Oppo PSA: Don't let "Karen" order food delivery!!!

"boredalways" (boredalway666)
09/21/2020 at 15:20 • Filed to: Karens, Karen's Killer Reviews, oppo psa, PSA, Food Deliveries, Yelp, Doordash, UberEats, Grubhub, Bad online reviews

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DISCUSSION (16)

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > boredalways
09/21/2020 at 15:24

To be fair, those Karens can be pretty unfair to the delivery drivers too. Experience delivering from doordash has taught me some people will simply not accept even the smallest annoyance.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > boredalways
09/21/2020 at 15:26

I really do feel bad for all the good, kind, caring Karens out there...

Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available > Who is the Leader - 404 / Blog No Longer Available
09/21/2020 at 15:26

Oh, and can I please have an option to see the median reviews?

For Sweden > boredalways
09/21/2020 at 15:27

I’m not saying everyone named Karen decades before the Karen meme is a terrible person that should be sent to Siberia as traitors to the revolution

I am not not saying that however

Sovande > For Sweden
09/21/2020 at 15:33

Can confirm. I dated a Karen in high school and college. I thought she was perfect until she said “I wanna date a lot of guys.” Turns out she had already started.

For Sweden > Sovande
09/21/2020 at 15:34

I thought honesty was good in relationships

ranwhenparked > boredalways
09/21/2020 at 15:41

Those reviews have really limited the effectiveness of TripAdvisor and Yelp. “Food was excellent , but decor was a little dated - 2 stars” or “hotel was nice, staff amazing, but bathroom was on the small side - 1 star” the meaningless shit some people choose to focus on is ridiculous.

facw > boredalways
09/21/2020 at 15:47

I don’t know, the restaurant made the choice to partner with a third-party delivery service, so it seems entirely fair to apportion them some blame.

Obviously you can go overboard with that, but if you order from a restaurant and receive bad service, that is the restaurant’s problem, and it’s incumbent on them to make it right , or to make their delivery partner make it right.

Just Jeepin' > facw
09/21/2020 at 16:05

Not always. Sometimes the 3rd party delivery companies have no relationship with the restaurants, and GrubHub has been creating fake websites for restaurants to force them through GrubHub instead of ordering directly from the restaurants.

https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/counterfeit-capitalism-food-delivery

facw > Just Jeepin'
09/21/2020 at 16:12

I mean, if Grubhub is doing that, they are infringing on trademarks and should be sued for damages.

In any event, there is generally a relationship, and even if you sign up with grubhub, you still have the option to provide your own delivery services. The point is that it is your restaurant, and it’s your responsibility to make sure the customer has a good experience. Outsourcing the work doesn’t mean you can outsource the blame if you are putting your name on it.

Just Jeepin' > facw
09/21/2020 at 16:14

I’m reluctant to blame restaurants that are hanging on for dear life under good circumstances, much less a pandemic, for not having the resources to manage the experience once the food leaves their location .

Sovande > For Sweden
09/21/2020 at 16:22

I wouldn't have any idea.

facw > Just Jeepin'
09/21/2020 at 16:26

If they don’t have the resources to provide good service, then they are still providing bad service, and it seems entirely fair to knock them for that.

If my company sells something on Amazon, and the shipper messes up, we try to make it up for the customer, we don’t pass the buck, because we understand that ultimately, the customer is the important one. And if we didn’t, we’d deserve to be criticized for using a poor delivery service.

Additionally, it seems like all restaurants should be roughly in the same boat on this, so bad reviews should be distributed evenly anyway if restaurants are as helpless as you say .

ranwhenparked > For Sweden
09/21/2020 at 16:27

I think Karen is mainly a Gen X phenomenon, the Boomer equivalent is/was Linda, which is pretty much the same. The Linda would have been heard storming into the school principal’s office in the 1980s/ 1990s insisting that her Karen is perfect and couldn’t possibly have done anything to deserve a detention, it must have been one of those other girls.

Not sore what the millennial equivalent is, I think there might be some Karen bleed over at the older range.

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > boredalways
09/21/2020 at 20:42

Do people not know that yelp is a total scam?

boredalways > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
09/21/2020 at 21:57

You think that would ever cross the minds of "Karens"?