Or a Baconator?
Or White Castles?
I like the baconator but it feels especially like Iām asking the stomach cancer gods to strike me down
I agree with those who posit that the Whopper is the best fast food burger.
If weāre venturing a bit outside of fast food, the Shake Shack Portobello burger is amaze. Not really a burger, but I have dreams about it.
I always get ill after eating at Hardeeās. Like 100% of the time. Not like throwing up, but definitely upset tummy.
Iām about 50/50 on that with Five Guysā milkshakes, but theyāre so good present me always discounts the future suffering sufficiently.
When I got married, my FIL was huge on going to florida and huge on Walmart - that as a canadian, Iād never heard of. He goes on and on about how thereās this magical store with super cheap prices and they have a jewellery department and I should get my wedding band there.
Thatās right, I got my wedding band at walmart because I wasnāt aware of the stigma. $99USD.
Eh, it works fine. Itās round, itās gold, Iām married.
Hey, if your wife was okay with it, you did good.
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lol. It doesnāt leave my finger green so thatās nice.
We got Popeyes for dinner two nights ago, through UberEats. I donāt recommend. The order was all wrong, the food was cold. Much better experience in person or drive-thru.
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We never order from those delivery services. If we want something delivered (we rarely do), we call the restaurant directly.
https://www.eatthecapital.com/post/why-you-shouldn-t-be-ordering-from-grubhub-or-uber-eats
While I agree these services are not the cheapest I donāt think the restaurants are losing out. They agree to the deal and they can certainly say no as many of them do. To me if a restaurant has agreed to sell their wares on the service then I am not hurting them by using it. This is free market capitalism at itās finest IMO.
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Someone is paying for the 30%, in some/many cases the restaurant eats part of it, and you pay higher prices. If Iām ordering $50 worth of food, I can make a four minute call to carve out $15 in added cost. My town lost several restaurants to COVID and Iād like to support the remaining ones as best I can.
Iām not opposed to the tech, itās slick, but itās not worth 30% to me.
There are restaurants I see open that are 99% dependent on ubereats, even though weāre at 25% capacity.
They even have an assembly line set up for food, bagging, utensils, etc. And itās just bags and bags of food.
I highly doubt theyāll get this much volume or ability to handle if they had their own delivery services.
Stop being lazy and go out and pick up the food yourself.
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I dunno. Iāve read articles from restaurant owners about how they donāt realize up front how much it will cost, and then they get trapped by not having enough money to build out their own on-line ordering, and not wanting to alienate customers whom they hope to get back by lacking on line ordering.
Restaurants are impoverished right now, and impoverished entities can be pressured into bad choices.
Iām not saying you shouldnāt use delivery services. But if you want to support your favorite restaurant, youāre probably helping more of you buy directly from them.
Or, at least call the place to see if they have their own delivery service.
I agree, but Iām assuming that theyāre cutting into the restaurantās margin considerably and Iād rather help the restaurant than Grubhub.
Plus I have seen substantial markups on Grubhub. And being a cheap actuary Iād rather order directly from the restaurant.
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But you repeat yourself.
I certainly have a minimum bound on having food delivered. Itās usually in the hundreds, for when the food comes at a specified time when I cannot pick it up, 'cause too busy hosting a party. To pick a first estimate of the minimum bound, $200 of food, and Iāll have it delivered, but it had better be close, and not cold when it arrives (unless, of course itās salad, in which it better not be warm when it arrives, unless itās tri-tip salad, in which the tri-tip is hot but the salad is cold ā geez, !'m such a Sally!).
And, to me itās not just the extra cost; itās the time as well. Order a pizza and itās ready in 20 minutes, or you wait an hour for delivery, 'cause logistics. So, if you want pizza at a specific time, you pick it up yourself.