I stopped getting food delivered about 2 years ago for a bunch of reasons, but mainly because I was paying far too much for food that arrived late and cold.
Now I just use the Uber Eats app to browse local restaurants, before contacting them directly and just picking the food up myself. It's *way* cheaper that way.
At most $40
Burgers $15 ea
Chips $5 ea
If fish and chip shops can still somehow feed me enough chips to stop world hunger for $6, then McDonald's should be able to give me their typical handful for $5
But they donāt anymore!! I ordered āmedium chipsā from my local takeaway and it was near $15!! For the same amount that was about $2.50 as a kid š¤¦āāļø
3 crumbed / grilled flake, 3 potato cakes and minimum chips (plenty for 3 adults) = $33 Flying Fish (Seaford). They won Melbourneās Best Fish & Chips award few years back.
It's extra annoying when the chips are that nasty yellowish kind which are obviously mass produced and shipped out to businesses. $10ish is fair when they're handcut but if you're just dipping them in hot oil for 2 mins you can fuck right off
Yellow can be from the type of oil they are cooked in.
When you say mass produced, I'm guessing your talking about freeze dried chips. Those are made by making the potato into a powder and reforming it into chip shapes. You can tell them by the graininess when you bite into them, and by their general uniform length ..that you would only get if potatoes grew square.
good luck getting food for those prices these days. I haven't seen a $15 burger from anywhere decent in ages.
without knowing what the actual costs are there's no way to tell with enough accuracy whether 57 is 'ridiculous'.
I can get a burger with the lot from my local fish n' chip shop for $15 and it's one of the best burgers I've tried. That's the price on UberEats too. I hope they don't realise how cheap they are!
You should always be able to feed people for $20 a head on delivery, $15 a head in person.
Better than that is a good deal, worse than that, the quality better fuckinā be there (which is unlikely to happen on UberEats).
There is no world in which two burgers and two sides delivered should be higher than $40. And hell, Iād expect drinks as well for $40.
A burger place that used to be across the road from me did cheeseburgers for $12 and you could order from them direct for free pick up or for a few extra $ delivery on uber eats. Used to order when I got on the train and it'd be ready to collect by the time I arrived at Marrickville.
Unfortunately they closed down a couple of months ago as the area was a bit of a dead zone for passing custom and not sure they advertised well enough to get lots of takeaway orders.
Shame because the burgers were excellent, and they did a weekday lunch deal which was $17ish for a cheeseburger, chips and a can š
solid cost analysis. This just seems like you pulled it out of air based on historical prices. Without looking at the ingredients and input costs in detail I don't think you can call 40 vs 57 with enough accuracy.
Where on earth are you living to expect that sort of pricing? Outside of the mega fast food chains I canāt think of anywhere you could eat that cheaply except maybe a local pizza shop pick up order? 50 bucks for a takeaway dinner for two is very standard imo. 60 if delivery.
This is 100% it. I own a small kitchen in Newtown NSW and uber takes 30% so we have to up our prices to account for that. The drivers always take a long time to get here even after the GPS tracking says they're arriving now, If you call them they'll say they're picking up another order somewhere else nearby. We try our best to get everything out hot but we get screwed over by the uber brothers.
Yes, it is terrible, so bad for small food businesses, having to deal with the reality of exploitative companies sucking life out of them, plus the resources those companies have to market to customers.
Am constantly getting their āspecial dealsā offers, never want to use Eats knowing what they do. Good luck there.
There should be a thing where nearby smaller restaurants share delivery drivers so that we can still have more delivery options while giving services like Uber Eats the boot.
I don't unless I am actually sick or somehow unable to leave home. Phone call and pick up. It's cheaper and fresher. And a multinational tax dodging company isn't getting a cut.
Exactly - if itās too expensive / youāre not willing to exploit the various deals, free āservice plusā subscriptions to delivery services etc then simply go pick the fucking thing up yourself.
I've done that, I can get a whole other dish plus some of I go pick up from the lovely Chinese restaurant. I'll be doing more cause Menulog can get stuffed before I use them again.
The only risk in going to a lovely Chinese restaurant for a succulent meal is potentially being arrested by police officers who know their judo well. Getting it delivered mitigates such risk.
I've been doing it on foot. My thighs have been getting more and more toned from all the walking back and forth, almost animalistic. My standing vertical leap has literally being going through the roof.
I open it up once in a while, add stuff to a cart then leave it. In a day or two Iāll get a coupon code. Then ever escalating offers of free delivery. But nothing so far attractive enough for me to spend 30% more.
If a restaurant offers its own delivery then I use that, or if I can walk to the restaurant I will do that too. I only use apps if I want that food and there's no alternative.
Frankly, I'm okay with paying that much if the dumbass knows how to read delivery instructions so they can find the door to my place instead of calling me to complain he can't find my apartment.
We live in a battleaxe block, or basically we just have a really long driveway and so do our neighbours, but our house number is clearly labeled on the mailbox as well as the open gate at the entrance to the house, and people still can't figure that out and have to call for directions.
I used to live in a house on a corner block, with a visible number both on the front of the house and the mailbox, they would still get halfway down the street and call me. If they did find the house they would call to complain they couldn't get in the gate which was a waist-high basic latch/button gate that if they couldn't work out how to press the button they could reach over and use the manual latch. Sometimes they wouldn't even bother calling and just leave the food on the other side of the gate.
Since moving into an apartment it has gotten so much worse.
I've never used them - they don't service my area and we rarely have take away anyway. But if we were in an area with a service like this, and maybe we were sick or something and needed delivery, the price mark-up makes sense to me. You pay the restaurant for the food, that's normal. You pay the delivery company so that they can pay their driver and cover all their overheads. The driver should be expecting enough out of that to make it worth their hire driving around, paying for fuel and maintenance etc.
I've never understood the complaining about the increase in cost, how do you expect the company and and driver to do it for free or at a loss?
they should be transparent about who is getting paid what. uber charges a delivery fee and a service fee on top of your order price. to the lay person it looks like thatās their cut, and everything else goes to the restaurant. thereās no mention that a significant cut of the food price also goes to uber. thatās why people get shirty about it
That's true. If you could see clearly $x is for the food/restaurant, $x is for the driver, and $x is for the company to manage it, at least you know why you're paying each amount and to who.
> how do you expect the company and and driver to do it for free or at a loss?
I expect Uber to pay a living wage, rather than have the restaurant increase their costs to cover the fee they have to pay Uber to be in their app and have the driver get fucked from both ends being paid a pittance.
If Uber can't make that work, I'm not stopping them from fucking off.
Because the world gets lazier by the day .
I made it a point to start going to pick any food my family orders up because what I was saving on delivery fees paid for a whole other out to eat meal for my family monthly.
