to turn away my takeaway?

Why would that be the solution, rather than him going back to the restaurant? You know - the place that caused the issue in the first place?

Do you not have an oven.where you could leave it on low?

I’d just have shoved it in the oven. No big deal,

so your solution is...what? for the driver to wait with the food at the end of the road for 90 minutes?

yes, it makes perfect sense 😂

Someone needs to study this, I think, irrational need to not offend. Wtf.

It doesn't matter whether the delivery driver is at fault or not. This is non of the OPs buisness. The OP made a business transaction. Deliver X at Y. X was delivered at Z. How can the OP be wrong for saying, no this is not what I paid for, honour the previous agreement.
You did nothing wrong OP. There is a type of madness going around. Be glad you are not infected.

Whenever I schedule an order on Uber Eats, the app doesn't send through the order to the restaurant until the right time to make your delivery slot. Never have I had the order placed straight away - are you sure you scheduled it correctly?

The amount of times I have scheduled a delivery and it’s been insanely early or really late is crazy. I now ring up and specify and double check they have passed it on to their driver team and cooks, it’s so annoying.

YABU it's not the delivery person's fault

Eh?

Allow me to introduce you to the comments section on all media, social or otherwise.
People moan about trivial stuff while really bad things happen in the world - it's literally an everyday occurrence.

Otters???

If you suspected it was the same food, why does it matter if you or they heat it up?

Where else are there threads about famine in Afghanistan and a 50% off food delivery being sent away because it's been delivered at the wrong time?

This is not true though is it, as it happens in real life too, where neighbours are complaining about your bins being left out too long and atrocious things are also happening elsewhere.
I get your point but it's obviously not just MN.

I do have children.

I'd have just taken it in, kept in warm in the oven and enjoyed it when we were ready.

I think this is an ubereats design flaw, as it's happened to me before too. I suspect that orders just come through without it being flagged or highlighted clearly that it's a scheduled order, and because 99.9% of orders are not scheduled, the takeaways just process them automatically.

“Gratitude”? For a promotional price the company chose to offer?

I wouldn’t have accepted it, but I would have told them not to bother at all and I’d have ordered from somewhere else as I wouldn’t have risked getting the same food back.

We have our shopping delivered and they had a spell where they would turn up an hour early. It wasn’t always convenient as we were eating dinner, sometimes not even home, had visitors, busy doing something etc, but they seemed to think we should be happy because they were early. Early isn’t always good, you pick a time for a reason.

It’s a little annoying and for all they knew you weren’t even going to be home at that time . Despite this I would have just taken it instead of making a big mountain out of a molehill. If they throw it out and make a fresh one for you that’s an awful waste of food when it can be microwaved. And things like samosas and naans crisp up grand in the air fryer . I think you need to get over yourself a bit to be honest .

If you pay for a time slot for any service that’s when it should arrive. If our grocery shopping arrives even ten minutes early they call us before hand to check it’s okay. I recently ordered a taxi to take me to hospital for surgery and it arrived an hour early. They called to say they had arrived and were then annoyed with me when I said I was still packing my suitcase.

You sound a right madam.
Use a microwave and stop getting so bunched up about stupid things
You got 50% off
Gratitude in the attitude

Although I agree with this, the flavours in curry develop over time. I would have accepted it, and made a note to self: don't order from there again/if I do order from there again, reiterate delivery time.

I don’t think you were rude. We have sent a delivery back that was delivered a hour too early - it wasn’t something that could easily be reheated or kept warm. We had ordered it for when our son would return home from a long journey. Fortunately the driver realised it was early from his ticket and took it back without question🤷‍♀️ plus we order quite regularly from them…..

You were rude to the poor delivery guy. I'm with your friend here. The delivery guy didn't know the time slot. Yabu

The kitchen may have cooked it and sent it out, but the driver is the one who delivers it, so it’s the driver the OP told to take it back. Was she just meant to accept the mistake to spare his feelings?