Deliveroo and Just Eat and the like make UK cities creepy and miserable

[Pavementworrier]

Guys in balaclavas with no traceable identity (and often no right to work in the UK) racing around on electric bikes in the dark bringing shit cold food to fat lazy punters while cafes, bars and restaurants erode and hospitals fill up with diabetic foot merchants.

I wouldn't ban them but I'd make them treat every single takeaway bandit as a full employee with id checks, criminal responsibility, tax and employment rights.

And people who use them kind of make me sick.

I agree with your point about them needing to be properly employed.
But your point about the disgust at people who use them is off. Some people are housebound and are allowed to enjoy a takeaway. Some people are unable to prepare food themselves, and rely on these services to be able to eat.

You’re going to get your arse handed to you on a Deliveroo bike but there’s something in what you say. I’d insist on no face coverings, stop them cycling like lunatics and try to encourage people to eat less crap. Less fixed on the drivers’ work status than you but imagine if it was tightened up there’d be no service at all.

Lol

Had a few drinks have you?

Order yourself a takeaway and then get to bed

It's not housebound people keeping them in business it's people who won't walk the length of themselves to fetch a chippie. (There's a reason the model didn't really take off in mainland Europe)

No I've just arrived back in the UK and I'm immediately depressed by the swathes of dodgy looking pasty conveyers

I await my arse arriving late, cold and overpriced in the same box as some county lines product, then.

What did such people do twenty odd years ago, before these delivery services existed?

Don't think I've ever ordered a pasty.

Ah right so you went to "Europe" and reckon the model didn't take off in 44+ countries because you didn't see it

Stop making a fool of yourself

Used the in house delivery service...

Delivery service has been around waaaay longer than 20 years ago 😂

They have Bolt food in Europe. I used them in Malta after I'd had an accident and was confined to the hotel for a couple of days.

Somebody's pissed off because they had to come back off their hols

@Pavementworrier What's your opinion on people who order a nice "healthy" meal from a fancy organic salad restaurant?
Are they allowed to be delivered?

Someone get this woman a kebab 😂

I think the OP's answer may depend on whether they're delivered by furriners or British folk.

Yes!
And the people who order them might be...working class! #omg

Stop giving money to an immoral business model

Indeed !!
I wonder what her opinion on those hipster types who cycle around with those giant bucket seats on their bikes delivering flowers 🤔

Don't use it
Campaign to outlaw it
Ignore it
Leave people alone

I think it's a big problem that it's such a big source of illegal labour. I don't think working class people can afford it as readily as the middle classes.

This.
Remember the cars with the massive Dominos signs on the roof? The mopeds zipping about delivering pizzas? Ordering from the local chinese takeaway and having it brought to your door? These things have been around forever.

Just Eat etc now has just meant an expansion of what you can order from. You can get a Costa coffee delivered if you want.

Well I don't live in Brighton so I've never seen it.

I don't live in Brighton either 🤔
I've seen them in a variety of other towns and cities though.