No way! If you told me in 2008 that a taco bell taco was going to be $3.65 I would have looked at you like you shot my dog.
I don’t know, I’m kind of surprised anyone, especially here, would be shocked by this. In fact, I’m surprised the price is that low! It seems downright cheap to me. If it were just the taco you were ordering yourself at tacobell, I’d think “yeah, that’s pretty expensive for a single fuckin taco, but that’s just how expensive it is to eat even cheap food now, it really sucks and is wrong.” But when you add on to that the food is being delivered to your home? To me $3.65 is ridiculously cheap. It’s not just the taco anymore. There’s not an insignificant amount of additional labor that someone has to do to get that taco from the place its made to wherever you are, even if you’re close.
I’ve never used doordash. I’m poor enough that buying dry beans in bulk in person at the grocery store strains my food budget. But if someone delivered food to my house, even if it were just a single taco, I would tip them at least double the $3.65.
That $3.65 is not the regular in-store menu price. DoorDash charges something like a 30% commission to the restaurant, so the restaurants mark everything up by at least that amount. Then at checkout time, you get nailed with surcharges (“operating fee”, etc.), sales tax, and the delivery fee. Even with the default (~10%ish) tip, it usually works out to roughly 35% of your original subtotal (with the commission pricing factored in). That same taco will cost you significantly less at the drive-thru – looks like it should be $2.79, which is still highway robbery, but yeah. (Also, that’s a roughly 30.8% markup.)
Per my post, I never get delivery for that reason. My thought was that there is a delivery fee on top of whatever the prices from the restaurant is.
Oh, so $3.65 is what you pay for a single taco regardless of whether or not you have it delivered? If so, then yeah, that is
I maintain that if $3.65 is the total for what you pay for a taco delivered to your doorstep, then that is actually cheap. But maybe I’m just misunderstanding something here.
Oh, so $3.65 is what you pay for a single taco regardless of whether or not you have it delivered? If so, then yeah, that is
Yeah. It’s 3.65 for one taco BEFORE all the delivery fees and so on. I agree that that is a very low price if that’s all it is to have a taco brought to your home.
$3.65 is… A lot? It’s double that in Australia, easy. I guess that’s the privilege of living in the country that runs the empire.
Damn! That’s absolutely crazy even with the conversion. Is all food super expensive there?
What if cheap fast food took a long time and was expensive?
GROWTH!
Had to look at what this costs in my country, have never eaten this myself. It’s currently 3,95€ (4,3$) so a lot closer than I assumed.
Edit. When I visited AmeriKKKa a little over 10 years ago what blew my mind was how cheap all the food was and how big the portions were.
yesterday i grabbed a sandwich from a nearby deli in person and it was $4 cheaper than the listed price on doordash! i think everyone also upcharges on these delivery apps too
They do. I have a pretty good memory for prices (thank you, autism and poverty!), and the delivery app prices are inflated. I have downloaded them a couple times while hanging out with friends who live closer to town, started looking at menus, and then deleted the app and lobbied the group to just order from a place that has its own drivers.
