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'Shocking' Fake Takeaway Sold on Uber Eats

21 points by jfk13 7y ago

lupire 7y ago
Uber Eats is a car service, not a food service, isn't it? Do Yellow Pages and Google also check the hygiene rating of restaurants that they list?
- lnsp 7y ago
  I would prefer to differ between a platform, where users may order food, and a listing, where users discover places to order food from. These are very dissimilar contexts of doing business with vastly disparate responsibilities.
- Talyen42 7y ago
  If you placed your order with Yellow Pages or with Google, then yes, definitely.
hombre_fatal 7y ago
To be fair, I think I trust a New-Balance-wearing dad manning a grill on his patio (seen in the video) than I do the average restaurant kitchen. I think I should be able to opt-in to it too, just show me some sort of badge that indicates the presence of health inspection. I lived in a nice area of a Mexican city that used a sudden requirement for health inspections to eradicate the entire culture of pop-up food carts and people bringing a large pot of tamales from their home to sell. It was a heavy loss. Health inspections are so infrequent that it verges on "health theater" anyways. Once again, I simply think it's best to show people when the last health inspection was done (if at all) and let them decide. Aside: I often don't notice that the image in BBC articles is a video. It looks like the whole article is two short paragraphs next to an image. The page is so busy that it's hard to see: https://i.imgur.com/R4PywAR.png https://i.imgur.com/R4PywAR.png and the play button only shows up after the video loads.
- magic_beans 7y ago
  The design is atrocious and took seconds to load completely, even with adblockers.
creaghpatr 7y ago
My friend always orders from this wing place via the app and one night he confessed that he doesn't know if the restaurant actually exists (the address didn't seem to suggest it did). All he knew was the wings were pretty good and they were a reliable late night food option. I tried the wings once, they were pretty good.
maximente 7y ago
if they demand hygeine records or whatever then outside the US they'll just lose to domicilios.com, rapipedi, etc. several people i know have "restaurants" that are just their kitchens; people ordering don't know or care, they just want e.g. authentic venezuelan food.

21 points by jfk13 7y ago

Uber Eats is a car service, not a food service, isn't it? Do Yellow Pages and Google also check the hygiene rating of restaurants that they list?

lnsp 7y ago
I would prefer to differ between a platform, where users may order food, and a listing, where users discover places to order food from. These are very dissimilar contexts of doing business with vastly disparate responsibilities.
Talyen42 7y ago
If you placed your order with Yellow Pages or with Google, then yes, definitely.

hombre_fatal 7y ago

To be fair, I think I trust a New-Balance-wearing dad manning a grill on his patio (seen in the video) than I do the average restaurant kitchen. I think I should be able to opt-in to it too, just show me some sort of badge that indicates the presence of health inspection. I lived in a nice area of a Mexican city that used a sudden requirement for health inspections to eradicate the entire culture of pop-up food carts and people bringing a large pot of tamales from their home to sell. It was a heavy loss. Health inspections are so infrequent that it verges on "health theater" anyways. Once again, I simply think it's best to show people when the last health inspection was done (if at all) and let them decide. Aside: I often don't notice that the image in BBC articles is a video. It looks like the whole article is two short paragraphs next to an image. The page is so busy that it's hard to see: https://i.imgur.com/R4PywAR.png https://i.imgur.com/R4PywAR.png and the play button only shows up after the video loads.

magic_beans 7y ago
The design is atrocious and took seconds to load completely, even with adblockers.

creaghpatr 7y ago

My friend always orders from this wing place via the app and one night he confessed that he doesn't know if the restaurant actually exists (the address didn't seem to suggest it did). All he knew was the wings were pretty good and they were a reliable late night food option. I tried the wings once, they were pretty good.

maximente 7y ago

if they demand hygeine records or whatever then outside the US they'll just lose to domicilios.com, rapipedi, etc. several people i know have "restaurants" that are just their kitchens; people ordering don't know or care, they just want e.g. authentic venezuelan food.