We really got turned off of this during the pandemic and called the restaurants directly tonordwr takeout. Saved us money and they received everything they charged for.

Yup last-minute door-to-door delivery is expensive.

Anonymous wrote:No, it’s not new. You’re paying for the convenience: plain and simple. Grubhub has to make money somehow, so they charge service fees on top of taking a certain percentage of the restaurant’s sales.

This.

Go pick up the food if you don't want to pay the convenience fees. And these fees have always been around in various food delivery apps and websites for nearly 2 decades.

It’s bullshit

No, it’s not new. You’re paying for the convenience: plain and simple. Grubhub has to make money somehow, so they charge service fees on top of taking a certain percentage of the restaurant’s sales.

For a pre-graduation breakfast today, I paid a $2 delivery fee plus a $12 service fee plus a $20 tip on an $80 order that came from 1.5 miles away. I won’t be doing this again, but I’m curious about the service fee (no problem with the tip). Is this something relatively new? (We don’t use GrubHub often.)