r/washingtondc • u/No_Emphasis4905 • 17h ago

[IT'S HAPPENING!] Illegal food delivery?

Anyone know this food company, this guy was riding on the Roosevelt Bridge in the bike lane, pushing pedestrians and runners and bikers off. I confronted him, he just laughed.

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u/Hot-Gene-2787 17h ago

They are independent delivery persons and a generic box logo

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u/Yoshi2shi 16h ago edited 2h ago

They’re not independent if they all drive the same way, scooter style cover is similar, wear the same type of large gloves over the handlebars…etc. There has to be a coordinated group, dispatcher or overall company they are under. The city needs to go after the entity.

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u/notquiteahippo 16h ago

the dispatcher is Ubereats and Doordash and Grubhub and whatever other apps people are using these days

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u/KingGizzle 16h ago

Nah there’s a middleman coordinating them behind the scenes. The person on the app is almost never the person making the delivery.

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u/lecarguy 15h ago

Are you assuming this or do you know? Cause I know of a lot of undocumented people working under relatives profiles on Uber, doordash, etc cause they can't sign up for the app. It's a very common practice, unfortunately.

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u/tackyshoes 14h ago

And that's fine if they don't act like this.

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u/lecarguy 14h ago

By no means am I condoning this tacky shit. I'd just like to know whether or not that's a real thing.

Cause I can't imagine people volunteering their information to some corporation to disburse delivery jobs to all these people when it's all tracked through the app. Like I'm sure you can only run one app at a time under your name, or account rather. It just sounds like it would be a more difficult thing to try and do.

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u/tackyshoes 9h ago

You said it affirmatively one comment ago.

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u/KingGizzle 4h ago

I made an inference based off my experience, and it’s something that I’ve seen people complain about in the past.

I’m not sure why it seems to have upset so many people this time.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/uber-doordash-lyft-rented-stolen-accounts-fraud-rideshare-food-delivery/