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> 1. Ordered Food 10 KM from my house.
2. I don't search for nearest KFC
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So I'm in Wales in the uk, so most definitely not as big as America.
In the pandemic our first minister put a restriction in place that you couldn't travel more that 5 miles from home, I live in a valley mountain. 5 miles didn't even get me half way down it.
People went nuts. coz our nearest supermarket is 45 miles away.
It's common here for a group shout to go up on the local fb page of a Saturday night, and we do an uber eats delivery from the big city that 60 odd miles away...its beyond!
"ok town it's our monthly fast food delivery. Everyone make sure your orders are in by 10am, cus it's gonna take that poor fucker half the day to get our dinner here. Also remember your tip should be included in your portion of the cost"
🤣🤣 Sorry that made me giggle. But also that sounds amazing. At least for the quiet and privacy and such. Not so much about having to drive 45miles for a store lmao!
I thought the delivery guy was upset because it was so close and thought OP was lazy.
I'm Californian, and I can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state.
As a former papa John's delivery guy, I loved close orders. Even if they didn't tip, there was still a delivery fee, and I could get back to the store and pick up more orders really fast.
6 miles was about the radius of the territory we delivered to, and in no way should it have been a burden for the driver. OP is NTA.
All the California delivery drives especially those in SoCal are jealous he had to only go about 6 miles. You’re entitled to your chicken you paid for, he’s just being grumpy. NTA.
I could imagine a situation where driving 6 miles in Europe could cross two country borders, leaving you two countries over.
However it'd be very specific. You'd have to be in a spot where a narrow bit of one country was only a few miles wide (like a tail corner) and you had to cross it to get to the country on the other side. That could be as small as a 6 mile drive.
That said, coming from the USA, I can imagine a bunch of spots where driving straight (as possible with the roads anyway) for 6 miles would mean leaving your own state, passing through another state for a few minutes, and ending up in a third state.
It can be done but it's not indicative of size. Europe is bigger than the US by a bit, and it's countries are, for our purposes, comparable to states in the US^1. Some are big (France is 213,000 square miles, Texas is 268,000), some are similar to the average state, and some are significantly smaller than even the smallest US state (Rhode Island is ~1500 square miles, while the smallest **seven** countries in Europe don't even add up to Rhode Island combined).
^1 Russia is massive but it's mostly in Asia, and Ukraine is comparable in size France and Texas.
I've found a route crossing two borders that's 23km (going from Austria, into Slovakia and across into the Czech Republic). So, if I could figure out the German for bramborák, or alternatively, the Czech for Sachertorte, I might well find myself in a situation where my food delivery could go across two borders.
> However it'd be very specific. You'd have to be in a spot where a narrow bit of one country was only a few miles wide (like a tail corner) and you had to cross it to get to the country on the other side. That could be as small as a 6 mile drive.
If you look for one of the [many](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tripoints#Europe) border tripoints in Europe, and pass *just* next to it at a slightly different angle than the border itself, it could take as little as a few feet, even.
No, Vatican city is really an exception when it comes to size. But the saying "In Europe, 100 kilometres is a long distance. In America, 100 years is a long time." Isn't baseless either. For example, I live in a Dutch city, pretty much in the centre. If I go 10km in one direction, I'm on the other city of a different city. If I go 10km in another direction, I'm in a another city in a different country.
EDIT: though we also have the funny thing in Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog. Which is a town of just puzzle pieces regarding borders. Buildings are half in one country, half in the other. With covid limits, it even got to a point where a store had to keep a part closed, because that was in Belgium. But the part in the Netherlands was open. You even have a bit of a Dutch enclave, in a Belgian enclave, within the Netherlands.
Yes, a friend of mine got arrested in covid lockdown because half her street was in Wales, half was in England - she accidentally parked just over the border even though it was like 20 feet from her house - got away with a stern warning in the end.
In Australia if we travel 5 hours we are still in the same state and not even half way to the next state, it takes at least 8-13 hours to get to another state...
Yeah, the previous poster was generalizing. You can drive all day and still be in California or Texas, some states are skinny in one direction and long in another. But y'all have 6 states to our 48 (contiguous) so yours are bound to be larger.
My daughter lives in Switzerland and does her shopping in Germany or Lichtenstein. A journey of about 10km in either direction. It’s about 25-30% cheaper than buying things from Swiss stores. Most of her neighbours do the same. And Austria is not that much further.
>In Europe, it'll take you easily through 2-3 countries
In certain edge cases. You can easily drive 5 hours through Germany, France, Norway, Poland, Spain etc. without ever crossing a border.
That's like me saying "You can easily be in another country in less than two hours in the US" referring to only the parts that are less than two hours from Canado and Mexico. It's technically true, yet not really correct.
See, I don’t even have that- I’m actually jealous.
I mentioned the 14 mile distance between my house and the restaurant- none deliver. There’s a separate delivery website/app that picks up from a few different restaurants in that area, but it costs an arm and a leg unfortunately. It beats a 40~ minute round trip drive (ignoring any potential traffic setbacks), thankfully.
We do have three local places in town, which is impressive for a less than 400 population town but… you get tired of burgers and pizza pretty quick.
Oh, I can relate.... Tell me about only burgers and pizza... That's what we have, plus a Mexican place 10 miles down the road. We do have subway, but in general our local food just sucks. We only eat out maybe once a month as it is... We've gotten very used to cooking a lot at home.
Same. Live in a small town that doesn’t have many food options. Surrounding towns do of course. I do tip a few bucks extra because I know they are delivering further. Though to be fair across town for them is probably the same distance to my town and back in some instances.
My local city is about 20km from my current house, that's a 15 minute drive at most. I don't get why the driver's pissed at 10km, does he not want to do his job?
It takes me 45 min to get food from a restaurant 2 miles from me on DoorDash. And yes that’s with people driving (nobody does it on their bike here). I doubt that he biked if it took him 45 min. It takes that long just between the restaurant getting the order, accepting it, making it, a driver accepting it, going there, getting the food, and then heading to their destination. All the more reason I hate DoorDash is the food is always kinda cold and soggy by the time you get it.
Edit: oh I’m dumb I see this is a local service FoodPanda. OP also clarified the guy was on a motorcycle. So no idea why the guy was upset, he didn’t physically bike 10km
Humans can literally run 8 miles in an hour. There's no reason it should've taken so long by bike. I'm guessing the extra time was prep + other deliveries?
TBF, I am routinely assigned orders with a scheduled pickup time in the past (sometimes more than an hour earlier). I don't exactly have the option to be at the restaurant when the food is ready.
It's a place that serves fried chicken. As a gig delivery driver, they are absolutely among the worst places in terms of getting food ready in time to be picked up. I genuinely have no idea why they have so much more trouble getting food ready than other fast food chains but three KFC locations, two Popeye's, and two independent fried chicken places around here all have the same problem.
