Question of the Week: Delivery?
It’s time for Question of the Week, which is intended to inspire interesting discussions of enjoyable topics!
This week’s question: do you get food delivery? Like, do you ever have pizza delivered, or perhaps a sandwich from a place that does delivery, or do you use some of the various delivery “services” that have sprung up in the last ten years like DoorDash, GrubHub or UberEats?
No wrong answers, obviously, since everyone’s circumstances are different.
The inspiration for this question was a massive online discussion I saw about the etiquette of tipping DoorDash drivers, and since I had never used DoorDash or a similar service, I realized it was yet another massive technological/cultural shift I had missed, and was so curious about it.
As you might have guessed, the answer is no, I don’t get food delivery. It might have been over twenty-five years since I last had a pizza delivered. I did occasionally when I was a teenager and in college, but when I moved into the adult world, I never did.
The reasons were 1.) I was extremely broke, and 2.) at the time, I lived near a university campus, so if I wanted fast food, I could get a bunch of stuff within walking distance. If I wanted fast food on a workday, I could just go through the drive-thru on my way home.
Anyway, the habit of never ordering delivery solidified, which is probably just as well, because services like DoorDash and UberEats look massively expensive even before the question of tipping arises.
These days, if I wanted fast food or a pizza, I would go get it myself, or, more likely, persuade myself that it would be better to stay at home and eat vegetables and lean protein. 🙂
-JM
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No,and we haven’t for years. We live too far away to make it worthwhile, even if we wanted to.
I do, very rarely get cooked food delivery, and then almost always pizza for the kids when I feel really sick. However, as a Walmart Plus member, I routinely get grocery delivery. I am pregnant and I homeschool three of my four kids (the littlest is too young for formal schooling). It saves me so much time to only have to bring it in the house. Generally, the time savings is about 90 minutes on an average week. I sometimes do grocery pick up, which my husband grabs on the way home for an hour time savings, since it is on his way home, but since he works awful hours, it is simpler for me to get the groceries than for him to grab them after a 12+ hour day.
Of course, feeding 6 mouths, and usually my dad too for a seventh, we have multiple short runs to Walmart throughout the week for stuff we run out of or general merchandise needs for home maintenance, so we also manage to hit lots of in-store time and sales that we would otherwise miss too.
No. Even for Chinese take-out, we would call in the order and pick it up — and I haven’t done that for years.
No food delivery for me, thanks. It’s not available where I am, but even living in a college town I always picked it up.
I do have Italian food delivered because they have delivery in house Have never used a delivery company but I just heard from my grandson that is working for one while at University.
Maybe he can set me up.
Maybe once or twice a year I’ll get delivery for pizza. Everything else is pick up or eaten at the restaurant. I’m not pressed for time so having it delivered doesn’t make sense.