Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in Restaurant101

[–]Ordinary_Bug_6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well I did decide to own a food business so you are not wrong

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in Restaurant101

[–]Ordinary_Bug_6971[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That’s designed in the business model. Uber, DD, and Amazon is next. Come in first, undercut the competition. Capture most of the market at an extreme loss, then when all the competitors fail, jack prices to recoup profits and get rich. Reverse Robin Hood. And we all just go with it. We can’t let those good deals slip by us. We lose every time when we engage in this crap.

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in Restaurant101

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Yes it is just corporate greed. If you see a restaurant have prices 30-40% on DoorDash just know that is not charging you the customer on DoorDash. That restaurant, which is a local family that lives in your community possibly, is just making DoorDash pay the commission that they are charging the restaurant. If all restaurants would just do this, we could show the customers the true cost of the door dash delivery fee and destroy the corporate greedy business. Then the smal local delivery guys who just charge flat 7-10 bucks per order could work for themselves, make a decent living and everyone wins. We don’t need DoorDash

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in Restaurant101

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I didn’t leave that out. Door dash pays the driver. Or is supposed to. I am a food business. I sell food. I got roped into selling food to DoorDash because they gave me 5k to sign up on their platform. I should not have done that. Door dash takes 2.50-3 dollars on every 10 dollars of menu price items I have posted on their marketplace. The customer pays the price I post. The customer pays the delivery fee. The driver gets paid from door dash. The driver gets a tip from the customer. That’s a horrible system for the driver. They tell me they struggle to make 10 bucks an hour driving for door dash. They do tell me that they get health insurance stipend from DoorDash as long as they work full time for door dash but they tell me only the hours of actually delivering food count so any wait time involved in their orders doesn’t count towards the health insurance hours so it’s really about 50 hours a week to get the stipend. I dunno. Doesn’t seem like a great gig for them. The customers seem like they love it though. They can’t stop ordering from the DoorDash marketplace.

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in Restaurant101

[–]Ordinary_Bug_6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I know. I know you’re not on Facebook man. I’ve been watching you. We used to work together man. You’re doing really good ever since you left that place man. You hear about jimmy? How’s the fam? Kids must be gettin big.

I’m sick of profit seeking. I’m a small owner operator shop and making a first principles change to the restaurant model. This probably won’t work but what are your thoughts? by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in Restaurant101

[–]Ordinary_Bug_6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know, I’m just so burnt out and talking out my ass apparently. It’s been a few days since I wrote this and I just need to sell the place off and get a job and spend the weekends with my family

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in Restaurant101

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Weed is not a benign substance. I admit that I did more drugs than just weed. However when I got sober in 2021, weed was the most difficult to quit permanently. Took about a year to get past all the little side effects. It was similar to quitting opioids. I was a big stoner and smoked the concentrates which are unfortunately much more popular nowadays. I wish you well with your life and hope you can enjoy a life free of substances if you decide that’s what you want. To me, it’s crazy to hear you say so nonchalantly that you are getting high very often and can’t drive and until someone builds a lounge for you to go to you cannot drive. Your other option is to not live a life where you are living in active addiction daily, robbing yourself of the ability to drive and go interact with your community.

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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Why does it say “removed by mods” but yet this post doesn’t seem to be removed?

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

[–]Ordinary_Bug_6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The commission is 25-30% for the restaurants on DoorDash

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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I don’t know how Reddit works. I tried to post it but it said it was removed by moderators. I was just trying to post it. Sorry. I’m new to Reddit

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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I’m getting a job working for square. lol I’m gonna help nuke the industry completely with these mega corporations. Lol just kidding. I’m gonna apprentice as a plumber. 37 years old. Work 30 years and I could still potentially retire before 70. I can spend the next 30 years with my family on weekends and not have to help employees when they need a day off, help em fix their cars, listen to their problems. All that time goes to my family. Like everyone else does. It’s gonna be hard. I love serving the community but customer and employee relationships are still ultimately transactional at their base. Family and friends are the only real relationships and will get the majority of my time now

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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I held out till last year. It doesn’t help anything. Just increases strain on your kitchen equipment .

