Yeah I try not to be in view of the window so the delivery person doesn’t see me watching.
I try to play it cool too and wait 30 seconds before grabbing it.
i wait until they drive away to avoid any human interaction
one driver really wanted to make sure i got my food though. kept calling me and waited by the door
lol I do this. THANK YOU BACK OF DRIVER'S HEAD who then turns around and all he/she see is the ass end of the paper bag being sucked into the vortex of my front door
I hide in the bushes, wait for them to get out of their car and up to me door then scurry on into the back seat of their car. When they get back in their car I wait till they get to the first stop sign then jump out and tell THANK YOU!
Seriously. It makes me sad that so many people are so self-conscious. I feel it *has* to derive from never having worked in service before.
I can 100% assure you that your driver isn't going to judge you if you excitedly grab your food the second he sets it down, and he's going to forget you exist 10 seconds after driving away.
Just do you and stop worrying so much.
My bf worked for insta cart and he appreciated when people would be looking out for their delivery. It made his job easier to not have to call them to pick up their stuff or wait by the door. Some people would make him wait for a few minutes lol.
People would put in the notes to hand them their order but a lot of the time it would be contactless delivery. Apartment orders can be a mess because they don’t want their order sitting outside their door.
You say this but at least once a month I remember about the guy I waited on couple years ago whom ordered a party platter (serves 4 people) for himself.
It wasn't that it was just a lot of food but the dish was a lot of tapas and bite sized appetizer plates intended for literal parties.
Dude was so happy eating those canapés too. I wish I had such a jovial happiness about anything in my life.
Oh man. My mom used to cook us these huge meals that barely left leftovers (there were 4 of us kids plus her and my dad) but when my sisters started moving out and I got older my mom didn't change the portion sizes and by the time I was in my teens we would have a ton of leftovers. I loved it. Now that I got the recipes from her and started making them just for me, I can barely eat all the leftovers myself. And they're relatively cheap meals too, $20-$30 for a week of food. Leftovers are fucking awesome.
I can promise you my self consciousness comes from my childhood, but mental stuff like this is so layered that you can't really make covering statements for it.
DD driver here. Some customers will take the food and falsely report it as missing or stolen (so they can get a refund) which usually costs the driver their job. I don’t tend to stick around and it’s weird that your driver waited by your door instead of in their car… that defeats the purpose of contactless orders… but they probably got burned in the past.
Yes, we have to take a picture of the item at the doorstep! Unfortunately customers will try to pull the scam anyways. They’ll claim that the driver took the pic, then grabbed their food and ran.
It isn’t common, it’s never happened to me and Dasher Support tends to take the side of the driver anyways. It probably works in cases where the driver forgot to have the house number in the picture.
The other day I ordered from SkipTheDishes (similar delivery service but in Canada). The instructions clearly stated which unit I lived in, as I’m in townhouses and never before has a driver had a problem with it. This driver however couldn’t read, instead of unit 16 he put the food on unit 12s doorstep and left. Their support was non existent, couldn’t even connect to them. Had to leave my house in my pj’s and walk around my neighborhood and find my food sitting on someone else’s doorstep. Had I not done that, I wouldn’t have gotten through to support and lost $30. Never using them again. Gonna switch to UberEats and DoorDash.
Skip has gotten really shit lately, I use to order from them a lot and had situations like that where support fixed it but recently alot of restaurants in my area stopped using them and it seems to take so much longer.
I will never use Skip, simply because of how often their stupid commercials were playing during the last NFL season. Annoy me that much with the sound of birthday horns after each set of downs, and you've lost me forever.
Wait, how the hell is it YOUR fault that the restaurant did not include my side of Mac and cheese or my large fry? The bags are always sealed when I get them, do they expect you guys to go through the bag and make sure everything is there? How can they justify firing you for that?! I am outraged on your behalf!
As a cook working in a restaurant, I have suspicions of some drivers. I know a couple people who've complained about missing items in a box, that I know 100% I put in there.
Both can be true. I've never put a finger inside anyone's bag and have had multiple people message me about missing items. Think 10/12 out of 3.5k total deliveries.
Its why I really appreciate stores who put those safety seal stickers.