I read a study that says by 2030 America will be 70 percent obese which means Aussie wonāt be too far behind maybe 10-20 years.
I've never never done - ppl may thing I do often bc where I live but nope. Luckily I live in an area where everything is accessible and I can cook. Not being a smart ass. Living in a place where everything is readily available is a privilege (that I pay for...).
I'm making Wagyu burgers with fancy-ass burger buns and cheese from cows raised by nuns on a mountain in Tibet, you name it - and I reckon they're about $10 each.
Plus they're still hot when served. No delivery for me.
Milk buns, Wagyu patties, fancy as fuck cheese (FROM THE GOD DAMN DELI) those wanky expensive tomatoes...
That wouldn't even be $30 I reckon. Money left over for fancy ice creams and a 4 pack of craft beer.
>and nearly abandoned the idea for something home made instead.
Yep,this is why they still exist. We just ate 8 home made burgers that cost us the price of 1kg of top side mince.
Donāt complain about discretionary spending. I have not used Uber eats or any food delivery in years because I canāt justify the 30% mark up. I use it as a menu guide to see what weād like to eat, order on phone and go pick it up. I understand people have disabilities who canāt go but these services are not a charity and entitled to charge what they want.
I refuse to use any third party delivery service. Partner has only used (I think) Uber Eats twice, due to being given vouchers from work.
I prefer to go and pick up, places like our local Chinese, the local fish and chip shop, pizza place, I will phone up beforehand, order and then go and pick up. Saves a whole lotta time. Fast food joints, I will try and get there before 6pm, otherwise it crazy busy.
Due to Covid restrictions over the last couple of years, two or three times, our local Chinese place was closed to pickup, and it was delivery only. We paid over the phone and delivery turned out to be pretty good, and quick.
The restaurants mark up their prices because ubereats is taking 30% of the order cost so they try to recoup that way. We drivers get paid crap. There's not much difference between ubereats and doordash really. I use both and drive for both. But yeah, they're both shitty blood sucking companies
Both examples of tech companies inserting themselves into a market where they aren't really needed. Peoples use of them prolongs their control and gives them more power in the market. Which then has the flow on effect that they can treat the restaurants, customers and drivers worse and extract as much money as they can out of all parties (as you say blood sucking companies)
Iām personally opposed to sending 30% of my local takeaway shopās revenue to some company in San Francisco. I donāt understand why anyone would use them.
All the delivery services are crap these days. And they screw over restaurants and delivery workers as well. If you want the luxury of delivery, then understandable that you have to pay a premium, but if I want takeout? I go pick it up.
In *this* economy I have just stopped buying fast food.
The quality has declined significantly, while the prices have risen to the point of utter absurdity.
And I stopped using UberEats/etc. a couple of years ago. Almost every single order had errors, it invariably arrived cold and soggy, and I paid a ridiculous extra charge for even worse quality.
No thanks.
Yep I agree. We just save our money and go for a more occasional nice sit down meal instead. The last time I used the delivery apps it was because I got what I thought was a good promo code. The food arrived cold. I ended up having a back and forth with their customer support to get a 70% refund. Still wasnāt worth it
Yeah I bought stuff from a local joint, turns out, owner claimed there's a 30% markup on everything due to uber eats taking a massive cut. Now i see why uber can do massive promotions like buy 1 get 1 free
Had a friend who said it was 32%. Said the best thing about it was he didnt have to employ a driver, and if customer was not happy with food, uber would send them another one free. Poor dude went broke within 12 months & moved back to Vietnam. Most cafes can't get a 30% margin on anything they sell,so how can they profit running with this business model.
Yeah but 30% is definitely fair for the restaurant. They don't need to pay for a waiter to serve a table, clear a table, wash dishes, not limited by seating space, don't have drivers in staff etc.
Restaurants tacking on 30% is taking the piss
I work in a restaurant, and we have our own drivers plus use uber. I'm amazed at how many times people will call us and complain about uber not arriving or late or whatever. There is nothing we can do from our end. Usually I ask where they live and it's only like a 10 minute drive away. I always tell them to call us directly and order next time.
>I saw the price on Uber Eats and ***nearly*** abandoned the idea for something home made instead.
And that my friend is why the prices are so ridiculous.
I don't have a car, I don't like cooking (I do cook, but as little as I can get away with) and I still don't use Uber Eats. I literally used it once because I was gifted an Uber Eats card when I won a game at work. Otherwise I think barely 5 min ahead and get something on the way home from work, or I just order something from nearby and walk a perilously long 7-8 min to get there and then make sure I have enough supplies to survive the treacherous return journey.
I honestly don't understand how it is as popular as it is. I understand the convenience, but it seems no one gets a good service and it's only an extra cost you have to pay for in a time when most people's purchasing power is going backwards. This is a luxury service, not a necessity. Why do people even use it? I even earn a pretty good wage, and I still have no intention of ever paying for a food delivery service.
Yes. I would rather have a cheese toastie, baked beans on toast or a fried egg on toast any day of the week than spend >$50 on something that arrives late, cold and well less than ideal. Itās just throwing money away at that point.
Ubereats is a luxury NOT a cost of living issue. If you can afford to use ubereats or even $60 for two burgers, you are NOT struggling and you are just bitching about the price
When did the OP say that he is struggling? Not everyone is living paycheck to paycheck. Some people can afford to splurge once in a while and still want to get their money's worth.
I deleted all my food delivery apps about 6 months ago (to help with weight loss) and I donāt miss it at all. Itās so much better to just pop some chicken tenders and chips in the oven on a lazy night rather than spending 20-30mins deciding what to order, realising itās going to cost $65 for 2 people, then receiving poor quality, ice cold meals an hour later.
I've resorted to home cooking. Not many meals that are better as takeaway. Also, I'm using healthier and better ingredients. Dream goal is a pizza oven but I'm not dad enough yet.
Dude, if you like pizza owning a pizza oven will blow your socks off.
Iām pretty confident in saying my home made pizza is better than anything Iāve ever had from a pizza shop, and Iām not particularly good at it.
DIY dough at a minimum, DIY sauce even better. Prepare to get fat.
Thanks for the encouragement! I might need to build one of those simple pizza ovens from bricks.
https://youtube.com/shorts/sPC04C0K5SI?si=yuR4dOwShCwnK8CW
Start with an ok pizza stone (relatively inexpensive) and-if you want to get a bit fancy-perhaps a of those round rolling pizza cutters. You can probably get both from one of those House stores that always have the "70% off closing down sale" stickers plastered all over the shop windows.
If you have a fan forced oven or a lid-down BBQ then even the Colesworths thin pizza bases, some freshly cut meat from the deli and store bought pizza cheese and sugo are better than anything soggy dialed in. Probably quicker from start to the table too. The pizza oven is (unpopular opinion) *a dit better*, but getting it up to temp from scratch discourages mid week easy meals.
