@@David-gj9qr I think there are problems with the companies lowering pay for their drivers depending on the amount of tips the app knows they receive. So they aren't getting paid properly because the companies are basically counting tips as their own pay.
I love food delivery apps. Every time I can't decide what to do for dinner, I go onto one of them, find something I really want, get to the checkout page where they tell me what the total's going to be after all the fees, and then say "eh, I'll just get something out of the fridge." Saves me a ton of money on eating out.
soo i did the math and its cheaper for me to go to chili eat all you can eat soup for 8.89 at lunch not eat the rest of the week and just eat soup once a week..
Oh we've literally got that from a software provider at my job. They had changed something and I had to call them to get it setup again (they were the only ones with admin rights to make the change), then a week later our bean-counter asked me what the $200 fee from them was for.
@@leyrua Yup. We generally hate them but we lack options for reasonable alternatives that would make a transition worth it. The only bright side is I do have data admin rights so I ended up writing my own program that fixes some of their problems and automates various processes. I would write my own program (C# has become my bread and butter) but I'm the only IT personnel so I've got to handle everything and don't have time to develop full time.
@@Najolve Oh geez. I feel you. All of the deadlines for my projects, ALL of my projects, were last week. I've been skipping lunches and I still can't keep up with the timelines that my supervisors came up with. Granted, it's _partially_ because the other developer quit unexpectedly.
because of these outrageous services, In my shop we have reverted back do it old school. we all agree on where we want food from, someone volunteers to go fetch it and every one else splits the cost of the runners lunch. We all get the food we want, accurate, and the guy making the run gets a free lunch. it works, try it fam.
I was usually the guy who got "volunteered" to go get lunch or go get Slurpees or whatever 😅 But I got a lot of free meals out of it and I still got paid while I was out getting food 😁
3 more actual fees he missed (I've paid for all 3 of these): 1. Gas prices went up fee 2. Your order is heavy fee 3. Local ordinance fee - literally means the government passed a law to make them do something, and they're going to charge their customers a fee until the law is repealed.
Scratch that last part. Even if whatever law is repealed they will keep the fee due to being pissed off that the law had inconvenienced them. It's the law was repealed but we don't care that it has fee.
fuck your complaint i aint carrying 5 38 pack of soda 4 cases of water 10 2 liters and 2 24 packs of beer up 4 flights of stairs with your 40 pound bag of dog food for 7.80 which is what insta cart gets paid without tips. so yeah fuck you go buy your own shit then
You forgot the road maintenance fee, vehicle maintenance fee, dry cleaning fee for those times the food got all over the drivers clothes, the licensing fee (both business and driver's), I could really go on forever here...
The funny thing is that $10 sandwich is actually a $7 sandwich if you get it directly from the restaurant. Food app automatically adds to the cost of the items before they even tac on the fees 😅
Last I checked it's less the app adding on fees and usually the restaurant adding on to the cost because the delivery app charges the restaurant to delivery to you too.
@@Furluge it's 100% not the app adding markup to menu items. The app takes a cut of all restaurant orders that is so large that it literally wipes out the profit margin for the restaurant. So in turn, the restaurant adds like 30-40% markup to every menu item if you order through a delivery app. In the end, I don't know why or how this has become a better option for restaurants than simply hiring a driver.
I remember the first time I used a food app that offered my first delivery free. Then it told me my first delivery for a $5 sandwich was going to come out to $18. I deleted the app and walked the 5 blocks. Great apps to promote getting out of the house though I guess.
They didn't bother to deliver my food, they left it at the restaurant where it got cold crusty and hard as a rock. Had to show up in person myself to get it, and only then did a doordasher show up to pick up my food, over 2 hours AFTER I placed the order! Then the dude had the audacity to get made at me when he realized I was picking it up myself and canceling the order.
@@robsutton3092 Prob a 6 inch sub, bought in America, since Canadian money is typically worth about half as much, so anything a Canadian sees sold in America, looks relatively cheap.
"FIne I'll take your sandwich for 87 dollars." "Thank you, here's your order" "This isn't what I ordered" "But its FOOD. You're being really selfish and greedy right now. Be grateful for once."
Also our GPS told your driver to drive around in circles for 20 minutes first, no reason except we penalize their pay if they don't follow our GPS route exactly so we screw with them as much as possible to either make them waste gas and look dumb or get penalized. Sometimes its so bad they owe US money for ignoring it too much. Oh and don't forget we also charge the restaurant for using our service to...they get all the same random ass fees...probably even more.
@@tokyworld but did you pay the they already picked up the food that was done 35minutes ago and took 45 additional minutes to deliver it 3 miles away fee?
It was more of a "we both know you are too lazy to make yourself a sandwich, so you'll pay no matter what" kind of look rather than the app being angry.
I used one of those app once cause working out of town, I order like every weeks, but never again. It's just trash, people are really poignantly foolish for doing business with those services. Gen z and millennials be shitting on boomers but that's our legacy to the world, overpriced services and underpaid gig workers. We really not better, not a bit.
I love the "convenience fee" when I pay a bill online. It is literally cheaper and instant to pay it online, vs an employee that has to make an envelope and mail it, receive the check, put the data in by hand.
"Delivery fee" for digital tickets. It literally takes more processing power to render the screen than it does to deliver the QR code to your email, but that'll be $15.98 per QR code
@@ekkehard8 Because a lot of metros customers are forced to come in and pay it as they tend to be lower socio economic status people who rely on their phone for internet as well. No phone service no internet. Force an extra $3 out of them.
@@bacoguy Your body might be broken. And, oh yes. If you need medical assistance and are in the US, that could lead to you being broke. The cheese spread example was inspired by real-life events that went down in my flat just hours ago. I heavily fictionalised them, though.
Delivery apps have made me eat local a lot more! I see the price with the convenience fee for meals under $15, plus service and delivery fees, and I realize I can call up the local place, go on a nice five minute bike ride, and eat my food and be back by the time the delivery driver would have arrived anyway.
I have to ask , wtf is going on with deliveries in America. Here we pay 3-6 dollars for the delivery and we usually don't tip the delivery guy at all (because i payed for delivery already so i ain't gonna give him money for delivering the food lmao) . And people here already call them too greedy for taking the 4 dollars for delivery lmao how the hell does it work in America? ( well tbf here you can only deliver food that cost 15$ any lower and they won't deliver)
@@shlomoshlomo963 it's simple. Let's say your minimum wage is 15 an hour. Delivery guy is being paid 3 bucks for a 25 minute delivery. There's gas, ware and tare on the car itself and the delivery drivers time. Gas is $1.50 a litter. Do you get it? Don't want to pay them to do it? Fine no one will do the job and you can go get it yourself.
I remember about a month ago I saw there was an additional fee for the “fuel surcharge”. I figured that was fair enough given the gas price situation, and then add me living in a sort of more rural area. Alright, fair enough. I guess I’ll pay this non-optional fuel surcharge. And then they rode up to my door on a bicycle. The one and only time a delivery person delivered *without* a car. Guess they fueled up on Gatorade?
The fuel charge goes to the driver even if it is someone on a bike. And they don't differentiate. Plus some of these apps have a problem with a lot of people saying they're in a car but actually using a bike.
@@raney150 I'd pay more to opt for someone to be green and work their butt off for the money, so they should add that as an option (then I'll build a mansion on the top of a really tall hill so it says its 0.1 miles, but its also 5 miles straight up... mwahahaha!)
@@mytech6779 News: Eccentric billionaire makes house on top of artificial mount Everest, just so he can watch delivery boys struggle for a $5 tip. Haha, that would be an epic level troll and publicity stunt.
Accurate... DoorDash, Arby's = $25 UberEats, Arby's = $31 If I go there myself = $14 Kinda ridiculous...you shouldn't be aiming to make as much or more than the places you deliver for.
I guess that depends, I once ordered a burger from accross the street because of a promotion and even with the tip, it was cheaper, yet the driver got angry at me for it, ridiculous.
@@tairikuokami "I GuESs ThAt DePEnedS" [on if I had a promotion or not.] Pretty sure nobody has mentioned promotional rates until you. You should quit speaking online if you are going to sound this ridiculous. Maybe lay off the hard drugs. Let your brain develop into adult hood a bit more... whatever you need to do, fk off somewhere else to figure it out.
Or if you just idk select pick up it will drop all of those fees off unless you can’t select pickup then tell that restaurant to fuck off and find another or just go to that place and get food.
@@legocat0306 Then you have the markup. Sevis burritos just around the corner. I do pickup all the time. My typical order of $12, is actually only $8 directly through them.
My favorite was when the app would glitch out before you got to the person's apartment and you would call Uber to have them give you the address, but they were too incompetent to read an apartment number, so they would cancel the order and then resubmit it - removing the tip entirely, and you wouldn't get paid for the delivery either so you just wasted 20 minutes driving across town and got exactly nothing in return.
Or when some creep follows you in their car and tries to attack you for no particular reason, so you call the police as you try to flee and they inform you that it's not illegal to try and run someone off the road while screaming threats out their window. Sorry bro, your Taco Bell is cold but I wasn't tryna die over it for 97 cents. That was the last time I delivered food. Not fucking worth it.
This is completely accurate. You should also do instacart, where they try to substitute things you don't want, tell you about it too late, tell you they'll remove them, charge you for them, and then keep them for themselves.
hey that's mostly the individual drivers... and tbh they get paid like 10 dollars per delivery so without a tip, or even with the tip for smaller orders they're usually in a hurry to try and make more than like $8 an hour
What pisses me off is Amazon's Fresh service automatically adding things they've decided you'll like to your cart, and then emailing you to tell you they've helpfully already created a cart full of groceries for you. Now, if you'd like to either log on and pay for the things they've decided you want, they'll be happy to deliver them to you.
much like ANY HUMAN like the uber customers who GET their food then call uber and complain it never got there I an instacart driver. had people put a tip on an order of 60+ items have 4 cases of water several boxes of soda and a 40 pound bag a of dog food and buncha 2 liters and a case of beer. then because they have 48 hours to adjust the tip they completely remove the tip and i end up getting paid 7.80 for shopping it all loading it unloading it and carrying it to YOUR FUCKING DOOR. up 4 flights of stairs... also maybe if you fucking answered your god damn phone when i sent you pictures of the EMPTY SHEVES asking if you want a refund or replacement. also when i ask what you want replacement for. they do not have ben and jerrys they chocomonkey but they have 4 other kinds of chocolate banana ice cream which one would you like. DO NOT REPLY . yes I SAID WHICH ONE TOU MUST CHOOSE or get nothing
The amount of times I’ve gone to use a delivery app, got to the checkout page and decided not to proceed because of the horrible added fees. Makes whatever is the the cupboard suddenly much more appealing.
