Heh I actually really like Sweetgreen, and I like it so much that when I order in-person, I smile and politely tell the employee to give me more. They almost always comply.
Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
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Re: Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always tip $5 for a single meal and $10 for a meal for two. These delivery folks clearly don't pull in a lot of money, so if you are privileged enough to be able to afford takeout, you can also throw down a tip.
Why would you tip half as much if you are just ordering for yourself? Does the delivery driver have to drive half as far when he is just bringing you the order vs when you are ordering for two? Does the weight of the second order double the cost of gas. Can the drive deliver another order simultaneously when you order for 1 instead of two? Why punish the driver when you are just ordering for yourself when it is virtu…
At least in the states, tipping is generally done as a percentage of the price.
Re: Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cash is friction. I would prefer it if I could pay in cash fractionally, without having to give or get slips of paper, file that paper in a portable filing cabinet in my pocket, keep up with how many slips of paper of what denominations I have in my filing cabinet, and periodically run out of slips of paper just at a time when I most need them. The worst is giving somebody one slip of paper and receiving in return mu…
Cash is friction. Says someone who's never had to wait in line for 15 minutes waiting for the valets and customers ahead of them to figure out which apps they each have in common so they can exchange $5. Something that can be done in under four seconds with cash.
People dislike cash to the degree that they're willing to juggle a bunch of apps to avoid it
Re: Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cash is friction. Says someone who's never had to wait in line for 15 minutes waiting for the valets and customers ahead of them to figure out which apps they each have in common so they can exchange $5. Something that can be done in under four seconds with cash.
People dislike cash to the degree that they're willing to juggle a bunch of apps to avoid it
Dislike!=friction/harder.
In other words people will jump through hoops to make something already frictionless into multiple orders of magnitude more steps to make the last step easier.
Banks did their utmost to perpetuate the idea that cash is harder. They make it harder.
The only thing you have to do with cash is add/subtract it yourself. Feel the need for an app? Calculator can do that!
Re: Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
People dislike cash to the degree that they're willing to juggle a bunch of apps to avoid it
Dislike!=friction/harder. In other words people will jump through hoops to make something already frictionless into multiple orders of magnitude more steps to make the last step easier. Banks did their utmost to perpetuate the idea that cash is harder. They make it harder. The only thing you have to do with cash is add/subtract it yourself. Feel the need for an app? Calculator can do that!
It's not banks that convinced me to avoid cash: it's the annoyance of carrying it around, making rounding concessions all the time, and getting change back.
How much is this drink? $1.65? Okay, lacking a dollar, I can pay $2.05 and get 4 dimes back (no help) or pay $2.15 and get 2 quarters back (that's better than getting 3 dimes and a nickel), or just pay with a $5 and get back (in Canada) a toonie ($2-coin), a loonie, 3 dimes and a nickel.
That's a lot of metal bits I have to carry around for the next 8 or 9 hours to justify a drink of something in the morning.
I'd rather just beep my card, and it's not banks that convinced me to do it.
Re: Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
#56They ought to give you more, to make up for when the delivery agents invariably mess things up. At least Deliveroo UK finally relented to give delivery failures back as a refund rather than their old position which was effectively: "Oops, we messed up leaving you without a portion of your meal... Please can we keep your hard-earned cash as a credit, so that you can only use it by spending more money with us". Has any…
> Has anyone else looked into the tipping vs not tipping thing I consider it an abhorrent practice and lament its leakage from the US into the UK market by the laptop class; since I don't want to normalise this practice in the UK I simply judge a delivery's service on the not-tipping aspect.
Exactly.
Tipping for regular meals & service is not a part of UK culture.
I only do it when somewhere does something truly exceptional or for a really large dining party.
Re: Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
#57I've ordered food from Chipotle online, taken 30-40 minutes to get to the store, and very often it would have been more convenient (I would have gotten my food more quickly) if I had skipped the online order and waited in the in-person line instead. This doesn't always happen and it depends on a ton of things (store, time/shift, crew working at the time) but it got to the point where I couldn't reliably get the food…
My experience has been the same. Take out is either cold or a long wait. The estimated time the app gives is WAY off and there are no notifications unlike other apps letting you know how it's progressing.
We've tried delivery three times. Every time resulted in a refund because they sent the wrong order.
Re: Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
#58They ought to give you more, to make up for when the delivery agents invariably mess things up. At least Deliveroo UK finally relented to give delivery failures back as a refund rather than their old position which was effectively: "Oops, we messed up leaving you without a portion of your meal... Please can we keep your hard-earned cash as a credit, so that you can only use it by spending more money with us". Has any…
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Re: Do you get less food when you order online? That's what the data shows
#59I've ordered food from Chipotle online, taken 30-40 minutes to get to the store, and very often it would have been more convenient (I would have gotten my food more quickly) if I had skipped the online order and waited in the in-person line instead. This doesn't always happen and it depends on a ton of things (store, time/shift, crew working at the time) but it got to the point where I couldn't reliably get the food…
It's highly dependent on location. I can't get to the one closest to my house fast enough, because my food's always on the rack already (which is good). But I always have to wait for it at the one by my job. My point is, maybe try the second farthest location for better service.
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#60My wife's aunt owned a sushi restaurant and definitely gave the better quality sushi to people in person on purpose, and used delivery to get rid of the lower quality fish. She was also kind of a bad person though in other areas of life so your results may vary.
> also kind of a bad person
That just seems like good business, since takeout sushi is always worse, even if you start with the same quality at the store. It's still just as edible and safe, and the takeout recipients know to expect a little lower quality. Conversely, people eating in expect the best quality. Sushi is always only the best quality fresh off the ice, not in a container a few minutes later.
I don't see how this reflects on her as a person, bad or good, at all. It's just good business practice, while not letting the fish spoil.