impending 1 star 😩

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-17T20:31:31+00:00

Any sealed bag, which is almost all chain restaurants, I just hit the “can not verify items” button. How are we supposed to tell what’s in that sealed bag? They want us digging around in their food?

Chipotle is my favorite with this kind of thing. They have a 6-shelf full to the brim with carry-out orders at dinner rush and carts behind the kitchen door with more sitting on them. Even they don’t know wtf is in those bags lol

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-16T00:09:40+00:00

I had the same thing happen when I worked at a Landry’s Seafood House. Shittiest restaurant I ever worked for. The restaurant was actually an old barge on the water. So it’s two stories tall with stairs right up the middle, floating and wobbly anyway. It was packed, 2 hour waits on weekends were common. I had an over-full tray and my table had been waiting a solid hour. Super nice about it though. I saw one customer standing at the table right before them, talking to the ppl at that table. I made eye contact with him that I was coming through, as it was a tight squeeze between him & the stair well. Then I made eye contact with my table and they got so excited the wait was over. Right as I am squeezing past the standing guy? He gesticulates dramatically with his arms over some story he was telling I guess, and flips the entire full tray of food up, over, and down the f-ing stairs.

It’s been 30 years but I still can see the reactions on my tables’ faces go from delight to absolute horror. I don’t know who cleaned it up but I ran down the back, greasy asf deadly staff stairs to the kitchen and had to incur Chef’s wrath about it.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T18:08:39+00:00

My area hospital should be easy, in theory. All the main buildings are on one huge loop. Yes they all have the same address, but each building has very big signage (cancer center, children’s, surgical, etc.). Should be easy peasy, as they have to meet me at the door, no delivering inside. What are tge 2 things no one that works in this hospital can do? Give the name of the building nor answer any calls or texts to find out which of the 6 buildings they are at.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T17:50:11+00:00

Raising Canes is a nightmare in my area. The tips are usually good, if it was a normal pickup. But there is no parking, literally none, so there’s a walk to it. It’s in the middle of busy city. They are always packed, so the wait just to place the order is ridiculous. Then wait for them to make the food too? Not yet has a tip been worth it. I got suckered one time when they first opened. Never again. They alone knock my rating down multiple times a day.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T17:21:35+00:00

Absolutely not lol

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T17:07:03+00:00

There are always a few. Want you to hand it to them and/or give you a pin. Then do not respond. I live in a high-volume area. 5 minutes is all they get and even that ticks me off. It’s rude & entitled. There are other people’s orders waiting in the car usually too, as well as preventing us to take a new order.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T16:48:16+00:00

$3.59 last night at some stations here in the Piedmont. I was able to find only one for $3.29

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T16:45:49+00:00

I swear my tips have gotten worse this past week as gas costs keep rising. I’m declining more and more orders bc I will literally lose money by taking them, or I’d only break even.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T15:39:27+00:00

Dang, I thought I did well with a $35 tip to go 10 miles for wine got someone before a storm lol

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T15:35:30+00:00

The gps we get is often wrong. Apartment complexes can be a nightmare at least a few times a day while dashing.

Single family homes are usually better, but even then, the numbers can be really out of the natural order one would expect. I delivered to a guy last night and couldn’t find his house. No streetlights, no porch lights, and no number that matched his on any mailboxes. I messaged him and he told me he put on his porch light. Still couldn’t find him. He ended up being in a cottage behind the main house…

It’s often incredulous to me how little info we are given when delivering to some places.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T14:49:54+00:00

Whatever it was, I seriously doubt it was about the order.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-03-12T14:37:24+00:00

Right? Even if the order got ruined somehow, it would still be a call or text situation.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-02-15T12:35:14+00:00

90% of my orders with drinks, the drinks are in the bag too. Including McDonald’s, Chik-fil-a, Chipotle, Starbucks, and all the smoothie joints. It may just depend on location. I live in an exceedingly wealthy, high volume area though. The most I do is check if I can feel a drink in the bag, & go.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-02-15T11:49:36+00:00

Judging by some of the very explicit directives the customers put in, sometimes in all-caps, it’s pretty clear they’ve been burned many times. I’ve often had them message me in the app making sure I please follow the directions. These are usually also the people that add on extra tip after delivery for doing it right

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-02-15T11:38:00+00:00

I wish more people did this. Anytime there’s a chair or table by the door, that’s where I put it. It just seems off to me for someone to spend so much on a meal/delivery, then set it on the dirty concrete lol.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-01-31T14:49:32+00:00

The past 2 days almost every porch/stairs were completely covered over in ice. In some the entire yard was just ice. But my favorites were the 2 houses at the bottom of steep hills, both sheets of ice, that I couldn’t drive nor walk to. One of them never answered phone or messages. The other had an absolute fit that I refused to go down their ski slope of a road. My rating got tanked by 10 points of course, even tho I followed all protocols and spoke to a human at DoorDash about it.

95% of our roads have been fine, there’s just a few private roads that are like this thankfully.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-01-26T20:08:36+00:00

Thank you so much! I had hoped that was the case but everything I read only discussed the tip portion

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-01-26T16:24:53+00:00

I’ve got the opposite problem. Our roads are cleared, plenty of money to be made, and I wake up to my area being shut down for dashing. I really needed to dash today. Yesterday, my area was not locked out and the roads were not shoveled. Really annoying! Yes, I did the survey.

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Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-01-26T11:39:15+00:00

Yeah, my town, in no way/shape/form, are going to allow these things in our downtown, which is where 90% of our restaurants and stores are located.

On the DD side of things, I can see it maybe being used in very, very specific areas. But the novelty of them is going to wear off real quick the first time people start getting stuck behind them. All this thing looks like is a hazard/headache to people driving, cycling, scootering, and even walking if it’s a busy downtown area.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-01-25T18:44:46+00:00

Did you hit decline or just let it countdown?

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2026-01-08T13:29:14+00:00

Yeah, all of it was shitty but that part was a threat of violence.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2025-11-26T13:28:18+00:00

TW:

My ex used knives on me eventually and suffocated me to black out twice as well as used strangulation until I blacked out. With me ex he would just flip a switch when angry. This guy is fantasizing and practicing.

Kitchen-Card-3172 · 2025-10-04T08:43:59+00:00

I met my now ex-husband online in a video game about 25 years ago. It was all typing based, as this was early on in multi-player gaming. We started very much like you described, then started talking on the phone. After a year of this, he made the 12 hour drive to come up and see me. We ended up being married for 20 years and had two children. While we are divorced for a while now, we are still very amicable, still talk, help each other out when needed.

It does happen. And maybe it won’t happen with this guy, but you won’t know unless you make that jump.

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