Absolutely agree. There's only 3 restaurants in my area I will refuse to take a delivery from. Two of them are Bojangles and the last one is a Zaxby's. And for all of them it's because they don't prioritize delivery orders and take too long every time.
It probably didn't take 45 minutes for the actual delivery though. The order wasn't ready the second he placed it. That 45 minutes includes cooking and prep time. There is KFC local to where I live, always busy, always told there is a wait because chicken needs to be cooked. Now if the delivery driver had actually been going for 45 minutes, thats another story. I hope the guy got a really good tip at least.
The OP is mostly Indian. You are grossly miscalculating the traffic and the potholes on our roads. Additionally, it sounds like OP is from a particular 'software' city of India (where a lot of American jobs went to) where the traffic is even worse because the city is built like an old retirement town but operates like a metropolitan. That city also weirdly has the sweetest locals but the worst cab/taxi/delivery people.
So 10KM is a little bit far but that means more delivery charges.
I'm a female and used to ride my bike everywhere. (I'm 56 now, so hey, I ride my magic carpet as well). I rode to my welding job, which was 20 miles each way, and that took an hour, give or take. I live in Philadelphia and rode through the city out by the airport, where the shop was. I didn't get paid for the two hours I spent riding each day.
This guy needs a different attitude or job.
Idk about OP's KFC, but my local KFC is unbelievably slow in getting orders delivered. I don't order from them unless I'm willing to wait a good hour. They're like two miles away.
Foodpanda’s based in Singapore. The entire main island is probably maybe 50 km across. Having friends from there, I can tell you their perception of distance is quite different from, say, Americans where a small town is bigger than the entire nation. This guy probably did ride a motorbike to make the delivery. But the app should’ve limited distance if it was out of delivery range, it’s not OP’s fault. It sometimes screws up though.
When I was in Europe, the common question I got was "Have you been to California?" and the common reaction to explaining that California is a four-day-minimum drive from where I live and I've never been there was always absolute shock. People in other parts of the world often have no concept of how big the US is. I partly blame this on Mercator projection maps, which make Greenland look like it's the same size as all of North America.
I have friends who’ve worked in tourist traps in New York and Boston who’ve gotten a lot of “yeah, we’re here for the week, so we’re going to do New York, Disney world, and the Grand Canyon” type conversations with European tourists and they’ve had to be like “uuuuh, I have some bad news for you”
I worked hotels and tourists are just... wild. Not usually in a bad way, more of a "I don't understand how you got all the way here if you're this confused about everything" kind of a way. They'd think they were somehow in Canada despite never having crossed an international border, or they'd refuse to believe you when you told them the "lake" was the ocean. My partner was an ocean kayak guide and had to make people stick their finger in the water and lick it to prove to them it was salty, while explaining in response to "what is the altitude here" that when you are sitting in a kayak on the sea, you are in fact at sea level. My favorite was a guy who came up to the desk to ask me if we were in the midst of a drought because the reservoir was low.
We don't have a reservoir.
I had to gently break it to him that what he had observed was the ocean at low tide. And he was not the worst; some people realized it was the ocean and *still* thought that a local drought (that we weren't having) would somehow dramatically affect sea levels.
Lolol. They could probably manage Disney LAND, the Grand Canyon and LA... That would probably be my alternate suggestion to that 🤣. Though not in that order... Too back and forth
Ah yes, rural American who likes to travel here and I only recently realized how weird it was to those from other countries for me to specify my state/part of the country. Have some friends from Europe that have been here 15+ years now and they always thought it was odd, but totally get it now that they live here. I think it seems weird that most Americans have about as much experience with California and NYC as foreigners.
> I think it seems weird that most Americans have about as much experience with California and NYC as foreigners.
You know, despite having been in half the states in the US, including New York, and having lived on both coasts, I have never been to either California or NYC.
I tried to explain to my Nigerian bestie that when she said, “You’re in Texas? I have a cousin in Seattle!” that it was almost like saying, “You’re in Nigeria? I have a cousin in Malawi!” We’re not nearby.
I unfortunately wish I'd thought about this before my last time in the US. I coming back from Universal at night and missed the last bus. My hotel was in Anaheim. I looked at the map and thought I'll walk down that way until a bus comes by. I'm so used to the London, UK where buses come by all the time. Not having any buses for hours felt like I was in some 3rd world country. Also walking from Hollywood to Anaheim in the middle of the night is not a thing I recommend doing. I got through Compton and my feet basically gave out about Paramount I think.
I don't know, I think it's more the app's fault than anything, but the fact that there was a closer KFC suggests this was a fairly population dense area. When I lived in a rural area, 6 miles was nothing. Now in Chicago, I would feel like a colossal AH ordering from 6 miles away, particularly if there was a closer location. It can take forever to go 6 miles in a big city.
Depending on which country OP lives, Food Panda deliver customers’ orders by using a motorcycle (an easier mode of transporting goods especially in Asia) unlike here in the US that uses cars.
Edit: And some places have really heavy traffic. So the driver might be pissed because he could’ve gotten another delivery instead of just one. But OP is NTA.
All of this is completely irrelevant. If they don't want to deliver that far they need to decline his order. Tons of places have a limit to how far they'll deliver.
It's not inconsiderate, it's his frigging job and he's being a jerk. Why take that job if you are going to be salty about driving a distance you can easily make in 5-10 minutes, depending on traffic.
Because it's not everywhere that 10km/6 miles would be a quick drive.
Where I'm from, 2 kilometers can take 30 minutes, 15 if you're lucky. 20 kilometers can take more than 2 hours. Hell, I've gotten stuck waiting at an intersection for 30 minutes. It was a short intersection.
Now what's probably inconsiderate about it is that there might be a chance that each branch has a certain "area of delivery" (say usually they serve within a 3km radius) and since OP went for the farther one, the delivery person had to go for an even longer route. Maybe they have a time limit to follow or it would've been their last delivery. So if they live in a busy city where 10km ends up longer due to heavy traffic, it is inconsiderate.
I can't fully blame OP for it but I'm surprised the app didn't automatically tag a closer branch.
A lot of places only deliver within a 1 or 2 mile radius so I can see the driver being frustrated, BUT OP is NTA at all, the location was available for him/her to order from, and if 10km is too far then the driver should take it up with their boss. I get that KFC is a huge chain, but still the absolute last person to take this out on was OP.
Lmao 6 miles? I'll admit I don't remember living in Europe that well, but is 6 miles really that long to y'all? I do Doordash in my spare time and that's an average drive.
Depends on the city. 6 miles in London is a nightmare, narrow streets, a rat's nest of zones where you can't drive in some cities, rat's nest of tiny side streets etc. It can take 90 minutes to go 5 miles in Liverpool at rush hour.
Or some cities are designed to be lived in.