Yeah, I looked into one of those a few years back while I was feeling lazy, wanting to get food from one of my regular spots. I am well-versed in the menu of the place and noticed instantly that the prices for everything on the app's menu was more than $4 higher per item than in store and immediately noped out. Didn't even make it far enough to see how abusive the charges and fees would be.
There’s a great story of a guy making a bunch of money ordering his own food from a delivery company that added his restaurant to their menu without his permission. He delivered himself empty pizza boxes and kept reusing them and made a killing.
@@keelahrose Wait how? if he orders it then he pays for it even if the Delivery company (that litteraly had nothing to do with him) Would make all the deliverys 100% free of charge for him he would just be even (exept he would have to pay taxes on the "revenue" his own orders generatet)
@@LittleDanny9899 think it was something crazy where the company added his store and only charged like..$10 bucks when he charges $14. For some reason the company was covering the extra $4 as a way to hook consumers or something. So he just ordered himself a bunch of pizzas and gave the driver a mock pizza. Over and over. Gaining $4 every time. I'll try and dig up the article
I've tried ordering through these delivery sites a few times and can never bring myself to pull the trigger. Every single time I end up looking at final price that I could use on week's worth of groceries instead.
yah in the beginning, they were a cool concept, but ever since the pandemic hit, they got greedy, charging what ever exorbitant prices they want and its funny because their prices will just make me more inclined to leave the house, better off wasting 30 minutes picking up food myself than wasting 1-2 hours in wage money
only one I found to be even remotely worth it was door dash, because their $10/monthly subscription gave you free delivery. Except they charge an extra 15 or so % on menu items, and their subscription changed so it's no longer free delivery (it's like a discounted delivery); so it's no longer worth it. I used it a lot before I could drive, but now I can drive, fuck them.
No joke tried to order from a breakfast diner place over night cause it’s 24/7 but the staff there kept canceling the order when I know for a fact they SLOWWWWW as hell at this location and hour lol so I tried to order the next day at 12:10 noon just passed. No joke drivers from DD kept picking up the food at the place after they finally agreed to make it the next day at noon but THREE drivers separately drove there ‘picked up’ the food and drove off after canceling the order. So three drivers got to eat for free but all risked cancellation with DD to do that shiii xD it wasn’t even on a holiday or a Sunday when they are busy it was the slowest location at the slowest business hours for them. It took till 3:45pm that day to get refunded from DD and got 5-7$ more but it wasn’t worth waiting 3.5 hrs to find that out. What was annoying was I tipped well both times .-. Like I do instacart so I tipped 5-7$ or something and lost that I’m the process so it really was just a big ass waste of time. Fuck the food delivery apps man
It's not greed, it's desperation on the verge of bankruptcy. Doordash and Uber have never made a profit, Grubhub makes a few cents per order. These debt-heavy startups are only sustainable when the fed prints, they don't survive a recession. Maybe it's greedy to expect food fresh prepared by a chef and then delivered to your door in less than an hour for $10 as if that was ever realistically sustainable.
It's actually SUPER easy! Barely an inconvenience! They'll just pool all the tips and fees, and make the drivers compete for them in vicious Hunger-Games style bloodmatches! Oh, did I say 'all?' I meant like...ten percent.
"Donation processing fee" was absolute genius. Hahaha. So true with all these companies doing that exact crap. And with fuel prices. Pfft foget about it! *In a thick Italian accent*
@@ntandosekay its called "get off your lazy ass and learn to cook. stop giving the money to these companies and fools driving around on bikes. Tell their ugly asses to get jobs too god damnit. "
Yea I find myself cooking a giant pot of noodles, throwing some steak seasoning on them and boom there is dinner!.... Not exactly chef quality but it is cheap!
I’m convinced that these Food Delivery Apps are just a social experiment to see how willing people are to pay outrageously high prices for mostly lower-quality food without any chance to send the food back if the order is wrong or badly cooked.
Tipping culture is starting to make me so angry. How can these companies so blatantly gouge us then turn around and go, "btw can you make sure my employee gets a living wage thanks." Mind-boggling.
Most tipped employees make 15 to 25 an hour and aren't taxed on most cash tips. I took a 16 an hour job after being a server and I made significantly less plus it was fully taxed. Went from making around 38k a year with only 26k being reported for taxes to making 28k a year fully taxed. Tipped employees got you fooled thinking they don't make much.
@@steffenhjbjergjensen5489 If you want companies to pay their employees, you probably shouldn't be supporting the companies who don't pay their employees. Ordering food without tipping just makes sure the company will keep chugging along and screwing drivers, while ALSO not helping the drivers out.
With gig economics tipping culture is only a tiny fraction of the problem. Take uber drivers for example, they pay for gas, insurance, car maintenance, value depreciation, and are contracted as self employed so have to file as 1099 under taxes. Yet uber takes like a 85% cut and massively overcharges the passenger (passenger assumes its all going to the driver, so they don't tip). End of the day after expenses the driver is making less than half of min wage.
Tipping has been around for a long f u c k i n g time. Also, how are you being gouged? Are you actually agreeing to these apps instead of seeing them as a monumental ripoff?
Fun fact, the "charity donation" part can't be used as tax refund for you, but it can for the company. Always say no to those and give instead directly to a local food bank or something.
Just claim the tax credit and say sorry if you're audited. You did donate, so you didn't lie and you're not wrong. Also, companies get tax deduction (unlike your tax credit). Since that's not really their profit as they're giving it away, that's sensible and fair. The real benefit they get is PR and to condition customers to open wallets more.
@@iwatchwithnoads7480 Yeah... cause I'm really gonna risk that with the IRS, who could just take all of my money and everything I own anyways because I made a mistake. No thanks.
If you actually give to a local food bank or something than say no to those sure. If you however are like most people and don’t donate to charities and can’t be bothered , than by all means who cares who is getting the tax credit , it’s still charity for a good cause give the dang 1$ out of your 80$ purchase of hot Cheetos and self indulgent junk for yourself. It’s better than not donating at all.
@@iwatchwithnoads7480 well it is lying if you knowingly if you try to deduct charitable donations that you KNOW aren't deductible. Individuals take deductions too. A person doesn't get a charitable donation tax credit for instance. There are also tax credits for businesses.
I've been living in Korea where the only fee is a food delivery fee and its incredibly reasonable ($3-4). When I visited back home to the US a few months ago, I was floored at how much it cost to get a meal delivered!
@@robotbutterflies delivery companies were virtually subsidized by venture capital. When shareholders realized companies were actually losing money per delivery, Uber and delivery companies had to tack on fees to prove they can be financially viable That’s capitalism for ya
I vaguely remember wanting to use one of those apps while hanging out with friends. Order wasn't cheap, but the final checkout with all the crap added on was ludicrously expensive. Part way through reading the fees I just said "Fuck it", sat in the rental car I had at the time, drove over and just bought the food at the place itself. Ended up being cheaper than it was in the app before all the fees got added too.
Lol, no. If you don't tip, the apps pay the driver based on distance and estimated time. And it is not very generous. Kind of ridiculous when they charge so many fees and also often charge more for the item than you would going into the store.
@@raney150 yes, that’s literally what they tell you when you become a delivery driver. the delivery fee is for the wear and tear you put on your car for that delivery. example: your tires being used, your oil being used, the miles you put on the car, ext..
@@waclac That is what they say to American delivery drivers. Everywhere else the delivery fee is for wear and tear AND to pay the driver. No one tips drivers where I live.
@@Alkis05 Yes in most of Europe tipping is completely up to the customer and delivery drivers rarely get them outside of small amounts but in no way is it factored into pay. You are hired to do a job just like everyone else which is covered by the person who hired you and not the paying customers pocket on top of their bill🤣🤣 What kind of dumb logic are Americans allowing employer's to pull on them. Get a different job that doesn't rely on tips. Literally any other menial job is better. Once there's a shortage of worker's the pay automatically goes up out of necessity
Yeah this wasn't a thing for most restaurants. Unless it magically was before the 70s. Years ago I'd call the restaurant for food, and go pick it up (and give them a tip).
I really miss those days. In some countries it still works like that. Now even pizza and Chinese places can’t get dedicated drivers so they just use apps.
Ryan’s from Montreal and most Provinces in Canada have higher wages so things tend to cost more. Of course the wages aren’t the real issue, because the buying power of current minimum wages is still lower than the buying power of wages when minimum was $8. Thé fact of the matter is there’s more people and less stuff in the world
You forgot one important thing, the delivery discount for spending more. "That'll be $75.23 sir, but if you add an $8 desert and $5 bottled soda the total will be $56.28 instead"
"$75.23 sir, but if you add an $8 desert and $5 bottled soda the total will be $56.28" not quite like that. more like, 'here is something for 10$ (that should only actually be like 8$) but hey you can get 2 of them for 16$ so you may aswell right' they over charge singular item to encourage you to buy more to get what should be the fair price in the first place.
@@forget2bhuman993 The dollar sign goes in front of the number. You've mixed up single quotes and double quotes. You don't use capital letters. You've forgotten punctuation. as well* Please stay in school... or go to a better one.
@@Littletime839 Could be. A lot of seemingly outgoing youtubers turned out to be introverts or have social anxiety and such things. It's a way to express oneself without having to expose oneself...
"I'll take the $10 sandwich" "Sure, adding the $12 sandwich to your order" "Wait, that sandwich is only $10 on the restaurant's menu or if I order pick-up" "Aw dangit, I was hoping you wouldn't notice that all the prices here are marked up" "So you'll let me pay the same as the real menu, since I'm already paying a ton of other fees?" "No"
"Why not?" "You see, we dont control that price. We charge the restaurant 30% of the order to provide this service, so they increase their prices in our app."
@@kajerlou It's often really bad. Uber eats charges a fee to the resaurant each month, then a charge for each order, and an additional percentage of the price paid. Then you pay a 10% extra fee when you order + delivery + fee for paying by card. It's not uncommon for uber eats to charge twice as much as simply ordering yourself from the restaurant or, my favourite trick, asking a taxi to pick it up from the drivethrough since $10 for the taxi is almost certainly less than Uber's ridiculous fees.
Those price markups on the menu items are the legitimate "f*ck you" fee from the restaurant. Because local restaurants typically lose money when you use delivery apps. So they charge the f*ck you fee for you paying out the ass for a third-party service and hurting your local businesses.
