Can't say I've ever left reviews online, either. Not looking to shame or name drop a struggling restaurant, just to commiserate about the flawed and exploitative system of gig labor.
Outlier maybe, but definitely something that only happened because of the fact that delivery drivers are allowed to walk right up to wherever prepared orders are kept and take whatever is there with no questions asked.
I'm a fairly nonconfrontational person so I just took my cold food without argument and heated it up again at home. The restaurant at least comped part of the bill by way of apology.
I'll say I live in a big city and have never once used Doordash/Uber Eats/any other exploitative meal delivery app for that reason. But even then you're not safe.
I once placed an online order for takeout, ordered on the actual site for the restaurant (not any of those branded online order services hosted by the meal delivery companies), picked the option that said I'd walk over and pick it up, and then was told when I got there that Doordash already came by and grabbed it.
I then get a call on my phone from a Doordash driver asking where I live, because it wasn't included with the order for some reason (gosh I can't imagine why that would be). After spending 5 minutes explaining that I would not give them my address because I was at the restaurant and never ordered delivery, they show up 10 minutes later and hand me a cold bag of takeout.
Your comment made me wonder if there was any such place where you could go and have pizzerias everywhere.
I couldn't find anything like an entire plaza of pizza (though it wouldn't surprise me if that existed somewhere) but I did learn that apparently Buenos Aires has the most pizzerias of any major city in the world. So if there is such a thing as a pepperoni piazza, I'd guess Argentina would be the place to check first.
It makes me sad because this used to be the kind of story one might be able to tell in the US, but no longer.
Happy to see that stories like this can at least still be told somewhere. Wishing Canada all the prosperity it needs and deserves to continue championing the cause of basic human decency.
Good catch. I linked this post in the comments of that other post you linked, and it looks like the moderators have since removed the post entirely.
There was another one linking out to that same site (maybe the other post you saw as well) which I recall had an extremely misleading clickbait-y headline. It also seems to have been removed, so at least mods are staying on top of it.
Does Lemmy have the ability to automatically block/remove posts leading to certain domains? Seems to be a common thread of these accounts trying to promote this one "news" site. Though I don't imagine this sort of thing will stop at one site.
I think it's unfair to say that the US is what dictates the direction and usage of the English language. It contributed, sure, but it's not because of the US that English is so widely-spoken in the first place. We have Britain to thank for that.
If the US ever adopts a second language to use for trade, it will be Spanish, just by virtue of who its neighbors are and how many native Spanish speakers live in the US already.
It's basically a reflection of global power. Before English had that standard in Europe, it was French. We still describe such languages as a "lingua franca" even in contexts where that lingua isn't franca anymore.
Esperanto isn't anyone's native language by design, but it meant that there was no major global power which necessitated its use. So it fell by the wayside, which is why English is spoken around the world instead despite being such a poorly-constructed option.
Chaotic good might even be something more like breaking into your bank and erasing part of your debt by way of repayment.