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Why was the subtotal of the actual food being ordered omitted?
Likely because it would give meaningful context to the amounts of the fees, and the ragebaiting OOP wants to avoid that.
$92 assuming they’re being honest about it being New York and it’s for food delivery. Since their tax rate is 8.75% for prepared food.
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People really, really need to learn to cook for themselves. Nothing wrong with the odd takeout, or even delivery but I sense a lot of people live on deliveries all the time and waste a fortune
I assume that most deliveries in NYC are by push bike couriers and vesper type scooters. Thats more typical than yank tanks for this sort of thing in most densely populated cities I've seen.
It's mostly scooters and e-bikes.
It's not ridiculous. Time is the most precious resource.
so I assume societies with lots of underpaid gig jobs is a society where people tend to have a lot of free time saved to enjoy life?
For the individual though, it certainly makes sense to just order food online if you have to sit still and complete 3 different projects.
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who's out there driving a deuce and a half as their daily driver?
Driver tip...?
$8 is the full 8-5 working daily wage in many developing countries. I know NY rent is not the same as nigeria, but I'm just putting things in prespective when you see economic immegrants delivering your food
I'm not sure that I understand/follow your point. Could you rephrase it?
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Just walk and buy the stuff. In a way, I miss how before apps, places just had two or three delivery guys
Related video; "Why Convenience is Killing Us" Levi Hildebrand - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tpe8te3PdkA
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"I have to order Doordash because I live in a food desert"
"Can you taxi to the grocery store and back for about the same as the delivery fee?"
"No"
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I don't disagree that it's stupid but my problem is the stacking - Delivery fee and Service fee? The service is delivery! Why are they two fees? Either the cost of the delivery is being itemized in real time ($1.99 for gas, the rest for the human) or the delivery isn't $1.99! If the cost to deliver an item is $20 and I make $50/hr working a project, maybe having food delivered makes sense.
But also, I know the delivery guy isn't making all that and he's delivering five orders so don't charge me a service fee when I'm already subsidizing you paying him a shit wage.
Everything is shitty either way.
The service is delivery!
I read this and thought, "no, the service is that they were able to put pants on and leave their house today, unlike you."
Please dont take that as a personal attack, I'm just sharing intrusive thoughts when they make me giggle
I use them fairly often because I'm just too fucking busy during the week. I have to get up at 5am to get ready for work, am too busy to take a real lunch break, and get home around 8-9 most nights. And that's on nights I don't have meetings (I work in municipal government, and public meetings like Council, P&Z, BOA, etc all meet at nights). We could hire more people, but that would require more income, and that requires council members to vote on raising their own property taxes, not to mention state law regarding tax increases.
Yeah, I could meal prep on the weekend, but that's essentially allowing work to intrude on my weekends, and fuck that.
I'm essentially buying more time to relax in the very little relaxation time I have available.
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