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People really, really need to learn to cook for themselves. Nothing wrong with the odd takeout, or even delivery but I sense a lot of people live on deliveries all the time and waste a fortune
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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The thing is that these types of services eat away at money anyway. It's better to go get the food yourself just to save yourself the money. If you must eat out rather than cook. Although, I understand that this may be more difficult for those who live in major cities such as NYC or LA, as examples. Food delivery has always been a thing for a lot of major U.S. cities. In my opinion, food delivery apps such as Uber Eats and Door Dash are not worth it or smart for many, if not most people.
It essentially 100% of the time comes delivered by 2 wheeled vehicle, with the vast majority being e bikes
I was talking to a T-Mobile rep about something, and she gave me a head's up that this week's T-Mobile Tuesday included a Door Dash subscription for a year. It even said that it can be cancelled in a year, but they'd be doing the same promotion on July 2026, so the customer can just resign up for free again!
I've already used it, and the place I ordered from had a free item for ordering over $25. After the discount and free delivery, the $55 bill was down to $30.
And this was in NYC.
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I have never ordered via delivery service for my food except the traditional pizza delivery. I can’t see spending that much to drop off a meal for myself. I go pick it up if they don’t deliver, or I just don’t order in.
If it were easier to walk or bike to get food it would be different. Sometimes I don't want to spend 30 minutes in a metal death box for a burrito. We cook most of our meals at home but occasional delivery is nice.
The expectation comes from SoftBank investing billions into Uber to kickstart the ride share industry.
I've never ordered food to my door. Not even pizza. The rare times I order takeout pizza I pick it up myself. Unless you're a senior citizen it just seems so wasteful and lazy and comically expensive to have food delivered to you. I mean I get that we're absolutely going to destroy this planet, but holy shit are we speedrunning it.
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A lot of people are bad with money and are way too ready to pay too much for convenience. This service has uses, but if you aren’t tied by need to use it, it’s pretty wasteful expenditure.
need to use it, it’s pretty wasteful expenditure.
At home, when we moved, we ordered a few times. The food ended up cold, late, wrong, AND 75% more expensive.
We used to order GH and DD at work a lot, they just priced themselves out of the market. on WFW days, we just either go there together or order form a place that has their own app and one person picks up for everyone.
We have a pizza place in the neighborhood that delivers to us for free, they're expensive but end up being the same price as ordering other places through GH/DD. When we want something outside the hood, I just go and get it. We get it faster, hotter, it's right and it's cheaper.
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We looked at GrubHub and said no when the delivery fee and tip would've been more than our meal cost.
I can't be arsed to wait for food delivery. I'll pick it up if I don't have the supplies and time to cook it. I was thinking I want a CWS for om Taco bell, but I still have planned-overs in my fridge. Also, the upcharge on food delivery apps are insane. I'll bake a frozen pizza instead for 5 dolla.