I've contracted severe man-flu, the type that makes you moan a lot, so i'm been told. But some reason i'm getting the munchies for pizza and garlic bread - the sort of stuff i usually shy away from when there's porridge and Cruciferous vegetables in the house. But as the supermarket is a drive away i considered home delivery but it's struck me that i've never actually ordered food to home before.
Is this odd nowadays?
I rarely get deliveries. We might do Dominoes once a year. Rarely do take aways.
Haven't done it for about 15 years, when you used to ring them direct with your order and someone from the shop would pop it round.
Hate those delivery services and the associated labour issues.
Is this odd nowadays?
It would have been odd back in the 1970s!! 🙂
The milkman delivered many food items, and then there was the 'Pop Man' delivering Corona lemonade and fizzy orange!
And the local grocers shop did home deliveries.
Haven't done it for about 15 years, when you used to ring them direct with your order and someone from the shop would pop it round.
Most takeaways still prefer you to order direct as they don’t lose silly money to the delivery companies - they just use them for visibility.
Just get on Just Eat or Dominos and stop torturing yourself. Or order direct if you prefer.
I like a bowl of porridge or a home cooked meal too but sometimes circumstances just dictate a bit of lazy.
For me it's normally when Mrs g-d is away and I'm flat out with work and Friday dinner just needs to turn up.
I know there's a bit of a super clean lifestyle thing online that decries takeaways but the odd one or two isn't going to turn your body inside out.
The sickest I've ever been from food was from a nice fish restaurant in Portugal. Took me weeks to recover.
Is this odd nowadays?
Asking the Internet whether you should buy food? Yes, that is odd.
If you're buying from a local takeaway rather than a chain, wherever possible go direct. Services like Just Eat a) charge you for delivery, b) charge the takeaway and c) bump up the prices on the menu so they take a cut three times over.
Walking to work one morning I saw a delivery moped delivering a Cafe Nero to the flat with the black cross.
Cafe Nero is situated behind the tree with the other black cross.
Society is split to the core in many massive ways but delivered takeaways and using companies like Deliveroo splits the country down the middle. For some its instinctive and part of every day life and for others it would never cross their mind to do it and probably wouldn't know where to start. I don't know many people who occasionally dabble - you are either in or out. And both groups think the others are weird.
Inspired by the Nero post above, this came to the forefront of my memory. Quite interesting, in a sad way.
As an aside I was once feeling awful and ordered PizzaHut for delivery when I lived a 10 minute walk up the road. This must have been 2001, so I phoned them up. Guy seemed a bit confused why I was ordering a delivery so close to be fair.
Whilst in the queue at a Morrisons Local (attached to a petrol station) the other day, an Uber driver came in and collected an order for delivery. It was a single bottle of Raspberry Smirnoff Ice. I've just checked, it's £3.60. i just don't know why you'd do that?
If you do get Domino's DO NOT pay full price. The prices are fake, nobody pays full price, £25 for a ****ing pizza!! check the offers bit and get 50% off.
People are lazy. My neighbour used to drive to her work at the local school. It is 600 yards away.
I used to live directly above La Favorita in Edinburgh, literally through the floor. The restaurant was on the other side of the stair and the takeaway beneath us, they used the close to walk between the two.
My flatmate would go in om his way home, order a pizza and ask the guys to shout up when it was ready and he would collect it at the bottom of the stairs.
But as the supermarket is a drive away i considered home delivery but it's struck me that i've never actually ordered food to home before.
Is this odd nowadays?
I guess it depends where in the country you live, here in Galloway the nearest delivery service for food is Dumfries which is 30 miles away, I doubt they’d offer to deliver me a pizza
Never used any food delivery service, just the idea of using such a thing is alien. I have bought loads of multipack cans of “mutti” Italian tomatoes from amazon, but next day/following day delivery isn’t really practical if you are hungry, especially as it takes ages to make something from them
Similar to the Nero tale above, I know a couple who had a big night out and ordered a bottle of Lucozade via Doordash delivered from their corner shop. Which was 80 metres away from their bed.
As Convert says, there are just some people for whom this is normal.
