Takeaway Deliveries

[sherrardk]

These days do people pay for takeaways by debit card over the phone or do you pay in cash when it gets to your house? (We live in Hicksville and you can't get takeaways delivered here.)

[excelsior-1]

i do both

[queenofmean]

I pay when it gets delivered

[tonyav]

We pay on delivery.

[Butterbun]

We can get it delivered but it's costly. We just pay cash.

[sherrardk]

I'm quite surprised by the replies - would have thought that paying cash on delivery was a risk for the people supplying the food when it is so easy to take a card payment. (I would love to have a curry delivered.)

[Buenchico]

I live alone and I can't eat a tenner's worth of takeaway food in one go ('cos that's the usual minimum order for free delivery) so I've never been able to order stuff to be delivered.

[tonyav]

Order one, Chris, I'll share with you.

[berniecuddles]

i make my own curry and chinese and freeze it, pizza from asda in freezer too! dont do takeaways!

[askyourgran]

I pay cash it's usually £1 extra for delivery over 3 miles here. I prefer to pay cash, the delivery driver failed to turn up once, he said he couldn't find us, after I'd rang the shop again to ask where he was over an hour and a half later. Told him to stuff it. I don't suppose they'd mind if you pay by debit card.

[Buenchico]

>>>would have thought that paying cash on delivery was a risk for the people supplying the food

Takeaway delivery staff don't work like postmen. i.e. they don't leave their base and then deliver to lots of people before returning to base. They simply leave the shop, do a single delivery and go back to the shop again. (If they didn't do it that way, the food would go cold). As long as they hand over the money each time they go back to the shop, they'll never have more than the cost of a single delivery on them. That might typically be around £15 to £20 which is less than most people carry in their wallets or purses anyway, so they're not a particularly attractive target to muggers.

[DrFilth]

chris some do a delivery for £6 meal and above , but they charge £1 to do it

[sherrardk]

I was thinking more about people taking the food off the driver and not paying him or her.

[Butterbun]

Where I live we don't get free deliveries. Some places just don't take a card payment.

[Georgiesmum]

We dont have them very often but i have always paid cash when it is delivered.

[craft1948]

All cash on delivery here in York............

[sherrardk]

We can't even get paid for deliveries.

[Buenchico]

DrF:
Although we've got two Chinese takeaways, one Indian restaurant (with takeaway facilities), one pizza/pasta/burger place and two chippies, none of them do deliveries. So if I was to order something to be delivered I'd have to phone one of the multitude of places 4 miles down the road, who'd all expect a large order (or who would charge a lot for delivery) to come this far out.

[EcclesCake]

I think the last time I had a takeaway delivered was over a year ago....think I paid on line. I can only assume I had a bone on my leg as I'm far too tight to have had a takeout otherwise.

I am inundated with menus through the door and am stunned at how much they cost. It alarms me when I read the menus and then watch a programme where people have their supper delivered as a matter of course.

[Butterbun]

I prefer to pay cash for the very reason mentioned by ayg. If the meal had been paid by debit card, would they want to give it back?

[Elina]

That's about right Dr.. just ordered in.