Post by penguingrrl on Jan 7, 2017 12:39:01 GMT -5
If it's because the roads are bad enough that I feel unsafe driving then I won't order delivery. If it's just cold or rainy and I don't feel like going I'll order without a problem.
Most of the delivery drivers around here are HS or college age, with a few older people thrown in, so I generally assume they're less experienced drivers, which makes me more reluctant to ask them to come if I feel unsafe.
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Post by penguingrrl on Jan 7, 2017 12:42:17 GMT -5
If it's because the roads are bad enough that I feel unsafe driving then I won't order delivery. If it's just cold or rainy and I don't feel like going I'll order without a problem.
Most of the delivery drivers around here are HS or college age, with a few older people thrown in, so I generally assume they're less experienced drivers, which makes me more reluctant to ask them to come if I feel unsafe.
I wouldn't have thought anything of ordering delivery during a snowstorm when I lived in a city where the roads were always salted and plowed quickly. Here in the DC area where it can take days for residential roads to get treated? Probably not.
Yes, delivery people signed up for the job knowing what it entailed. Of course if there's a state of emergency and their dickhead boss made them come in, that's a whole other story. I also tip pretty well if you're driving to me while it's snowing or some other crap. I hate even opening the door to get my food because it's too cold !
Funny you should ask that question. Yes, I would order food in inclement weather.
I'm in Oregon for a visit and we ordered food to be delivered last night because it's icy in spots due to a recent snow fall--in fact the schools were closed for most of the week. Anyway, my stepdad's car is rear-wheel drive so it's horrible to drive in this kind of weather. Plus the battery died on the car I keep here at his house, so we were kind of stuck at the house. Since my mom died, my stepdad doesn't keep much food in the house besides pistachios, Ritz crackers and peanut butter. So we ordered food to be dropped off.
It's snowing again this morning so we would have been stuck with zero food today. lol
ETA: I gave the driver a very nice tip for his troubles--more so than I normally would have done solely because of the weather.
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my general rule is if I wouldn't want to drive in a certain type of weather, I wouldn't expect anyone else to, so I guess it depends on how bad the weather is. Heavily snowing, I wouldn't get delivery. But also? I don't want to shovel my driveway just for a pizza, lol.
When we lived in the city, you had to come down a driveway to get to our apt door, and a delivery lady yelled at H once when we ordered while it was snowing (she had to park at the end and walk down the driveway through the snow). 😨 I don't think we ordered again the rest of the season, and it definitely cut down our ordering when it snows even now.
The weather is often shitty here so people are used to it. I would order in normal winter conditions and tip well. Terrible storm type weather, no I wouldn't.
I would, usually if the weather is that bad they will close. Like most things here close for snow, but I have absolutely ordered delivery in the rain and tipped more because of it.
I do, but around here there isn't much that keeps us off the roads. I had a friend who delivered pizzas tell me that he loved delivering on bad weather days because the tips are always way better.
Yes, but it doesn't snow here. I'd order delivery during rain or cold.
I wasn't scared of driving in just snow and wouldn't feel guilty making someone else do it. If it were white out blizzard, flooding, tornado warning etc I'd hope delivery wouldn't be available and I wouldn't even try to order it.
Post by sparrowsong on Jan 7, 2017 14:01:47 GMT -5
No. because I once delivered pizzas and I thought badly of every single person who thought I should be on the roads on days like that. Most people didn't tip any differently or even say thank you, really.
I also had the thought that if I don't want to drive I don't want to make them drive BUT I also don't think if you order in bad weather that you're an asshole. It's one of those GBCN subjects that I never put much thought into. But no, I wouldn't order but we very rarely order food, maybe once a year at the most. I do think, here in Texas where the whole state freaks out in t inclement weather, that if it was unsafe, they would not be able to deliver anyway.
Post by cabbagecabbage on Jan 7, 2017 14:11:57 GMT -5
I don't feel the need to justify using an offered business service at all. I do tip more in shit weather though. I was a server for years and I'll always be a good tipper and understand the laws of tipping (like tipping on the regular price, not the coupon discount, etc.)
I rarely order delivery. Pizza is our only option, I think. It's faster & cheaper to just go pick it up, so that's usually what we do.
We get quite a bit of snow here. Drivers are used to it. If we were already planning on pizza delivery & it happened to be snowing, I'd still order (and tip more & genuinely thank the driver). One driver told me that he and his co-workers love snowy days because they don't mind driving in it & make more money. If it's unsafe to be driving and/or they've asked people to stay off of the roads, I wouldn't order.
State of emergency, or public instructed to stay off the roads for safety? No. Any other time, yes we will but we definitely tip more.
We are also in CO. People are expected to work/drive when it's snowing and when there is snow on the road. I wouldn't do it in the middle of a blizzard (which is when we are usually warned off the roads).
To me, the line is safety. Its 9 degrees here today and I have no problem ordering when I don't WANT to leave the house myself.
If it is icing or snowing and it isn't safe or roads are uncertain I would not.
Remember the Friday a week before xmas where it unexpectedly iced and it took people hours to get home? I was off that day and didn't realize it was so bad. I ordered carry out and it was the scariest drive getting there. When I finally did, I overheard them telling call after call they weren't delivering.
Post by cupcake0214 on Jan 7, 2017 14:32:17 GMT -5
Yes,I have never thought not to order. We live in a city so it has to be bad for restaurants not to deliver. It's snowing now and I am deciding what we should order for dinner.
Yes, jlt19! It took me 2.5 hours to get home, all highway. We were supposed to go out again to the symphony and I was like, I'm never leaving the house again. Looks like we're up for more ice Thursday to the weekend. Joy.
Yes, jlt19! It took me 2.5 hours to get home, all highway. We were supposed to go out again to the symphony and I was like, I'm never leaving the house again. Looks like we're up for more ice Thursday to the weekend. Joy.
Yikes! I had a co-worker abandon her car and trek a mile through a field to get home and it took my SS 10 hours to drive from como to here. Insane!
Post by lovebeingmama on Jan 7, 2017 14:39:07 GMT -5
Rarely, but sometimes. But I'm in the Chicago area, and inclement weather is common and people typically know how to drive in rain or snow. (Unlike areas that don't often see things like thunderstorms and snow). I wouldn't do it if it was the middle of a giant storm or blizzard, but otherwise I might.