I've also stood in a Shell garage at 9-ish on Sunday morning while a guy came in by Uber, bought a bottle of vodka and a bottle of famous grouse, and ubered away again. It clearly was part of a pattern. I mean, does he even realise he probably can just get Uber to deliver it to him? 😉
I've never used a food delivery service. On the one or two occasions a year when we decide to get a takeaway I order it on the shop's app and cycle about 1k to collect it.
This factors into the whole Deliveroo/Uber Eats/illegal ebikes thing.
A road I commute to the gym on, maybe a km long is lined wall to wall with takeaways, and when I'm riding home 7.45pm ish its chaos with badly parked cars, dodgy monkey-bike eebs, taxis all going wherever they feel.
Now we do a "takeout" maybe twice a year - there's a good burrito place that's become a tradition to visit when we're coming back from evening trail building sessions on the far side of town. But 2 burritos and a couple of cans is the far side of £25. Call it £30+ by the time its delivered. That's not even remotely affordable on a regular basis, for us on good wages, mortgage and child free.
So how are all these businesses actually surviving? Even allowing for a proportion of money-laundering fronts, who's buying all this takeaway and home delivered food? It mostly seems to be "da yoof" hanging round outside, and I/my parents would never have been able to afford it when I was that age. Even at uni with a heavily subsidised union cafe, it was a once in a while treat.
Call it £30+ by the time its delivered. That's not even remotely affordable on a regular basis, for us on good wages, mortgage and child free.
Is it not? Depends on what else you spend your money on. I could definitely afford £30 once a week on takeaway if I chose to and prioritised it over other things (days out with a cafe stop etc). Two adults, two small children, two median wage earners.
I find it odd that so many people imply it is not odd. Much to my amazement I have just found out that Just Eat now delivery to my village and I can actually get an Indian, Chinese or Italian meal delivered! You never know, one day I might be able to get an Uber which would be flipping handy at times and there is zero bus services
If you do get Domino's DO NOT pay full price. The prices are fake, nobody pays full price, £25 for a ****ing pizza!! check the offers bit and get 50% off.
If you use the Dominos app to order it automatically just applies whichever of the bazillions of overlapping offers they have to your order.
We would - very occasionally - have a Chinese meal delivered to the house when we lived in the outskirts of Edinburgh but there's nothing available here in Aviemore*. There was some interest by Dominos a couple of years ago but it came to nothing. I reckon they'd have been very successful given the number of holiday homes / Air BnBs.
* I know some folk have engaged the services of a local taxi service to get stuff delivered.
Call it £30+ by the time its delivered. That's not even remotely affordable on a regular basis, for us on good wages, mortgage and child free.
Where the hell is all your money going?
Even allowing for a proportion of money-laundering fronts, who's buying all this takeaway and home delivered food?
My ex.
It must be working for the takeaway businesses too. McDonald's is really slow now if you're an average walk-in punter. Their focus is delivery. All the app offers are delivery (pretty much).
McDonald's may be a lot of things, but I don't think they're going to back the wrong horse. The numbers must be working for them.
I saw a post on Reddit last week where someone made up a chip shop order on just eat and it and it came to £38, they instead went to the chip shop and bought the items themselves and it came to £21.
They showed the receipt and screenshot side by side. The delivery on the web was shown as £1.99 but all of the item prices were inflated to cover the 30% that Just Eat take from the order value.
Living in a Cumbrian village it is not an option for me anyway but we do have plenty of takeaways.
Yes we (occasionally) use the local takeaways.. but less and less, as their quality goes up and down (more down), but when it's costing the best part of £40 for an (average quality) curry for two, we simply cook for ourselves for better and much cheaper results.
AS for ppl using just eats or whoever to have macdonald delivered it just madness, crap food that not very hot when it's at the counter, sat in a sweaty insulated bag.. meh. We used to drop into one* on the way to wales on a friday night and my god I don't understand the draw, I mean I enjoy the occasional Big Mac & very salty fries, but they way they queue (in the their cars, can't get out for quicker service inside) seems like madness.
* we wait now and go for a pizza in a pub
At risk of sounding sanctimonious, do not use the delivery platforms - the entire business model relies on evading employment law on the spurious grounds the riders/drivers are not employees when they blatantly are, allows for exploitation of the vulnerable, gouges the takeaway as well as the customers, and undermines the potential of eBikes for decarbonising transport by encouraging the use of illegal eMopeds.
