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.

OP, please go on to just eat and deliveroo and sign up as a driver/deliverer, tell us how easy it is to do. I’ll wait.

I walk to the takeaway if I want one. Get your steps in, Vera

If people want to eat tepid junk food that has bounced around on the back of a bike, that is up to them.
Perhaps the food outlets should consider having a side door, where the couriers can loiter while they wait for the bundles of Chicken McDiabetes, leaving the main area for families...

The way you're responding makes you look unhinged. Seriously, "your unwell child" etc? Get a grip. Be polite.

I don't NEED to sign up I can use someone else's account and pay them commission that's the point. You don't know who is at your door.

It's just terrible food for people who have more money than taste.

I personally find people who claim that they don't have time to cook very tedious.
Just say you can't be arsed, everyone has 20 min to put something together.
If you have time to scroll on instagram you have time to cook.

Hospitals provide food to the patients but not the parent who is staying with them and needs to eat.

Many do now.
They've realised that a lot of their trade happens that way and they've adapted their restaurants.

In what world would I decide I can’t be bothered cooking and simultaneously decide that I can be bothered to walk a mile to get food?

I think you’re overestimating the level of “be arsed” that is available when I’m already in my pjs ordering food.

I will say it’s probably once or twice a month and not every day. But I didn’t realise the concept of “get food delivered” was so abhorrent to people!

Feeding my child wasn't the issue, feeding myself was.

Hospitals generally only feed the patients.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47978759

It food that is convenient when you might not be able to cook.
Not everyone is using this service because they are lazy. There are plenty of examples on this thread in case you lack the imagination to understand the multitude of reasons why someone might use a food delivery service.

Sloth and greed don't justify harmful behaviour?

Completely misunderstanding my point. I’m saying try to sign up as driver, it’s not as simple as you’re making out. Workers need a UK bank account, show evidence of right to work here if not born here, all sorts of hoops to jump through.

Pardon? 😂

I mean I understand the reference you’re making, but not how it’s in any way relevant.

Some people have lives that mean they don’t want to spend their evening walking for a pizza, when they want one cooked for them for whatever reason.

Just because you want to doesn’t mean everyone else has to.

FWIW, our delivery driver the other night was called Steve. I think he had right to work.

Getting someone else to cook your food for you is hardly a new concept.
I mean bakers have existed....forever !
Simple Simon Met a Pie Man in 1764 (according to Google that's when the rhyme was published).
Why didn't Simon make his own pie 😂😂😂
And the Muffin Man has been selling his (terrible junk food 🤔) muffins since around 1820.

I like getting my takeout delivered straight to me. It's awesome

What a shitty comment.
I used a food delivery service last week while on a works trip.
I was staying in a hotel in a city where I’d been told it wasn’t safe for a solo female traveller to walk alone at night. So I ordered food to be delivered to my hotel.

Are you suggesting that makes me lazy and greedy?

For those under the impression that deliveroo and just eat made delivery possible-
Dont you remember that you could always order a takeaway by calling up the restaurant/ takeaway? As someone from a restaurant family background I can tell you that just eat and deliveroo were not good for our business either.
We would always encourage regulars ( who might need a delivery if poorly etc) to order directly and the Kp would drop it round.
Just eat takes a lot of profit away from restaurants.
There’s a huge difference between a restaurant serving its local area both in house and to the door and this centralised model, which yes, will often result in cold food, and restaurants losing sit- in customers, as it’s unpleasant sitting to eat a meal with delivery guys constantly coming in and out.

I don't know why you getting such hard time.
Some points are valid.
They often drive like crazy and we had very close encounter in car as well as pedestrians.
The service takes 30% off the restaurant (hence higher prices).
Industry is surrounded by issues. (rights, security, pay, use of others' accounts and so on).
Forgot multiapping...
But I get why people like convenience of delivery. Who doesn't. I don't use uber and deliveroo at all since first half of 25 after having different people turn up than who were listed on the app (and because so many takeaways were dissapointing).

I just think if you don’t like it, don’t use it…

Bloody walk to Drury Lane if you want a muffin. Crawl there, on your hands and knees.

What was the city? Was it Birmingham? Completely fine for you to order takeout. Honestly, idc. As long as these people aren't hurting anyone else, bring me my kebab and chips.

It was a city in Asia. The OP is under the impression that these companies only exist in cities in the UK when I see them all over the world.

If I'm in the UK I do try to order from a takeaway/restaurant directly if possible but I live quite rurally and some places will only deliver through UberEats (Deliveroo hasn't made it to us yet!)

Totally understand if you don't want to say what city it is. I don't feel bad using deliveroo.