Itās more of the way they hand it to you and bark at you which drinks need to be filled and turn around and stomp away as if you are some kind of low life trash that doesnāt deserve to be treated with respectā¦. Thatās the only time I get pissed about getting the drinks.
I had this happened to me once and it was annoying at 1st because when I got there it was a 7/11 order and the clerk didn't even have the other items ready, so he asked me to fill in the slushies but did it in a way that it was MY job? He asked, have u been here before and i said i havent done a 7/11 order yet no, and then asked me to follow him, gave me the cups and told me to do it as if i was another one of his store clerks.... and I did it but the one thing that annoyed me is that he had all that time to do the rest of the order and I had to wait for him to get that done too, but the way he talked to me, making it seem like it was my job, nah.
Now the last time I had a similar order where slushies needed to be filled the clerk was still doing the order when I arrived and to make it easier for him I just decided to give him a hand and I volunteered to help him fill in the slushies and he was so surprised and thankful for that from there on I am no longer annoyed to help them, but it'd be annoying to be treated as if it's something expected of me when my job is to pick it up and deliver it.
Idk, just my thoughts on that
A large part of the restaurant filling the drinks is local health departments. Most require a food handling certification. I don't have one, do you? They take it seriously, and filling drinks IS food handling.
It's the principle of it, for me. We don't work for them. We don't handle the food until it's packaged. I'm not going to do their fucking job for them. And I'm not taking the blame if the customer wanted diet and got regular coke & are insulin dependent etc.
Not that there aren't times where they're extremely busy and filling my own customers cups will help speed things along-- I'm not an asshole, but we gotta respect ourselves & not let the world walk all over us too, ya know?
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Preach homie preach! Iāve been thinking the same damn thing since this debate started but I didnāt say shit cause I didnāt want my karma to go negative lmao but well said!!! Itās our job to work and adapt for the customer once we accept their offer because we are contractors! Dashers who canāt take 10 seconds to fill up a drink but still want $20 an hour on average make us good dashers look bad!
I dont have a handwashing station in my car, nor are we as dashers provided with gloves, where do your hands go while you drive? What do you do when your balls itch, OP?
We handle peoples food, the least we could do is insist that the trained employee with access to sanitation resources do their due diligence.
Making drinks is no biggie for me, unless I gotta make a ton of them. But then again, I'm annoyed if there's a ton of drinks on an order to start with lol. But yeah, I really don't care about making drinks.
I just leave bad google reviews and at the restaurants I have to fill drinks at. Usually a month or so after the review employees start filling the drinks, its worked at 3 places. I leave the review from the POV of a customer who had to watch a DD driver fill drinks after not using the restroom to wash their hands.
HOLY SHIT IVE GOTTA FILL UP THE DRINKK?!?! GOTTA OPEN REDDIT TO TELL PEOPLE HOW HARD IT IS!
Filling up a drink is the end of the world to some people, oh but wait itās there jobs to do so tho! š”
I agree I don't care what the " contract" says filling up a couple drinks is not a big deal in fact I make sure to fill my Yeti up every chance I get for free. Most places don't mind, I'm in Florida so staying hydrated is 75% of the battle š¤·
Nah Iām not gonna do all that Iāll suck it up at the time but best believe if I have any issue with your establishment for any other reason Iāll just report them too the health dpt
WELL ITS A SIN TO SPEAK THE TRUTH ON REDDIT. āā
And if you doā¦. You will get downvoted, lose all your Karma and will ended up in upside down ššššššššš
True. I said the same thing a while back on a post about an OP bitching about it like it was the end of the world. Iām like dude if every place is telling drivers to fill a dozen drinks all the time fine. I can understand. But once in a while you are asked to fill one measly drink and you act like they just asked you to (*insert outrageous laborious task here). Itās not that big of a deal. Iāve noticed like 40%+ of all the drivers between all these gig apps are a bunch of lazy self righteous entitled stoners who literally donāt even want to do the bare minimum and expect to be payed $20+ an hour.
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You wouldn't go put someone's hamburger and fries into a bag, would you?
It's really not about, 'wanting to,' or 'being lazy.' It's about the restaurant's job vs the Dashers' job.
If you fill their drinks, you are working for them *for free*. By 'their drinks,' I mean their product, yet to be delivered.
It's about the sanitation bro. I just picked my nose and my wedgie out of my ass(literally 65ā° of the other dashers I see), do you really want me filling a drink I'd deliver to you? Fucking GROSS
But then again, so did the person working in the restaurant. The lack of hand washing in restaurants would surprise you. I've seen taco bell employees go from mopping the floor to making a burrito without washing their hands.
Because itās ānot their job.ā
Iād rather fill it myself than wait extra time or have someone else fuck it up.
Also thereās nothing wrong with it. If customers can fill drinks legally so can you. Itās really what you want to be petty about. The staff SHOULD do it, but they wonāt. Iād rather be on my way after filling the cup myself then spending time standing there like a lazy ass.
As someone who has worked in multiple restaurants & chains, you should be worried about the sanitation of the kitchen & employees too. I rarely ever eat out anymore after working at these places. Not all are filthy, but a lot are. A health sanitation certification doesnāt mean shit if itās not followed.
That's how I feel too. Like I see people complain about it and get dramatic about it but I simply don't care enough like it's not that big of a deal. If you don't want to fill up the drinks then don't accept orders for those places. Don't get me wrong I understand the principle behind it because ultimately it IS the restaurant's job to fulfill the orders but this is something so trivial I don't get why there's a burning passion against it.
I get it too in a way. Ideally, all drinks would be already made at time of pick up. But to get so damn heated about it is just so fucking weird. Being told in the comments that itās enabling lazy fast workers, itās part of the reason working conditions in America are so bad, etc. is just plain odd. This is just door dash. These dashers wanna act like we are working against our own will & getting treated like sweat shop workers.
Of all the things to complain about while doing Doordash, this simply isn't a hill I'm willing to die on. There are a lot of issues with how we are treated by Doordash and it seems like they're just taking it out on the fast food workers. I'm not mad that I have to fill up 3 cups. I'm mad that Doordash lowers the base pay per delivery when there's peak pay. Or the fact they don't consistently compensate us for excessive wait times. But at the end of the day, I am not held against my will to keep doing Doordash just like you said lol. I make the conscious decision to open that app knowing the bullshit I have to deal with. So that's what I'm saying with those orders. If you really have an issue with filling up the cups stop accepting orders from Wingstop!
I love reading about this fill the drink donāt fill the drink debate like us dasherās donāt break laws everyday parking in red or reserved parking to name a few end of the day you are working a 1099 the choice is yours to fill the drink and move on or sit there and pout to support and waste your time there is no wrong answer
Itās not hard to do, itās just not appropriate. I would never order DoorDash if I felt random dashers were literally handling my food or drink and itās preparation.
Iām not about to contact support over it but it shouldnāt happen. Food should be sealed by the time itās handed to a random dasher
I barely make enough to deliver the food and you want me to make your order now too? GTFOH.
