I’m from Frankfurt, Germany and landed in Seattle yesterday to start our West Coast trip. Got to the hotel pretty late in Downtown, and basically every restaurant around was already closed. Plus the whole Pike/Pine & 3rd Ave area felt kinda sketchy with tons of homeless people around, so wandering around looking for food at night wasn’t exactly appealing.
So we opened DoorDash and Uber Eats to order something instead. Found some decent food, went to checkout… and almost had a heart attack. No matter where or what we ordered, the fees and taxes were completely insane. You’d order like $20–30 worth of food and somehow end up paying another $20–30 in taxes, delivery fees, service fees, random mystery fees and whatever else they throw in there 😂 In some cases the fees were literally higher than the actual food.
Like do people in Seattle even still order delivery anymore? Back home in Frankfurt you can get an Uber Eats premium subscription for like 5 euros a month, no delivery fees, and the service fee is usually around 50 cents to maybe 1.50€. Totally normal.
But Seattle? Are these people out of their minds? This is honestly beyond ridiculous.
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