Featured Story of the Week: DoorDash Customer Who Picked Up Her Own Wingstop

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The Internet is a stage that someone reluctantly stumbles upon every week. That makes him the “main character” on the web. Sometimes his story is heartwarming, like Olympic muffins; usually a gaffe. In any case, that lead energy flows through the news cycle and turbocharges the debate for several business days.

Here it is Trending Team‘S the main character of the week.

This is DoorDash a customer who had to pick up her own Wing stop.

That’s funny. After failing to get her order, the woman goes to get food… then he meets his supplier. Life is funny sometimes.

In a popular video, TikToker Ashlee Cooper (@ashleesellstexas) explains, “When I walk into Wingstop, I get a text message that your driver has picked up your food at 8:49 PM. I said:Yes, I see her, so I go to her,'” she says.

She confronts a woman.

“I said, ‘Are you so and so?’ … And she said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘That’s me. I’ve been waiting for this. The app said you’re sitting here waiting for my food, which you clearly weren’t,'” she adds.

Cooper then returned home, contacted the app and received a 20% refund of her tip.

This story caused a stir because it turned out to be surprisingly accurate. This one dishonest supplierViewers expressed their opinion their own versions of the same story.

One of them claimed that drivers nowadays play the app: “This is because some drivers game the system… they use bots or have people hold multiple phones, take all the orders and wait for someone they are working with to show up and then give them the food.”

We have Not verified that these scams continue. But I believe that’s what people do.

This The United States has become DoorDash Nation.

Heck, both my brother and brother-in-law have used DoorDash and Uber Eats in recent years. I can confirm “Should I just decline this order and maybe take it to watch the Sunday football game?” the impulses are real.

My brother was actually our Internet Person of the Year 2021. NO literally Eduardo Ramirez, beloved father, enigmatic artist, Leo-Virgo crossroads, and tireless hard worker. But we used him as a stunt double for the pandemic era the most underrated essential worker:A person who delivers goods ordered through the app to people working from home.

How we wrote three years ago: “This was the year that fast-food workers took their supporters behind the scenes, accusing their employers of mistreatment, unsanitary eating conditions and general neglect. The trend of calling out big-name food chains and brands isn’t going away anytime soon.”

This it turned out to be true. However, the results were not revolutionaryWhile the American worker became a lovable and unlikely leading figure online at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, our stories now demand more self-serving, “customer first”from an angle that anyone cares about.

Back to our main character of the week: Is this a woman who told her story? Whether it is antihero’s journey about a freedom fighter who one day said, “Enough.”

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