Post by sporklemotion on Jan 7, 2017 14:55:43 GMT -5
I don't do delivery often, but I probably would, for the reasons listed above. I would expect a place to close or refuse to deliver if conditions were too treacherous for it.
I live 1 block away from a street with many restaurants, and I would probably order from one of them instead of some place farther away. Honestly, we would usually walk to these places to do pick up, even in crappy weather, so delivery wouldn't bother me.
Well, I never order food delivery anyway, because I live in a delivery dead zone and my only option is Domino's pizza, which you'd have to pay me to eat.
But assuming I could get food delivered I'd order in the rain, because it rains 9 months out of the year here and its NBD, but I definitely wouldn't order in the snow or freezing rain. I live on a series of hills and we once during a really bad storm we had to stop and chain up two houses from our own to actually get the rest of the way up the road, and I wouldn't want to put a delivery driver in that position.
Yes. The only think worse than having to go to work in shitty weather is having to go to work in shitty weather and making shitty money.
Plus, it rains/snows relatively frequently here so unless it is a blizzard or something, most people carry on as usual. I also live in town so anywhere that would deliver doesn't have far to go and it's just residential streets.
If I lived out in the country I don't think I'd make someone drive in snow I guess.
Post by sandyapples on Jan 7, 2017 16:21:24 GMT -5
No but I rarely order delivery. It hasn't ever come up. Theoretically I wouldn't in a snowstorm but I would if it was raining or snowing lightly. I don't think anyone around here would deliver if the weather was really bad.
Post by aussiecrush on Jan 7, 2017 16:56:41 GMT -5
No. I'm the daughter of a traffic safety manager and a cop. If I think the conditions aren't safe for me to drive in, I wouldn't put someone in that position.
No. I wouldn't want them to drive in the bad weather. If I don't want to drive in bad weather to get take out, they don't want to be driving to deliver.
I am talking about snow. Rain, I would but I usually go and get take out. I never get delivery anyway.
Yes. If no one orders food then they don't get paid. I hope that their bosses would close the restaurants if the roads aren't safe.
Exactly this. We pretty much only order through Uber Eats anyway, so those drivers get to choose their schedule. Really, we're more likely to order from Instacart during bad weather and make our own food.
Post by turnipthebeet on Jan 7, 2017 17:16:59 GMT -5
It isn't, like, a tradition for us to order delivery in bad weather. But if we were already planning to order delivery and the weather happened to be bad, if the business was open and delivering we would. I expect the wait times would be longer than usual, and I would tip extra.
Post by DarcyLongfellow on Jan 7, 2017 17:54:00 GMT -5
I've never even thought about this issue before. I answered yes because I'm sure I've ordered in a thunderstorm or something.
I wouldn't during a hurricane because people are supposed to stay off the roads, but I didn't read the question as asking about dire, emergency conditions but as just general yucky weather.
We do. We're near Chicago, and have ordered a few times at the start of snow storms before it gets bad. We've only done this once since we've been in the new house (so like 1.5 years), and we ordered from the Chinese place right on the other end of the neighborhood. It's close enough that if I wasn't pregnant, we would choose to walk in the snow to eat there, but between snow + cold + being pregnant, it was easier to order delivery. The girl on the phone thanked me for ordering and said we were easy because we were willing to wait as long as needed, and they knew they could run past our house on the way to a further out order.
Every time it snows in southern Virginia it's considered a "state of emergency"
That's different!!! If it's blizzard like conditions, no. If they are still open and delivering orders, I'm gonna eat. I'm hungry!
But it's not really. If the state/area isn't prepared for or used to that kind of weather it makes a huge difference. Everything shuts down here when we get 1/8" of snow because it's not something we're prepared for. Having someone unprepared or not educated on how to drive in snow (or the ice under it) can quickly lead to a state of emergency when assholes are still driving 80 MPH because the signs say it's ok.
I voted yes. I still order unless it's been noted that the only people who should be out are emergency responders.
My friend says it's shitty to make them drive in poor road conditions, and that me ordering food essentially justifies a business insisting employees show up even when they should just be closed.
My side is that if they are already at work anyways, I'm sure they'd rather be doing deliveries aka getting paid. I tip excessively.
It's snowing, for the record.
I don't but not for any reason that makes me a good person who considers others. It's because we did a couple of times and it takes so long that it's not worth it. We tipped really well and then agreed next time we'd just eat soup.
It depends. "Inclement weather" around here is pretty mild. Never snow, never sleet, no hail, no thunder or lightning. Perhaps some 55-60 degree rain. It would pass for a normal fall or spring day in many places.
The main road into town has big storm warning signs out for this weekend. It drizzled lightly. Off and on. If we'd planned on food delivery tonight I'd have gone ahead. The delivery person probably wouldn't even get wet.
No, because we live on such a big hill and have a ridiculously steep driveway that they wouldn't be able to get it here. Like even when it's 100% dry cars can't make it up our driveway without bottoming out so people walk it to begin with. It's not like delivery drivers have Subarus that can get around in our neighborhood. And honestly, when it's ice even we can't get in or out of this place. It would be a waste of food.
ETA: If we lived in Boston or the midwest, then this would totally change because we would order delivery then. But Portland isn't set up for snow and doesn't do shit about the roads when it's going to ice.