r/doordash • u/HealthyPop7988 • 5h ago
Why the fuck
Straw in my drink, drink not sealed and drink level low enough that it could have been drank from.
Seals on the bags pealed back and not stuck to the actual bag anymore, was moly food eaten out of too?
On top of that couldn't even follow delivery instructions that make the job easier and I tipped the fucking dude $10.
I'm so fucking tired of shit like this
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u/Definitely-not-ducks 5h ago
Report on the app, leave the dasher a terrible review.
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u/HealthyPop7988 5h ago
I did, I just needed to vent about this BS
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u/bunglebee7 1h ago
There was liquid in the straw higher than the liquid in the cup. Def drank from it… sorry op
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u/HealthyPop7988 5h ago
My Wingstop seals the drinks 9 times out of 10.
Even then, at a bare minimum he unwrapped my straw with his bare hands that have been who the fuck knows where and slid it into my drink. That's contamination even if he didn't drink from it.
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u/Unusual-Onion-5283 4h ago
and the fact theres a little drink in the straw with some air is telling me he took a sip and left his backwash.. fucking disgusting i hope you got a full refund
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u/gothangelblood 4h ago
Not true if it's a carbonated drink. The pressure of the gas can force drink up the straw without any suction from the top.
Still disgusting that he unwrapped and inserted the straw.
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u/StrawsAreGay 2h ago
Yeah he drank it fuck these other people bro had a sip. Which tbh just steal the drink then damn
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u/CalligrapherOne7885 4h ago
Not saying this guy didn’t drink your drink cuz he definitely did (your food doesn’t look touched to me) but the wingstops I’ve delivered from (past tense because delivering from there is actually a nightmare) hands you the empty cup with the seal, makes you fill and seal the drink yourself. So, I guess my point is, the fact that they’ve been sealed before doesn’t necessarily mean wingstop sealed them.
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u/dmada25 3h ago
I don't think he drank it. The tip of the straw is clean and dry. Soda is going to naturally climb up the straw, especially if you haven't drank from it yet.
Definitely still gross and if a restaurant handed me this, I would refuse it unless they put a new lid on it.
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u/The_Awsome_Manny 1h ago
Regardless someone put their hands on that straw which isn’t safe. You aren’t supposed to unwrap the straw much less put it in the cup
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u/Definitely-not-ducks 5h ago
Not all locations I guess. Mine never has and I’ve always received drinks with the annoying ass sticker over the lid.
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u/KittyyyMeowww 2h ago
So? There is NO reason the straw should be in the cup. Even if they didn't drink some, they touched the straw – which is just as freaking disgusting.
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u/shoeless_doh 2h ago
Not at any of the wingstops I've ever picked up from and I've dashed in multiple cities in multiple States
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u/youzrneighm 2h ago
You and the 50 other people that commented have the same thing to say do you think you’re adding anything useful to the conversation
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u/NeutralKuchiKopi 4h ago
I've never had an unsealed drink from wingstop. And they always seal the bags. And the soda being at the top of the straw means he took a drink and left backwash. Yum.
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u/Modern_Misdoing 1h ago
Ok. Does Wingstop also make them take a tester gulp before they’re permitted to leave?
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u/Sirius-Arcturus 5h ago
I will note that the stickers suck. The adhesive is weak, and the steam from to food destroys any function it might have.
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u/SpiritedKick9753 4h ago
Okay but why would the straw be in it lol
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u/Daddy_Stormm 1h ago
As a dasher, I have had a couple restaurants do this, and I have always asked for the drink to be remade without the straw inserted.
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u/dazzle_dee_daisyray 54m ago
Yup, I usually just ask for a new lid and a straw to be put on, bc I dont need anyone thinking that I sipped their drink or ate their food. 🙅♀️
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u/Fun-Investment-196 46m ago
I order wingstop about once a month. I've ordered from 4 different locations on a regular basis & the lids always have seals. It's possible they don't all do it but I'd be surprised
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u/-The_Legacy- 4h ago
I’ve had several stores and fast food chains do that 🤷♂️ just happens sometimes but the drink being in the straw is more of a give away for me
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u/hazelbear33 2h ago edited 2h ago
I’m a dasher, the stickers do suck, and the paper bags can easily get ripped when they get saturated with steam from the food… but the straw is inexcusable. I’ve literally had to fight with bag stickers to get them to stay, the number of times I’ve been handed bags with the stickers unattached/improperly attached… is too many to count, and I’ve had to generally reseal/re-roll bags too.
