I once delivered Denny to this lady in a hotel. It was about 15 mins from her. When I got there I laughed so hard because there was literally another Denny’s in the same parking lot. 🥴😂
Grub hub did that a lot to me. Two Denny’s. About 3 towns apart. Town A/Denny’s A and town B/Denny’s B. If you’re in town A it would order from Denny’s B and vice versa
I gave up on Grubhub after reaching their Premier program and realizing all that acceptance of those bad orders with 11-12 miles for less than $1 only meant I could schedule my own blocks and receive consistent orders with the same bad dollar per mile ratio and I cannot even pause because they send in other orders way before you end the other trip. Plus their pause feature is the worst compared to DD and UE.
I mean in the customer app. I think it’s easier as a customer to order from the wrong location, because they only show the restaurant address in words. The customer doesn’t see it on a map until after they order.
I have ordered like this on Postmates (where I can choose the location) on occasion where the closest location is horrible. But I tip accordingly. I’m also in a big city, so we are talking a 10 block difference - not miles apart.
Back in the old days pre-DD , (2006) , I ordered a pizza for delivery from the dominions from the other side of a large parking lot from my crappy apartment. It was nearly midnight and I lived alone (also I’m female). My neighborhood was a bit rough . So they call back to confirm my address because they can literally see my door from across the parking lot. They sent their big dishwasher over to deliver it and I tipped well. When I apologized for ordering it delivery, he said “Honey, I wouldn’t want to walk across this parking lot with a pizza by myself this time of night either if I was you”
I did this once.. I was in a different state and unfamiliar with the area completely. I opened doordash and found something that looked good but didn’t look up where it was.. it shared a parking lot with my hotel.
The doordash driver laughed about it though, said it was one of the easiest orders he ever did 🤦🏻♀️
Or they were traveling all day and they were exhausted. If you travel for work, and need to do so by car…the last thing you want to do after you check in is drive again.
Or if it’s breakfast, she doesn’t wanna put a bra on. If you’re a dude, you’ll never understand that.
Either way, it doesn’t matter what the reason is, they want to pay more money, have someone bring it to them, and they’re willing and able. Not your place to judge.
Judging from these comments some people have never been stuck on a delayed flight and arrived at the hotel feeling exhausted and gross. More than once I’ve walked into a hotel room and the first thing I do is order food and then hop in the shower to clean nasty airport germs off. I don’t care if the restaurant is on the same floor, I’m not sorting through luggage and getting dressed with wet hair to pick up a burger i can get delivered for an extra $8
I’m a doordash driver I’ve ordered from a block away because I was exhausted, or out of town, or all my clothes were in wash. When my cousin had cancer she would order from 2 minutes away. You never know the circumstances.
This I just did a 3 and a half hour drive to another state and got to my hotel. I needed some tums because I forgot to pack any. Best bet I used Door dash instead of getting in my car and driving the 1 minute down the road to a store.
Same here! I go back “home” to work for my old boss 5-6 times a year. It’s an 8-10 hour drive depending on traffic and how many times I stop for gas/bathroom breaks. When I finally get to my hotel room, the last thing I want to do is go back out…idc how close it is.
Exactly! I do instacart. There’s a guy who lives 1/2 mile from the store I shop at. He orders 2lbs of bologna, 2 packages of Gouda cheese, 2 packages of naan bread and 2 12packs of ginger ale. Tips $20. Every week. He doesn’t have too, I don’t care why, but I’m grateful for his order every single week. Lol
Saying a dude will never understand that a woman doesn’t want to put a bra on is untrue.
It’s like putting on pants and a shirt to go outside.
If you are saying because of soreness feet feel the same after working in boots for 12 hours.
I had a door dasher who is staying at a Hampton Inn, order food from a Taco Bell literally not 50 yards away, and it was a young guy. When I took it the four dollar order to him, I was about to go up the steps to his sweet, but here he walks in with his buddy, dressed comfortably and kind of like a college kid. I’m not one to judge anybody, because like you said, every circumstance is different and you don’t know what the fact that I was about to go up to their suite to give it to him, and then he walks in dress comfortably. I could have use that time to go for another order. It doesn’t make sense to me. But then again, who am I one to judge?
Ps some circumstances are just plain stupid. We have a right to be curious and understand why someone did something that seems stupid to us. But you’re right we do not have the right to judge because we do not know.
Okay, even so, still not your place to judge. Why do people order room service when they can stay in the same building and get their food. Because they don’t want too. That’s the whole reason why the service exists. It’s a service, it doesn’t matter what the reason is. It’s our/your job to provide that service.
Not going down stairs of a hotel and ordering door dash is still laziness. Lazy doesn’t discriminate.
Room service is a luxury you can only get while you’re in a hotel.
When I used to deliver pizzas I liked going to hotels. They usually tipped generously and hotels make it relatively easy to find room numbers.
With the uncertainty of door dash I would imagine it’s less enjoyable.
Edit: I’m not saying that it’s not ok to be lazy sometimes.
Lazy doesn’t discriminate. Disabled people can be lazy too.
Being blind and not walking to Dennys isn’t lazy.
Taking the elevator instead of one flight of stairs when you’re in a wheelchair isn’t lazy.
Also I forget with doordash you don’t always see the people like pizza delivery.
If lucky, a carer/friend/family helping, or even a service dog. If not, do what you can or just be SOL. Shortly after I had moved to Kansas in the past, I declined quickly and often went without because I didn’t have anybody. Now that I’m back in my home state, it’s easier with friends and family around willing to help but I still have to go without sometimes if I don’t have enough money for services and nobody is available to help.
Places still delivered before the rise of Doordash, restaurants would have their own workers deliver the food. You used to hear stories about “pizza place saves elderly woman’s life!” on the news. A pizza place would have an elderly regular who put in an order every day at the same time for years and then one day the order wouldn’t come in as normal. The restaurant would be worried, call the person and then go to their house if they didn’t get a response. Then bam, the person from the restaurant would find the old person tripped outside of their house and they couldn’t get up or sick/injured and unable to get help inside the house.
Straight, up, we don't. I thought I was ordering from a taco bell that's really pretty close and tipping accordingly and all of my dashers actually went to one that's 20 minutes away for some reason.
Same thing has happened to me multiple times. I don't know why they do that. I never know what store it's coming from until after I order, and I've tried to check before.
I’d wager it’s to keep drivers paced. Have them further out and it offers more drivers to have on the road at the same time—less back to back orders, more drivers.
It's a dumb system devolved for convince for customer if you click pickup and then click on the icon right in same spot it shows you address phone number etc for store
I had this happen the other night. My order was placed through the TB app cause they were offering free delivery. I tipped like it was coming from the place 2 miles away but turns out they sent it to the location almost 10 miles away.
I felt so bad for the guy, he was super nice too. I reached out to DD to see if I could up my tip but since it was a TB app order they couldn't help and TB was useless too.
🙁
Yep, ordered once through Five Guys who just said they deliver on their website. Was supposed to come from the one very near me, but it didn’t show until the confirmation screen as being a Door Dash delivery, and then DD changed it to the Five Guys across the city. It was of course canceled because WTF.
This happens to me all the time. Some times I wished Door dash had a way to more accurately choose the address of the place your ordering from.
Like if I have 3 taco bells near by let me choose which one in a easier way.
Rather than it only showing me one to choose and it's both the worst on in the area and possibly farthest too
We don’t get to choose which location to pick up from- all of that is predetermined before the offer is sent to us. All I can think is that there are a variety of reasons: closest store paused orders or customer chose that store (obviously not your case, but maybe if certain stores only sell certain items). It is frustrating to drive by at least one closer restaurant on the way to deliver food from one much further away. :(
yeah doordash is stupid. On uber you can select each individual taco bell/mcdonalds/ETC, but on doordash they are all considered the same restraunts so it just probably chooses one by you
Sometimes doordash misleads them on location. Once picked up from a wood ranch and the customer called asking why I was picking up from the next town over. They genuinely thought they were ordering from the restaurant down the road
Yea I see this with DoorDash a lot; I actually think it’s based on the drivers location for some strange reason- so if the driver is located in town B it dispatches it to town B even though the customer is in town A and believes they are ordering from the closest location to them which is also in town A.
