Uber Eats: Food Delivery 12+

False order status locking you into Order

Anyone else notice their favorite restaurants now on Uber eats ? Great right ?! Well until you realizes they aren’t actually contracted through Uber eats for service and a driver has to accept the trip before heading to the restaurant to place the order to be made. 40 mins after my order should have been delivered, a driver finally was assigned to place my order. Why is this frustrating ? Because Uber doesn’t let you cancel an order if the restaurant has confirmed it, which is understandable if you change your mind after they started making it however if the restaurant doesn't confirm the order because they don’t have a contract with them for service than why can’t you cancel it after it’s taking way too long. They should really change that policy for these situations, until a driver confirms the order than it should be considered pending and allow you to cancel your order not forcing you to wait until they find someone to go there to order it. Simply unreal, i could have ordered it and picked it up myself at this point. Get it together Uber, it’s such a greedy money game dealing with this company… all for their pockets at their customer’s expense & clearly the pay on these orders is a problem as well for the drivers if there is such a shortage that it took 30 minutes to find someone. Seriously it’s seem this company gets worse and worse with time because it’s always something.

Great application, climbing prices

The application itself works great and has many great choices in my area.

Unfortunately, I will no longer be using the (eats) service due to the rising booking fees. I could understand the fees based on distance for standalone companies hiring their own drivers. Uber has drivers who are intending to drive these distances for pay and can continue with more rides after leaving the destination (home) rather than having to drive back to the starting destination (restaurant). A pizza delivery through the pizza company 5 minutes away has a 50% lower delivery cost than Uber does for a restaurant in the same general area (within .2 miles). This is unacceptable. I guarantee you will continue to lose customers, as I already know of several other who are moving to your competitors for this very reason. I’m disappointed I will not be ordering my favorite tonight through Uber eats because it is $9 for a 10 minute drive. The restaurants are already inflating their prices from their in store prices. Don’t add to the problem.

Update: 2 days go by since the initial review. I opened the app out of curiosity and was welcomed by a notification touting lowered booking fees. From what I noticed (based on my ordering history) there have been no lowered prices. I’m glad I’m not wasting my money on this any longer. I used to order regularly from Uber eats but this has gotten out of control. Fix yourself, Uber.

Developer Response ,

Hey there! Please note that the delivery fee now varies depending on the distance of the desired restaurant to the delivery address. A restaurant located far away might deliver to the set delivery address, albeit with a higher delivery fee and vice versa. For further queries, reach out to us at https://help.uber.com/eaters and we'll connect.

Horrible customer service!!!!

I order food from you guys and it was completely cold and the food was delivered messy. The order was $65 and I spoke to 2 different “customer service specialist that that both sucked and could give me a refund the most they “could do for me” is give me a $5 Uber cash. The order came almost 1 hour from the estimated time. I understand having an order before mine but after that order was done there was no other order but mine and the driver remained in the same spot for almost 30 minutes straight until I sent him a message and he finally decided to show up after another 30 minutes. This is legit a scam! I want a full refund like we didn’t even eat the food because it was soggy and nasty by the time we received it. I took a screenshot of my message to the delivery driver as well. You guys get good ratings because most people forget about the small things and still give you a good rating, but my order was $65!!!!! I will not forget this. I’m deleting this app never using it again, from now on I’m using DoorDash. At least they get my food right, and on time if not earlier. Which is crazy because you guys are supposed to be the best right ? Number 2 listed on the App Store but what about all the small items that are missing from orders ? Like I said most people don’t mind and I’m one of those people but my order was $65 and it was disgusting.