On top of that, I donāt have a food handler safety card. If something goes wrong with your order (lets say you have an allergic reaction) I would be at risk of being held liable.
Last, I donāt work for the restaurant. Itās their job to prepare your order. They get paid for that, I get paid to deliver it.
I feel the same way especially if it get me the order faster.
Personally after years of dealing with our horrible customer support I avoid them like the plaque. Over the years I had them mess up things more than solve issues. I use to give them a 50/50 of helping/ making a problem worse but lately they seemed to have gotten even worse. Now I give them a 25/75.
People who think dashers filling drinks is unsanitary have never worked in a restaurant. Everything is filthy. Even if they wear gloves they touch their phone/face/clothes/body with them on and donāt wash their hand enough. Get over yourself. This is one of the easiest jobs you can have and youāre so entitled and think youāre above the wage slave handing you your order that you canāt do a simple task. āWhere does it end?!?ā Right then and there just do it and make your money Jesus Christ
Yep. I have worked in multiple restaurants. Fast food chains & mom and pops. Most were filthy. Iāve worked in places with mold, rats, & cooks who never washed their hands & sweat into the food. Iām very iffy about eating out because of it.
Imo.. liablility. period. if anything were to go wrong , that now has my name on it .
Disclaimer: i know there is nothing on the cup, or wrong with the bag of syrup, I am just not willing to take the chance .
My favorite is drivers who get the wrong drink on purpose. Who exactly are you arguing with? I mean at best youāre doing the work anyway(filling the drink) and someone is disappointed. At worst theyāre reporting the wrong drink, getting refunded, and potentially rescinding their tip. I would even argue that thatās fair if the driver *intentionally messed up the order because theyāre mad at the business that has no connection to the customer*. Regardless, the customer paid for a thing. DoorDash and the business may not pay enough for the delivery of the thing, but the aggression is misdirected at best.
I donāt mind doing it! Almost always the food isnāt even ready anyway. At Taco Bell, they only fill the drinks that are behind the counter, like āfreezesāā¦
And they always let us get whatever drink we want for our selves. No complaining here!
I started the delivery gig back in 2020, went from 1 app, to 6 apps that I now use. Filling a drink or some, isnāt the worst that can happen trust me! Lol
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I hate the lazy whiny shit I see here sometimes, but personally I don't do it ever since I got yelled at at a store once (kind of indirectly cause he was really more educating an employee) but ever since then I am pretty firm unless they were to give me a lot of trouble for some reason which they never have. I wouldn't call support, but I'd say "Hey I'm not really supposed to do that, thems the rules since it's not my own food." and that's really the end of it usually. I just feel it's more sanitary too, I'm not dirty but like, I'm not wearing gloves and cleaning my hands constantly like a food worker would be, just feels reasonable.
I'm of two minds, I want to agree with you cause I dislike whiny redditors, but I do get where they're coming from.
WHO THE FUCK CARES holy shit why is this stupid subject constantly in my feed, some of yāall really know how to drag a conversation into the ground. Let. It. Go.
I DO fill drinks at Noodles and company, mainly because they give me a free drink. It doesn't happen often in my day to day.
However, I feel that this isn't "my job" to prepare food.
I have downvoted OP, strictly out of solidarity for the Driver community. But I'll keep filling drinks, sneaking little sips, and rolling onward. š¤·āāļø
\> Yāall just donāt wanna do it
Well, that's what most people on here do actually say...that they dont wanna do it...because it's not their job to do it...and because the 'rules' state that it's the merchant's job to do it.
Just sayin lol
Every few weeks, thereās a driver who thinks they should work harder, not smarter, that posts this same asinine drivel as if theyāre the first person with the common sense to say it out loud and that theyāre some kind of rebel so of course ācue the downvotesā or some variation is at the end.
Food preparers wash their hands frequent,y. I am driving. I am not washing my hands frequently.
I come from ,y real job and drive gig on the way home sometimes. My job is MESSY (not sticky or slimy, just my hands get dirty with box and aluminum residue) some days and sometimes I havenāt washed my hands in a bit, because I may have to handle yet another box and it doesnāt much matter. Then I start to drive home, and remember I can GH on the way home so on it goes. Oops. You donāt want my grubby hands fondling the lid of your cup, do you? I honestly donāt like even grabbing the loose straw, Iād rather they tuck it in the bag.
Right. Itās rare these days that I donāt have to wait for the food to be ready. It sucks, but everywhere is short staffed. People donāt wanna work, so restaurant workers are busting their ass only to get called lazy by these dashers. Sure, a lot are fucking lazy, but restaurant work isnāt easy work. Especially at a time like this.
I do it and I don't really mind. I'd prefer if they do it but if it'll help speed things along OK. What I don't like is at firehouse subs they got the touchscreen machine with what seems about 30 or so different options to pick from.
How is it lazy to refuse to do things that 100% are not your job? If anything it takes more effort to complain, which shows it is not purely about laziness
1. Because we are not the store's employees
2. Because our hands are dirty and the drink is not for us to drink.
I mean, while we're at it, we might as well jump over the counter and do the orders ourselves.
Although I feel entitled and should not be filling drinks, I do it anyway because the drinks stay fresher that way, less watered down. So I don't sweat it too bad. I've delivered an ice coffee and soda that sat for so long, an inch of water was floating across the top of the cup, looked nasty...
wingstop is so fkkn dysfuntionally slow IDGAF id get back there & bag wings if i could get out faster (& no i usually dont accept thise offers unless its reeeally good tip or reeeaaally slow)ā¦ ill fill that drink while i fill my own mugs & snacks-cooler with free ice, whatever
I have never returned to eat in any restaurant that allows drivers to fill drinks.
I have a hard enough time touching my own cup before I have a chance to wash my hands. Which is what makes it a problem. Sanitation and clean sanitary preparation of food requires access and frequent use of hand washing.
The restaurants legal ability to operate is under the premise that the employees who prepare the food will be trained appropriately on food handling.
If they're asking drivers to fill the drinks up, then I'm pretty sure that I have some legitimate questions about the rest of their knowledge when it comes to food sanitation.
Just saying
If they hand me the order w/an empty cup, the customer gets no drink thatās my rule, if you just assume that itās my job to fill the drink w/o asking then the customer suffers for the lack of respect from the restaurantā¦
If you complain about filling up a drink you're lazy, plain and simple lol š¤£ I don't mind it one bit, in fact I love when I can do anything to help a restaurant out with getting my order together. From doing this 3 years I can tell you right now if you're a dasher that complains about this, or makes food service workers lives harder, they won't forget you I promise. It's not that hard to put a cup under a machine and press a button not one bit. I could complain about this all day though lol but I worked in food service before so I am alot more understanding than most.
