DoorDash - Food Delivery Reviews

On multiple occasions I have had issues with doordash across different states, restaurant, time of order placed, the issue is clearly with doordash and the dashers themselves. I’ve had dashers deliver food to the entirely wrong apartment and swear up and down they delivered it to the right apartment even if the delivery photo clearly shows a different apartment number. I’ve had orders missing food many times, I once had a order from chipotle where I ordered a steak bowl with rice, beans, the works, and they literally gave me lettuce and meat with nothing else with the excuse their doordash system never send the orders to them correctly. I’ve had orders with ‘technical difficulties’ get cancelled an hour after I placed the order and got all the confirmation notifications saying ‘order confirmed by ___’ ‘order being prepped by kitchen’ only for doordash to turn around and claim ‘technical difficulties’ and tell me ‘place another order at a different restaurant’ as if by that time most restaurants had closed. All around a horrible app and a waste of time and money. Customer support is awful and half the time doesn’t even reply back, or will refund you $1 for a missing item that cost $10. Best bet I reccomend uber eats or literally any other app.

I guess i can fix all my problems if i wasn’t so lazy and just went and got food myself. BUT, it’s frustrating that you offer a service to people and aren’t consistent. First off, everything is wildly more expensive, i don’t know it that’s doordash’s fault or not. I also can’t explain the frustration when i order food when i entertain guests, and my order gets grouped with another order and takes about 45-60 minutes longer. And i legit get MAD when my house is obviously closer to the driver than the other destination but they still go there first and drive all the way back to where they were in the first place to drop off my order. Why can’t the drivers use their own basic intuition?? The app itself is infuriating. I live in an apartment complex and when i type my address, it puts the pin in the completely wrong spot. I then move the pin, and add delivery instructions, but as soon as the dasher is on their way the app deletes all the information i just put. Although it seems like the drivers still see the delivery instructions. I just really wish the pin feature would work, because doordash drivers are, for whatever reason, completely incapable of finding my apartment. They leave my food at the completely wrong place, and just leave. Can’t even call to confirm?? Or even text??? Obviously it’s the wrong place. I have to go hunt it down wherever these Einstein’s think the delivery instructions say? It’s crazy. Idk what to expect though. So, whatever

I enjoy the DoorDash app very much. I’ve been using it more than other food delivery apps. Ordering is simple and easy and many Dashers are friendly and professional from my experiences. The reason why I’m giving it 3 stars is that there seems to be some strange issue with my address on the app. Now I can’t speak for everyone else cause this might not be a problem for others but for me, it’s becoming a big issue. I live in a mobile home park and similar to apartments, we have Lot numbers specific to our mobile homes. I put all of the necessary credentials in for my address. I add my Lot number to the apt/suite spot. Everything’s there. However, for some unknown reason, the Lot number does not show up on the address and this has been confusing some of the dashers delivering to me. Now, most of the dashers end up finding me (though, some of them had to circle the neighborhood a few times or will call or text just to get additional information to help find me) but there have been times where my food was not delivered to the right place and this has happened more than twice (too many times to be honest…). I find it strange that my Lot number does not show for my address during these deliveries. It only makes things difficult for me and the dasher. I hope this gets fixed because this is becoming too much of a hassle for me to add extra instructions just to help my dashers when something simple as a “LOT NUMBER” can easily fix this problem…

I’ve been using door dash for close to two years now and lately, I don’t know what it is, but no one knows how to deliver food lol. The past four times I’ve ordered from them, there’s been a problem. Instructions for the food itself not followed, instructions for the dasher not followed, etc. I’ve had to have food redelivered twice in the past week because of the dasher. The first time, they dropped it off at a neighbors house way down the street, and luckily they called me so I went to grab my food. On the days I order food at work in the morning, I ask that the dasher text me when they get here, as we’re closed when I order food, and the past few times I haven’t had anyone text me which door they left the food at. Today, I straight up didn’t get my food. I texted my dasher and asked where she left my food, and got no response. I checked the front and back doors, and the neighboring businesses, and my food wasn’t there, so I had to have it redelivered again. It’s just really frustrating and I feel like door dash thinks I’m just trying to get free food because I’ve had so many problems lately 😭 And I feel like a jerk even saying this but I tip really well because I know dashers don’t get paid super well and depend on tips, but I’m tired of having to tip close to $10 for someone who isn’t going to follow my instructions or even like... bring me my food lol. I have issues like this every once in a while, but never to this extent.