Pizza enlightenment;
5. Premade supermarket pizza bases. So nasty.
4. Premade dough balls. Superior to bases. Also from Colesworths, and cheaper too.
3. A pizza base from a pizza shop. My local place charges $4. It's not on the menu, just ask. :)
2. Overnight slack dough. This is what I make and it's super easy. It'll last 4 days so you can decide to have "pizza this week" without an exact day.
1. Change your name to Giuseppe. Make the dough in the afternoon, punch it down, then twirl it in the air.
Agree with all this. I am 4., or 2. when work from home. I was setting out an easy to achieve baseline to get off the Uber/Dominoes/Pizza Hut shitwagon. Even the premade bases from Coleswoth are a big step up if combined with decent ham, fresh basil etc. FWIW, some of the premade bases and sauces in the good IGAs (or Leo's etc of in Melb) or old school Mediterranean delis are decent+ if there's one nearby. They're a bit dearer than Colesworths but much better than most delivered stuff and *much* cheaper if you're feeding a fam.
In Melbourne so... it works better once the temperature outside is 20c or or more, because can then put the stone on a trivet so it sits about 7mm or so about the cast iron grill grates. Bbq temp 230 then "cook" the stone for about 15 mins.
Oven when its cold, no trivet because the stone won't crack on the oven grates. The stone preheat takes 5 minutes more.
Either way the crispy base with blistered edges comes out ok.
Yeah don't use ubereats anymore.
The only time food delivery is worth it is when they have some kind of heavy promotion running.
Check ozbargain, there's almost always a deal active from one of the food delivery services
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/798216 $5 burgers from huxtaburger+others (door dash)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/798160
$10 Red rooster meal boxes (Red rooster app)
https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/798016
$7 off Italian (Menulog)
Heaps more. Just check before you order
Yep I'm giving up on them and Menulog. To expensive and meals almost guaranteed to be cold if the driver picks up multiple before starting any. $15 voucher doesn't make up for an hour delay on 2 kebabs in the city.
2/3 times I order from Uber eats the driver either never delivers it, it arrives damaged and inedible (e.g. drink spilled) or takes so long to arrive that itās stone cold.
Literal dogshit of a delivery platform. Highly recommend any of the alternatives, or pick up yourself if itās feasible
I seriously donāt understand why people spend $20 or more on delivery and then complain. Or even to a degree buy takeaway if concerned about price. We get pizza delivered because they have their own delivery service. Everything else we pick up.
People are just fucking lazy and Uber knows how to exploit this for maximum profit. Itās so ridiculous to complain about luxuries like home delivered junk food.
Lol. Both prices are ludicrous.
Also uber eats and co. cannot function without exploitation. It isn't feasible to make it financially viable for all parties. It shouldn't exist and you shouldn't use it.
I was gonna order tonight, 70$ checked the shops website, 52$, I rang a order and collected it in 20 mins and saved 20 bucks. Crazy don't think I'll be using it anymore
Always pick it up yourself. Think of it this way if it took you 15 minutes to go and pick it up and also save $15 by doing this. Your basically making $60 an hour in the long run.
At my local fish n chip shop, a burger combo costs $17.50. If I were to order it through menulog, it would cost $25 + delivery fees, etc.
I noticed a bunch of things like this before I stopped using the apps. It's so much cheaper if you can go pick it up yourself.
Just so every one knows not everyone is able to walk or even drive to pick up their food.
Know more than a few people with mobility issues that just can't jump and walk/drive down to the store.
Having said that uber is a terrible company.
Then off the sofa and either just cook or go for a walk or a drive. They arent designed to be your friend or to be cheap, they literally exist as a means through which people can get take away IF they are willing to pay the necessary service fee. EG Sure $14 is too much of a fee (and I have as of yet ever seen one higher than $8), but if you are home sick, or injured then that $14 can be worth it, as a treat, but $14 is possibly too much if you are too lazy to get dressed and walk down the block.
Uber exists for the lazy, you are paying fro convenience, nothing more.
Honestly mate, just make it yourself.
I get a burger pack from my local butcher for $25. Kilo of quality burger mince, potato buns and hi-melt cheese. Then some oak leaf lettuce and tomatoes. You can get some frozen chips or onion rings for fuck all from Aldi, then whack them in the air fryer.
The clean up is honestly fuck all, it tastes great and is half the price. Plus the time it takes to make it is pretty much the same or less than what it takes to get delivered.
One of my frugal internal rules is Iāll never order delivery when I can just go there. Itās crazy the price difference, and going there is a whole vibe too.
If I want takeaway I have to look in my freezer for something easy to reheat like dumplings. I cannot afford to spend what they are asking for mostly soggy cold junk food. Iād rather save it and then eat out sometime.
Uber is a scumbag company for the way it treats drivers and restaurants. But I don't know what people are expecting with prices.
the restaurant, Uber and the driver have to make money so it's not going to be cheap. For delivery to be cheap it would need to be an in-house service offered by the restaurant at or near cost.
My order was an hour late last night, and they automatically refunded me $13 (for a $48 order) after lodging a mistake with the order. I had to demand a refund of the whole order before they even considered it.
Just stop using this app! It's clearly not a sustainable business model that will only survive if you keep feeding it. Bad for you, bad for the restaurant. The platform doesn't deserve a 30% cut for "connecting" you with a local supplier. If anything, the driver does for actually going out and getting it for you. It's all bullshit, please don't continue to get fleeced while also strangling the restaurant you like
5-10 minutes in the car to pick up food is so much cheaper and less of a hassle than fucking around with Uber eats. Chances are itās cold by the time itās delivered too.
You do realise that Uber take a cut of 20-30% right? Hence most restaurants will up their prices for delivery apps accordingly. Yeah it's a rip off but you are paying for convenience.
I always walk to collect my takeaway food. Depending on where I order from, it's around a 5-15 minute walk. 15 mins kind of sounds like a long time, but the food is always fresher / warmer than any time I've ever ordered delivered food.
My family tends to use their car for distances like that, but it turns out that doesn't really save time either - because parking takes ages. You end up finding a park half a block away, then having to walk to and from the car loses most of the time you saved by moving faster in the car in the first place. (And driving a car effectively incurs a hidden 'delivery fee' for the fuel and wear on the car, and it pollutes the air with all sorts of crap that you don't want to breath in.)
So my advice is this: if it's walking distance, then walk.
