I don't think you can make excuses for UberEats or whatever. Food delivery is not a new problem. I have been ordering pizza and Chinese food for more than 2 decades. It is very rare when we received cold pizza. And most of the time when it happened resturants proactively refunded us or gave coupons for another time.
It is kind of amazing how many times UberEats, GrubHub, etc deliver cold food. Not just for me but vast majority of my friends report same thing.
As a consumer, I rather get refund so bad companies can go bankrupt before becoming too big to fail.
I've had a very high number of failures to deliver in a timely manner, and several times when I wasn't delivered anything at all.
Twice, I have been left food that I did not order. Mind you, my house number is plainly visible in three locations from the street. They didn't even ring the doorbell. Just dropped it off on the porch and left.
These problems span across all delivery services.
I don't know who does the delivery for groceries, but I am at an almost 100% failure rate for drivers to follow simple directions. "Leave the order by the large garage door" is all it says. I've only had ONE driver do that.
I've given up on food delivery except for the pizza place that has its own drivers.
As far as I am concerned, all these services can go out of business.
It is kind of amazing how many times UberEats, GrubHub, etc deliver cold food. Not just for me but vast majority of my friends report same thing.
As a consumer, I rather get refund so bad companies can go bankrupt before becoming too big to fail.