/ck/ - Food & Cooking

"I've not thought to order anything from there since, definitely not if it's going to cost that much. I'm sure they'll have had no orders because of that charge."

Alegria says she didn't think to contact Deliveroo about it because it would have been more hassle than just making the food herself.

The New Thai Kitchen claim they call each customer if their order is subject to a large charge to see if they'd like to go ahead with delivery and believe it’s justified.

A spokesperson for New Thai Kitchen said: "As a service provider we have a certain distance that we cover. If the order is beyond that, the minimum order amount has to be so much.

"The customer has the right to cancel the order, and if we see an order like this we call them up and tell them they are being charged a certain amount and ask if they still want to go ahead, then we can cancel it for them.

"If we have a customer in Central London, it wouldn't be feasible to send an order of £5 an hour and a half journey away.

"The fee is justified because if you think about it anyone can order through Deliveroo from anywhere so you have to have to look at the distance that's covered.

"The owner has set up the minimum order with Deliveroo, so if it's out of our range the minimum order has to be a certain amount."

Delivero says that New Thai Kitchen are not full Deliveroo partners, meaning they arrange and pay for their own deliveries.

Deliveroo says the minimum order fee of £15 had been reached on Alegria's order, so the additional charge was due to the delivery distance.

A spokesperson for Deliveroo said: "At Deliveroo we want our amazing customers to have the best food delivery experience possible.

"To show our appreciation to our customer, we have sent some free credit to ensure they have a great experience next time.

"We have also spoken to the restaurant partner to advise on how they can improve the customer experience."

Alegria’s tweet, including the screengrab of the incident and the tongue-in-cheek caption 'maybe moving to Islington wasn’t a great shout' has racked up more than 1,200 likes and retweets.

John Calvin replied, saying: "This is like twice the monthly rent for a hostel accommodation where I'm at right now."

User @JJDodders said: "The RUDENESS of that 'spend £25 and get 15% off' and you didn't even get that discount despite spending £160."

@waterb4by added: "How is £20 a small order anyway."

Holy shit, who fucking cares?

>>16131050
>>16131052
>>16131056
Why do Brits make news stories about the most benign shit?

>>16131050
>small order fee

Deserved it for living in London. Fuck London.

Lmao @ poorfags

Can’t pay $160 for a small Thai meal? Don’t order delivery simple as

>>16131067
Because the Murdoch press needs to keep the proles outraged at SOMETHING so they don't realize how bad they're being fucked over by its minions in Westminster.

why the fuck is this news?

No tip?

>i buy things and blindly click the ok button
Stupid bitch. Also, Reddit spacing.

Definitely a bit far away but yeah small order fees suck

>>16131050
Fuck she's boring. How can she speak at such length about nothing?

>>16131133
>How can she speak at such length about nothing?
Well, she's a woman.

>>16131052
>"If we have a customer in Central London, it wouldn't be feasible to send an order of £5 an hour and a half journey away.

Take Away fags deserve everything they get

>>16131129
oh... yeah she is completely to blame what a fiucking moron.

>>16131108
>Reddit spacing
Newfag being.

>>16131719
>doesn't know what reddit scaping it

It's ok, everyone

starts

somewhere

>>16131869

Let me guess, you're going to say that it's putting a space between the post # and the first sentence like this?

Because it's a very liquid definition that can be changed when people point out that it's stupid?

Stop trying so hard to fit in, reddit spacing was 101% first typed by someone losing an argument and it should never have caught on.

>>16131064
OP wanted to make a troll thread for some reason. OP is a faggot.

>>16131074
10/10s in bongland

>>16131719
Ok chud

>>16131050
Very cool

>>16131719
Who's moot?

>>16131050
Imagine spending ages trying to order something and ultimately settling on delivery from a place 40 minutes away.

>>16132395
the creator of 9gag

>>16132395
He used to be in charge round these parts, back in the sigourney candy ass days. The moderation was very bad then. People who hate the jannies today have no idea how bad they used to be. Today it's different, but still got issues.

>>16132408
>>16132395
every newt gingrich would call moot a faggot. It was the common greeting back then.

Somebody justify all these millennials and their obsession with having food delivered.
You're really going to pay $10 extra and wait 45 minutes for your food because you couldn't get off the couch for 5 minutes to go pick it up yourself? I'm not even upset about the egregious sloth involved in the equation, it's just such a retarded thing to pay MORE so you can wait LONGER to eat.

>>16131137
Based

>>16132434
The time you save on waiting is spent travelling to the venue and back. Time you could spend doing something else.

>>16131129
lol 80 minute round trip.

fucking bongs, of course they are this retarded

>>16131129
>30+ minutes to travel 11 or so miles
I worked a call center here in the States and was assigned the UK section. After the third "I'm not driving there to get this fixed" I finally asked an inbound call what was up.
I feel bad for you guys over there in the Kingdom.