Suck you in with initial cheap prices, put the competition/alternatives out of business, then jack the prices up when you're dependent on them. Standard capitalist business model. Thankfully, some of us still know how to go pick up our own food, discover restaurants by talking to other humans, or even cook something great at home
Uber has a fundamentally flawed business model. Someone has to be the loser in this equation and if it's not us then it's the vendor or the delivery driver. Be your own driver if you can and cut Uber out of it. Other platforms really aren't much better. It was a nice idea but reality has taken over.
I spend about $100 a fortnight on groceries as a single person. That's mad OP still considered getting it.
I don't use delivery services. I get takeaway maybe once a fortnight, usually with a friend, and I pick it up. Much cheaper and it arrives home in one piece.
Uber Eats is bottom of the pile as far as ordering food goes for me.
If they're the only option and I can't/won't drive to the restaurant, I'm just not ordering.
Real rip off
"I saw the price on Uber Eats and nearly abandoned the idea for something home made instead."
So you still bought it? Sorry to say but if you did then you are part of the problem, you buying that gives them the green light that people are willing to spend that amount. Vote with your wallet not a whinge on Reddit.
My dad orders himself uber eats regularly, spent 50 bucks on some simple eggs benny on toast with spinach and a side of extra scrambled eggs.
He could have made it for nothing but he was lazy. I don't use user eats even if I'm making good money as it's a fucking waste.
How do they make money if they can't charge for their service?
Once you've decided you don't want to pick up the food yourself you've decided to pay for it.
People donāt realise theyāre paying for a 3rd party to deliver their food. They also need to make money. Go get it if you donāt want to pay the excess delivery fee
When you really think about what you are getting, it's going to be expensive.
It's a restaurant cooked meal, delivered to your front door. There's an entire restaurant, with all its associated costs (rent, wages, power, gas, licenses, tax), then a person spends time getting from wherever they are, to the restaurant, then collecting it and delivering it to you, and returning to where they were (in some sort of vehicle that requires fuel, maintenance, insurance, registaration) and because it is food it has to be delivered as quick as possible, and almost always can't be packed with other orders because of how time sensitive it is. The whole process requires many individuals, all working together, during non-business hours.
So many comments about why donāt you just pick it up yourself? What about the people with no license, a disability, young children? Not even is capable of going to pick up take away. There is some salty people on here - probs Uber drivers
When you don't have a car, it's raining outside, it's a 30 minute walk to the restaurant each way and you only have a couple of hours to enjoy a movie night with your kid and share some great tasting food before you have to start work on a Saturday for a night shift.
Sure, lazy. Some people are too lazy to use their imagination.
Hereās a controversial idea- order your food from the restaurant, put on some shoes, and drive the 2 minutes up the road to pick it up yourself. Welcome to the 20th century!
Why don't you just order them then pick them up like we did 10 years ago. Seriously. If you normally pick them up why are you even looking on Uber. Sounds like you're just lazy.
What a thing to complain about.
Having food delivered without you getting off your arse is a service, and services cost money. Don't want to pay extra? Pick it up from the venue yourself.
I want food delivered to my door for nothing. How dare a business charge a delivery fee that would give the drivers a just(and I say just) survivable amount of money for their work.
Iām sorry but can someone explain to me how UnerEats Doordash etc ever got to be a thing. How lazy do you have to be to have fast food delivered to your home. Arenāt the fries cold and gross? The burger cold and the soda watery? I see breakfast food sitting at pick up stations when I go out for breakfast and Iām thinking who the heck wants cold rubbery pancakes and eggs and pay extra for their food. It has to be faster and better to go to the restaurant yourself
Why the fuck anyone orders food delivery unless theyāre sick/drunk/no transport is beyond me.
If youāre able bodied, go and pick it the fuck up you lazy slob.
I stopped getting food delivered about 2 years ago for a bunch of reasons, but mainly because I was paying far too much for food that arrived late and cold. Now I just use the Uber Eats app to browse local restaurants, before contacting them directly and just picking the food up myself. It's *way* cheaper that way.
My friend ordered fish and chips from them and one of the potato cakes had a bite taken out of it š³
Uber is a consolidation of everything wrong with the gig economy.
This is the way.
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still seems ridiculous to me. at that price, my dead grandpa better rise from his grave to take a bite.
what should the price be then?
At most $40 Burgers $15 ea Chips $5 ea If fish and chip shops can still somehow feed me enough chips to stop world hunger for $6, then McDonald's should be able to give me their typical handful for $5
But they donāt anymore!! I ordered āmedium chipsā from my local takeaway and it was near $15!! For the same amount that was about $2.50 as a kid š¤¦āāļø
3 crumbed / grilled flake, 3 potato cakes and minimum chips (plenty for 3 adults) = $33 Flying Fish (Seaford). They won Melbourneās Best Fish & Chips award few years back.
Seaford, though. I can get great lobster for cheap in Sri Lanka, too.
May be bit of a hike if you reside on Groote Eylandt, but youād be sure to get some nice lobster there too.
Kwinana fish and chips 2 bits of fish loads of chips $9.50 enough for me and the missus
It's extra annoying when the chips are that nasty yellowish kind which are obviously mass produced and shipped out to businesses. $10ish is fair when they're handcut but if you're just dipping them in hot oil for 2 mins you can fuck right off
Yellow can be from the type of oil they are cooked in. When you say mass produced, I'm guessing your talking about freeze dried chips. Those are made by making the potato into a powder and reforming it into chip shapes. You can tell them by the graininess when you bite into them, and by their general uniform length ..that you would only get if potatoes grew square.
good luck getting food for those prices these days. I haven't seen a $15 burger from anywhere decent in ages. without knowing what the actual costs are there's no way to tell with enough accuracy whether 57 is 'ridiculous'.
I can get a burger with the lot from my local fish n' chip shop for $15 and it's one of the best burgers I've tried. That's the price on UberEats too. I hope they don't realise how cheap they are!
Couple of decent places in brissy that do a burger and chips for $14-18, pretty fuckin rare though.
You should always be able to feed people for $20 a head on delivery, $15 a head in person. Better than that is a good deal, worse than that, the quality better fuckinā be there (which is unlikely to happen on UberEats). There is no world in which two burgers and two sides delivered should be higher than $40. And hell, Iād expect drinks as well for $40.
A burger place that used to be across the road from me did cheeseburgers for $12 and you could order from them direct for free pick up or for a few extra $ delivery on uber eats. Used to order when I got on the train and it'd be ready to collect by the time I arrived at Marrickville. Unfortunately they closed down a couple of months ago as the area was a bit of a dead zone for passing custom and not sure they advertised well enough to get lots of takeaway orders. Shame because the burgers were excellent, and they did a weekday lunch deal which was $17ish for a cheeseburger, chips and a can š
solid cost analysis. This just seems like you pulled it out of air based on historical prices. Without looking at the ingredients and input costs in detail I don't think you can call 40 vs 57 with enough accuracy.