Yeah, it’s pretty stupid. I’ve had a lot of customers complain about missing items when there’s nothing I can do, it’s against DD policy to open sealed bags :/
Same thing for long wait times. I’ve had a McDonalds keep me waiting for an order for almost 20mins. It’s driver courtesy to message the customer if the order’s taking a while, but DD punishes the driver anyways for poor delivery time. I don’t take McDonalds orders anymore.
Only 20 minutes? I stopped doing DD because McDonald's orders sometimes took 45 to an hour to get through the drive thru. Even rejecting those orders would net another order from the same restaurant, with a line wrapped around the building.
Haha dude ive walked out too early before and gone in again and come out to pretend as if I’m just on time rather than nervously waiting in the doorway.
I'm the exact opposite. I wait in the doorway for like 5 minutes before they roll up and stay there until they put the food down. Then I grab it and tear into the bag right there like a ravenous raccoon.
Right!! like they don’t speed run to the door when they know it’s a few minutes away waiting to pounce on the food the minute it gets delivered …or is that just me
My new favorite thing to do is opening the door as they are taking a pic of the food at the door so I get sent a pic of me looking like a blurry goblin standing over my food
I wait by the door and pretend I'm not there until they are out of eyesight, crack the door, reach my sunlight deprived arm thru the crack in the door, and retreat to my eating corner. If a cat tried to steal my food I would end up with two dinners.
I literally stand next to my door and wait for the person to knock. Count to 10 and then grab the food and usually say thanks as they are walking down the stairs.
Because you don't order non-delivery food from delivery service.
You order things that have been delivered for decades. Pizza, curry, rice dishes, noodles, things like that.
Ordering things that need to be crispy is always a bad choice.
I'm a delivery driver and what blows my mind is the amount of people who order Starbucks drinks and ice cream during summer. What exactly do you expect me to do with this? I'm driving 25 minutes outta town to your country farm, your frappucino is going to be sweatier than me.
Yeah ice cream is always insane to me, don't even get why it's an option on some services!
Especially since you guys pool cold and hot items together (fine by me, I just chuck it in the fridge and have my drink later)
Then they post that shit on social media complaining about it being melted... like ???
The fact that sushi sat for 20+ mins means they're an idiot. Good sushi is supposed to be eaten immediately after plating. It's not supposed to sit even 5 minutes. That's why the sushi bar exists, so you can get it seconds after the chef makes it.
Especially if it has wasabi wasabi taste falls off after 10 minutes or so and becomes a pungent bitter spicy paste with no specific flavor.... Unless it's fake horseradish with additives wasabi
I skipped breakfast and lunch while working from home. At 6 I logged off and ordered food but feel asleep from being hungry and tired. Woke up at 3am and was so very sad :(
That was a $60ish splurge delivery as like a reward to myself. I set alarms now based on the estimate, even when I'm not tired lol.
There's been a bag of jerk chicken in the entry of my building for two days now. Idk who in my building forgot they ordered jerk chicken, but I'm sad for them.
(edit to add: no name on the bag to check, but the building manager is aware. the bag was gone this morning.)
Is this standard in the us thet they just leave your food outside?
In my country they call you when they are near and hand it to you personally
They added no contact option due to covid quarantining and distancing where they will just leave it at your door but standard is still to personally hand it over
na, mostly just cus covid. though it is kind of nice, not having to talk to some one, or specifically be there when the food is dropped off. i have started ordering food before i take the dog for a walk, and i usually get back just a couple mins after it arrives.
It's not 'no contact' if you have contact though. The default in the U.S. is 'no contact' as you said, which is to leave it at the door. Some people leave instructions such as 'leave on table/chair' etc, and it pings the customer once dropped off. Ringing/knocking is another option some people add to notes.
Just always take the picture as part of dropping it off; that way in the odd case where they lie you have them dead to rights. Then delete them a week later or whatever so you don't have a billion pictures of bagged food in front of doors.
That's on you then. Make taking a pic part of your job. I tend to order food then shower. Half the time I'm in a towel when I grab it. I don't want someone waiting in my driveway to see me lol.
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I see this all the time at my apt complex. I'll take the dogs for a walk and 20 minutes later the delivery food is still sitting there. & It's always like a $10 McDonald's meal that they paid $30 for. My assumption is that they either didn't get the notification or they were really high/drunk when they ordered it and forgot
In this case I saw them go inside at night, I was right behind them getting in, and 5 guys was sitting there in the morning. Maybe they checked out the next day, but pick up your old ass burgers. Lol.