>>16132475
>couldn't be bothered to cook when she got home from work
Something tells me these people aren't doing something else, unless you consider melting on the couch in front of the TV as an activity. You may as well sit in the car and listen to some music, smoke a ciggie, and save $10 to eat 15 minutes sooner

>>16131050
>If I'm too lazy to cook I don't mind paying the normal £3.99-£4.99 charge,

>put together online order
>see unreasonable fee on final total
>decide to cancel the order rather than finalize it as a result
So she did what anyone with a mildly functional brain would do
>This becomes newsworthy in London
Lol what? How the fuck does that happen in fucking London of all places?
If a non-story about painfully trivial shit came from New Zealand or something, then sure, but London?

>>16132395
Created Facebook dude.

>>16131129

11.1 miles is a long way?

Wow!

For me, it's 80 miles to the doctor's office.

It's 20 miles to the nearest fast food place which could explain why I hardly ever eat fast food. If I'm going to drive 40 miles round trip to eat, I'm damned sure not going to Taco Hell.

>>16132475
>Time you could spend doing something else
Anon I get giving the benefit of the doubt but come the fuck on. Nobody ordering food off of these apps are going to do anything near productive during that time.

>>16132514
https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1620963453993.webm

>>16132614
And your food delivery options are, what? Basically nothing? So there you go.

>>16132503
By the same logic they should just cook for themselves. "order out but make sure you make the drive" is sort of a weird middle ground. Being slightly less of a lazy shit isn't worth staking so much pride on.

>>16131050
>thai restaurant
>katsu curry
>PUMPKIN katsu curry
has to be fake, a troll or just a really really really shitty """""""""thai"""""""""" restaurant.

>>16131129
>11miles
>30min
fake

why not just starve for days on end havent seen the broad but im guessing itd do her some good

>>16131067
I'm not sure, but I do know that USA's FOX News loves to pick up on random isolated stories like this from other countries and make them out to be some terrifying international trend.

>>16134309
It's some ugly black chick.

>>16134301
you're not so good at maths, are you?
using your measurements: 60 MPH=1 mile/minute
surely you know that the speeds will be considerably less than. 11 miles at 60/mph ONE WAY= 22 minutes both ways, innit? If most of the trip is at 30 MPH, DOUBLE the time, yeah?

>>16132395
Creator of Grindr

>>16131067
Brits love this kind of utterly minute nonsense. The papers love it because they don't have to cover the consequences of electing Tories over and over again, it gives the boomers something to be outraged over that isn't blatant corruption.

>>16131052
>be retarded
>order from a shop an hour round trip
>get money for it
clownworld.

>>16132614
>For me, it's 80 miles to the doctor's office
And you have to walk uphill both ways barefoot in the snow, right?

>>16131129
Driving to the center of San Francisco during the morning commute isn't even that bad what the fuck is wrong with London?

>>16134295
Theres Thai places that serve pumpkin curry near me what's the issue?

>>16134840
He's fucking stupid. He probably thinks that pumpkins aren't "authentic Thai cuisine" despite some variety of squash and gourd existing in almost every corner of the Earth. Not to mention that there are several varieties native to Asia that even if Thais didn't have their own varieties (and they do) they'd be trading for them with other countries' merchants.

>>16134323
>USA's FOX News
Yeah, no lefty "news" ever pumps out shit like this.

>>16131067
Article writers have quotas they must meet every month

>>16135620
all news outlets are like this, they don't exist to inform you, they exist to monetize fear and you play right into it with your left/right tribalism

>>16131067
The reporter class is desperate to justify their own existence in a world where the only important things that happen aren't politically expedient to report on.

>>16131050
>but they defended the decision, because of how long it would have taken them to deliver to Algeria
heh

>>16131719
moot was a redditor

>>16131050
Sounds to me like the dumb bitch knew she was ordering from an unreasonable distance and the restaurant wanted to see how much an Islington rich cunt would be willing to fork over to get it. They lost literally nothing except an order they didn't want to fulfil anyway.

>>16135974
99% of this site is redditors pretending they don't go there

>>16135974
>Your God was a redditor. Moot was a redditor like me

>>16131050
Delivery apps are universally shit. Food arrives cold, takes 45 minutes when you could pick it up yourself in 15, and costs twice as much

>>16134420
of course

>>16132395
just another roody-poo

>>16131090
This is the Mirror.

>>16137144
this

>>16132493
so what is up there tho

>>16137144
No, it's a news article. Learn the difference, dipshit.

>>16131050
>>16131052
Part and Parcel

>>16138320
dumb phoneposter

>>16135569
nah pumpkins go in some thai dishes
but a Katsu Curry?
It's like yes
I want to eat unauthentic Jap food from a thai fucking restaurant.
it's like going to Maccas and asking for some spaghetti.

>>16132614
No one cares about your life though, besides, we're talking about someone's livelihood, not you driving yourself around.

>>16138393
>NOOOO YOU HAVE TO GO HOME, LOG INTO YOUR RAZER GAYMING DESKTOP, BOOT UP GENTOO, AND TYPE ALL YOUR 4channel.org SHITPOSTS ON YOUR MECHANICAL CHERRY SWITCH KEYBOARD NOOOOOOO

>>16132614
>trying to "one up" other peoples problems
you need to stop.

>>16135569
hey retard
mans was talking about the katsu
which isnt fucking thai
you absolute blithering idiot

>>16132503
>has never lived in a city

>>16138556
Correct