Unpopular Opinion

7115 readers

95 users here now

Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!

How voting works:

Vote the opposite of the norm.

If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.

Guidelines:

Tag your post, if possible (not required)

If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].

Rules:

1. NO POLITICS

Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.

2. Be civil.

Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.

3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.

Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.

4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...

Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.

5. No trolling.

This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.

Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

Mobile ordering and delivery have made food service objectively worse and if you use them I think you're pathetic. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

47 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Working in food sucks in general. I would know I've been doing it for almost 14 years now. You drive to the store. You enter the store. You order your food. If there are any complications with your order you're told right then and there.

But I'll never forget the day my job introduced mobile ordering. It immediately made everything worse in almost every way. Customers ordering shit we ran out of, shit we no longer offer, setting the pickup time 5 minutes after placing the order then getting mad when it's not done on time. All this while we can't communicate with the customer at all until they arrive to find the order incomplete because we couldn't contact them to figure out what they wanted to do.

Then door dash became a thing and all those exact problems became even worse. It slows down the entire store to the point of disrupting the customers who came in to order.

Why the fuck would you go through a third party system to obtain food when you can just go get the fucking food

Basically if you use mobile ordering or a delivery service you're a big part of why food service has done nothing but get harder and more frustrating. And I do hold it against you.

Edit: I don't think lemmy understands how unpopularopinion is supposed to work...

Edit 2: Considering how many people clearly disagree with me and seeing how few upvotes this post has gotten, lemmy clearly has no idea how unpopularopinion works.

Glad to know the Reddit custom of ignoring that still lives on.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I like your unpopular opinion, here is my take on it:

Don't fucking offer mobile ordering of it's such an inconvenience. It's not like you're forced to offer it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The Korean fast food place close my house doesn't have their own delivery driver anymore, it was fired. Now you have to go there (no problem for me because is a 3 minutes walk) or use one the third party apps.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Unless he owns the company in not sure he has a choice.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Except we are. The people in the store have no control on what corporate tells us to do.

Unless you own the store you have no say on whatever bs they decided to dump on us. Unless you decide to just quit but you'll just end up at a different store with the exact same mobile/delivery bullshit

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Please help me understand. What's in your opinion the reason why a competitive disadvantage would be this widespread?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 years ago

Because the companies are still making money off it because even though it's a complete shit show customers still use it.

It boils down to the customers which is why this was directed at them. If you use these services you're the sole reason they still exist.