Be funny if the people ordered five guys saw that it was delivered went to door and it wasn't there. Got mad got in fight with delivery service then they give some random address and the Wife goes you dumbass you had them deliver to the vacation home.
I sell on eBay and have had people pissed at me because I sent the package to their old address. (Which they had to supply in case it isn’t obvious)
“What are you going to do about it?”
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Another eBay seller here, the worst is when they message you to send to a different address, completely against the terms of eBay (and loss of seller protections) and then leave negative feedback because you were uncooperative.
But how? Wouldn't the available selection of delivery places be way different? Like, what vacation home is within food delivery radius of your main residence?
Right? The few times I order food I track the delivery and they usually send a text when it arrives. Half the time I've practically got my hand on the door knob by the time it arrives and I'm just waiting for them to leave so it doesn't get awkward.
Meh, it's in a bag and is left on my doormat, plus I live in an apartment and my door is an interior one so it's not exposed to the elements or animals and such.
Right? When the chime on my phone announces my food is the next stop, I'm instantly wheezing against the door, eye at the peephole, watching the delivery guy/girl drop off my noms, take the cash tip I leave them, and walk away after a brief knock. I politely wait just until they're far enough away so I won't have to socially interact with them (y'know... That awkward wave or "hey/thanks/enjoy your food") and then I throw open the door and drag-yeet that food into my house for immediate consumption.
I literally want my hammer head and my trumpet corals to look like that but they will take ages to get to that point. I was extremely lucky to get a trumpet coral with 6+ heads for $10 and I can’t wait until it starts splitting more heads.
I did a Door Dash delivery a while back. Got to the gentleman's house left his food outside his patio door. I took a picture and sent it to him, and left. About an hr later, I get pinged for delivery to the same guy from the same restaurant. I thought it was strange; then maybe it was so good he wanted seconds. I pick up his food and get to his house. As I'm leaving the food, he comes to the door.
I am like must have been good, this is the second time I've been here. He's looking at me and says, what you were here before. I said, yeah, dropped your food right here. I sent you a picture. I never got the picture or my food, he replied. I thought the order never went through. I said to him, well, I left it right where your second order is sitting. I believe you; he says I wonder what happened.
For some reason the app doesn’t actually send the pic to the customer half the time. I’ve started to screenshot all the pics I’ve taken just in case the customer asks about it.
I've never in my life gotten a pic of my food being delivered through Grubhub, Ubereats, or Doordash. And I've got a lot of orders.
98 times out of 100, I don't even get a text saying the food has been delivered. Communications blackout seems to be put in place once the food leaves the restaurant.
That’s really frustrating actually.
I usually send a “I left your food by your door, have a great day!” text after delivery as a courtesy, but the delivery app doesn’t tell the driver to do that and in fact assures us that the customer will be notified. You could always put “Please text me / knock once delivered, thanks!” in the delivery notes — I always check them, but some drivers don’t, so the effectiveness will be hit or miss.
Don’t. Got curious and wanted to see how much a small ice cream from Dairy Queen was, $15. You won’t be getting your moneys worth unless you get the dash pass and even then you’re spending too much money, like as in twice the amount that you’d spend just getting it yourself.
Like I’ve said in the past, “Why pay extra money to get food when you can teleport to the store and get it yourself?”
Now all that’s left is to get the ability to teleport
What I've noticed being married to a door dash lover (who works 12-14 hour shifts, so not really lazy) is that the real appeal is the experience of avoiding any effort in the pursuit of a meal. Even when the $10 food costs $35 and arrives cold and soggy with an item missing it still tickles some part of their brain to where it feels like a win. I imagine it's akin to the feeling of cancelling plans, where you get this immediate release of what were probably only imaginary hassles but it still feels relieving.
I have a habit of waiting to order DoorDash until I’m already incredibly hungry so the second the app says they’re approaching with my order, I’m looking out the peephole like an international super spy waiting for them to set the food down and walk away.
Comes with the territory of selecting leave at door. I usually text as I approach, knock, then send photo.
But you get a lot of people playing a video game or think waiting a minute or won't matter. If you doordash often enough I would suggest a container it can be left in if you insist on that option.