At this point I've resolved to going out and getting it myself, no matter how tired or down I'm feeling. I'll feel better knowing I just saved 30 bucks
You will also feel better getting out of the house. If I feel tired and down, I want to stay home, but I always feel better after leaving and doing something productive, even if that is just procuring food. I realize this isn't an answer for everyone, I am not saying "have you tried not being depressed" but also it can't hurt to get out of the house and out of your head for a little bit.
I don't know how it is where you live, but here in my area, most restaurants with take-out / delivery of their own like it if you call them personally instead of using some delivery service. It's not only more expensive on your end. It seems part of the restaurants profit is taken as a fee by those services. Call your lokal restaurant personally, save them a few bucks and yourself also it what I want to say :D
@@robertnett9793 Restaurants lose about 30% of the order total before taxes and fees to most of thr major food apps. That's why they have higher meal prices
I used to think that myself when I worked at Jersey Mikes and Sushi Maki... but when you get a better job and start making enough that 30 dollars isn't going to kill you once a week and you're feeling lazy as hell, you just go ahead and do it and slap 25% on it.
It started when they offered free delivery. When the driver showed up he said "that'll be $85" so I punched him in the throat. It is now day 327...if only we knew then what we know now...
I tried food delivery a couple of times, then I realized I was paying for the right to be told I'm an idiot. It's double the price it would be if I just got off my ass to pick it up, AND it's cold.
Sometimes I let them help me order pickup. At least one of them gives me credits for doing that. Then one day, when I really don't feel like going back out, I order a delivery and get a massive discount off all the stupid up-charges.
And the driver gets just $2 for that delivery. Or, if your order is stacked with another order, the driver gets $1 per deliver and still receives only $2.
In California we have to pay a 2% tax intended to go toward employee healthcare. This law was lobbied hard(millions of dollars to pass the proposition) by food delivery companies so they didn’t have to treat gig workers as actual employees and you know PAY FOR THEIR HEALTHCARE! What other companies pushes the cost of employee healthcare onto the consumer? Worst thing is that we can’t complain about it because voters passed this law!
I remember when all delivery companies notified drivers that they understood we were in tough times because of gas prices so they proceeded to say “We are raising your pay! From now on you’ll get payed 0.33 cents instead of 0.32 cents per mile! Hurray!”😂
I worked at Big Lots during covid. Since they sell food items, we remained open. Eventually, we got something better than what I'm about to tell you, but initially they gave us all a 10 dollar gift card to Big Lots. I remember saying, "I guess our lives are worth ten bucks".
Pro tip: the restaurant itself probably has their own delivery service that won’t charge you anything. Use the app to find the place then call the place itself.
@@CrypticCobra not sure if you're joking or that's how it is in your country. Where I'm from it's the opposite. Most pizza places deliver... its pretty much everywhere else you need the apps for lol
@@blackkitty420 Honestly, after two days of doing it so far, I can say this: it definitely works as a side gig. If you're unemployed like me, currently can't find a job, and need SOME form of quick income, then I recommend Ubereats if you have a car, a phone, and people skills. Only downside to it for me personally, is I know it can't sustain me for too long, especially with the prices of gas. But income is income, so for now I'm grateful to even be doing this:)
What country are you in? I live in post-communist czechland, order about 25 meals a month, it comes to around 400 dollars in total, then after paying rent and rest of the food money, I still have around 700 dollars to spare, most of which I save. That said, food prices have gone up insanely over the past two years, but not enough to give me problems.
They are the same fuckers that complain about capitalism on Reddit. They have no money management skills and blow their income on Doordash, videogames, and Funkopops
For the first six months or so of the pandemic, I used food delivery services pretty frequently. Between the price hikes and the consistently wrong orders, I haven't used one in a very long time. It's much healthier and cheaper to cook for yourself anyways.
I used to work in branch banking and when I was helping people with budgets the biggest surprise for them was always the amount they spend on eating out and delivery. It is UNBELIEVABLE how much money you can save just making your own food. Like you can literally afford a slightly nicer apartment if you just eat out less.
Dunno where the fuck you people live that groceries aren't being hiked up so high that it's literally a news story, and also you can't make more money spending that time working at your job and/or side hobbies as opposed to spending it cooking actual decent, well varied food regularly (as opposed to some dude astonished that he can do it once a week) would take + the grocery store price (The 1990's possibly?), but I can't say I relate. >_>
Oh damn, that look when he says I'll make my own food.... it was so real and perfect! All I could think was, I'll give you 90 if you never look at me like that again when I tell an obvious lie.
Honestly what's so hard about making yourself a sandwich? It's so bonkers to pay so much for something so simple and even waiting longer for it to arrive than it would take me to make it myself.
I was living out in Latin America for a few years and became used to food delivery on apps that's literally about $2-$3 per delivery. Just returned to North America a few weeks ago and remembered why I never used delivery apps when I was here.
In Guatemala food delivery is FREE!! (and even more, a couple of fast food restaurants in small cities offer the food for free if they don't deliver it in less than 30 minutes)
The other day I was exhausted and wanted to treat myself to delivery of a lil bowl from my fav place and it was going to be like $19 then I was like okay fine I'll cook the food in my house. Fricken outrageous prices making me make healthy life decisions UGH.
One time, I used a coupon for free food on Uber Eats. The service fees, delivery fees, and tip ended up costing as much as the food would have if I went to the restaurant
Uber can be really bad. I remember them sending me this really great sounding coupon, like half off if you order 25$ worth of food. Somehow they change the fees so that after the coupon it costs the same as if I ordered 24.99$ worth of food. It literally did nothing. It was a lie.
I had the same experience with DoorDash the one and only time I used a food delivery service (excluding pizza). Their service is worthless... but at least I didn't have to pay extra for it.
One of my greatest joys is when I’m at the grocery store and they say “would you like to around up to donate for….” Just staring at them and slowly saying “no” MWAHAHAHAHAHA
I used to get pizza or subs delivered, but they just had a driver, you paid for the food, tipped the driver and that was it. Beyond that, it's not worth it for me, even that isn't worth it for me anymore. I mean, I have a car, I can just pay myself the tip and deliver it to my belly.
Yeah, I used one of these apps once when I was dog sitting about a year ago. I didn't want to leave because the dog liked to chew on things she wasn't supposed to, and my food options were limited at the house I was staying at (I stayed over at the person's house while dog sitting since they were going to be gone for the weekend and I lived thirty minutes away). I opened the app ordered some Raising Cane's, and at checkout, I couldn't believe how expensive the total was. It was nearly double what I normally pay for their food. I bite the bullet because I didn't want to leave the dog, but I've never used one of those apps again. I'd rather make the drive or cook myself than get ripped off like that again
@@EthanBalkfield It was a Great Pyrenees with poor training, a slober problem, and no boundaries. She barely would have fit in my car, and even if she did, I would've had to spend an afternoon cleaning up all the drool and fur. If she were a smaller breed, I could have brought her
"I see you're wearing glasses, so that's gonna be another fee." "For wearing glasses?" "I assume you can see the sandwich better with the glasses, so that's a $5 improved resolution fee."
This reminds me of college. Food in the campus cafeteria was at least twice the price of normal food - think 15 bucks for a McDonald's style burger - and in order to buy stuff from the cafeteria you had to load up a card instead of paying cash. And you had to spend $1,500 to load the card up with $1,000. You were literally throwing away a third of your money just to be able to buy overpriced food because of "administrative fees". They hid the costs so well I didn't even find out until sophomore year. Luckily I got some of it refunded, but they only refunded me so I didn't sue for the few thousand dollars of hidden fees they took from me and couldn't explain.
I'm sorry but wtf? Food eaten at a cafeteria campus is supposed to be cheaper than outside, not the opposite... Also admin fees, like, don't you already pay for the damn campus? Sounds crazy.
I call BS on this entire story. McDonald's is known for being cheap (granted they've raised the prices recently, but not to ~$8 for a cheeseburger). Also I've never seen or heard of a college take away an entire 1/3 of your money to "convert" it to essentially a reloadable gift card. Maybe you confused dollars/"bucks" with rupees. Did you go to Trump University? That was not a real college, you know.
@Michael Lochlann It would be a lot better if we didn't let inhuman s.c.opa.hs run companies, but we do. Capitalism can work if companies and their CEOs have a conscience, but that is now rarely the case. So many people are too weak to boycott any company that does messed up stuff. I mean how do these delivery app companies stay in business when they hurt everyone but the CEOs? Because people are f..king stu p!d and lazy.
Bruuuh, we have a buffet you can go to for around 3$ and you have like 5 different on campus options to keep the competition, because it's good for the students
You forgot to mention the part where the $10 sandwich is like $6 if you drive to the restaurant and order it yourself. Because apparently it's not good enough to be charging customers out the ass, but they have to take a cut from the restaurants too, so the restaurants in turn add markup to every menu item on the app.
I have a permanent deal with myself that when I feel too lazy to cook, instead of take-out, I can spend half of the money at the grocery store instead. I usually end up going to the store and having a very luxurious meal. :D
That's a brilliant idea for redirecting the urge while also turning it into a treat and a fun experience instead of feeling deprived about saving the money. Love this notion, more people who order food delivery should work this practice into their lives at least some of the time
oh definitely, cooking at home is not only cheaper it can be *way* healthier… but if someone *needs* delivery (physical, medical or transportation issues etc) its still far better to go with groceries. Ordering a doordash for every meal would stack up astronomical fees, instead order Instacart to the market. condense those fees+tip to just one or two deliveries a month with a good planned out grocery list. Can feed a whole family for weeks for the same cost as just a few UberEats meals. Anyone claiming prices & fees are so high they just cant afford to tip is full of (greedy lazy entitled) shit. I cant afford those fees +tip on single meals, so i save up for a grocery delivery or just get it myself when physically able. Nobody *needs* pre-prepared meals delivered on demand, its a luxury even if its McDonalds… don’t expect a broke hungry driver to subsidize that luxury by delivering for nothing… learn to boil water & make a fkkn sandwich like the rest of us (to non-tippers not you OP)
@@Lisa-Simpson-i3i Damn right. First of all, thanks for being real about some people having legitimate need for delivery services. Too many people are like dOn'T bE lAzY and it's just super ableist and icky. Second, in case any anti-tippers come at you, let me be a token literally-homeless-disabled-student voice to reinforce that tipping is non-negotiable and no card-to-play changes that. It's part of the cost of service (whether it should be or not is a separate issue obv) and anyone who can't afford to tip just plain can't afford to use a tipped service, period. Nobody else's needs are made less real just because a customer has needs too. All my unhoused and otherwise impoverished peers are more religious about tipping than any other demographic I know, and that says a lot because pretty much everyone I know takes it seriously haha. The fact is -- and impoverished people know it better than most -- we HAVE to be considerate of each other and we HAVE to value our community members' work, otherwise we'll lose what last few little threads are actually making our economy function and keeping each other alive!