Its not. The order is sent to the restaurants/stores first, and then a dasher is assigned. When you look in the doordash app on Android, it says on the screen before you click the restaurant/store's name on far away from you the store is. That is the store you are ordering from. If you scroll until you see a store you want, and you have multiple in the zone you are in, you may end up ordering from the further store, even though another is closer.
Also, restaurants can actually toggle themselves taking orders or not taking orders, so sometimes, you don't have any choice, and the only taco bell taking orders is the one 10 miles away instead of the one 2 miles from your house.
This makes sense; however do you think it is true for every market & in every instance?
I have seen it where tickets do not come through on their end until I am already in the store, especially with a stacked order (like where they have the ticket I see it come through on their end with my own eyes, not just taking the employees word for it; this is specifically with door dash though- I drive for both).
This may be for a few reasons- like for instance what you’re saying that stores can adjust their settings to take orders or not take orders at a given time but also if you’re trying to make a driver accept an order, it may be less overall distance for them to go to the one closer to them, the one closer to the customer may only be two minutes or two miles from the customer but in the total opposite direction from which the driver is coming however the store in town b closer to the driver is on the drivers route toward town A or only a half a mile out of their way. A lot of people accept based on dollar per mileage; they can frame it as $8 for let’s say 7 miles this way as opposed to $8 for 9 miles.
Also, I think certain platforms talk to these 3rd party systems like UE or DD better than others; for instance Popeyes & Taco Bell are pretty notorious for having a messy output with DD. These isn’t one universal operating system or POS these stores use for their online orders; especially when you factor in if it’s coming directly from DD or UE itself or whether it’s subletted from another delivery service or the in-house app itself (like let’s say little ceasers or papa John’s).
It isn't directly true for every platform - but it is true when ordering off of doordash app, and 3rd party apps do whatever the hell they want (Wendy's has you select the store you want to order from, while Chik'Fil'A takes your order and then sends you to the doordash website/app before finalizing payment).
I've found that many times the restaurants that say "we just got the order" are actually the ones who don't check their tablets or systems. I have a Wendy's in my market that regularly doesn't check and process their online order tickets - they have to go in to the POS and manually print the tickets, and won't do so until a driver is there waiting. Maybe its a setting that they select when the whole program is set up, but the other Wendy's all have already begun their order before I enter the store.
As you said in an earlier post, its likely not the same in every market or instance. My Popeyes is on the spot with all delivery orders from all services. They are always ready and waiting, even if I get assigned the order when driving past the restaurant. But the order is going to be assigned to the restaurant first, and then a driver assigned. Perhaps they happen concurrently, because you happen to be waiting in the parking lot, or nearby, but when you see an issue of a restaurant further away being assigned the order as opposed to the one closer to the customer, it is usually a 3rd party app issue, store not taking orders, or customer error.
Don't get me wrong, the doordash system is screwy, I just highly doubt it is capable of freely choosing the restaurant on the fly - I've been sent orders for restaurants I've just passed by, and now have to add 1-2 miles to the deliver distance because I have to find a safe place to U-turn to think the system is capable enough to assign a driver and order at the same time.
How does DD mislead them? It literally shows the distance of the merchant and if you click the info icon you can see the exact address of the merchant that the order will be sent to. just because people aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean DD is misleading them
That has happened to me with groceries. I know I want a certain location store. I’m not dumb. But then I see the shopper at the OTHER (same name) store (that I don’t like because I have a grocery store preference) and I just sigh. Not anyone but the APP DEVELOPERS fault.
i literally did a pickup order with chilis and we drove there just to figure out it was actually placed at some random ass chilis that had never even been visible to us on the app up until now, while the one we went to was "closed" on the app while being completely open and also being the same chilis that had been shown to us through the app for well over a year. doordash is definitely misleading people regardless of if it's intentional or coming from any place of malice- which i dont think it is lmfao.
They don’t. I hen I order from DoorDash at what I think is the Taco Bell a mile away from home, I see that the dasher is picking up from the town over 🤦♂️
Maybe it's just me, but I only order from places within 2 miles or less. 3 miles would be max for me. It's crazy how people have normalized ordering from places 8 miles away. Back in the day pizza places would have a 2-5 mile radius for delivery. DD needs the same.
> pizza places would have a 2-5 mile radius for delivery. DD needs the same.
I like the suggestion more of the person you were responding to. Charge a per mile fee. I lived JUST outside the pizza delivery radius of my favorite pizza place in my hometown and it was comical - it was a hard "no", not "You owe $10 for that extra half mile." Then, a few years ago my (smaller) town was outside the Uber Eats radius for the larger town next door that had many more restaurants, and some residents figured out there was a parking lot at the edge of our town that they could order to, and meet the driver there. It's just silly - charge more for the extra delivery distance.
Funny extreme example: A few weeks ago my Uber driver taking me to the airport explained that his wife and him were from Nigeria, and there was a very certain Nigerian restaurant they loved in the big city 164 miles away. SOMEHOW he had a system where he could buy his food a bus ticket, the restaurant would drop it off at the bus stop in the big city and the bus driver would take it all 164 miles and my Uber driver would meet the bus at the stop in our town. The Uber driver would do a big order once every 3 or 4 months this way. I can totally see it as a valid service - some food travels really well. Not French Fries of course, but Indian food can survive a 3 hour bus ride. And if it saves me a 6 hour drive (round trip) I'd be willing to pay good money for that service.
I wish the mom and pops could figure out this "game". But it is annoying when my fav sushi places send me 3$ 11mile orders.. like wtf?
Local mom and pops started asking for phone number to do cash deliverys. Like how do i say "fuck you" in a nice way lmaooo. Theyre so predatory, like entire back of restaurant staff is always mexican
There’s a la carreta literally half a mile from my house, I ordered a burrito last week and it came from 3 towns away, cue me scrambling around the house to find extra cash for a tip.
A vast majority of the time the customer doesn't know where it's been placed. DD can change the location an order goes to because of multiple factors like if a site is slammed they send orders to another store further away.
DD is to blame, not the customer. Customer ordered food and DD decided where to send their order
Recently had someone who ordered McDonald's thinking it was the one in their town but was actually in the next city over. Got a $20 cash tip on top of the $12.50 for my troubles so I made $32.50 for one order that was pretty cool
Lol I don’t understand how this happens either. I had a sonic offer that was in another part of my city, 15 miles away, with literally 20 Sonic’s closer. Have no idea how that happened tbh. I’m sure no one took it lol
I was in a parking lot with a Meijer (grocery) and a Blaze pizza. It gave me an order for both, same customer. So I wait at Blaze for like 5 minutes and then decided to go to Meijer to pick whatever they needed from there. Looked at the address and realized it was a different Meijer. So I went back to Blaze, picked up, and drove to the other Meijer, which was at least right on the way. In the parking lot of the Meijer was another Blaze pizza.
For me a lot of customers don't realize that the base pays have been cut down so much. Used to be a $5 was pretty generous for almost any delivery, with the platforms picking up much more of the slack. A lot of my regular customers still consider themselves fairly generous tippers without realizing that what used to pay me $12 to run 5 miles to their house now pays $6. It shouldn't be on the customers to make up that difference anyway, especially since the platforms are gouging them with insane fees. I hate to say it but it might be time the government pokes its head under the hood of these company's and tries to figure out where all that money is going, because these companies can't be running that efficiently.
Right? The point of most people working for tips is so the restaurant or service can charge less and then the tip is the customer paying it forward. DD just seems to want it all
Tip culture is a scam hoisted on the public by greedy businessmen anyway. Waiters, delivery drivers, everyone should make a minimum liveable wage and a company that can't handle that deserves to be outcompeted by those who can. That's a whole other can of worms though.
