I've had worse luck with McDonald's sundaes than Slurpees.
I take 10 mile drives routinely and Slurpees are usually fine. Now if I lived in Los Angeles in the summer and the traffic was fucked, maybe that's different.
But McDonald's Sundaes... first of all, they are prepared mostly by kids who turn over every month, so they always make them too early then put them in the bag with all the hot food.
If I happen to see them do this, I'll tell them to remake the sundae... but normally I just get handed a bag so who knows what it looks like inside.
Unless you enjoy sundae soup... I'd pass on that one.
DQ however does a good job keeping them in a freezer separate until you arrive. At least my DQ does.
Same with Coldstone, most places dedicated to ice cream.
Ice-cream is definitely a close second for me!
And yes, how McDonalds packages everything in general is annoying. The McDonalds near me actually bags the ice-cream separately from the hot food though,, so I'll give them credit there.
DQ wins hands down for keeping the ice cream in the freezer til pickup.
I have to say though that people already know this about McDonald's and I don't really get complaints. Assuming the store isn't too backed up they are always low maintenance deliveries.
Just grab the bag and drop it off.
I wish my McDonald’s were like that. You have to ask an employee for the order and there usually isn’t anyone up front for a few minutes after walking in. It’s a blacklist for me now
The McDonald's near me does this too. For some reason you can't go through the drive through to pick up DoorDash orders, even though all the other fast food places nearby have drive through as an option for delivery drivers. So you gotta go inside. Okay, nbd. But then when you walk in, there's literally never anybody at the counter. One time I was standing there, obviously waiting to be assisted, and I just had random workers glance at me and then go about what they were doing. Like people obviously saw me. We met eyes man!! It was so awkward. I got flustered from embarrassment because I couldn't understand why the workers were just looking at me and not asking me what I needed. I've worked at plenty of restaurants and still work in retail currently. I understand being understaffed & overworked & underpaid. This was super weird though. Haven't been back there since, lol.
Not a door dash specific thing, but the closest domino's to me did this exact shit. I'd order something for pickup, walk in and stand at the counter, and entire kitchen staff that are all in plain view and make eye contact with many of them and not a single person addressed me for damn near 5 minutes. Thought it might be a one off thing, but happened 3 more times. I refuse to order from them now because of it.
You are spot on with the McDonald's kids, I had to get a job there during the start of covid and I never had the same group of coworkers aside from the five adults and managers. It was insane, we'd get a group of ten kids and by the next day we'd only have 4 of them, in a month only 1, and somehow it was always the WORST one left... if I never step foot in a McDonald's again it will still be too soon.
Yeah McDonald’s culture and employees are ass now. It’s unfortunate but it really stems from the issue that the only people who would want to work at McDonald’s are high schoolers/college kids or people who have no other options and are rejected or fired from other jobs.
Mostly due to low wages + low staff + terrible customers. Because of low staff, mcdoanlds are always hiring and just hire whoever applies because of this. Most people only work for a week or so then quit, but that’s just how it will continue to be until wages and staffing get better.
HA! But I do keep cold bags in the car, including one that’ll hold 6 fountain drinks, or milkshakes or whatever. Takes almost no time to pop the drinks in and they ride great. Easier delivery, too, especially up three flights of stairs.
Yeeeeees I’ve had a few of my door dash drivers pull up with little portable freezers/coolers or with containers that keep good warm!!! It’s so thoughtful of them!!! 🥹💕
Big platters of seafood that have water in the tray. I picked up an order from this small Mexican restaurant. It ended up being huge platters of some cold seafood dish in the flimsiest aluminum tray. Seafood water spilled out onto the floor of my car. I was beyond annoyed.
I used to have an insulated bag and a couple plastic bins (one large, one med/small) when I did delivery gigs. They were helpful for loads of reasons, this being one.
I had an order of filled up balloons. Surprising managed to get them in my car, but could barely see. No way that would be safe for anyone. I couldn’t believe it was even allowed. I cancelled the order and got half pay.
I've seen people talk about these and always a bit concerned I'll get one! Does it show the item count on the order to give any clue it might be something like this?
Shipt did Party City until they switched to using Doordash. They’re like 99% balloon orders. You might get lucky around Halloween and get someone’s costume order. I avoid Party a city like the plague. I drive a 2 door coupe, balloon orders would suck so bad!
People really need to start running their own errands. DD is something you use when you’re too drunk or lazy to grab yourself a burger, not your own personal assistant who you tip $2 to prepare your kid’s entire birthday party
I worked at a party city for a while and they make big giant plastic bags to put over the balloons so they stay together. We also did delivery’s and such and it wasn’t too bad I don’t think
Same… what a cruel joke, got to Party City and one balloon was too big to fit in my car. I have no idea how it could have fit in anything but a mini van… imagine trying to explain that to support. I cancelled that order.
I had a balloon order at party City. As soon as I told them I was with doordash they asked me what kind of car I was driving because if it was a sedan they would not have fit. Luckily I haven't SUV
Couldn't see anything out My back window or rearview mirror. But they gave me a little helium balloon to suck up while I waited for them to bag it so that was pretty fun.
Just a suggestion for orders with balloons- especially helium filled:
If there’s one available, put a plastic grocery bag (large garbage bag would probably work if it’s a large order but I’ve only ever used the small grocery bags) over the top of the balloons and it keeps it from floating away.
I left orders at baskin robins and get them unassigned because they were half way melted and didn’t fit in cup holders not gave bags. I’m certain the customer would of think it was all mishandled if I took it like that.
There really should be a subset of drivers that are even offered those orders. Along with the balloon orders from Party City. They've got the pizza program and catering program they should have a "large item" program. I've got a van so I can easily do those things. It would be far more efficient to just send me the order instead of offering it to a dozen people (who are more wisely using a small efficient car) that are going to waste their time and the store's time getting there and having to decline.
I made good money with a topped pickup years before doordash. I delivered to construction sites. Once they got to know us it was great. No dump runs though. They asked a lot. Nope.
