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by StimDeck 743 days ago
Just a fun anecdote, I showed up to pickup my own online order at a restaurant. The order had been given to a dasher and delivered to someone else, with the same first name, who was now furiously calling the store. They got about double the amount they had ordered, but they must have really wanted the shrimp. I then had to wait for that call to end just to find out my order needed to be remade.
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I only order for myself typically, and often when I get the complete wrong order it is for a family. Once I got 2 normal meals and a kids meal. Sure, it was more food, but nothing I ever would have ordered. Most of it was thrown away, and I ended up re-ordering what I wanted. More food isn't always a bonus. I felt bad that the food was being wasted, and for whoever's food I got, since they now had a hungry kid that was going to have to wait another hour for their meal.

Sometimes it is too late to re-order, as the restaurants stop taking orders or close between the original order being placed and the delivery. I've had that happen a few times. I've had some really sad dinners some nights due to that.