to think that Deliveroo etc should be banned!

[Coastalwalks]

Hi all,

I live in London and was recently nearly knocked off my bike by a deliveroo driver on a moped (he was completely in the wrong, though will not be drawing a road diagram to illustrate lol). When I shouted at him he just made fun of my voice and it enraged me soooo much. These are my chief issues with deliveroo etc:

• There are now so many dangerous drivers either on mopeds or bikes with batteries illegally fitted to them - flagrantly going the wrong way up one-way streets, running reds etc. Very dangerous and a friend of mine recently had someone break into her secure underground parking area to steal her electric bike. There was so much damage to the property and she basically thinks that her bike was nicked to order.
• I looked into it and deliveroo actually acknowledge that deliveroo drivers 'rent out' their accounts to others, many of whom are undocumented migrants - but they put the responsibility on the original driver to check that the person renting the account has the right to work etc! Complete dereliction of duty, and basically facilitates the exploitation / trafficking of illegal immigrants who then have no legal protection, don't pay tax etc...
• On a slightly pious level I think it's terrible and lazy that so many people now think it's normal to be able to just order food in so rapidly - like it is genuinely quite aristocratic to expect to press a button and have a shawarma wrap at your door in <20 minutes. People should learn to cook or at least have to walk round the block to the chippy. It's lazy!
• Meeting the deliveroo orders in small restaurants means it takes twice as long to get your actual food, and it ruins the ambiance when there are loads of deliveroo drivers outside or at the door (though acknowledge this is not the case at Naice restaurants)
• Everyone I know who works in FS has to basically eat a deliveroo at their desk at 8pm every night - maybe without deliveroo everyone could go home a bit earlier ! ! ! !

YABU - let me have my massaman curry you calvinistic treat-hater
YANBU - deliveroo is a scourge

Deliveroo takes 35% of the profit from the restaurant, hence why restaurant prices are so high; they basically add on 35%, sometimes more with the extra costs such as takeaway pots etc that need accounting for. Don't think I've tagged who was complaining about the price

I wonder if deliveroo affects negatively on that restaurants sales. I certainly won't go back to a recent restaurant ( not a particular cheap one £85 lunch for 2) due to the amount of deliveroo drivers standing at the door with it wide open. It was a cold day and they were making the place freezing, the restaurant staff were useless and I got daggers when I asked the driver to close the door. Got to say if I owned a restaurant who did deliveroo, I would have a tradesman entrance for them!

They hang around in a car park nearby and block spaces.

They are waiting around for McDonald's orders but it can't be very pleasant for them as they have no facilities or shelter

Shame we can't all boycott these services

You can take your money elsewhere if you want. I've actually never used Deliveroo. There are a couple of takeaway places that we like and use sometimes; we order directly through their websites and as far as I can tell, they have their own drivers (I've seen them coming and going when we've gone to the restaurant itself and they definitely seem to be staff).