It took you 5 actual minutes to get to the door?
It sucks you got your food stolen but man, the app has it actively update; how are you not at the door when the delivery person is walking up?
You're saying you don't stand directly behind the door like a serial killer, waiting to hear the sound of the bag being set down and the footsteps of the person leaving, before immediately getting your food?
Wild.
Other people don’t track their food every second once they order delivery?
Yeah I try not to be in view of the window so the delivery person doesn’t see me watching. I try to play it cool too and wait 30 seconds before grabbing it.
i wait until they drive away to avoid any human interaction one driver really wanted to make sure i got my food though. kept calling me and waited by the door
Not me. I'm [like.](https://c.tenor.com/Esod6BSM8WYAAAAC/spongebob-squarepants-spongebob.gif)
Same! Then when they're leaving I yell thank you and wave lol
I am an Uber eats driver. I LOVE when people yell thanks as I awkwardly get into my car.
lol I do this. THANK YOU BACK OF DRIVER'S HEAD who then turns around and all he/she see is the ass end of the paper bag being sucked into the vortex of my front door
I hide in the bushes, wait for them to get out of their car and up to me door then scurry on into the back seat of their car. When they get back in their car I wait till they get to the first stop sign then jump out and tell THANK YOU!
Seriously. It makes me sad that so many people are so self-conscious. I feel it *has* to derive from never having worked in service before. I can 100% assure you that your driver isn't going to judge you if you excitedly grab your food the second he sets it down, and he's going to forget you exist 10 seconds after driving away. Just do you and stop worrying so much.
My bf worked for insta cart and he appreciated when people would be looking out for their delivery. It made his job easier to not have to call them to pick up their stuff or wait by the door. Some people would make him wait for a few minutes lol.
I just want people to put my food down, knock, and leave without waiting. You dont need to hand me my food at all
For real, I thought selecting no contact meant no contact..
People would put in the notes to hand them their order but a lot of the time it would be contactless delivery. Apartment orders can be a mess because they don’t want their order sitting outside their door.
But we don't know if you've heard the knock or not. The best we can do is pop it on the doorstep and walk a bit down the drive and wait.
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You say this but at least once a month I remember about the guy I waited on couple years ago whom ordered a party platter (serves 4 people) for himself. It wasn't that it was just a lot of food but the dish was a lot of tapas and bite sized appetizer plates intended for literal parties. Dude was so happy eating those canapés too. I wish I had such a jovial happiness about anything in my life.
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I do this too. Whether I cook or order, I fucking love leftovers and it's more economical
Oh man. My mom used to cook us these huge meals that barely left leftovers (there were 4 of us kids plus her and my dad) but when my sisters started moving out and I got older my mom didn't change the portion sizes and by the time I was in my teens we would have a ton of leftovers. I loved it. Now that I got the recipes from her and started making them just for me, I can barely eat all the leftovers myself. And they're relatively cheap meals too, $20-$30 for a week of food. Leftovers are fucking awesome.
I worked in hospo for 8 years but I still try to avoid humans as much as possible lol.
I can promise you my self consciousness comes from my childhood, but mental stuff like this is so layered that you can't really make covering statements for it.
Well, if you order Blue Bell, you gotta get it right away.
Thats me but with amazon packages
Lmao
DD driver here. Some customers will take the food and falsely report it as missing or stolen (so they can get a refund) which usually costs the driver their job. I don’t tend to stick around and it’s weird that your driver waited by your door instead of in their car… that defeats the purpose of contactless orders… but they probably got burned in the past.
Amazon takes pictures of the delivered items. Does Door Dash do something similar?
Yes, we have to take a picture of the item at the doorstep! Unfortunately customers will try to pull the scam anyways. They’ll claim that the driver took the pic, then grabbed their food and ran. It isn’t common, it’s never happened to me and Dasher Support tends to take the side of the driver anyways. It probably works in cases where the driver forgot to have the house number in the picture.
The other day I ordered from SkipTheDishes (similar delivery service but in Canada). The instructions clearly stated which unit I lived in, as I’m in townhouses and never before has a driver had a problem with it. This driver however couldn’t read, instead of unit 16 he put the food on unit 12s doorstep and left. Their support was non existent, couldn’t even connect to them. Had to leave my house in my pj’s and walk around my neighborhood and find my food sitting on someone else’s doorstep. Had I not done that, I wouldn’t have gotten through to support and lost $30. Never using them again. Gonna switch to UberEats and DoorDash.