@@ItsAsparageese yep 👍 I don’t make more delivering in super rich areas, the nicest customers are always in the working class middle zones… & some of my best tips have come from truckers, warehouse workers, business travelers just getting to the hotel, basically anyone else thats also up working late. Hustle respects hustle 💜
@@Lisa-Simpson-i3i Right? When I've rarely worked a sign begging at a median, long long ago in my early street kid days, consistently the only donations came from clearly working-class people. Got plenty of laughs at my funny sign from everyone else, but all the food and cash and friendly actual eye contact I got was from people who were nearer my socioeconomic status, especially folks in work trucks. At least we've got each other's backs lol 😆 And gradually more and more wealthy people are becoming aware and awesome too, of course. It's happening slowly but it is happening.
Ryan George, your content is always so topical and on point and hilarious, i wish you uploaded a video on this channel every day. but even with your schedule and doing all the other channels you do, it’s always worth the wait to get content like this.
This is so relatable! These food delivery apps really need some sort of overwatch or regulatory body. I live in Malaysia, where food is relatively cheap, and the reason the restaurants increase the menu price on the app here is mostly because of how much they themselves get charged by the app for using their platform. The restaurant ends up getting a way lower profit margin, and there have been instances where the restaurant ends up owing the app company. Especially when there are promotions and discounts going on. The delivery guys have it pretty hard too, and would generally have to rely on tips. It feels so scummy. Convenient, but scummy
Why do we need regulations? This seems like one of those self correcting mistakes. If they keep ripping people off they'll eventually alienate potential customers who will be forced to go out and interact with other humans. The planet will begin to heal when door dash goes away.
Just order Domino's. They have no delivery fee. McDonalds will charge RM3 and KFC will charge RM5 for delivery, which is not too bad since it is a flat fee no matter how much you order.
I'm so glad you put that last part in. I don't care what anybody in our society is complaining about, people are ultimately responsible for it because you're the majority, and you let it happen.
“Okay, but can you make sure *none* of that, including the tip or delivery fee, get to the actual person delivering the food? Thanks!”
And that's why I always tip cash.
Uh yeah, sure... We'll do that *whispers eventually*
The tip definitely does. Why do you think Uber eats drivers advocate for always tipping if you order delivery?
Super easy, barely an inconvenience.
@@David-gj9qr I think there are problems with the companies lowering pay for their drivers depending on the amount of tips the app knows they receive. So they aren't getting paid properly because the companies are basically counting tips as their own pay.
I love food delivery apps. Every time I can't decide what to do for dinner, I go onto one of them, find something I really want, get to the checkout page where they tell me what the total's going to be after all the fees, and then say "eh, I'll just get something out of the fridge." Saves me a ton of money on eating out.
soo i did the math and its cheaper for me to go to chili eat all you can eat soup for 8.89 at lunch not eat the rest of the week and just eat soup once a week..
I love food delivery apps. When else in your life did you ever get to get screwed Before the dinner date...?
bruh ive done this too, i eat healthier because theyre so expensive
Lmao 🤣 I do the same. It actually costs more money for the delivery than the food! Always makes me say nevermind
yeah I used to have a binge eating addiction before my habit ended up costing me like a grand a month. Now I just chronically overeat instead
"You sure are asking a lot of questions."
"So?"
"So that's a $20 fee for using customer support."
Oh we've literally got that from a software provider at my job. They had changed something and I had to call them to get it setup again (they were the only ones with admin rights to make the change), then a week later our bean-counter asked me what the $200 fee from them was for.
@@Najolve Oh, that's dirty. Just give me the admin privileges myself, please.
Speaking AS the software developer for my department.
@@leyrua Yup. We generally hate them but we lack options for reasonable alternatives that would make a transition worth it. The only bright side is I do have data admin rights so I ended up writing my own program that fixes some of their problems and automates various processes. I would write my own program (C# has become my bread and butter) but I'm the only IT personnel so I've got to handle everything and don't have time to develop full time.
Well yeah, obviously 🤣
@@Najolve Oh geez. I feel you. All of the deadlines for my projects, ALL of my projects, were last week. I've been skipping lunches and I still can't keep up with the timelines that my supervisors came up with.
Granted, it's _partially_ because the other developer quit unexpectedly.
because of these outrageous services, In my shop we have reverted back do it old school. we all agree on where we want food from, someone volunteers to go fetch it and every one else splits the cost of the runners lunch. We all get the food we want, accurate, and the guy making the run gets a free lunch.
it works, try it fam.
Like that one commercial with the Dunkin’ run
Super smart.
Super easy, barely an inconvenience!
I was usually the guy who got "volunteered" to go get lunch or go get Slurpees or whatever 😅 But I got a lot of free meals out of it and I still got paid while I was out getting food 😁
DoorDash is lobbying lawmakers to make this illegal
“Of course there’s a Fee Fee fee Fee Fee ain’t free!” Ryan’s genius really shines through in this episode!
It's great to see that he's back to rattling off stuff like that 🤣🤣🤣
Walker Taxes Ranger 💀
@@llamawalrushybrid its actually Fefe
I was surprised they didn't have an inconvenience fee to go with the convenience fee.
it that a singer?
Yeah ordering food nowadays is super easy but definitely an inconvenience
I’m stealing that one
@@Asathegoopy No, no. This is where YOU say "Oh really?" C'mon, Andy.
@@FlyingZard11 Whoops!
@@nicka3017 Whoopsie
Wow wow wow... wow
3 more actual fees he missed (I've paid for all 3 of these):
1. Gas prices went up fee
2. Your order is heavy fee
3. Local ordinance fee - literally means the government passed a law to make them do something, and they're going to charge their customers a fee until the law is repealed.
Small order fee too, then add more it becomes a heavy order fee
Scratch that last part. Even if whatever law is repealed they will keep the fee due to being pissed off that the law had inconvenienced them. It's the law was repealed but we don't care that it has fee.
fuck your complaint i aint carrying 5 38 pack of soda 4 cases of water 10 2 liters and 2 24 packs of beer up 4 flights of stairs with your 40 pound bag of dog food for 7.80 which is what insta cart gets paid without tips.
so yeah fuck you go buy your own shit then
I have to get out my car fee, I have to walk to your door fee, I may have to interact with you fee. your barking dog scared me fee.
You forgot the road maintenance fee, vehicle maintenance fee, dry cleaning fee for those times the food got all over the drivers clothes, the licensing fee (both business and driver's), I could really go on forever here...
The funny thing is that $10 sandwich is actually a $7 sandwich if you get it directly from the restaurant. Food app automatically adds to the cost of the items before they even tac on the fees 😅
Exactly, that's why i stopped using delivery apps altogether (unless they are giving away some VERY good coupons or there's a sale)
Last I checked it's less the app adding on fees and usually the restaurant adding on to the cost because the delivery app charges the restaurant to delivery to you too.
@@Furluge Thats not how it works *i decided*
@@Furluge it's 100% not the app adding markup to menu items. The app takes a cut of all restaurant orders that is so large that it literally wipes out the profit margin for the restaurant. So in turn, the restaurant adds like 30-40% markup to every menu item if you order through a delivery app.
In the end, I don't know why or how this has become a better option for restaurants than simply hiring a driver.
i guess they should call these the "just how freakin lazy are you?" fees.
I remember the first time I used a food app that offered my first delivery free. Then it told me my first delivery for a $5 sandwich was going to come out to $18. I deleted the app and walked the 5 blocks. Great apps to promote getting out of the house though I guess.
True... often these apps appeal to our tendency for being lazy.
Food delivery apps are the new Pokemon Go.
Where did you get the $5 sandwich. That sounds like a good deal nowadays!
They didn't bother to deliver my food, they left it at the restaurant where it got cold crusty and hard as a rock. Had to show up in person myself to get it, and only then did a doordasher show up to pick up my food, over 2 hours AFTER I placed the order! Then the dude had the audacity to get made at me when he realized I was picking it up myself and canceling the order.
@@robsutton3092 Prob a 6 inch sub, bought in America, since Canadian money is typically worth about half as much, so anything a Canadian sees sold in America, looks relatively cheap.
"You're the one that's supposed to pay them"
"Yeah but it's tough times so we're not gonna."
Corporations in a nutshell LOL
"FIne I'll take your sandwich for 87 dollars."
"Thank you, here's your order"
"This isn't what I ordered"
"But its FOOD. You're being really selfish and greedy right now. Be grateful for once."
and its ALWAYS cold and soggy.
Also our GPS told your driver to drive around in circles for 20 minutes first, no reason except we penalize their pay if they don't follow our GPS route exactly so we screw with them as much as possible to either make them waste gas and look dumb or get penalized. Sometimes its so bad they owe US money for ignoring it too much. Oh and don't forget we also charge the restaurant for using our service to...they get all the same random ass fees...probably even more.
I already paid the grateful fee fee
@@tokyworld but did you pay the they already picked up the food that was done 35minutes ago and took 45 additional minutes to deliver it 3 miles away fee?
You need to be more grateful, it's tough times.
"what if I pick it up myself?"
"Then the price goes down from 75.81 to 15 bucks"
There is a service "cancellation" fee of $100.
@@i_fuk_religion and the processing fee for that is $500
Worth it
then you need to pay for the gas, or to the delivery car's gas
Did you click the coupon? "yes"
Then you saved $31.21, so that comes to $23.31 after tax.
"when you put it like that it sounds good." -I know right?
I like how the delivery app was genuinely angry that he was thinking about not using him so he raised the price.
It was more of a "we both know you are too lazy to make yourself a sandwich, so you'll pay no matter what" kind of look rather than the app being angry.
I think it was like “are you going to make a sandwich though?”
It's tough times!
I used one of those app once cause working out of town, I order like every weeks, but never again.
It's just trash, people are really poignantly foolish for doing business with those services.
Gen z and millennials be shitting on boomers but that's our legacy to the world, overpriced services and underpaid gig workers.
We really not better, not a bit.
I thought it was inflation.
I love the "convenience fee" when I pay a bill online. It is literally cheaper and instant to pay it online, vs an employee that has to make an envelope and mail it, receive the check, put the data in by hand.