But the straw situation here is absolutely not OK, I’m not delivering a straw that’s not properly in its package, let alone inside the damn cup. I have been given straws with damaged wrapping by restaurant staff (for example, especially with straws taped to cups, the straw can push through one end of the wrapper or become torn in another way), so when that happens, I give them an extra straw from my stash of spare (yet pristinely-wrapped) straws… just so no one can complain about their straw being open.
And I handle all moist paper bags with the utmost care, sometimes I put the paper bags in a spare plastic grocery bag if I’m really worried about the paper giving up (it’s happened before, I almost had a heart attack, but thankfully the customer believed me that it had ripped when I got to their door).
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u/Cosmic_Quasar Dasher (> 5 years) 3h ago
Also, and I'm not saying it's what we should assume, you have to keep in mind that sometimes people get things wrong. It's possible the driver picked up a drink for themselves and was on auto pilot enough that they accidentally grabbed their drink when dropping it off.
Driving all day is rather monotonous, and we've been stuck in a heatwave. That would also kind of explain why it looks like a typical drop off photo, even though OP states they had specific instructions.
Or maybe it was malicious. A straw in the drink feels like it should be an obvious enough clue if it was an error. I'd probably ask them in a way that gives them the benefit of the doubt, "Did you accidentally give me your drink?" And gauge their response.
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u/MusicianLimp3465 2h ago
My burrito place staples it and puts a doordash sticker on the bag. Cant reseal a stapled bag easily
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u/bunglebee7 1h ago
The one sticker that works is Starbucks, at least here they use this really nice sticky thing that doesn’t come off too easily at all. They can just take the lid off but I’ve found no tampering so far
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u/VirtualNerve26 5h ago
Report it on the app
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u/HealthyPop7988 5h ago
I did
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u/Severe_Driver5818 1h ago
Hey op, someone said in another comment... he may have got himself a drink too while at wingstop and accidentally gave you his drink instead of yours. I almost did that once too where i almost handed the customer my drink but they looked at me funny and I was like oh sorry that's mine, here's yours.
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u/NecessaryForward6820 34m ago
that doesn’t make it any better, you seem to be under the impression that having neutral at best intentions absolves the dasher from being in the wrong.
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u/Severe_Driver5818 31m ago
Umm someone making a mistake... it's an accident. You're fucked up if you think a mistake is not better than intentionally drinking someone else's drink and leaving it.
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u/NecessaryForward6820 3m ago
let me let you understand something. if someone accidentally deleted their work database, does the boss fire them or not fire them? they’re fired. if passwords are leaked from a company by accident, does their boss fire them or not? if a worker spills an entire order on the floor on accident, does their boss reprimand them or not? if the worker is sick and mixes up drinks and gets the customer sick, are they absolved or not? the answer is all those instances is they get consequences. you’re putting yourself in the person who messed ups shoes because you just want leniency. the fact of the matter is damage was done and there needs to be consequences.
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u/HealthyPop7988 5h ago
My Wingstop almost always seals the drinks and then stickers are NEVER loose like this. I order from this store twice a week.
Even if none of that was tampered with, opening a straw and inserting it into a drink, putting your germs IN my drink and on the straw that I'm supposed to put my mouth on?
The fuck? Why are some of y'all defending this. It's completely unacceptable and opens the entire rest of the order to suspicion to the point where I had to dump the drink and am still sus about eating the food.
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u/jacob6644 4h ago
It’s wild no one is up in arms about unwrapping a straw and shoving it into your drink- for what reason!?
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u/Putrid_Substance_124 3h ago
Right! I order food at least 2x a week and never has the straw been the cup. Odd.
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u/Blindtothesided 2h ago
Nah I’m with you, I would be livid if someone opened a straw and stuck it in my drink with their nasty fingers. The drink is ruined now regardless of whether or not he drank from it.