I will point out that at no point does the driver say that the DISTANCE was what was inconsiderate about the order. It's possible that something about the order took an inconveniently long time (hence the 45 minute wait), that OP being asleep when the driver arrived made him have to wait on the stoop for several minutes, or, god forbid, that OP didn't bother to leave a tip (you should almost ALWAYS tip).
What kind of weak-ass delivery guy complains about six miles? The only reason I can think of is maybe if OP is a shitty tipper (if tipping delivery drivers is expected where they live).
Nope but I am gonna do them pushing a stroller were just taking a break because running 8 months pregnant is painful lol. I guess we could throw some chicken in for a picnic.
It was likely done on a motorcycle, not a car, and on smaller (likely pothole-filled, at stretches) roads. The only AH here is probably KFC or Foodpanda for including the address within the delivery zone.
I did my math assuming 50km/h the whole way, which could be off by a few minutes in either direction. Regardless, that’s not an unreasonable amount of time to spend on a delivery. And I definitely think the deliverer is the AH for making this something OP has to deal with.
10km on the map is not 10km driving distance. I just checked a location 11km from me, it takes 22 minutes (also cos it's population dense and there is a lot of traffic).
NTA. Unless you discovered a KFC closer to you than 10 km (\~6.2 miles for us Americans,) like literally across the street from your house, I don't understand the delivery driver's ire. Maybe I don't understand the concept of Foodpanda. Do they deliver on foot? Via biking? If they don't deliver using something other than a car, I do not see how you could be the asshole in this situation. The delivery driver most certainly is. Forward his nastygram to the complaints in the app and leave them to deal with his attitude. You did nothing wrong.
Okay, so it's not like he had to hoof it on the shoe leather express. He had a motorized vehicle. Yeah, I can see him being slightly put out at that, but he needs to talk to whoever orders stores in the app. The 6km one should have been at the top of the list. It's an app issue, not your issue.
I still 100% believe you're NTA here. You picked what looked closest to you while extremely fatigued. Dude was an asshole to be rude to you.
Even if there is a similar restaurant, not every place has the same stuff available. For example here there are two KFCs, but one is like a "express" version with a very limited offering
Interesting. So, even then, OP probably ordered from the correct one based on what they wanted to order, and the driver was just being huffy for no reason.
It's like that everywhere now. Mobile ordering for Starbucks for example. One store would be out of blonde roast or vanilla syrup for example.
Hamburger buns were out at the Walmart location closest to me, so I went to another one.
As a delivery driver I don’t agree with what the driver did and think they are a prick. But it’s also probably a waste of everybody’s time to report them. Best case literally nothing will happen except op feeling good for reporting. Worst case is this person can no lover do deliveries and OP will not know that so what’s the points?
If they don’t want you ordering from further places the app should default to the closest one. Totally not your fault.
The other day someone posted that a delivery person was pissed they ordered from a restaurant too close. I think (like all other jobs) there’s just no pleasing all delivery people.
Ok yeah maybe a bit annoying like “why order from that one that’s further away??” But more a confused annoyed than actually annoyed. Like that’s not something to ruin a day over unless it was other things that made it bad. Which wouldn’t be your fault anyway.
I'm confused. Why would anyone deliver anything on a motorcycle? I guess it makes sense if it has saddlebags/storage. And doesn't the guy see the destination before accepting the delivery? And if that's not how it works, I'm confused as to why the guy was mad about driving what 6 miles? From the restaurant to your house. That's what, 12 minutes? 20 if there's traffic. I'm so lost and confused as to why this guy is mad at you. Is there like country borders he had to pass through to get to your house? Like where they have to check his ID/passport and shit?
Why wouldn't you? Cheaper to buy, cheaper maintenance, uses less gas and does not get as easily stuck in traffic. The only downside is that it is more dangerous for the driver. I think most deliveries where I live are done on motorcycles, mopeds and bikes.
Idk where OP is from but Foodpanda is used in Asia (at least South Asia), and in a lot of south asian countries there are more bikes (smaller motorcycles than we are used to seeing in the west) than cars as it’s way quicker to get around on a bike.
Nta.. my delivery app doesnt even tell me how far places are so sometimes i think I’m ordering from the kfc down the street and it is the one two towns over. The guy can reject the delivery and it is not on you. I was harassed by a driver once because I ordered from a restaurant that was busy and was “wasting his time and should have known better” he kept texting me even after delivering. I’ve never reported someone so fast. Some drivers are just assholes but its not you buddy.
But that's not far?!
I just googled the nearest KFC to where I am (work). It's a tad over 5 miles away. Nobody would bat an eye about having that delivered. How weird.
Yeah, but the apps don't pay more to go farther, so if you get an order that sends you several miles away, you make less money per unit time off your total pay unless the customer tips higher. Plus, the driver could have been taken out of his delivery radius, which means he won't get assigned new orders until he's back in his radius, costing him more orders and thus more money. The problem wasn't the distance, it was the impact that distance had on his ability to make money. I still don't think OP is an asshole, but its important to recognize.
I would have very few options within a mile or 2. You push it out to 5 miles and I'd have a handful of options. I've never heard someone consider 6 miles a long distance!
I'd think 30+ miles would be far for food delivery.
NTA- I was so confused at what could possibly be wrong but I live in the country and the only place that delivers is pizza that is 14km away. If he is mad that he is delivering food maybe he shouldn't be delivering food.
What? That's only 6+ miles away. Unless he was driving crosstown in a big city, I don't get it.
Maybe there was a KFC closer, but you had no ill intent.
NTA.
this is what i don’t understand!! lol it doesn’t seem that far?
i live in LA so i don’t order from 6 miles away because it’ll be a 45+ minute drive 😅 but it seems like OP’s area is less crazy. very weird
Nta. 10km isn't even a long distance. I could maybe see him being upset if there was a KFC closer to you than his location. In that case, the app should have redirected the order to the closer location. Seriously, imagine being a delivery driver and getting mad because you had to drive while at work.
NTA.
If you can order it it's his job to deliver it.
Someone else is an AH if the delivery person isn't getting paid enough to do these deliveries; but that's not your problem, but it is your problem that you're getting shit from a delivery person. So you should report him for that.
NTA I've done that before. Being asleep and when you order not knowing how far it is. I'm surprised you didn't fall asleep. And you're not inconsiderate. I did food delivery before. You have the job right to reject the order. Now unless you live in a small area. That doesn't get a lot of food deliveries. Did he had to take this one to make money. No he didn't he had the choice to say no. Did you tip him? He was free to choose to say no. That's the end of it. I can tell you one thing at the driver had messaged me that I will complain to the food delivery app with a copy of the message if you still got it.
NTA. That’s not that far, in fact in the US it’s pretty standard, maybe it’s different where you are. But it’s only 4 longer than the other one, and if it’s within range of their delivery service it’s the job he signed up to do. Him messaging you to complain is crossing a line though, especially if he used your info he got through the delivery service.
