• Donkter@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Hiring a whole middleman to chauffer your burrito (if you would be able to do it yourself) is unsustainable even if they walked.

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      2 days ago

      How so? Do ingredients for home cooking just apperate? Should everyone live on a farm with public transit nearby?

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        2 days ago

        Lol no, literally my point. Transporting food wholesale to a centralized place is sustainable and efficient.

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            1 day ago

            Yeah that’s interesting. I wouldn’t mind a food bus that drops off food house to house I’m sure that exists in some places and that’s definitely more efficient. Although I’m sure right now the food is the same price and the service costs extra which wouldn’t happen if it came straight from a distro idk.

            I was talking about one person bringing one prepared meal for another person.

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              1 day ago

              Is DoorDash etc one meal at a time? Do they really not consolidate orders? I didn’t realize…

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                Afaik it depends on the situation. If it’s an efficient route and a driver accepts multiple orders from the same restaurant they might be able to take more than one. But in general they don’t restaurant hop, and back in the day when I had friends who did Uber eats, it would have to be a choice by the person to pick up more than one order at a time, so it’s one driver per restaurant per time window of accepting and order and delivering it at least. And that’s probably only assuming you’re in a busy city and not a slower rural area.

                I only say it’s unsustainable because after the food you order from the restaurant is made there are now two people in the chain for a meal for one person. That doesn’t square up even before you factor in the cost.