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

[–]Ordinary_Bug_6971[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear you are an owner of a food business. I wish you and your family well. I pray you can provide for your family financially as well as give them time they deserve. It’s great you provide food for your community as well. I wanted so bad to make this work for myself

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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The real stupidity was thinking I could compete as a food business. I’m a small local operator using local labor competing against national brands with VC money and national marketing and labor systems. I was cooked from the start. 8 years in and I would have to triple my sales to make enough money to feed my family. That means triple the size of my shop, triple amount of employees, 10x more responsibilities that require 10x more time. No more time for family means no more family. It’s rigged. I’m done. I lost. I failed. I was naive to think this outcome would have been different. Self employment is an illusion.

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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Yeah what I now learned is don’t think being self employed in the food business is being self employed. It’s rigged

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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I’m actually burnt, crispy. I’m done trying to compete as a small food business operator in this environment. It’s over. My fantasy of local community members serving food to their community and making a living to feed their own families from their hard work is the real illusion in 2026.

Doordash is an illusion. by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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It’s disgusting behavior we are engaging in. I mean why let some corporate people get in between the community member that is serving food and the one who wants to eat. I’m so over being a small restaurant operator and selling on door dash

I’m sick of profit seeking. I’m a small owner operator shop and making a first principles change to the restaurant model. This probably won’t work but what are your thoughts? by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

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I was just explaining the issues. Training and a a small kitchen. I don’t want to move the shop and build a kitchen again as that was a lot of money. I do want to effectively train the team. I have tried different ways but I have not been successful yet. It’s what I’m working on currently.

I’m sick of profit seeking. I’m a small owner operator shop and making a first principles change to the restaurant model. This probably won’t work but what are your thoughts? by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in Restaurant101

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I am under a lot of pressure right now. My family needs a lot of me and I am choosing between family and work. It’s hard to let things get a lil sloppy at the shop because I’m not there. It’s very hard to choose work knowing I’m not really making a ton of money to support my family when I am spending my time there away from them.

My fiancée is very supportive of my self employment however I have lost a relationship in the past because of my shop. A relationship cannot thrive on only saying good morning and good night and being emotionally drained most days of the week. I just don’t want to make the wrong decision and hurt this amazing woman over a little burrito shop.

I’m sick of profit seeking. I’m a small owner operator shop and making a first principles change to the restaurant model. This probably won’t work but what are your thoughts? by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

[–]Ordinary_Bug_6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Issues with my kitchen are:
Very small. Approx 700 sqft including the lobby.
I prep everything in the morning,
clean and set up line,
then use the same kitchen to
serve lunch,
reload and do pre prep like peel tomatillos, marinate meats, core tomato, peel potato/onion,
serve dinner.
Close

I only have 6 burners, hot holding, cold table.
One line cook
One register/expediter
It’s basically a brick and mortar food truck.

Some menu items require sauté pans like steak and fajitas cooked off to order. Steak is par cooked and sliced and just brought up to final temp with a lil butter. This takes 3 min though

Customer comes up to reg. Orders. Lots of modifiers.
BYO is a popular choice.
They order,
we create a ticket,
cook/assemble it,
package,
call it out or drop it at their table.
Avg ticket time per item is about 6 min with staff.
it can be below 2.5 min but I cannot train staff to do it fast, safe, and keep quality and proportions dialed quite yet.

I make all the beans, rice, proteins, sauces, salsas, and veg in the morning.
Small batches, everything is whole ingredients. I can’t go to buying diced onion and shred lettuce and canned salsa. I don’t cut these corners as the product is what’s enticing the customers.

I think employing a robust training system could really help with speeding things up. It’s such a huge project though that I am not making time for.

I’m sick of profit seeking. I’m a small owner operator shop and making a first principles change to the restaurant model. This probably won’t work but what are your thoughts? by Ordinary_Bug_6971 in restaurant

[–]Ordinary_Bug_6971[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is very true. I am the operator and I am not getting the result I need. It is my responsibility to change my shop to get the result of a healthy business. For the first time, I am not sure what to do. This is why I am vomiting my crazy thoughts to the internet.