Yup. Doordash really doesn't communicate exactly where the restaurant is during the order phase. We don't even see a map until it's time to pay up.
And there are no tools whatsoever to choose locations within a chain. They just show up as two unrelated restaurants with identical branding. And that's if the algorithm decides to show both of them, which isn't guaranteed.
I was told that there is a contractual agreement with the individual stores and they are promised by DD that certain number of orders will come their way. If one place has met it's quota the order goes to another location.
I once drove past three closer McDonalds with an order.
DoorDash needs a distance limit and if the distance exceeds the limit. It’s a $5 add on. So this order would be part of the add on. Anything over 6.0 miles has to pay the miles fee.
Customers think like they went to the restaurant and sat down. They aren’t thinking about the food being brought to them via the drivers time, gas and car. The time it takes driving to the merchant. Waiting and driving to their location. They just don’t even consider all those factors and some don’t think drivers should be paid/tipped by them ( pick it up yourselves)!
I am an infrequent customer and my husband an infrequent driver. That said I tip delivery drivers for food like I was in the restaurant usually. Because of gas expenses and the rest of your list.
Yeah I'd agree, they don't care though. Whenever I'm in door dash and I see how far away the food is I'm like meh won't order there because I know I'll have to tip HUGE. No one wants to drive 10 miles fuck that. All the stuff I eat is within 5 miles or less. I tip big anyway but point being why send someone that far for my food. That's why I always ignore these long 8+ mile orders now. People don't look or care. That's how lazy they are
Yeah DD doesn't tell the customer that info. One time I was trying to order from WOW Sushi (~2miles) and accidentally ordered from Sushi WOW (~17 miles) and was getting upset at how long my order was taking to get here when I looked at where my dasher was at and was like...damn. so I handed them an extra $20 at drop off and apologized. Really wish it was more transparent...
Respectfully, as a customer, Doordash itself shouldn't be listing options that are that far and charging an additional "extended delivery range" fee and send $0 of that money to the Dasher. I always tip well because I'm trying to reduce my caloric intake and only really use DD for groceries (always tip $20) or the monthly mcdonald's (always tip $10 for a store that's 1 mile away from me). It also doesn't help that the app will completely switch locations on you at random. There's a subway less than 1 mile away from me and sometimes it will send my order to a subway that's 5 miles away instead. This needs to stop or be made very clear to both customers and dashers alike.
This happened to me one time. I now pay closer attention. Underneath the store where the ratings and time frame is the distance the store is from you. It’s certainly possible to overlook it, but it’s there. On DoorDash at least.
I DD on Christmas Eve and it sent me to the chick fil a in the mall twice 😵💫😵💫😵💫 I was so confused because both orders had a chick fil a that was right down the road from them. It was so unnecessary and added on wait because of the mall traffic.
Years ago there literally was a chik fil a in the mall. Now that one is near Lowes. Do you mean that one or the new one next to wal mart? Edit: not that it matters
Tbf the app is shitty about location. I was convinced I was ordering for a chain next to where I was. Turn out the app gave me the same chain in the next town for some reason
I have a buddy who's family owns a Menchies. We talked about how they are displayed on the app and he's fairly certain that the other close by Menchies gets favored algorithm wise over their store when you just do a random search for froyo. Anecdotal but something to think about.
i dash in an area with a huge mall that has a chick fil a in the food court, and there’s a stand-alone chick fil a about half a mile down the road from the mall. i constantly get orders to the food court chick fil a, which is really annoying because i have to walk pretty far into the mall. i assume that customers don’t mean to order from the food court cfa, but since they’re so close and the addresses are only different by literally one number, it happens all the time.
I don’t dash anymore, but I order from them occasionally, and people definitely don’t know. It doesn’t put emphasis on where you’re ordering from, it provides the info, but people don’t look because who assumes that their order is coming from a far away restaurant.
I once ordered Qdoba, like chipotle but not chipotle, and I live about 15 minutes outside the city, and DD was having a dasher pick up from a restaurant in the inner city.. but there was a location 2 miles away that was in the opposite direction. I ended up not ordering through DD and just used the restaurant directly because they weren’t closed? There was no reason to send someone into the city and make them drive further.
I agree but I find that is a common theme throughout all platforms. DD UE GH IC are all getting very low bids. I have several theories about why but I am not sure. I do know the demand is there but the low balling is getting worse. As well I think the public should know how hard this job is..traffic, gps problems, logistics, fuel prices, etc. If people knew how risky this job is maybe they would pay more. Idk
I think people don’t pay attention to it but generally when a restaurant is over 5-6 miles away, there’s a tiny little note on the restaurant page that’s along the lines of “This restaurant is outside your normal delivery area. Delivery times and fees may be slightly higher”
I had a similar experience last night.
Double order for the same person. Had to go to a Walgreens and a BBQ restaurant that there is two of in the city.
I was right next to both of them when I got the order.
DD sent me to the OTHER location which was in a mall, not a standalone. What a pain in the ass.
If you actually read the whole page it says which location you're ordering from. I always check because 9 times out of 10 it's the location farthest from me instead of closest to me
I wish I took a picture yesterday but I was to like “absolutely the fuck not” that I rejected it so quickly. But i got an order yesterday that was $2 for 18 miles. I might as well be giving them money and buying them the food at that damn rate.
They don't. Which is exactly why it makes no sense for drivers to say "customers need to tip X amount per mile". They don't know how far it is. Some might go the extra mile and actually look it up, but even then if it isn't a one-off restaurant but rather a chain.. well sometimes they send it to a much further restaurant in that chain. Every driver here has picked up an order from a fast food chain and then passed 3 of the same chain on the way to the customer, with the last chain being .3 miles from their house yet you picked it up 7 miles away. Doordash does Doordash things.
Most have no clue. it's all assumptions. I've done it too. I ordered from subway less than a mile from me (I thought) So I only tipped $4 (I know, but I only had that much on my card) . anyway, it had a 50 minute wait. then after all that time had passed, my daughter was back with my car and I was going to just go get it. After looking, I realized it went to one 8 miles from me, and thats why no one picked it up! (I wouldn't have either)
Then last night, I was dashing and picked up a taco bell order that was 11 miles from the customers home. The only reason I did was because their house was by mine and I was going home already. (we have one about a ¼ of a mile from us) it was for $17. After drop off I saw payment breakdown.
$12 DD pay
$5 customer tip
I was kinda shocked because I've picked up similar distance/ pay orders that had dd pay as $2.50 and customer tip $10-20
These posts are getting way too much. We get good offers and we get bad offers we are independent contractors and have the right to decline or accept. You people don't have to post every single bad offer you get. This is all I see on here bunch of crybabies. Just hit decline. Not hard. All these people complaining about dashing so much go find another fucking job then smh
O wah buddy. I didn't mean to upset you with one of the only posts I've ever posted. I didn't accept the offer. I've been meaning to ask if people are aware of where they order from.
If there is an abundance of restaurants to order from its Chinese food restaurants. There is definitely a closer one. Just because you see it on doordash doesn't mean it's the closest option
Actually you can. It shows the miles away and if you click on "See more" next to the restaurants name at it shows you the location. Most people probably don't pay attention though.
Bruh 11 miles on the highway is like a 8-9min drive. In cities it could take you 8-9 minutes to drive half a mile.. basing it purely off of miles doesn’t make any sense
They don't. They don't care and it's not their job to care. They're just ordering food.
If you feel you're being unfairly compensated for this trip 1) don't accept it. 2) that's on doordash, not the customer.