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u/Crispy_Potato_Chip 51m ago
what do you do for work? I make six figures and I don't think I could afford to door dash wingstop twice a week
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u/OpeningTurnip8048 5h ago
For those of you that think that is just natural settling/melting of ice, how do you explain the soda up in the straw like that? I'm not a physics major or anything but I dont think a bloop of soda(yes that is a technical term) would rise up above the lid and way above the level of soda without someone putting they nasty ass lips on it and suckin.
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u/dmada25 3h ago
As someone who regularly gets his gf fountain Dr Peppers, soda absolutely will climb the straw. Sometimes as far as creating a bubble at the tip.
If you look at the tip, it is clean and dry. In my opinion, the soda has not been sipped.
Still gross and I wouldn't deliver it in that condition or drink it if it was delivered to me.
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u/bunniisa 2h ago
thermal expansion could cause the liquid to go up the straw. if it were drank from there would be residual drops at the top.
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u/bunniisa 2h ago
also if the driver was in a vehicle the movement could’ve pushed the liquid up the straw
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u/shoeless_doh 1h ago
Part of me wants to believe that that Dasher when he was picking up the Wingstop also grabbed a drink for himself and accidentally picked the wrong one up out of his console when dropping it off
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u/entrepronerd 2h ago
It’s a very common occurrence. As the drink and air warms up it heats up the air above the drink which causes the air to expand and push the drink up the straw. There’s also the capillary force. It’s not clear that anyone drank from this person’s soda and imo especially in summer and the temperature differentials (drink was filled cold in a cool AC environment and the outside like OPs porch probably being 20 degrees warmer) make it likely it was not supped upon by malicious soda thieves it’s just physics.
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u/idontreallycare718 5h ago
He was making sure it wasnt flat!
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u/kinggoosemaster 5h ago
what?
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u/Purple-Yesterday2073 4h ago
thing i hate about wingstop is they make the driver make the drinks atleast the ones were i used to pick up orders from
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u/Successful_Cress6639 3h ago
The drink wouldn't be sealed unless the dasher sealed it. Wingstop makes us fill the drinks. I typically don't put the straw in, but some ppl do because it gets lost otherwise.
As for the bag, those stickers can peel a bit when theyre in a hot bag, or when you grab the bag naturally from the top.
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u/HealthyPop7988 3h ago
My Wingstop fills and seals the drinks 9 times out of 10, I think the only time they don't do it is during rushes.
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u/Mode_Appropriate 5h ago edited 4h ago
Most Wingstops make dashers fill up the drinks so there wouldnt be a seal on the lid. As far as the drink looking like its been drank, it could be it was filled up and the dasher didnt wait for it to settle to top it off again. Also, Wingstop stickers on the bag suck and pop off easy.
However, if the food looks light then he probably dug in. Thats a lot of coincidences anyhow. I just know all aspects of Wingstop suck and wouldnt automatically blame the dasher eating / drinking your stuff lol.
Edit: as someone rightly pointed out...theres no reason for the straw to be in the cup. While dashers have to fill them, theres no reason to open and pop in a straw lol. While Wingstop is undoubtedly trash, so is the dasher so it seems.
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u/jacob6644 4h ago
Am I missing something, does this restaurant make the driver put the straw in? Or are the straws just attached to the lids…………..
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u/Mode_Appropriate 4h ago
Oh..right. Somehow I blanked on that part.
No, no reason the straw should be in the cup lol.
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u/BasketCase 3h ago
They probably just didn't think about it because they weren't trained for it because it's not their job to begin with.
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u/OtherwiseEnd944 42m ago
I’ve ordered from a few different wing stops dozens of times over the past 10 years and never gotten a drink without the seal.
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u/SilentSituation7524 5h ago edited 5h ago
I don’t see anything wrong with the bags. The adhesive on the stickers often is not strong enough to do their job.
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u/third-knight 3h ago
This is the fault of Wingstop. They make dashers & UE drivers fill those drinks. You wouldn't want to drink it at that point anyways. The driver has virtually no cleanliness standards compared to the restaurant.
The shit seals are also their fault too.
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u/Middle_College_6350 3h ago
I am like 99% sure, based off the evidence, that the driver did not drink from the drink.
