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WTF Is Happening to Food Delivery Prices?

GEN

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A KFC 8-piece costs about $24 at the counter and over $36 on DoorDash before you tip, so why does the average American still order delivery every six and a half days? This follows the money through DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, from restaurants handing over up to 30 percent of every order, to the New York tip screen change that dropped average tips from $3.66 to 93 cents in a week, to a $16.75 million settlement over driver tips and the former Grubhub executive who compared these apps to payday lenders. Then it gets stranger, with McDonald's testing restaurants with no seats, the US sliding to 24th in the World Happiness Report, and a London Uber Eats courier named Bryce Pritchett pulling 219 million views by filming his shifts. If delivery fees, service fees, hidden menu markups, and soggy overpriced takeout have you wondering why food delivery got so expensive, this is who built it that way, and the choice you're left with.
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20 Comments

@GEN Creator 22 hours ago (edited) Pinned

And no I didn’t tip him.

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@TheMelvinWei 16 hours ago

So the customers pay 50% more and the delivery drivers make next to nothing and wear out their cars...nobody wins.

@jklax 17 hours ago

I deliver my food from the stove to the table for $0 dollars!

@Zamnatou 21 hours ago

I'm too broke for food delivery lol not my problem XD

@Alex-cw3rz 20 hours ago

In the past a restaurant or takeaway would employ someone and it was normally free. Now it's double the price because we have inserted middle men who do very little but think they deserve billions for it.

@rasmodeus1 20 hours ago

never used food delivery.
never will.

@redshellman 19 hours ago

I work in sanitation overnight.
I visit a lot of apartment complexes.
You'd be amazed how many doordash food deliveries get put on the front door, and the next day they're still sitting there.
Either the drivers can't figure out addresses, or the buyer was too out of it to remember.

@AsobiMedio 18 hours ago

TLDR: The prices caught up with reality. Apparently, having a personal on-demand taxi service for your late night burrito is an expensive luxury. And current prices are still screwing over the driver.

@SuperYellowcats 10 hours ago

I had a coworker who would constantly complain bout being broke but I always saw ordering through DoorDash for food and would make fun of me for bringing my own meal. Like yeah you’re broke and have no money because you’re wasting it on delivery services. She’d tell me she couldn’t go to grocery stores but would always tell me about how she was at the mall just the other day.. some people just don’t take responsibility for themselves.

@blockchainbreakdown2009 17 hours ago

The fact that people are just now realizing the delivery apps up charge you on the price of the item is so wild to me. The moment I got introduced to the app, I automatically assumed they up charged you it just an extremely obvious and semi-shity revenue pipeline. Specially when you think about the "Speciallized Pricing" being test ran at places like CVS/Walmart/Target etc.

@derrickpowell5751 12 hours ago

Personally. I don't think the issue is food delivery itself. It's the corporatization of it. For example, I don't mind paying the local Pizza 911 3.99 for delivery and a 5 dollar tip to go basically 2 miles to drop off a dinner plate.

What I don't stand for is Doordash pushing up the price for everyone and saying 99 cent delivery fee, but then there is 5 dollar service fee, "operations fee", and whatever else shit they make up and then tip. And it is the reason I basically don't deal with them anymore.

@rjc4370 10 hours ago

The fees are outrageous. I have no idea how people are so willing to waste their money

@steverogers8163 17 hours ago

The apps are notorious for signing restaurants up without their knowledge. They basically harass you with delivery drivers that you can't control unless you signup.

@LOOKINGFORDRAMA-MFH 14 hours ago (edited)

I DONT USE THEM. I CANT AFFORD THEM.😂😂😂

@Kratos510e 12 hours ago

Haven't ordered from door dash in over 2yrs, fees are insane and the drivers can't be trusted.

@punchkitten874 20 hours ago

A whole part of the economy I don't participate in. It's way cheaper and less stressful to just cook at home. Even when I all I had was a cranky dorm fridge and a hotplate. Simple ingredients, a handful of spices, and no food addiction.

@Nairod2 16 hours ago

If people are like me, we are mass quitting the app. because if you drive 15 minutes to any restaurant you save 30% compared to app prices + you are not paying delivery fees, tips, and you can actually buy Dr.shasta in your way back home rather than the drink from the restaurant to save even more... because you finally realized that 5 bucks off your order apply after a 45% surge on the original restaurant prices.

Who would have known you could save 67% or more in your junk food if you pretended to be in the 90s.

@montyvr6772 13 hours ago

Food delivery is an idiot tax, doesn't matter if it's 30 dollars or 100 dollars... If the food is 5 bucks I'm paying 5 bucks.

@RichardJuice-w4h 14 hours ago

I used to work for a delivery app called Roadie. At first I did part time or after work. I ended up moving and couldn’t find a job. I started doing Roadie full time, 7 days a week 12 hours or more a day. I was bringing in 7 to 8 grand a month. My cost for gas and the rental truck or SUV was like 2 grand sometimes 2500 a month. When they started cutting the pay so the company could make more money I walked away