UberEats Delivery on Bicycles

[Will Hunting]

Has anyone else experienced this fucking bullshit? I just ordered UberEats and the delivery is going to take a half hour because some poor ghetto bitch on her bike was selected as the driver. I would have just gone to pick it up myself over waiting for her to complete a 5 mile long bike ride.

[Blake]

:lol

[Reck]

I get this from time to time when ordering Chinese. Now thankfully they're not all that far away but too long for a casual walk.

Even still sometimes I would get the food and it's all sweaty because the heat has nowhere to go.

Cant imagine what a 3-4 mile trip on a bike would do to your food.

[phxspurfan]

Yup I ordered a jamba juice a long time ago when I was moving and it arrived half empty and the small size, with juice spilled all over the side n shit. Learned my lesson quick

[Xevious]

Yeah, probably get to you all soggy and shit, shaking around on the back of a bicycle in this heat. :lol

[HarlemHeat37]

:lol never experienced that, but I've seen some that are listed as bikes, but driving cars to avoid insurance problems..

[apalisoc_9]

Has anyone else experienced this fucking bullshit? I just ordered UberEats and the delivery is going to take a half hour because some poor ghetto bitch on her bike was selected as the driver. I would have just gone to pick it up myself over waiting for her to complete a 5 mile long bike ride.

Pretty sure its to avoid insurance.

[Will Hunting]

Yeah, probably get to you all soggy and shit, shaking around on the back of a bicycle in this heat. :lol
:lol it was Jersey Mike’s. By the time it got to me, the oils/vinegar they use made the bread soggy as hell.

[Millennial_Messiah]

:lol it was Jersey Mike’s. By the time it got to me, the oils/vinegar they use made the bread soggy as hell.

:lol lazy millennials and their obsessive love for take-out and delivery


just cook your own goddamn food or go to the restaurant and eat the food there like a decent human being next time.

[Will Hunting]

:lol lazy millennials and their obsessive love for take-out and delivery


just cook your own goddamn food or go to the restaurant and eat the food there like a decent human being next time.
That's in no way relevant. I felt lazy and paid extra for a service to have my meal delivered. I didn't get the service I paid for, plain and simple.

Sorry that you're BB&B paycheck doesn't allow for the simple luxuries of having food delivered when you don't feel like cooking or going out.

[pgardn]

:lol lazy millennials and their obsessive love for take-out and delivery


just cook your own goddamn food or go to the restaurant and eat the food there like a decent human being next time.

You have never called in for Pizza when a bunch of folks want to stay for a game or movie?

BS...

[apalisoc_9]

:lol lazy millennials and their obsessive love for take-out and delivery


just cook your own goddamn food or go to the restaurant and eat the food there like a decent human being next time.

Fuck off bro.

You telling me you never had lazy weekends?

[Xevious]

:lol lazy millennials and their obsessive love for take-out and delivery


just cook your own goddamn food or go to the restaurant and eat the food there like a decent human being next time.
Don't tell me you and your fatass wife have never ordered take-out before. GTFO with that bullshit.

[Blake]

What's to stop these guys from eating French fries tho

[GAustex]

Can’t recall a time where I was not disappointed with the decision to order delivery
Cold mushy
I go fetch

[MultiTroll]

Seems like there would be some cases where a bike would be faster then a car.
Urban. Or even semi spread out areas with a bunch of annoying stop lights.
Seems like a good biker could ride and maneuver faster, or at least as fast as a car.

[Divac Doesnt Flop]

Yeah be like the Gen Xers and boomers who go out to a restaurant and sit and stare at their phones without talking with the people around them.

[Divac Doesnt Flop]

Boomers' idea of being a 'normal human being' is posting racist memes on facebook, eating overpriced garbage at Cheesecake Factory and yelling at Alexa to play their crappy 70s music.

[Will Hunting]

Seems like there would be some cases where a bike would be faster then a car.
Urban. Or even semi spread out areas with a bunch of annoying stop lights.
Seems like a good biker could ride and maneuver faster, or at least as fast as a car.
Yeah in fucking New York City sure, but not a 5 mile bike ride in Dallas, 3 miles of which would be freeway driving with no lights if you had a car.