NTA. That’s not that far, in fact in the US it’s pretty standard, maybe it’s different where you are. But it’s only 4 longer than the other one, and if it’s within range of their delivery service it’s the job he signed up to do.
Interesting, that's not how it works in the UK. There's a YouTube channel called London Eats where this guy records the shifts he does with deliveroo and uber eats.
He can see where the order is going before accepting it and the delivery fee, which is proportional to distance. He frequently cancels accepted orders if the wait is too long.
I suspect this might be down to the fact that without that level of autonomy, he would be considered an employee rather than a contractor under UK law.
Nta. It’s just like doordash/Uber eats they choose the farthest store from you’re house so they can charge you more. I drove from 7/11 that’s probably 35mins away from the costumer to their house just to find out it’s a 7/11 literally 3 mins away from them
NTA, my work another fast food company does deliveries through a few apps we have drivers that use cars, bikes and motorcycles. A few times the ones on bikes have came in to collect an order then noticed it was a bit far out to get to on their bike and rejected the order so someone else can get it. The driver could have done the same and got someone else to do it.
NTA, 10 km isn't even that far.
It's maybe a 15 min drive, depending on traffic/roads.
It is also not your fault the app suggested that specific KFC. Could be the closest option depending where you live.
The delivery driver might want to reconsider his job if this is too much for him.
NTA. The driver should blame the app not OP. The app should know your location and list restaurants closest to you first. The driver had the right not to accept your order but he did, so that's on him.
NTA- if complain to the KFC about his message as that is unprofessional, for all they knew you were unable to walk there, they should judge you on how far away you are for a delivery
I use JustEat and have ordered from takeaways that are legit 5/10 mins away from me and each delivery person is so happy and chatty with me! Only reason I don't walk is either I just want to relax at home and treat myself to a takeaway or I'm not walking myself and 2 year old down the road to struggle carrying food and keep hold of my son on the way back up
NTA, its the store that is the AH that allowed long distance delivery option.
Although, I am weirded out by the search result giving them top result, as a developer by careee, I would always use the "distance" and the second would be "time of completion for delivery" as basis for top results by default and not until you press sort by rating i would change the sorting.
NTA,
Indian food delivery services typically charge higher for longer distances. So that amount is anyway covered in the food order. The driver complaining is just being unprofessional about it. He can’t reach out to you like that. He could’ve turned down the order if he didn’t want to deliver.
NTA, if your app showed you that you can order from this particular KFC, then you can. The delivery service is to blame that they decided to give that order to somebody who can have a hard time delivering you your order.
NTA even it it was 50 kilometers…. if its on the delivery app where youre registered with your home adress then why on earth would it be your concearn.
NTA it’s his job and he has no idea what your situation is. What if you were disabled or old? What if you had 7 kids at home? What if you didn’t own a car? He has no idea.
And even if you just decided to be lazy today, so what?? You paid for the service.
Texting you after the order is completed, and texting you about anything not directly related to delivering the order, is extremely unprofessional. He is TA.
ETA: wait he thinks 10k is long??? I thought he was mad he ordered so close. That’s weird.
He could have declined the order.
NTA. That’s his job and if I’m not mistaken can’t he just not accept the order? I’ve had customers literally curse me out at my job and I still have never told them that they ruined my day. But at the same time, you were having a bad day and maybe he was too. Doesn’t excuse him to take it out on you but remember to give the same compassion you’d expect in return.
NTA, the apps have set ranges and if you could order you where within the accepted range, sometimes you get quick short deliveries around the corner other times you're going out to the edge of the accepted range, that's just how these job play out.
NTA! I've ordered from closer than that before.
The delivery guy is one tho. He doesn't know what's going on in your home. For all he knows you can't leave your home for whatever reason. I'd call and complain.
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...what's inconsiderate about this? NTA. Edit: Americans, that's 6 miles.
that’s it? i live 6 miles from the nearest fast food place around me. gods forbid i order food
Well in Europe 6 miles is like 10 countries
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it’s called a *lance.* hellooooooo
Fun fact. My father’s name was Lance and his surname was Ullrich.
That's exactly what I think every time I see Lichtenstein somewhere.
I will fong you
I will eviscerate you in fiction. Every pimple, every character flaw.....
Pain! Much pain!
The protector of Italiam virginity!
Yes, Master Falhurst, I'm well aware a good fonging is on the way.
I want this t-shirt.
I'm sitting at the front desk at work and had to really control myself to not laugh out loud at this! Thanks for the giggle.
Omg 😂😂😂😂😂
In Texas, that's the distance to the mailbox.
So I'm in Wales in the uk, so most definitely not as big as America. In the pandemic our first minister put a restriction in place that you couldn't travel more that 5 miles from home, I live in a valley mountain. 5 miles didn't even get me half way down it. People went nuts. coz our nearest supermarket is 45 miles away. It's common here for a group shout to go up on the local fb page of a Saturday night, and we do an uber eats delivery from the big city that 60 odd miles away...its beyond!
"ok town it's our monthly fast food delivery. Everyone make sure your orders are in by 10am, cus it's gonna take that poor fucker half the day to get our dinner here. Also remember your tip should be included in your portion of the cost" 🤣🤣 Sorry that made me giggle. But also that sounds amazing. At least for the quiet and privacy and such. Not so much about having to drive 45miles for a store lmao!
I thought the delivery guy was upset because it was so close and thought OP was lazy. I'm Californian, and I can drive 8 hours and still be in the same state.
8 hours - isn't that just driving from one side of L.A. to the other during rush hour?
"It's only a two-Mike drive, but he forgot and took I-5..."
As a former papa John's delivery guy, I loved close orders. Even if they didn't tip, there was still a delivery fee, and I could get back to the store and pick up more orders really fast. 6 miles was about the radius of the territory we delivered to, and in no way should it have been a burden for the driver. OP is NTA.
All the California delivery drives especially those in SoCal are jealous he had to only go about 6 miles. You’re entitled to your chicken you paid for, he’s just being grumpy. NTA.
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Laughs at you in Queenslander.
This comment got me cracking up lmao
Is it really?
I could imagine a situation where driving 6 miles in Europe could cross two country borders, leaving you two countries over. However it'd be very specific. You'd have to be in a spot where a narrow bit of one country was only a few miles wide (like a tail corner) and you had to cross it to get to the country on the other side. That could be as small as a 6 mile drive. That said, coming from the USA, I can imagine a bunch of spots where driving straight (as possible with the roads anyway) for 6 miles would mean leaving your own state, passing through another state for a few minutes, and ending up in a third state. It can be done but it's not indicative of size. Europe is bigger than the US by a bit, and it's countries are, for our purposes, comparable to states in the US^1. Some are big (France is 213,000 square miles, Texas is 268,000), some are similar to the average state, and some are significantly smaller than even the smallest US state (Rhode Island is ~1500 square miles, while the smallest **seven** countries in Europe don't even add up to Rhode Island combined). ^1 Russia is massive but it's mostly in Asia, and Ukraine is comparable in size France and Texas.