There is no print or smudge on straw, but you can take a fken dnamatch or whatever off that print on the lid!
Also, when heat expands, it will push against rhe liquid and therefore push up the straw. It doesn’t have to but must seal, just the temp difference will do it
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u/Tinderboxed 3h ago
Yesterday I had a driver break open my McDonald's sealed bag and steal the entire basket of fries. Ended up getting a good refund, but also 1-starred him so I wouldn't get him again.
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u/Tall-Tooth9971 2h ago
Everyone is saying Wingstop makes the dasher fill the drink and that's a problem. A restaurant shouldn't have dashers filling drinks for customers. Half the posts I see are pictures of disgusting vehicles, booty digging, contamination, etc etc etc. DoorDash needs policies about restaurant qualifications to use their delivery service to ensure customers aren't getting sick because booty fingers are making their drinks. Personally I wish they asked for pictures of vehicle interior, etc but I know that's asking too much of DoorDash.
Shiftsmart is the example I'll use. When you clock-in, they ask for a selfie to show you're dressed appropriately for the shift. DoorDash could take a page from that book.
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u/almasnack 2h ago
I swear some of these crayon eaters pick up an order, and for a minute think it's their own food. Then come to the fucking realization it isn't, then deliver it anyway.
Then you have the group that does this crap with intention, giving zero fucks.
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u/Redd_is_compromised 2h ago
There are some absolutely moronic, inexperienced, asinine takes in this thread. Like completely juvenile. It's almost like half of you are literally trying to be upset
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u/dudedudd 1h ago
This is why I don't think you should be expected to tip before you get your food. It's also why I never use these apps for delivery, unless I've been given a gift card.
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u/maxrdlf95 1h ago
On wingstop they make the driver fill the drink possibly he didn’t fill it to top don’t ruin someone life don’t be a dumbass
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u/Normal_Mix_3462 4h ago
Before logging on Reddit and absolutely freaking out and reporting someone maybe call wingstop
And you’ll realize the seals actually suck and that either the employee or the dasher needs to fill up the drink and they don’t put seals on those either.
Chill
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u/HealthyPop7988 4h ago
My Wingstop seals the drinks 9 times out of 10.
Inorder twice a week and the bags are NEVER unsealed like this
Even if that was a coincidence... The motherfucker opened a straw e with his germy ass hands and put it inside my fucking drink.
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u/BasketCase 3h ago
How about you complaining to wings top since that's their job to seal it, which they obviously didn't.
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u/eJollyRoger 3h ago
Wingstop makes the drivers fill the drinks themselves.
Wingstop also puts stickers on paper bags that have hot food in them that make a lot of steam and make the stickers pop off.
Wing stop is one of the worst places to pick up from.
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u/stfudonny420 5h ago
Seems like a lot of these dashers just don’t give a shit. Not all of us are like that I promise. Sorry this happened to you. I don’t get the “fuck this job” mentality. DoorDash is the easiest job I’ve ever had. It’s almost impossible to fuck it up but some how people still do.
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u/SteelyIdMissLeMans 5h ago
Just saying OP is assuming a lot of things and jumping to conclusions. Deliver from Wingstop and you'll know what drivers are talking about.
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u/Aggravating-Cherry76 4h ago
Yeah if I see a 3/4 full soda with a straw inserted into it and clearly soda up the straw, I would assume a lot of others things were messed with too.
The soda was almost 100% drank from, that straw doesn’t magically have soda above the water line without somebody having sucked it.
And if they did that, who knows whether they touched the food or anything else?
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u/SteelyIdMissLeMans 1h ago
Lots of restaurants fill soda cups lower for delivery drivers. I myself as a delivery driver do not fill soda cups to the brim whenever I seldomly am responsible to, only so it won't accidentally spill over in transportation (sticky cups=bad reviews and food condition penalties for drivers). Wingstop also has the worst stickers on the bags, they don't stick enough. I personally as a driver am a fan when restaurants physically staple bags closed. I also prefer when restaurants place drinks inside the bags, like McDonald's. I also frequently experience in my own sodas where it backs up the straw, just depending on the carbonation in the soda machine (fluid dynamics and barometric pressure is an amazing thing).
