If you are ordering online and getting delivery because of the pandemic -- because you think it is a best practice for germ control -- I think you are probably better off ordering takeout and picking it up yourself.
Delivery drivers have been known to sample the food they are delivering and things like that. I am not thrilled with the idea of some underpaid delivery driver having time alone with my food.
Restaurants have to comply with food safety and hygiene laws and their staff get appropriate training. I doubt delivery drivers get similar training (correct me if I'm wrong).
Staff in restaurants are not only trained in food safety, they are typically not alone. This is one of the best ways to ensure that people are behaving. Delivery drivers are going to be alone with your food and therein lies the problem.
I have a permanently compromised immune system. I default to preferring takeout over delivery where possible. I occasionally get delivery where that's just not practical for some reason, but it's the exception.
There's a pandemic on. If people are interested in my opinion about best practices for playing defensively in a germy world, there it is. And if they aren't, (shrug).
You'll recall that I also have CF. For whatever reason, I don't fear delivery (though I'm more and more sensitive to how exploitative it is for businesses)
Delivery drivers have been known to sample the food they are delivering and things like that. I am not thrilled with the idea of some underpaid delivery driver having time alone with my food.
Restaurants have to comply with food safety and hygiene laws and their staff get appropriate training. I doubt delivery drivers get similar training (correct me if I'm wrong).
Staff in restaurants are not only trained in food safety, they are typically not alone. This is one of the best ways to ensure that people are behaving. Delivery drivers are going to be alone with your food and therein lies the problem.
https://www.wasserstrom.com/blog/2018/10/12/food-delivery-ri...