it feels similar in egregious price to getting room service, and you don’t even have to talk to the guy, and you can convince yourself it’s nice to treat yourself you’ve been working hard etc etc. you don’t have to do any dishes or think about all the rotten shit in the fridge. it can feel like a legitimate mental break, horribly
i’ve worked too too many years doing delivery and honestly on good days it feels like being on vacation , just out there driving around somewhere peaceful without a boss over my shoulder
but whenever i actually order the garbage myself too much it can lead to a crazy period of overspending. i already spent $30 on a burrito that sucked why not spend $20 on a film i know is good, etc etc
I can only imagine what it must be like to have enough money that you are not meticulously scrutinizing every purchase to see if it’s the most value and stretch your limited budget as far as you possibly can. When I first checked out DoorDash and saw what I would normally pay only $8 for was going to be $30 delivered, I was already over it.
Right? Like I’m gonna pay that much for cold food when I literally rent a kitchen?
What’s crazy is that all these food delivery apps are barely breaking even. They’re still in the “disruption” phase where they’re trying to offer the service at a really low cost to capture market share. $30 for an $8 item to be delivered is actually their introductory price!
The delivery thing has never tempted me all that much. Microwaving some crap from the fridge is just as good as far as I’m concerned.
I do remember an awful but funny app, that would pick a random geolocation somewhere in your city, then simultaneously order a pizza to be delivered to that spot, and call an Uber to bring you there to receive the pizza. I wouldn’t want anyone to use it in real life, but as conceptual art I thought it was clever.
I love the concept. I would have added a bomb threat to the same address for additional fun, but that’s just me
the app should have included a blind date
For us on a mental break…down, having delivery available is our chance at a decent dinner. Yes its expensive but im paying for not having to spend an hour making the dinner and not having to sit in a restaurant waiting for a to-go meal and not having to interact with people. Neither which I would do anyway. Its better than staring hungry at the ceiling but too depressed to do anything about it so when I finally is so hungry I can’t even sleep I go out to a night-open kiosk and buy myself a bag of potato chips and some soda or a frozen pizza.
Well, that was a very specific example for why the post-covid app delivery trend is awesome. Before it the only delivery was pizza around here.
Though I do wish there was more variation. Restaurants are too city-district grouped. Within my delivery area (where I can still get a meal still hot and not pay extra), Torshov in Oslo, there is mostly burgers, kebabs, thai, and sushi food restaurants. Fish meals, italian, or sandwiches needs to be shipped from centrum. Norwegian-food style restaurants don’t do delivery. Not that I’m complaining, I’m just suggesting improvements to some strangers on the web that can do nothing about it. 🫤
Ever look into the meal kits? As an example, Home Chef had 15m meal kits that were essentially “add heat,” and I think there are even some microwave ready options. I’m neuro-regular? Not hip to the vernacular. But I can empathize with the idea of dinner being a fucking him climb sometimes, not just preparing but deciding. A dinner that has become a staple in my home was one I made from the meal delivery service that I just get now, so it’s nice to have it in my pocket.
Unrelated, I went to Norway once and thoroughly enjoyed it. Was way up north, but had an evening to get out and mingle with locals and everyone was friendly and inclusive, it was nice. I’m from Jersey, New, for reference.
I hope you have a nice day.
Well, as a non-neurotypical person, it can also happen because you get stuck in a negative spiral and the thought of leaving your house seems comparatively far more daunting and a much bigger pain in the ass than punching a couple buttons on your phone and then food appears in 45 or so minutes.
Source: 🫠
Waste money in this stupid way? Buddy I’ve wasted way more money on way dumber shit than this- this is nothin
Congrats. You’re the worse person here. Happy now?
I don’t mean to make anyone feel bad- I know this sentiment cause I’ve had it a bunch of times.€17 for a coktail? never… well, you know, I spent €70 on a meal I didnt even like two days ago, fuck it
Ever since COVID that crap just got way too expensive. Back in 2016-2018 used to be Deliveroo and UberEats would sometimes straight up have better deals than just going to the place, there was no service or any other charges and delivery fees were £1.99 for most places, when you consider Europe has no tipping it was decent and living off McDonalds alone was often parity in price to cooking nice food yourself. Never been on a vacation so have no idea what that’s like but it’s a nice time/money tradeoff.
