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I personally haven’t bought a meal from Just Eat since I received a delivery to my hotel room which was just grim, a really poorly made Indian.
Now the bbc researchers are catching up...if you buy, perhaps stick to recognised names??
Firms on takeaway food app had 'no hygiene rating'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-42910628
Wow, that's pretty impressive use of the span style there!
Fixed.
You could look up a business to check its food hygiene rating. http://ratings.food.gov.uk/
What is it with these apps? Why don't you just phone your fave takeaway (who's hygiene rating you probably know) & order?
I'm just saying cos thats what we do. Phone, order, pay.
Or am I missing something unhygienic?
Completely agree. But have used just eat myself on a handful of occasions myself when in strange cities on business.
Youd like to think that just eat would have some form of due diligence before adding providers.
Five takeaways out of over 28,000?
Slow news night?
</span><span style="color: #444444; font-size: 16px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: transparent;">What is it with these apps? Why don’t you just phone your fave takeaway (who’s hygiene rating you probably know) & order?
phone then? and talk to a human being? OK grandad!
Seriously though, just eat overcomes some minor inconveniences - no need to find the number; no need to call several times at peak periods because it’s engaged; no need to either guess the menu or engage with the staff who have a poor grasp of English [and that includes the natives]; no need to have cash or hand over your card details on the phone to someone who may not be there next week; no need to phone back if the delivery is not there 30 minutes after they said (I assume just eat let’s you track the order but I’ve only used it once).
The take away market is all about perceived convenience - usually you can make a pizza in the time it takes to arrive.
It will be the perfect Soylent Green delivery system.
"Hi,your feedback is important to us,please let us know if your sludge does not arrive on time or is not at the correct temp.Have a nice day"
🙂
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;"> "What is it with these apps? Why don’t you just phone your fave takeaway (who’s hygiene rating you probably know) & order?</span>
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">I’m just saying cos thats what we do. Phone, order, pay.</span>
<span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Or am I missing something unhygienic?"</span>
For me, there's a couple of things.
I really detest talking to people on the phone out of work, I especially dislike phoning people whilst the rest of my family decide to chip in with their requests and 'can you ask them' blah blah blahs when I'm doing so.
I won't have a menu to hand, JustEat is just a tickbox thing.
I can pay online, I don't know of any takeaways save perhaps the big chain places that take card orders over the phone, I don't use cash as a rule and rarely carry any.
But we only order from a couple of places we know anyway. I'm not surprised the next logical step for retailers is to close the expensive high street locations and work out of somewhere else non-customer facing.
Perhaps this will force them to display the ratings on their site/app - not that they'll enforce them to keep it up to date etc, as with most online businesses, they'll have a huge sales force roaming about signing up places and a small admin team running the site.
Just eat is good because they have a menu you can look through on your phone - most takeaways don't have websites so you can't view their menu anywhere else, so if you want to try something new it's great.
If you order from the same place all the time then sure, skip JustEat and they'll probably either let you off a few quid or chuck in some free prawn crackers (it costs them money to be on JustEat)
We always Google the hygiene rating before eating anywhere - seen some real shockers come out. 1 and 2 ratings are more common that I thought.
Another fun game is to Google street view the takeaway - some places look like they need to be condemned!
Ahh, I get it now. I'm so old fashioned (that IS true) that we still have about 10 menus from different takeaways, in a kitchen drawer.
So I say, 'Chinese, Indian, Pizza, Kebab...etc etc. Then we order.
I must try & keep up with the times!
Why don’t you just phone your fave takeaway
But the OP was in a hotel. I would assume that means they weren't near their home so they couldn't use their preferred takeaway.