[slowmotiony]

I used to use Wolt all the time back during the pandemic lockdowns, it had better choices than UberEats and you could see the drivers were either young students making some cash on the side or folks who had a lot of time and used it to bike around and make money. It also happened to have all my favourite restaurants to choose from. It just seemed honest.

Nowadays it's completely different. All the temp drivers got replaced by cheap Indians/Pakistanis doing it as a full time job (but without any insurance or benefits). And most of the restaurants don't even exist, they are literally just some guy cooking in his basement under a fake restaurant name, sometimes multiple names pretending to be competing restaurants - and they keep changing the names and logos all the time so you never even know who you're actually ordering your food from.

Just a shady business with shady "consultants" delivering food from shady places.

[geoduck14]

>they are literally just some guy cooking in his basement under a fake restaurant name,

Texan here. You just described every good TexMex place I've been to.

[slowmotiony]

Right, but here in EU this sort of thing is illegal, and if you tried to cook shit in your basement and sell it for real money you'd get shut down instantly. Same with hiring illegals and making them work with no insurance. Same with providing no training. Same with taking no responsibility in case of accidents. Etc etc. These companies keep getting away with outright ignoring the laws where they operate - and how can you ever compete with a company that ignores regulations?

[ghaff]

I assure you it's generally illegal in the US as well.