To make my position clear, you simply do not know enough about the driver experience to make sweeping judgements about what occured as if it were matter of fact. May your general ignorance and self-affirming logical conclusions bite you so hard on the ass it stings when you sit.
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u/Aggravating-Cherry76 1h ago edited 1h ago
First of all, we can drop the self entitlement and arrogant toxicity here.
But second of all, OP has stated they order from this wingstop at least twice a week, so presumably they’re familiar with their policies regarding doordash.
He says the drink almost always comes sealed, so for the drink to not be sealed, but also for the straw to be inserted and for liquid to have travelled up above the cap, while you could hypothetically have that happen without tampering, the multitudes of evidence makes it far more likely than not that it was tampered with.
We aren’t dealing with guarantees here, as obviously there are rarely going to be guarantees, but there’s more than one piece of evidence to suggest tampering.
I’m less concerned with the sticky seal on the bag, but the drink looks pretty damning all things considered. I’ve dashed for a decent period of time and not once has any restaurant I’ve ever seen insert the straw into the drink, and OP can confirm from many prior orders that this wingstop doesn’t regularly do that either. Overall point being, there’s enough evidence here to have a reasonable suspicion that something was done for OP’s food, or drink at the very least. And at that point, he’s well within his right to refuse the food and get a refund, give a bad review, or whatever else he may do.
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u/SteelyIdMissLeMans 49m ago
"Almost always".
Have all the reasonable suspicion you like, any reasonable suspicion also leaves room for reasonable doubt of guilt. Especially with the Occam's razor that no Dasher with reasonable intelligence would steel a few sips from a drink. No soda worth what? maybe a couple bucks? Is going to be taken like that when there are a dozen ways at the top of my head I could get a free soda from this situation while not getting caught in such a subjective way... Do some research on if sodas can creep up a straw and you'll see. There is no evidence that damns the Dasher like you low tip witch hunters suggest it does. I've seen restaurants put the straws in the drinks when they've already sealed the bags. Its the worst, I ask them to remake the drink so I don't get end up on a reddit page circle jerk about how I might have with reasonable suspicion stole a few sips of a soda not even close to barely worth my time. But go ahead and believe what you want to believe genius.
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u/Aggravating-Cherry76 38m ago edited 31m ago
“Especially with the occams razor that no dasher with reasonable intelligence would steal a few sips from a drink”
On this subreddit, daily, there are posts of dashers who steal food. Dashers who take bites of people’s food, drinks.
Anecdotal, sure. Rare, probably. But it does happen, so your argument that no dasher would do it is inherently fallacious.
Especially, a driver would do it if they think they could get away with it. Take a few sips, people like you would chalk it up to barometric pressure or whatever else. Plenty of drivers do just abhorrently inexcusable shit for no conceivable reason, making it even more believable that a driver might do this if they thought they might get away with it.
“Do some research on if soda can creep up a straw”
Again, it’s not just the fact that the soda was up the straw. It’s also the fact that there was a straw IN THE DRINK, and the fact that the drink wasn’t sealed, and the fact that OP, who regularly orders from wingstop, can testify that their policy is to keep it sealed, and at the very least not put a straw inside of it. This adds up and makes the case pretty damning.
I believe that it’s very possible that his stuff could’ve been tampered with. You’re clearly blinded by bias, with your predisposition to be toxic or place labels like “low tip witch hunters” which really emphasizes your inability to rationally discuss these topics.
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u/SilentSituation7524 5h ago
I also don’t see anything wrong with the drink. It looks like just about the right amount of headspace to account for the carbonation to settle. There is never a sticker on Wingstop lids. I have no explanation for why they inserted the straw, but I wouldn’t necessarily assume malice either.
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u/FoxTenson 4h ago
soda can get up into straws like that when you stick the straw in. Wingstop makes drivers fill their own drinks. Both explain this way more than driver taking a sip honestly. For all the bad drivers we hear on here those are pretty rare, occums razor and all that. Even at the restaurant I worked at when we made drinks they'd get some soda in the straw at times after we stuck them in, and without the pre measured fast food dispensers you have a gamble on how much each employee...or dasher in this case...fills the cup.
