Online ordering is the best, especially when it's the only option even at the restaurant. Pay on your phone and leave, it's crazy more places haven't adopted it.
I always try to order from the restaurant's own website, as I know I support the restaurant the most in that case. Sometimes it's even cheaper on their own site.
Otherwise I mostly use Wolt. The other option is Just Eat. There's not really any other options afaik which is kind of problematic (semi monopoly situation).
All of these are basically equivalent in my experience. However, I normally use these apps (usually Uber eats) with the pickup option to just advance order from a place within 5 minutes of me and go get the food myself. My goal when eating out is to save time by not cooking. The travel time and effort are negligible by comparison.
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's within a dollar of the same cost as ordering in person. And it saves having to wait in line, tell them your order, and wait for them to make it.
There is a local service/app in my city called Yuze. It has only a small selection of restaurants. The service the app has is pretty basic: you order food and it gets brought to you by a handful of (employed!) riders. No in-app tip BS, no hidden service charges - it's great! Haven't used Lieferando (takeaway.com's name in Germany) in forever.
Downsides: the food selection is limited and the restaurants tend to be on the more pricier side.
I order out pretty much every day. for me, I stick with Uber Eats because subscribing to Uber One does save me money over the course of a month, eliminating delivery fees (but not service fees) for a large number of restaurants.
now I prefer to order from a restaurant that delivers itself, when I'm in the mood for pizza, I call the place across the street, if I want fried chicken, I order from the Jewish deli across the street (they seriously have the best fucking fried chicken). etc.
Uber Eats is pretty good about refunds when orders are wrong. the drivers are hit or miss, but that's going to be true of every service. the most annoying thing is when they block my fucking door
the main drawback is that Uber allows the drivers to take multiple orders at once, so you have to keep in mind how to make your order so that things don't get soggy. I keep oil and vinegar in the fridge, and order my sandwiches dry. if I'm getting a gyro, I order it dry, and I have a pot of tzatziki in my fridge. stuff like that. Taco Bell will never hit right when it's delivered, even if you're really stoned. Taco Bell needs to be eaten fresh
do things to make it easier for them to find you. make sure you've got a super obvious house number that's visible from the street. even if it's daytime, turn on your porch light when you're expecting a delivery. I don't know if it actually tells the drivers that I'm signaling for food delivery, but my brain tells me it helps them find me
I think it would be really cool if food delivery companies gave you a little Bluetooth or Wi-Fi device that you could put outside your house that'll turn green when you're expecting an Uber Eats delivery or something like that
I used UberEats except for when I got a gift card for DoorDash. I've seen some restaurants stop using UberEats while they still use DoorDash. There really isn't difference in terms of delivery service quality.
I don't order delivery of anything but pizza and only on the website of the pizza place, hate door dash and Uber eats. We occasionally get fast food Chinese or Panera or Starbucks but they all have mobile website and we order and pick up.
All those services are terrible, the food is never fresh, gets left at the wrong address or not at all, it's not good or at least not good here.
You can sign up the Uber eats and get a full refund on your orders. Do this until they start instantly denying any refund request. Uber eats still pays the restaurant and the driver. They eat the cost.
I easily got refunded $600 worth of food before they caught on. Got my work phone and did it again but this time to a park nearby my house because my house is blacklisted it seems.
And people like you are why we can't have cool things.. people like you are the reason why fucking companies take away the fucking refunds policies. Not like people like you give a fuck though, I'm wasting my breath.
They're definitely a shitty person but in this case the reason we can't have nice things is economics. It is simply uneconomical for UberEats to exist and it is burning venture money to subsidize all our deliveries in the hope they can corner the self-driving car delivery market if it ever materializes.
They could prevent it while not impacting the average customer. The reason the don't is because they have a black hole budget and the only thing that matters is market share.
Maybe they should make the delivery driver foot the bill so he comes to my house and tries to bash me.
When I use these services (when I'm given a gift card) I select $0 tip and tip with cash. I don't trust the app makers to give them the tip. I hope parent poster does this, too. I thought tipping in cash was pretty common!