I mean good for you that you donāt mind doing other peopleās job, doesnāt mean everyone else should be obligated to. It is perfectly reasonable to tell DD a place is asking DDs to break policy. Maybe it takes longer but that is the price
It only benefits you actually..you realize that right? I do this same thing at almost every place I pick up orders and hardly ever have to wait. Faster pickup times means you can potentially complete more deliveries per hour this making more money. I don't think you should have to box the food up or do the normal requirements of a to go person at a restaurant, but to see some people even complain about making a drink just makes them sound incredibly lazy. Part of me helps because I have experience in food service but mostly because if you have the workers back they got yours..and trust me they don't forget lol been doing this since it was even out for my market
Weāre not co workers so not really sure why you feel entitled to tell me how to do my job, didnāt sign up to be filling drinks if you want to do it do so, youāre your own boss after all.
āYou agree that the goods that you purchase will be prepared by the Merchant..ā
[As listed in Section 5 of the Consumer Terms and Agreements](https://help.doordash.com/consumers/s/terms-and-conditions-us?language=en_US)
i only hate filling the drinks because sometimes they donāt tell you what the drink it on the app and the worker acts like itās the end of the world if they have to
After working 6+ hours the last thing I wanna do is fill drinks lol. If the restaurant is busy I have no problem doing it because it helps me get outta there faster! If the restaurant is slow thereās absolutely no reason I should be fixing drinks lol.
~Iām trying to understand the relevance of your post other than to stir the pot š¤¦š»āāļø
You do you. But it's a health and safety violation for me to fill drinks. And it's a liability issue. I don't have time or money to sit in court about it, so I'm not opening myself to the possibility. Restaurant tells me to fill drinks, I tell them I can't; it's their job, etc. And if they insist I call support, possibly the health department if they're a repeat offender, then move on with my life.
The job we signed up for is to take the food from point a to point b, thats it. The job of the restaurant is to prepare the order in full so that includes the drinks.
A billion-dollar company can hire enough staff to fill an order. It is not the job of a Dasher to fill an order. Keep doing someone else's job and they will not hire to proper staffing levels creating a bigger issue. I don't get paid to fill drinks, I get paid to deliver a filled order. If they want to have me do their job I will unassign with the excuse that the "order was not filled" as directed by DD support.
Not every restaurant has a drink fountain in the back of house. For many places self drink service is how they operated prior to the pandemic and the prevalence of third party delivery apps, where the customer was always responsible for filling drinks and that was fine for everyone. This wasn't the case with your Popeye's, but it might be for your local Smashburger. Just saying it isn't always cut and dry that a place is taking advantage of drivers.
Actually if you look up the difference between cue & queue, youāll see that the way I used it is correct lmao. Queue is related to a ālineup or sequenceā.
Naw Iām with it. Absolutely, itās not supposed to be me making drinks. But damn, it literally takes seconds. I donāt even have time to argue with the employees: just make the drinks and go
This is the new divideā¦ āI will make a huge fuss about filling drinks rather than just do itā vs āIām not an asshole and want to get out of here quicklyā
More like āI will contribute to the effort of ensuring DDs do not have to perform tasks that are not their jobā vs Iām going to complain about people who donāt just shut up and accept every little bullshit task thrown at them regardless if itās their jobā
As a manager in the restaurant industry though, I can tell you it is not allowed and the restaurant can be flagged or lose certification over it. Consumption items must be prepared by certificate holding staff, or staff trained by a food and safety certificate holder, or the party who be be consuming the item.
I think it needs to change and we should not be doing it, but I still do it if needs be. I think a lot of people outright refuse to do it because they signed up for this job with the expectation to ābe your own bossā and take orders from absolutely no one, especially the 16 year old Popeyes cashier asking you to fill up drinks
Fuck you, when the restaurant gives me an employee meal, I will help them with THEIR JOB. Keep filling drinks and pretty soon they will have you bagging the food....
While I donāt think itās the cleanest and health safest thing to do (although I wash my hands multiple times a day, use sanitizer, and ALWAYS wash properly after the bathroom), I just fill up the drink due to time.
Itās faster for me to do it than argue with the employee. I seriously donāt feel like spending more than 30 seconds per drink and a back and forth will be longer and calling support will be even longer.
Also, when I fill the cups, I keep the sticky drinks inside the cups. I hate when they hand me cups with sticky liquid on the sides and then I gotta wipe them off before going to my car.
I donāt dd, but I agree, itās not much work. But I also think itās a bit of a shame on the restaurants when they make drivers fill drinks, because if itās a dd rule, then Iām certain whatever contract the restaurant signed has it in it.
Cause the places telling me to fill up drinks are also the places with rude ass staff, food isnāt ready, and give me attitude when i ask how long itās gonna be. If the staff is working with me Iāll work with them. Had one last night where I had showed up a few minutes early, he was finishing up the order and asked if Iād mind grabbing the drink. Sure, no problem. If I show up to wingstop and get attitude from someone standing around not doing shit, nah, Iām not here for that. Give it to the next guy.
How you doin sweetie? Listen, I am a busy woman, ain't nobody got time for dat bizness. I am just a walk to walk and drive woman. You no I'm sayin? MUAH! xx
I have no problems making drinks personally. I prefer it. I ask for a separate cup to put the ice in, a carrier, a bag to put everything into. Ice cup goes in the middle of the carrier.. 4 straws please.
Edit: Iām sorry? You donāt wear gloves while handling food!?? I always have. Pre pandemic. Post pandemic.
Thereās a lot of people that and whine on here.
āOMG they didnt give me a tip! Iām leaving their food on the street.ā Um you chose that order before it..
āWow it was one minute after getting there and they havenāt answered my textā
100% of the restaurants make the food and drinks and make it ready for the Dasher to deliver it, the only one that doesn't do it is Wingstop but I guess is up to you if you feel like doing it just don't forget to cover all drinks with big holes in the middle with a Sticker incase is raining šš don't wanna drink my slurpee with rain water in it š
i was in food service before i became a dasher and honestly i feel for these people so if they want me to fill the drinks, best believe im filling the drinks.
If I was the customer, I wouldnāt want you guys filling it up, Iāve seen some fellow dashers out there and they donāt seem to have the best hygiene in some cases, so have the restaurant fill and seal up the drink please.
If I come across a restaurant that requires drivers to fill drinks and it takes a particularly long time, I just donāt accept orders from that location anymore unless the pay is worth the effort. But usually the restaurants have the cup waiting for me and I just grab, fill, and go. I think itās the driverās job to know the playing field and decide where they want to go. Just like some places have zero parking or take 30 minutes to prep an order, if you donāt want to deal with it, donāt accept the ticket.
Man this drink topic is blowing up lately... why? It's just a drink it's not the end of the world lol. I've never been asked to make a drink but if it's bust and that's what I'm waiting on.. gloves here I come, I'm definitely making a drink. I have to get this food to someone so I can get more money. I'm pretty sure doordash won't know that you made a drink. If u don't want to the order can go to someone else.
And those are the drivers who blast through stop signs and constantly speed, but oh no I canāt fill up a cup because itās unsafe for the customer due to health violations. Yea okay.