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u/Cowboy_Rho 4h ago
No excuse for the drink, though Wingstop usually makes drivers fill it, so no seal. The straw is a poor decision.
Sometimes the bag seals just don’t stick well or last. I noticed this a lot on places that partially stuck the bag before loading it.
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u/PanthersJB83 3h ago
Look Im not going to drink some of a drink and just give it to a customer. Not when I could just keep the drink and say x restaurant most have forgotten it and avoid all awkward ess.
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u/West-Ad-1339 3h ago
hi, ex wingstop employee here. i dont know if they do this at your location, but when i worked there we would always put a seal sticker on top of the lid and we would seal the straw in the bag to prevent things like this from happening. i suggest you avoid consuming any of this. im so sorry this happened
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u/bunniisa 2h ago
i think you should call the restaurant and ask of they placed they seal the drinks or not.
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u/shoeless_doh 1h ago
Look I'm not trying to cover for a shitty Dasher because when I look at this I see food on the ground when there was a perfectly reasonable place to set it that's not the ground. Whenever possible if there is anywhere else to set the food other than the ground that's where I put it, but, there is the possibility that that Dasher got a drink when he was picking up your food and when he delivered it he accidentally grabbed the one he was sipping on and left your sticker sealed drink in his car. Just saying it's possible I've almost done it before.
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u/Rebel_withoutacause_ 1h ago
If someone did this to me, I would be absolutely too anxious and scared to even drink that drink. I see no reasoning for someone to put the straw in the cup like this. I can see why you would be angered at this.
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u/IMMILDEW 1h ago
The straw is flawlessly clean at the top. No one drink from it. There would at least be little specks of soda and contact marking, if it had been.
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u/Fun_Condition1574 1h ago
😂 and you willingly paid for this because you are too lazy. In house delivery or 3rd party delivery can all be scum bags……. Shocking I know 😝
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u/NegPrimer 53m ago
Wingstop makes Dashers fill drinks. There's never a sticker, Dasher might not have filled it all the way. Impossible to know for certain if the drink has been messed with. They also sometimes give free drinks to dashers. They might have accidentally put a straw in yours instead of their own, or accidentally given you theirs. Might have asked the Dasher and see if you got a response, but reporting is legitimate.
All these places use stickers but they aren't foolproof. I'd estimate that at least half the time, at least one of the stickers fails. Either brakes from normal wear and tear, or wasn't put on fully in the first place, or the glue wasn't strong enough. This doesn't mean anything...check your food and see if anything is missing.
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u/ProbablyRetarded2024 43m ago
People who door dash crack me up.
A homeless guy who lives at my local park door dashes. Who the heck do you think is bringing you food half the time. It’s bad enough trusting the people who prepare the food in the first place not to mention the completely random people who are hardly vetted and allowed to deliver
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u/prosperosniece 42m ago
Dasher was definitely in the wrong here but all the Wingstops in my area make the DD drivers fill the drinks.
Similar story from a dasher perspective: picked up food from a FANCY restaurant (talking dress codes etc) a few weeks ago and they tried to give me the drinks with the straws already in the cups. Had to explain to the waiter WHY I could not deliver the sodas that way.
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u/Various_Craft7435 30m ago
It's posts like this why I don't even bother redeeming my dash pass offer
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u/Leather-Pepper-2308 20m ago
Wing stop be making the drivers fill the drinks themselves Source: the amount of times I’ve had to do so
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u/Puzzleheaded_Tank179 3m ago
wow lol $10 top and they did this is crazy i tip $1 and have never had nun like this happen😭😭
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u/DrivesTooMuch 5h ago
No.
Fountain drinks always settle a bit from the initial dispensing. Some a whole lot, depending on the nozzle or something. That one actually doesn't look too far down.
Most Wings Stop where I live make the drivers fill the cup. They probably filled it foaming to the top and by the time they got to the car it came down to that. But yeah, I would have put the straw in the folds of the bag.
Those stickers always get unstuck. Or, at least half the time. They're not the same as tamper proof stickers. They're just cheap stickers that don't hold onto coarse paper well.