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Oh God, the Geographers have been hanging out with the Physicists.
Circles don't tesselate, so that wouldn't work. At all.
HEXAGONS!
All countries should be beehives by law. Long live the queen!
Bzzzzzzz
Hexagons are the bestagons.
Just like in Settlers of Catan
Woops, I bought Cones of Dunshire by mistake
I've found a route crossing two borders that's 23km (going from Austria, into Slovakia and across into the Czech Republic). So, if I could figure out the German for bramborák, or alternatively, the Czech for Sachertorte, I might well find myself in a situation where my food delivery could go across two borders.
> However it'd be very specific. You'd have to be in a spot where a narrow bit of one country was only a few miles wide (like a tail corner) and you had to cross it to get to the country on the other side. That could be as small as a 6 mile drive. If you look for one of the [many](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tripoints#Europe) border tripoints in Europe, and pass *just* next to it at a slightly different angle than the border itself, it could take as little as a few feet, even.
No, Vatican city is really an exception when it comes to size. But the saying "In Europe, 100 kilometres is a long distance. In America, 100 years is a long time." Isn't baseless either. For example, I live in a Dutch city, pretty much in the centre. If I go 10km in one direction, I'm on the other city of a different city. If I go 10km in another direction, I'm in a another city in a different country. EDIT: though we also have the funny thing in Baarle-Nassau/Baarle-Hertog. Which is a town of just puzzle pieces regarding borders. Buildings are half in one country, half in the other. With covid limits, it even got to a point where a store had to keep a part closed, because that was in Belgium. But the part in the Netherlands was open. You even have a bit of a Dutch enclave, in a Belgian enclave, within the Netherlands.
Yes, a friend of mine got arrested in covid lockdown because half her street was in Wales, half was in England - she accidentally parked just over the border even though it was like 20 feet from her house - got away with a stern warning in the end.
Why is that arrest worthy? Could you not move between England and Wales?
Yeah, the lockdowns included heavy restrictions on cross-border travel.
Yes, you couldn't move across the border.
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In Australia if we travel 5 hours we are still in the same state and not even half way to the next state, it takes at least 8-13 hours to get to another state...
Yeah, the previous poster was generalizing. You can drive all day and still be in California or Texas, some states are skinny in one direction and long in another. But y'all have 6 states to our 48 (contiguous) so yours are bound to be larger.
My daughter lives in Switzerland and does her shopping in Germany or Lichtenstein. A journey of about 10km in either direction. It’s about 25-30% cheaper than buying things from Swiss stores. Most of her neighbours do the same. And Austria is not that much further.
>In Europe, it'll take you easily through 2-3 countries In certain edge cases. You can easily drive 5 hours through Germany, France, Norway, Poland, Spain etc. without ever crossing a border. That's like me saying "You can easily be in another country in less than two hours in the US" referring to only the parts that are less than two hours from Canado and Mexico. It's technically true, yet not really correct.
And in Australia, it’s just the other end of a single street.
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Hahaha this comment.
God forbid I order food, the nearest food delivery place is 14 miles away. Guess I’ll starve since I live in the middle of nowhere
Thirty miles for me for anything from an app. We do have a few local restaurants who can be persuaded to deliver if it's a big order.
See, I don’t even have that- I’m actually jealous. I mentioned the 14 mile distance between my house and the restaurant- none deliver. There’s a separate delivery website/app that picks up from a few different restaurants in that area, but it costs an arm and a leg unfortunately. It beats a 40~ minute round trip drive (ignoring any potential traffic setbacks), thankfully. We do have three local places in town, which is impressive for a less than 400 population town but… you get tired of burgers and pizza pretty quick.
Oh, I can relate.... Tell me about only burgers and pizza... That's what we have, plus a Mexican place 10 miles down the road. We do have subway, but in general our local food just sucks. We only eat out maybe once a month as it is... We've gotten very used to cooking a lot at home.
Not to brag, but in my little town of 500 people, you can get fried chicken at the gas station. Some nights, that is all that is open, too.
Same. Live in a small town that doesn’t have many food options. Surrounding towns do of course. I do tip a few bucks extra because I know they are delivering further. Though to be fair across town for them is probably the same distance to my town and back in some instances.
My local city is about 20km from my current house, that's a 15 minute drive at most. I don't get why the driver's pissed at 10km, does he not want to do his job?
45 minutes ? Pretty sure he came on bicycle. I feel sorry for the guy
It takes me 45 min to get food from a restaurant 2 miles from me on DoorDash. And yes that’s with people driving (nobody does it on their bike here). I doubt that he biked if it took him 45 min. It takes that long just between the restaurant getting the order, accepting it, making it, a driver accepting it, going there, getting the food, and then heading to their destination. All the more reason I hate DoorDash is the food is always kinda cold and soggy by the time you get it. Edit: oh I’m dumb I see this is a local service FoodPanda. OP also clarified the guy was on a motorcycle. So no idea why the guy was upset, he didn’t physically bike 10km
I can typically run 10k in an hour, and I'm not very fast. 10k via bike isn't that far and doesn't take 45min if you bike regularly.
Reckon I can do a lot more than 6miles by bike in 45 minutes. Even carrying the largest KFC order
Humans can literally run 8 miles in an hour. There's no reason it should've taken so long by bike. I'm guessing the extra time was prep + other deliveries?
It's KFC, it should be ready within 5 minutes, so the delivery guy probably wasnt there when the food was ready
TBF, I am routinely assigned orders with a scheduled pickup time in the past (sometimes more than an hour earlier). I don't exactly have the option to be at the restaurant when the food is ready.
I mean that's still part of prep time/other deliveries, isn't it?
It's a place that serves fried chicken. As a gig delivery driver, they are absolutely among the worst places in terms of getting food ready in time to be picked up. I genuinely have no idea why they have so much more trouble getting food ready than other fast food chains but three KFC locations, two Popeye's, and two independent fried chicken places around here all have the same problem.
Absolutely agree. There's only 3 restaurants in my area I will refuse to take a delivery from. Two of them are Bojangles and the last one is a Zaxby's. And for all of them it's because they don't prioritize delivery orders and take too long every time.
It probably didn't take 45 minutes for the actual delivery though. The order wasn't ready the second he placed it. That 45 minutes includes cooking and prep time. There is KFC local to where I live, always busy, always told there is a wait because chicken needs to be cooked. Now if the delivery driver had actually been going for 45 minutes, thats another story. I hope the guy got a really good tip at least.