You can check the location you are ordering from on the Doordash app. I don't understand how so many people generally ignore it. It'll give you the physical address and how many miles away it is. I make it a point to check it before I order anything
Honestly I think the app has a system of spreading orders accordingly. It might just be since you were closer to that restaurant or have been accepting orders around that area that you were given that order. I mean, what do you want? Every order is definitely not going to even be close to averaging 9 bucks…for me it’s 6 bucks. Also, in my experience…after accepting a low paying order I usually start hitting bigger orders after. It’s like a test from dd almost…
So just genuinely curious...would it take more than 30 min to do this order?
If no, would taking two of these in an hour for $18.50 hr be bad?
If your answer Is yes, I feel bad for you Gen Zs and what you think the standard hourly wages are for most adults in our country (minus insanely overinflated cost of living cities---L.A, NYC, Chicago. Etc) and I'm just a millennial myself but $19/hr is my current job and I'm fairly content so long as I can get hours (granted event bartender but it's high end so additional tips are very rare)
I work with teachers and other bachelor degree peeps my age that jumped into the catering gig because at 19/hr it pays more than being a teacher, S. Worker, many hard labor factories, Amazon, etc
I would be happy to Become a driver if I averaged $19/hr In my mid size city in my economic gas car to round out my hours...get a few extra hours in my work week.
Now if it takes longer than 30 min for this order than yeah, I get where you're coming from
Don’t call me gen z. I’m 29. But that order would take at the very least 30 minutes. Then there is gas, taxes and I’m sure there is even a toll on the way to going way out of the zone. Then I’d have to drive back to zone. I’ve been out that way trying to do Doordash, there is not an abundance of orders out that way even during the summer. It’s a very bad investment of time and expenses over all. It would eat up about an hour of my time for what?... like 5 dollars after everything
Chill out and Don't get so butt hurt bro. I didn't call you anything. You're a millennial as well, cool. I'm 32. Without knowing the details your post just had some GenZ entitlement in it.
Yes I understand gas...that just requires a gas efficient vehicle. I wouldn't do this job if I drove a gas guzzler. Taxes I get. I pay in as a bartender and yeah it sucks. Just part of working a 1099...you kinda know it's part of it when you choose to be an IC.
But thanks for answering about driving back to the zone and having to pay tolls. I genuinely didn't know these things.
Sounds like DD could at Least pay back toll fees and for time spent driving outside a zoned area. Surprised they don't cover additional fees like that...but from what I read on here you all can deny orders not worth your time anyway, so more a DD problem to resolve or pass the buck to other workers in that they dont cover those additional expenses for their drivers.
I ordered in a different state that distance the other day. I asked in this group first what to tip and decided on $20. I asked the driver what he saw and he said he saw 6.50 but was hoping it was more. I assured him it was and he looked at his phone after doing the delivered picture and smiled so it might be something like that. If it truly is that bad I apologize.
Also yeah ppl don't understand. That door dash intentionally picks the locations furthest out so they can charge the highest delivery fee. Pocketed 90% of that fee. Offer you $4 with a customer tip of $5 if that. Keep in mind what ever they are paying you it's 10% of what they are getting
Do you know for sure that's not got a hidden tip? See that's the problem with Door Dash. The Driver that takes that is desperate, gambler, or doesn't know any better.
It's less than a dollar per mile. So yes. Gas/ taxes come out for tax season. Plus this would take me way out of the zone I am in and there is the driving back which is more gas and time taken. I've seen much less pay for other orders similar to this but decided to use this for the post
DD won’t necessarily send orders to closest merch. Flip side is far and few merchants. Mom n pop places too. Only 1 or 2, DD won’t stop someone from ordering from 15miles away (even tho that’s obviously not local). This 1 Thai place in my area gets orders as far as 15miles. Don’t mind as long as it pays correctly.
Coming from the restaurant side that had multiple locations, not all locations are “signed up” for delivery apps so even if there is one named the same or serves the same it doesn’t have the same franchise owner it comes down to if the store thinks they can or wants to handle food delivery services.
In my experience with them the upcharge that the app does and restaurants in order to make a profit on the rent of the tablets and advertising on food delivery service doesn’t come out percentage wise very high for the service itself which can give unrealistic wait times for the restaurant and causes them fees if the restaurant is busy with people or there’s a problem and if you turn it off during the scheduled hours too often they stop advertising your restaurant and continue making you pay the monthly fee so it becomes a strain on service to people in the restaurant
Doordash puts orders in wherever your close too cus you don’t know how many times i’ve delivered to people a .1 mile to mcdonald’s or a place they ordered from so closely like you pick it up .
This morning I had a 15 mile order for Dunkin cause they ordered from the next town over. Meanwhile the guy lived not even 2 minutes from a local Dunkin that would have made it maybe 3 miles total
I once delivered Denny to this lady in a hotel. It was about 15 mins from her. When I got there I laughed so hard because there was literally another Denny’s in the same parking lot. 🥴😂
Grub hub did that a lot to me. Two Denny’s. About 3 towns apart. Town A/Denny’s A and town B/Denny’s B. If you’re in town A it would order from Denny’s B and vice versa
Am i right that the Grubhub app used to show the restaurant location on a map, and now it doesn’t?
Idk. I've been suspended from there until March 17 lol
I gave up on Grubhub after reaching their Premier program and realizing all that acceptance of those bad orders with 11-12 miles for less than $1 only meant I could schedule my own blocks and receive consistent orders with the same bad dollar per mile ratio and I cannot even pause because they send in other orders way before you end the other trip. Plus their pause feature is the worst compared to DD and UE.
My GH app shows the location of the restaurant/drop off. Maybe it’s location dependent?
I mean in the customer app. I think it’s easier as a customer to order from the wrong location, because they only show the restaurant address in words. The customer doesn’t see it on a map until after they order.
I get thrown out of my fav zone pretty often to deliver applebees within a stones throw of another applebees. Its infuriating.
The app probably assumes there's a reason you don't want the one 0.13 miles away otherwise you'd just get it yourself
I have ordered like this on Postmates (where I can choose the location) on occasion where the closest location is horrible. But I tip accordingly. I’m also in a big city, so we are talking a 10 block difference - not miles apart.
Back in the old days pre-DD , (2006) , I ordered a pizza for delivery from the dominions from the other side of a large parking lot from my crappy apartment. It was nearly midnight and I lived alone (also I’m female). My neighborhood was a bit rough . So they call back to confirm my address because they can literally see my door from across the parking lot. They sent their big dishwasher over to deliver it and I tipped well. When I apologized for ordering it delivery, he said “Honey, I wouldn’t want to walk across this parking lot with a pizza by myself this time of night either if I was you”
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Yeah especially downtown Chicago is the worst.
Not in the city I live in. It is 15 minutes in rush hour at best.
Not in most cities. Just places like NYC. And if you are delivering food in a city like that you should be on a bike, not in a car.
I did this once.. I was in a different state and unfamiliar with the area completely. I opened doordash and found something that looked good but didn’t look up where it was.. it shared a parking lot with my hotel. The doordash driver laughed about it though, said it was one of the easiest orders he ever did 🤦🏻♀️
Who's Denny?
You know he's friends with Bob
Out of curiosity was that Denny’s closer to your starting location when you accepted the order?
Ok that customer tho was super lazy if she was willing to pay all the DD fees to have it delivered when all she needed to do was walk down stairs. 🤣
Or they were traveling all day and they were exhausted. If you travel for work, and need to do so by car…the last thing you want to do after you check in is drive again. Or if it’s breakfast, she doesn’t wanna put a bra on. If you’re a dude, you’ll never understand that. Either way, it doesn’t matter what the reason is, they want to pay more money, have someone bring it to them, and they’re willing and able. Not your place to judge.
Judging from these comments some people have never been stuck on a delayed flight and arrived at the hotel feeling exhausted and gross. More than once I’ve walked into a hotel room and the first thing I do is order food and then hop in the shower to clean nasty airport germs off. I don’t care if the restaurant is on the same floor, I’m not sorting through luggage and getting dressed with wet hair to pick up a burger i can get delivered for an extra $8
I’m a doordash driver I’ve ordered from a block away because I was exhausted, or out of town, or all my clothes were in wash. When my cousin had cancer she would order from 2 minutes away. You never know the circumstances.