[apalisoc_9]

Yeah be like the Gen Xers and boomers who go out to a restaurant and sit and stare at their phones without talking with the people around them.

:lol

What a waste

[Divac Doesnt Flop]

How old is this 'messiah' bootstrapper? Boomers invented hippies and Gen Xers spent 20 years glorifying slackerdom with their cheesy rom com movies and sitcoms. Where is this notion that your people ever had a work ethic?

[Millennial_Messiah]

Don't tell me you and your fatass wife have never ordered take-out before. GTFO with that bullshit.

Nope, and after she gets this brain surgery she'll be back to fit and no more insulin shots within a few months, else I'll proceed with the divorce docs, already got that shit locked up :lol

She's always cooked since we were first together/married in 2016. We never eat fast food and we'll go out to eat together like, 5 times per year.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Yeah in fucking New York City sure, but not a 5 mile bike ride in Dallas, 3 miles of which would be freeway driving with no lights if you had a car.

To be honest though in DFW specifically there are some places where you have to take back roads to avoid tolls.

But riding a bike would never be faster, even assuming there's consistent sidewalks (which there usually isn't around here because it's car-centric)... not to mention the commotion from the bike would always ruin the food, especially in this heat, unless it's like bags of chips or something.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Yeah be like the Gen Xers and boomers who go out to a restaurant and sit and stare at their phones without talking with the people around them.

25 year old Millennial, I was the kid who always liked to go out and eat and just enjoy the ambiance, the service, and the experience of eating there. Why would I ever need to have my phone out? It stays square in my pocket from service to consumption of the food. No food grime on my phone, sir. After I eat I usually just finish my drink (if I have one that isn't water), fill it up a few times and drink more, wash my hands, pee, wash my hands some more, then leave.

Generally it would be something like Subway or chinese (HS) or Chicken Express, Chipotle, Pita Pit, chinese (college) and I'd have already paid cash at purchase but the few times I went to Olive Garden, Red Lobster etc in college I still paid cash at the tab. Never, ever, let your credit or debit card in the hands of a restaurant server (not to mention BoH wage slave immigrants looking for anything to steal).

[Millennial_Messiah]

That's in no way relevant. I felt lazy and paid extra for a service to have my meal delivered. I didn't get the service I paid for, plain and simple.

Sorry that you're BB&B paycheck doesn't allow for the simple luxuries of having food delivered when you don't feel like cooking or going out.

You mean these paychecks?

https://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x85/hurriandrewfury1209/pccks0719_zpsatcvbuvy.jpg

And by the way, women love men than can cook and properly handle and season food better than those who got nothing but takeout/delivery sandwiches, pizza and fried chicken their whole adult life.

[Millennial_Messiah]

You have never called in for Pizza when a bunch of folks want to stay for a game or movie?

BS...
I go to their place. I don't host. Rather keep my apartment spotless, especially since theirs is already pretty messy from all the food, booze, parties, people, sex, etc.

[Mitch]

Can't get over how a milennial uses fucking photobucket :lol

[DMC]

The length companies will go to in order to appear woke seems to have no limit.

Just stop using the faggots.

Speaking of Uber, my Uber driver fell asleep 4 times in Portland on a 30 mile trip. I hit him on the shoulder and told him to drop me off at the next intersection, he said something in his South African accent about going to school at night, but this dude was all over the fucking road and into the other lanes. I got a full refund. He got a suspension, probably 2 days and he'll be back and kill someone.

[Millennial_Messiah]

Can't get over how a milennial uses fucking photobucket :lol

I've had that account since I was 11... 14 years

[DeadlyDynasty]

Mankind's greatest innovations:

1. Air Conditioning
2. Antibiotics
3. Uber Eats

[Will Hunting]

Y
And by the way, women love men than can cook and properly handle and season food better than those who got nothing but takeout/delivery sandwiches, pizza and fried chicken their whole adult life.
Women also love men who aren't poor and can spring for the occasional non-essential item like food delivery :lol

[baseline bum]

Women also love men who aren't poor and can spring for the occasional non-essential item like food delivery :lol

So do you have any recourse with Uber Eats or were you stuck with your soggy late pos sandwich?