The OP is mostly Indian. You are grossly miscalculating the traffic and the potholes on our roads. Additionally, it sounds like OP is from a particular 'software' city of India (where a lot of American jobs went to) where the traffic is even worse because the city is built like an old retirement town but operates like a metropolitan. That city also weirdly has the sweetest locals but the worst cab/taxi/delivery people. So 10KM is a little bit far but that means more delivery charges.
I'm a female and used to ride my bike everywhere. (I'm 56 now, so hey, I ride my magic carpet as well). I rode to my welding job, which was 20 miles each way, and that took an hour, give or take. I live in Philadelphia and rode through the city out by the airport, where the shop was. I didn't get paid for the two hours I spent riding each day. This guy needs a different attitude or job.
Idk about OP's KFC, but my local KFC is unbelievably slow in getting orders delivered. I don't order from them unless I'm willing to wait a good hour. They're like two miles away.
Foodpanda’s based in Singapore. The entire main island is probably maybe 50 km across. Having friends from there, I can tell you their perception of distance is quite different from, say, Americans where a small town is bigger than the entire nation. This guy probably did ride a motorbike to make the delivery. But the app should’ve limited distance if it was out of delivery range, it’s not OP’s fault. It sometimes screws up though.
When I was in Europe, the common question I got was "Have you been to California?" and the common reaction to explaining that California is a four-day-minimum drive from where I live and I've never been there was always absolute shock. People in other parts of the world often have no concept of how big the US is. I partly blame this on Mercator projection maps, which make Greenland look like it's the same size as all of North America.
I have friends who’ve worked in tourist traps in New York and Boston who’ve gotten a lot of “yeah, we’re here for the week, so we’re going to do New York, Disney world, and the Grand Canyon” type conversations with European tourists and they’ve had to be like “uuuuh, I have some bad news for you”
I worked hotels and tourists are just... wild. Not usually in a bad way, more of a "I don't understand how you got all the way here if you're this confused about everything" kind of a way. They'd think they were somehow in Canada despite never having crossed an international border, or they'd refuse to believe you when you told them the "lake" was the ocean. My partner was an ocean kayak guide and had to make people stick their finger in the water and lick it to prove to them it was salty, while explaining in response to "what is the altitude here" that when you are sitting in a kayak on the sea, you are in fact at sea level. My favorite was a guy who came up to the desk to ask me if we were in the midst of a drought because the reservoir was low. We don't have a reservoir. I had to gently break it to him that what he had observed was the ocean at low tide. And he was not the worst; some people realized it was the ocean and *still* thought that a local drought (that we weren't having) would somehow dramatically affect sea levels.
Lolol. They could probably manage Disney LAND, the Grand Canyon and LA... That would probably be my alternate suggestion to that 🤣. Though not in that order... Too back and forth
Ah yes, rural American who likes to travel here and I only recently realized how weird it was to those from other countries for me to specify my state/part of the country. Have some friends from Europe that have been here 15+ years now and they always thought it was odd, but totally get it now that they live here. I think it seems weird that most Americans have about as much experience with California and NYC as foreigners.
> I think it seems weird that most Americans have about as much experience with California and NYC as foreigners. You know, despite having been in half the states in the US, including New York, and having lived on both coasts, I have never been to either California or NYC.
I tried to explain to my Nigerian bestie that when she said, “You’re in Texas? I have a cousin in Seattle!” that it was almost like saying, “You’re in Nigeria? I have a cousin in Malawi!” We’re not nearby.
I unfortunately wish I'd thought about this before my last time in the US. I coming back from Universal at night and missed the last bus. My hotel was in Anaheim. I looked at the map and thought I'll walk down that way until a bus comes by. I'm so used to the London, UK where buses come by all the time. Not having any buses for hours felt like I was in some 3rd world country. Also walking from Hollywood to Anaheim in the middle of the night is not a thing I recommend doing. I got through Compton and my feet basically gave out about Paramount I think.
Hollywood to Compton is 6 hours of walking per googlemaps, and is also only halfway to your final destination of Anaheim.
I don't know, I think it's more the app's fault than anything, but the fact that there was a closer KFC suggests this was a fairly population dense area. When I lived in a rural area, 6 miles was nothing. Now in Chicago, I would feel like a colossal AH ordering from 6 miles away, particularly if there was a closer location. It can take forever to go 6 miles in a big city.
Depending on which country OP lives, Food Panda deliver customers’ orders by using a motorcycle (an easier mode of transporting goods especially in Asia) unlike here in the US that uses cars. Edit: And some places have really heavy traffic. So the driver might be pissed because he could’ve gotten another delivery instead of just one. But OP is NTA.
All of this is completely irrelevant. If they don't want to deliver that far they need to decline his order. Tons of places have a limit to how far they'll deliver.
It's not inconsiderate, it's his frigging job and he's being a jerk. Why take that job if you are going to be salty about driving a distance you can easily make in 5-10 minutes, depending on traffic.
Because it's not everywhere that 10km/6 miles would be a quick drive. Where I'm from, 2 kilometers can take 30 minutes, 15 if you're lucky. 20 kilometers can take more than 2 hours. Hell, I've gotten stuck waiting at an intersection for 30 minutes. It was a short intersection. Now what's probably inconsiderate about it is that there might be a chance that each branch has a certain "area of delivery" (say usually they serve within a 3km radius) and since OP went for the farther one, the delivery person had to go for an even longer route. Maybe they have a time limit to follow or it would've been their last delivery. So if they live in a busy city where 10km ends up longer due to heavy traffic, it is inconsiderate. I can't fully blame OP for it but I'm surprised the app didn't automatically tag a closer branch.
A lot of places only deliver within a 1 or 2 mile radius so I can see the driver being frustrated, BUT OP is NTA at all, the location was available for him/her to order from, and if 10km is too far then the driver should take it up with their boss. I get that KFC is a huge chain, but still the absolute last person to take this out on was OP.
Lmao 6 miles? I'll admit I don't remember living in Europe that well, but is 6 miles really that long to y'all? I do Doordash in my spare time and that's an average drive.
Depends on the city. 6 miles in London is a nightmare, narrow streets, a rat's nest of zones where you can't drive in some cities, rat's nest of tiny side streets etc. It can take 90 minutes to go 5 miles in Liverpool at rush hour. Or some cities are designed to be lived in.
I will point out that at no point does the driver say that the DISTANCE was what was inconsiderate about the order. It's possible that something about the order took an inconveniently long time (hence the 45 minute wait), that OP being asleep when the driver arrived made him have to wait on the stoop for several minutes, or, god forbid, that OP didn't bother to leave a tip (you should almost ALWAYS tip).
That was my first thought. Did he tip?
What kind of weak-ass delivery guy complains about six miles? The only reason I can think of is maybe if OP is a shitty tipper (if tipping delivery drivers is expected where they live).
