Spending on Takeout/Delivery

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Anonymous wrote:I have literally never paid for food delivery in 10 years time. I do pick up take out once or twice a week. For a famoly of 3 its usually $40ish.

Paying for food delivery is so wild to me. Why?? Why cant you just go pick it up? Such a waste.

Some people are short on time, or their time is worth more than driving to the restaurant to pick up.

I refuse to believe this is the majority of people. We live 5 minutes from many take out places. You can order online and swing by on your way home. Unless you live 30 minutes away and arent going anywhere in the vicinity, its really not about time.

Probably not the majority, but not uncommon in my universe. I make over $300/hr. I live in the burbs and take highways home. There’s one restaurant that’s 5 min away and not on the way home. Next closest set is between 10 and 15. Round trip we’re looking at around 30 min. Unless I’m going to the one close restaurant (which happens to be an expensive sushi spot), it’s not worth my time.

Your universe is literally less than 1% of the population.

The vast majority of people aren't spending exorbitant amounts on delivery. The whole article is just one of many attacks from the rich on the regular people, trying to shift the blame of our unaffordability crisis from the corporations that created it to the people that are suffering from it.

No, we are not unable to afford homes because of avocado toast and Doordash, we're unable to afford homes because corporations have rigged the system against us and on top of that put out propaganda like the linked article trying to convince us it's our own fault.

I don’t dispute that my income is high. It’s actually not top 1% in DC, which I know because I just pulled census data. It’s actually 96th percentile, and probably similar in major metro areas. It’s also not top 1% for DCUM, where this discussion is occurring.

PP disputes that anyone lacks time or has sufficient money such that ordering delivery makes sense. She’s wrong. And she’s wrong for hundreds of thousands of people in this area. The economics of delivery do work out for a certain portion of the population.

That’s not disparaging people for whom takeout makes no economic sense. Nor is it blaming people with lower incomes for having lower incomes. Nor is it about the substance of the article, which was only the catalyst for a discussion on how much people spend on delivery.

[Anonymous]

There is no way in H E double L I'm going to ever trust a delivery driver that potentially is upset over tips for the night.

So do you not dine out either? Why is this special to delivery?

We do dine out perhaps a couple/few times a month. It's not a secret some of the precautions we take.

We dine at places that have a consistent amount of high business. Successful restaurants sell the food before spoilage and less time collecting contaminants, such as mop bucket splashes, improper handling, night time mice/roach rummaging, employee grazing etc.

Busy restaurants keep employee's too busy usually to do a lot of obscene shenanigans as well as other employees within eye shot. However, it almost never prevents the typical picking up dropped food from the floor that is just way too common in the industry. If the kitchen staff is visible to the patrons then even better. It still doesn't completely eliminate the disgusting behavior. Many times I see cooks/chefs snatch a small amount off a completed plate to stick in their mouths or drink a soda and go back to preparing. Which is a major food safety violation.

Delivery drivers usually have zero restaurant experience nor care about the product. Based on my decades of experience in the industry, I am certain delivery drivers graze on the food at best, and contaminate at worst simply because a percentage of them are petty people that think they deserve better in life. Sad but true. It's especially true in this entitlement culture now.

I haven't shared anything new to most people about these practices. But you do you, because I've also learned that it won't stop people from food deliveries because they want to think the best of people and if they didn't see it, then it didn't happen. The silver lining is that perhaps your bodies will become immunity stronger.

I can tell you this, not many people want to work in restaurants. Owners/managers are to a large percentage of times only given the option to hire the most unsanitary person in the kitchen just to get the food out. I can't even begin to tell you how often I've taken my wife/family upon entering and just left.

[Anonymous]

Low paying job. Fed up with the current administration, single parent here. Starting to get less frugal about this, we could die any day.

About 150 a month, half or more of that is doordash, but I always use the coupons and get the half price dash pass deal then cancel until I need it again , so it's cheaper than getting it myself. Former doordash driver. I figure that's less than 50 a week so not that bad for 3 people, though I only have my kids half the time.

Receive 700 a month in food stamps (yes I work full time also and went to college etc etc I am a teacher)