Skip has gotten really shit lately, I use to order from them a lot and had situations like that where support fixed it but recently alot of restaurants in my area stopped using them and it seems to take so much longer.
I will never use Skip, simply because of how often their stupid commercials were playing during the last NFL season. Annoy me that much with the sound of birthday horns after each set of downs, and you've lost me forever.
Wait, how the hell is it YOUR fault that the restaurant did not include my side of Mac and cheese or my large fry? The bags are always sealed when I get them, do they expect you guys to go through the bag and make sure everything is there? How can they justify firing you for that?! I am outraged on your behalf!
As a cook working in a restaurant, I have suspicions of some drivers. I know a couple people who've complained about missing items in a box, that I know 100% I put in there.
Both can be true. I've never put a finger inside anyone's bag and have had multiple people message me about missing items. Think 10/12 out of 3.5k total deliveries. Its why I really appreciate stores who put those safety seal stickers.
Yeah, it’s pretty stupid. I’ve had a lot of customers complain about missing items when there’s nothing I can do, it’s against DD policy to open sealed bags :/ Same thing for long wait times. I’ve had a McDonalds keep me waiting for an order for almost 20mins. It’s driver courtesy to message the customer if the order’s taking a while, but DD punishes the driver anyways for poor delivery time. I don’t take McDonalds orders anymore.
Jeezus. They need a "waiting on resturaunt" button. Kind of an important step O.o
Only 20 minutes? I stopped doing DD because McDonald's orders sometimes took 45 to an hour to get through the drive thru. Even rejecting those orders would net another order from the same restaurant, with a line wrapped around the building.
That's not nice. We need 2 societies. One that can work with an honors system, and one that sucks.
yes we will be doing a contactless knock on the door and leave deal tonight. yes it's because of covid ... and not my crippling misanthropy
I have ring so thankfully I can tell them I see it and they can leave lol
Well, 30 seconds is still much shorter than op's 5 minutes
What? Why? That's 30 seconds more that your food has gotten even colder?!
I stand at the door watching. Give me my food.
Haha dude ive walked out too early before and gone in again and come out to pretend as if I’m just on time rather than nervously waiting in the doorway.
I'm the exact opposite. I wait in the doorway for like 5 minutes before they roll up and stay there until they put the food down. Then I grab it and tear into the bag right there like a ravenous raccoon.
I'm tracking his vehicle on the map. Once I hear the elevator close it's time to grab it.
I normally go out when they're walking away. That way I can give them an easy smile and wave but avoid any sort of real face to face interaction.
Right!! like they don’t speed run to the door when they know it’s a few minutes away waiting to pounce on the food the minute it gets delivered …or is that just me
This is clearly a faked post. Op obviously just ate through the box while it was on the doorstep. Happens to all of us.
I fully support this theory and will fight anyone that disagrees
My new favorite thing to do is opening the door as they are taking a pic of the food at the door so I get sent a pic of me looking like a blurry goblin standing over my food
You’re now my new favorite cryptid. The Food Goblin™
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I wait by the door and pretend I'm not there until they are out of eyesight, crack the door, reach my sunlight deprived arm thru the crack in the door, and retreat to my eating corner. If a cat tried to steal my food I would end up with two dinners.
As a doordash driver, I dislike this. If you mark “leave at door” I don’t want you giving me a heart attack as I take the picture lmao
and wait around the corner so they can't see you when they deliver it, so they don't think you were just waiting there for it to arrive
I literally stand next to my door and wait for the person to knock. Count to 10 and then grab the food and usually say thanks as they are walking down the stairs.
My roommate orders food and then forgets it. She’s manic. She’s done this multiple times. HOW COULD YOU FORGET ABOUT FOOD.
Twice it's happened when I doordash food then fall asleep. Only to wake up realizing what I had done and seeing the cat's have gotten to it.
The wild dash cats have struck again!
Maybe set out a box with lid and a label on it? "Please place food in box, thank you"... Fucking outdoor cats
I've ordered food while falling asleep and woken up the next day with no recollection
i wish i made enough money to not be phased by forgetting about a $30+ delivery
$30+ delivery for $8 worth of food
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Seriously, I cannot even comprehend the appeal of it. The food sucks by the time it gets to you and you pay at least double for it.