The only better value was dominos/papajohns where £10 could get you a large pizza, I think in the US those are supposed to be bad according to some people, but here they’re actually some of the best most consistent comfort food money can buy.
Now it feels like you can’t even get a burrito for less than £20 at a place it costs £12 and it takes way longer as well and the drivers are all shitty, I’ve even seen some people here tipping just to make sure their food actually comes. Crazy.
That was mostly in the early days.
I remember hearing a podcast tell a story of a pizza shop owner, back then, who didn’t even know he was on any delivery apps. But for the app to build a market in his area, they were offering food below cost and paying the restaurant the full amount, without even telling the restaurant.
Once he caught wind of this, the ended up processing a bunch of pickup and dine-in pizzas as if they were customers in the app, and pocketing the difference. Who could blame him?
yeah my pockets don’t get addicted to that xD
On one hand, I get it. Food is comfort, and when everything else in your life is hard, ambivalent, or cruel, sometimes you just want one thing, just one thing, to be simple and comforting.
but on the other hand, knowing you purchased an $8 food item for $30, just to get it right when it hits that luke-warm to cold temp, makes even a wonderfully tasty meal seem like a waste. I don’t even think I could enjoy eating it, knowing how expensive it was. Like, you gotta find comfort food that you can make at home simply. You know what’s unbelievably good? Get you some frozen french fries (generic Walmart crinkle cut), heat them in an air fryer, and then sprinkle some dill on’em before eating them with ketchup or whatever. Shit is amazing. Comforting, easy, cheap.
Here’s another, get some generic no sugar added apple sauce. Add in a sugar free strawberry jello packet, BAM you got yourself strawberry apple sauce. Cheap, easy, comfort food.
One more, get yourself a stovetop popcorn maker (microwave popcorn just can’t hold a candle to it, sorry), make some fresh popcorn with slightly more oil than is recommended. once finished sprinkle on some salt while josteling the popcorn, and then eat it in a ratio of 5 kernels of popcorn with two pieces of dark chocolate. shit’s AMAZING. Cheap, easy, comfort food. Learn it, and you’ll never waste $30 for a mediocre $5 burrito ever again.
Delivery is most useful for people who smoke weed and/or other drugs often. You get the munchies, you can’t drive and don’t wanna go out anyway so you have food appear magically at your door. Doesn’t matter what it costs.
I’m too much of a miser to pay for delivery. Hell, some weeks I have gone vegetarian without intending to, just because I’m too cheap to pay for meat.
Not sure why the downvotes, seems perfectly logical to me. I have been there. Rarely, but I have
Idk either, not a big deal though.
I love that new Snoop Dogg/GrubHub commercial. I watch the whole thing every time it comes one.
It seems perfectly targeted. I don’t smoke or listen to Snoop anymore and have never used GrubHub but it makes me want to start doing one or two; maybe even three of those things again.
I used to order doordash junk all the time, it was an over year long battle to stop. it was just so convenient but it burned money.
You do know binge eating disorder exists and has DSM diagnostic criteria?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK338301/table/introduction.t1/
It’s often comorbid with ADHD and anxiety.
Delivery apps, hell even being able to order dominos from a smartphone with minimal human interaction, is a dangerous thing.
Nah, sometimes I’m just lazy
Alternatively, someone has a sleep disorder and an ADA accom for a 2h lunch so they can take a nap.
Sleep cycles are 90 min give or take.
Clocking out the moment the food arrives, eating, and having 90+ min to nap so they can face the rest of their day is high value, and high yield.
That makes it practical for a person to work a traditional 8 hour day where otherwise they’d be unable to.
That person - generally - does not have the energy to put lunches together in advance after work, etc.
They wake up, stumble to work, nap midday, and stumble back to bed after.
What you’re calling out as a problem is what enables that person to function and work.
Not to argue w/ person who cited DSM below. Can be dangerous. But can also be life saving or enable a normal life and career vs the alternatives.
I once ordered food 4 times in 24 hourd while being high as hell. spent like 80€ lol