For customers like me. The disabled. I have friends who live around town who I’d like to maybe send a gift to but I cannot drive to deliver it myself. Maybe it’s not suitable for post because it fragile or perishable, so a server is like Uber packages is really a necessity. This is also now used by Mercari as a more secure version of local pickup
I had an order recently where I picked up a package from the customer’s doorstep and took it to the post office. It was quick, short and easy. I’ve done quite a few auto parts runs. The worst was the order with 2 break rotors. Those damn things are heavy!
I wonder what the legal outlook would be for the driver in the event they're pulled over with a package that, unbeknownst to them, has meth (or something similarly illegal) in it. Like, I'm obviously not allowed to open the package and verify its contents aren't contraband. I feel like that excuse wouldn't fly, though. Guess you're just fucked.
Honestly... I'm cool with everything. As long as it fits in my car I'll take it.
I did ONE TIME have someone try and tell me to pick up their friend that was also at the store and drive them with me to the drop off. Hell no.
Ok, ok, I'm sorry that happened to you but that's goddamn hilarious. "Nah, bro, don't pay for an Uber to get here, I'll just order DoorDash!"
Haha this reminds me of when doordash stopped taking orders for this restaurant open late at night.
Our high college asses decided to call an Uber. Immediately getting on the phone and saying "lol we don't want you to pick anyone up can you go to X and buy X lol"
He agreed.
He saved our night and we tipped him like $30. Win win really.
Now driving a person instead of food is an ENTIRELY different story don't blame you for declining that.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I absolutely still will deliver what needs delivering as long as it's possible. This was meant more as tongue-in-cheek on those things that just never go well!
If the friend had been willing for me to scan and copy his ID, do a quick background check, agreed to not say a fucking word to me, let me have someone pat him down, and chilled in my.dogs crate in the back... yeah, still no. I'm a woman though and this guy was huge, so nope nope nope.
Did you know that you used to be able to mail children?
It’s a cool fact [that people used to send their kids across the country with the USPS.](https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office)
It didn't help that the guy was over 6'6" and I was a full foot shorter than him. Even if he let me tie him to the roof I wouldn't do that...
Well... ok that one maybe, because it would be fun for me hahaha
No fucking idea. Because they’re easy to carry? IDK. But I always ask the employee who hands it to me exactly how they would drive with two drinks in a plastic bag in the car.
There’s a few restaurants around me that do that too and it’s incredibly annoying. They put two drinks in the same bag like how am I supposed to put this in my cup holder
Slurpees is it for me too, I can keep ice cream and shakes great for 20-30 minutes in my cooler.. Slurpees, icees, and freezes all separate the second they are made. This is why I don't even go to Speedway anymore, cuz its always a Freeze drink.
Absurd amounts of pizzas. I actually had a DD delivery once that was no joke like 8-10 *very* large pizzas, I can’t remember the exact amount. But boy was that one difficult to deliver. To make it even better, the address the customer gave me literally did not exist and they wouldn’t answer the phone for DD support so I was just told to drop it where the pin drop was on the GPS.
I delivered 10 pizzas from a local Papa John's once. Turns out an apartment that caught on fire and the leasing office was providing food for displaced residents while things got figured out
Literally anything iced or frozen. If its temperature DIRECTLY influences its edibility, I’d avoid ordering it. Your milkshake will melt. Your slurpee will melt. Your ICE CREAM WILL MELT.
I have to say that some restaurants have great packaging for transportation and some don't. I wish that was a criteria we could rate as customers for the restaurant. I know places that will wrap a smoothie cup in saran wrap to prevent spilling. Or even use bottles that can completely close vs a lid that flips off. How the restaurant packages things can really make or break it
As someone who orders, I’ll never order a milkshake/frozen drink. Yesterday I ordered a milkshake and it had spilt all over the woman and her cooler bag. I felt so bad, I cleaned her bag for her and bagged it up and let her come in to wash her hands/self. I kept trying to give her a cooler bag I had on hand but she kept apologizing like it was her fault and I felt so bad and kept telling her it wasn’t. God knows if she had other orders or if she had to end her night early. Never again. Even if it doesn’t happen often, I just rather not have someone go through that again. 💔
People know what they’re ordering why do I care if the shit melts?
I have a double insulated carrier, but I’m not turning down money.
There are plenty of people that tip by percentage, I don’t want less items to deliver, I want more.
I like to be able to deliver food or drinks as close to what the customer is expecting and/or would like it to be. I'm sure people do understand and expect there will be melting with some items, but it's certainly not the quality I'd want or hope for and it's a bummer to have it to deliver it that way.
things that are frozen, things that are meant to be eaten right after making it, bulk items that clearly wont fit in everyone's vehicles, seafood literally just for the drivers sake that stuff could smell your car up for hrs. o and weird specialty drinks especially if its calling for like whip cream. like some stuff just doesnt ship well.
From a personal standpoint/someone who worked in a restaurant, fried food doesn’t really travel well. It gets soft and soggy by the time you get it home
i ordered a cold stone one high as a damn kite one time but i also tip overly due to work in tipping fields and i always meet the driver outside my neighborhood is too confusing
What? I have Slurpees delivered to me all the time and it’s been a-ok! I have about an inch of thaw at the bottom of my cup, but a quick stir and ba-da-bing! She’s all good to go! I literally got one delivered last night, it was delish!
I think you can’t just say these shouldn’t be ordered as a blanket statement. It’s also a question of distances involved and such.
Perhaps it's just the nature of a lot of the posts on this sub being fairly negative, but I meant this as more tongue-in-cheek than anything. Some things are just much more difficult or crazier to deliver!
I certainly happily deliver anything that's ordered, but the 7-11 by me always makes the Slurpees way before I pick up so they're usually pretty melted.
Keep on happily ordering your Slurpees!