[Reck]

:lol lazy millennials and their obsessive love for take-out and delivery


just cook your own goddamn food or go to the restaurant and eat the food there like a decent human being next time.

Wait...you think this is a question of being too lazy? :lmao cook your own meal

Are you 80? Pinching and questioning every penny you spend. :lol

[Will Hunting]

So do you have any recourse with Uber Eats or were you stuck with your soggy late pos sandwich?
Yeah they gave me a refund and then I jewed a $20 credit on top of that.

I asked if there was any way to just ensure you're getting an actual car driver, not a bike rider and that I'd even pay extra to make sure it was a car driver. They said no :lol

[Will Hunting]

Wait...you think this is a question of being too lazy? :lmao cook your own meal

Are you 80? Pinching and questioning every penny you spend. :lol
:lol MM just immediately assumes that ordering UberEats means you're incapable of cooking since that's the only reason you would spent the extra 5-10 bucks to have food delivered.

[Millennial_Messiah]

:lol MM just immediately assumes that ordering UberEats means you're incapable of cooking since that's the only reason you would spent the extra 5-10 bucks to have food delivered.

No, not incapable. But it seems like an incredible waste of money. If you're doing something with/to impress a chick then fine, but if it's just for yourself, why waste the extra dough?

[Millennial_Messiah]

Yeah they gave me a refund and then I jewed a $20 credit on top of that.

I asked if there was any way to just ensure you're getting an actual car driver, not a bike rider and that I'd even pay extra to make sure it was a car driver. They said no :lol

:lol good one. I did that with Amazon last year after I never got my package of milk kefir grains. But they only gave me $8.

[Will Hunting]

No, not incapable. But it seems like an incredible waste of money. If you're doing something with/to impress a chick then fine, but if it's just for yourself, why waste the extra dough?
You keep saying “waste the dough”...it’s the same reason you spend money on any other non essential product. I was busy working on something yesterday evening and didn’t feel like interrupting it by making or going out for dinner, so it was worth it to drop 5 extra bucks for a delivery.

[Spurminator]

I asked if there was any way to just ensure you're getting an actual car driver, not a bike rider and that I'd even pay extra to make sure it was a car driver. They said no :lol

I didn't even know this was a thing. Crazy.

About a year ago I worked with a pizza chain to test the various delivery options to make sure the food quality was up to par before they partnered with them. DoorDash and GrubHub have specific guidelines about keeping the product hot/fresh that UE doesn't require of their drivers (or bikers, I guess). But UberEats is everywhere, and I guess their fees are lower. Still, I always recommend you opt for a different delivery option if it's available.

[Will Hunting]

I didn't even know this was a thing. Crazy.

About a year ago I worked with a pizza chain to test the various delivery options to make sure the food quality was up to par before they partnered with them. DoorDash and GrubHub have specific guidelines about keeping the product hot/fresh that UE doesn't require of their drivers (or bikers, I guess). But UberEats is everywhere, and I guess their fees are lower. Still, I always recommend you opt for a different delivery option if it's available.
Yeah I don’t mind the extra fees those places just don’t have anywhere near the network of restaurants.

The fucking worst delivery service is Caviar. I tried it only because they were offering the entire meal free. The first time I tried the order was canceled 45 minutes later, the 2nd time I tried I waited for 45 minutes and then had to request an update because it doesn’t track your order the way UE or DoorDash does. I then get some completely useless update that says “Good things are happening my man. Joe is grilling up your food, just give us some time” almost as if it’s a prank. Normally I wouldn’t care but I called customer service and asked if that was actually intended to be a useful update and the cheesedick customer service guy said those updates are part of their unique brand. I said that’s easily the shittiest business model I’ve ever seen and not to bother completing the order :lol

[Spurminator]

I then get some completely useless update that says “Good things are happening my man. Joe is grilling up your food, just give us some time” almost as if it’s a prank. Normally I wouldn’t care but I called customer service and asked if that was actually intended to be a useful update and the cheesedick customer service guy said those updates are part of their unique brand. I said that’s easily the shittiest business model I’ve ever seen and not to bother completing the order :lol

:lol "Part of our unique brand"

Gotta love generic marketing bullshit. My guess, the real story is they found by sending triggered "updates" at specific times, they reduce customer complaints.

