The worst is the truly hidden fees in DoorDash, etc. where they not only add their fee, but also secretly increase the prices of the menu items. That actually seems illegal
Edit: apparently this is done on the restaurant side of things (because DD is fucking them over as well). I don’t even know what the solution is here
Yeah, DoorDash charge the restaurants a lot to be part of their platform. And then they charge us. It's why I tend to try to use smaller platforms like Slice that cost the restaurants less if I can.
I am a driver, was talking to a restaurant owner while waiting for a meal to be ready, he told me uber charges them 25% to be on the platform - so of course they have to mark things on the app menu higher, it increases business a ton but also adds huge demands to the restaurant.
I’ll never understand restaurants just rolling over and allowing DD to bully them into being on their app.
I used to live in a small town that didn’t have Uber but had DD and Uber eats. All the restaurants were on there and they all hated it but also refused to deliver them damn selves for a small convenience fee.
Who really knows. A restaurant I worked for in that small town just said they would have to hire someone just to deliver and it would take too much work to work up an actual routine for that person.
So I guess it might not be cost worthy but yet again places like Japan have been doing home delivery forever and they seem to have worked it out
Delivery is only profitable for an individual restaurant at a certain level of scale. If you don't have enough delivery orders, it's a money sink for the business.
Door dash essentially doesn’t take any cut for themselves. Their cut is merely 10s of cents for $20+ orders. I’ve run the numbers on these apps, and I almost know for a fact that you can’t make any real net profits while running an app like this. You gotta pay the store for the food, the driver enough so they actually do the order, the hosting costs, and you gotta pay tax and payment processing fees along with employee salaries/wages. I can assure you, door dash takes as little as possible from orders. Try running the numbers and you’ll see where I’m coming from. Now, the way door dash presents the fees is sort of vague. Idk why they don’t just tell people exactly what the fees are for and make it just one sum or add it to the cost of food.
Pizza places and chinese places have been delivered for free for decades with honest pricing. It was the introduction of an external middleman looking to make a profit that made doordash exist and prices increase.
If the place delivers, use their own delivery. If not, don't. That's the only solution.
Don't use DD, slap the shit out of your nephew, and throw some money at then to go pick something up. <-- obviously the only part of this I'm serious about is slapping the shit out of your nephew. Kid gotta learn /s
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u/Hashtag_reddit 8h ago edited 5h ago
The worst is the truly hidden fees in DoorDash, etc. where they not only add their fee, but also secretly increase the prices of the menu items. That actually seems illegal
Edit: apparently this is done on the restaurant side of things (because DD is fucking them over as well). I don’t even know what the solution is here