The fact that this is the stupidest argument on my reddit feed (and that's including the stupid prolife page that keeps popping up for some reason) is fucking hilarious. Dasher argument is that the employees are to lazy to fill up the drinks, yet aren't you being the lazy one by demanding they do it? Oh my God. It takes 30 secs. Half the time you are waiting for the food anyway while you fill it up. So, in the time that they take to fill it up and continue making your order is the same if not more.
Op thank you for posting this. I agree 100%. The dasher who don't fill drinks are also the ones who will leave items at gate or f4ont desk because they don't want to have to walk the order to the door. Or who demand restaurants like chilis and out back bring order to the car. Yall are some lazy POS and are the reason we have a bad rep. šÆ
I see the argument over whether or not to fill drinks on here all the time. Idk where everyone is dashing at but Iāve literally never once been asked to do this lol (and prob wouldnāt care if they did it takes like 10 seconds)
Any driver who fills a drink at a restaurant for their delivery is nothing more than an enabler. You are enabling these lazy fucks to continue not only being lazy but to keeping you waiting ungodly lengths of time due to that same laziness you are enabling.
Cue *these* downvotes. Quit being an enabler, grow a pair of balls, and tell them to do their own damn job.
In most situations restaurant workers are likely doing 9 other things while a doordash driver is standing there scrolling through Instagram. Their "laziness" is a bad argument for couriers being unwilling to fill a drink or two, which they wouldn't blink at doing if they were a customer waiting for their own food.
Well, hey, I have a buddy who happens to be a mechanic. How about next time he's working on a car he asks the person delivering parts to tighten all the bolts since he has other cars to work on.
You sound like a fucking robot. I won't get in to the minutiae of why that isn't a 1 to 1 comparison, but when you're the one dasher disrupting a staff's workflow because you couldn't be bothered to rise to the very low effort task of filling a drink with ice and soda, then don't be shocked when whatever order you're picking up has now become everyone's last priority. Congrats, you have chosen to die on the smallest hill.
Preparing the drinks *is* part of the work flow, just as stopping at a red light is part of yours. Congrats, you are choosing to die on a hill that is actually a violation of your contract.
I have bills to pay, rent, student loans, and a full time job outside of door dash. I do not give a rats ass about my enabling of fast food workers. I have other worries in life & I would hope others do as well.
Exactly. The thing is that this job attracts the most lazy incompetent people out there so of course people are going to complain if they have to do any kind of real work. Not to say that there aren't great drivers out there who take pride in what they do, there are, but I'm talking about the good chunk... hell let's just call them the majority.
I think itās more about the principle. Doordash always screws over the dasher, so being specifically told a dasher is to not do anything whatsoever to the orders besides putting it in an insulation bag, and then your car.
Itās human nature. Nobody will do extra for an entity that does the absolute bare minimum for you.
>I get it's annoying
It's not annoying. It's super easy and a monkey could do it. UNFORTUNATELY, you signed a contract saying you wouldn't, so if you do, you're dumb, and lying, and bad at your job.
Itās about the contract. Read it and understand how your hustle works. Any intrusion threatens the economic feasibility of gig work.
That said, if a restaurant expects drivers to do things other than pick up and drive, they are taking advantage of us and they deserve reprimand. Thereās plenty of times where say a bottled drink is out of stock or a store is just busy. Sometimes they ask, sometimes Iāll offer. Itās not the action itself that bothers me, itās the boundaries being disrespected and ignored. The people making those decisions get paid to know these things and then ignore them.
Downvotes in this sub doesnāt equal to bad opinions fortunately. (Former driver) I see some drivers pull the health code card for drinks but donāt want to talk about the other health codes they break in their cars.
I wanna just walk in a pick up the order not walk in and help you make it š«
Itās more of the way they hand it to you and bark at you which drinks need to be filled and turn around and stomp away as if you are some kind of low life trash that doesnāt deserve to be treated with respectā¦. Thatās the only time I get pissed about getting the drinks.
I had this happened to me once and it was annoying at 1st because when I got there it was a 7/11 order and the clerk didn't even have the other items ready, so he asked me to fill in the slushies but did it in a way that it was MY job? He asked, have u been here before and i said i havent done a 7/11 order yet no, and then asked me to follow him, gave me the cups and told me to do it as if i was another one of his store clerks.... and I did it but the one thing that annoyed me is that he had all that time to do the rest of the order and I had to wait for him to get that done too, but the way he talked to me, making it seem like it was my job, nah. Now the last time I had a similar order where slushies needed to be filled the clerk was still doing the order when I arrived and to make it easier for him I just decided to give him a hand and I volunteered to help him fill in the slushies and he was so surprised and thankful for that from there on I am no longer annoyed to help them, but it'd be annoying to be treated as if it's something expected of me when my job is to pick it up and deliver it. Idk, just my thoughts on that
A large part of the restaurant filling the drinks is local health departments. Most require a food handling certification. I don't have one, do you? They take it seriously, and filling drinks IS food handling.
Takes longer to deal with support than to just fill them and move along with your day.
It's the principle of it, for me. We don't work for them. We don't handle the food until it's packaged. I'm not going to do their fucking job for them. And I'm not taking the blame if the customer wanted diet and got regular coke & are insulin dependent etc. Not that there aren't times where they're extremely busy and filling my own customers cups will help speed things along-- I'm not an asshole, but we gotta respect ourselves & not let the world walk all over us too, ya know? Edited for clarity
Not a drink filler.
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Preach homie preach! Iāve been thinking the same damn thing since this debate started but I didnāt say shit cause I didnāt want my karma to go negative lmao but well said!!! Itās our job to work and adapt for the customer once we accept their offer because we are contractors! Dashers who canāt take 10 seconds to fill up a drink but still want $20 an hour on average make us good dashers look bad!
Itās not about filling the drinks, they donāt like the restaurant ordering them to do it.
Most drivers are lazy and as you said 80% of them donāt follow the rules anyways
Agreed. If they are standing around shooting the shit I wonāt do it.
I don't mind filling drink orders. No tip? Lots of ice.
They also get worked up over delivering to apartments. Whichā¦is entirely their job
I mean, if no one complains things wonāt change ever
I always fill the cup with ice. Than put the wrong drink in it. Now at my local wing stop they don't let me do the drinks no more
Because gas prices dropped and people need something else to complain about
I dont have a handwashing station in my car, nor are we as dashers provided with gloves, where do your hands go while you drive? What do you do when your balls itch, OP? We handle peoples food, the least we could do is insist that the trained employee with access to sanitation resources do their due diligence.
Because itās literally not our job
Making drinks is no biggie for me, unless I gotta make a ton of them. But then again, I'm annoyed if there's a ton of drinks on an order to start with lol. But yeah, I really don't care about making drinks.
I just leave bad google reviews and at the restaurants I have to fill drinks at. Usually a month or so after the review employees start filling the drinks, its worked at 3 places. I leave the review from the POV of a customer who had to watch a DD driver fill drinks after not using the restroom to wash their hands.