"Oh hon, looks like they're working on it, guess we just have to wait a little longer."
"It's been an hour."
"Well, Joe's grilling it up, they said!"

[DJR210]

Was it a sweet bike at least?

[Millennial_Messiah]

You keep saying “waste the dough”...it’s the same reason you spend money on any other non essential product. I was busy working on something yesterday evening and didn’t feel like interrupting it by making or going out for dinner, so it was worth it to drop 5 extra bucks for a delivery.

Usually if that happens I just eat a snack, say a few dried cranberries for dinner and push forward if I'm busy. Food can always wait, even until the next day if necessary.

Now thinking back, I believe I paid for delivery once my whole life. Papa John's pizza+wings delivery to my little apartment by the university in Denton, Thanksgiving week, November, 2015. I would have gone out but it was pouring buckets the entire week and I didn't have a car since I was still in college. And I only got that because they were having a 50% off promo. Otherwise I would have just settled for a can of ravioli and a can of green beans for dinner.

But hey, I'm not running your life. To each their own, I guess.

[Will Hunting]

:lol "Part of our unique brand"

Gotta love generic marketing bullshit. My guess, the real story is they found by sending triggered "updates" at specific times, they reduce customer complaints.

"Oh hon, looks like they're working on it, guess we just have to wait a little longer."
"It's been an hour."
"Well, Joe's grilling it up, they said!"
That wasn't it though, it was radio silence for 45 minutes (after the original ETA was 25), then after I request an update, I get "Joe fuckface is grillin it up real good!"

I think in this case DMC is right that it's just a stupid effort to be "woke".

In the case of UE bicycles the problem is the delivery fees are too low so there aren't enough people with an actual car and insurance who want to do it :lol

[Spurminator]

That wasn't it though, it was radio silence for 45 minutes (after the original ETA was 25), then after I request an update, I get "Joe fuckface is grillin it up real good!"

Oh, shit.

Yeah that's bad.

[InRareForm]

I had a 10pm order, some guy canceled the trip because he was on his bike and it was raining too!! Wtf

[Millennial_Messiah]

I had a 10pm order, some guy canceled the trip because he was on his bike and it was raining too!! Wtf

Yeah... another problem. What if it's November in Seattle and you want a hot Starbucks delivered and instead of a car it's some hippie on a bike? Good luck.

[Millennial_Messiah]

That wasn't it though, it was radio silence for 45 minutes (after the original ETA was 25), then after I request an update, I get "Joe fuckface is grillin it up real good!"

I think in this case DMC is right that it's just a stupid effort to be "woke".

In the case of UE bicycles the problem is the delivery fees are too low so there aren't enough people with an actual car and insurance who want to do it :lol

Yep. I think so too. Also the restaurants lose money on UE because their profit margins average below the 30% UE charges them. They need to drastically reduce, or completely eliminate the fees to the restaurant and charge the customers a flat booking fee (80% paid to the driver) + $5/mile (50% driver/Uber), but forget any % of the order... why should that be relevant? It isn't. Encourage customers to buy in bulk. It's better for everyone, especially the restaurant. Restaurant industry is already an extremely narrow profit margin industry.

[Will Hunting]

I had a 10pm order, some guy canceled the trip because he was on his bike and it was raining too!! Wtf
Yeah that’s another problem, drivers are allowed to take an order so no one else can and then cancel the order a half hour later because they just don’t feel like it anymore :lol

[Millennial_Messiah]

Yeah that’s another problem, drivers are allowed to take an order so no one else can and then cancel the order a half hour later because they just don’t feel like it anymore :lol

Do you get your money back in that case? Or do you still get charged.

