Anonymous wrote:I feel like in the past there would be a few restaurants that did delivery, and the extra cost was built into the pricing, namely pizza and Chinese. Otherwise you had to pay extra using something like Takeout Taxi, which was probably not far off from the Uber fees even way back then.

This is true. I remember ordering Takeout Taxi like once a million years ago, it was expensive and the food took an hour+ to get here so I said never again. I’ve never ordered from UberEats/DoorDash etc. I have a friend whose kid is a sophomore at a college in a major city, and spent all last year saying the meal plan food was all horrible and so he gets this stuff for like every meal. I seriously shudder to think what that costs his parents.

Also my kid at a suburban college says all these drivers are terrible at knowing where anything is on campus. There used to be a few places that delivered (pizza and Chinese as PP said above) and the drivers knew exactly which dorm was which etc. Now anyone delivers anything and no one knows where anyone is.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, why are you being so nasty to the posters? You seem high strung. Take the "L" and move on. You live and you learn.

I'm being nasty? But not the posters calling me stupid? MMMMMkkkaaayyyy

Look, you came on here and posted that you were shocked (SHOCKED!) about the UberEats pricing. But you had all the costs in front of you before you ordered. So either don't order through UberEats, or accept the higher prices, but don't act like it was a bait and switch, because it wasn't.

Yes, it was. If you read the whole post and consequent explanations you'd know that by now. For some who understood what I meant by my post, they were grateful that they don't have to make the same mistake I did. For you, who loves to call people stupid, and uninformed when they are trying to do someone a favor, I say godspeed. You certainly don't have to keep coming back to respond to me if my post was so dumb. I got your point the first 5 times. Thank you for enlightening me.

How was it a bait and switch? I truly don't understand this. The pricing is different than the price the restaurant charges, because Uber is providing you a service--delivering the food to your home. You can't possibly have thought that you could have your food delivered for the same price that you would pay for that food in the restaurant? How do you think Uber makes any money off this? I don't like Uber either, but I can't deny that they're entitled to make a profit off their service.

No, I never said I thought the food should be delivered to me for free. I actually stated that I know Uber is a business and they need to make money. They are providing a service so they should make money, of course. However, Uber already charges nearly $11 for their fees which were clearly visible when I ordered. The extra upcharge of nearly 30% on the food price is something I was not ok with. How much should Uber make on every delivery? They made a 50% profit plus I had to tip their driver. That's ok with you? If so, please keep giving them your money, I'm not stopping you.

NP here. You are mostly right. But what you have wrong is that UberEats sets the price of the food. No, they don't set the prices. The restaurant sets the menu and price of the food.
They will charge more on UberEats to offset the fees they pay to sell on the platform. Some restaurants will charge more than others.

Anonymous wrote:Definitely done with them for rides. I paid $70 for IAD to home which was expected, but when I looked online how much Uber gets vs. the driver, I was just sick. This is truly screwing the little guy with the fat cats just ka-chinging away.

Uber has to so that it can pay high salaries to Software Engineers.

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+1 who doesn’t know this?

You won’t know it until you use one of these services and do the math for yourself. OP was posting this warning for people who were not aware of the fee structure. For example, my Boomer parents wouldn’t know about any of this.

UberEats/DoorDash/PostMates make money by charging you: (1) a service fee, (2) a delivery fee, and (3) increase the price of each item you order by a certain percentage. The discretionary tip is supposed to go to the driver, but I think there were recent lawsuits where DoorDash was even taking a portion of the driver’s tip! So yeah, it’s a crapload of profit for the service provider while very little profit goes to the restaurant or driver.

I didn’t know of this fee structure until I used PostMates once a long time ago and felt totally ripped off. Never used PostMates or any similar service again. It basically increases the cost of your food by 50% relative to just ordering takeout and picking it up yourself.

Personally, I think these services were developed to take advantage of corporate expense accounts where the employee isn’t really price sensitive and the company is on the hook for the bill. I bet these services have caused corporate meal expenses to explode at law firms, tech, and banks where people who work late are given dinner.

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+1 who doesn’t know this?

It has been asked and answered like 14 times already, but thanks for that very valuable contribution to the thread.

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+1 who doesn’t know this?

If I’m not willing to pickup, I don’t do takeout.

Asian and pizza places were doing their own delivery long before any of these food delivery services sprang up. Never use an app for these kinds of places as not only will you save money, the restaurants will earn more, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, why are you being so nasty to the posters? You seem high strung. Take the "L" and move on. You live and you learn.