I scored this app really high because the app makes it very easy for people who do not drive to be able to appreciate the different stores businesses and restaurants and others in our community. I’ve also used the DoorDash out of state, and in other localities around Florida. My only concern is that number one they closed their ADA or assistance for people disabilities line and that is kind of challenging. When I need to get help with something. Also when updates happen frequently I find that I have to call customer service and work with someone who is definitely interested in helping but may not always have strong English skills. So we spend a lot of the call explaining what the problem is and how it might affect the blind community especially uses this app and I would hope that you would work more closely with the organizations American Council of the blind national Federation of the blind and their affiliates that work with technology do you continue to make this app even more accessible and inclusive. I gave you a four. But please know that if you are able to fix some of these loose ends and be a little more inclusive of your body visually impaired and reading customers I will review five stars. Thanks for a great app let’s just make it just a little bit better. I’m dictating this so please forgive any errors.

I find that the app itself is easy enough to use for any of my food orders. However the pricing is a bit high just to have some food delivered. I’m talking about the delivery, and service fees. They offer free delivery on certain orders, from certain restaurants, except the service fee will then be higher. It’s just quite a leap in price from picking something up, to having it delivered through Door-Dash. I get that it’s meant to be convenient. However, something stops being convenient when it becomes quite a bit more expensive. Then they say “we’ll just sign up for our Door Pass” and you’ll get free deliveries, except again, those services fees are tricky. Not to mention, you’re now paying $9.99 a month for something you only use like once or twice a month. It just doesn’t make much sense unless your ordering food delivered several times a week, but even then with the service charges and tips added, you might as well drive the 5 minutes (2miles) and pick it up yourself. These Apps in a way take advantage of elderly people, and sick people who can’t leave their homes due to isolation, quarantine, or the fear of getting sick and who have no family or friends to help them. They have no choice but to spend the extra money to use these apps so they can eat. Which is not great in a time where a majority of people are financially struggling. End review rant.

Although I made a huge unfortunate mistake of leaving my keys in the door after getting home from work, tired, with handful of things, my doordasher violated me. The doordasher stole my keys!!!!!! As soon as he arrived we heard him remove the keys from the door, knock, then run. After opening our door we found our food sitting on our mat, as we had prompted for no contact. When realizing he took our keys we submitting a complaint to doordash as well as submitting a police report. The detective assigned to the case contacted doordash hoping to communicate with the dasher, however doordash will not release his information. Understandably, I get wanting to protect the employee, but I don’t understand not diligently working to make sure the issue at hand is resolved nor happens again. If they have not fired that dasher, they inevitably have a thieving employee ready to prey on the next customer. ADDITIONALLY, we learned that doordash is too unreliable when two days later we received the complete wrong order, we tried to immediately contact the dasher to inform her we had the wrong order and she was potentially delivering another wrong order, but doordash had blocked the number already. Although we received credit for the inconvenience we have learned that trusting doordash is far too much of a stretch for us.

I have been a frequent door dash user and over the last month there customer service and service has been an absolute nightmare! The last 6 orders I've had with them have all been missing main entrees, sides and orders as well as items being made incorrectly even though I specify exactly what I ordered which I understand it's food service but when you haven't ate dinner an you order food you expect to receive the food you ordered and if you do not then I expect either for the order be corrected or a refund but after calling this last time because my order was missing 5things and the rest was made wrong. This order was 40 bucks for taco bell and when I got in touch with customers service they were rude and said that I have reached my limit on refunds. Which makes no since I didnt have to have a refund I just wanted what I paid for and if that's not possible then I wanted a refund for it and they stated they couldn't do wither and that there was no supervisor and no help at all. Deanna was the customer supports name and she was horrible. I refuse to pay for something I did not receive!! That's theft basically this is ridiculous an I will never us this service again!!