[Will Hunting]

Do you get your money back in that case? Or do you still get charged.
You get your money back (there’d be lawsuits if you didn’t :lol) but the problem is that you’re nowhere closer to getting food than you were 45 minutes earlier.

[SpursforSix]

I have a pretty big fear of some driver/biker having a shitty day and taking it out on my food.

[Millennial_Messiah]

You get your money back (there’d be lawsuits if you didn’t :lol) but the problem is that you’re nowhere closer to getting food than you were 45 minutes earlier.

If you don't feel like cooking or going out, why not save the hassle and risk and just keep a bunch of easy-prepare food at your place? Stuff like, canned chili and bags of Fritos. Sandwich meat and loaves of sliced bread (in the fridge of course). Cans of heat-and-eat food. Canned vegetables. Little things like shredded cheddar in the fridge to enhance your food. All you need is a microwave, fork, sometimes a knife to cut bread and stuff, that's all.

[Millennial_Messiah]

I have a pretty big fear of some driver/biker having a shitty day and taking it out on my food.

That's yet another good issue to bring up :lol

someone has a shitty day/week/etc and decides they want to do something sneaky or evil to society to "make up" for it. Maybe they have a cold and they go in and lick, spit in/mix saliva in your food and you wonder why you're waking up with a sore throat 2 days later even though you didn't go out anywhere.

[Chucho]

If you don't feel like cooking or going out, why not save the hassle and risk and just keep a bunch of easy-prepare food at your place? Stuff like, canned chili and bags of Fritos. Sandwich meat and loaves of sliced bread (in the fridge of course). Cans of heat-and-eat food. Canned vegetables. Little things like shredded cheddar in the fridge to enhance your food. All you need is a microwave, fork, sometimes a knife to cut bread and stuff, that's all.

This is another one of those posts where no one can decipher if you're trying to troll to get attention your real life doesnt afford you or just a real piece of poor white trash who lies to get attention your real life doesn't afford you.

Regardless, it's a safe bet your funeral procession will be minimal at best and that's considering your family decides not to cremate you for the savings. If you can afford a plot, I bet your coffin is made of sheet rock or particle board.

[gambit1990]

i never use any food delivery tbh.

i hate any chance of get cold, soggy food. but yeah, would hate delivery via bike :lol

always wondered sodas via bike delivery would taste. don't care to find out.

[Millennial_Messiah]

This is another one of those posts where no one can decipher if you're trying to troll to get attention your real life doesnt afford you or just a real piece of poor white trash who lies to get attention your real life doesn't afford you.

Regardless, it's a safe bet your funeral procession will be minimal at best and that's considering your family decides not to cremate you for the savings. If you can afford a plot, I bet your coffin is made of sheet rock or particle board.
Moot point because I'm not going to die, ever.

[Millennial_Messiah]

i never use any food delivery tbh.

i hate any chance of get cold, soggy food. but yeah, would hate delivery via bike :lol

always wondered sodas via bike delivery would taste. don't care to find out.
12 ounces of sticky syrup on your carpet when you first pop the tab.

[SpursforSix]

12 ounces of sticky syrup on your carpet when you first pop the tab.

Bend over, I’ll fucking give ya 12 ounces of sticky syrup.

[DMC]

If you don't feel like cooking or going out, why not save the hassle and risk and just keep a bunch of easy-prepare food at your place? Stuff like, canned chili and bags of Fritos. Sandwich meat and loaves of sliced bread (in the fridge of course). Cans of heat-and-eat food. Canned vegetables. Little things like shredded cheddar in the fridge to enhance your food. All you need is a microwave, fork, sometimes a knife to cut bread and stuff, that's all.

Because he's not a low rent motherfucker like you? Just guessing.

[mrsmaalox]

I was at a local brewery (RoadmapBrewing?) on Saturday night and saw a bicycle delivery guy picking up crowlers come in 3 times. Guy was obviously an experienced biker and had a very expensive bike, but how smooth could his driving possibly be on downtown streets? You’ve gotta need a beer pretty bad to pay for a shook up can of craft beer lol