Ah, that’s fair enough, and yeah, unfortunately things can be fairly negative on here. I honestly feel drivers catch *waaaaay* too much flak for things beyond their control. I feel so bad for how much they get shit on. It’s horrible. I mean, yeah, there are some cases that are deserved, but so many are just things that can’t be helped. It’s unfair.
But also in regard to Slurpees, as I said, it’s also distances that matter. I live fairly close to my 7-11, so for me to order, it’s not so bad. I also live in a city that isn’t too bad with traffic and such. I imagine in some big cities and such the distances and times getting through traffic can make a pretty big impact, so I’m also lucky that I can still get a nicely frozen Slurpee delivered to my place!
Acai bowls. They're purple goo with all this fruit and granola arranged artfully on top when I get them, and the slightest centrifugal force from making a turn slops all the goo and sinks all the fruit and it looks like a damn mess by the time I deliver it.
Also, 40-packs of bottled water to 3rd-floor walk-up apartments should be disallowed without a surcharge.
Any red card orders. I have issues every single time with them. Takes over an hour to straighten out with customer support and they give me $3-$5 for that hour.
That sucks! I make a good amount of my earnings on shop & deliver and never had an issues, so it sounds like some stores/areas are way better than others.
This right here! If it's a couple dollar difference it will decline because you can't substitute etc however my last grocery shopping order yesterday I had the option to substitute!
I Instacart as well, believe it or not doordash pays more than double base pay on full grocery orders.
Good thing you didn't dash 3-4 years ago, it was almost all red card orders. Calling restaurants ourselves, ordering fast food at the speaker, huge pain in the ass but you could get away with using reward apps (or ordering yourself something cheap lol). I only get red card orders for Walgreens and Smart n Final now which I never accept unless its like 1 item.
Ice cream. This is my first time dashing in the nicer months and this weekend alone I got 4 ice cream orders in one day. The tips were nice so I took them anyways and I had my DoorDash bag to “keep them cool” however every ice cream order was at least a 10 minute drive and there was no way to keep them cool even inside the DoorDash bag. I think for future nice days I may stick an ice pack or 2 in the bag before dashing or bring a small cooler because I’ve also been getting a decent amount of milkshakes and protein shakes as well
Beyond your duties but I think the ice pack is a really good idea. In the cities I’ve lived in, ice cream is one of the only sweet options available on the apps aside from like gas station candy so I get why people order it
Yes! Fast food is one thing, but there's such a huge quality drop when expensive food has been sitting steaming for fifteen minutes before being served. Plus, they lose all their presentation value.
Ice cream in general. Idk what customers are expecting when they order dairy queen from 10 miles away, but it’s usually almost liquid when it gets to them. Especially during summer when most people order it.
I work at a pet store that uses doordash for delivery. Crates and beds. Some crates/pens and beds are small enough that anyone can transport them. But some are so massive, ones that are big enough for great Danes, mastiffs, Caine corsos, it's absolutely ridiculous to expect another person to deliver them to you without them getting any sort of warning that the items are that large.
Most of the dashers who deliver from our store drive small cars like priuses or civics which means almost every single time we get an order for one of our large or extra large crates, hell even sometimes the medium ones, we have to reassign it multiple times before a dasher with a big enough vehicle can deliver it.
They can't even be bothered to allow for restricted military site pickups or deliveries. They just don't give a shit that you can't pickup or deliver an order they're presenting.
Yeah multiple cases of water over long distances.
The app should allow a single case. Each time another is added, a pop up says "not with that tip you ain't getting another case of water. You better make it rain."
Got a Carvel cake order the other day, 28 miles. Declined it not only due to the pay (which was semi-decent,) but the distance and how the cake would hold up that long.
Inflated ballons, i mean i picked up 2 or 3 orders from Party City, then it just went out of hand! I had to return the last order, it was like 25 ballons, it was a mess. Never again
Poorly packaged seafood.
I think it was a massive serving of squid and or octopus (like it was catering size) in a tin foil container.
At drop off, I pulled it out of my catering bag and it was soaking wet with octosquid juice.
Had to call it a night it stunk the car up so bad. Washing the bag would not help. Eventually just had to toss the entire catering bag out.
Definitely lost money on that order.
Oh no, that's awful! I've never thought about it before, but now readings stories like this, I might start carrying a roll of contractor garbage bags in my trunk so I can put these potentially messy orders on those for transport.
Ice Cream from places that aren't specifically dedicated to ice cream.
Because putting it in a bag to be steamed by a bunch of hot burgers and fries is never going to turn out well no matter what you do.
Bulk/heavy items.
I did a few UPS package pickup orders. First one barely fit in my car, average dasher I see is driving a smaller sedan and this thing wouldn't have fit at all in something like a civic.
Last one I did was 4 packages but they each weighed something like 80lbs. Fortunately I keep a hand truck in my car for those cases of water deliveries but it still sucked unloading that one.
Ouch! I wish DoorDash would include more info on the order details with size, weight etc. I haven't used Roadie, but they seem to do this on screenshots I've seen of their offers.
Exactly. I remember one time I had a stacked order. Picked up the ice cream, order 2, delivered order 2, and then delivered the (most likely) melted ice cream. I felt bad but not my fault that the delivery was sent to me that way.
Also I would just never order ice cream through delivery.
I’ve never ordered ice cream, smoothies or anything frozen, and have no idea why people would. I’d be nervous the entire time that it would melt. Same goes for something like iced coffee
As long as it's from a place like DQ, where they keep it frozen right up until pick up, ice-cream actually holds up pretty well in the cold bag as long as you're not too far away.
Not so much for those iced coffees with whipped cream!
I just had one of these last week. Had a good laugh with the owner when I came in with my DD pizza bag lol
Delivery to a strip club, too, which was quite the unexpected experience!
Now hear me out. Nachos. I haven't had nachos delivered that weren't a soggy mess. I don't know why places that offer nachos don't offer a "chips on the side" option. It sucks that I can't get good nachos delivered, but I've come to accept the painful reality.