1st, let me say, I do LOVE DoorDash. Very convenient, especially during this never ending Covid pandemic. I am immunocompromised & have to take immune suppressing drugs daily due to a rare condition..and I live in a state with 1 of the lowest vaccination rates..and I live less than 30 minutes from 1 of our state’s “hotspots” so..very helpful for me. DoorDash customer service is awesome. Most of the drivers I’ve encountered are super nice. So why the 3 stars right? I would estimate that 1 out of every 3 orders I place has an issue. I haven’t used the app in many months because 5 (FIVE!!) orders in a row had issues! Not minor issues either…items left out, items substituted (without contacting me and/or confirming I was ok with it), food completely wrong, etc). And I’m often ordering for my 6 yr old, who has a sensory disorder/ADHD/anxiety/dyspraxia so she often gets upset and..it’s just frustrating because it’s all completely avoidable IMO. As I said, customer service is wonderful & helps resolve issues..but I’m still left without the items I needed/wanted, still have to get them & also take the time to get in touch with customer service & work on a resolution. Who really wants to do all of that more often than not when ordering?? I would truthfully use another service if one was available in my area. Just to avoid the hassle. But, again, DoorDash itself is wonderful 🤷‍♀️

I have been using Door Dash from day one. I preferred Door Dash to Uber Eats, but there are constant issues of items missing, drivers leaving my order at other doors, drivers taking hours to deliver and if you order drinks forget about it. I continued to patronize Door Dash regardless of the constant mishaps because at least their customer service reps are extremely polite and helpful. However, I recently ordered a rather large order ($70 as usual) band it was frustrating to receive the order again with no drinks. But when I went to report the missing item I received a most disappointing auto response that stated “Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Unfortunately, we are unable to provide compensation on this order due to your account history.” So I guess if you continue to use Door Dash services and pay them for it although they continue to forget your items you paid for eventually you will reach a moment when Door Dash will be okay with taking your money and not delivering your food... just taking your money. The rep Vincent quickly apologized and offered a refund for the missing drink, however the auto response is apparently the type of business Door Dash intends to conduct which is to take your money and provide shady service then refuse to right their mistakes unless you take time out of your day to argue with them about it. No thanks. I’ll be taking my business elsewhere.

I love the variety of options on this app, but there are so many frustrating things about the app itself. I’m not going to talk about the over priced tips, or how you have to tip before you even receive your order which can’t change if you’re dasher is great or crappy. There isn’t even a comment section to give feedback on the dashers because I know a few have eaten some of my food while delivering it to me. The “your favorites” section of the app is crap because it has restaurants on there that I had once and hated. Not only is there no option to actually add a your favorite, there’s no way to remove them from the section. Every time I go to “your favorites” that place is always the first in line which is also very irritating. If a restaurant is closed on a day you look for it, it shows up as “no result” even though I can go through my previous orders and find it that way. I will say I am appreciative of how responsive the support team is if the restaurant messes up, or the driver hands off the my food to someone else. They are quick with a refund, but they don’t refund your tip even if the driver doesn’t do what he is being paid to do. I would be a much happier customer if the issues surround the “your favorites” section was fixed and the drivers could be held accountable for their mistakes.

I’m not sure how this works, but I’ve faced this issue innumerable times. So my user journey is - I check out the food/restaurant on doordash -> order food from the resto -> order is placed -> money deducted (all good till here) -> I see an ETA -> And now a dasher is assigned (which I see) -> So the dasher makes it a point to not pay heed to the ETA and bring food anytime after that. I am a human and I crave food when hungry. And that is why app like Doordash exist because of the craving and the ease to answer my craving. And when that is not satisfied, trouble begins and I write a review. So my problem is 1.) How come dashers change mid-way : is it like they bring food and in mid-way ‘Tony (namesake, the dasher who was assigned)’ met ‘Frank(new dasher)’ and they exchanged my food mid way and now Frank comes. 2.) Many times I receive my food cold. Why? If the taxes are not sufficient increase them but bring my food ‘hot’. Please. 3.) The dashers are always assigned to multiple pick-ups and no wonder food turns up cold - kindly make an algorithm so that a dasher pertains to not more than ‘3’ orders else the customer has to eat stone-cold food. 4.) Tips - I earlier used to give them, but once I started receiving stone cold food I stopped and I am afraid what else can I do. I want convenience and thanks to you I am getting that but not at the cost of delayed and cold food. Apologies but I should have voiced this out earlier.

