To send a note to the cheeky fuckers who just stole our Valentines takeaway?

[StolenBhuna]

NC for obvious reasons.

We have just had to wait more than an extra hour for our delivery because the first one they sent was apparently accepted by the occupier when the teenaged driver knocked at the wrong house. The houses do look alike so mistakes happen and the weather is bad tonight.

I rang the restaurant manager when tracking said it was delivered (it wasn’t). He gave me the usual “on its way” flannel you get from managers who don’t know what’s happened. So I said don’t worry. Busy night. We will wait.

He rang back half an hour later, outraged himself at what he has realised and told me “naughty number blah-di-blah took it, my driver knocked the wrong door”. I didn’t ask which house. I didn’t get a chance. He obviously wanted me to know he wasn’t lying. So he told me specifically and now I know.

Luckily a matey dinner with ex instead of a romantic curry night.

Do I pop a note along to point out its not nice to take stuff you haven’t paid for? Just so they know?

@MrPenguinsPoppers

Son in law has had a hell of a time tonight convincing a guy the KFC he kept desperately thrusting towards them wasn’t his. He seemed most put out to have had to go away again. DD was disappointed though, she thought he’d organised a surprise 😂

This happened with us to. Not a funny at all. Dc got excited and the diver wouldn't leave because he needed his commission and he couldn't afford to pay for it.

I hadn't ordered it and my dc got very excited, then confused and finally disappointed.

Finally a neighbour heard the commotion and said it is his. I then closed the door ASAP!

I’d give the benefit of the doubt personally.
We have a houseful here and generally someone will order and most won’t know about it, so everyone has become used to saying ‘thanks’ and taking it in when a food delivery rocks up at the door. Food gets dumped in kitchen and the shout ‘dinner is here’ goes out. No one checks someone else has actually ordered when they accept food at the front door!

We did once have pizza and it became apparent, after we had started, no one had actually ordered it. The pizza boxes were generic so we didn’t even know which pizza place or delivery service to contact to say they had delivered to wrong house. We just kept eating once we realised, what else do you do, throw the rest uneaten into the bin?

I think all the people outraged probably have young kids who don’t order food independently, rather than a house full of grown people in a family, or share house or whatnot. Although, neither DH or I ever communicate if it’s our night to cook and we decide to get takeaway instead, so even if we had young kids it’s possible the other would take it at the door and plate it up not realising the other hadn’t actually ordered it.

@OnTheBoardwalk

I don’t understand why you and your friend haven’t knocked on their door?

This! Forget notes. Just go and ask why they took your takeaway

@Versaillaise

You could send them an anonymous valentine's day card: Roses are red, violets are blue, I hope you enjoyed my vindaloo

Love this 💕

Blame the delivery guy, if he's lost enough to be delivering he's old enough to read a door number.

@13yearslater

FFs MNHQ ditch the raspberry jam chicken ad and ALL ads by the abysmal AK.

Can't concentrate on matters in hand when the stupid 'raspberry chicken' is shoved down my throat. It's not even a thing. STOP

What in hell is all this about?

I accepted a neighbours delivery once as I was expecting my own. Maybe they did and called the restaurant to explain. Otherwise how would the driver know he knocked on the wring door? He thought it was the right one, he wouldn't have gone back to check.

how would the driver know which number it was is what I meant to say there!

@Sportslady44

Jeez what a horrible post. Just make your own dinner. The hassle and the fact you have had to post about it.quicker to make your own meal.

How bizarre.

It's greedy, opportunistic theft.
The OP is out of pocket.

Why do you think that's nothing?

Not the same but two valentines ago I answered the door to a delivery person with balloons, a teddy and flowers. My face lit up until they said
'Can you take this for next door please'

If you had their number, I would have gone and asked if they received a delivery by mistake.

It was likely a super busy night for orders so it was likely just a mistake and the people didn't realise it until the opened it up and saw it wasn't what they ordered.
I'd be disappointed to be expecting my meal and open it up and find curry.

@OmgIThinkILikeYou

I accepted a neighbours delivery once as I was expecting my own. Maybe they did and called the restaurant to explain. Otherwise how would the driver know he knocked on the wring door? He thought it was the right one, he wouldn't have gone back to check.

Yep - that occurred to me a few posts in too.

How did the manager know which door the delivery driver gave the food to??