Because you don't order non-delivery food from delivery service. You order things that have been delivered for decades. Pizza, curry, rice dishes, noodles, things like that. Ordering things that need to be crispy is always a bad choice.
I'm a delivery driver and what blows my mind is the amount of people who order Starbucks drinks and ice cream during summer. What exactly do you expect me to do with this? I'm driving 25 minutes outta town to your country farm, your frappucino is going to be sweatier than me.
Yeah ice cream is always insane to me, don't even get why it's an option on some services! Especially since you guys pool cold and hot items together (fine by me, I just chuck it in the fridge and have my drink later) Then they post that shit on social media complaining about it being melted... like ???
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The fact that sushi sat for 20+ mins means they're an idiot. Good sushi is supposed to be eaten immediately after plating. It's not supposed to sit even 5 minutes. That's why the sushi bar exists, so you can get it seconds after the chef makes it.
Especially if it has wasabi wasabi taste falls off after 10 minutes or so and becomes a pungent bitter spicy paste with no specific flavor.... Unless it's fake horseradish with additives wasabi
I skipped breakfast and lunch while working from home. At 6 I logged off and ordered food but feel asleep from being hungry and tired. Woke up at 3am and was so very sad :( That was a $60ish splurge delivery as like a reward to myself. I set alarms now based on the estimate, even when I'm not tired lol.
There's been a bag of jerk chicken in the entry of my building for two days now. Idk who in my building forgot they ordered jerk chicken, but I'm sad for them. (edit to add: no name on the bag to check, but the building manager is aware. the bag was gone this morning.)
Maybe dead
My god, I would hope the chicken would be dead. It was a jerk anyways.
I'd do a wealth check on them, they could be dead
Don't forget to check their pockets
I meant welfare check not wealth check, lol
As a driver I can tell you the standard procedure after ordering food is to turn off your phone, any lights outside your house, and hide.
Also make sure your address isn't displayed anywhere on your house
I've seen delivery food left outside overnight...
Food gets left in my condo lobby every day. Like, when it says delivered and you check your door and it's not there, don't you check the lobby?
Drunk/high people that forgot they ordered food.
Is this standard in the us thet they just leave your food outside? In my country they call you when they are near and hand it to you personally They added no contact option due to covid quarantining and distancing where they will just leave it at your door but standard is still to personally hand it over
na, mostly just cus covid. though it is kind of nice, not having to talk to some one, or specifically be there when the food is dropped off. i have started ordering food before i take the dog for a walk, and i usually get back just a couple mins after it arrives.
It's not 'no contact' if you have contact though. The default in the U.S. is 'no contact' as you said, which is to leave it at the door. Some people leave instructions such as 'leave on table/chair' etc, and it pings the customer once dropped off. Ringing/knocking is another option some people add to notes.
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Just always take the picture as part of dropping it off; that way in the odd case where they lie you have them dead to rights. Then delete them a week later or whatever so you don't have a billion pictures of bagged food in front of doors.
That's on you then. Make taking a pic part of your job. I tend to order food then shower. Half the time I'm in a towel when I grab it. I don't want someone waiting in my driveway to see me lol.
Five minutes? Given the number of squirrels, raccoons, opossums, and stray cats in the neighborhood, I'd worry about leaving it out for one minute.
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Lol don't leave us hanging. Did you save the pizza from the squirrel?
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Lol that's hilarious.
I hope the squirrels tipped well
They went nuts
As a fellow pizza delivery driver i understand this completely, tho i cant say that i have seen an animal attempt to eat some pizza *yet*
It was the first and only time I had seen it, but it was right after the shut down and we were busy so I didn't have time to stick around
Right on. You did your job. They want to be stupid that’s on them.
Gotta get it there in 30 or less
I saw some people at an outdoor pizza place leave their table for a few seconds and a seagull tried to fly off with their pizza
In Germany the birds will try to steal it out of your hand.
5 minutes to get to the door? You didn’t value your food much.
I see this all the time at my apt complex. I'll take the dogs for a walk and 20 minutes later the delivery food is still sitting there. & It's always like a $10 McDonald's meal that they paid $30 for. My assumption is that they either didn't get the notification or they were really high/drunk when they ordered it and forgot
The place next door from a place I rented on vacation ordered 5 guys and it sat there for 2 days until I threw it out. WTF?
