Working in food sucks in general. I would know I’ve been doing it for almost 14 years now. You drive to the store. You enter the store. You order your food. If there are any complications with your order you’re told right then and there.
But I’ll never forget the day my job introduced mobile ordering. It immediately made everything worse in almost every way. Customers ordering shit we ran out of, shit we no longer offer, setting the pickup time 5 minutes after placing the order then getting mad when it’s not done on time. All this while we can’t communicate with the customer at all until they arrive to find the order incomplete because we couldn’t contact them to figure out what they wanted to do.
Then door dash became a thing and all those exact problems became even worse. It slows down the entire store to the point of disrupting the customers who came in to order.
Why the fuck would you go through a third party system to obtain food when you can just go get the fucking food
Basically if you use mobile ordering or a delivery service you’re a big part of why food service has done nothing but get harder and more frustrating. And I do hold it against you.
Edit: I don’t think lemmy understands how unpopularopinion is supposed to work…
Edit 2: Considering how many people clearly disagree with me and seeing how few upvotes this post has gotten, lemmy clearly has no idea how unpopularopinion works.
Glad to know the Reddit custom of ignoring that still lives on.
You’ve been ordering fast food delivery since the 70’s? You’ve been having restaurants deliver your food for that long?
A few places, like New York City have had delivery from a lot of Resturants for a long time, basically since phones went in.
That’s fair. I live in Ohio and only a select few stores offered delivery outside of pizza. Other than those if you wanted it you had to go get it yourself or do without.
Yes. It’s not like it’s a new thing.
Ah yes I remember getting McDonald’s delivered to my door as a boy. Or the local Mexican restaurant offering delivery for decades. /s
It is a new thing by far. Fast food companies and restaurants barely ever offered delivery until the past decade. And they sure as fuck didn’t have mobile ordering.
Alright, I’m happy for you. We, my family, would regularly order Chinese delivery when I was a kid. And that was many decades ago. It may be new to you, but it’s most definitely not a new thing as hard as that might be to believe. Hell, my parents lived in Japan before I was born and had regular delivery there back in the '60s. I’m sorry you’re upset at reality, but I’m not sure what else to say. I mean, yeah, they didn’t have mobile ordering, but we did have phones back then.
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