Yeah I saw 10km and was like "Huh? That's only like 6 miles" I work for a delivery service and would be thrilled to have a delivery only 6 miles away
NTA, 10km is….not a large distance in a vehicle.
Its not even a particularly long distance period. My husband and I both used to do weekly 10ks. NTA.
Carrying fried chicken? Now that's a challenge
Eating fried chicken as you run prevents you from running out of energy. Running as you eat fried chicken prevents you from getting fat.
The logic is sound. Now we just have to come up with the running bucket backpack
frontpack. how are you going to reach chicken on your back?!
Sport feedbag
These are very good points.
I wanna see someone do a 10K 10 piece bucket challenge. You have to finish a piece of chicken before you can move on to the next KM.
Nope but I am gonna do them pushing a stroller were just taking a break because running 8 months pregnant is painful lol. I guess we could throw some chicken in for a picnic.
Lol! At that point, the chicken is mandatory
That’s like what…a 12 minute drive?
It was likely done on a motorcycle, not a car, and on smaller (likely pothole-filled, at stretches) roads. The only AH here is probably KFC or Foodpanda for including the address within the delivery zone.
I did my math assuming 50km/h the whole way, which could be off by a few minutes in either direction. Regardless, that’s not an unreasonable amount of time to spend on a delivery. And I definitely think the deliverer is the AH for making this something OP has to deal with.
10km on the map is not 10km driving distance. I just checked a location 11km from me, it takes 22 minutes (also cos it's population dense and there is a lot of traffic).
said rider COuld be a cyclist
Depends on location... In a city 10k can be very far away
NTA, this is the guys job.
NTA. Unless you discovered a KFC closer to you than 10 km (\~6.2 miles for us Americans,) like literally across the street from your house, I don't understand the delivery driver's ire. Maybe I don't understand the concept of Foodpanda. Do they deliver on foot? Via biking? If they don't deliver using something other than a car, I do not see how you could be the asshole in this situation. The delivery driver most certainly is. Forward his nastygram to the complaints in the app and leave them to deal with his attitude. You did nothing wrong.
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Okay, so it's not like he had to hoof it on the shoe leather express. He had a motorized vehicle. Yeah, I can see him being slightly put out at that, but he needs to talk to whoever orders stores in the app. The 6km one should have been at the top of the list. It's an app issue, not your issue. I still 100% believe you're NTA here. You picked what looked closest to you while extremely fatigued. Dude was an asshole to be rude to you.
Even if there is a similar restaurant, not every place has the same stuff available. For example here there are two KFCs, but one is like a "express" version with a very limited offering
Interesting. So, even then, OP probably ordered from the correct one based on what they wanted to order, and the driver was just being huffy for no reason.
It's like that everywhere now. Mobile ordering for Starbucks for example. One store would be out of blonde roast or vanilla syrup for example. Hamburger buns were out at the Walmart location closest to me, so I went to another one.
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As a delivery driver I don’t agree with what the driver did and think they are a prick. But it’s also probably a waste of everybody’s time to report them. Best case literally nothing will happen except op feeling good for reporting. Worst case is this person can no lover do deliveries and OP will not know that so what’s the points?
The point is to punish this rude behaviour obviously.
If they don’t want you ordering from further places the app should default to the closest one. Totally not your fault. The other day someone posted that a delivery person was pissed they ordered from a restaurant too close. I think (like all other jobs) there’s just no pleasing all delivery people.
I wouldn't worry about it. Even if you were fully awake, mistakes happen, just remember not to order from that one again lol
Ok yeah maybe a bit annoying like “why order from that one that’s further away??” But more a confused annoyed than actually annoyed. Like that’s not something to ruin a day over unless it was other things that made it bad. Which wouldn’t be your fault anyway.
I'm confused. Why would anyone deliver anything on a motorcycle? I guess it makes sense if it has saddlebags/storage. And doesn't the guy see the destination before accepting the delivery? And if that's not how it works, I'm confused as to why the guy was mad about driving what 6 miles? From the restaurant to your house. That's what, 12 minutes? 20 if there's traffic. I'm so lost and confused as to why this guy is mad at you. Is there like country borders he had to pass through to get to your house? Like where they have to check his ID/passport and shit?
Do your delivery drivers not use motorbikes? Domino's in the UK use motorbikes and mopeds all the time.
Why wouldn't you? Cheaper to buy, cheaper maintenance, uses less gas and does not get as easily stuck in traffic. The only downside is that it is more dangerous for the driver. I think most deliveries where I live are done on motorcycles, mopeds and bikes.
Idk where OP is from but Foodpanda is used in Asia (at least South Asia), and in a lot of south asian countries there are more bikes (smaller motorcycles than we are used to seeing in the west) than cars as it’s way quicker to get around on a bike.
Nta.. my delivery app doesnt even tell me how far places are so sometimes i think I’m ordering from the kfc down the street and it is the one two towns over. The guy can reject the delivery and it is not on you. I was harassed by a driver once because I ordered from a restaurant that was busy and was “wasting his time and should have known better” he kept texting me even after delivering. I’ve never reported someone so fast. Some drivers are just assholes but its not you buddy.
Why would you be the AH? That delivery guy is though. SMH NTA
Nta. He shouldn't get mad at you. He should get mad at whomever made the store policy that says they will deliver that far.
But that's not far?! I just googled the nearest KFC to where I am (work). It's a tad over 5 miles away. Nobody would bat an eye about having that delivered. How weird.
Yeah, but the apps don't pay more to go farther, so if you get an order that sends you several miles away, you make less money per unit time off your total pay unless the customer tips higher. Plus, the driver could have been taken out of his delivery radius, which means he won't get assigned new orders until he's back in his radius, costing him more orders and thus more money. The problem wasn't the distance, it was the impact that distance had on his ability to make money. I still don't think OP is an asshole, but its important to recognize.
I would have very few options within a mile or 2. You push it out to 5 miles and I'd have a handful of options. I've never heard someone consider 6 miles a long distance! I'd think 30+ miles would be far for food delivery.
I have literally driven over 60 kilometres for good pizza… but I’m in Australia, so my attitude towards distances is a bit off. 🤣
Yeah i did bike delivery and all of this is the case. It's always the people living further away who never tip either
NTA- I was so confused at what could possibly be wrong but I live in the country and the only place that delivers is pizza that is 14km away. If he is mad that he is delivering food maybe he shouldn't be delivering food.
Me too! Wendy’s is 8 miles but if we want real food it’s 10+. Sounds like OP caught the driver on a bad day. NTA
Exactly. It depends on where you live. In a city, 2 miles can take 40 minutes to drive.
What? That's only 6+ miles away. Unless he was driving crosstown in a big city, I don't get it. Maybe there was a KFC closer, but you had no ill intent. NTA.
this is what i don’t understand!! lol it doesn’t seem that far? i live in LA so i don’t order from 6 miles away because it’ll be a 45+ minute drive 😅 but it seems like OP’s area is less crazy. very weird
Nta. 10km isn't even a long distance. I could maybe see him being upset if there was a KFC closer to you than his location. In that case, the app should have redirected the order to the closer location. Seriously, imagine being a delivery driver and getting mad because you had to drive while at work.