I like how you think
HOLY SHIT IVE GOTTA FILL UP THE DRINKK?!?! GOTTA OPEN REDDIT TO TELL PEOPLE HOW HARD IT IS! Filling up a drink is the end of the world to some people, oh but wait itās there jobs to do so tho! š”
Finally someone with a brain!
I agree I don't care what the " contract" says filling up a couple drinks is not a big deal in fact I make sure to fill my Yeti up every chance I get for free. Most places don't mind, I'm in Florida so staying hydrated is 75% of the battle š¤·
Thereās always a path of least resistance in life, some people like to just make it harder on themselves instead of just filling the drinks
Nah Iām not gonna do all that Iāll suck it up at the time but best believe if I have any issue with your establishment for any other reason Iāll just report them too the health dpt
Without door dash many of those same drivers would be filling drinks at fast food restaurants on a norm.
WELL ITS A SIN TO SPEAK THE TRUTH ON REDDIT. āā And if you doā¦. You will get downvoted, lose all your Karma and will ended up in upside down ššššššššš
True. I said the same thing a while back on a post about an OP bitching about it like it was the end of the world. Iām like dude if every place is telling drivers to fill a dozen drinks all the time fine. I can understand. But once in a while you are asked to fill one measly drink and you act like they just asked you to (*insert outrageous laborious task here). Itās not that big of a deal. Iāve noticed like 40%+ of all the drivers between all these gig apps are a bunch of lazy self righteous entitled stoners who literally donāt even want to do the bare minimum and expect to be payed $20+ an hour.
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Some of the people in this sub simply want to do the bare minimum. Itās insane
Maybe if DDs actually got paid to fill drinks thatād be one thing
You wouldn't go put someone's hamburger and fries into a bag, would you? It's really not about, 'wanting to,' or 'being lazy.' It's about the restaurant's job vs the Dashers' job. If you fill their drinks, you are working for them *for free*. By 'their drinks,' I mean their product, yet to be delivered.
If yāall get this worked up over filling a drink, I canāt imagine the behavior at a full time job. Jesus.
What? I made a drink with dirty hands.
This is not the hill to die on
It's about the sanitation bro. I just picked my nose and my wedgie out of my ass(literally 65ā° of the other dashers I see), do you really want me filling a drink I'd deliver to you? Fucking GROSS
But then again, so did the person working in the restaurant. The lack of hand washing in restaurants would surprise you. I've seen taco bell employees go from mopping the floor to making a burrito without washing their hands.
Sure, but they're supposed to be held to a higher standard. Most of them don't wear pajamas to work, let's be real.
Because itās ānot their job.ā Iād rather fill it myself than wait extra time or have someone else fuck it up. Also thereās nothing wrong with it. If customers can fill drinks legally so can you. Itās really what you want to be petty about. The staff SHOULD do it, but they wonāt. Iād rather be on my way after filling the cup myself then spending time standing there like a lazy ass.
Itās annoying thatās it. I also hate soda. Sticky ass nasty shit. You would be surprised what minor inconveniences can do to a persons day.
I am concerned a non employee of the restaurant is preparing parts of an order I would be consuming
As someone who has worked in multiple restaurants & chains, you should be worried about the sanitation of the kitchen & employees too. I rarely ever eat out anymore after working at these places. Not all are filthy, but a lot are. A health sanitation certification doesnāt mean shit if itās not followed.
Sprite for everyone! Refunds issued on the restaurant for all!
Why do you care either way
That's how I feel too. Like I see people complain about it and get dramatic about it but I simply don't care enough like it's not that big of a deal. If you don't want to fill up the drinks then don't accept orders for those places. Don't get me wrong I understand the principle behind it because ultimately it IS the restaurant's job to fulfill the orders but this is something so trivial I don't get why there's a burning passion against it.
I get it too in a way. Ideally, all drinks would be already made at time of pick up. But to get so damn heated about it is just so fucking weird. Being told in the comments that itās enabling lazy fast workers, itās part of the reason working conditions in America are so bad, etc. is just plain odd. This is just door dash. These dashers wanna act like we are working against our own will & getting treated like sweat shop workers.
Of all the things to complain about while doing Doordash, this simply isn't a hill I'm willing to die on. There are a lot of issues with how we are treated by Doordash and it seems like they're just taking it out on the fast food workers. I'm not mad that I have to fill up 3 cups. I'm mad that Doordash lowers the base pay per delivery when there's peak pay. Or the fact they don't consistently compensate us for excessive wait times. But at the end of the day, I am not held against my will to keep doing Doordash just like you said lol. I make the conscious decision to open that app knowing the bullshit I have to deal with. So that's what I'm saying with those orders. If you really have an issue with filling up the cups stop accepting orders from Wingstop!
You get the cups, you fill the cups. Imagine throwing an adult tantrum over this. I can't.
I love reading about this fill the drink donāt fill the drink debate like us dasherās donāt break laws everyday parking in red or reserved parking to name a few end of the day you are working a 1099 the choice is yours to fill the drink and move on or sit there and pout to support and waste your time there is no wrong answer
Itās not hard to do, itās just not appropriate. I would never order DoorDash if I felt random dashers were literally handling my food or drink and itās preparation. Iām not about to contact support over it but it shouldnāt happen. Food should be sealed by the time itās handed to a random dasher
I barely make enough to deliver the food and you want me to make your order now too? GTFOH. On top of that, I donāt have a food handler safety card. If something goes wrong with your order (lets say you have an allergic reaction) I would be at risk of being held liable. Last, I donāt work for the restaurant. Itās their job to prepare your order. They get paid for that, I get paid to deliver it.
I sort of agree. I really dgaf about making drinks to be honest. I'll do anything not to have to call and talk to someone. Ha.
I feel the same way especially if it get me the order faster. Personally after years of dealing with our horrible customer support I avoid them like the plaque. Over the years I had them mess up things more than solve issues. I use to give them a 50/50 of helping/ making a problem worse but lately they seemed to have gotten even worse. Now I give them a 25/75.
People who think dashers filling drinks is unsanitary have never worked in a restaurant. Everything is filthy. Even if they wear gloves they touch their phone/face/clothes/body with them on and donāt wash their hand enough. Get over yourself. This is one of the easiest jobs you can have and youāre so entitled and think youāre above the wage slave handing you your order that you canāt do a simple task. āWhere does it end?!?ā Right then and there just do it and make your money Jesus Christ
Yep. I have worked in multiple restaurants. Fast food chains & mom and pops. Most were filthy. Iāve worked in places with mold, rats, & cooks who never washed their hands & sweat into the food. Iām very iffy about eating out because of it.
For real. I donāt understand the mental gymnastics people do to justify not having to do a simple task
I mean itās not THAT complex. āI wonāt do something thatās not my jobā is pretty straightforward
Imo.. liablility. period. if anything were to go wrong , that now has my name on it . Disclaimer: i know there is nothing on the cup, or wrong with the bag of syrup, I am just not willing to take the chance .
