the store. It will drop menu prices, and have no fees added. I got a straight smorgasbord from Wingstop the other day taking advantage of 2 buy one get one deals and a $8 off $40 deal.i spent $34 to pick it up. To get the same thing delivered it was like $56+tip.

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

My favorite Pizza place in Germany has their own delivery cars. It might take some time to arrive, but you pay 30€ for 2 large Pizzas + 4€ for the delivery if your are located in the same city... 34€ total... Add a 2€ tip (tips are usually an extra and not their main income in Germany) and enjoy the Pizza... Easy...

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

My favourite Pizza place here in Copenhagen also went back to having their own delivery car and bike, to get rid of Wolt (biggest delivery service here). Delivery price and time has improved dramatically.

Why did we sacrifice all these services go stupid apps to begin with?

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Probably because the only way of ordering was (and sometimes is) via telephone. Ordering via app or website was rare before the delivery platforms came and created a monopoly...

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