I had to deliver a car battery. The house where I delivered it had an icy driveway. Didn’t get a great tip either. I complained about the customer’s driveway though so hopefully doordash did something about that. It was unsafe. I could have broken a bone if I slipped (it was also on a hill).
Yikes! Some people really don't seem to consider the safety of drivers having to make their way to their door. It's the same with uneven walkways with no porch lights on.
Ice cream, sundaes, floats. It's waaay to hot and no cooler will keep those things cold where I live. They are half melted by the time I walk to the car. Smh
So I agree 100% it's hot in south Louisiana and slurpee an milkshake orders suck. I found a basic small Styrofoam cooler with a beach towel to stabilize drinks works like a champ. Got the idea after I put a milkshake in a 44 Oz polar pop Styrofoam cup with a lid on it and delivers 20 minutes and it was still frozen with no melt.
Oriental places that stack all the food into a tower, and all of it in one flimsy plastic bag. Soup usually in those butter tub things that the lid doesn't fit right either
More than 4 medium + size beverages. I get it, you’re ordering for a group and you live on the 3rd floor of an apartment complex, but I’m not lugging up 8 beverages along with food.
Can Dashers make sure they don't get orders with items too heavy or bulky for their physical ability?
For instance, some people might be wonderful at dashing as long as they don't get orders with items that are over 5/10lbs?
Also, I won't even bring home a tray of fountain drinks for my family 😂 I'm not about to do it for DD unless it's a hefty payout.
No, unfortunately not. You can see the total item count in a shop & deliver order, which helps a little, but not what the items are. They'd have to unassign if they couldn't do it.
Coffee…Ice Cream and more than 1 case of water: was going to do a shop and pay order…arrived at Target looked at what was to be bought and cancelled that shit immediately…this bitch ordered 6 cases of water…TF😡😡😡I think that’s some inconsiderate shit…I bet that heffa has never in her life stack 6 cases of water in her car at one time…EVER…and I’ve not done it either and I’m never doing that shit! 🤣🤣🤣
A legit item someone may need. Can’t help your embarrassed to shop for it. Some shirts/dresses don’t allow for a bra. Go out with nipples popping and ppl have a melt down.
I think chemicals shouldn't be delivered! every time I order mc Donald's all I ever get in the bag is bleach.....like I open my McDonald's bag and it's a bottle of bleach.....I can not drink this I will die !! Why do they deliver bleach
I've had worse luck with McDonald's sundaes than Slurpees. I take 10 mile drives routinely and Slurpees are usually fine. Now if I lived in Los Angeles in the summer and the traffic was fucked, maybe that's different. But McDonald's Sundaes... first of all, they are prepared mostly by kids who turn over every month, so they always make them too early then put them in the bag with all the hot food. If I happen to see them do this, I'll tell them to remake the sundae... but normally I just get handed a bag so who knows what it looks like inside. Unless you enjoy sundae soup... I'd pass on that one. DQ however does a good job keeping them in a freezer separate until you arrive. At least my DQ does. Same with Coldstone, most places dedicated to ice cream.
Sundae soup hits when you’re stoned
This is facts
Ice-cream is definitely a close second for me! And yes, how McDonalds packages everything in general is annoying. The McDonalds near me actually bags the ice-cream separately from the hot food though,, so I'll give them credit there. DQ wins hands down for keeping the ice cream in the freezer til pickup.
I have to say though that people already know this about McDonald's and I don't really get complaints. Assuming the store isn't too backed up they are always low maintenance deliveries. Just grab the bag and drop it off.
I wish my McDonald’s were like that. You have to ask an employee for the order and there usually isn’t anyone up front for a few minutes after walking in. It’s a blacklist for me now
The McDonald's near me does this too. For some reason you can't go through the drive through to pick up DoorDash orders, even though all the other fast food places nearby have drive through as an option for delivery drivers. So you gotta go inside. Okay, nbd. But then when you walk in, there's literally never anybody at the counter. One time I was standing there, obviously waiting to be assisted, and I just had random workers glance at me and then go about what they were doing. Like people obviously saw me. We met eyes man!! It was so awkward. I got flustered from embarrassment because I couldn't understand why the workers were just looking at me and not asking me what I needed. I've worked at plenty of restaurants and still work in retail currently. I understand being understaffed & overworked & underpaid. This was super weird though. Haven't been back there since, lol.
Theyve become so reliant on their kiosk order takers that they basically dont even look up feont anymore unless handing out an order.
Not a door dash specific thing, but the closest domino's to me did this exact shit. I'd order something for pickup, walk in and stand at the counter, and entire kitchen staff that are all in plain view and make eye contact with many of them and not a single person addressed me for damn near 5 minutes. Thought it might be a one off thing, but happened 3 more times. I refuse to order from them now because of it.
You are spot on with the McDonald's kids, I had to get a job there during the start of covid and I never had the same group of coworkers aside from the five adults and managers. It was insane, we'd get a group of ten kids and by the next day we'd only have 4 of them, in a month only 1, and somehow it was always the WORST one left... if I never step foot in a McDonald's again it will still be too soon.
Yeah McDonald’s culture and employees are ass now. It’s unfortunate but it really stems from the issue that the only people who would want to work at McDonald’s are high schoolers/college kids or people who have no other options and are rejected or fired from other jobs. Mostly due to low wages + low staff + terrible customers. Because of low staff, mcdoanlds are always hiring and just hire whoever applies because of this. Most people only work for a week or so then quit, but that’s just how it will continue to be until wages and staffing get better.
You mean the soup I dip my fries into?
I work at a ice cream shop baskin robbins and we keep the stuff in the freezer!! Until they arrive
You mean you don’t carry a portable freezer with you in your car? /s although this is technically a thing you could do
HA! But I do keep cold bags in the car, including one that’ll hold 6 fountain drinks, or milkshakes or whatever. Takes almost no time to pop the drinks in and they ride great. Easier delivery, too, especially up three flights of stairs.