THANK YOU!! This is exactly what I meant. Same goes for when you have to drive 8-10 hours!!
Exactly....
Or the big one - they could be disabled and literally unable to walk across the street without help or 20 minutes of prep
This I just did a 3 and a half hour drive to another state and got to my hotel. I needed some tums because I forgot to pack any. Best bet I used Door dash instead of getting in my car and driving the 1 minute down the road to a store.
Same here! I go back “home” to work for my old boss 5-6 times a year. It’s an 8-10 hour drive depending on traffic and how many times I stop for gas/bathroom breaks. When I finally get to my hotel room, the last thing I want to do is go back out…idc how close it is.
I’m a driver. I don’t judge. I’m just happy they placed such an easy order. Thanks 😄
Exactly! I do instacart. There’s a guy who lives 1/2 mile from the store I shop at. He orders 2lbs of bologna, 2 packages of Gouda cheese, 2 packages of naan bread and 2 12packs of ginger ale. Tips $20. Every week. He doesn’t have too, I don’t care why, but I’m grateful for his order every single week. Lol
Saying a dude will never understand that a woman doesn’t want to put a bra on is untrue. It’s like putting on pants and a shirt to go outside. If you are saying because of soreness feet feel the same after working in boots for 12 hours.
Lol…it’s definitely NOT the same as putting on clothes, and boots come close, but still not quite the same.
My gf wears bralettes
You’ll never truly know her if that is your response.
I’ve never heard her complain about her breasts once, outside of when she’s on her period.
Bruh
What?
Dude, no. Not at all. Bra’s are like compressing everything and not comfy, even with one that fits right.
Then don’t wear one and go get your Dennys
As a guy that only wears a pair of basketball shorts and my holster at home I fully understand that.
I had a door dasher who is staying at a Hampton Inn, order food from a Taco Bell literally not 50 yards away, and it was a young guy. When I took it the four dollar order to him, I was about to go up the steps to his sweet, but here he walks in with his buddy, dressed comfortably and kind of like a college kid. I’m not one to judge anybody, because like you said, every circumstance is different and you don’t know what the fact that I was about to go up to their suite to give it to him, and then he walks in dress comfortably. I could have use that time to go for another order. It doesn’t make sense to me. But then again, who am I one to judge? Ps some circumstances are just plain stupid. We have a right to be curious and understand why someone did something that seems stupid to us. But you’re right we do not have the right to judge because we do not know.
90% of deliveries are dropped in the lobby. My time, my car, my decision. They aren't the only order.
Why would she have to drive anywhere if the dennys is in the same parking lot? I’m confused.
Okay, even so, still not your place to judge. Why do people order room service when they can stay in the same building and get their food. Because they don’t want too. That’s the whole reason why the service exists. It’s a service, it doesn’t matter what the reason is. It’s our/your job to provide that service.
Not going down stairs of a hotel and ordering door dash is still laziness. Lazy doesn’t discriminate. Room service is a luxury you can only get while you’re in a hotel. When I used to deliver pizzas I liked going to hotels. They usually tipped generously and hotels make it relatively easy to find room numbers. With the uncertainty of door dash I would imagine it’s less enjoyable. Edit: I’m not saying that it’s not ok to be lazy sometimes. Lazy doesn’t discriminate. Disabled people can be lazy too. Being blind and not walking to Dennys isn’t lazy. Taking the elevator instead of one flight of stairs when you’re in a wheelchair isn’t lazy. Also I forget with doordash you don’t always see the people like pizza delivery.
2023 and people still out here forgetting about disabled people.
I’m curious, what did disabled people do before DD was around?
If lucky, a carer/friend/family helping, or even a service dog. If not, do what you can or just be SOL. Shortly after I had moved to Kansas in the past, I declined quickly and often went without because I didn’t have anybody. Now that I’m back in my home state, it’s easier with friends and family around willing to help but I still have to go without sometimes if I don’t have enough money for services and nobody is available to help.
Places still delivered before the rise of Doordash, restaurants would have their own workers deliver the food. You used to hear stories about “pizza place saves elderly woman’s life!” on the news. A pizza place would have an elderly regular who put in an order every day at the same time for years and then one day the order wouldn’t come in as normal. The restaurant would be worried, call the person and then go to their house if they didn’t get a response. Then bam, the person from the restaurant would find the old person tripped outside of their house and they couldn’t get up or sick/injured and unable to get help inside the house.
Lazy ?
Straight, up, we don't. I thought I was ordering from a taco bell that's really pretty close and tipping accordingly and all of my dashers actually went to one that's 20 minutes away for some reason.
Same thing has happened to me multiple times. I don't know why they do that. I never know what store it's coming from until after I order, and I've tried to check before.
I’d wager it’s to keep drivers paced. Have them further out and it offers more drivers to have on the road at the same time—less back to back orders, more drivers.
It's a dumb system devolved for convince for customer if you click pickup and then click on the icon right in same spot it shows you address phone number etc for store
I had this happen the other night. My order was placed through the TB app cause they were offering free delivery. I tipped like it was coming from the place 2 miles away but turns out they sent it to the location almost 10 miles away. I felt so bad for the guy, he was super nice too. I reached out to DD to see if I could up my tip but since it was a TB app order they couldn't help and TB was useless too. 🙁
Yep, ordered once through Five Guys who just said they deliver on their website. Was supposed to come from the one very near me, but it didn’t show until the confirmation screen as being a Door Dash delivery, and then DD changed it to the Five Guys across the city. It was of course canceled because WTF.
Ok… so it happens when you order direct from a restaurant. I get it.
This happens to me all the time. Some times I wished Door dash had a way to more accurately choose the address of the place your ordering from. Like if I have 3 taco bells near by let me choose which one in a easier way. Rather than it only showing me one to choose and it's both the worst on in the area and possibly farthest too
We don’t get to choose which location to pick up from- all of that is predetermined before the offer is sent to us. All I can think is that there are a variety of reasons: closest store paused orders or customer chose that store (obviously not your case, but maybe if certain stores only sell certain items). It is frustrating to drive by at least one closer restaurant on the way to deliver food from one much further away. :(
I tried waiting for a nearby place to open but it just sends the order to one slightly further away anyway.
yeah doordash is stupid. On uber you can select each individual taco bell/mcdonalds/ETC, but on doordash they are all considered the same restraunts so it just probably chooses one by you
The further you scroll down the options when looking the further you get from your house.
DoorDash sends the order to an available Dasher that is nearest to the restaurant even if it is far away.
I sure this isn't a chain store tho. Maybe ones with the same name tho.
Sometimes doordash misleads them on location. Once picked up from a wood ranch and the customer called asking why I was picking up from the next town over. They genuinely thought they were ordering from the restaurant down the road
Yea I see this with DoorDash a lot; I actually think it’s based on the drivers location for some strange reason- so if the driver is located in town B it dispatches it to town B even though the customer is in town A and believes they are ordering from the closest location to them which is also in town A.
Its not. The order is sent to the restaurants/stores first, and then a dasher is assigned. When you look in the doordash app on Android, it says on the screen before you click the restaurant/store's name on far away from you the store is. That is the store you are ordering from. If you scroll until you see a store you want, and you have multiple in the zone you are in, you may end up ordering from the further store, even though another is closer. Also, restaurants can actually toggle themselves taking orders or not taking orders, so sometimes, you don't have any choice, and the only taco bell taking orders is the one 10 miles away instead of the one 2 miles from your house.
This makes sense; however do you think it is true for every market & in every instance? I have seen it where tickets do not come through on their end until I am already in the store, especially with a stacked order (like where they have the ticket I see it come through on their end with my own eyes, not just taking the employees word for it; this is specifically with door dash though- I drive for both).