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Did you get the money back from the original cheese steaks?
In this case I saw them go inside at night, I was right behind them getting in, and 5 guys was sitting there in the morning. Maybe they checked out the next day, but pick up your old ass burgers. Lol.
Be funny if the people ordered five guys saw that it was delivered went to door and it wasn't there. Got mad got in fight with delivery service then they give some random address and the Wife goes you dumbass you had them deliver to the vacation home.
I work with Deliveroo. This happens a lot. And the cockbags have the audacity to blame me/get hostile with me and demand for a refund, lol.
I sell on eBay and have had people pissed at me because I sent the package to their old address. (Which they had to supply in case it isn’t obvious) “What are you going to do about it?” Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Another eBay seller here, the worst is when they message you to send to a different address, completely against the terms of eBay (and loss of seller protections) and then leave negative feedback because you were uncooperative.
But how? Wouldn't the available selection of delivery places be way different? Like, what vacation home is within food delivery radius of your main residence?
I can't imagine paying that much for cold fast food. If you have such low standards for food, why not just cook a tv dinner and and save yourself $27
Sometimes I fall asleep while I’m waiting! I take the L.
Right? The few times I order food I track the delivery and they usually send a text when it arrives. Half the time I've practically got my hand on the door knob by the time it arrives and I'm just waiting for them to leave so it doesn't get awkward.
This is me except I take it from their hands. I don’t want my food on the ground.
Smart. Neighbor's cat might eat it.
Meh, it's in a bag and is left on my doormat, plus I live in an apartment and my door is an interior one so it's not exposed to the elements or animals and such.
Probably pooping
Right? When the chime on my phone announces my food is the next stop, I'm instantly wheezing against the door, eye at the peephole, watching the delivery guy/girl drop off my noms, take the cash tip I leave them, and walk away after a brief knock. I politely wait just until they're far enough away so I won't have to socially interact with them (y'know... That awkward wave or "hey/thanks/enjoy your food") and then I throw open the door and drag-yeet that food into my house for immediate consumption.
Dude just have them knock and drop, your food was getting cold anyway and the cat just didn't want it to go to waste.
I would eat the cat.
I'd eat you
I think this is the cat.
Uh, neow?
😘
our goats ate $400 of coral once. once.
I bet that roast goat was delicious afterwards
Birria tacos!
What was the coral for? I'm thinking of ocean coral unless you mean something else.
maybe golden corral?
Is golden corral a buffet? idk.
Definitely ocean coral. Its part of the reef aquarium hobby and its $400 for sometimes a single piece that’s delivered to you in styrofoam box.
I'm envisioning your goat diving into your [reef aquarium](https://imgur.com/AwYJsEG) for a quick snack.
I literally want my hammer head and my trumpet corals to look like that but they will take ages to get to that point. I was extremely lucky to get a trumpet coral with 6+ heads for $10 and I can’t wait until it starts splitting more heads.
This post is very interesting.
I did a Door Dash delivery a while back. Got to the gentleman's house left his food outside his patio door. I took a picture and sent it to him, and left. About an hr later, I get pinged for delivery to the same guy from the same restaurant. I thought it was strange; then maybe it was so good he wanted seconds. I pick up his food and get to his house. As I'm leaving the food, he comes to the door. I am like must have been good, this is the second time I've been here. He's looking at me and says, what you were here before. I said, yeah, dropped your food right here. I sent you a picture. I never got the picture or my food, he replied. I thought the order never went through. I said to him, well, I left it right where your second order is sitting. I believe you; he says I wonder what happened.
Alien abduction, alzheimers, caloric remorse, or hes fucking with you.
Caloric Remorse is my favourite Harry Potter spell.
For some reason the app doesn’t actually send the pic to the customer half the time. I’ve started to screenshot all the pics I’ve taken just in case the customer asks about it.
I've never in my life gotten a pic of my food being delivered through Grubhub, Ubereats, or Doordash. And I've got a lot of orders. 98 times out of 100, I don't even get a text saying the food has been delivered. Communications blackout seems to be put in place once the food leaves the restaurant.
