Doing the Door Dash Dance
A few weeks ago, DH applied to be a Door Dash Driver. Door Dash is a food delivery service. You sign up for scheduled periods of time (typically lunch or dinner hours) and then stand by for pings to various restaurants. Once pinged, you drive to the specified eatery, pick up the customer's order... check to be sure it is all accounted for... and proceed to the point of delivery (usually their home or workplace). After a couple successful weeks, DH signed me up to "Door Dash" also. 😮 So now I not only relocate human beings from one point to another - I make sure they do not go hungry.
Door Dash is yet another smartphone app that makes life easier for Millennials, Gen-X'es, and even a few Baby Boomers. Think of it as Amazon.com for dinner - and why not? Food delivery has been in existence as long as there have been pizza parlors. People order for pick-up all the time. But Door Dash allows people to order full dinners with sides and even beverages delivered (from any part of town) to their door - be if to their home or office. The food is delivered in an official - insulated - red Door Dash bag, wrapped in a space blanket (mylar thermal sheets) via routed directions.
Door Dash provides each driver with their official DD bag and a Red Debit Card which is occasionally used to pay for the food order. At fast food places, the Driver is required to place the order, as well as pay for it and then deliver. "No order too large or too small." 😧
I've made 32 food deliveries in the past two weeks. One day, my Red Card went missing and I had to back-track to find it (and did ... in a parking lot no less). Another day... a food container leaked (the only such time in the 32 deliveries) and the brown carry-out bag disintegrated inside my handy dandy 'official - insulated - red Door Dash bag'. I suspect that recipient gave me a low delivery rating. I don't blame him.
I've delivered $3.60 worth of cheeseburgers to a customer and got paid $6 for doing so... though the customer paid only $1 for my service. Door Dash has a great incentive for new customers. "Sign up and get $1 deliveries for the first 30 days" It's a pretty good racket for the customer. Door Dash is but one of many food delivery services now available to the public in metro areas.
DH tells me I need to get 100 deliveries in my first 60 days of DD'ing. (So he can collect his referral fee 😳) I'm not sure Door Dashing is my calling. I enjoy visiting with my passengers as I transport them from point A to point B - but I have yet to have even a casual conversation with a bag of burritos. The smell of miscellaneous foods linger within the walls of my vehicle. By the time my scheduled shift is over, I'm starving.
CeCe has been DD'ing also. One day the app crashed and she ended up with un-deliverable food. Another day I drove 14 minutes to a restaurant that told me they didn't do 'to go orders' until after the lunch hour was over. I contacted Dash Support. "You are number 49 in the cue" 😩 Frustration abounds.
One Friday night I went to the same house twice within an hour.... because you know, sometimes one person wants a burger combo, while the other one wants Thai food. You can actually make everyone happy with a few swipes of your phone.
If you live in the Metro area ... you may want to give a food delivery service a try (there are several). With the incentives, you're money ahead (for at least 30 days and let's face it - winter is coming!).My parting remarks - if you do choose to use Door Dash or any other delivery service - do your driver a favor and turn on your porch light! 💡
Bon Appetit!
Door Dash is yet another smartphone app that makes life easier for Millennials, Gen-X'es, and even a few Baby Boomers. Think of it as Amazon.com for dinner - and why not? Food delivery has been in existence as long as there have been pizza parlors. People order for pick-up all the time. But Door Dash allows people to order full dinners with sides and even beverages delivered (from any part of town) to their door - be if to their home or office. The food is delivered in an official - insulated - red Door Dash bag, wrapped in a space blanket (mylar thermal sheets) via routed directions.
Door Dash provides each driver with their official DD bag and a Red Debit Card which is occasionally used to pay for the food order. At fast food places, the Driver is required to place the order, as well as pay for it and then deliver. "No order too large or too small." 😧
I've made 32 food deliveries in the past two weeks. One day, my Red Card went missing and I had to back-track to find it (and did ... in a parking lot no less). Another day... a food container leaked (the only such time in the 32 deliveries) and the brown carry-out bag disintegrated inside my handy dandy 'official - insulated - red Door Dash bag'. I suspect that recipient gave me a low delivery rating. I don't blame him.
I've delivered $3.60 worth of cheeseburgers to a customer and got paid $6 for doing so... though the customer paid only $1 for my service. Door Dash has a great incentive for new customers. "Sign up and get $1 deliveries for the first 30 days" It's a pretty good racket for the customer. Door Dash is but one of many food delivery services now available to the public in metro areas.
DH tells me I need to get 100 deliveries in my first 60 days of DD'ing. (So he can collect his referral fee 😳) I'm not sure Door Dashing is my calling. I enjoy visiting with my passengers as I transport them from point A to point B - but I have yet to have even a casual conversation with a bag of burritos. The smell of miscellaneous foods linger within the walls of my vehicle. By the time my scheduled shift is over, I'm starving.
CeCe has been DD'ing also. One day the app crashed and she ended up with un-deliverable food. Another day I drove 14 minutes to a restaurant that told me they didn't do 'to go orders' until after the lunch hour was over. I contacted Dash Support. "You are number 49 in the cue" 😩 Frustration abounds.
One Friday night I went to the same house twice within an hour.... because you know, sometimes one person wants a burger combo, while the other one wants Thai food. You can actually make everyone happy with a few swipes of your phone.
If you live in the Metro area ... you may want to give a food delivery service a try (there are several). With the incentives, you're money ahead (for at least 30 days and let's face it - winter is coming!).My parting remarks - if you do choose to use Door Dash or any other delivery service - do your driver a favor and turn on your porch light! 💡
Bon Appetit!
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