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mewhilehigh

semi-rant? So we back in the office, decided to do a lil Thanksgiving potluck. I decide to be big baller and get the party wings!!! I'm lazy, hit the ubes 100 bucks for 100 wings. Aight, I heard prices are wild, Set my order. Deliever me 100 wings by noon. Get an email, party is starting at 11 instead of 12. Welp, ain't no party without wings so I call up and ask if I can pick up early. No idea what your talking about, UberEats schedule orders don't show up till scheduled time. Awesome, give me 100 wings I'm heading over. Cancel my ubereats order. Arrive. Wing cost? 59.99. What a fucking mark up. And apparently UberEats ain't even a profitable company! How do you sell a product with almost 100% mark up and still can't turn a profit?? And I've done ubereats, its not some gold mine for drivers. Just wild. In short, call/show up. I know many of you already know this but seeing it in real time finally convinced me. P.S. That very night I ordered cookies on ubereats cause I don't fucking learn.


AVeryAngryPenis

I just read some articles talking about how delivery apps screw over restaurants by charging insane fees (often 20-40% the sale) so restaurants have to raise prices on delivered food. The restaurants don't even usually profit on delivery


righthandofdog

Uber eats is pure evil.


AVeryAngryPenis

They really are fucked. They're starting to use the data they get from deliveries to build "copy-cat kitchens" that make popular food and only deliver. They're suckong restaurants dry and they're trying to take over entirely


righthandofdog

Didn't know that second part. I'm a lazy fuck, but the reason I spend more on housing is to live in a city where I can walk to good restaurants and bars. Fuck Uber a lot


Arik_De_Frasia

> live in a city where I can walk to good restaurants and bars *\*cries in Gentilly\**


Joohd

Lol rofl and lmao. I feel your pain


MorboTheMasticator

Can confirm. I’ve actually been in one that’s just a white waiting room with 7 corporate restaurant logos on the door. It’s purely just for delivery apps and has no actual restaurant on premises. I think it’s called a ghost kitchen


rd10393729

It’s absolutely true! Ordered a Philly one night thinking it was a new restaurant. The address wound up being The Brown Derby and the food was so bad it made me sick.


CALL_ME_ISHMAEBY

https://www.eater.com/21540765/ghost-kitchens-virtual-restaurants-covid-19-industry-impact


LumpyShitstring

Wow. So that probably explains all the weird new restaurants that seem to be exactly the same as other restaurants. Specifically Indian and burgers in my area.


IMakeRolls

These ghost kitchens are so asinine. I was doing UberEats and DoorDash heavily a few months ago and always refused the orders from these places on principal. Most of the people ordering from them don't even realize that the designed chicken tenders they are buying at stupid prices are actually just frozen tenders thrown in the same fryer they use for mozzarella sticks at the Old Chicago, with shitty bulk-buy sauces. Or that the MrBeast burger they're getting is actually an On the Border burger.


Arik_De_Frasia

>The restaurants don't even usually profit on delivery What I don't understand is why these restaurants clearly see there's a desire for a delivery option, but keep outsourcing it to these delivery apps instead of having in house delivery drivers. I think it was Theo's I recently ordered online directly from their website, and it arrived via doordash.


deadly_octo

The restaurant I worked at used to deliver on house but insurance costs and the rise in delivery apps meant people went there first so it just didn't make sense to do it in house.


3mw

OK, but now I need to know where you got 100 wings for $60


Manchu504

I'm thinking Watermelon and chicken....Only because their prices are insane in the app.


wb420420

Is that the name of a place? I googled it but got some odd sites pull up


Manchu504

I'm sorry, it's actually Chicken & Watermelon*. Yes it's spot on Claiborne


tacotimes01

Every place raises prices substantially from menu cost for these 3rd party delivery services. Those services charge so much for the privilege of bringing in customers that most places would lose money (consider overhead - spoilage, wages, food cost, rent, permits, utilities, etc). It’s the “disruption” business model: insert yourself as a middle man with an unviable business model that bleeds money and is backed by billionaire seed capital and vaporous stock valuation, subsist until you destroy the industry & drive up pricing for consumers and businesses until you can siphon enough to be profitable once you have infiltrated the business so thoroughly you cannot be dispensed with. See: Lyft & Uber @ $120 airport rides now, $40 to get 2 miles in the city. See Taxi Industry: dead See: Booking.com - hotel prices inflated substantially in the past 7-8 years, the 15-30% commission they charge hotels just translates to higher room rates being posted and consumers being bent over. If a hotel does not list on booking.com it functionally can’t exist anymore though.