Some mobile service, I think metroPC, has a in-store fee instead. 3$ for paying in-person
"Delivery fee" for digital tickets. It literally takes more processing power to render the screen than it does to deliver the QR code to your email, but that'll be $15.98 per QR code
@@ekkehard8 Because a lot of metros customers are forced to come in and pay it as they tend to be lower socio economic status people who rely on their phone for internet as well. No phone service no internet. Force an extra $3 out of them.
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Squeezing money unnecessarily out of consumers is tight!!!
Them delivery prices make you recheck the fridge 😂
The cheese spread is still mouldy and you don't have anything to spread it onto anyway.
Which I do all the time after I try ordering with "the app"
@@camelopardalis84 But, you also won't be broke from eating it.... Probably.
@@camelopardalis84 just go to Wendy's yourself dude. Stop being lazy
@@bacoguy Your body might be broken. And, oh yes. If you need medical assistance and are in the US, that could lead to you being broke.
The cheese spread example was inspired by real-life events that went down in my flat just hours ago. I heavily fictionalised them, though.
I love that these sketches have basically become a way for Ryan to vent
But his vents are so relevant to what we all think!
That's how every comedian handles things 😂
"Walker Taxes Ranger"
He vents for all of us.
Delivery apps have made me eat local a lot more! I see the price with the convenience fee for meals under $15, plus service and delivery fees, and I realize I can call up the local place, go on a nice five minute bike ride, and eat my food and be back by the time the delivery driver would have arrived anyway.
I have to ask , wtf is going on with deliveries in America.
Here we pay 3-6 dollars for the delivery and we usually don't tip the delivery guy at all (because i payed for delivery already so i ain't gonna give him money for delivering the food lmao) .
And people here already call them too greedy for taking the 4 dollars for delivery lmao how the hell does it work in America? ( well tbf here you can only deliver food that cost 15$ any lower and they won't deliver)
@@shlomoshlomo963 i wish it was like that here… American corporations are GREEDY
@@shlomoshlomo963 It’s the same in London, I’m gonna look into this “taking a nice 5min ride” thing too.
@@shlomoshlomo963 it's simple. Let's say your minimum wage is 15 an hour. Delivery guy is being paid 3 bucks for a 25 minute delivery. There's gas, ware and tare on the car itself and the delivery drivers time. Gas is $1.50 a litter. Do you get it? Don't want to pay them to do it? Fine no one will do the job and you can go get it yourself.
@@shlomoshlomo963 America is ruthlessly capitalistic. In other words…”Money over everything”
I love the tipping logic. That's how I always feel. Why I am asked to give a bigger tip because the restaurant doesn't pay their employees enough?
It's just another corporate scam.
If employees don't make enough, that's on the employer.
If I don't like the service, I won't go back.
it's also only a thing in america
I hate with these apps that they ask me to tip before I get my food. Dude, I don't know how good the service will be, why the hell would I tip now?!
@@almightyshippo1197 or better yet... when they ask you to make a tip in advance while ordering ahead and picking it up in person...
@@whitewolf617 It would be great if they gave you a tip instead in that case, lol.
I remember about a month ago I saw there was an additional fee for the “fuel surcharge”. I figured that was fair enough given the gas price situation, and then add me living in a sort of more rural area. Alright, fair enough. I guess I’ll pay this non-optional fuel surcharge.
And then they rode up to my door on a bicycle. The one and only time a delivery person delivered *without* a car.
Guess they fueled up on Gatorade?
How much you want to bet the fuel surcharge didn't even 100% go to the driver if he was in a car.
The fuel charge goes to the driver even if it is someone on a bike. And they don't differentiate. Plus some of these apps have a problem with a lot of people saying they're in a car but actually using a bike.
@@raney150 I'd pay more to opt for someone to be green and work their butt off for the money, so they should add that as an option (then I'll build a mansion on the top of a really tall hill so it says its 0.1 miles, but its also 5 miles straight up... mwahahaha!)
@@jakegarrett8109 0.1 to the mailbox, then 10miles of private road... unpaved at that.
I think they can flag addresses with strangeness though.
@@mytech6779 News: Eccentric billionaire makes house on top of artificial mount Everest, just so he can watch delivery boys struggle for a $5 tip.
Haha, that would be an epic level troll and publicity stunt.
Accurate...
DoorDash, Arby's = $25
UberEats, Arby's = $31
If I go there myself = $14
Kinda ridiculous...you shouldn't be aiming to make as much or more than the places you deliver for.
eww! Arbys!
I guess that depends, I once ordered a burger from accross the street because of a promotion and even with the tip, it was cheaper, yet the driver got angry at me for it, ridiculous.
@@tairikuokami
"I GuESs ThAt DePEnedS" [on if I had a promotion or not.]
Pretty sure nobody has mentioned promotional rates until you.
You should quit speaking online if you are going to sound this ridiculous. Maybe lay off the hard drugs. Let your brain develop into adult hood a bit more... whatever you need to do, fk off somewhere else to figure it out.
Or if you just idk select pick up it will drop all of those fees off unless you can’t select pickup then tell that restaurant to fuck off and find another or just go to that place and get food.
@@legocat0306 Then you have the markup. Sevis burritos just around the corner.
I do pickup all the time. My typical order of $12, is actually only $8 directly through them.
Ryan still hasn’t lost his edge. This is already a new favorite.
69 likes. Nice
Ah dang it
when will he?
Nah, _'The First Guy To Ever Write Fiction'_ will always be my favorite :-D
The man's a genius !
As an UberEats driver, this gave me life. 😂 and yeah, NONE of those special fees go to us.
Asking cause I get Uber eats a lot (I order small things lmao) how much of the tip goes to you directly?
@@Gamelover254 2%
That's 102% too much, dud.
My favorite was when the app would glitch out before you got to the person's apartment and you would call Uber to have them give you the address, but they were too incompetent to read an apartment number, so they would cancel the order and then resubmit it - removing the tip entirely, and you wouldn't get paid for the delivery either so you just wasted 20 minutes driving across town and got exactly nothing in return.
Or when some creep follows you in their car and tries to attack you for no particular reason, so you call the police as you try to flee and they inform you that it's not illegal to try and run someone off the road while screaming threats out their window. Sorry bro, your Taco Bell is cold but I wasn't tryna die over it for 97 cents. That was the last time I delivered food. Not fucking worth it.
This is completely accurate.
You should also do instacart, where they try to substitute things you don't want, tell you about it too late, tell you they'll remove them, charge you for them, and then keep them for themselves.
hey that's mostly the individual drivers... and tbh they get paid like 10 dollars per delivery so without a tip, or even with the tip for smaller orders they're usually in a hurry to try and make more than like $8 an hour
What pisses me off is Amazon's Fresh service automatically adding things they've decided you'll like to your cart, and then emailing you to tell you they've helpfully already created a cart full of groceries for you. Now, if you'd like to either log on and pay for the things they've decided you want, they'll be happy to deliver them to you.
Like when they switch my ice creams for ice lollies I don’t even like and didn’t tell me so only found out when i was unpacking my shopping
@@stephenkrahling1634 try 7.80..
much like ANY HUMAN like the uber customers who GET their food then call uber and complain it never got there I an instacart driver.
had people put a tip on an order of 60+ items have 4 cases of water several boxes of soda and a 40 pound bag a of dog food and buncha 2 liters and a case of beer. then because they have 48 hours to adjust the tip they completely remove the tip and i end up getting paid 7.80 for shopping it all loading it unloading it and carrying it to YOUR FUCKING DOOR. up 4 flights of stairs...
also maybe if you fucking answered your god damn phone when i sent you pictures of the EMPTY SHEVES asking if you want a refund or replacement.
also when i ask what you want replacement for. they do not have ben and jerrys they chocomonkey but they have 4 other kinds of chocolate banana ice cream which one would you like.
DO NOT REPLY .
yes
I SAID WHICH ONE TOU MUST CHOOSE or get nothing
The amount of times I’ve gone to use a delivery app, got to the checkout page and decided not to proceed because of the horrible added fees. Makes whatever is the the cupboard suddenly much more appealing.
Back taxes, front taxes, side taxes, taxi taxes, taxidermy taxes, Walker Taxes Ranger 😂😂😂😂
That Walker Taxes Ranger got me good lol.
When Chuck Norris orders delivery on an app, he gets an alert from his bank flagging him for a suspicious deposit amount.
I almost spit out the foot I just had delivered when I heard that. I would have had to charge him a fee if I had...
I like how every time he interacts with an app, he's in some dark shadow realm. Pretty accurate depiction of the internet
The internet is a plane of never-ending darkness
@@jameswhitley4101 Oh THAT'S where the Losers of a Shadow Game in Yu-Gi-Oh are sent!😄
@@johannesseyfried7933 This comment gives me happy nostalgic feels! Thanks for writing it!
"Where will all the money go to?"
"THE SHADOW REALM!"
Its tough times tho.
Yeah, I looked into one of those a few years back while I was feeling lazy, wanting to get food from one of my regular spots. I am well-versed in the menu of the place and noticed instantly that the prices for everything on the app's menu was more than $4 higher per item than in store and immediately noped out. Didn't even make it far enough to see how abusive the charges and fees would be.
I tried to buy a pack of nugget for 9$ but noticed the total was 25$ I just like tf happened
There’s a great story of a guy making a bunch of money ordering his own food from a delivery company that added his restaurant to their menu without his permission. He delivered himself empty pizza boxes and kept reusing them and made a killing.
@@keelahrose Wait how?
if he orders it then he pays for it
even if the Delivery company (that litteraly had nothing to do with him) Would make all the deliverys 100% free of charge for him he would just be even (exept he would have to pay taxes on the "revenue" his own orders generatet)
@@keelahrose that makes absolutely zero sense 😂😂
@@LittleDanny9899 think it was something crazy where the company added his store and only charged like..$10 bucks when he charges $14. For some reason the company was covering the extra $4 as a way to hook consumers or something. So he just ordered himself a bunch of pizzas and gave the driver a mock pizza. Over and over. Gaining $4 every time. I'll try and dig up the article
Oh wow! I was definitely not expecting a Fefe Dobson reference. Got a chuckle from me 😆
I've tried ordering through these delivery sites a few times and can never bring myself to pull the trigger. Every single time I end up looking at final price that I could use on week's worth of groceries instead.
yah in the beginning, they were a cool concept, but ever since the pandemic hit, they got greedy, charging what ever exorbitant prices they want and its funny because their prices will just make me more inclined to leave the house, better off wasting 30 minutes picking up food myself than wasting 1-2 hours in wage money
only one I found to be even remotely worth it was door dash, because their $10/monthly subscription gave you free delivery. Except they charge an extra 15 or so % on menu items, and their subscription changed so it's no longer free delivery (it's like a discounted delivery); so it's no longer worth it.