I'm being nasty? But not the posters calling me stupid? MMMMMkkkaaayyyy

Look, you came on here and posted that you were shocked (SHOCKED!) about the UberEats pricing. But you had all the costs in front of you before you ordered. So either don't order through UberEats, or accept the higher prices, but don't act like it was a bait and switch, because it wasn't.

Yes, it was. If you read the whole post and consequent explanations you'd know that by now. For some who understood what I meant by my post, they were grateful that they don't have to make the same mistake I did. For you, who loves to call people stupid, and uninformed when they are trying to do someone a favor, I say godspeed. You certainly don't have to keep coming back to respond to me if my post was so dumb. I got your point the first 5 times. Thank you for enlightening me.

How was it a bait and switch? I truly don't understand this. The pricing is different than the price the restaurant charges, because Uber is providing you a service--delivering the food to your home. You can't possibly have thought that you could have your food delivered for the same price that you would pay for that food in the restaurant? How do you think Uber makes any money off this? I don't like Uber either, but I can't deny that they're entitled to make a profit off their service.

No, I never said I thought the food should be delivered to me for free. I actually stated that I know Uber is a business and they need to make money. They are providing a service so they should make money, of course. However, Uber already charges nearly $11 for their fees which were clearly visible when I ordered. The extra upcharge of nearly 30% on the food price is something I was not ok with. How much should Uber make on every delivery? They made a 50% profit plus I had to tip their driver. That's ok with you? If so, please keep giving them your money, I'm not stopping you.

NP. It's pretty well-known that if you order from Doordash, Ubereats, Caviar, etc. that the food is more expensive. Some restaurants you can order directly from and circumvent these additional costs.

Anonymous wrote:Ha! Yes, this happened to me with chik fil a and I ended up just picking up from the restaurant directly. It was $36 to pick up from restaurant but if I wanted door dash it would have been 70$ with tip!!! Crazy.

That’s daft. chik fil a has its own delivery drivers!

Ha! Yes, this happened to me with chik fil a and I ended up just picking up from the restaurant directly. It was $36 to pick up from restaurant but if I wanted door dash it would have been 70$ with tip!!! Crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you seen how they handle the food package? How dirty the inside and outside of their cars are? No way am I ever having food delivered again after seeing how gross it all is. /if the restaurants are graded on their cleanliness, then so should the drivers.

Agree with this too.

How have you guys seen inside their cars?

Anonymous wrote:I live in Frederick where there aren’t that many places that deliver. We rarely order out, but we wanted Chinese tonight so we ordered through Uber eats. I got the receipt from the restaurant. Our total was $40.50 with tax. However, Uber apparently sets their own prices for restaurants (not the restaurant themselves) so Uber total came to $49.40. With fees it was 61.20. Of course I tipped so it was well over $70.

I understand that they need to make money, but $22 on a $40 order, that’s 50 percent. And they pay their drivers shit!!! I’m constantly reading on Facebook how people don’t tip drivers. I always do, of course and well, but I’m going to start urging everyone to stop tipping!!! Uber needs to start paying their drivers a fair wage.

They also created a monopoly with car rides and now they are super unreliable. However they hurt the taxi drivers to the point that they couldn’t keep up so they stopped taxiing. F this corporate greed. I’m over it. I’ll pick my own damn food.

If I’m getting any of this wrong let me know.

Send your husband to pick it up. Problem solved

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Anonymous wrote:Food delivery is for urban dwellers. Uber has brought it to far fling suburbs, but because of distances, gas, time, etc, it is not efficient like food delivery has been in say, Manhattan, for decades, well before Uber.

If you choose to live in a quiet, spacious suburb, you get a lot of benefits. Cheap food delivery is not one of them. Also don't complain about traffic. You chose it. Enjoy the nice schools and pleasant people...

So random, and totally unrelated, but ok.

It's about assessing the total situation and understanding the pros and cons of where you live. If you live in Capitol Hill, don't complain about crime and parking, and if you live way outside the beltway, traffic and food delivery will be issues....

Anonymous wrote:Food delivery is for urban dwellers. Uber has brought it to far fling suburbs, but because of distances, gas, time, etc, it is not efficient like food delivery has been in say, Manhattan, for decades, well before Uber.

If you choose to live in a quiet, spacious suburb, you get a lot of benefits. Cheap food delivery is not one of them. Also don't complain about traffic. You chose it. Enjoy the nice schools and pleasant people...

So random, and totally unrelated, but ok.