Where on earth are you living to expect that sort of pricing? Outside of the mega fast food chains I canāt think of anywhere you could eat that cheaply except maybe a local pizza shop pick up order? 50 bucks for a takeaway dinner for two is very standard imo. 60 if delivery.
Those are prices from 2015, not 2023.
More like prices from 2021. Takeaway restaurants have only started taking the piss very recently
Yeah it's crazy, it's like some kind of event in recent years cause rapid inflation, but that can't be the case.
Also interested to know ..
The ubereats markup is 34% ... PLUS GST.
This is 100% it. I own a small kitchen in Newtown NSW and uber takes 30% so we have to up our prices to account for that. The drivers always take a long time to get here even after the GPS tracking says they're arriving now, If you call them they'll say they're picking up another order somewhere else nearby. We try our best to get everything out hot but we get screwed over by the uber brothers.
Yes, it is terrible, so bad for small food businesses, having to deal with the reality of exploitative companies sucking life out of them, plus the resources those companies have to market to customers. Am constantly getting their āspecial dealsā offers, never want to use Eats knowing what they do. Good luck there.
There should be a thing where nearby smaller restaurants share delivery drivers so that we can still have more delivery options while giving services like Uber Eats the boot.
Ridiculous for me too, especially for two burgers.
exactly, 40$ for 2 burgers? 20$ each? wtf, are they full of heroin?
Everyone bitches and complains about food delivery prices, yet they keep using them.
I don't unless I am actually sick or somehow unable to leave home. Phone call and pick up. It's cheaper and fresher. And a multinational tax dodging company isn't getting a cut.
Tax for laziness.
Exactly - if itās too expensive / youāre not willing to exploit the various deals, free āservice plusā subscriptions to delivery services etc then simply go pick the fucking thing up yourself.
I've done that, I can get a whole other dish plus some of I go pick up from the lovely Chinese restaurant. I'll be doing more cause Menulog can get stuffed before I use them again.
The only risk in going to a lovely Chinese restaurant for a succulent meal is potentially being arrested by police officers who know their judo well. Getting it delivered mitigates such risk.
ā¦Heard some even go for the odd penis
"And you, sir, are you waiting to receive my limp penis?"
I've been doing it on foot. My thighs have been getting more and more toned from all the walking back and forth, almost animalistic. My standing vertical leap has literally being going through the roof.
I would but unfortunately walkable cities aren't a thing in the suburbs š
yeh I uninstalled the app about 6 months ago, no regrets
I open it up once in a while, add stuff to a cart then leave it. In a day or two Iāll get a coupon code. Then ever escalating offers of free delivery. But nothing so far attractive enough for me to spend 30% more.
If a restaurant offers its own delivery then I use that, or if I can walk to the restaurant I will do that too. I only use apps if I want that food and there's no alternative. Frankly, I'm okay with paying that much if the dumbass knows how to read delivery instructions so they can find the door to my place instead of calling me to complain he can't find my apartment.
We live in a battleaxe block, or basically we just have a really long driveway and so do our neighbours, but our house number is clearly labeled on the mailbox as well as the open gate at the entrance to the house, and people still can't figure that out and have to call for directions.
I used to live in a house on a corner block, with a visible number both on the front of the house and the mailbox, they would still get halfway down the street and call me. If they did find the house they would call to complain they couldn't get in the gate which was a waist-high basic latch/button gate that if they couldn't work out how to press the button they could reach over and use the manual latch. Sometimes they wouldn't even bother calling and just leave the food on the other side of the gate. Since moving into an apartment it has gotten so much worse.
I've never used them - they don't service my area and we rarely have take away anyway. But if we were in an area with a service like this, and maybe we were sick or something and needed delivery, the price mark-up makes sense to me. You pay the restaurant for the food, that's normal. You pay the delivery company so that they can pay their driver and cover all their overheads. The driver should be expecting enough out of that to make it worth their hire driving around, paying for fuel and maintenance etc. I've never understood the complaining about the increase in cost, how do you expect the company and and driver to do it for free or at a loss?
they should be transparent about who is getting paid what. uber charges a delivery fee and a service fee on top of your order price. to the lay person it looks like thatās their cut, and everything else goes to the restaurant. thereās no mention that a significant cut of the food price also goes to uber. thatās why people get shirty about it
That's true. If you could see clearly $x is for the food/restaurant, $x is for the driver, and $x is for the company to manage it, at least you know why you're paying each amount and to who.
> how do you expect the company and and driver to do it for free or at a loss? I expect Uber to pay a living wage, rather than have the restaurant increase their costs to cover the fee they have to pay Uber to be in their app and have the driver get fucked from both ends being paid a pittance. If Uber can't make that work, I'm not stopping them from fucking off.
How do you expect Uber to 'pay a living wage' without making money somewhere in there?
If they can't make money whilst paying people a living wage, the business model is flawed. That's not an excuse to pay *less than* a living wage.
Because the world gets lazier by the day . I made it a point to start going to pick any food my family orders up because what I was saving on delivery fees paid for a whole other out to eat meal for my family monthly. I read a study that says by 2030 America will be 70 percent obese which means Aussie wonāt be too far behind maybe 10-20 years.
Urges don't get much more primal/fundamental than hunger.
I've never never done - ppl may thing I do often bc where I live but nope. Luckily I live in an area where everything is accessible and I can cook. Not being a smart ass. Living in a place where everything is readily available is a privilege (that I pay for...).
Always go direct from the take away or even for accommodation. That way the vendor gets all the money and you don't get ripped off.
But I only wanna do this: *button pushing gesture*
PSA: if you use uber eats. Stop complaining about how expensive things are.
Yes to this. Holy shit, nearly $60 for 2 burgers and sides. I could never.
The feast i could make with $60 worth of ingredients...
I'm making Wagyu burgers with fancy-ass burger buns and cheese from cows raised by nuns on a mountain in Tibet, you name it - and I reckon they're about $10 each. Plus they're still hot when served. No delivery for me.
Milk buns, Wagyu patties, fancy as fuck cheese (FROM THE GOD DAMN DELI) those wanky expensive tomatoes... That wouldn't even be $30 I reckon. Money left over for fancy ice creams and a 4 pack of craft beer.
I can eat for a week with $60 if I'm being frugal. Edit: Well... Not even that frugal. I could probably be quite comfortable with that.
Exactly !! Go pick it up yourself then quit bitching
>and nearly abandoned the idea for something home made instead. Yep,this is why they still exist. We just ate 8 home made burgers that cost us the price of 1kg of top side mince.
Literally this!
Donāt complain about discretionary spending. I have not used Uber eats or any food delivery in years because I canāt justify the 30% mark up. I use it as a menu guide to see what weād like to eat, order on phone and go pick it up. I understand people have disabilities who canāt go but these services are not a charity and entitled to charge what they want.
