Have takeaways gone massively downhill?

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We have never been huge users of takeaways, deliveroo etc, but when we did order them, I quite enjoyed them.

But we ordered one last weekend as a treat after a really busy week and really busy weekend. It was so disappointing. The meat was awful quality - so fatty and gristly. The sauces were watery and bland and.... I have a horrible feeling that I found a fingernail in mine 🤢.

Thinking back to the one I had before that (from a different place and a different cuisine completely), it was also just horrible.

On both occasions it was really expensive, which just adds insult to injury.

Have takeaways gone downhill or is it my imagination or just bad luck where I live?

I agree its across the board. Not all takeaways and restaurants but definitely quite a lot. Our favourite Italian that we've been going for about 15 years last time put analog cheese/mozzarella blend on the pizzas. It was mushy and absolutely disgusting. Mentioned it but they denied changing anything. The difference was stark though. Not been back since.

I agree, we very rarely have a takeaway now but the last couple have been very disappointing. It’s my birthday next week and the obvious thing to do was a takeaway - I couldn’t think of anything I would actually look forward to, so I’m making my own! We’re having an Italian feast (lasagne, homemade pizza, carbonara and garlic bread) followed by homemade cakes (Italian cream cake, chocolate hazelnut loaf, almond and cherry streusel cake and custard ice cream). I’ve been making and freezing stuff this week and I’m really looking forward to it. JustEat et al can sod off.

They will notice a dip in their profits, when people have had enough, and stop going, or ordering takeaway from them.

This thread made me get a takeaway from my favourite Tandori shop

i went to pick it up, I never do delivery, and they’d sent it out with the delivery driver even though is was labelled store collection. I had to wait for him to come back from his deliveries with my order which was annoying

whilst I was waiting they seemed to have a lot of complaints on the phone and from other people in the shop waiting and a lot of new staff/cooks that didn’t know what they were doing. This is a real shame