Re:Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose i...
by techsupporter on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @12:28AM
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I've seen this as well, at the ~60% of restaurants who will still serve me without my having a car. Walk in, give name from safe distance, get food from spot.
What sucks about the other 40% is half of them are "our door is locked, pay a delivery service" and the other half are "use our drive-thru and if you come in anything other than a vehicle with a license plate we will yell at you." I don't want to do the former because delivery people seem incapable of working out where I live and I can't do the latter.
Re:Chicago will now require food delivery apps to disclose i...
by impendia on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @05:39AM
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I've been buying groceries in this manner. (I submit a MS Word document with my order, they call me to arrange payment and double check that whatever substitutions they need to make are okay, and I show up in the afternoon and pop my trunk.)
Probably not practical in big cities, where parking can be haphazard, but many restaurants have parking lots right in front.
That's a little excessive given there are lots of customers and only a handful of restaurant workers.
What I have seen restaurants do is that they put your food on the tables (which are idle anyway) with a number. If you tell them who you are when you walk in, they tell you the number and you can pick it up without interacting with people.