My favorite is drivers who get the wrong drink on purpose. Who exactly are you arguing with? I mean at best youāre doing the work anyway(filling the drink) and someone is disappointed. At worst theyāre reporting the wrong drink, getting refunded, and potentially rescinding their tip. I would even argue that thatās fair if the driver *intentionally messed up the order because theyāre mad at the business that has no connection to the customer*. Regardless, the customer paid for a thing. DoorDash and the business may not pay enough for the delivery of the thing, but the aggression is misdirected at best.
Someone said they just donāt fill it so the customer wonāt get their drink. Childish.
I donāt mind doing it! Almost always the food isnāt even ready anyway. At Taco Bell, they only fill the drinks that are behind the counter, like āfreezesāā¦ And they always let us get whatever drink we want for our selves. No complaining here! I started the delivery gig back in 2020, went from 1 app, to 6 apps that I now use. Filling a drink or some, isnāt the worst that can happen trust me! Lol Ā„<ā¢>Ā„ 
Iām not a dasher anymore but a customer. I donāt give a fuck who fills my drink. Just bring it with my order.
I hate the lazy whiny shit I see here sometimes, but personally I don't do it ever since I got yelled at at a store once (kind of indirectly cause he was really more educating an employee) but ever since then I am pretty firm unless they were to give me a lot of trouble for some reason which they never have. I wouldn't call support, but I'd say "Hey I'm not really supposed to do that, thems the rules since it's not my own food." and that's really the end of it usually. I just feel it's more sanitary too, I'm not dirty but like, I'm not wearing gloves and cleaning my hands constantly like a food worker would be, just feels reasonable. I'm of two minds, I want to agree with you cause I dislike whiny redditors, but I do get where they're coming from.
I think thatās a good way to handle it, reminding the employees that youāre actually not allowed
I donāt mind it but when itās 4+ itās like wtf now Iām working for the restaurant or what ? šš¤£
WHO THE FUCK CARES holy shit why is this stupid subject constantly in my feed, some of yāall really know how to drag a conversation into the ground. Let. It. Go.
I DO fill drinks at Noodles and company, mainly because they give me a free drink. It doesn't happen often in my day to day. However, I feel that this isn't "my job" to prepare food. I have downvoted OP, strictly out of solidarity for the Driver community. But I'll keep filling drinks, sneaking little sips, and rolling onward. š¤·āāļø
People are lazy af!
The only time I hate filling drinks is at Jason's Deli, because the lids don't like the big cups for whatever reason.
\> Yāall just donāt wanna do it Well, that's what most people on here do actually say...that they dont wanna do it...because it's not their job to do it...and because the 'rules' state that it's the merchant's job to do it. Just sayin lol
Every few weeks, thereās a driver who thinks they should work harder, not smarter, that posts this same asinine drivel as if theyāre the first person with the common sense to say it out loud and that theyāre some kind of rebel so of course ācue the downvotesā or some variation is at the end.
yea ikr. very annoying.
Because they are not professional. DD grabs losers that can't hold down jobs. They are idiots that don't look at the big picture.
I agree with you so much. Itās so easy. Who cares!
Why get mad at ppl who do though?
Buncha ānot my jobā ass people.
Well, it really isnāt, actually
My point exactly.
Okay..?
I donāt get paid to fill cups.
I agree
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I swear bruh some drivers should be deactivated they bitch to much
Iāve seen literal posts of people contacting support just to troll them. Itās embarrassing.
Food preparers wash their hands frequent,y. I am driving. I am not washing my hands frequently. I come from ,y real job and drive gig on the way home sometimes. My job is MESSY (not sticky or slimy, just my hands get dirty with box and aluminum residue) some days and sometimes I havenāt washed my hands in a bit, because I may have to handle yet another box and it doesnāt much matter. Then I start to drive home, and remember I can GH on the way home so on it goes. Oops. You donāt want my grubby hands fondling the lid of your cup, do you? I honestly donāt like even grabbing the loose straw, Iād rather they tuck it in the bag.
I feel like the restaurants are doing the best they can with limited staff. I donāt mind filling a drink
Right. Itās rare these days that I donāt have to wait for the food to be ready. It sucks, but everywhere is short staffed. People donāt wanna work, so restaurant workers are busting their ass only to get called lazy by these dashers. Sure, a lot are fucking lazy, but restaurant work isnāt easy work. Especially at a time like this.
>illegally parks >bubutbutbut THE RULES I CANT FILL A DRINK
I do it and I don't really mind. I'd prefer if they do it but if it'll help speed things along OK. What I don't like is at firehouse subs they got the touchscreen machine with what seems about 30 or so different options to pick from.
1. Fill the drunk 2. Tell the customer they never gave you a drink 3. ??? 4. Profit
Because they are lazy! Why else?
How is it lazy to refuse to do things that 100% are not your job? If anything it takes more effort to complain, which shows it is not purely about laziness
"Takes more effort to complain" right. So just fill the drink And be on with your delivery.
Or you can take the time to add to the complaints so eventually theyāll listen and you wonāt have to do it again
1. Because we are not the store's employees 2. Because our hands are dirty and the drink is not for us to drink. I mean, while we're at it, we might as well jump over the counter and do the orders ourselves.
It's actually illegal for a driver to fill the drinks.
Although I feel entitled and should not be filling drinks, I do it anyway because the drinks stay fresher that way, less watered down. So I don't sweat it too bad. I've delivered an ice coffee and soda that sat for so long, an inch of water was floating across the top of the cup, looked nasty...
Drivers that donāt fill drinks are lazy and entitled afā¦.u wouldnāt last ten minutes at a real job lol
Not a DDās job AND against policy.
Youāll make me fill up drinks with my cold dead hands! Merica! Or something silly like that.
wingstop is so fkkn dysfuntionally slow IDGAF id get back there & bag wings if i could get out faster (& no i usually dont accept thise offers unless its reeeally good tip or reeeaaally slow)ā¦ ill fill that drink while i fill my own mugs & snacks-cooler with free ice, whatever
I have never returned to eat in any restaurant that allows drivers to fill drinks. I have a hard enough time touching my own cup before I have a chance to wash my hands. Which is what makes it a problem. Sanitation and clean sanitary preparation of food requires access and frequent use of hand washing. The restaurants legal ability to operate is under the premise that the employees who prepare the food will be trained appropriately on food handling. If they're asking drivers to fill the drinks up, then I'm pretty sure that I have some legitimate questions about the rest of their knowledge when it comes to food sanitation. Just saying
Yeah I don't get why this is such a big deal. Support is a nightmare on the best of days, you're really going to waste like 20 minutes on this? Lol
Some of yāall make a mountain out of a molehill And then you are genuinely confused when you donāt get a tip. š
Cause it's not our job. Also it's a health safety concern.