We had this the other weekend. We’d ordered Chinese, and DN, aged ten had very excitedly ran to the door with the tip cash, and then put it in the kitchen. But as we came in we thought that smells like curry, and alas it wasn’t our tea. By this point it was too late, we called 3 of the local takeaways no no avail and popped it on the local Facebook page but by this point it was too late.
Could it be that they were also waiting for their own takeout?

Why don't the delivery drivers ask the door opener to confirm the name?

I ordered a meal on Valentine's Day
It would've been yummy I have to say
The neighbours took it
And I thought fook it
Thirty five pounds I've just blown away

I'd stick a note through with "taking things that don't belong to you is theft. Takeaways included"

@timewillhealabrokenheart

Why don't the delivery drivers ask the door opener to confirm the name?

Usually because they've got many deliveries to do and are employed by the platforms such as just eat, deliveroo etc. It's comparatively rare now for restaurants to employ their own drivers.

So from the driver's perspective, it's easier to leave the wrong delivery at a house or take a delivery to the wrong address because it is the restaurant that will have to fix it, not them.

Not the same but our neighbour took our shopping in once.
Her husband just presumed it was theirs and his wife had ordered it.
He put it all away and fed some of it to the kids before we discovered what had happened 🤣

@hedgehogger1

I'd stick a note through with "taking things that don't belong to you is theft. Takeaways included"

They didn't take it, it was given to them at their house. How do you know they weren't calling the restaurant to try and fix it?

They may not have done this on purpose, we had a delivery driver ring the bell and dump a takeaway in our porch. We were expecting one ourselves so by the time we had picked it up and walked to the kitchen he was well gone. There was no name or even menu to suggest where it had come from so we couldn’t ring anyone to tell them. We checked with our neighbours either side and it wasn’t there’s either. I’m guessing the recipients would have been furious with us but there was nothing we could have done.

@ImJustMadAboutSaffron So when we took in the wrong deliveroo order (we had also ordered from deliveroo and DH just took it assuming it was ours, and by the time he went back out with it the driver had gone. Not sure if you've used deliveroo, but the bags all look the same!), and I then spent 20 mins contacting deliveroo to try and sort the problem and going round neighbours (to no avail!), was that 'greedy opportunistic theft'? Deliveroo won't take back food that has already entered another house it seems. Bit judgemental of you to assume the other house is a thief. They might be, of course, but like us they may have tried to rectify the problem to not avail! OP hasn't said if it was Deliveroo or not. It seems from this thread, this issue is far more likely to occur with Deliveroo, Uber Eats etc, as the drivers don't work for the restaurants.

People are becoming worse with this kind of thing, I'm sure!!
Stealing shopping, parcel deliveries and takeaways!

Too much of it going on. Yes, if you can face it, go and tell them that the takeaway place gave you the address to which your dinner had been delivered and that they owe you for it.

Where I lived in the UK, there was a house that had my number but with an A after (e.g. my house was 20, theirs was 20A). Bizarrely, we weren't next to each other and theirs wasn't that easy to find, so I regularly had pizzas and other takeaways knocking at my door to find them!
I used to take the drivers to where their gate was, on the principle that they'd remember next time - which they did until it was a new driver.

I wouldn't ever have taken their pizza though, that's stealing.

go and tell them that the takeaway place gave you the address to which your dinner had been delivered and that they owe you for it.

If I'd been given a takeaway in error which the restaurant had told me to keep or throw away and then the original recipient had come to my door demanding money they'd get short shrift from me and told to take it up with the restaurant. How bloody cheeky.

At our previous address we often used to get deliveries for the glamping accommodation up the road which had the same postcode. I think lots of drivers used to just put the postcode in and assume that the house in the middle (us) was their destination.

We always politely turned them away and gave them directions to where they needed to go.

One evening we went out after tea for our lockdown walk, to find some Dominos boxes on the doorstep - they hadn’t rung the doorbell, just abandoned them.

I was somewhat incensed, and rang Dominos. They said we could keep them…. I didn’t want them, I wanted them to take them away, and give them to the people who had ordered them. But presumably by that point they had been phoned by the people who ordered them and had redone their order.

We’d just had our tea, so didn’t want to eat a load of pizza. But we stuck them in the fridge and heated them up the following day.

@Cheekypeach

Have you a Facebook community group? Tag them in a post, say much as you’d love to donate takeaways to them they owe you £20 or whatever it was.

No they don't!

The restaurant replaced the meal for the OP, so it's the restaurant out of pocket, not the OP!