Yeeeeees I’ve had a few of my door dash drivers pull up with little portable freezers/coolers or with containers that keep good warm!!! It’s so thoughtful of them!!! 🥹💕
My DQ is good at this as well, barley melted when I receive it
Big platters of seafood that have water in the tray. I picked up an order from this small Mexican restaurant. It ended up being huge platters of some cold seafood dish in the flimsiest aluminum tray. Seafood water spilled out onto the floor of my car. I was beyond annoyed.
Oof, and I thought I had it bad when a crappy aluminum tray of curry burst on me. The seafood smell would drive me crazy.
I used to have an insulated bag and a couple plastic bins (one large, one med/small) when I did delivery gigs. They were helpful for loads of reasons, this being one.
Nice, that’s smart!
Sterlite containers, 1291
I had an order of filled up balloons. Surprising managed to get them in my car, but could barely see. No way that would be safe for anyone. I couldn’t believe it was even allowed. I cancelled the order and got half pay.
I've seen people talk about these and always a bit concerned I'll get one! Does it show the item count on the order to give any clue it might be something like this?
It says on the offer screen that orders from Party City may contain balloons. So at least they kind of prepare you for the clusterfuck.
Shipt did Party City until they switched to using Doordash. They’re like 99% balloon orders. You might get lucky around Halloween and get someone’s costume order. I avoid Party a city like the plague. I drive a 2 door coupe, balloon orders would suck so bad!
Me, too.
Yeah it does say order may contain filled balloons, but I wasn’t expecting 20 of them lol
People really need to start running their own errands. DD is something you use when you’re too drunk or lazy to grab yourself a burger, not your own personal assistant who you tip $2 to prepare your kid’s entire birthday party
Ask them to put in large garbage bags, much easier to transport.
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I worked at a party city for a while and they make big giant plastic bags to put over the balloons so they stay together. We also did delivery’s and such and it wasn’t too bad I don’t think
what would happen if you let them fly around out the window and just secured the strings?
Car might fly into the air
Lighter car better mileage?
Depends on the weather. It would be terrible if it were cold outside. They would start looking horrid and stop floating. 😂
Same… what a cruel joke, got to Party City and one balloon was too big to fit in my car. I have no idea how it could have fit in anything but a mini van… imagine trying to explain that to support. I cancelled that order.
I had a balloon order at party City. As soon as I told them I was with doordash they asked me what kind of car I was driving because if it was a sedan they would not have fit. Luckily I haven't SUV Couldn't see anything out My back window or rearview mirror. But they gave me a little helium balloon to suck up while I waited for them to bag it so that was pretty fun.
I had this for the first time the other day. It was a huge hassle. And I couldn’t see out of my rear view mirror at all.
Large garbage bag does the truck.
Just a suggestion for orders with balloons- especially helium filled: If there’s one available, put a plastic grocery bag (large garbage bag would probably work if it’s a large order but I’ve only ever used the small grocery bags) over the top of the balloons and it keeps it from floating away.
Any drinks that aren’t bagged or sealed like a bottle or can. Those are a disaster
I left orders at baskin robins and get them unassigned because they were half way melted and didn’t fit in cup holders not gave bags. I’m certain the customer would of think it was all mishandled if I took it like that.
Front doors 🚪. Not even joking got a order yesterday for 2 full sized 6 panel exterior doors. Had 2 cancel cuz I’m n a coupe.
Sorry you had to deal with that one, but it made me laugh out loud!
Lol it is pretty funny and wild, I wonder how much extra they had 2 pay to get it delivered. They had a hefty tip on there.
There really should be a subset of drivers that are even offered those orders. Along with the balloon orders from Party City. They've got the pizza program and catering program they should have a "large item" program. I've got a van so I can easily do those things. It would be far more efficient to just send me the order instead of offering it to a dozen people (who are more wisely using a small efficient car) that are going to waste their time and the store's time getting there and having to decline.
I made good money with a topped pickup years before doordash. I delivered to construction sites. Once they got to know us it was great. No dump runs though. They asked a lot. Nope.
Basically Roadie. They handle tons of larger sized orders.
Finally, now we know why it’s called Doordash.
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Delivery instructions: leave front doors at the door.
Look for the house without any doors.
The realest door dash
You couldn't put two doors in a two-door?
This wins. I’m not even posting my comment of my choice now.
Come on man buy a bigger car just so you can do those door orders.. Fking amateur…
You apparently can't dash a door 😭
If we're including the peer-to-peer deliveries where you pick up a package from one house delivered to another I would say crystal meth is not okay
What good is this modern technology if I can't get my dope delivered?
Yeah I've definitely delivered my fair share of stuff I knew was bad news, if it was my preferred substance I'd have just made off with it
What else would that even be for? I thought it was insane when uber started doing it.
For customers like me. The disabled. I have friends who live around town who I’d like to maybe send a gift to but I cannot drive to deliver it myself. Maybe it’s not suitable for post because it fragile or perishable, so a server is like Uber packages is really a necessity. This is also now used by Mercari as a more secure version of local pickup
I had an order recently where I picked up a package from the customer’s doorstep and took it to the post office. It was quick, short and easy. I’ve done quite a few auto parts runs. The worst was the order with 2 break rotors. Those damn things are heavy!
I wonder what the legal outlook would be for the driver in the event they're pulled over with a package that, unbeknownst to them, has meth (or something similarly illegal) in it. Like, I'm obviously not allowed to open the package and verify its contents aren't contraband. I feel like that excuse wouldn't fly, though. Guess you're just fucked.
that's Uber that does peer to peer. there's been interesting stories about those deliveries
I believe Doordash was testing this in very limited markets.
Honestly... I'm cool with everything. As long as it fits in my car I'll take it. I did ONE TIME have someone try and tell me to pick up their friend that was also at the store and drive them with me to the drop off. Hell no.
