The Cost Of Using Food Delivery Services

[Ralfredo]

From an email today:

More info here:
https://www.foodpanda.co.th/contents/im ... ice-update

[Lost]

Unrelated to Thailand but if you use Uber eats or the like in the UK...you're not just paying the few quid delivery charge and the service fee if you're buying groceries. Many of the items are 40-60% (particularly alcohol) higher than if you'd bought them in the shop and pretty much all are 10+% higher. Convenience, which is wonderful , costs you money.

[Big Boy]

I started this thread with the following:

This isn't the first time I've noticed this..................

Today has been a rush, so we thought rather than cook tonight, we'd have a take-away. We agreed it would be nice to eat Chinese.

We agreed upon:

Special fried rice
Curry chicken
Crispy aromatic duck
Steakhouse fries (frozen, yuk) x 2

We had viewed the sit-in menu online, and the cost would have been 900฿ exactly. We signed into the app, and the cost would have been 1,430฿, and there would have been a delivery charge on top of that. 530฿ (£12.68 approx) is an incredible on cost i.e. the food costs over 50% more.

When we realised the stupid on cost, we jumped in the car and ate at the restaurant. When we'd finished, they had to do the dishes.

How can they justify such stupid on-costs, and charge a delivery fee extra?

Pre-Covid, my DIL had a small food outlet, and she wanted to use Food Panda/Grab. At that time, she could have signed up easily enough, but there was a stipulation she could not charge more than her regular menu prices. Of course, she didn't bother because all of her profit would have gone to the delivery company.

Just browsing on Grab today, I'm delighted to advise the prices on the grab menu now reflect the prices on the restaurant menu.