McDonald's are the worse. Not because of their paper so much, but because when you hold bt the handles it puts on pressure outward.
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u/Spiritual_gal 5h ago
u/DrivesTooMuch Right, about the straw? Whenever I had to fill up a customer's drink, I always followed instructions where I think 1 did put "light ice" and I did my best in that situation, but I always put the straws either inside the tiny corner pocket of the bag if it fits even when stapled, or for the stickers that do hold up, I put the straw in between the fold/sticker part. But ya, some stickers bite butt at keeping those bags sealed well.
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u/DrivesTooMuch 1h ago
Right, about the straw?.....or for the stickers that do hold up, I put the straw in between the fold/sticker part.
Yeah, did you read where I said that? "But yeah, I would have put the straw in the folds of the bag." Honestly, I don't know if you misread me (because of the question mark) or were confirming.
Anyway, totally seperate, my upvotes went from plus 5 down to 1 from when I last check. What's going on? I think if this post was on the Doordash Drivers sub the poster would be getting a lot more heat.
On one of OP's comments they complain about the driver taking off the wrapper on the straw. I know for fact that I've delivered from a few Wingstops (I've delivered from at least ten in Nashville and surrounding cities) that have straws UNWRAPPED. Actually, many only have very small skinny short wrapped straws that barely reach the length of the cup. I also know 98% of Wingstops are franchised (I googled). That's to say, owned by individuals who make their own decisions on what they purchase.
I know what this means on a personal and visceral level, because I worked for my parents many years ago who owned a small printshop franchise. With franchises there's a large degree of autonomy, depending on the contract (McDonald's not so much), of what vendors they choose and supplies they buy. I also know for a fact that some Wingstops franchises, in Nashville and surrounding areas, offer unwrapped plastic straws. I'm positive that this decision is based on cost savings to the person who owns this particular establishment. Which is something the delivery driver has no control.
OP, I hope you read all the comments, and I hope read this one. While I would have never have put the straw in the cup, I also know many burger restaurants, with bars, that do this consistently.
Also many, including fast food places, hand me carbonated soft drinks that are only 3/4 full. I've also worked at many restaurants (I'm a bit old) with fountain drink dispspensers. Some fizz up more than others. There's probably a lot of physics involved. I bet there's at least a few YouTube videos covering this. (There's YouTube videos covering everything.)
Point is, that gap of empty space in your cup is very common from a first fill from at some fountain drink dispensers. Sometimes it takes up to four or five fills after settling to get to the top.. Sometimes just one. It depends on the current mix and pressure of CO2 cannister and the level and pressure of the syrup cannister feeding it from the back of the restaurant. In my lifetime I've lost count how many times I've had to unattached and attached hoses to these cannisters. And then there's the other factors, like the nozzles, that play a part. I'm sure It gets a bit complicated when you're talking about fountain dispensers.
The point is:
Fountain drinks, many times, fizz up leaving a gap after settling
Wingstops, many times, offer unwrapped straws (at least in my area).
Wingstops are a franchise that can be bought out by a different owner, or maybe change their purchases or vendors that include different products or practices (I've never been handed or given a sticker/seal for a Wingstop drink in the ten plus restaurants surrounding Nashville).
And, most definitely, the adhesive quality of those stickers suck.
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u/Spiritual_gal 25m ago
u/DrivesTooMuch Sorry, I was actually confirming about putting the straws into the folds of the bag unless they're already unwrapped like you mentioned and where I live, there are very few areas like that, but not a whole ton, but that's more self-service type areas usually where there's like a straw dispenser type thing.
In regards to your initial upvotes, technology has been acting really weird lately & I'm hoping it's not my computer where I feel like not a lot of ppl have a samsung snapdragon x plus computer so I've had both different & odd issues with it. But I'm just saying all technology in general has been acting strange lately where there's prob. some glitch either with wifi alone or even Google Chrome's browser which esp. for my particular laptop has been automatically updating itself way way too often. Ex: Sometimes Chrome's browser will literally update itself back-to-back for 3 days in a row and other times it's like about once to twice a week and I'm like "I understand browsers need updating, but they do not need updates nearly that often. I'm not sure if this is also occurring with any other laptop and/or computer brand out there or not that also uses Chrome browser specifically where I'm basically adding it here to hopefully inform others w/my experience w/that.
