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> Apparently they'd been having too many people place orders and just never come pick them up. It's not exactly "dine-and-dash" but it hurts the restaurant pret
by dataflow 6y ago
> Apparently they'd been having too many people place orders and just never come pick them up. It's not exactly "dine-and-dash" but it hurts the restaurant pretty similarly.
I'd always wondered if this happens a ton at restaurants, and how they deal with it. Any ideas how frequent these are normally (pre-COVID)?
- zerocrates 6y agoNo idea really, but it must happen to some extent all the time basically... like people ordering then rejecting pizzas, things like that. I can't imagine it's a hugely significant number just because places do just take phone orders (barring some covid-related changes where some don't take in person payment at all). Plus if you actually like the place you can only pull something like this so often before you get blacklisted... And it's not like you're even ending up with food if you do this, so what's the percentage in it for you? Still, I assume if you're putting in a big order some (most?) places would want prepay or some other "skin in the game" or something. Not that it helps if the "customer" uses a stolen card and/or just charges you back, though, as we see in this article.