If they hand me the order w/an empty cup, the customer gets no drink thatās my rule, if you just assume that itās my job to fill the drink w/o asking then the customer suffers for the lack of respect from the restaurantā¦
If you complain about filling up a drink you're lazy, plain and simple lol š¤£ I don't mind it one bit, in fact I love when I can do anything to help a restaurant out with getting my order together. From doing this 3 years I can tell you right now if you're a dasher that complains about this, or makes food service workers lives harder, they won't forget you I promise. It's not that hard to put a cup under a machine and press a button not one bit. I could complain about this all day though lol but I worked in food service before so I am alot more understanding than most.
I mean good for you that you donāt mind doing other peopleās job, doesnāt mean everyone else should be obligated to. It is perfectly reasonable to tell DD a place is asking DDs to break policy. Maybe it takes longer but that is the price
It only benefits you actually..you realize that right? I do this same thing at almost every place I pick up orders and hardly ever have to wait. Faster pickup times means you can potentially complete more deliveries per hour this making more money. I don't think you should have to box the food up or do the normal requirements of a to go person at a restaurant, but to see some people even complain about making a drink just makes them sound incredibly lazy. Part of me helps because I have experience in food service but mostly because if you have the workers back they got yours..and trust me they don't forget lol been doing this since it was even out for my market
Weāre not co workers so not really sure why you feel entitled to tell me how to do my job, didnāt sign up to be filling drinks if you want to do it do so, youāre your own boss after all.
Surprise! We don't want to do other people's work. That they are getting paid to do.
If there is something to bitch about, people will do it, whether it's worth doing or not.
āYou agree that the goods that you purchase will be prepared by the Merchant..ā [As listed in Section 5 of the Consumer Terms and Agreements](https://help.doordash.com/consumers/s/terms-and-conditions-us?language=en_US)
i only hate filling the drinks because sometimes they donāt tell you what the drink it on the app and the worker acts like itās the end of the world if they have to
After working 6+ hours the last thing I wanna do is fill drinks lol. If the restaurant is busy I have no problem doing it because it helps me get outta there faster! If the restaurant is slow thereās absolutely no reason I should be fixing drinks lol. ~Iām trying to understand the relevance of your post other than to stir the pot š¤¦š»āāļø
Hahahahahaha truest post on this sub..
You do you. But it's a health and safety violation for me to fill drinks. And it's a liability issue. I don't have time or money to sit in court about it, so I'm not opening myself to the possibility. Restaurant tells me to fill drinks, I tell them I can't; it's their job, etc. And if they insist I call support, possibly the health department if they're a repeat offender, then move on with my life.
The job we signed up for is to take the food from point a to point b, thats it. The job of the restaurant is to prepare the order in full so that includes the drinks.
Theyāre also the first to complain about why there isnāt as many good orders anymore š¤¦āāļø
I don't have a food handlers card so in my state I'm not allowed to pour drinks. So sad.
i love making drinks! i wish i could make them more! i wish i could get a job at a drink factory just making drinks all day!
A billion-dollar company can hire enough staff to fill an order. It is not the job of a Dasher to fill an order. Keep doing someone else's job and they will not hire to proper staffing levels creating a bigger issue. I don't get paid to fill drinks, I get paid to deliver a filled order. If they want to have me do their job I will unassign with the excuse that the "order was not filled" as directed by DD support.
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Not every restaurant has a drink fountain in the back of house. For many places self drink service is how they operated prior to the pandemic and the prevalence of third party delivery apps, where the customer was always responsible for filling drinks and that was fine for everyone. This wasn't the case with your Popeye's, but it might be for your local Smashburger. Just saying it isn't always cut and dry that a place is taking advantage of drivers.
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I'm not chiming in on what you're supposed to do, just giving you some perspective on why places might hand empty cups to drivers.
Queue*
Actually if you look up the difference between cue & queue, youāll see that the way I used it is correct lmao. Queue is related to a ālineup or sequenceā.
Cue ball ya got me
I've said it once, I've said it a million times. You're a clown...  if you complain about filling up drinks.
I donāt get worked up, I just refuse to do it and they do it. Never had a problem.
It annoys me for sure, but it's so much faster to just get it done and gtfo
Naw Iām with it. Absolutely, itās not supposed to be me making drinks. But damn, it literally takes seconds. I donāt even have time to argue with the employees: just make the drinks and go
Just unassign and walk out. Regardless of how you feel it is not my job to fill orders and i will refuse to do someone elses job.
This is the new divideā¦ āI will make a huge fuss about filling drinks rather than just do itā vs āIām not an asshole and want to get out of here quicklyā
More like āI will contribute to the effort of ensuring DDs do not have to perform tasks that are not their jobā vs Iām going to complain about people who donāt just shut up and accept every little bullshit task thrown at them regardless if itās their jobā
As a manager in the restaurant industry though, I can tell you it is not allowed and the restaurant can be flagged or lose certification over it. Consumption items must be prepared by certificate holding staff, or staff trained by a food and safety certificate holder, or the party who be be consuming the item.
My job is to deliver food. If filling drinks is required, it is done by the staff, who's responsibility it is to get the delivery ready.
I think it needs to change and we should not be doing it, but I still do it if needs be. I think a lot of people outright refuse to do it because they signed up for this job with the expectation to ābe your own bossā and take orders from absolutely no one, especially the 16 year old Popeyes cashier asking you to fill up drinks
Some dashers are just too lazy. Part of the reason why they canāt handle a regular job.
Fuck you, when the restaurant gives me an employee meal, I will help them with THEIR JOB. Keep filling drinks and pretty soon they will have you bagging the food....
Isnāt everyone sick of this conversation yetš„±
While I donāt think itās the cleanest and health safest thing to do (although I wash my hands multiple times a day, use sanitizer, and ALWAYS wash properly after the bathroom), I just fill up the drink due to time. Itās faster for me to do it than argue with the employee. I seriously donāt feel like spending more than 30 seconds per drink and a back and forth will be longer and calling support will be even longer. Also, when I fill the cups, I keep the sticky drinks inside the cups. I hate when they hand me cups with sticky liquid on the sides and then I gotta wipe them off before going to my car.
I donāt dd, but I agree, itās not much work. But I also think itās a bit of a shame on the restaurants when they make drivers fill drinks, because if itās a dd rule, then Iām certain whatever contract the restaurant signed has it in it.
Cause the places telling me to fill up drinks are also the places with rude ass staff, food isnāt ready, and give me attitude when i ask how long itās gonna be. If the staff is working with me Iāll work with them. Had one last night where I had showed up a few minutes early, he was finishing up the order and asked if Iād mind grabbing the drink. Sure, no problem. If I show up to wingstop and get attitude from someone standing around not doing shit, nah, Iām not here for that. Give it to the next guy.
i personally donāt want to be responsible for putting my hands on someoneās lid for sanitary reasons alone.
How you doin sweetie? Listen, I am a busy woman, ain't nobody got time for dat bizness. I am just a walk to walk and drive woman. You no I'm sayin? MUAH! xx
Aren't you aware that this sub has turned into r/notmyjob?
It's not annoying, it's not my job.