I used it a lot before I could drive, but now I can drive, fuck them.
No joke tried to order from a breakfast diner place over night cause it’s 24/7 but the staff there kept canceling the order when I know for a fact they SLOWWWWW as hell at this location and hour lol so I tried to order the next day at 12:10 noon just passed. No joke drivers from DD kept picking up the food at the place after they finally agreed to make it the next day at noon but THREE drivers separately drove there ‘picked up’ the food and drove off after canceling the order. So three drivers got to eat for free but all risked cancellation with DD to do that shiii xD it wasn’t even on a holiday or a Sunday when they are busy it was the slowest location at the slowest business hours for them. It took till 3:45pm that day to get refunded from DD and got 5-7$ more but it wasn’t worth waiting 3.5 hrs to find that out. What was annoying was I tipped well both times .-. Like I do instacart so I tipped 5-7$ or something and lost that I’m the process so it really was just a big ass waste of time. Fuck the food delivery apps man
@@TDPEquinox aGREED’ lol
It's not greed, it's desperation on the verge of bankruptcy.
Doordash and Uber have never made a profit, Grubhub makes a few cents per order. These debt-heavy startups are only sustainable when the fed prints, they don't survive a recession. Maybe it's greedy to expect food fresh prepared by a chef and then delivered to your door in less than an hour for $10 as if that was ever realistically sustainable.
But without all the fees and taxes how else would the company barely pay the drivers?
They get a commission from the restaurants on every order already
It's actually SUPER easy! Barely an inconvenience!
They'll just pool all the tips and fees, and make the drivers compete for them in vicious Hunger-Games style bloodmatches!
Oh, did I say 'all?' I meant like...ten percent.
Also a ton of these companies are somehow not profitable.
@@maxsalmon4980 i would pay to watch that
@@captainbiookkusu But it's tough times
"Donation processing fee" was absolute genius. Hahaha. So true with all these companies doing that exact crap. And with fuel prices. Pfft foget about it! *In a thick Italian accent*
Italian accent 🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏
It's tough times
@@ntandosekay its called "get off your lazy ass and learn to cook. stop giving the money to these companies and fools driving around on bikes. Tell their ugly asses to get jobs too god damnit. "
Yea I find myself cooking a giant pot of noodles, throwing some steak seasoning on them and boom there is dinner!.... Not exactly chef quality but it is cheap!
Gotta love that sweet Biden economy. Get Daddy Trump back in there.
I’m convinced that these Food Delivery Apps are just a social experiment to see how willing people are to pay outrageously high prices for mostly lower-quality food without any chance to send the food back if the order is wrong or badly cooked.
Tipping culture is starting to make me so angry.
How can these companies so blatantly gouge us then turn around and go, "btw can you make sure my employee gets a living wage thanks." Mind-boggling.
Most tipped employees make 15 to 25 an hour and aren't taxed on most cash tips. I took a 16 an hour job after being a server and I made significantly less plus it was fully taxed. Went from making around 38k a year with only 26k being reported for taxes to making 28k a year fully taxed. Tipped employees got you fooled thinking they don't make much.
I dont tip at all, pay your own employes🤬
@@steffenhjbjergjensen5489 If you want companies to pay their employees, you probably shouldn't be supporting the companies who don't pay their employees. Ordering food without tipping just makes sure the company will keep chugging along and screwing drivers, while ALSO not helping the drivers out.
With gig economics tipping culture is only a tiny fraction of the problem. Take uber drivers for example, they pay for gas, insurance, car maintenance, value depreciation, and are contracted as self employed so have to file as 1099 under taxes. Yet uber takes like a 85% cut and massively overcharges the passenger (passenger assumes its all going to the driver, so they don't tip). End of the day after expenses the driver is making less than half of min wage.
Tipping has been around for a long f u c k i n g time. Also, how are you being gouged? Are you actually agreeing to these apps instead of seeing them as a monumental ripoff?
Fun fact, the "charity donation" part can't be used as tax refund for you, but it can for the company. Always say no to those and give instead directly to a local food bank or something.
Just claim the tax credit and say sorry if you're audited. You did donate, so you didn't lie and you're not wrong.
Also, companies get tax deduction (unlike your tax credit). Since that's not really their profit as they're giving it away, that's sensible and fair. The real benefit they get is PR and to condition customers to open wallets more.
@@iwatchwithnoads7480 Yeah... cause I'm really gonna risk that with the IRS, who could just take all of my money and everything I own anyways because I made a mistake. No thanks.
If you actually give to a local food bank or something than say no to those sure. If you however are like most people and don’t donate to charities and can’t be bothered , than by all means who cares who is getting the tax credit , it’s still charity for a good cause give the dang 1$ out of your 80$ purchase of hot Cheetos and self indulgent junk for yourself. It’s better than not donating at all.
@@iwatchwithnoads7480 well it is lying if you knowingly if you try to deduct charitable donations that you KNOW aren't deductible.
Individuals take deductions too. A person doesn't get a charitable donation tax credit for instance. There are also tax credits for businesses.
@@iwatchwithnoads7480 You could have just saved time by saying you’ve never done your own taxes before.
I've been living in Korea where the only fee is a food delivery fee and its incredibly reasonable ($3-4). When I visited back home to the US a few months ago, I was floored at how much it cost to get a meal delivered!
Ripping each other off is a national sport in the US
It's the great American pastime of, "because we can, that's why".
Capitalism, bitches!
You(r ancestors) asked for it!
@@robotbutterflies delivery companies were virtually subsidized by venture capital. When shareholders realized companies were actually losing money per delivery, Uber and delivery companies had to tack on fees to prove they can be financially viable
That’s capitalism for ya
@@BeaverChainsaw maybe the ceos should drop their own wages if there so unprofitable
I vaguely remember wanting to use one of those apps while hanging out with friends.
Order wasn't cheap, but the final checkout with all the crap added on was ludicrously expensive.
Part way through reading the fees I just said "Fuck it", sat in the rental car I had at the time, drove over and just bought the food at the place itself.
Ended up being cheaper than it was in the app before all the fees got added too.
"You gotta tip the driver, he deserves to be paid for delivering your food!"
"Isn't paying the driver what the 'delivery fee' is for?"
No, delivery fee is them using their own car putting wear and tear on it. tips are different that’s just the customer being nice
Lol, no. If you don't tip, the apps pay the driver based on distance and estimated time. And it is not very generous.
Kind of ridiculous when they charge so many fees and also often charge more for the item than you would going into the store.
@@raney150 yes, that’s literally what they tell you when you become a delivery driver. the delivery fee is for the wear and tear you put on your car for that delivery. example: your tires being used, your oil being used, the miles you put on the car, ext..
@@waclac That is what they say to American delivery drivers. Everywhere else the delivery fee is for wear and tear AND to pay the driver. No one tips drivers where I live.
@@Alkis05 Yes in most of Europe tipping is completely up to the customer and delivery drivers rarely get them outside of small amounts but in no way is it factored into pay. You are hired to do a job just like everyone else which is covered by the person who hired you and not the paying customers pocket on top of their bill🤣🤣 What kind of dumb logic are Americans allowing employer's to pull on them. Get a different job that doesn't rely on tips. Literally any other menial job is better. Once there's a shortage of worker's the pay automatically goes up out of necessity
*At least when Ryan delivers my food he'll say "hi there hello"*
He's nothing if not very polite
"I think you'll find that comes under the $10 civility fee which you didn't pay"
"Oops"
"Oopsy"
did you pay the greetings fee?
"It's me, the appstronaut"
@@Cuzjudd
*WOW wow Wow!!..*
I remember years ago, you would just call the restaurant for food. They would deliver it, and you would give them a tip. And that was it.
Now they make coffee mugs and toothbrushes that have apps
When can I order a hooker
Yeah this wasn't a thing for most restaurants. Unless it magically was before the 70s. Years ago I'd call the restaurant for food, and go pick it up (and give them a tip).
Yup. This is because these companies worked very hard to ensure they’re the only option now.
I really miss those days. In some countries it still works like that. Now even pizza and Chinese places can’t get dedicated drivers so they just use apps.
You already lost me at $10 sandwich
I mean, like, it can be a really big sandwich, or a really good sandwich
Cheesesteaks and hoagies count as sandwiches
Subway and any hamburger not made at a FF restaurant.
Ryan’s from Montreal and most Provinces in Canada have higher wages so things tend to cost more. Of course the wages aren’t the real issue, because the buying power of current minimum wages is still lower than the buying power of wages when minimum was $8. Thé fact of the matter is there’s more people and less stuff in the world
well what do you expect, it's a sandwich with a pretty big pickle in it, these things are worth a lot!
I can get a full meal with soup, salad, two stakes and a side order or mashed home grown potatoes at a nearby restaurant for 7$...
You forgot one important thing, the delivery discount for spending more.
"That'll be $75.23 sir, but if you add an $8 desert and $5 bottled soda the total will be $56.28 instead"
Ah the discount for giving you a sugar addiction. Like a literal drug cartel getting you hooked.
I mean hey you are offering more for less so sure
Sounds like my local cable provider.
"$75.23 sir, but if you add an $8 desert and $5 bottled soda the total will be $56.28" not quite like that. more like, 'here is something for 10$ (that should only actually be like 8$) but hey you can get 2 of them for 16$ so you may aswell right'
they over charge singular item to encourage you to buy more to get what should be the fair price in the first place.
@@forget2bhuman993 The dollar sign goes in front of the number. You've mixed up single quotes and double quotes. You don't use capital letters. You've forgotten punctuation.
as well*
Please stay in school... or go to a better one.
"Yeah but it's tough times so we're not gonna..." Perfect delivery from the perfect comedian. ...about delivery.
“How is that different from the service tax”
“It costs more”
“Dang it!”
This is too honest
As a Canadian millenial, the reference to Fefe Dobson is much appreaciated
This guy never fails to make me laugh, and this is one of the funniest ones I've seen in a minute. It's so dang true.
so u r saying he is bad? bc i dont think u watched many in the past min probably only this one xD
is your pfp a scorpion fly? and if so, why?
@@berdwatcher5125 probably because they're cool
@@Conorator cant argue with that
I feel like this actually happened to him, and his way of ranting about it is in the form of glorious comedy.
Tough times.
As the saying goes: It's the pain that makes a great artist.
Most of his comedy skits suggest first hand experience. I also get the impression that Ryan is a bit of an introvert at heart (takes one to know one)
I believe this logic applies to his cat videos too.
