Review of the Door Dash Mobile App for Sacramento Meal Delivery

For our needs, Door Dash seems to meet delivery options for Land Park.

When I first heard about mobile apps for Sacramento meal delivery, I was completely intrigued. This was even better than coming home, plopping down on the sofa and asking my husband: “What’s for dinner?” Because I have to be NICE to him. I don’t have to be nice to a meal delivery app.  Nope, just bring up that cell, pick a restaurant, enter your options and pay.  It remembers your orders. They also tell you how long it will take for delivery. As long as you back-track your hungry stomach an hour, you’re in business. My husband seemed to resist the idea at first, but now he’s on board. I notice he no longer gets into his car and makes runs to pick up Thai or sushi. Now, it’s all delivered to the house.

He has been assimilated. We have people who come to clean the house. People who show up to wash my car in the driveway, others who mow our lawn and trim our bushes. What I want to know is where are the people who will brush out your hair at night and help you undress, like on Downton Abbey? Are we becoming a nation of people who can’t take care of ourselves?

I rarely even go to the liquor store anymore. Because I belong to several wine clubs and my favorite at the moment is Mt Hood Winery in Oregon. Mt Hood Winery makes it easy for me to email my shipping guy, Brad, and ask him to reship my last order. A case shows up in 3 days. No forms to fill out. He’s got all of my information. It’s fast and convenient.

Grub Hub is fast and convenient for my husband. But the problem with my husband’s choice of app for Sacramento meal delivery is that I don’t have Grub Hub on my cellphone. When he went out of town last week, I tried to download the Grub Hub app. It wasn’t working. OK, I turned off WiFi and tried it. Nope. OK, I turned off my VPN and hit download. Nothing but spinning circles. I attempted to download the app on different days at different times. Finally, I gave up. Well, I did notify the company about the issue.

That left me no option but to download Door Dash. It advertises it has more than 900 restaurants in Sacramento.  How many are near me in Land Park? Turns out quite a selection: Sellands, Centro, Bento Box, Sushi Cafe, Old Spaghetti Factory, PF Changs. No matter what kind of food you want, the variety is available.

You can’t go wrong with Sellands except it offers too much a´la carte. If I chose the lemon chicken, then I would have to pick out my own accompaniments as separate orders. If I do that, it’s too much food. Further, Sellands makes me have to think about my food choices. I don’t want to think about it. I want a veggie side with a small salad and a type of protein. Now, if I were into carbs, I might like a carb / veggie option, maybe with dessert. They need to make it easier to choose a meal. I’d pay $50 not to think about it.

Plus, according to Door Dash, it looks like it comes all the way from East Sacramento instead of right up the street in Land Park.

Regardless of whether it’s Grub Hub or Door Dash that delivers, until we got a regular delivery guy, they seem to have a problem finding my home. I find it is important to keep my cell turned on. We live on a one-block street in Land Park that nobody knows where it is. My delivery on Sunday was right on time. The only problem was the restaurant did not tell me it was out of uni and had no scallops. But it did send me fried shrimp heads without charge. Hello? Do you think everybody wants to eat fried shrimp heads?

What were they thinking? Oh, we have no scallops so let’s send the next best thing. Fried shrimp heads. I hate to say this to them, but fried shrimp heads is not a common nor acceptable substitution. Also, they stuck in some sort of raw shellfish at no charge as well, which I did not recognize. It ate it anyway.

Then I was sick all day on Monday.

But don’t let that stop you from picking an app for Sacramento meal delivery. Just find out which restaurants are close to your home before choosing an app. The Door Dash mobile app for Sacramento meal delivery was very easy to use. It also sends updates and will tell you the following: 1) when the order has been received, 2) when it’s been processed and 3) when it left the restaurant on the way to your house. If you are really bored, you can bring up the map app on your phone and watch the vehicle navigate to your house. But seriously only a sick person would find that fascinating. Sorry, sweetie.