Doordash doesn't even do a good job at it. The tech is awful. The website is slow; on mobile, it's so slow it's unusable. Payment issues require you to open dev tools to see actual actionable errors returned by the server.
Strongly agreed that these gig companies, at least in their current form, can die as quick a death as possible.
Why do folks have such different experiences with these things? Me and some friends I regularly hang out with regularly use door dash to get food for all of us. We're all web devs and fairly picky about website speed and no one has ever had any problem with the doordash app. Maybe some weird things with edge cases with restaurants that have combinations of sides/options that don't fit the doordash ui well, but not general slowness.
I would most definitely not want Doordash to die a quick death and I'm sad that you do! If not for their existence it would probably be too much trouble to do the research about restaurants in our area that are open, what their food is, how to order, then place the order via whatever novel phone or buggy online ordering system they've set up. We'd probably just end up ordering Domino's every week instead of what we do now which would be worse for everyone!
If you're using the app, that might explain the difference. I'm using the mobile web interface and it's so slow that they've lost sales from me before - not because I got frustrated and stopped, but because it took 10+ minutes to put together an order and the restaurant stopped taking orders before I could get it in. This has happened multiple times.
The desktop web interface is slow enough to be irritating but not so slow it's unusable.
Finding open restaurants with Google Maps is pretty easy. They have a specific option for "is currently open", and menus are frequently linked right from the business's listing.
Agreed their tech is awful. Website is painstakingly slow. I order on mobile using their website directly instead of the app, and they have some lame bugs on their homepage.
Cannot comment on gig companies dying out but this company is so overrated.
Strongly agreed that these gig companies, at least in their current form, can die as quick a death as possible.