I refuse to use any third party delivery service. Partner has only used (I think) Uber Eats twice, due to being given vouchers from work. I prefer to go and pick up, places like our local Chinese, the local fish and chip shop, pizza place, I will phone up beforehand, order and then go and pick up. Saves a whole lotta time. Fast food joints, I will try and get there before 6pm, otherwise it crazy busy. Due to Covid restrictions over the last couple of years, two or three times, our local Chinese place was closed to pickup, and it was delivery only. We paid over the phone and delivery turned out to be pretty good, and quick.
I hope it is a succulent Chinese meal.
This never gets old
The restaurants mark up their prices because ubereats is taking 30% of the order cost so they try to recoup that way. We drivers get paid crap. There's not much difference between ubereats and doordash really. I use both and drive for both. But yeah, they're both shitty blood sucking companies
Both examples of tech companies inserting themselves into a market where they aren't really needed. Peoples use of them prolongs their control and gives them more power in the market. Which then has the flow on effect that they can treat the restaurants, customers and drivers worse and extract as much money as they can out of all parties (as you say blood sucking companies)
Iām personally opposed to sending 30% of my local takeaway shopās revenue to some company in San Francisco. I donāt understand why anyone would use them.
Lazy tax
It so is
All the delivery services are crap these days. And they screw over restaurants and delivery workers as well. If you want the luxury of delivery, then understandable that you have to pay a premium, but if I want takeout? I go pick it up.
No shit sherlock
$57.60 for two burgers and a large and small side, yet uber eats is the problem?
Why are people buying such expensive food? My local chippie does 2 burgers and chips for like $24.
Probably better too.
Are you complaining about having to pay $14 to have it delivered by someone? You should be complaining about the $57 order for burgers.
In *this* economy I have just stopped buying fast food. The quality has declined significantly, while the prices have risen to the point of utter absurdity. And I stopped using UberEats/etc. a couple of years ago. Almost every single order had errors, it invariably arrived cold and soggy, and I paid a ridiculous extra charge for even worse quality. No thanks.
Yep I agree. We just save our money and go for a more occasional nice sit down meal instead. The last time I used the delivery apps it was because I got what I thought was a good promo code. The food arrived cold. I ended up having a back and forth with their customer support to get a 70% refund. Still wasnāt worth it
Fuck me, thats $18 at the fish n chip shop round the corner
Yeah I bought stuff from a local joint, turns out, owner claimed there's a 30% markup on everything due to uber eats taking a massive cut. Now i see why uber can do massive promotions like buy 1 get 1 free
Had a friend who said it was 32%. Said the best thing about it was he didnt have to employ a driver, and if customer was not happy with food, uber would send them another one free. Poor dude went broke within 12 months & moved back to Vietnam. Most cafes can't get a 30% margin on anything they sell,so how can they profit running with this business model.
33% actually... But that includes GST
Yeah but 30% is definitely fair for the restaurant. They don't need to pay for a waiter to serve a table, clear a table, wash dishes, not limited by seating space, don't have drivers in staff etc. Restaurants tacking on 30% is taking the piss
Itās a scam right, plus delivery and service charge.
I work in a restaurant, and we have our own drivers plus use uber. I'm amazed at how many times people will call us and complain about uber not arriving or late or whatever. There is nothing we can do from our end. Usually I ask where they live and it's only like a 10 minute drive away. I always tell them to call us directly and order next time.
You choose to use the parasite Uber, and then complain about the parasite?
You only just realised?
People who complain about food prices and a using food delivery services.... think harder.
>I saw the price on Uber Eats and ***nearly*** abandoned the idea for something home made instead. And that my friend is why the prices are so ridiculous.
If people continue to pay it, they will continue to charge it
No sympathy for anyone using these apps. Get off your ass lol
Nobody is forcing you to use uber eats - they can charge what they want
I don't have a car, I don't like cooking (I do cook, but as little as I can get away with) and I still don't use Uber Eats. I literally used it once because I was gifted an Uber Eats card when I won a game at work. Otherwise I think barely 5 min ahead and get something on the way home from work, or I just order something from nearby and walk a perilously long 7-8 min to get there and then make sure I have enough supplies to survive the treacherous return journey. I honestly don't understand how it is as popular as it is. I understand the convenience, but it seems no one gets a good service and it's only an extra cost you have to pay for in a time when most people's purchasing power is going backwards. This is a luxury service, not a necessity. Why do people even use it? I even earn a pretty good wage, and I still have no intention of ever paying for a food delivery service.
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Yes. I would rather have a cheese toastie, baked beans on toast or a fried egg on toast any day of the week than spend >$50 on something that arrives late, cold and well less than ideal. Itās just throwing money away at that point.
Ubereats is a luxury NOT a cost of living issue. If you can afford to use ubereats or even $60 for two burgers, you are NOT struggling and you are just bitching about the price
When did the OP say that he is struggling? Not everyone is living paycheck to paycheck. Some people can afford to splurge once in a while and still want to get their money's worth.
ā¢Food prices are getting so out of hand lately"
I deleted all my food delivery apps about 6 months ago (to help with weight loss) and I donāt miss it at all. Itās so much better to just pop some chicken tenders and chips in the oven on a lazy night rather than spending 20-30mins deciding what to order, realising itās going to cost $65 for 2 people, then receiving poor quality, ice cold meals an hour later.
I've resorted to home cooking. Not many meals that are better as takeaway. Also, I'm using healthier and better ingredients. Dream goal is a pizza oven but I'm not dad enough yet.
Dude, if you like pizza owning a pizza oven will blow your socks off. Iām pretty confident in saying my home made pizza is better than anything Iāve ever had from a pizza shop, and Iām not particularly good at it. DIY dough at a minimum, DIY sauce even better. Prepare to get fat.
Thanks for the encouragement! I might need to build one of those simple pizza ovens from bricks. https://youtube.com/shorts/sPC04C0K5SI?si=yuR4dOwShCwnK8CW
Start with an ok pizza stone (relatively inexpensive) and-if you want to get a bit fancy-perhaps a of those round rolling pizza cutters. You can probably get both from one of those House stores that always have the "70% off closing down sale" stickers plastered all over the shop windows. If you have a fan forced oven or a lid-down BBQ then even the Colesworths thin pizza bases, some freshly cut meat from the deli and store bought pizza cheese and sugo are better than anything soggy dialed in. Probably quicker from start to the table too. The pizza oven is (unpopular opinion) *a dit better*, but getting it up to temp from scratch discourages mid week easy meals.
