In today’s modern society, we have embraced technology to the point where ordering food from our phones and having it arrive at our doorstep in under an hour has become second nature. Despite its immediate gratification, excessive fast food ordering has its downsides.
There has been an overwhelming consumption of ordering food online rather than cooking it or buying food from stores.
There is not anything necessarily wrong with ordering food online. The problem is the consistent rate at which people run to food delivery apps such as Uber Eats and DoorDash rather than taking out a pot and making something that is most likely healthier and cheaper than ordering your favorite fast food item from a restaurant.
As a current fast food worker, I see this firsthand. I should not be able to familiarize myself with someone’s name and usual order just because they depend on delivery apps to such an excessive extent.
The overconsumption of delivery food is not solely focused on the food intake aspect; many other key issues rarely get brought up when mentioning this problem.
For example, the financial aspect of consistently using food delivery apps. This is something I have always noticed when I would occasionally DoorDash dinner.
After checking out your selected items, the taxes that DoorDash (as well as any other delivery app) collects are insane. You could select an $8 item, and the total taxes added on would make your purchase almost $25 including tips.
It seems like a reach, but unfortunately, it’s the reality of delivery apps. Those who constantly order food online, think of it as a convenience for them but don’t realize how much more they are paying for this same convenience.
After a while, one’s overconsumption of food delivery apps becomes a major financial drain. Especially considering how some food apps like Uber will often wait multiple days to charge your bank account, potentially charging you at an inopportune time.
Lastly, there is not enough talk about the psychological and social effects of overconsuming delivery apps.
If we continue to use our phones for convenient eating, as time goes on, fewer people will learn how to efficiently cook on a daily basis.
The instant gratification of food delivery apps will soon lessen one’s patience and discipline to fix up their own meals when they have their favorite fast food chain at the literal tip of their fingers.
Using food delivery apps is not our biggest problem here; it is how much we consume that advantage. Using or doing too much of anything is not healthy for us as people. This expands out towards topics far beyond just the usage of food delivery apps, such as America’s increasing obesity rate and general poor health conditions tied to America’s well-known highly unhealthy food regulations.