Yesterday I was at a restaurant, seated near the host’s podium. It was rush hour and the kitchen was trying it’s best to keep up. A couple of dashers came in and they were told to wait while the orders were still being prepared. One of the ladies was visibly agitated. After waiting 10 mins she suddenly walked towards the place where all the take out orders were being lined up, picked one and rushed out. I was 100% sure it wasn’t hers. 10 mins later another driver came in and asked for his order and was told someone else took his order, he has to wait 20 mins. He almost teary eyed told the host he’s making 2 dollars on this. And the host was like you don’t have to do this, just cancel it and it’s someone else’s problem. The guy left and came back 20 mins later to get his order. This whole interaction just makes me think that everyone loses here because we have a business that shouldn’t exist, trying to optimize its own profits. The customers got a bad experience, drivers lost money and the restaurant lost money and reputation.
The gig economy is just exploitation behind an app and corporate Memphis clip art.
Aren't you basically just saying sucky labor with unlivable wages shouldn't be a thing? Hardly isolated to this industry.
Says the guy who helped start Jan 6 riots
So 2% of the time that this occurs warrants shutting it down altogether? Great problem solving.
It’s Twitter what do you expect. The only think about the 2%
The system needs fixes, not a complete burn down.
Most of the restaurants are not set up for deliveries. Many sit down restaurants don’t understand the deliveries are way different than serving in house. You need to have food ready for drivers, should travel well and have separate queue from rest of the orders. I don’t blame Uber eats/DD for it. Restaurants either need to adapt or get out of that platform. Driver who is getting paid $2 accepted the order knowingly.
Yeah I mean most restaurants don't want to invest in an e-commerce platform. Domino's is really the only one I can think of and they have a patent. Lot of headaches associated with delivery, it's much easier for restaurants to just sign up, have a tablet, and be done with it.
>Driver who is getting paid $2 accepted knowingly Let me rephrase that for you, the driver accepted the order for $2 because he had no other options.
So why are these dashers doing it?
Because people can't seem to fathom that others are capable of making their own decisions, and that --unlike they go scream around--, the dashers actually aren't being taken advantage of and most of them really like the job and think it pays decently.
Yep. And it's getting more and more expensive to afford basic things. The lower class is being pushed hard. At the same time middle class is being eroded.
It’s a fair argument to just assume restaurants haven’t adjusted for the increase in orders yet. Overall it’s a net positive for them once they adjust. The restaurants should also have the host hand out the orders instead of letting the drivers take them. Pay is another question.
Your post shouldn’t exist without TC
Respect 😂
Sloth finally made it