Grubhub offers
Amazon Prime Members: Grubhub+ Membership for
Free +
$5 Off a qualifying
Delivery Order of $25+ when you apply promo code
PRIME5 at checkout.
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Note: Must activate your Grubhub+ membership via your Amazon Prime account to use the coupon. You can enjoy $0 delivery fees on eligible orders without paying a monthly Grubhub+ fee, as long as you're a Prime member. Coupon expires 6/2.
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Never used it, never will.
Items: $51.85
Delivery Fee with Prime: $0.00
Other fees with Prime: $6.15
Tax: $5.22
Driver Tip: $2
Total: $65.22
It's all smoke and mirrors. Delivery is free, but there is this other fee, wink wink.
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Half of the fee is the bullbuckey where they want you to pay for their employee benefits, which they don't even give the employees. They just offer to give them a discounted and overpriced option to pay for them and nobody does.
Restaurants with those fees think that they're being clever with their "you voted for it, you pay for it" plan. I'm just never buying from those places ever again, even if they drop the fee.
I wish them luck in trying to get $240 per year out of people for what they got for $99 not that long ago.
They inflate the prices while at the same time still taking a huge margin from the restaurants.
Many restaurant owners have horror stories of getting next to nothing after using food delivery services.
I have never understood why anyone would use these services! No wonder people are complaining about inflation.
A simple check on any restaurant site will show you that the same items are marked up 30-40% above the prices at the same restaurants own online store. It just seems so crazy to pay 40% more to order an item then pay more tacked on fees.
Me personally I do not believe in Tipping anyone just for showing up at their job. A tip is supposed to be a sign of gratitude for going above and beyond, not a substitute or subsidize any company to incentivize not paying their employees adequately.
GrubHub and DoorDash are full of fees and mark-ups. I've had a few orders just not arrive even though the driver was shown on my street via GPS.
1) The hopes for a correct order
2) The hope for warm food
3) The Hope for a reasonable timed delivery
That's a lot of hope to tip blindly đŸ˜‚
Here's the thing, you're basically making it worth someone's time to pick up your order and deliver it to you. I never tip someone less than 5$ no matter what it is. Anyone thinking you're going to buy $3 worth of mcds and then tip $2 so that the delivery driver basically gets paid nothing to sit in traffic and pickup your order is delusional. They will just ignore your order and it will sit in the queue until it gets cancelled. You're paying for someone else's time. If that's not worth it to you, then sure, go pick it up.
Here's the thing, you're basically making it worth someone's time to pick up your order and deliver it to you. I never tip someone less than 5$ no matter what it is. Anyone thinking you're going to buy $3 worth of mcds and then tip $2 so that the delivery driver basically gets paid nothing to sit in traffic and pickup your order is delusional. They will just ignore your order and it will sit in the queue until it gets cancelled. You're paying for someone else's time. If that's not worth it to you, then sure, go pick it up.
Then you expect to tip $5 which is another 12.5%.
How anyone can think that a $40 dollar food item, should now cost an additional $25 is beyond me. So basically one is paying an extra 60%. No wonder people are broke. If only I could get consistent 60% returns on my investments annually.
Edit: Yes, I've prepaid a tip to have the driver not arrive at all. I've also prepaid a tip to have the driver leave half of the order sitting on the counter at the restaurant. I stopped using these "free" delivery services in 2020 shortly after I started using them in 2020, and have no intentions to ever use them again.
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