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About 28 Percent of Food Delivery Drivers Provide Free Secret Food Tasting Services
About 28 Percent of Food Delivery Drivers Provide Free Secret Food Tasting Services-May 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:12:59

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If you’re like most of our readers, you’re likely in charge of some important organization, possibly the ruling regent of a country, the CEO of a major corporation, or a general behind a military coup. As such, you likely have expendable food tasters on payroll to insure your safety. Well, good news! You’re likely getting you order out!

Yes, according to a recent study from , a surprising 28 percent of delivery drivers admitted to taking food from a customer’s order, and since that’s only the ones who admitted it on the survey, I wouldn’t be shocked to find the actual number is a bit higher.

Interestingly, the percentage of customers who suspect that drivers have been snacking on their food is only 21 percent,but I bet that number will increase now that this report is out.

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The methods the drivers may use to snag some of your food weren’t specified, but it’s likely that most are simply grabbing some fries or onion rings, maybe a clandestine gulp of soup or chili, or, perhaps slurping out about 40 percent of the interior of your burrito via naturally-occurring gaps in the tortilla covering and a tongue rolled into a suction-tube.

You can look at this as theft of food or free food-tasting services; I’m a glass half-full kind of guy, so I choose the latter, even though I’m pretty sure it was the delivery person that made my glass only half-full in the first place.

If you’re curious, this was the survey’s methodology:

From May 9 - 13, 2019, we surveyed 1,518 American adults who have used food delivery apps, including UberEats, Grubhub, DoorDash and Postmates. Respondents’ ages ranged from 18 - 77, with a median age of 31. Additionally, from May 9 - 11, 2019, we surveyed 497 American adults who identified as having worked as a deliverer for at least one food delivery app. Respondents’ ages ranged from 21 - 63, with a median age of 30.

It seems that most (85 percent)customers would like tamper-proof packaging to help deal with this issue. Maybe that’s not the worst idea.

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