The Fast Food Thread

Bro you're from Montana, I'm from the North east. You know about as much about Pizza as I know about cattle.

BrutulTM said:

The prices on some of these fancy frozen pizzas are nuts. Why would you pay $12 or $15 for a frozen pizza when you can get delivery from dominoes/pizza hut/little Caesars for $10?

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Dominos and Pizza Hut are pretty bad. Some frozen pizzas are acceptable, but the "fancy" ones are really just fancy in price. Regional brands are ok, national ones suck.

Some areas have shitty choice for pizza. Here there's one place, and their service is so bad no one eats there. Last city I lived in, the only good choice was Godfather's. One joint was 1 mile away, but couldn't figure out how to deliver a hot pizza. Doordash ruined pizza delivery.

Fucker said:

Dominos and Pizza Hut are pretty bad. Some frozen pizzas are acceptable, but the "fancy" ones are really just fancy in price. Regional brands are ok, national ones suck.

Some areas have shitty choice for pizza. Here there's one place, and their service is so bad no one eats there. Last city I lived in, the only good choice was Godfather's. One joint was 1 mile away, but couldn't figure out how to deliver a hot pizza. Doordash ruined pizza delivery.

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I personally love the home run inn cheese pizza. The crust is really good for a frozen pizza and I can get them in a small size. Their pepperoni sucks ass though. How do you fuck up the taste of a pepperoni?

There was a tiny subset where DoorDash made sense originally, like 3% of circumstances. But as people have pointed out there are entire segments of the industry that have eliminated their own delivery systems and now entirely outsource to DoorDash. The person delivering your food is no longer an employee of where your food comes from, they perform a marked package pick-up and would have no idea if something is missing or wrong beyond a simple drink and box count from the receipt.

Random people who would not even be hired by FedEx now handle "fresh" food product deliveries through a system that mandates the least amount of checks for correctness and as much pass-the-buck accountability as possible. Plus you pay more for it and get it slower.

Malakriss said:

There was a tiny subset where DoorDash made sense originally, like 3% of circumstances. But as people have pointed out there are entire segments of the industry that have eliminated their own delivery systems and now entirely outsource to DoorDash. The person delivering your food is no longer an employee of where your food comes from, they perform a marked package pick-up and would have no idea if something is missing or wrong beyond a simple drink and box count from the receipt.

Random people who would not even be hired by FedEx now handle "fresh" food product deliveries through a system that mandates the least amount of checks for correctness and as much pass-the-buck accountability as possible. Plus you pay more for it and get it slower.

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It was ok in one place I lived, and at the start of covid. Sudden influx of a lot of other workers displaced by close downs. Usually got orders in 15-ish minutes. Sometimes less. That all went away when people went back to work, and all that was left for Doordash were people completely unemployable anywhere else. Real scum of the Earth. Had a few orders simply go missing. Drivers quit in middle of delivering. Orders late, cold food. Last order was almost 3 years ago. Incomplete order, Doordash didn't care.

Aside from the price, it added two other layers of Don't Give A Fuck on top of a service industry where Not Giving A Fuck is Job #1.

The DD system is broken. Tips and pay should be hidden from the driver. You deliver what you are assigned, or you find a different job. As it is now, it rewards shitty behavior for people who have nothing other than shitty behavior.

Grocery stores used to have their own drivers, now it is all Doordash or some other garbage.

I just don't order from places that use DD. Makes that really simple for me. I live in a fairly packed part of Denver And have all fast food options within 5 min, so no point in getting any of it delivered. Same with any meat/dairy/bread I get from the grocery store. Have 2 King Soopers/Krogers within 2 miles of me. Anything boxed/canned/packaged I get from Amazon now.

BrutulTM said:

The whole concept of Door Dash is insane to me. Especially when you see people posting receipts for their $30 burrito after the delivery fee. Doesn't matter for me though since I live 50 miles from any restaurants so no one is delivering to me anyway.

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I agree. Paying someone to deliver food is fucking pathetic and lazy. Get off your ass and get your own food or learn to make shit yourself. Stop pissing money away on a delivery fee among all the other bullshit. Food shouldn't make up 90% of your total take home earnings.