Uber Eats: Food Delivery 12+

Worst customer service ever

So I have to say I have successfully used Uber eats many times. That said if something goes wrong, there is absolutely no recourse. Recently, after trying to find a restaurant in my area to pick some food up from I placed an order. It was for a Vietnamese restaurant that I had been wanting to try in my neighborhood. Except the one in my neighborhood had closed a few months before without me knowing it. The one I was clicking on was three cities and about 45 minutes away. The moment I place the order and the address came up I realized the mistake. I quickly called the restaurant and told them not to make the order. They said they would cancel it and suggested I reach out to the app. I tried to call the app immediately but there is no phone number. Anywhere. Customer service literally does not exist. Finally a few days later I track down an email. I made the complaint. I told them it had been only 90 seconds from ordering to cancellation. I told him the restaurant confirmed that they had never made the order. But they don’t care. They sent me an auto generated reply and charged me $23 for a meal I never had. A few friends told me this is happened to them as well, as if the app is intentionally suggesting places that are too far away. I suggest you call the restaurant directly and have their delivery people bring the food or use another app with real customer service. I certainly hope this isn’t a window into a human less future. Sad. And expensive.

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.

Poor organization

I’ve had two terrible experiences with the app.
1) my food was delivered in the middle of winter by someone on a bicycle. No protective bag or basket to put the food in, just a bag of heavy, hot food exposed the the freezing winter air, dangling on someone’s bike. When it finally arrived nearly 2 hours after placing the order (the restaurant was only 1.2 miles away from my house and should not have taken that long) , it was freezing cold. I felt worse for the poor delivery guy that had to ride on poorly lit, winding roads in the middle of winter. He even states that he “wasn’t supposed to” be making deliveries over a certain amount of mileage away).
2) I ordered food from a location that was 3 miles away from my house (10 minutes drive) got a notification that it was picked up, and that it would be delivered in 10 minutes. Makes sense... after checking the app 10 minutes later, when the order should have arrived, it continued to say it was 10 minutes away. The tracking showed that the driver was in the complete opposite direction of our house and the restaurant. After checking another 10 minutes later, the driver was still in the same spot. Another 10 minutes, and they were still there. We called and he said he was “driving and is on his way”. After a few minutes he started moving, but was still going in the opposite direction.

Deleting this app immediately and never using it again.

Developer Response ,

Hi, we are sorry to hear about your unpleasant experience with the damaged orders and the delay in the delivery of the order. We would like to take a closer look into this issue of yours. Please send a quick note to help.uber.com/eaters so we can connect.