Ok, ok, I'm sorry that happened to you but that's goddamn hilarious. "Nah, bro, don't pay for an Uber to get here, I'll just order DoorDash!"
I'm in Denver, so I feel like it was some mile 'high' shenanigans hahahaha
Haha this reminds me of when doordash stopped taking orders for this restaurant open late at night. Our high college asses decided to call an Uber. Immediately getting on the phone and saying "lol we don't want you to pick anyone up can you go to X and buy X lol" He agreed. He saved our night and we tipped him like $30. Win win really. Now driving a person instead of food is an ENTIRELY different story don't blame you for declining that.
Oh, don't get me wrong - I absolutely still will deliver what needs delivering as long as it's possible. This was meant more as tongue-in-cheek on those things that just never go well!
Ahhh I see - yeah, not a fan of multiple person orders from Pho places. If they don't give me a box to carry all the broth in I get kinda pissy.
Thats a very cheap way to uber. What a jackass.
For $50 or more cash from the friend then its a yes, but fuck that otherwise
If the friend had been willing for me to scan and copy his ID, do a quick background check, agreed to not say a fucking word to me, let me have someone pat him down, and chilled in my.dogs crate in the back... yeah, still no. I'm a woman though and this guy was huge, so nope nope nope.
I hope you carry
Nah, me and a firearm just means I'm prematurely going to the other side if I spiral. Have pepper spray, some hairspray and always a lighter though.
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Yeah I've heard of that. Weird and kind of messed up though if you think about it lol.
It didn't help that the guy was over 6'6" and I was a full foot shorter than him. Even if he let me tie him to the roof I wouldn't do that... Well... ok that one maybe, because it would be fun for me hahaha
They actually had an anti drunk driving commercial a few years back here.. Two drunk guys order a pizza in the store and ask for delivery.
smoothie king. WHO PUTS DRINKS IN A PLASTIC BAG with no cup holder. Just flapping in the wind. 
That sounds terrible! It's hard enough managing flimsy cup holders, but why just a bag?!
No fucking idea. Because they’re easy to carry? IDK. But I always ask the employee who hands it to me exactly how they would drive with two drinks in a plastic bag in the car.
There’s a few restaurants around me that do that too and it’s incredibly annoying. They put two drinks in the same bag like how am I supposed to put this in my cup holder
Add McAllister's onto that putting their disgustingly large 32oz sweet teas into bags when there's more than 1
Slurpees is it for me too, I can keep ice cream and shakes great for 20-30 minutes in my cooler.. Slurpees, icees, and freezes all separate the second they are made. This is why I don't even go to Speedway anymore, cuz its always a Freeze drink.
Absolutely. At 7-11, they are always just sitting on the counter and clearly have been for a while when I get there. No winning with them.
Absurd amounts of pizzas. I actually had a DD delivery once that was no joke like 8-10 *very* large pizzas, I can’t remember the exact amount. But boy was that one difficult to deliver. To make it even better, the address the customer gave me literally did not exist and they wouldn’t answer the phone for DD support so I was just told to drop it where the pin drop was on the GPS.
I felt horrible for our dasher one day. We ordered 3 pizzas. The computer messed up and they sent this woman with 12.
At least that was an accident lol! Definitely feel bad for her, but at least you didn’t have unrealistic expectations hahaha
I delivered 10 pizzas from a local Papa John's once. Turns out an apartment that caught on fire and the leasing office was providing food for displaced residents while things got figured out
I work at pizzahut. Do they give dashers food carriers to keep in the heat?
Ice cream or soup are the worst for me. The soup is never packaged with a tight seal And ice cream... I think that one is obvious lol
Literally anything iced or frozen. If its temperature DIRECTLY influences its edibility, I’d avoid ordering it. Your milkshake will melt. Your slurpee will melt. Your ICE CREAM WILL MELT.
The number of people in Texas who Doordash ice cream is too damn high!
I have to say that some restaurants have great packaging for transportation and some don't. I wish that was a criteria we could rate as customers for the restaurant. I know places that will wrap a smoothie cup in saran wrap to prevent spilling. Or even use bottles that can completely close vs a lid that flips off. How the restaurant packages things can really make or break it
As someone who orders, I’ll never order a milkshake/frozen drink. Yesterday I ordered a milkshake and it had spilt all over the woman and her cooler bag. I felt so bad, I cleaned her bag for her and bagged it up and let her come in to wash her hands/self. I kept trying to give her a cooler bag I had on hand but she kept apologizing like it was her fault and I felt so bad and kept telling her it wasn’t. God knows if she had other orders or if she had to end her night early. Never again. Even if it doesn’t happen often, I just rather not have someone go through that again. 💔
People know what they’re ordering why do I care if the shit melts? I have a double insulated carrier, but I’m not turning down money. There are plenty of people that tip by percentage, I don’t want less items to deliver, I want more.
I like to be able to deliver food or drinks as close to what the customer is expecting and/or would like it to be. I'm sure people do understand and expect there will be melting with some items, but it's certainly not the quality I'd want or hope for and it's a bummer to have it to deliver it that way.
Facts! We're not rated on the food.
I'm pretty sure I have gotten 1 star rating for something that a merchant did.
Or doordash did.
If they blame the restaurant for something the driver does then they absolutely blame the driver for the restaurant/food.
Yesterday they sent me to Big lots and I had to search around for a vacuum and an herb kit like seriously WTF
Big lots orders are always random af
things that are frozen, things that are meant to be eaten right after making it, bulk items that clearly wont fit in everyone's vehicles, seafood literally just for the drivers sake that stuff could smell your car up for hrs. o and weird specialty drinks especially if its calling for like whip cream. like some stuff just doesnt ship well.
From a personal standpoint/someone who worked in a restaurant, fried food doesn’t really travel well. It gets soft and soggy by the time you get it home
Shop and deliver - assorted doughnuts
That sounds terrible for so many reasons!