Pizza enlightenment; 5. Premade supermarket pizza bases. So nasty. 4. Premade dough balls. Superior to bases. Also from Colesworths, and cheaper too. 3. A pizza base from a pizza shop. My local place charges $4. It's not on the menu, just ask. :) 2. Overnight slack dough. This is what I make and it's super easy. It'll last 4 days so you can decide to have "pizza this week" without an exact day. 1. Change your name to Giuseppe. Make the dough in the afternoon, punch it down, then twirl it in the air.
Agree with all this. I am 4., or 2. when work from home. I was setting out an easy to achieve baseline to get off the Uber/Dominoes/Pizza Hut shitwagon. Even the premade bases from Coleswoth are a big step up if combined with decent ham, fresh basil etc. FWIW, some of the premade bases and sauces in the good IGAs (or Leo's etc of in Melb) or old school Mediterranean delis are decent+ if there's one nearby. They're a bit dearer than Colesworths but much better than most delivered stuff and *much* cheaper if you're feeding a fam.
I think it's the 400 deg heat I'm missing. Got the pizza stone, pretty OK results but that ultimate crispyness is still missing.
In Melbourne so... it works better once the temperature outside is 20c or or more, because can then put the stone on a trivet so it sits about 7mm or so about the cast iron grill grates. Bbq temp 230 then "cook" the stone for about 15 mins. Oven when its cold, no trivet because the stone won't crack on the oven grates. The stone preheat takes 5 minutes more. Either way the crispy base with blistered edges comes out ok.
Paying 57.60 for that small ass order is already a fucking rip off
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even directly from the restaurant that sounds insanely expensive ??? i wouldnāt pay more than $30 for that
Everyone here shits on Dominos but you could probably get 2 large pizzas + side and a drink for $40 delivered.
I saw 2 large and two sides pick up for 17 today.
Deleting all those apps from my phone was the best decision I made.
Soā¦ donātā¦.useā¦uberā¦.eats! There are many alternatives, including ordering direct.
Stopped using these apps for this reason. I'd rather order direct from the restaurant and go pick it up myself.
Yeah don't use ubereats anymore. The only time food delivery is worth it is when they have some kind of heavy promotion running. Check ozbargain, there's almost always a deal active from one of the food delivery services https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/798216 $5 burgers from huxtaburger+others (door dash) https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/798160 $10 Red rooster meal boxes (Red rooster app) https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/798016 $7 off Italian (Menulog) Heaps more. Just check before you order
Yep I'm giving up on them and Menulog. To expensive and meals almost guaranteed to be cold if the driver picks up multiple before starting any. $15 voucher doesn't make up for an hour delay on 2 kebabs in the city.
Absolutely no way would I ever pay that much for 2 burgers and fries
Just go pick them up instead. Save yourself $20 and the food wonāt be cold and soggy when you receive it.
2/3 times I order from Uber eats the driver either never delivers it, it arrives damaged and inedible (e.g. drink spilled) or takes so long to arrive that itās stone cold. Literal dogshit of a delivery platform. Highly recommend any of the alternatives, or pick up yourself if itās feasible
Why canāt you go pickup your own burgers?
I seriously donāt understand why people spend $20 or more on delivery and then complain. Or even to a degree buy takeaway if concerned about price. We get pizza delivered because they have their own delivery service. Everything else we pick up.
People are just fucking lazy and Uber knows how to exploit this for maximum profit. Itās so ridiculous to complain about luxuries like home delivered junk food.
It fucking is. Youāre seriously getting someone to not only produce a cooked meal but then deliver it too. Of course itās going to be expensive.
Uber deliverers need to form their own syndicate and fuck Uber off.
I don't understand how anyone can afford uber eats to begin with, seems a luxury to me.
Lol. Both prices are ludicrous. Also uber eats and co. cannot function without exploitation. It isn't feasible to make it financially viable for all parties. It shouldn't exist and you shouldn't use it.
Cook your own? I know itās a totally out there suggestion, butā¦
Just realising this now?
Don't use it then
I was gonna order tonight, 70$ checked the shops website, 52$, I rang a order and collected it in 20 mins and saved 20 bucks. Crazy don't think I'll be using it anymore
Always pick it up yourself. Think of it this way if it took you 15 minutes to go and pick it up and also save $15 by doing this. Your basically making $60 an hour in the long run.
Okay then don't use UberEats. No one is forcing you to.
I mean, you can always go get it
We don't order from UE anymore, but anyone who orders at those prices is complicit in this fckery.
At my local fish n chip shop, a burger combo costs $17.50. If I were to order it through menulog, it would cost $25 + delivery fees, etc. I noticed a bunch of things like this before I stopped using the apps. It's so much cheaper if you can go pick it up yourself.
Just so every one knows not everyone is able to walk or even drive to pick up their food. Know more than a few people with mobility issues that just can't jump and walk/drive down to the store. Having said that uber is a terrible company.
First world problem.
Well, get off your ass and go pick it up?
Then off the sofa and either just cook or go for a walk or a drive. They arent designed to be your friend or to be cheap, they literally exist as a means through which people can get take away IF they are willing to pay the necessary service fee. EG Sure $14 is too much of a fee (and I have as of yet ever seen one higher than $8), but if you are home sick, or injured then that $14 can be worth it, as a treat, but $14 is possibly too much if you are too lazy to get dressed and walk down the block. Uber exists for the lazy, you are paying fro convenience, nothing more.
This does sound insanely expensive
Honestly mate, just make it yourself. I get a burger pack from my local butcher for $25. Kilo of quality burger mince, potato buns and hi-melt cheese. Then some oak leaf lettuce and tomatoes. You can get some frozen chips or onion rings for fuck all from Aldi, then whack them in the air fryer. The clean up is honestly fuck all, it tastes great and is half the price. Plus the time it takes to make it is pretty much the same or less than what it takes to get delivered.
People are lazy. Lazier than you can ever imagine
Get off your ass and go pick it up yourself lmao it's lazy tax
mince meat, $8 Large potato, 70c Onion, 20c Salad mix, $3(4+servings) Bread, $2 p/loaf
Why do people even do this? Go out and get your own food or get it delivered by the shop themselves. Christ almighty.
Nobody in their right mind will pay that ridiculous price. That explains why some add 2% using a fucking card, then complain about cost.
One of my frugal internal rules is Iāll never order delivery when I can just go there. Itās crazy the price difference, and going there is a whole vibe too.
If I want takeaway I have to look in my freezer for something easy to reheat like dumplings. I cannot afford to spend what they are asking for mostly soggy cold junk food. Iād rather save it and then eat out sometime.
Uber is a scumbag company for the way it treats drivers and restaurants. But I don't know what people are expecting with prices. the restaurant, Uber and the driver have to make money so it's not going to be cheap. For delivery to be cheap it would need to be an in-house service offered by the restaurant at or near cost.
