How long do you wait for takeout?

[1FinickyOne]

1 hour ago, brewsterbudgen said:

At least with a takeout you can ask them how long it will take.  Anything from 10-20 minutes would be OK with me.

After 25 minutes, I asked how much longer -  - 2 minutes they told me - I waited 15 more minutes and left. 

[1FinickyOne]

14 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Same,

I regularly order 2x 12" NY pizza using pizza co. App, delivered in under 30 minutes. Free delivery.

Sure, but this was not a situation of waiting for a delivery at home. I was a walk in customer. 

4 minutes ago, 1FinickyOne said:

So, after 25 minutes I asked when my food would be ready - they told me 2 minutes. After another 15 minutes, I walked out, though they told me it was nearly ready.

I felt badly - - but felt I had been treated badly - there were no customers but I did see family members walking in and out of the kitchen looking quite well fed... 

[Grumpy one]

12 hours ago, Lacessit said:

I don't worry about waiting for takeout, I am reading a book on my phone while the food is prepared at the restaurant. Is takeout different to takeaway?

 

Don't use Grab or Food Panda, as I don't see how the scooter riders handle it. For all I know, they spit in farang orders.

Lucky you can't see what's being done to your food in the kitchen

[Lacessit]

14 minutes ago, Grumpy one said:

Lucky you can't see what's being done to your food in the kitchen

15 years here, only food poisoning I got was from a Tops frozen meal.

[brewsterbudgen]

1 hour ago, 1FinickyOne said:

First, I was a walk in at a restaurant - Sitting in the restaurant.

Second my home is an hour away and I did not want home delivery. I wanted to bring something with me to a friends place for her and her friends to have lunch.. 

I live too far away for home delivery and have also never had food home delivered, 

 

So, after 25 minutes I asked when my food would be ready - they told me 2 minutes. After another 15 minutes, I walked out, though they told me it was nearly ready.

 

My question was not about home delivery - it was how long would you sit in a restaurant and wait?

 

ps - it was not food that I could or would have wanted to make at home. 

 

Didn't they ask for payment at the time the order was placed?  Or did they refund you?

[Lacessit]

4 hours ago, BritManToo said:

How would they know your nationality?

Or skin colour?

I don't have an an epicanthic fold.

[BritManToo]

3 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I don't have an an epicanthic fold.

And they can see that from your phone app when you place your order?

[Lacessit]

5 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

And they can see that from your phone app when you place your order?

I don't order by phone. I walk into the restaurant, place my order at the counter, then wait for the takeaway to come out from the kitchen.

[cdemundo]

17 hours ago, rough diamond said:

Why bother with waiting/delivery times?

Make it and eat it at home.

In all my  years I have never had a food delivery of anything!

Sit in the restaurant or make it at home.

Well in all my born days I have alway taken a shine to having food delivered.

I like it.

You speak as one having authority yet I will continue to do what pleases me.

[1FinickyOne]

2 hours ago, Lacessit said:

then wait for the takeaway to come out from the kitchen.

Yes, and the question is - - how long will you wait for the food? What if it doesn't come in 20 or 30 minutes? 

 

After 25 minutes, I inquired and was told another 2 minutes - after 45 minutes, I walked out.