DoorDash - Food Deliver‪y‬ 12+

I significantly decreased my use of this app for food delivery. In my area, Postmates is probably DoorDash’s biggest competition. DoorDash has a lot more restaurant choices. Unlike Postmates, DoorDash only gives the tipping options at the time of purchase. If there’s a way to change it, I would love to learn how it’s done. How do you know how much of a tip the driver should get or if they deserve one at all. I have had drivers ignore instructions not to go to the door by my garage (where I cannot see or hear them), cold food, food arriving too late... . I’ve had way too many orders with missing items. Why should I commit to tipping up front for this?

DoorDash needs to put pressure on drivers to check orders before leaving the restaurant! Maybe start deducting the cost of missed items from the driver’s guaranteeed fee? I wish they could also deduct for cold food. If the food arrives really cold(or melted for cold stuff) there’s only a few explanations. The driver arrived at the restaurant too late or accepted too many orders and items got cold during multiple stops. If DoorDash has too many incidents, drop that driver. Maybe let customers request drivers who have good star ratings, or ones that they liked from prior orders-to encourage good service. Lyft and Uber do it, why not food delivery companies?

I placed an order through DoorDash and it turns out another person placed an order with the same name as me. It has been two hours trying to correct the issue at hand. I decided to just go and pick up our correct order myself. The restaurant that we ordered from has been very accommodating and helpful. However, the DoorDasher themselves need to be more aware of which orders they are picking up and dropping off. Which leads to my next point, DoorDash should have an option through the App after the order has been dropped off “Did you receive your order?” Followed by this question “Did you receive the correct order?” With a YES or NO option. If “No” was selected, there should be an option to put in the Order Number you’ve either received OR what was incorrect with your order along with inputting your order number, from there it should automatically go back to the restaurant with another DoorDasher in route to pick up the correct order and drop off.

DoorDash has been great to use, I use it very often, but unfortunately this isn’t the first time that this has happened and revived the incorrect order or something wrong about the order.

From a customer standpoint I think adding in the Functionality mentioned above would be a great improvement to the App as well as provide better customer service as opposed to creating a hassle trying to get your order.

I find that the app itself is easy enough to use for any of my food orders. However the pricing is a bit high just to have some food delivered. I’m talking about the delivery, and service fees. They offer free delivery on certain orders, from certain restaurants, except the service fee will then be higher. It’s just quite a leap in price from picking something up, to having it delivered through Door-Dash. I get that it’s meant to be convenient. However, something stops being convenient when it becomes quite a bit more expensive. Then they say “we’ll just sign up for our Door Pass” and you’ll get free deliveries, except again, those services fees are tricky. Not to mention, you’re now paying $9.99 a month for something you only use like once or twice a month. It just doesn’t make much sense unless your ordering food delivered several times a week, but even then with the service charges and tips added, you might as well drive the 5 minutes (2miles) and pick it up yourself. These Apps in a way take advantage of elderly people, and sick people who can’t leave their homes due to isolation, quarantine, or the fear of getting sick and who have no family or friends to help them. They have no choice but to spend the extra money to use these apps so they can eat. Which is not great in a time where a majority of people are financially struggling. End review rant.