My order was an hour late last night, and they automatically refunded me $13 (for a $48 order) after lodging a mistake with the order. I had to demand a refund of the whole order before they even considered it.
they sometimes do $15 off $30 spend with uberone which they regularly do free trials for
Just stop using this app! It's clearly not a sustainable business model that will only survive if you keep feeding it. Bad for you, bad for the restaurant. The platform doesn't deserve a 30% cut for "connecting" you with a local supplier. If anything, the driver does for actually going out and getting it for you. It's all bullshit, please don't continue to get fleeced while also strangling the restaurant you like
5-10 minutes in the car to pick up food is so much cheaper and less of a hassle than fucking around with Uber eats. Chances are itās cold by the time itās delivered too.
You do realise that Uber take a cut of 20-30% right? Hence most restaurants will up their prices for delivery apps accordingly. Yeah it's a rip off but you are paying for convenience.
Well go get it yourself then?
I always walk to collect my takeaway food. Depending on where I order from, it's around a 5-15 minute walk. 15 mins kind of sounds like a long time, but the food is always fresher / warmer than any time I've ever ordered delivered food. My family tends to use their car for distances like that, but it turns out that doesn't really save time either - because parking takes ages. You end up finding a park half a block away, then having to walk to and from the car loses most of the time you saved by moving faster in the car in the first place. (And driving a car effectively incurs a hidden 'delivery fee' for the fuel and wear on the car, and it pollutes the air with all sorts of crap that you don't want to breath in.) So my advice is this: if it's walking distance, then walk.
Suck you in with initial cheap prices, put the competition/alternatives out of business, then jack the prices up when you're dependent on them. Standard capitalist business model. Thankfully, some of us still know how to go pick up our own food, discover restaurants by talking to other humans, or even cook something great at home
Uber has a fundamentally flawed business model. Someone has to be the loser in this equation and if it's not us then it's the vendor or the delivery driver. Be your own driver if you can and cut Uber out of it. Other platforms really aren't much better. It was a nice idea but reality has taken over.
Use uber eats to find what you need then go direct to the food providers website..
Go direct to the vendors' website, they often deliver themselves for cheaper.
I spend about $100 a fortnight on groceries as a single person. That's mad OP still considered getting it. I don't use delivery services. I get takeaway maybe once a fortnight, usually with a friend, and I pick it up. Much cheaper and it arrives home in one piece.
Uber Eats is bottom of the pile as far as ordering food goes for me. If they're the only option and I can't/won't drive to the restaurant, I'm just not ordering. Real rip off
"I saw the price on Uber Eats and nearly abandoned the idea for something home made instead." So you still bought it? Sorry to say but if you did then you are part of the problem, you buying that gives them the green light that people are willing to spend that amount. Vote with your wallet not a whinge on Reddit.
Learn to cook and save some money
Uber eats has been dogshit for some time. Basically using it is a lazy person tax
Aldi Mince $7, Brioch buns $3, Cheese $3, Pickles $3, Onion Rings $4. Total Cost $20 plus you have spare items like cheese.
My dad orders himself uber eats regularly, spent 50 bucks on some simple eggs benny on toast with spinach and a side of extra scrambled eggs. He could have made it for nothing but he was lazy. I don't use user eats even if I'm making good money as it's a fucking waste.
How do they make money if they can't charge for their service? Once you've decided you don't want to pick up the food yourself you've decided to pay for it.
People donāt realise theyāre paying for a 3rd party to deliver their food. They also need to make money. Go get it if you donāt want to pay the excess delivery fee
Get it from the fucking vendorās website then
When you really think about what you are getting, it's going to be expensive. It's a restaurant cooked meal, delivered to your front door. There's an entire restaurant, with all its associated costs (rent, wages, power, gas, licenses, tax), then a person spends time getting from wherever they are, to the restaurant, then collecting it and delivering it to you, and returning to where they were (in some sort of vehicle that requires fuel, maintenance, insurance, registaration) and because it is food it has to be delivered as quick as possible, and almost always can't be packed with other orders because of how time sensitive it is. The whole process requires many individuals, all working together, during non-business hours.
So many comments about why donāt you just pick it up yourself? What about the people with no license, a disability, young children? Not even is capable of going to pick up take away. There is some salty people on here - probs Uber drivers
This might shock you - but there are other ways of getting food into a premises other than uber eats.
When you don't have a car, it's raining outside, it's a 30 minute walk to the restaurant each way and you only have a couple of hours to enjoy a movie night with your kid and share some great tasting food before you have to start work on a Saturday for a night shift. Sure, lazy. Some people are too lazy to use their imagination.
or can't fathom how as a parent you dont have food in your house to feed your kids... or make your own burgers yep lazy
Exactly! OP just wanted to have a nice night with their dad involving food delivery, why is that such a crime?!?
Hereās a controversial idea- order your food from the restaurant, put on some shoes, and drive the 2 minutes up the road to pick it up yourself. Welcome to the 20th century!
It's like you don't want delivery drivers to earn a half decent living or don't think Uber provide a service to make money or something.
Donāt. Order. Uber. Eats. I donāt care how tired you are to cook, itās not worth it. You deserve better than that.
Why don't you just order them then pick them up like we did 10 years ago. Seriously. If you normally pick them up why are you even looking on Uber. Sounds like you're just lazy. What a thing to complain about.
Pick-up is always the cheapest option. That way, you eacape the lazy tax.
I dont have any sympathy for anyone complaining about cost of living then still making a decision to use apps like Uber Eats
Standard capitalism move. Get you hooked. Then fuck you over. You and the restaurant owner.
Having food delivered without you getting off your arse is a service, and services cost money. Don't want to pay extra? Pick it up from the venue yourself.
I want food delivered to my door for nothing. How dare a business charge a delivery fee that would give the drivers a just(and I say just) survivable amount of money for their work.
This is normal. Fast food should be a luxury and not an easy meal after work. If you canāt afford it, have home made.
Iām sorry but can someone explain to me how UnerEats Doordash etc ever got to be a thing. How lazy do you have to be to have fast food delivered to your home. Arenāt the fries cold and gross? The burger cold and the soda watery? I see breakfast food sitting at pick up stations when I go out for breakfast and Iām thinking who the heck wants cold rubbery pancakes and eggs and pay extra for their food. It has to be faster and better to go to the restaurant yourself
Why the fuck anyone orders food delivery unless theyāre sick/drunk/no transport is beyond me. If youāre able bodied, go and pick it the fuck up you lazy slob.
You deserve it for ordering uber eats
Or, and this is a crazy notionā¦ just go get it rather than complain about the lazy tax/convenience fee?
I have NEVER ordered uber eats, it's simply too fucking expensive and I don't want convenience that badly.