@@Littletime839 Could be. A lot of seemingly outgoing youtubers turned out to be introverts or have social anxiety and such things. It's a way to express oneself without having to expose oneself...
Though times
Man this is too true🤣🤣🤣🤣
The last "Its tough times" that caught me off guard
I love it when food apps try to gaslight me into giving them my life savings of $14.
"I'll take the $10 sandwich"
"Sure, adding the $12 sandwich to your order"
"Wait, that sandwich is only $10 on the restaurant's menu or if I order pick-up"
"Aw dangit, I was hoping you wouldn't notice that all the prices here are marked up"
"So you'll let me pay the same as the real menu, since I'm already paying a ton of other fees?"
"No"
"Why not?"
"You see, we dont control that price. We charge the restaurant 30% of the order to provide this service, so they increase their prices in our app."
@@kajerlou
It's often really bad. Uber eats charges a fee to the resaurant each month, then a charge for each order, and an additional percentage of the price paid.
Then you pay a 10% extra fee when you order + delivery + fee for paying by card.
It's not uncommon for uber eats to charge twice as much as simply ordering yourself from the restaurant or, my favourite trick, asking a taxi to pick it up from the drivethrough since $10 for the taxi is almost certainly less than Uber's ridiculous fees.
@@kajerlou and yet the business model works because people are still lazy enough to tolerate it.
To-go food should be cheaper (before delivery of course), because we don’t have to pay for the store space reserved for customers (table, waiter etc…)
Those price markups on the menu items are the legitimate "f*ck you" fee from the restaurant. Because local restaurants typically lose money when you use delivery apps. So they charge the f*ck you fee for you paying out the ass for a third-party service and hurting your local businesses.
1:48 - "..... Walker Taxes Ranger" - brilliant! I nearly upchucked tomorrows breakfast with that one! Thank you Ryan - you the Man.
Watching Ryan George videos always helps get us through tough times.
ok now you need to pay the helping fee and laugh tax. oh and the getting though surcharge. and sales tax. that will be $6.66 extra
i Love the "F**k You Fee" and "it's Tough Times! Pay Me!!" Lines Lol
At this point I've resolved to going out and getting it myself, no matter how tired or down I'm feeling. I'll feel better knowing I just saved 30 bucks
You will also feel better getting out of the house. If I feel tired and down, I want to stay home, but I always feel better after leaving and doing something productive, even if that is just procuring food. I realize this isn't an answer for everyone, I am not saying "have you tried not being depressed" but also it can't hurt to get out of the house and out of your head for a little bit.
You're gonna feel so good saving those 35 bucks.
Only time it’s worth it is when I’m super hungover and can’t manage myself.
I don't know how it is where you live, but here in my area, most restaurants with take-out / delivery of their own like it if you call them personally instead of using some delivery service. It's not only more expensive on your end. It seems part of the restaurants profit is taken as a fee by those services.
Call your lokal restaurant personally, save them a few bucks and yourself also it what I want to say :D
@@robertnett9793 Restaurants lose about 30% of the order total before taxes and fees to most of thr major food apps. That's why they have higher meal prices
I cook in a restaurant and there’s no way in hell I will ever order anything from these food delivery services. What a racket.
Why?
Likewise. The handling of food is amazing pathetic.
And the drivers are, for the most part, absolutely bonkers.
@@edwardlassiter5012 🤣
I don't think McDonald's counts as a restaurant.
I used to think that myself when I worked at Jersey Mikes and Sushi Maki... but when you get a better job and start making enough that 30 dollars isn't going to kill you once a week and you're feeling lazy as hell, you just go ahead and do it and slap 25% on it.
This is too true. Even with so called free delivery it winds up costing about the same for me.
I love how when they introduced the "subscription" which takes the place of the delivery fee, they introduced a service fee.
It started when they offered free delivery. When the driver showed up he said "that'll be $85" so I punched him in the throat.
It is now day 327...if only we knew then what we know now...
Thanks!
food delivery in 2022 is super hard, always an inconvenience
I tried food delivery a couple of times, then I realized I was paying for the right to be told I'm an idiot. It's double the price it would be if I just got off my ass to pick it up, AND it's cold.
Not to mention how soggy your food must be when it gets to you!
ITs the "got off my ass" I have a problem with.
yup, cold food is what is bothers me. like, you know he went to 4 other places AFTER he picked your food from the restaurant
Sometimes I let them help me order pickup. At least one of them gives me credits for doing that. Then one day, when I really don't feel like going back out, I order a delivery and get a massive discount off all the stupid up-charges.
"That'll be $87.32"
"Wait, the price went up!"
"That's the inflation fee."
Also add the 30% charge to the restaurant for mailing the food. Customers pay and restaurants pay. Outrageous!
And the driver gets just $2 for that delivery. Or, if your order is stacked with another order, the driver gets $1 per deliver and still receives only $2.
“Its tough times”
“Okay, but maybe the times would be a little less tough if, you know, you actually paid your drivers?”
“ITS TOUGH TIMES”
Definitely not tough times for the companies raking in record profits.
@@craigh5236 *Tough* - *Times*
"We're all in this together", says corporation raking in record profits because people have literally no other option than to pay them or starve
@@1337m4n or go to a shop
In California we have to pay a 2% tax intended to go toward employee healthcare. This law was lobbied hard(millions of dollars to pass the proposition) by food delivery companies so they didn’t have to treat gig workers as actual employees and you know PAY FOR THEIR HEALTHCARE!
What other companies pushes the cost of employee healthcare onto the consumer? Worst thing is that we can’t complain about it because voters passed this law!
Ryan always makes me laugh, never fails
Does he tickle your pickle?
He makes you laugh super easily. It's barely an inconvenience for him.
I've seen this comment literally everywhere. I'm convinced you're a bot.
@@AshenDemon not a bot.
@@zanehere2044 Only a bot would say they're not a bot 🧐
I remember when all delivery companies notified drivers that they understood we were in tough times because of gas prices so they proceeded to say “We are raising your pay! From now on you’ll get payed 0.33 cents instead of 0.32 cents per mile! Hurray!”😂
Wait, this is real?
@@mikhailsharon4331 Yeah lol They also have their ways to make the bare minimum for us in legal technical terms.Just business at the end of the day.
So quit. You can work a real job and get paid. I can get my coffee quicker because you delivery chucklefucks aren’t clogging the line.
You forgot the part where it wasn't even the company paying it, it was a cost they were making the customers pay. How generous.
I worked at Big Lots during covid. Since they sell food items, we remained open. Eventually, we got something better than what I'm about to tell you, but initially they gave us all a 10 dollar gift card to Big Lots. I remember saying, "I guess our lives are worth ten bucks".
That look after he says he will make his own food, is just perfect.
By the end of the sketch: "That'll be $87.32."
By the time it's uploaded: "That'll be $317.51."
Pro tip: the restaurant itself probably has their own delivery service that won’t charge you anything. Use the app to find the place then call the place itself.
unless it's pizza, it's very rare you find a place that actually delivers.
@@CrypticCobra not sure if you're joking or that's how it is in your country. Where I'm from it's the opposite. Most pizza places deliver... its pretty much everywhere else you need the apps for lol
@@hinoakuma6386 Try reading what I said again.
@@CrypticCobra So weird. I'm used to seeing misplaced commas on social media, so I actually found the syntax slightly confusing for a moment as well.
@@CrypticCobra yeh ngl...did not read it like that.
Lmao I just started doing Ubereats deliveries yesterday, and I gotta say this video is pretty damn accurate haha.
Thoughts so far? Sounds interesting
You just signed up? There’s a brand new customer fee. Sorry, tough times.
@@blackkitty420 Honestly, after two days of doing it so far, I can say this: it definitely works as a side gig. If you're unemployed like me, currently can't find a job, and need SOME form of quick income, then I recommend Ubereats if you have a car, a phone, and people skills.
Only downside to it for me personally, is I know it can't sustain me for too long, especially with the prices of gas. But income is income, so for now I'm grateful to even be doing this:)
plenty of work out there to be had, just have to actually WORK. not gonna get a 100k offer if you dont put in the time
I genuinely don’t know how anyone can afford to have food delivered. I can barely afford groceries from the store!
What country are you in? I live in post-communist czechland, order about 25 meals a month, it comes to around 400 dollars in total, then after paying rent and rest of the food money, I still have around 700 dollars to spare, most of which I save. That said, food prices have gone up insanely over the past two years, but not enough to give me problems.
They are the same fuckers that complain about capitalism on Reddit. They have no money management skills and blow their income on Doordash, videogames, and Funkopops
@@8Paul7 Lmao spending 400 dollars in food ordering is awful financial management.
Because we're not all broke...?
@@lightfm90 And yet he still has more disposable income than you do....
Thank you for the help getting through these tough times, especially with all of the taxidermy taxes and not-free fee fees.
Walker Taxes Ranger needs some government legislation I decided.
For the first six months or so of the pandemic, I used food delivery services pretty frequently. Between the price hikes and the consistently wrong orders, I haven't used one in a very long time. It's much healthier and cheaper to cook for yourself anyways.
I used to work in branch banking and when I was helping people with budgets the biggest surprise for them was always the amount they spend on eating out and delivery. It is UNBELIEVABLE how much money you can save just making your own food. Like you can literally afford a slightly nicer apartment if you just eat out less.
The pandemic only lasted 6 months in your timeline?!? I KNEW I was in the bad one
@@mikew6644 Lol. *first six
Dunno where the fuck you people live that groceries aren't being hiked up so high that it's literally a news story, and also you can't make more money spending that time working at your job and/or side hobbies as opposed to spending it cooking actual decent, well varied food regularly (as opposed to some dude astonished that he can do it once a week) would take + the grocery store price (The 1990's possibly?), but I can't say I relate. >_>
@@valkyrie-randgris The time it takes to cook something on average is like 45 to an hour, what job are you doing that you earn £30 an hour?
Oh damn, that look when he says I'll make my own food.... it was so real and perfect! All I could think was, I'll give you 90 if you never look at me like that again when I tell an obvious lie.
Honestly what's so hard about making yourself a sandwich? It's so bonkers to pay so much for something so simple and even waiting longer for it to arrive than it would take me to make it myself.
@@evapreu3011 Nothing... people are just lazy and these apps prey on that.
Big kudos to Ryan for getting some of those sentences out. That 'Fifi fee fee' thing, omg.
This is a really entertaining video. Especially in these tough times
I was living out in Latin America for a few years and became used to food delivery on apps that's literally about $2-$3 per delivery. Just returned to North America a few weeks ago and remembered why I never used delivery apps when I was here.