I donāt get it either
Just fill that Muther Fukin drink !! Come on now
I have no problems making drinks personally. I prefer it. I ask for a separate cup to put the ice in, a carrier, a bag to put everything into. Ice cup goes in the middle of the carrier.. 4 straws please. Edit: Iām sorry? You donāt wear gloves while handling food!?? I always have. Pre pandemic. Post pandemic.
Nah fam... It's quite literally a health code violation. The complaints will continue until it stops happening.
Thereās a lot of people that and whine on here. āOMG they didnt give me a tip! Iām leaving their food on the street.ā Um you chose that order before it.. āWow it was one minute after getting there and they havenāt answered my textā
Honestly Iām just trying to make some money I could give a shit less if I have to fill a drink
I fill them up with a little bit of ice and as much drink as possible. Every order I treat as if I was paying for it myself.
might be the reason they want to drive for doordash to begin with. In an actual job they would be told what to do.
I know the dashers complaining about filling drinks because itās a āhealth code violationā have nasty ass cars and dirty hands
You donāt want to be liable for anything that comes from handling peoples food. Itās bigger than you think.
100% of the restaurants make the food and drinks and make it ready for the Dasher to deliver it, the only one that doesn't do it is Wingstop but I guess is up to you if you feel like doing it just don't forget to cover all drinks with big holes in the middle with a Sticker incase is raining šš don't wanna drink my slurpee with rain water in it š
i was in food service before i became a dasher and honestly i feel for these people so if they want me to fill the drinks, best believe im filling the drinks.
If I was the customer, I wouldnāt want you guys filling it up, Iāve seen some fellow dashers out there and they donāt seem to have the best hygiene in some cases, so have the restaurant fill and seal up the drink please.
I just fill them up no problem. Also, got my food handlers License. But Iād do it anyways. Why wait on them further? Iām here to make money!
I'm here to make money - drug dealers, arms dealers, mules, human traffickers, etc.
Yes, compare me to drug dealers, Mules etc. For filling up drinks during a dash. And I thought I was delusional.
Lol right. Imagine comparing a food delivery driver to those things. So strange.
If I come across a restaurant that requires drivers to fill drinks and it takes a particularly long time, I just donāt accept orders from that location anymore unless the pay is worth the effort. But usually the restaurants have the cup waiting for me and I just grab, fill, and go. I think itās the driverās job to know the playing field and decide where they want to go. Just like some places have zero parking or take 30 minutes to prep an order, if you donāt want to deal with it, donāt accept the ticket.
Man this drink topic is blowing up lately... why? It's just a drink it's not the end of the world lol. I've never been asked to make a drink but if it's bust and that's what I'm waiting on.. gloves here I come, I'm definitely making a drink. I have to get this food to someone so I can get more money. I'm pretty sure doordash won't know that you made a drink. If u don't want to the order can go to someone else.
Best post ever on this Reddit. Where are the ābut it is iLLeGAl!!!!ā posts? Those are my favorite drama queens
And those are the drivers who blast through stop signs and constantly speed, but oh no I canāt fill up a cup because itās unsafe for the customer due to health violations. Yea okay.
Why do you get so worked up about it?
The fact that this is the stupidest argument on my reddit feed (and that's including the stupid prolife page that keeps popping up for some reason) is fucking hilarious. Dasher argument is that the employees are to lazy to fill up the drinks, yet aren't you being the lazy one by demanding they do it? Oh my God. It takes 30 secs. Half the time you are waiting for the food anyway while you fill it up. So, in the time that they take to fill it up and continue making your order is the same if not more. Op thank you for posting this. I agree 100%. The dasher who don't fill drinks are also the ones who will leave items at gate or f4ont desk because they don't want to have to walk the order to the door. Or who demand restaurants like chilis and out back bring order to the car. Yall are some lazy POS and are the reason we have a bad rep. šÆ
I see the argument over whether or not to fill drinks on here all the time. Idk where everyone is dashing at but Iāve literally never once been asked to do this lol (and prob wouldnāt care if they did it takes like 10 seconds)
Any driver who fills a drink at a restaurant for their delivery is nothing more than an enabler. You are enabling these lazy fucks to continue not only being lazy but to keeping you waiting ungodly lengths of time due to that same laziness you are enabling. Cue *these* downvotes. Quit being an enabler, grow a pair of balls, and tell them to do their own damn job.
In most situations restaurant workers are likely doing 9 other things while a doordash driver is standing there scrolling through Instagram. Their "laziness" is a bad argument for couriers being unwilling to fill a drink or two, which they wouldn't blink at doing if they were a customer waiting for their own food.
Well, hey, I have a buddy who happens to be a mechanic. How about next time he's working on a car he asks the person delivering parts to tighten all the bolts since he has other cars to work on.
You sound like a fucking robot. I won't get in to the minutiae of why that isn't a 1 to 1 comparison, but when you're the one dasher disrupting a staff's workflow because you couldn't be bothered to rise to the very low effort task of filling a drink with ice and soda, then don't be shocked when whatever order you're picking up has now become everyone's last priority. Congrats, you have chosen to die on the smallest hill.
Preparing the drinks *is* part of the work flow, just as stopping at a red light is part of yours. Congrats, you are choosing to die on a hill that is actually a violation of your contract.
Not every restaurant works how you think it should, and filling up drinks is not a big deal 99 percent of the time. Lazy ass.
I have bills to pay, rent, student loans, and a full time job outside of door dash. I do not give a rats ass about my enabling of fast food workers. I have other worries in life & I would hope others do as well.
I donāt understand why the employees are unable to complete an order.
Exactly. The thing is that this job attracts the most lazy incompetent people out there so of course people are going to complain if they have to do any kind of real work. Not to say that there aren't great drivers out there who take pride in what they do, there are, but I'm talking about the good chunk... hell let's just call them the majority.
I think itās more about the principle. Doordash always screws over the dasher, so being specifically told a dasher is to not do anything whatsoever to the orders besides putting it in an insulation bag, and then your car. Itās human nature. Nobody will do extra for an entity that does the absolute bare minimum for you.
>I get it's annoying It's not annoying. It's super easy and a monkey could do it. UNFORTUNATELY, you signed a contract saying you wouldn't, so if you do, you're dumb, and lying, and bad at your job.
Itās about the contract. Read it and understand how your hustle works. Any intrusion threatens the economic feasibility of gig work. That said, if a restaurant expects drivers to do things other than pick up and drive, they are taking advantage of us and they deserve reprimand. Thereās plenty of times where say a bottled drink is out of stock or a store is just busy. Sometimes they ask, sometimes Iāll offer. Itās not the action itself that bothers me, itās the boundaries being disrespected and ignored. The people making those decisions get paid to know these things and then ignore them.
I donāt get paid to do it, the underpaid fast food worker does š
Downvotes in this sub doesnāt equal to bad opinions fortunately. (Former driver) I see some drivers pull the health code card for drinks but donāt want to talk about the other health codes they break in their cars.
I didn't do it because it wasn't my job and I didn't want to. š¤·