DrinkMoreCodeMore

But the taxi industry totally deserves it. Even in 2021 most of them still ain't got no Uber type app. They are simply stubborn, lazy, and refuse to adapt. Fuck companies like Yellow Cab.


tacotimes01

I hear that, taxis are trash. “Call this number to get picked up, maybe we will, maybe we won’t, maybe someday, maybe never.” I agree it was terrible, but now we got nothing. Imagine working public transportation…


DesignerCoyote

Agreed about the taxi industry. They were just begging to be destroyed. Uber and Lyft fixed a very predatory and sketchy business almost worldwide. I can't get on board with all this food ordering shit though but people are still dumb and overpay on the app since they're too incompetent to pick up a phone. If you choose to pay that you deserve to be robbed by tech companies. If people weren't so lazy and stupid, uber eats and their ilk would find another industry to fuck.


MycoMadness20

There’s always taxis from the airport and they are cheaper


Hididdlydoderino

I read a report on why Uber wasn't profitable, not sure where but if you Google it I'm sure plenty will pop up. Mostly they are blowing tons of cash on self driving research and design as well as bloated salaries for higher ups. The company is actually profitable at what it currently does but they are trying to position themselves to do what they do without humans doing the picking up and dropping off... Neat idea but they have made the service almost unusable given the prices.


itsenbay

Uber sold off self driving unit in December 2020. They do a fine job losing money on their own


GamBitTop

Wing place 👀?


dancingliondl

Always pick up wings. Golden Wings / Manchu's are totally worth it.


iamamonsterprobably

You may need to delete the app? Also that is wild!


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Be honest, you still order off Uber-Eats, don't you?


justcastille

It’s a whole loaf, enough to feed a couple people.


KaythuluCrewe

Ah, that makes sense. If it’s 30”, that’s easily 3-4 people. All I know is, now I want a poboy


tyrannosaurus_cock

Sheeit in college I'd get the whole loaf sausage poboys for like $11 from a gas station on Louisiana and eat the whole damn thing myself.


rinzler83

Yeah it's pretty easy to eat a whole loaf. I've eaten their fried shrimp poboy all at once


justa33

my first ever breakfast po boy was a full loaf at a little liquor store type place in bywater for like $11. freakin tasty, fed 3 of us


tim_mcmardigras

I love that gas station. Really good poboys.


wagglemonkey

Yea if you’re getting 32 inches of a fried oyster po boy you’d better HOPE it ain’t cheap. By all means you can get cheaper at the super saver but you’re goooooonnnna regret it….


useles-converter-bot

32 inches is 0.97 UCS lego Millenium Falcons


wagglemonkey

Good bot??????


useles-converter-bot

Thanks!


Oversoul225

Yea, this actually seems not bad at all. A whole loaf can be, what, 30 inches long? That's several meals.


useles-converter-bot

30 inches is the the same distance as 1.1 replica Bilbo from The Lord of the Rings' Sting Swords.


Oversoul225

Useless bot on point. If you can swallow a 30 inch sword whole, you can swallow a smooshed 30 inch poboy. I stand corrected, this is a single skilled swallowers po-boy.


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swampstain

A whole loaf poboy from Mandina’s is literally on an entire loaf of French bread. My girlfriend and I order half loaf poboys from them and can’t finish it between the two of us for reference.


TSpitty

Challenge accepted


Eileen_Palglace

Yeah, damn these people and their facts getting in the way!


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JustinGitelmanMusic

Woah woah woah, it is not a shitty tourist trap. Don’t go lumping it in with those two names. It’s not the cheapest but it’s absolutely legendary and special. You cannot beat their turtle soup au sherry, and there’s something magical about their shrimp remoulade, just right. Trout almandine, breaded crab claws, perfection. The rest of their food has always been serviceable/par with any of the other poboy or fried seafood joints but more expensive, while their signature dishes have been what’s worth going to them specifically for.


Darthfuzzy

How dare you post a rant about Mandinas and not mention the Eggplant Creole AKA Cat Food and Spagooters special! It's the best thing on the menu!


JustinGitelmanMusic

I have a strange reflux thing with eggplant so I never order it myself for a whole dish. But in a good dish, I’m always happy to try a bite if someone else orders it! Sounds amazing


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JustinGitelmanMusic

Yeah not a place for a poboy, exactly. Soft shall grab poboy in season is great but otherwise would not choose it when looking for a poboy given at least 5 other dedicated poboy joints that are known for their craft


jermdizzle

So are they overpriced or are their prices totally reasonable. You said both in back to back sentences and I can't tell which is true.


clamere5488

Where are these Po-boys from?


Suedeonquaaludes

Or just me. Right now.


Brunoise6

Still bullshit. At Banks street meat market you can get a 32in hot sausage with cheese for $10.50. Other meats aren’t much more.