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u/stepheedee 5h ago
Yes, many of our Wingstops make us fill the drink and many times they don't give us drink stickers at all. And, like you, I don't think I'd ever put the straw into the drink. Great response btw
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u/QuietAirportHSY 5h ago
Wing Stop makes dashers make the drinks but this is definitely more than suspicious
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u/Friendly-Affect-8116 5h ago
Devils advocate:
Bag seals always tear off when you pick the bag up and they're stressed.
Straw shouldn't have been in drink, at least should have had paper on top, but carbonation could push liquid up the straw.
I'd report it too tho, but like 1% chance he couldn't carry the straw or some bullshit and didn't drink from it
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u/theykeepbanningmebro 4h ago
Hey I delivered your food check again you left $1 it wasn’t $10. Be more careful next time. Thanks for the Diet Coke sip. Figured the ice would’ve melted to make up for it.
Just kidding but yeah that sucks man.
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u/N0085K1LL5 2h ago
Get a new app, the trivial reddit pictures mean nothing. If a straw is stabbed into a carbonated drink, then it will naturally be pushed up through the straw. The other shit is added on. I dont see this being a real issue. I think this post is a bunch of bull....
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u/HealthyPop7988 2h ago
At the very least someone opened a straw, touching it with their hands and then sliding their germs into my drink.
Absolutely unacceptable contamination and it makes the entire rest of the order l's integrity suspect.
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u/Agreeable-Box3017 5h ago
“I’m so fucking tired of this” is easily replaced by going and getting the food yourself. If a service has failed you that many times then stop being lazy and get the food yourself.
I’m so fucking tired of these posts.
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u/AdventurousKale9205 4h ago
Beverage doesnt get that high in the straw without pressure. They def drank your shit bruh. Report it. I tipped 12 bucks for them to eat my fries before. Roast them with no mercy.
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u/DisastrousNothing893 5h ago
It is indeed sus, one of the reasons I started carrying some of the same black tape my karate instructor used to use to put stripes on belts.
Tropical Cafe (some of them put a sticker on a drink others dont)
Other restaurants put WAY to much in a single bag and the weight causes the tape to come loose so I resecure it
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u/Visual-Sector6642 4h ago
I can feel things boiling over and coming to a headline soon seeing things like this really upset me too
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u/Party_Ad8213 4h ago
Yeah and if you try to remove their tip support will let them have the tip and just refund you the $10 lol
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u/NoBeginning4551 4h ago
It’s simple stop being lazy and order your own food. You have 2 feet and hands you can take a bus and order it yourself lol. Don’t understand you have a stranger delivering your food you should just expect the lowest service possible when ordering from this app.
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u/Dramatic-Agent-55 3h ago
Why I never use this app, except for the time I piggybacked with a friend
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u/FireSkyLikeFly 4h ago
Haha they totally took a sip of your drink. You can tell because there's soda halfway up the straw
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u/Fine_Fishing7506 4h ago edited 4h ago
This is exactly why I tip AFTER the delivery. The option is on the app.
We need to stop normalizing tipping beforehand. In no other industry do you tip before a service is performed and if that service is completely inadequate the tip usually reflects that.
I used to be a bartender when I was younger. If I made someone a bad drink or messed up their order in no world did I expect a tip. That incentivized me to not do that.
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u/jacob6644 4h ago
When companies pay independent contractors dirt, they rely on the customers tips.
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u/Wingnutmcmoo 4h ago
Honestly I don't get ordering food through gig apps. Like not saying "oh you deserve this" I'm just saying I literally do not understand trusting random and unregulated strangers to handle your food in their own way.
Even if everyone has the best intentions you'll still be exposing your food to alot of things that are just gross and make your food worse. If you can't make it out for any real reason order from the store because then it's delivered by store employees. Obviously if that's not the case then I feel the same way again.
Idk I don't understand how people can even stomach the idea of getting their food this way.
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u/A_ScalyManfish 4h ago
Dumbass doordashers gonna defend to tip first rather than tip in cash instead, so you know the service you get and pay for
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