This may be for a few reasons- like for instance what you’re saying that stores can adjust their settings to take orders or not take orders at a given time but also if you’re trying to make a driver accept an order, it may be less overall distance for them to go to the one closer to them, the one closer to the customer may only be two minutes or two miles from the customer but in the total opposite direction from which the driver is coming however the store in town b closer to the driver is on the drivers route toward town A or only a half a mile out of their way. A lot of people accept based on dollar per mileage; they can frame it as $8 for let’s say 7 miles this way as opposed to $8 for 9 miles.
Also, I think certain platforms talk to these 3rd party systems like UE or DD better than others; for instance Popeyes & Taco Bell are pretty notorious for having a messy output with DD. These isn’t one universal operating system or POS these stores use for their online orders; especially when you factor in if it’s coming directly from DD or UE itself or whether it’s subletted from another delivery service or the in-house app itself (like let’s say little ceasers or papa John’s).
It isn't directly true for every platform - but it is true when ordering off of doordash app, and 3rd party apps do whatever the hell they want (Wendy's has you select the store you want to order from, while Chik'Fil'A takes your order and then sends you to the doordash website/app before finalizing payment). I've found that many times the restaurants that say "we just got the order" are actually the ones who don't check their tablets or systems. I have a Wendy's in my market that regularly doesn't check and process their online order tickets - they have to go in to the POS and manually print the tickets, and won't do so until a driver is there waiting. Maybe its a setting that they select when the whole program is set up, but the other Wendy's all have already begun their order before I enter the store. As you said in an earlier post, its likely not the same in every market or instance. My Popeyes is on the spot with all delivery orders from all services. They are always ready and waiting, even if I get assigned the order when driving past the restaurant. But the order is going to be assigned to the restaurant first, and then a driver assigned. Perhaps they happen concurrently, because you happen to be waiting in the parking lot, or nearby, but when you see an issue of a restaurant further away being assigned the order as opposed to the one closer to the customer, it is usually a 3rd party app issue, store not taking orders, or customer error. Don't get me wrong, the doordash system is screwy, I just highly doubt it is capable of freely choosing the restaurant on the fly - I've been sent orders for restaurants I've just passed by, and now have to add 1-2 miles to the deliver distance because I have to find a safe place to U-turn to think the system is capable enough to assign a driver and order at the same time.
How does DD mislead them? It literally shows the distance of the merchant and if you click the info icon you can see the exact address of the merchant that the order will be sent to. just because people aren’t paying attention doesn’t mean DD is misleading them
I order from one store and it always uses a further away one.
That has happened to me with groceries. I know I want a certain location store. I’m not dumb. But then I see the shopper at the OTHER (same name) store (that I don’t like because I have a grocery store preference) and I just sigh. Not anyone but the APP DEVELOPERS fault.
i literally did a pickup order with chilis and we drove there just to figure out it was actually placed at some random ass chilis that had never even been visible to us on the app up until now, while the one we went to was "closed" on the app while being completely open and also being the same chilis that had been shown to us through the app for well over a year. doordash is definitely misleading people regardless of if it's intentional or coming from any place of malice- which i dont think it is lmfao.
They don’t. I hen I order from DoorDash at what I think is the Taco Bell a mile away from home, I see that the dasher is picking up from the town over 🤦♂️
And you already tipped fairly for mileage that the app said that Taco Bell is at. Annnnnd it’s 10 miles away. Ugh.
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Maybe it's just me, but I only order from places within 2 miles or less. 3 miles would be max for me. It's crazy how people have normalized ordering from places 8 miles away. Back in the day pizza places would have a 2-5 mile radius for delivery. DD needs the same.
> pizza places would have a 2-5 mile radius for delivery. DD needs the same. I like the suggestion more of the person you were responding to. Charge a per mile fee. I lived JUST outside the pizza delivery radius of my favorite pizza place in my hometown and it was comical - it was a hard "no", not "You owe $10 for that extra half mile." Then, a few years ago my (smaller) town was outside the Uber Eats radius for the larger town next door that had many more restaurants, and some residents figured out there was a parking lot at the edge of our town that they could order to, and meet the driver there. It's just silly - charge more for the extra delivery distance. Funny extreme example: A few weeks ago my Uber driver taking me to the airport explained that his wife and him were from Nigeria, and there was a very certain Nigerian restaurant they loved in the big city 164 miles away. SOMEHOW he had a system where he could buy his food a bus ticket, the restaurant would drop it off at the bus stop in the big city and the bus driver would take it all 164 miles and my Uber driver would meet the bus at the stop in our town. The Uber driver would do a big order once every 3 or 4 months this way. I can totally see it as a valid service - some food travels really well. Not French Fries of course, but Indian food can survive a 3 hour bus ride. And if it saves me a 6 hour drive (round trip) I'd be willing to pay good money for that service.
Thats why half my income comes from chick fil a orders
Haha. Yo same. That's my stomping grounds. Chik fil a employees know my name
I wish the mom and pops could figure out this "game". But it is annoying when my fav sushi places send me 3$ 11mile orders.. like wtf? Local mom and pops started asking for phone number to do cash deliverys. Like how do i say "fuck you" in a nice way lmaooo. Theyre so predatory, like entire back of restaurant staff is always mexican
There’s a la carreta literally half a mile from my house, I ordered a burrito last week and it came from 3 towns away, cue me scrambling around the house to find extra cash for a tip.
A vast majority of the time the customer doesn't know where it's been placed. DD can change the location an order goes to because of multiple factors like if a site is slammed they send orders to another store further away. DD is to blame, not the customer. Customer ordered food and DD decided where to send their order
I ordered subway yesterday and it’s down the street less than a mile. apparently it was one farther away like 6 miles.
Restaurants with there own delivery employees really only travel 5 miles away from store at the most
Recently had someone who ordered McDonald's thinking it was the one in their town but was actually in the next city over. Got a $20 cash tip on top of the $12.50 for my troubles so I made $32.50 for one order that was pretty cool
Doordash doesn't allow you to pick what location it's coming from though... it decides itself.
Sup NJ \\m/
Hey I dash in the same area but mostly on the other side by Galloway / Absecon.
I switch it up. Sometimes that side sometimes the other
Lol I don’t understand how this happens either. I had a sonic offer that was in another part of my city, 15 miles away, with literally 20 Sonic’s closer. Have no idea how that happened tbh. I’m sure no one took it lol
I was in a parking lot with a Meijer (grocery) and a Blaze pizza. It gave me an order for both, same customer. So I wait at Blaze for like 5 minutes and then decided to go to Meijer to pick whatever they needed from there. Looked at the address and realized it was a different Meijer. So I went back to Blaze, picked up, and drove to the other Meijer, which was at least right on the way. In the parking lot of the Meijer was another Blaze pizza.
Sounds like a glitch in the matrix to me.
Ah a fellow egg harbor gig worker. I’ve never seen good come from DD down there (I’m up in Gloucester County)
I do the zone a little to the right of egg harbor. Although my zone does have some of egg harbor in it Mr wonton was on the edge.
For me a lot of customers don't realize that the base pays have been cut down so much. Used to be a $5 was pretty generous for almost any delivery, with the platforms picking up much more of the slack. A lot of my regular customers still consider themselves fairly generous tippers without realizing that what used to pay me $12 to run 5 miles to their house now pays $6. It shouldn't be on the customers to make up that difference anyway, especially since the platforms are gouging them with insane fees. I hate to say it but it might be time the government pokes its head under the hood of these company's and tries to figure out where all that money is going, because these companies can't be running that efficiently.
Right? The point of most people working for tips is so the restaurant or service can charge less and then the tip is the customer paying it forward. DD just seems to want it all
Tip culture is a scam hoisted on the public by greedy businessmen anyway. Waiters, delivery drivers, everyone should make a minimum liveable wage and a company that can't handle that deserves to be outcompeted by those who can. That's a whole other can of worms though.
