[News] Never mind a nation of shopkeepers.........

[portlock seagull]

TBF the person ordering could be ill. Or have child care issues and cannot leave their home.

When I had COVID I used UberEats to deliver from the Co-Op which is a 2 minute walk.

Oh do behave. It’s 99.999999% certain they’re a lazy duck. Nothing more. Nothing less. Not saying they’ve not got issues as you say. Just they’re lazy issues. Which is why they can’t cook either. Or make a sandwich seemingly.

 

[Jimmy Grimble]

I think the stereotype of takeaways being the choice of only obese people has come to an end.

Regularly see my neighbours get deliveries and they’re all slim, healthy-looking types. One of them is in very good shape and she’s the one who seems to get the most deliveries!

I guess delivery options are far wider in choice these days.

 

[BevBHA]

Try looking at McDonald’s london road. It’s basically a car park outside of Moped’s of Uber east and Deliveroo drivers

 

[Blue3]

Sitting in Broadwater having a coffee looking at the constant stream of Just Eat drivers coming in and and out of the KFC, have we turned into a nation of lazy f*****?

You'd have thought the luxury of takeaway delivery would have been one of the first victims of a financial crisis?

More importantly is your coffee from a well known multinational chain or the litte cafe next to KFC

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I have definitely been guilty of overusing the Just eat app.

A few years ago several localish takeaway drivers would tell me that it was much cheaper to go on the takeaway's website and order direct.
Clearly Just eat /Uber eats are the only ones benefitting from this.

Fortunately my local Chippy (and kebabs) is stuck in a bygone era - Cash only - no delivery.
They do take phone orders though.

Comfortably the best quality takeaway in the area too.

 

[South Stand Bonfire]

I think the stereotype of takeaways being the choice of only obese people has come to an end.

Regularly see my neighbours get deliveries and they’re all slim, healthy-looking types. One of them is in very good shape and she’s the one who seems to get the most deliveries!

I guess delivery options are far wider in choice these days.

Picture??!

 

[Brovion]

I enjoy walking round to the takeaway place to collect my food.

Carrying a bag of Chinese or fish and chips, getting whiffs of the food as you walk home, is part of the experience for me.

Plus I f***ing hate the delivery cyclists and moped mob that occupy every street corner and pavement outside restaurants. I’m glad to deprive them of my custom.

Well, not the individual delivery people, they’re only trying to make a living. But as a concept, it goes against how I think humans should be behaving. Sitting on one’s arris, waiting for some underpaid, under-represented employee to deliver junk food is anathema to me.

They’ll be feeding us the food next.

Yes, same. I like going to the chippy. I chat to the guys, and sometimes meet neighbours in there. And yeah the smell is part of the anticipation.

Mind you I do like the idea in your last sentence, perhaps there's a new business idea there: 'FeedU'. Save the hassle and strain of moving your arms up and down to transport the food from the container to your mouth. The adverts can all be of attractive young people smiling to each other, and then opening wide whilst an operative shovels food into their gobs like a mother bird feeding a chick.

 

[Lenny Rider]

More importantly is your coffee from a well known multinational chain or the litte cafe next to KFC

No old boy Muldoons, always shop local. Can’t get too upset obviously but it’s also a tad annoying when clients come into the office with a Starbucks or Costa cup, when there’s three independent cafes, Muldoons, Graze and Roos in the same parade.


They’ve chosen small independent for their funerals but not their coffees

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Working my way through a Mighty Bucket For One in Broadwater I’ve just looked up from my window seat and there’s a bloke in the outside seating area of Muldoons staring at me, have we really become a nation of voyeurs?

Edit- also some bloke doing the same across the road in Starbucks!

 

[BNthree]

I think the stereotype of takeaways being the choice of only obese people has come to an end.

Regularly see my neighbours get deliveries and they’re all slim, healthy-looking types. One of them is in very good shape and she’s the one who seems to get the most deliveries!

Getting deliveries frees up her time so she can go to the gym!

 

[El Presidente]

Could also be that many places that used to offer work canteens or equivalent have now closed them so people get together and treat themselves to a hot lunch delivery.

You do know that ‘hot lunch delivery’ is a term from the Viz Profanisaurus?

Very popular in Germany by all accounts too.

 

[GJN1]

I think the stereotype of takeaways being the choice of only obese people has come to an end.

Regularly see my neighbours get deliveries and they’re all slim, healthy-looking types. One of them is in very good shape and she’s the one who seems to get the most deliveries!

The house next door is shared by a bunch of late 20/early 30 somethings. There's one guy in there who lives off deliveries. He's is obese. Miserable sod too.

 

[Justice]

The house next door is shared by a bunch of late 20/early 30 somethings. There's one guy in there who lives off deliveries. He's is obese. Miserable sod too.

In reality he’s probably depressed.

 

[GJN1]

In reality he’s probably depressed.

Yeah, you're probably right, in which case I apologise.

 

[Austrian Gull]

I'm very much with Martin Goodman on this topic, "Bloody internet food".

Quite happy to live here where there is no delivery option. When in the UK, prefer to collect takeaway food - nostalgic as I am.

 

[Justice]

Yeah, you're probably right, in which case I apologise.

No need to apologise, the ease of delivery and working from home is making people recluses. I travel to many homes in my job and can see it happening. These people have lost the art of communicating and generally sit in silence ignoring me despite my efforts of some chit chat.

 

[portlock seagull]

No need to apologise, the ease of delivery and working from home is making people recluses. I travel to many homes in my job and can see it happening. These people have lost the art of communicating and generally sit in silence ignoring me despite my efforts of some chit chat.

It’s well documented younger generations cannot verbally communicate and avoid at all costs. The speed they text and type at however is impressive. If it wasn’t so sad!

 

[portlock seagull]

I'm very much with Martin Goodman on this topic, "Bloody internet food".

Quite happy to live here where there is no delivery option. When in the UK, prefer to collect takeaway food - nostalgic as I am.

You gut bio will be so much better for. You’re missing nothing.

 

[portlock seagull]

No old boy Muldoons, always shop local. Can’t get too upset obviously but it’s also a tad annoying when clients come into the office with a Starbucks or Costa cup, when there’s three independent cafes, Muldoons, Graze and Roos in the same parade.


They’ve chosen small independent for their funerals but not their coffees

Going to stick up for Costa here.
They branded my taste buds a long time ago. My two independents nearby do much better food, I rarely if ever buy food from Costa. But their coffee is way better. There is skill making coffee and I’m very lucky my Costa has permanent people been there years.

 

[Pickles]

Back in the eighties, after pubs shut and gone around someone's house, we'd ring up the local taxi firm and ask them to go a late night petrol station and deliver us a packet of fags, which they did for the cost of the fags plus the cab fare of said packet....