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I've stopped using delivery apps, and am calling my local restaurants directly. Some have, um, less formal delivery options, and I fall back to just walking ove
by _jal 7y ago
I've stopped using delivery apps, and am calling my local restaurants directly. Some have, um, less formal delivery options, and I fall back to just walking over.
In my estimation, my local restaurants need that 30+% more than public companies.
- icedchai 7y agoIn this environment, I generally prefer to pick the food up myself because I see it as less risky. There is one less person touching the food (and who knows what else in their car.) Delivery people also get lost around here pretty often, and I hate having to track them down. Plus I am leaving extra trips for the restaurant instead of the delivery driver.
- iancmceachern 7y agoAgreed, I've had business owners tell me so (the extra 30% is meaningful to them)
- bsder 7y agoYeah, I've been ordering more directly as well as ordering more food than I usually would specifically to help support any local restaurants that are still alive. I lost the O and Threadgill's in the same week. :(
- PascLeRasc 7y agoWait do you mean The O in Pittsburgh? I haven't heard about that but I'd hate to see them close.
- bsder 7y agoYes. The O in Pittsburgh. <cries> https://goodfoodpittsburgh.com/riptheo-pittsburgh-mourns-the-apparent-closure-of-the-original-hot-dog-shop/ https://goodfoodpittsburgh.com/riptheo-pittsburgh-mourns-the... This is almost as traumatic as when they closed Chiodo's Tavern in Homestead.
- JMTQp8lwXL 7y agoMost businesses aren't charging normal prices via apps. They're marked up due to platform / middleman fees. The notion of giving 30% more likely is not reality. Leave a larger tip, or buy more, to support them in these times.
- sfj 7y agoYou're wasting gas, though, and hurting the environment.
- atq2119 7y agoThis is an incredibly US-biased comment, plus the comment you responded to even spelled out explicitly that they walk to their local restaurants...
- sfj 7y ago> Some have, um, less formal delivery options, and I fall back to just walking over. He only walks to some, not all. And I don't live in the US, so if it's incredibly US biased, I just got lucky, I guess.
- detaro 7y agoYes, to those that don't have delivery options. What makes delivery organized by the restaurant more wasteful than the delivery by someone working for a gig-economy app?
- sfj 7y agoBecause the restaurant can't combine its orders with those of its competitors in one run. Economies of scale.
- michaelmrose 7y agoI believe they said they walk but even so I cannot imagine much difference. If you are concerned the logical thing is to cook your own dinner and burn zero gas.
- sfj 7y agoHe said he sometimes walks. I'm just saying there is a downside that he didn't mention/consider to what he does. What I do doesn't really effect that.