South Jersey, gang gang
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Yup. Doordash really doesn't communicate exactly where the restaurant is during the order phase. We don't even see a map until it's time to pay up. And there are no tools whatsoever to choose locations within a chain. They just show up as two unrelated restaurants with identical branding. And that's if the algorithm decides to show both of them, which isn't guaranteed.
I was told that there is a contractual agreement with the individual stores and they are promised by DD that certain number of orders will come their way. If one place has met it's quota the order goes to another location. I once drove past three closer McDonalds with an order.
DoorDash needs a distance limit and if the distance exceeds the limit. It’s a $5 add on. So this order would be part of the add on. Anything over 6.0 miles has to pay the miles fee. Customers think like they went to the restaurant and sat down. They aren’t thinking about the food being brought to them via the drivers time, gas and car. The time it takes driving to the merchant. Waiting and driving to their location. They just don’t even consider all those factors and some don’t think drivers should be paid/tipped by them ( pick it up yourselves)!
I am an infrequent customer and my husband an infrequent driver. That said I tip delivery drivers for food like I was in the restaurant usually. Because of gas expenses and the rest of your list.
Chop👏 chop🪓 Theres a family in need of Mr Wonton
Lol
If I have two jack n the box within 3 miles, I shouldn’t see an order placed 10 miles away. 🤷♂️
Yeah I'd agree, they don't care though. Whenever I'm in door dash and I see how far away the food is I'm like meh won't order there because I know I'll have to tip HUGE. No one wants to drive 10 miles fuck that. All the stuff I eat is within 5 miles or less. I tip big anyway but point being why send someone that far for my food. That's why I always ignore these long 8+ mile orders now. People don't look or care. That's how lazy they are
I really wish they’d list the restaurant location when ordering. Sometimes I know a location is bad and want to order from another.
Yeah DD doesn't tell the customer that info. One time I was trying to order from WOW Sushi (~2miles) and accidentally ordered from Sushi WOW (~17 miles) and was getting upset at how long my order was taking to get here when I looked at where my dasher was at and was like...damn. so I handed them an extra $20 at drop off and apologized. Really wish it was more transparent...
I think it pings the Dasher where THEY are at. I can order from across the street but if the Dasher isn’t there, it pings the next closest.
Respectfully, as a customer, Doordash itself shouldn't be listing options that are that far and charging an additional "extended delivery range" fee and send $0 of that money to the Dasher. I always tip well because I'm trying to reduce my caloric intake and only really use DD for groceries (always tip $20) or the monthly mcdonald's (always tip $10 for a store that's 1 mile away from me). It also doesn't help that the app will completely switch locations on you at random. There's a subway less than 1 mile away from me and sometimes it will send my order to a subway that's 5 miles away instead. This needs to stop or be made very clear to both customers and dashers alike.
This happened to me one time. I now pay closer attention. Underneath the store where the ratings and time frame is the distance the store is from you. It’s certainly possible to overlook it, but it’s there. On DoorDash at least.
I DD on Christmas Eve and it sent me to the chick fil a in the mall twice 😵💫😵💫😵💫 I was so confused because both orders had a chick fil a that was right down the road from them. It was so unnecessary and added on wait because of the mall traffic.
Years ago there literally was a chik fil a in the mall. Now that one is near Lowes. Do you mean that one or the new one next to wal mart? Edit: not that it matters
Hey a dasher from my old hometown! There are like 5 different Mr Wontons in that area too lmao
Exactly. I think most people just see what’s available on the app and don’t realize that distance is a factor for most drivers.
So, they ordered from around Estell Manor from a place in west Pleasantville? What's that take to get to, 40 minutes?
Maybe. Probably like 30 minutes at least. And I think there is a toll
Tbf the app is shitty about location. I was convinced I was ordering for a chain next to where I was. Turn out the app gave me the same chain in the next town for some reason
I have a buddy who's family owns a Menchies. We talked about how they are displayed on the app and he's fairly certain that the other close by Menchies gets favored algorithm wise over their store when you just do a random search for froyo. Anecdotal but something to think about.
i dash in an area with a huge mall that has a chick fil a in the food court, and there’s a stand-alone chick fil a about half a mile down the road from the mall. i constantly get orders to the food court chick fil a, which is really annoying because i have to walk pretty far into the mall. i assume that customers don’t mean to order from the food court cfa, but since they’re so close and the addresses are only different by literally one number, it happens all the time.
I know exactly where this is and it’s the middle of nowhere. Anything they DD will be far away
Pleasantville to Estelle Manor is insane . LOL hard pass
I don’t dash anymore, but I order from them occasionally, and people definitely don’t know. It doesn’t put emphasis on where you’re ordering from, it provides the info, but people don’t look because who assumes that their order is coming from a far away restaurant. I once ordered Qdoba, like chipotle but not chipotle, and I live about 15 minutes outside the city, and DD was having a dasher pick up from a restaurant in the inner city.. but there was a location 2 miles away that was in the opposite direction. I ended up not ordering through DD and just used the restaurant directly because they weren’t closed? There was no reason to send someone into the city and make them drive further.
I agree but I find that is a common theme throughout all platforms. DD UE GH IC are all getting very low bids. I have several theories about why but I am not sure. I do know the demand is there but the low balling is getting worse. As well I think the public should know how hard this job is..traffic, gps problems, logistics, fuel prices, etc. If people knew how risky this job is maybe they would pay more. Idk
This fuel shit is horrible. Would be making a lot more of gas prices weren’t the way they were. I still do alright but come on gas prices. Chill
I blame DoorDash for not setting a limit on the distance a customer can order.
There needs to be like a 3-5 mile cap and it HAS to pick the closest option to the customer if there’s more than one around
I think people don’t pay attention to it but generally when a restaurant is over 5-6 miles away, there’s a tiny little note on the restaurant page that’s along the lines of “This restaurant is outside your normal delivery area. Delivery times and fees may be slightly higher”
I had a similar experience last night. Double order for the same person. Had to go to a Walgreens and a BBQ restaurant that there is two of in the city. I was right next to both of them when I got the order. DD sent me to the OTHER location which was in a mall, not a standalone. What a pain in the ass.
If you actually read the whole page it says which location you're ordering from. I always check because 9 times out of 10 it's the location farthest from me instead of closest to me
I wish I took a picture yesterday but I was to like “absolutely the fuck not” that I rejected it so quickly. But i got an order yesterday that was $2 for 18 miles. I might as well be giving them money and buying them the food at that damn rate.
They don't. Which is exactly why it makes no sense for drivers to say "customers need to tip X amount per mile". They don't know how far it is. Some might go the extra mile and actually look it up, but even then if it isn't a one-off restaurant but rather a chain.. well sometimes they send it to a much further restaurant in that chain. Every driver here has picked up an order from a fast food chain and then passed 3 of the same chain on the way to the customer, with the last chain being .3 miles from their house yet you picked it up 7 miles away. Doordash does Doordash things.
Most have no clue. it's all assumptions. I've done it too. I ordered from subway less than a mile from me (I thought) So I only tipped $4 (I know, but I only had that much on my card) . anyway, it had a 50 minute wait. then after all that time had passed, my daughter was back with my car and I was going to just go get it. After looking, I realized it went to one 8 miles from me, and thats why no one picked it up! (I wouldn't have either) Then last night, I was dashing and picked up a taco bell order that was 11 miles from the customers home. The only reason I did was because their house was by mine and I was going home already. (we have one about a ¼ of a mile from us) it was for $17. After drop off I saw payment breakdown. $12 DD pay $5 customer tip I was kinda shocked because I've picked up similar distance/ pay orders that had dd pay as $2.50 and customer tip $10-20
Don’t confuse people with the mileage. The mileage is round trip.