There's some detail on this in the excellent APPGCW eBike report https://appgcw.org/resources/inquiries/unregulated-and-unsafe-the-threat-of-illegal-e-bikes/
If you need to do delivery, do it direct - it's better for the takeaways margins if nothing else which keeps them in business.
I used to live directly above La Favorita in Edinburgh, literally through the floor. The restaurant was on the other side of the stair and the takeaway beneath us, they used the close to walk between the two.
My flatmate would go in om his way home, order a pizza and ask the guys to shout up when it was ready and he would collect it at the bottom of the stairs.
Used to live by the Southern Bar, possibly Perfect Pizza (no idea how i can why i think i can remember the name) was two floors beneath and we used phone for deliveries.
Milkman delivers loads of stuff to our door. When i leave in the morning i have to go back in with eggs, bread, butter, milk. We had eggs stolen from the door but nothing else once. Checked the camera and a fox had taken the box of six.
but they way they queue (in the their cars, can't get out for quicker service inside) seems like madness
McDonalds prioritises Drive Through, then delivery, then walk ins last. You get faster service and hotter food if you wait in your car.
Live in a village, no one delivers out to. Then have a need for low fodmap foods (no gluten, onion, garlic) now find me any takeaway food you can get delivered, ooh chips, I can make those well enough myself thanks.
Lived out in the sticks as a kid. Takeaway involved a 40 min round trip in the car, to be reheated once it got home. It rarely happened. a handful of times total, ever.
Live in the suburbs as an adult now.
30 quid for more curry and sides than we can eat between us, delivered within half an hour (by their own driver, not those deliveroo chumps)
once a month maybe, when the kids have pushed exceptional levels of dickheadery.
Most takeaways still prefer you to order direct as they don’t lose silly money to the delivery companies - they just use them for visibility.
Our local chippy doesn't answer the phone on busy nights and waiting 30 minutes in cold shop doesn't appeal. We used to order via Uber on Fridays until one went missing. Now we do without.
We get takeaways delivered fairly regularly. We both cook every day and eat quite healthily, so I reckon once every 2 or 3 weeks on a Friday night we’ll say “sod it, let’s get a takeaway’
We NEVER use Just Eat etc. We were talking to the takeaway guy and they said they were coming off the platform as if you order through them they take 35% of what you pay, which is ridiculous!
Absolute sharks! So if you’re going to order a takeaway have a Google for your local takeaway place and they’ll usually have their own site you can order through or you could go retro and ring them up (I know… madness!)
Support your local businesses who are getting fleeced by the likes of Just Eat.
Their business practices generally are absolutely horrendous! Look up ‘dark kitchens’ if you want an eye-opener
Our local chippy doesn't answer the phone on busy nights and waiting 30 minutes in cold shop doesn't appeal. We used to order via Uber on Fridays until one went missing. Now we do without.
I sometimes walk down the road to the chippy, but not on a Friday because it's always rammed.
I know it's a tradition, but just get your chippy chips another night?
McDonalds prioritises Drive Through, then delivery, then walk ins last. You get faster service and hotter food if you wait in your car.
That may be true in theory, but not in practice when cars are queuing around the block and there's three people in the "restaurant."
How can food be hotter? There isn't a separate drive-thru kitchen... is there?
How can food be hotter? There isn't a separate drive-thru kitchen... is there?
In my (limited) experience, they start to put out a walk in order on the collection table and it sits there whilst they do other orders. I've watched my food sit waiting for a while whilst someone else does drinks etc. When you drive through, it tends to come straight out from assembly without the waiting around.
I've never had a home delivery, nor drive-thru. Maybe I should get out more (or not).
but when it's costing the best part of £40 for an (average quality) curry for two
How much do you eat??? :O
Edit: Just Eat has gone up quite considerably since I last used it. 😳
I struggle to spend much more than £25 for two when ordering direct.
Walked up the road eventually and just bought a fine lump of garlic bread - still got the man-flu though.
How much do you eat??? :O
2 people..
10.95 main
12.95 main
3.95 rice
3.75 nan
4.50 (Special) nan
£36... which I believe is the best part of £40, and hardly a mountain of food
No cheesy chips?
You can’t have a takeaway without cheesy chips!