My DoorDash account was somehow hacked. The person stole my credit card/bank information and ordered nearly $80 of food. They were in the middle of making a $100+ order when I locked my card. I managed to get the first order cancelled before the food was picked up, but DoorDash was offering only $44 as a refund with a credit of $17 on my next order. I’m a broke college student, so every cent counts. They kept ignoring when I said it wasn’t me just changing my mind and cancelling my order. I had to literally beg a representative for the full refund. I haven’t received it yet. I know it’s only been a couple days and it takes time to process, but I currently have no money to pay for food or medication I HAVE to have, especially not with a compromised card. I’m thankful I have caring friends that are trying their hardest to help me (they are also broke), but there is obviously a serious privacy/security issue. I had not used my card for anything or anywhere in the area since moving into the dorm as I was saving up to do a much needed grocery shop, and it was not linked to any other app. I really really hope no one else has to experience this. It’s extremely stressful and I’ve been on the phone with my bank trying to secure my account and get reimbursed, which can’t happen until DoorDash completes the refund. If you’re gonna use the app, PLEASE watch your bank account closely for any unauthorized charges. You might not be able to get your money back.

I ordered seafood from this known restaurant that was maybe 15mins away for my kids while I was at work. When I seen the dasher getting close I called them to tell them to be standing outside, he’s about to pull up. Well I got a picture text from the dasher handing my food to a man that clearly wasn’t my kids. I called my kids asked did they see anyone outside because he just gave the food to someone, they said NO so I immediately hurried and called the driver. He proceeded to tell me he was at the right address so I told him no sir my kids are standing outside he said well I gave it to a older man I asked could he go knock on the door because he gave my food to the wrong family. This man hung up in my face then would not answer my calls!!! I was so furious. I made a complaint and Door Dash took no time reaching back out to me only to find out that he in fact did drop my food off at the wrong location. Door Dash refunded me my money back which will take of course 5-7 days but they are the reason I gave 3 stars because of customer service being so excellent. As far as the driver I wish I could write a individual review about him. That was just plain unacceptable. Door dash need to add the feature where you can track the driver. If they have it, I’m behind on trying to figure out how to do it. Do better Dashers!!

Wow. I’ll start by saying that my food has arrived late and cold on several occasions. I have been using Uber eats religiously ever since. Tonight, I was in the mood for chili’s, which only door dash offers delivery for. I REGRET IT. Why did I ignore my past experiences and give DoorDash another chance?! I am so mad at myself. LISTEN TO THIS: I ordered my food around 9:00 pm. An HOUR later, a driver finally decides to take the order. HE COMES FROM A CITY 25-30 minutes AWAY FROM MY HOUSE. The food arrived at 11:00 pm. COLD AND SOGGY. Not only was the food late but I PAID FOR PRIORITY DELIVERY AND THE DRIVER MADE TWO STOPS BEFORE MINE! Not one, but TWO STOPS. I contact customer service and after spending 40 dollars on food, they offer 13 dollars refund and 5 dollars “credit”. I paid for the food, I paid for the delivery fee, the tax, the maintenance fee, and the TIP. And all you can offer in return is 5 dollars credit? Door dash charges 7-8 dollars in alone in fees. That 5 dollar “credit” won’t even cover the fees. I will be filing a complaint with the BBB. I think it’s horrible that I paid with my hard earned cash for a service that is mediocre. How could you not notify me that my driver would be making two stops before mine but charge me for priority delivery? Horrible company

Not thrilled that most recently I placed an order and we waited for about an hour and 15 minutes before I had to finally reach out and find out where our order was. I spoke with the driver who told me that he was in Dover which is a good half hour away from us. He said he showed up to the restaurants address that door dash gave him and that there was no restaurant there. So he advised he was going to contact door Dash and then get back to me. I never heard back from him, what I did get was an email from door Dash apologizing but my order had been canceled. When I contacted door Dash they told me that sometimes the restaurant will cancel the order because they are too busy. That makes sense. However these two stories don’t match, The driver is telling me one story and door dash is telling me another. I would assume if the restaurant is not taking any additional orders that they would have the ability to turn off door Dash prior to someone either a going through the time to make the order or b waiting for the door dash driver to arrive. I also didn’t understand that after the mistake was made it was still showing as though I could order through subway on the app??? Why would they still leave it up if it’s not an option? Not really sure what happened this is the first time we’ve ever had a problem with door Dash but I can tell you this much it was definitely not handle the way that I would expect to have been handled.