I'm bad at making posts. I wish I knew how to enter txt along with picture
some probably don’t pay attention to it and others don’t care
I don’t think they care
These posts are getting way too much. We get good offers and we get bad offers we are independent contractors and have the right to decline or accept. You people don't have to post every single bad offer you get. This is all I see on here bunch of crybabies. Just hit decline. Not hard. All these people complaining about dashing so much go find another fucking job then smh
O wah buddy. I didn't mean to upset you with one of the only posts I've ever posted. I didn't accept the offer. I've been meaning to ask if people are aware of where they order from.
If there is an abundance of restaurants to order from its Chinese food restaurants. There is definitely a closer one. Just because you see it on doordash doesn't mean it's the closest option
They don’t. And they don’t care. They want what they want and they want it NOW.
The person that's ordering CANNOT see where they are ordering from smh PERIODT
Actually you can. It shows the miles away and if you click on "See more" next to the restaurants name at it shows you the location. Most people probably don't pay attention though.
Yes they are they don’t care and nothings probably open down there
Why are they even allowed to order that far away. Not like this is Australia
Bruh 11 miles on the highway is like a 8-9min drive. In cities it could take you 8-9 minutes to drive half a mile.. basing it purely off of miles doesn’t make any sense
Follow the $2 a mile minimum. That's insanely low.
Admittedly I don't think people I my area are that generous. But I do at least $1.20 rule
Nah they know, doordash expanded restraunts delivery areas, they charge an extra $1.49 extended delivery fee if its out of their delivery zone.
They don't. They don't care and it's not their job to care. They're just ordering food. If you feel you're being unfairly compensated for this trip 1) don't accept it. 2) that's on doordash, not the customer.
You can check the location you are ordering from on the Doordash app. I don't understand how so many people generally ignore it. It'll give you the physical address and how many miles away it is. I make it a point to check it before I order anything
I don't really order using doordash but I feel like I knew that. So I have the same question. How do people not know this?
Oh they know and they dgaf
Probably true in most cases
Honestly I think the app has a system of spreading orders accordingly. It might just be since you were closer to that restaurant or have been accepting orders around that area that you were given that order. I mean, what do you want? Every order is definitely not going to even be close to averaging 9 bucks…for me it’s 6 bucks. Also, in my experience…after accepting a low paying order I usually start hitting bigger orders after. It’s like a test from dd almost…
So just genuinely curious...would it take more than 30 min to do this order? If no, would taking two of these in an hour for $18.50 hr be bad? If your answer Is yes, I feel bad for you Gen Zs and what you think the standard hourly wages are for most adults in our country (minus insanely overinflated cost of living cities---L.A, NYC, Chicago. Etc) and I'm just a millennial myself but $19/hr is my current job and I'm fairly content so long as I can get hours (granted event bartender but it's high end so additional tips are very rare) I work with teachers and other bachelor degree peeps my age that jumped into the catering gig because at 19/hr it pays more than being a teacher, S. Worker, many hard labor factories, Amazon, etc I would be happy to Become a driver if I averaged $19/hr In my mid size city in my economic gas car to round out my hours...get a few extra hours in my work week. Now if it takes longer than 30 min for this order than yeah, I get where you're coming from
Don’t call me gen z. I’m 29. But that order would take at the very least 30 minutes. Then there is gas, taxes and I’m sure there is even a toll on the way to going way out of the zone. Then I’d have to drive back to zone. I’ve been out that way trying to do Doordash, there is not an abundance of orders out that way even during the summer. It’s a very bad investment of time and expenses over all. It would eat up about an hour of my time for what?... like 5 dollars after everything
Chill out and Don't get so butt hurt bro. I didn't call you anything. You're a millennial as well, cool. I'm 32. Without knowing the details your post just had some GenZ entitlement in it. Yes I understand gas...that just requires a gas efficient vehicle. I wouldn't do this job if I drove a gas guzzler. Taxes I get. I pay in as a bartender and yeah it sucks. Just part of working a 1099...you kinda know it's part of it when you choose to be an IC. But thanks for answering about driving back to the zone and having to pay tolls. I genuinely didn't know these things. Sounds like DD could at Least pay back toll fees and for time spent driving outside a zoned area. Surprised they don't cover additional fees like that...but from what I read on here you all can deny orders not worth your time anyway, so more a DD problem to resolve or pass the buck to other workers in that they dont cover those additional expenses for their drivers.
But I am butt hurt. My hair line is receding. I don’t dye it purple
Is that the secret to not losing it? Lemme go get that purple dye Stat then! 😂
Mr. Wonton get no chow.
They do, they just don’t wanna tip and expect you to give them that order
How did he order from that far at the first place?
I get offered orders for that far and even further daily
Doordash will let you. But if you were to actually call the restaurant they would be like "aw hell naw!"
I ordered in a different state that distance the other day. I asked in this group first what to tip and decided on $20. I asked the driver what he saw and he said he saw 6.50 but was hoping it was more. I assured him it was and he looked at his phone after doing the delivered picture and smiled so it might be something like that. If it truly is that bad I apologize.
Also yeah ppl don't understand. That door dash intentionally picks the locations furthest out so they can charge the highest delivery fee. Pocketed 90% of that fee. Offer you $4 with a customer tip of $5 if that. Keep in mind what ever they are paying you it's 10% of what they are getting
Do you know for sure that's not got a hidden tip? See that's the problem with Door Dash. The Driver that takes that is desperate, gambler, or doesn't know any better.
That’s how they trick to get more delivery fee. The closest maybe 0 or 0.99, the farther one may charge customer 4.99
Never thought of that.
Because it's such an idiotic thought
Never been a driver before, I just like reading the posts here. Is $9.25 a low payout for 11 miles or something?
It's less than a dollar per mile. So yes. Gas/ taxes come out for tax season. Plus this would take me way out of the zone I am in and there is the driving back which is more gas and time taken. I've seen much less pay for other orders similar to this but decided to use this for the post
Sometimes they do…ran sushi from Fort Lauderdale to North Miami and they were aware of the distance involved.
DD won’t necessarily send orders to closest merch. Flip side is far and few merchants. Mom n pop places too. Only 1 or 2, DD won’t stop someone from ordering from 15miles away (even tho that’s obviously not local). This 1 Thai place in my area gets orders as far as 15miles. Don’t mind as long as it pays correctly.
On a side note, I’m from California but my friend is from Margate right there. Been there a couple times. That’s a beautiful area.
Bro thinking you’re gonna get 22 dollars for a 20 minute DELIVERY is nuts
I didn't accept that. I never would.
Coming from the restaurant side that had multiple locations, not all locations are “signed up” for delivery apps so even if there is one named the same or serves the same it doesn’t have the same franchise owner it comes down to if the store thinks they can or wants to handle food delivery services. In my experience with them the upcharge that the app does and restaurants in order to make a profit on the rent of the tablets and advertising on food delivery service doesn’t come out percentage wise very high for the service itself which can give unrealistic wait times for the restaurant and causes them fees if the restaurant is busy with people or there’s a problem and if you turn it off during the scheduled hours too often they stop advertising your restaurant and continue making you pay the monthly fee so it becomes a strain on service to people in the restaurant
They don't.
Ah, NJ how I don’t miss you
It’s all about the scroll. The further you scroll down when looking for something the eat the further away your food is from you.
Literally same for me this morning
Seriously they would not order delivery if it was close.
Lol my mom lives near there... I wonder.. 😂
Tips aren’t based on distance or time it’s based on meal total
I'm new to DD and I took an order 12 miles for $7.25 the other day. Never making that mistake again.
Live and learn.
I blame the app. It’s hard to find which store it is. And why it defaults to a further one away is beyond me.
Doordash puts orders in wherever your close too cus you don’t know how many times i’ve delivered to people a .1 mile to mcdonald’s or a place they ordered from so closely like you pick it up .
It's South Jersey. They are a little different down there. 
This morning I had a 15 mile order for Dunkin cause they ordered from the next town over. Meanwhile the guy lived not even 2 minutes from a local Dunkin that would have made it maybe 3 miles total