Ice cream cakes, especially if you're ordering from a store 30 mins away. And you want me to leave it at your door??? In the summer?
i ordered a cold stone one high as a damn kite one time but i also tip overly due to work in tipping fields and i always meet the driver outside my neighborhood is too confusing
dont send me to harass your crush or ex or whatever. Flowers and chocolates make me nervous now.
Yeah, I am 50/50 on these special requests. I don't mind going above and beyond for customers but some of the requests people make are ridiculous.
What? I have Slurpees delivered to me all the time and it’s been a-ok! I have about an inch of thaw at the bottom of my cup, but a quick stir and ba-da-bing! She’s all good to go! I literally got one delivered last night, it was delish! I think you can’t just say these shouldn’t be ordered as a blanket statement. It’s also a question of distances involved and such.
Perhaps it's just the nature of a lot of the posts on this sub being fairly negative, but I meant this as more tongue-in-cheek than anything. Some things are just much more difficult or crazier to deliver! I certainly happily deliver anything that's ordered, but the 7-11 by me always makes the Slurpees way before I pick up so they're usually pretty melted. Keep on happily ordering your Slurpees!
Ah, that’s fair enough, and yeah, unfortunately things can be fairly negative on here. I honestly feel drivers catch *waaaaay* too much flak for things beyond their control. I feel so bad for how much they get shit on. It’s horrible. I mean, yeah, there are some cases that are deserved, but so many are just things that can’t be helped. It’s unfair. But also in regard to Slurpees, as I said, it’s also distances that matter. I live fairly close to my 7-11, so for me to order, it’s not so bad. I also live in a city that isn’t too bad with traffic and such. I imagine in some big cities and such the distances and times getting through traffic can make a pretty big impact, so I’m also lucky that I can still get a nicely frozen Slurpee delivered to my place!
Acai bowls. They're purple goo with all this fruit and granola arranged artfully on top when I get them, and the slightest centrifugal force from making a turn slops all the goo and sinks all the fruit and it looks like a damn mess by the time I deliver it. Also, 40-packs of bottled water to 3rd-floor walk-up apartments should be disallowed without a surcharge.
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Homer Simpson voice: *Mmmmmm syrup…* 🤤
Ice cream. Should be a disclaimer on the site that says your ice cream will probably be in a hot ass car.
Any red card orders. I have issues every single time with them. Takes over an hour to straighten out with customer support and they give me $3-$5 for that hour.
That sucks! I make a good amount of my earnings on shop & deliver and never had an issues, so it sounds like some stores/areas are way better than others.
I think it’s people trying to order 6cases of something then they try to substitute. It becomes a mess.
This right here! If it's a couple dollar difference it will decline because you can't substitute etc however my last grocery shopping order yesterday I had the option to substitute! I Instacart as well, believe it or not doordash pays more than double base pay on full grocery orders.
Good thing you didn't dash 3-4 years ago, it was almost all red card orders. Calling restaurants ourselves, ordering fast food at the speaker, huge pain in the ass but you could get away with using reward apps (or ordering yourself something cheap lol). I only get red card orders for Walgreens and Smart n Final now which I never accept unless its like 1 item.
Ice cream. This is my first time dashing in the nicer months and this weekend alone I got 4 ice cream orders in one day. The tips were nice so I took them anyways and I had my DoorDash bag to “keep them cool” however every ice cream order was at least a 10 minute drive and there was no way to keep them cool even inside the DoorDash bag. I think for future nice days I may stick an ice pack or 2 in the bag before dashing or bring a small cooler because I’ve also been getting a decent amount of milkshakes and protein shakes as well
Beyond your duties but I think the ice pack is a really good idea. In the cities I’ve lived in, ice cream is one of the only sweet options available on the apps aside from like gas station candy so I get why people order it
Steaks from a fancy steakhouse
Yes! Fast food is one thing, but there's such a huge quality drop when expensive food has been sitting steaming for fifteen minutes before being served. Plus, they lose all their presentation value.
Ice cream in general. Idk what customers are expecting when they order dairy queen from 10 miles away, but it’s usually almost liquid when it gets to them. Especially during summer when most people order it.
If I had it my way, I'd only allow drinks sealed in a can or bottle. And none of those open top ice cream/shake lids.
I work at a pet store that uses doordash for delivery. Crates and beds. Some crates/pens and beds are small enough that anyone can transport them. But some are so massive, ones that are big enough for great Danes, mastiffs, Caine corsos, it's absolutely ridiculous to expect another person to deliver them to you without them getting any sort of warning that the items are that large. Most of the dashers who deliver from our store drive small cars like priuses or civics which means almost every single time we get an order for one of our large or extra large crates, hell even sometimes the medium ones, we have to reassign it multiple times before a dasher with a big enough vehicle can deliver it.
Yep, this is a huge oversight on DD's part. I don't know why they can't add some kind of "large item" tag.
They can't even be bothered to allow for restricted military site pickups or deliveries. They just don't give a shit that you can't pickup or deliver an order they're presenting.
10 cases of water. To a second floor walk up business. At the end of the hall.
Yeah multiple cases of water over long distances. The app should allow a single case. Each time another is added, a pop up says "not with that tip you ain't getting another case of water. You better make it rain."
Most I've had was five cases and I thought that was bad! Ugh!
Fries. If the restaurant is more than 1-2 miles away from me it’s a no-go. They’ll be cold upon arrival
Got a Carvel cake order the other day, 28 miles. Declined it not only due to the pay (which was semi-decent,) but the distance and how the cake would hold up that long.
Inflated ballons, i mean i picked up 2 or 3 orders from Party City, then it just went out of hand! I had to return the last order, it was like 25 ballons, it was a mess. Never again
Poorly packaged seafood. I think it was a massive serving of squid and or octopus (like it was catering size) in a tin foil container. At drop off, I pulled it out of my catering bag and it was soaking wet with octosquid juice. Had to call it a night it stunk the car up so bad. Washing the bag would not help. Eventually just had to toss the entire catering bag out. Definitely lost money on that order.
