To order takeaway during lockdown?

[mamaAJ]

Is it safe to order takeaway during lockdown, they are staying open, I pay with card online and would ask them to leave food at the door.

Is it really any different from bringing food shopping home from a supermarket? It's unknown how many people have touched the items you pick up and eat.

AIBU?

Depends if they cough in your grub

How are you to know if they carry the virus or not

Up to you....

I got take out for my tea tonight. But then I am still having to go into work at the moment.

I’m wondering this too

I figure it saves me a trip to the supermarket tomorrow, where I'll be exposed to more people

I think if you pay by card and they leave it at the door then it is fine.

That said, a restaurant local to us which usually does take away has stopped doing it.

In all honesty, I think takeaways should close. It's a food store but takeaways are not essential-people can eat food prepared in their own home.

If the food is hot when it leaves them, zero problems. It survives less than a second at >70C. Or nuke it when it gets to you. Wash your hands after handling any packaging and you’re good.

Avoid cold foods like sushi or sandwiches. But typically well heated food like curry, go for it.

I can't see it being any more dangerous than buying food at a supermarket. Who knows who has coughed/touched/etc before you put it in your trolley? Especially the fresh fruit and veg

Pumpkin pie if i hadn't ordered dominoes tonight there would have been no dinner. We are self isolating and the cupboard is literally bare. We paid online and the guy left it on the doorstep.

If i had food in, there is no way, dominoes is £££ but we kinda had no choice.

Thankfully I am out of quarantine tomorrow

I would.

I have.

We all have a ‘bug’ desperately hoping it’s not corona because of the risk to me (am in the shielding group) but no-one can be arsed cooking as we all feel rough. Have paid online, food will be left at the door, packaging disposed of before to comes upstairs.

Quite frankly it’s that or no dinner...

Depends if they cough in your grub

I've trusted them not to cough in my food before this so I'll carry on trusting them!

We had takeout this evening. Delivery driver wore a mask and gloves, food bag was left on the doorstep. Food was great and that's another day before I have to go to the shops.

As safe as supermarket shopping.

But supermarket shopping is usually all sealed with the exception of fruit and vege which you can wash (and wipe the outside of tins etc).....

Unless as pp poster says, it’s something which has been cooked at a v high temperature (and then not touched again). With some foods (like burgers) that wouldn’t be possible & it would be a real risk.

And virus would easily survive the short journey from takeaway to your home, whereas on supermarket products and food much less likely.

I think takeaways are listed in “amber” in activities deemed red, amber or green in terms of safety.

I will be doing it this weekend probably.

We stopped at the fish and chip shop on the way home from work. Only 2 allowed in at one time and all staff had masks and gloves on. Was very tasty

@Splitsunrise yes but all of the items even in packaging have been touched/coughed on/sneezed on by an unknown amount of people, the traffic in a supermarket will be much higher than a few staff in a takeaway. For example cereal boxes or jars of sauce, cartons of milk etc will have germs all over them.

My concern would be coughing over food, but I've heard plenty times that heat kills it, and the food always arrives piping hot.