I sometimes get cravings at the most inopportune times, and several of those times were during rainy days. I had terribly wanted some McDonald’s one night and unfortunately, moments after I had ordered my food online, it started raining, heavily. I was living in Busan at the time, and my place was on a mountain, while the McDonald’s was at the foot of the mountain. When my order had arrived, the rider gave me my food and hurried along.
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After moving to Seoul, there was one rainy night, again, when I had a strong urge for some McDonald’s. I logged on to the app, clicked on my usual order which I had already saved on the app for quicker processing time, and went to the checkout page. As I was about to pay for my meal, I was interrupted and the app said that they will be no delivery service due to intermittent weather. That was the first time I had encountered that, and as disappointing as it was, I understood the reason behind it. Nobody wants to risk their riders’ safety just for some profit. The same thing happened when it snowed, and so I went out one snowy evening to buy some McDonald’s, since I knew delivery services won’t be in operation.
That’s if stores would be proactive about these sorts of situations. But there are places where rainy days are ordinary, and barring floods which will completely shut down traffic, delivery riders will be expected to deliver despite the weather conditions. So, Rice Media talked to delivery riders to hear what they actually think about people ordering food during rainy days.
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Source: neatorama