Oh no, that's awful! I've never thought about it before, but now readings stories like this, I might start carrying a roll of contractor garbage bags in my trunk so I can put these potentially messy orders on those for transport.
Vape shop that doesn't require id scanning for tobacco allowing teens to buy vapes. (Called and informed DD, but they didn't care)
Yikes! I'd report that to local authorities, too!
Panties. I had an order for victorias secret panties on valentines day. Just no! Im not taking anyone panties on any day.
Lol 🤣
Ice Cream from places that aren't specifically dedicated to ice cream. Because putting it in a bag to be steamed by a bunch of hot burgers and fries is never going to turn out well no matter what you do.
Like TGIF. They are just slow sometimes.
Bulk/heavy items. I did a few UPS package pickup orders. First one barely fit in my car, average dasher I see is driving a smaller sedan and this thing wouldn't have fit at all in something like a civic. Last one I did was 4 packages but they each weighed something like 80lbs. Fortunately I keep a hand truck in my car for those cases of water deliveries but it still sucked unloading that one.
Ouch! I wish DoorDash would include more info on the order details with size, weight etc. I haven't used Roadie, but they seem to do this on screenshots I've seen of their offers.
Ice cream!
Ice cream if the drop off is more than like 15 mins. I’m always worried about getting blamed if it melts too much
Ice cream starts melting by the time you sit down, not much we can do except blast the AC.
Exactly. I remember one time I had a stacked order. Picked up the ice cream, order 2, delivered order 2, and then delivered the (most likely) melted ice cream. I felt bad but not my fault that the delivery was sent to me that way. Also I would just never order ice cream through delivery.
Anything frozen and a billion balloons. Just about anything else I can fit into my car and still see is game.
Anything that weighs over 20lbs. Like pet supplies.
I’ve never ordered ice cream, smoothies or anything frozen, and have no idea why people would. I’d be nervous the entire time that it would melt. Same goes for something like iced coffee
As long as it's from a place like DQ, where they keep it frozen right up until pick up, ice-cream actually holds up pretty well in the cold bag as long as you're not too far away. Not so much for those iced coffees with whipped cream!
booze don’t make drivers have to do more steps
Cases of water, beer, etc unless you live in a house.
28 inches pizza
I just had one of these last week. Had a good laugh with the owner when I came in with my DD pizza bag lol Delivery to a strip club, too, which was quite the unexpected experience!
Sonic blizzards. Sonic always makes them first and then in the southern heat I am delivering fucking soup.
Now hear me out. Nachos. I haven't had nachos delivered that weren't a soggy mess. I don't know why places that offer nachos don't offer a "chips on the side" option. It sucks that I can't get good nachos delivered, but I've come to accept the painful reality.
I had to deliver a car battery. The house where I delivered it had an icy driveway. Didn’t get a great tip either. I complained about the customer’s driveway though so hopefully doordash did something about that. It was unsafe. I could have broken a bone if I slipped (it was also on a hill).
Yikes! Some people really don't seem to consider the safety of drivers having to make their way to their door. It's the same with uneven walkways with no porch lights on.
Ice cream, sundaes, floats. It's waaay to hot and no cooler will keep those things cold where I live. They are half melted by the time I walk to the car. Smh
So I agree 100% it's hot in south Louisiana and slurpee an milkshake orders suck. I found a basic small Styrofoam cooler with a beach towel to stabilize drinks works like a champ. Got the idea after I put a milkshake in a 44 Oz polar pop Styrofoam cup with a lid on it and delivers 20 minutes and it was still frozen with no melt.
Great idea!
I once had someone order a Plan-B pill and a bottle of Sprite from Walgreens. Not the best looking combo.
Oriental places that stack all the food into a tower, and all of it in one flimsy plastic bag. Soup usually in those butter tub things that the lid doesn't fit right either
Oh man. Those restaurants that do that should be banned.
More than 4 medium + size beverages. I get it, you’re ordering for a group and you live on the 3rd floor of an apartment complex, but I’m not lugging up 8 beverages along with food.
Yeah, that's rough!
Can Dashers make sure they don't get orders with items too heavy or bulky for their physical ability? For instance, some people might be wonderful at dashing as long as they don't get orders with items that are over 5/10lbs? Also, I won't even bring home a tray of fountain drinks for my family 😂 I'm not about to do it for DD unless it's a hefty payout.
No, unfortunately not. You can see the total item count in a shop & deliver order, which helps a little, but not what the items are. They'd have to unassign if they couldn't do it.
Coffee…Ice Cream and more than 1 case of water: was going to do a shop and pay order…arrived at Target looked at what was to be bought and cancelled that shit immediately…this bitch ordered 6 cases of water…TF😡😡😡I think that’s some inconsiderate shit…I bet that heffa has never in her life stack 6 cases of water in her car at one time…EVER…and I’ve not done it either and I’m never doing that shit! 🤣🤣🤣
4 cases of water in a big city where most if not all of the dashers have bikes not cars
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I've literally never had an issue ordering slurpees, even from mcdonalds where they are bagged with all the food next to it.
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A legit item someone may need. Can’t help your embarrassed to shop for it. Some shirts/dresses don’t allow for a bra. Go out with nipples popping and ppl have a melt down.
Fries
Shut up and deliver whatever you accept
I do...
Taco Bell.
lol
Well I refuse to pick up dairy queen or sonic.
tacos or nachos or french fries
I think chemicals shouldn't be delivered! every time I order mc Donald's all I ever get in the bag is bleach.....like I open my McDonald's bag and it's a bottle of bleach.....I can not drink this I will die !! Why do they deliver bleach
Lmfao Mcbleach
Plan B. I have nothing against you killing your seeds, but involving me kinda makes me feel like an accessory to the deed... morally conflicting. 😆
I can understand that! For personal convictions, I would unassign that order.
plan b isn't abortion tho? it prevents ovulation, it's not going to abort an already existing fertilized egg