$2-3 in much of Latin America is really like $5-$15 dollars....
In Guatemala food delivery is FREE!! (and even more, a couple of fast food restaurants in small cities offer the food for free if they don't deliver it in less than 30 minutes)
2-3$ dollars?! Thats so cheap!
2-3$ seems pretty expensive to me. Unless they have to drive 10+ miles for it.
Tell me about it delivery in China is cheaper than going to the restaurant because the govt subsidizes delivery to reduce COVID exposure
The other day I was exhausted and wanted to treat myself to delivery of a lil bowl from my fav place and it was going to be like $19 then I was like okay fine I'll cook the food in my house. Fricken outrageous prices making me make healthy life decisions UGH.
You are better off calling in and picking it up. The cost of the food is cheaper (the actual price not including any fees) and faster.
I usually go "fine ill drive there myself, but I'm NOT chaging outta my pjs" so I drive up in a tux and pjs.
"Walker Taxes Ranger" took me out 😂😂😂
One time, I used a coupon for free food on Uber Eats. The service fees, delivery fees, and tip ended up costing as much as the food would have if I went to the restaurant
Uber can be really bad. I remember them sending me this really great sounding coupon, like half off if you order 25$ worth of food. Somehow they change the fees so that after the coupon it costs the same as if I ordered 24.99$ worth of food. It literally did nothing. It was a lie.
I had the same experience with DoorDash the one and only time I used a food delivery service (excluding pizza). Their service is worthless... but at least I didn't have to pay extra for it.
One of my greatest joys is when I’m at the grocery store and they say “would you like to around up to donate for….”
Just staring at them and slowly saying “no”
MWAHAHAHAHAHA
"If I wanted to donate to a charity I would've gone to the charity. But would you look at that, I'm at the grocery store!"
Menace
in addition, they are mostly doing it to have tax reductions pfff if I wanted to donate I would do it in my name, not the grocery store
Why do we let corporations make donations with YOUR money
I'm suddenly glad that I cook my own food every day! 😆
LOL! "Walker Taxes Ranger" I swear Ryan you are the best.
This sketch makes me all the more ashamed of myself that I actually have paid for food delivery before 😝
I used to get pizza or subs delivered, but they just had a driver, you paid for the food, tipped the driver and that was it. Beyond that, it's not worth it for me, even that isn't worth it for me anymore. I mean, I have a car, I can just pay myself the tip and deliver it to my belly.
Ryan still got it! This was insanely funny. This is one of his best
When did he lose it?
On a channel that only serves out pure gold this one's platinum. 11/10
I’ve never ordered anything from a food app, and this has just cemented the reason why I never will.
Yeah, I used one of these apps once when I was dog sitting about a year ago. I didn't want to leave because the dog liked to chew on things she wasn't supposed to, and my food options were limited at the house I was staying at (I stayed over at the person's house while dog sitting since they were going to be gone for the weekend and I lived thirty minutes away). I opened the app ordered some Raising Cane's, and at checkout, I couldn't believe how expensive the total was. It was nearly double what I normally pay for their food. I bite the bullet because I didn't want to leave the dog, but I've never used one of those apps again. I'd rather make the drive or cook myself than get ripped off like that again
you spent far too much time talking about a dog during your food app story.
@@sanddagger36 You spent far too much time being a wanker for no reason
was taking the dog out for a drive not an option? I mean, the difference between a dog SITTER and a dog WALKER can't be that significant, right?
All this while there was plenty of dog food in the house
@@EthanBalkfield It was a Great Pyrenees with poor training, a slober problem, and no boundaries. She barely would have fit in my car, and even if she did, I would've had to spend an afternoon cleaning up all the drool and fur. If she were a smaller breed, I could have brought her
"I see you're wearing glasses, so that's gonna be another fee."
"For wearing glasses?"
"I assume you can see the sandwich better with the glasses, so that's a $5 improved resolution fee."
Ha
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translate to english
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Translate to English
Don't give them freaking ideas xD
"Who even let you in?“
This reminds me of college. Food in the campus cafeteria was at least twice the price of normal food - think 15 bucks for a McDonald's style burger - and in order to buy stuff from the cafeteria you had to load up a card instead of paying cash. And you had to spend $1,500 to load the card up with $1,000. You were literally throwing away a third of your money just to be able to buy overpriced food because of "administrative fees".
They hid the costs so well I didn't even find out until sophomore year. Luckily I got some of it refunded, but they only refunded me so I didn't sue for the few thousand dollars of hidden fees they took from me and couldn't explain.
I'm sorry but wtf? Food eaten at a cafeteria campus is supposed to be cheaper than outside, not the opposite... Also admin fees, like, don't you already pay for the damn campus? Sounds crazy.
Thanks for letting me know!
I call BS on this entire story. McDonald's is known for being cheap (granted they've raised the prices recently, but not to ~$8 for a cheeseburger). Also I've never seen or heard of a college take away an entire 1/3 of your money to "convert" it to essentially a reloadable gift card. Maybe you confused dollars/"bucks" with rupees.
Did you go to Trump University? That was not a real college, you know.
@Michael Lochlann It would be a lot better if we didn't let inhuman s.c.opa.hs run companies, but we do. Capitalism can work if companies and their CEOs have a conscience, but that is now rarely the case.
So many people are too weak to boycott any company that does messed up stuff. I mean how do these delivery app companies stay in business when they hurt everyone but the CEOs? Because people are f..king stu p!d and lazy.
Bruuuh, we have a buffet you can go to for around 3$ and you have like 5 different on campus options to keep the competition, because it's good for the students
OMG YOU SAID FEFE DOBSON!!! You’re the best! (Immediately jumps over to fefe music, after a few more of your videos of course)
Everytime I feel like having food delivered, I end up furious and I hire myself at the same rate to cook me food.
I will watch minutes of adds just to see a skit from this dude. He's that good.
2:44 food app should have slapped him with a cancellation fee 😂😂😂
the line delivery is top notch and just makes it so much funnier
Always so on point!!!
As someone who does deliveries (and has to pay for my own gas!) I am so glad to be quitting. I struggle to even break even at this job now.
My husband does food delivery, and the only reason he can afford to is because he has a hybrid.
Congrats on 1.5 million Ryan!!! Keep up the good work!
You forgot to mention the part where the $10 sandwich is like $6 if you drive to the restaurant and order it yourself. Because apparently it's not good enough to be charging customers out the ass, but they have to take a cut from the restaurants too, so the restaurants in turn add markup to every menu item on the app.
I have a permanent deal with myself that when I feel too lazy to cook, instead of take-out, I can spend half of the money at the grocery store instead. I usually end up going to the store and having a very luxurious meal. :D
That's a brilliant idea for redirecting the urge while also turning it into a treat and a fun experience instead of feeling deprived about saving the money. Love this notion, more people who order food delivery should work this practice into their lives at least some of the time
oh definitely, cooking at home is not only cheaper it can be *way* healthier… but if someone *needs* delivery (physical, medical or transportation issues etc) its still far better to go with groceries.
Ordering a doordash for every meal would stack up astronomical fees, instead order Instacart to the market. condense those fees+tip to just one or two deliveries a month with a good planned out grocery list.
Can feed a whole family for weeks for the same cost as just a few UberEats meals. Anyone claiming prices & fees are so high they just cant afford to tip is full of (greedy lazy entitled) shit. I cant afford those fees +tip on single meals, so i save up for a grocery delivery or just get it myself when physically able.
Nobody *needs* pre-prepared meals delivered on demand, its a luxury even if its McDonalds… don’t expect a broke hungry driver to subsidize that luxury by delivering for nothing… learn to boil water & make a fkkn sandwich like the rest of us (to non-tippers not you OP)
@@Lisa-Simpson-i3i Damn right. First of all, thanks for being real about some people having legitimate need for delivery services. Too many people are like dOn'T bE lAzY and it's just super ableist and icky.
Second, in case any anti-tippers come at you, let me be a token literally-homeless-disabled-student voice to reinforce that tipping is non-negotiable and no card-to-play changes that. It's part of the cost of service (whether it should be or not is a separate issue obv) and anyone who can't afford to tip just plain can't afford to use a tipped service, period. Nobody else's needs are made less real just because a customer has needs too.
All my unhoused and otherwise impoverished peers are more religious about tipping than any other demographic I know, and that says a lot because pretty much everyone I know takes it seriously haha. The fact is -- and impoverished people know it better than most -- we HAVE to be considerate of each other and we HAVE to value our community members' work, otherwise we'll lose what last few little threads are actually making our economy function and keeping each other alive!
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yep 👍 I don’t make more delivering in super rich areas, the nicest customers are always in the working class middle zones… & some of my best tips have come from truckers, warehouse workers, business travelers just getting to the hotel, basically anyone else thats also up working late. Hustle respects hustle 💜
@@Lisa-Simpson-i3i Right? When I've rarely worked a sign begging at a median, long long ago in my early street kid days, consistently the only donations came from clearly working-class people. Got plenty of laughs at my funny sign from everyone else, but all the food and cash and friendly actual eye contact I got was from people who were nearer my socioeconomic status, especially folks in work trucks. At least we've got each other's backs lol 😆 And gradually more and more wealthy people are becoming aware and awesome too, of course. It's happening slowly but it is happening.
Ryan George, your content is always so topical and on point and hilarious, i wish you uploaded a video on this channel every day. but even with your schedule and doing all the other channels you do, it’s always worth the wait to get content like this.
Wait. He does other channels?
This is so relatable!
These food delivery apps really need some sort of overwatch or regulatory body. I live in Malaysia, where food is relatively cheap, and the reason the restaurants increase the menu price on the app here is mostly because of how much they themselves get charged by the app for using their platform. The restaurant ends up getting a way lower profit margin, and there have been instances where the restaurant ends up owing the app company. Especially when there are promotions and discounts going on. The delivery guys have it pretty hard too, and would generally have to rely on tips. It feels so scummy. Convenient, but scummy
Why do we need regulations? This seems like one of those self correcting mistakes. If they keep ripping people off they'll eventually alienate potential customers who will be forced to go out and interact with other humans. The planet will begin to heal when door dash goes away.
Just no like kiss my American ass with that regulation bs
Just order Domino's. They have no delivery fee. McDonalds will charge RM3 and KFC will charge RM5 for delivery, which is not too bad since it is a flat fee no matter how much you order.
I'm so glad you put that last part in. I don't care what anybody in our society is complaining about, people are ultimately responsible for it because you're the majority, and you let it happen.