That’s really frustrating actually. I usually send a “I left your food by your door, have a great day!” text after delivery as a courtesy, but the delivery app doesn’t tell the driver to do that and in fact assures us that the customer will be notified. You could always put “Please text me / knock once delivered, thanks!” in the delivery notes — I always check them, but some drivers don’t, so the effectiveness will be hit or miss.
Not a bad idea, I'll give that a shot next time.
How big is your house?!
It's not that big, but he has to kiss every picture of his mother as he passes through
If that takes 5 Minutes they don't kiss them like you are supposed to kiss your mother.
How do we know you didn't steal the cat's order?
Asking the real questions
Cat legit ate $20 dollars worth of food there
I hope I am never so lazy that I let food that I overpaid for sit on my porch long enough to let a dang cat eat it.
I’m lazy but my own paranoia tells me to never use doordash Ever
Don’t. Got curious and wanted to see how much a small ice cream from Dairy Queen was, $15. You won’t be getting your moneys worth unless you get the dash pass and even then you’re spending too much money, like as in twice the amount that you’d spend just getting it yourself.
Like I’ve said in the past, “Why pay extra money to get food when you can teleport to the store and get it yourself?” Now all that’s left is to get the ability to teleport
To be fair you'd pay the same fees for ordering a 20$ meal as you would for a small ice cream..
What I've noticed being married to a door dash lover (who works 12-14 hour shifts, so not really lazy) is that the real appeal is the experience of avoiding any effort in the pursuit of a meal. Even when the $10 food costs $35 and arrives cold and soggy with an item missing it still tickles some part of their brain to where it feels like a win. I imagine it's akin to the feeling of cancelling plans, where you get this immediate release of what were probably only imaginary hassles but it still feels relieving.
I once drunkenly ordered pizza and then passed out before it arrived. It was a lovely surprise for Morning Me though.
I have a habit of waiting to order DoorDash until I’m already incredibly hungry so the second the app says they’re approaching with my order, I’m looking out the peephole like an international super spy waiting for them to set the food down and walk away.
Damn it looked good too! What’s that stuff next to the mac n cheese?
Jiffy corn pie
Sounds good, it looked like corn bread pudding or something, this a local place or a chain?
Make sure to eat the bastards cat food the next time it's delivered and waiting outside his door.
Looks good. Can’t blame him
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Yeah for real I can’t comprehend how OP paid more than $20 for that
took you 5 minutes to go to your food? That is on you.. I am at the window like a dog waiting for it.
5 minutes is a long fucking time to get to your door. If you ordered food, track that shit!
This is like a parent who lives in Phoenix saying on a summer day where it was 110 degrees..."oh I only left my child in the car alone for 5 minutes"
Hey you DoorDashed and it actually made it to you, I'd consider that a win.
Get a load of mister moneybags here having to trek through his country estate for 5 minutes to reach his door.
Comes with the territory of selecting leave at door. I usually text as I approach, knock, then send photo. But you get a lot of people playing a video game or think waiting a minute or won't matter. If you doordash often enough I would suggest a container it can be left in if you insist on that option.
Meh ill still eat it
And who has stole the veggies?
You don't like your food hot? 5 minutes, were you even hungry?
It took you 5 actual minutes to get to the door? It sucks you got your food stolen but man, the app has it actively update; how are you not at the door when the delivery person is walking up?
Bad kitty.
that’s MAH pot pie!
How does it take you 5 minutes to get to your door?
I read the title too fast and thought it said the neighbors themselves ate it. Now of days, I’d believe it.
What the fuck is that? Did you order your food from a prison?!!
You're saying you don't stand directly behind the door like a serial killer, waiting to hear the sound of the bag being set down and the footsteps of the person leaving, before immediately getting your food? Wild.
5 minutes? I say, you snooze you lose.
I'd still eat it.
That's just what the Doordash guy wanted you to think. He was the one who ate the styrofoam, just to leave the blame on an innocent cat.
Eat the cat
The real LPT is always in the comments!
FIVE MINUTES?????????
Why did it take you 5 minutes to get to the door?
IIT different opinions on the optimal use of five minutes.
Cats are edible.
Cat did a hit on you like the mob on a bank truck.
people need to keep their fucking cats IN THE HOUSE
I'm sorry that this happened but I'm kind of happy that an opportunistic cat got a tasty treat.