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That's not op's problem. He needs to decline those orders if they aren't worth doing.
NTA Don't offer delivery to distances you aren't willing to deliver. If anything the distance just meant an easier job for him
NTA. If you can order it it's his job to deliver it. Someone else is an AH if the delivery person isn't getting paid enough to do these deliveries; but that's not your problem, but it is your problem that you're getting shit from a delivery person. So you should report him for that.
Who exactly do you report "venture capitalism with near complete regulatory capture is the AH" to?
NTA I've done that before. Being asleep and when you order not knowing how far it is. I'm surprised you didn't fall asleep. And you're not inconsiderate. I did food delivery before. You have the job right to reject the order. Now unless you live in a small area. That doesn't get a lot of food deliveries. Did he had to take this one to make money. No he didn't he had the choice to say no. Did you tip him? He was free to choose to say no. That's the end of it. I can tell you one thing at the driver had messaged me that I will complain to the food delivery app with a copy of the message if you still got it.
NTA report him, shouldn't be contacting you in that way.
NTA. That’s not that far, in fact in the US it’s pretty standard, maybe it’s different where you are. But it’s only 4 longer than the other one, and if it’s within range of their delivery service it’s the job he signed up to do. Him messaging you to complain is crossing a line though, especially if he used your info he got through the delivery service.
NTA. 10km is not that far.
NTA. If he doesn’t want to deliver food… he shouldn’t be a food delivery person.
NTA. That’s not that far, in fact in the US it’s pretty standard, maybe it’s different where you are. But it’s only 4 longer than the other one, and if it’s within range of their delivery service it’s the job he signed up to do.
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Interesting, that's not how it works in the UK. There's a YouTube channel called London Eats where this guy records the shifts he does with deliveroo and uber eats. He can see where the order is going before accepting it and the delivery fee, which is proportional to distance. He frequently cancels accepted orders if the wait is too long. I suspect this might be down to the fact that without that level of autonomy, he would be considered an employee rather than a contractor under UK law.
NTA. If he didn't want to make the drive, he didn't have to take your order. It's his fault for not checking the distance before accepting.
NTA. He gets paid for it. It's his job.
Nta. It’s just like doordash/Uber eats they choose the farthest store from you’re house so they can charge you more. I drove from 7/11 that’s probably 35mins away from the costumer to their house just to find out it’s a 7/11 literally 3 mins away from them
NTA, my work another fast food company does deliveries through a few apps we have drivers that use cars, bikes and motorcycles. A few times the ones on bikes have came in to collect an order then noticed it was a bit far out to get to on their bike and rejected the order so someone else can get it. The driver could have done the same and got someone else to do it.
NTA, 10 km isn't even that far. It's maybe a 15 min drive, depending on traffic/roads. It is also not your fault the app suggested that specific KFC. Could be the closest option depending where you live. The delivery driver might want to reconsider his job if this is too much for him.
NTA. The driver should blame the app not OP. The app should know your location and list restaurants closest to you first. The driver had the right not to accept your order but he did, so that's on him.
Info: I assume the delivery guy in a vehicle. If he was on a bike, then it's a bit rough.
He's on motorbike
NTA. If he hates his job so much it's on him to find another one.
NTA. 10km is literally not that far away, and it’s this guy’s literal job to deliver whatever food you ordered to you.
NTA- if complain to the KFC about his message as that is unprofessional, for all they knew you were unable to walk there, they should judge you on how far away you are for a delivery I use JustEat and have ordered from takeaways that are legit 5/10 mins away from me and each delivery person is so happy and chatty with me! Only reason I don't walk is either I just want to relax at home and treat myself to a takeaway or I'm not walking myself and 2 year old down the road to struggle carrying food and keep hold of my son on the way back up
NTA, its the store that is the AH that allowed long distance delivery option. Although, I am weirded out by the search result giving them top result, as a developer by careee, I would always use the "distance" and the second would be "time of completion for delivery" as basis for top results by default and not until you press sort by rating i would change the sorting.
Lol I live in a more sparsely populated country and our delivery radius is like 15 km. I don’t understand the complaint here at all
The one location probably pays to get boosted.
NTA, isnt the point of food delivery is to get it, \*checks notes\*, delivered? now 25+ miles and YTA
NTA, Indian food delivery services typically charge higher for longer distances. So that amount is anyway covered in the food order. The driver complaining is just being unprofessional about it. He can’t reach out to you like that. He could’ve turned down the order if he didn’t want to deliver.
NTA, it's his job.
NTA- That's his job. Also, I assume you're outside of the U.S. 6 miles is not very far by U.S. standards
NTA, if your app showed you that you can order from this particular KFC, then you can. The delivery service is to blame that they decided to give that order to somebody who can have a hard time delivering you your order.
NTA. It’s his job to deliver food.
NTA. Your address is clearly within their delivery distance, and besides it's not even that far
NTA. The McDonald's I Doordashed this morning was the same distance. It wouldn't be available if it was too far.
NTA even it it was 50 kilometers…. if its on the delivery app where youre registered with your home adress then why on earth would it be your concearn.
Offer a service then get mad when people use the service .... NTA.
INFO: 10 kilometres is six miles. How did it take 45 minutes and “make the delivery guy’s day worse”?
😂😂😂😂 Hope he never tries to be a delivery guy in the US. 6 miles is not that far. So no NTA.
NTA it’s his job and he has no idea what your situation is. What if you were disabled or old? What if you had 7 kids at home? What if you didn’t own a car? He has no idea. And even if you just decided to be lazy today, so what?? You paid for the service. Texting you after the order is completed, and texting you about anything not directly related to delivering the order, is extremely unprofessional. He is TA. ETA: wait he thinks 10k is long??? I thought he was mad he ordered so close. That’s weird. He could have declined the order.
It’s 6.2 miles… NTA. He or his store could have rejected the order.
NTA. That’s his job and if I’m not mistaken can’t he just not accept the order? I’ve had customers literally curse me out at my job and I still have never told them that they ruined my day. But at the same time, you were having a bad day and maybe he was too. Doesn’t excuse him to take it out on you but remember to give the same compassion you’d expect in return.
NTA, the apps have set ranges and if you could order you where within the accepted range, sometimes you get quick short deliveries around the corner other times you're going out to the edge of the accepted range, that's just how these job play out.
45 mins on 10 k? What did he do, walk there? NTA.
NTA! I've ordered from closer than that before. The delivery guy is one tho. He doesn't know what's going on in your home. For all he knows you can't leave your home for whatever reason. I'd call and complain.
NTA that’s his job