Octopus Overlords

Kraken wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:49 pm I've been doing pickup exclusively. It helps keep the restaurant's costs down and I know precisely when I'm getting my food. All of my local eateries have contactless curbside pickup and both parties are masked, so the risk is near zero.

LordMortis wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:53 pm

Kraken wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:49 pm I've been doing pickup exclusively. It helps keep the restaurant's costs down and I know precisely when I'm getting my food. All of my local eateries have contactless curbside pickup and both parties are masked, so the risk is near zero.

If I do that I might eventually have to fill my gastank. Though I fear I may need to do that next week anyway. Gas costs since March 12th: $22 and I still have a quarter tank left (that means I've likely driven less than 200 miles in 2.5 months). And yet somehow I've not gotten that auto insurance break everyone talks about. AAA can bite me.

LordMortis wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:53 pm

Kraken wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 1:49 pm I've been doing pickup exclusively. It helps keep the restaurant's costs down and I know precisely when I'm getting my food. All of my local eateries have contactless curbside pickup and both parties are masked, so the risk is near zero.

If I do that I might eventually have to fill my gastank. Though I fear I may need to do that next week anyway. Gas costs since March 12th: $22 and I still have a quarter tank left (that means I've likely driven less than 200 miles in 2.5 months). And yet somehow I've not gotten that auto insurance break everyone talks about. AAA can bite me.

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 2:54 pm I've used UberEats a few times during the lockup; the markup fees really add up. In both cases, I think the meal ended up being close to $20 more than what just the food would have costed, despite "no delivery fees". Pick-up is definitely the way to go if you can do it.

msteelers wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 3:09 pm

Ralph-Wiggum wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 2:54 pm I've used UberEats a few times during the lockup; the markup fees really add up. In both cases, I think the meal ended up being close to $20 more than what just the food would have costed, despite "no delivery fees". Pick-up is definitely the way to go if you can do it.

What's wild to me is that not only do they have a ton of fees that they pass on to the consumer, but they ALSO charge the restaurants a percentage that is up around 30% of the cost.

LordMortis wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 2:58 pm Everyone, including health professionals, keep saying food preparation is a low risk, just keeping washing your damned hands 20 seconds and don't touch your face. And I'm just paranoid. I did survive contactless delivery from Jets for Detroit Deep Dish garbage pizza a few weeks ago. $30 and it was friggen heaven. So good. The only thing that could have made it better would have been a couple of glasses of Faygo Rock and Rye. I might have to buy some pop and store it for the next special occasion on my next eventual grocery shop. The only problem is a don't save well. If I buy pop, it'll be gone in a week, no matter my good intentions.

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 4:00 pm If a restaurant has a site that I can order from, I'll typically use that. If they don't then I'll use GrubHub (or Door Dash, or Caviar). I was reading an article where some restaurant owners were complaining about the fees from the services and the sometimes unprofessional delivery people, but other restaurant owners loved them because they don't have to deal with setting up online ordering.

Jeff V wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 8:33 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 4:00 pm If a restaurant has a site that I can order from, I'll typically use that. If they don't then I'll use GrubHub (or Door Dash, or Caviar). I was reading an article where some restaurant owners were complaining about the fees from the services and the sometimes unprofessional delivery people, but other restaurant owners loved them because they don't have to deal with setting up online ordering.

Certain foods, pizza, Chinese, etc., lend themselves well to carry out/delivery, and rarely do I eat those things in a restaurant. For things that I do go to restaurants for, the food just does not survive transit in anywhere near what I expect in the restaurant.

There are restaurant foods I'd love to have again someday, but I'm not going to suffer having them at reduced quality nor will I risk my life to eat-in.

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri May 29, 2020 4:00 pm If a restaurant has a site that I can order from, I'll typically use that. If they don't then I'll use GrubHub (or Door Dash, or Caviar). I was reading an article where some restaurant owners were complaining about the fees from the services and the sometimes unprofessional delivery people, but other restaurant owners loved them because they don't have to deal with setting up online ordering.

Smoove_B wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 7:12 pm They actually use trained rats wearing special shoes to walk it across the pizza and place it in the center. Still technically untouched by human hands!

Daehawk wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 6:51 pm Something I forgot until I threw it away just now. You know how Dominoes goes out of their way to tell you in their ads how your pizza is never touched after the oven? It slides into a box and they seal it? Well seems Pizza Hut dont give a F because they put that little 3 pronged piece of plastic in the middle of my pizza that helps hold the box lid flat so it doesn't squish down onto the pizza toppings. Someone had to PUT that thing there. Ewww.

Blackhawk wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 12:39 am

Daehawk wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 6:51 pm Something I forgot until I threw it away just now. You know how Dominoes goes out of their way to tell you in their ads how your pizza is never touched after the oven? It slides into a box and they seal it? Well seems Pizza Hut dont give a F because they put that little 3 pronged piece of plastic in the middle of my pizza that helps hold the box lid flat so it doesn't squish down onto the pizza toppings. Someone had to PUT that thing there. Ewww.

Around here Dominoes uses those, too. And I'm not planning on rubbing the box support in my eyes, so I'm not terribly concerned about it.

Smoove_B wrote: Sun May 31, 2020 7:12 pm They actually use trained rats wearing special shoes to walk it across the pizza and place it in the center. Still technically untouched by human hands!

Daehawk wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:00 pm No he doesn't have shoes.

Daehawk wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:00 pm No he doesn't have shoes.

Anonymous Bosch wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:15 pm

Daehawk wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 5:00 pm No he doesn't have shoes.

Shoes ain't the concern; just ask Smoove, rats tend to piss everywhere they go. Then again, I expect Jeff V will chime in to say that may well enhance the flavour of cheap fast food pizza.

Smoove_B wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2020 7:21 pm Yeah, mice and rats are constantly releasing microdroplets of urine

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LawBeefaroni wrote: Tue Jun 02, 2020 4:36 pm We ready to throw some Ebola on the 2020 dumpster fire?

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Daehawk wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2020 7:38 pm Uh oh. I just noticed that surgical like mask I wear in town and realized I was wearing it willy nilly. I was wearing it one way then the next stop I think I put it on the reverse side. So I was flipping it inside outside each time without noticing. Wont matter by the end of the next week when I go back to town because by then the germs will have died. But oh man I hope I didn't infect myself.

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