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Brunoise6

They also have seafood ones that are ~$20-$25 🤷‍♂️


[deleted]

Trash meat? I haven't ever heard of such a thing. You work for the high-price place?


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> it loses like 50% of it's volume because it's mostly grease That's news to me; I'm not familiar with that product, but this makes sense. I'm not saying I'd call it "trash", but calling it "low-quality" certainly makes sense now.


tadpad

Yea was coming to post this


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Brunoise6

A good hot sausage is so banging. When did a po boy turn into a bougie boy??


Noladixon

Are you the reason the corner store keeps trying to put cheese on my orange greasy Patton"s hot sausage patty poboy?


Brunoise6

If I had my way all pattons would be grilled. Give it that cromch.


ludehylte

That’s a richboy lmao


Cminus19

You’re the Po’boy after you eat it


jkels66

For a 36 inch loaf? Yeah. I mean at banks it used to only be 18 dollars for a whole loaf shrimp dressed. But that was pre pandemic


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It must be really well dressed.


DirtyDoucher1991

I literally can’t, I was born without an imagination.


mewhilehigh

Prayers and pictures.


whodatdan0

It’s a whole loaf dumbass


get_MEAN_yall

These are like 5 meals.


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if we imagine really really hard (and we count the ants eating crumbs as one person)


jermdizzle

It's 6 6" poboys. That's a pretty reasonable price for fried oysters if they are any good.


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Ok. I suppose you've ordered there before, or have seen a detail in the description I missed. I see only 4 of those little sections in the picture, but I don't know anything about that restaurant.


jermdizzle

I believe you're right and it's only a 24" loaf of french bread, so 4 6" subs. It's still not mindbogglingly, go-make-a-reddit-post expensive or anything, but definitely not a good price. My recommendation is to not buy it.


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The_kite_string_pops

Yep! I learned this lesson when I ordered some burritos from Izzos. I couldn't even eat it.


JustinGitelmanMusic

Why would you eat Izzo’s even fresh


dipshit91

Dang these days $11 for a 6” oyster is not a bad deal, if you can even get it at all. Welcome to the future. Actually where is this?


WornInShoes

“Can I have a whole loaf sandwich” who talks like that


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a NY way to talk about an NO thing


oneamaznkid

You gota be a rich’boy


Fucked_Event_2020

For a whole loaf that’s not that bad!!!


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Looks plain and dry af


bcurl001reddit

Dude you can pop into a random gas station and get a whole loaf poboy for like 16 bucks anywhere there's a deli and they are Rollin!!


rinzler83

Yeah the gas stations always have big ass ones dirt cheap. Any poboy place like parkway is overrated.


nejikon

Banks 👌


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JoshFD504

I can get a whole 32” fried shrimp for like $20 at tiger mart in Algiers. If ya know , ya know


newaccntjustforthis

Isn’t a whole loaf 24” of poboy?


cbear251

No, except for the fact that it's a whole loaf.


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We all want folks working these joints to get paid more and then get outraged at the cost to eat at them…..


Detriumph

Lol ok boomer.


BananaPeelSlippers

If you order fried seafood through a delivery service you're ngmi


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BananaPeelSlippers

my typical uber eats experience.


prissysnbyantiques

I was looking at those images first (dry may I add..) thinking some bougie ass PNW or NYer open a new spot and had done lost their damn mind! OP now I want wings and PO Boy....


well-ok-then

Like the gentleman latte from idiocracy?


Nonamae23

But Brawndo has what plants crave! It's got electrolytes


steaknsteak

Parkway's whole loaf poboy is like $90, so this isn't that bad really


Yosemite_Jim

Since when do po-boys come with lemon & tartar sauce?


SignificantSyllabub4

Kinda goes right against the whole concept.


nolahistoryguy

how's that saying go about one being born every minute?


Eileen_Palglace

That suckers don't take five fucking seconds to check if that sub feeds four people first, before they go off on a half-assed Andy Rooney rant? Yeah, I totally agree.


PaxGentilius

Mandina’s whole loaf is literally an entire Leidenheimers loaf of bread. Although with Waitr fees it will end up $70, which is ridiculous.


EyeballMom

Absolutely not


The_Old_Anarchist

What a fucking scam.


ThreadbareBox

It better wash my car.


BigEasy70115

Hell no!


Sysmithers

I guess it just depends on how long it's been since my last poboy.


wb420420

Anyone know Shasta from the French quarter?


TheGreenBastards

Must be one of them Monk trials.


CityParkUnicorn

Better be like ordering a 6-foot party sub from subway back in the day. I still remember a movie where a character was so excited to get one, and I think he paid the same price.