I ordered on door dash and everything came but I noticed something on door dash and that was that door dash charged me for a delivery fee before paying the drivers delivery tip. The delivery fee was 8 dollars. I'm fair with my delivery drivers, so I give them a 10 dollar delivery tip. So that means I'm paying 18 dollars for delivery on a fast food meal. But the problem I had is that if I'm paying double for deliveries then is door dash paying its drivers? Well it turns out they are and I'm paying for an extra delivery fee on a fast food order. So I reached out to customer service at door dash and asked if they paid their drivers and they said they do. So I asked why am I being charged twice then when I pay. She wouldn't answer the question and tried to bribe me to get rid of me. I could care less about the refund. I just wanted answers. Well she wouldn't give me any and ontop of that she said she was only giving me a refund because she felt guilty. I just wanted to let people know that door dash and rally's are using scummy tactics to increase their profits. This order was with rally’s so I’ve included them in this cause it would be an incomplete story without it. Also: Rallys prices are higher on door dash than at the restaurant Rally's menu is limited because those items don't sell as well as others at rally's over other menu items. Ontop of a limited menu, the limited menu prices are higher than at the restaurant.

My first few orders with DashPass were great (faster than expected delivery time and food was always hot). Then I had the occasional order delays. This has progressed to food being marked as delivered when it wasn’t. Most recently, the dasher picked up my meal, the app indicated the driver was one minute away and then the map began updating to show the driver further and further away, driving in circles. I assumed the driver was lost (no message about completing another delivery as had observed previously) and tried to message that I was available to provide directions. Then the driver got on a state highway and drove out of the city. The app updated to say the driver was at most 7 minutes away, but realistically they were at least 20. The driver had possession of my meal for over half an hour at this point. Then began the nightmare of trying to get the delivery canceled. When I finally got a hold of a customer service rep, they said the driver was completing another order first. I can see completing an order that adds 5-10 minutes and is within a reasonable geographic zone but not adding over half an hour. This is the opposite of quality assurance and I would consider this to be a potential public health issue. I was able to reorder, walk to the restaurant and home before the dasher would have made it back into the city after dealing with customer service. DashPass is fine for order and pickup. Don’t waste your money on their delivery fees.

Customer service was amazing so that’s where I’ll start. With the good news. The bad news for me is that the fees are not clear and expensive. There is also a “delivery fee” but then also a tip. I don’t understand how that makes sense. If you just paid your drivers the money they deserve it wouldn’t be on me to cover the cost. I know you make money off each order and with the way deals can be structured there’s all kinds of money you guys get per transaction. I’m not saying this operation doesn’t deserve to make money. Obviously the inventor needs his cut and I’m happy to oblige. But too much of the weight is carried by the worker and that’s ridiculous when my tip is a huge part of how they can afford to live. Ultimate this side hustle culture can’t sustain its self and these types of outfits can’t last under the pressure of time. Pay your employees better and stop making the consumer pay their wages. I’m positive this company could survive if they did it and it’s a testament to the world we live in that I have to call 3 times to get extra fees taken off my card when the only reason I used this app was for a free order from an e-mail I received. I never got the free order and only was given 5 dollars to compensate. Hey it’s more than nothing but it’s a far cry from what I was promised. If I could leave work for lunch I’d happily go get the food myself and that’s the only reason I use this app.

Every time I have ordered, I have put in the instructions to not knock or ring the doorbell, and to just leave it at the doorstep (you get a notification once they mark they dropped it off anyway), but they bang on the door or ring the doorbell when they drop it off anyway. Today I ordered food to my new place, which is a basement apartment accessed from the back yard. I explicitly said in both my address and in my order instructions that my door is on the back side of the house (which has a very clear and obvious path around it), and instructed them not to knock or ring the doorbell. Anticipating the same instruction ignorance issue as previous orders, I even sent a message through the app to the driver to tell them to bring it around the back. Lo and behold when my order arrived, the driver ignored both of my instructions and my message and rang the doorbell of the front door. This is incredibly stupid because I am assigning the tip before the order comes by the design of the app. I am happy to give a good rip for good service, but there is no recourse or accountability for the delivery driver to follow any instructions, because their tip is guaranteed. If I am giving a tip and I put instructions down, and I’m not asking for anything irrational (literally just bring it to the correct door and don’t knock), those instructions should be followed. It isn’t hard. Not one of my drivers has followed instructions. It’s absurd.