‘I’d stay at the door and start eating’: Entitled takeout customers split opinion with excessive no contact delivery signage

We live in the age of ultimate convenience, something that most of us are different degrees of grateful for. Unfortunately, it can feel like more people lie on the more entitled end of the scale than the other way around. While it may be annoying to have a courier mess up your order or not …
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24 Food Delivery Memes for the Rich

Food delivery is so common nowadays. Ever since the pandemic, apps like DoorDash and Uber Eats have been booming. And for good reason. You can literally order anything. Anything. From common grocery store items to pet toys to alcohol, food delivery apps have got you covered. But the catch? They are 1000% marked up. Okay, …
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‘There’s a financial literacy crisis happening’: Woman spends $30,000 of her ex-boyfriend’s money, he fails to notice for 3 years

Money is a difficult topic in many romantic relationships. If you get serious enough, you will inevitably have to get serious about finances too—and that can lead to a sticky situation if you ever break up. It’s a big part of the reason that many divorces are prolonged and painful. What isn’t often discussed is …
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Good budgeter recommends frozen meals over constantly ordering delivery, gets criticized for being insensitive: ‘Umm, people have depression and anxiety?’

We’ve been in a constant state of debate over whether it is morally okay to use food delivery services for several years now. I never ordered delivery outside of pizza until four years ago, and I have been forced to grapple with the fact that I have ordered McDonald’s breakfast at 6 AM instead of …
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25 Times the DoorDash Camera Caught the Gremlin in Us

If you’ve ever ordered food to your house, (which at this point is everyone) then you’re probably familiar with the humbling experience of having to present your unkempt home-self to the innocent person delivering your food. If I’m ordering delivery, it probably means I have chosen laziness. I have chosen stained house clothes, un-coiffed hair, …
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‘That 80-year-old woman’s door was opened by a 6’3 man’: Former delivery driver shares scary stories of male customers pretending to be women

I find it funny that we rarely contemplate the strangeness of apps like Uber or Doordash. We pay strangers to drive to our houses and drop off our persons or food directly at our doors. It might be old hat to say that when we were kids, our parents told us never to get in …
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30+ Relatable Food Delivery Memes For All the Couch Potatoes Out There

Ordering food right from your couch might be the height of luxury. It may be the definition of treating yourself. Nothing feels more like we live in the future than using a phone to demand someone to get your meal and bring it to your front door–sometimes without even making eye contact with the delivery …
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‘My theory that delivery apps ruined the world is truer every day’: Apartment Dweller Calls Out DoorDash Driver for Not Bringing Food to Her Door, Restarts Customer Entitlement Debate

Those who provide services to us: they’re people too! In a post-Karen society, it would be nice to think that we all had an awareness of how to treat those in customer-facing roles with the respect they deserve, especially when the industries they work in are often overworked and underpaid.  Apparently, though, this all goes …
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‘Two bloomin’ onions, a steak salad, lobster tails, a filet, a chicken sandwich and a sirloin + tip + tax = $125 on Doordash right now. It’s crazy’: Gluttonous father complains about steak and lobster delivered to his home costing over $100

There has been a lot of talk about inflation recently, and I get it. When I go into a grocery store that sells pasta sauce for $11, I want to slam my head into a car door. That being said, there are some things that people claim are «too expensive» because of inflation when, in …
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Bewildered Delivery App Users React to Shady Practice of ‘Ghost Kitchens’

Lazy and hungover people across the world wouldn’t know what to do with themselves if takeout delivery apps suddenly vanished off the face of the earth one day. Millions of people enjoy the varied delights of DoorDash, Uber Eats and similar every single day, but it isn’t always all it’s cracked up to be. Most …
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