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I Sold Microwave Meals On Deliveroo

5.3M views · Sep 7, 2019 · 11:50 · 1 HN recommender · 4 mentions · discussed 2019–2020

YouTuber Josh Pieters lists microwave meals on Deliveroo as if from a restaurant and sees whether anyone orders them. The stunt shows how little vetting the platform applied.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it as an example of delivery platforms accepting listings without hygiene inspection, in ghost kitchen discussions.

What Hacker News said 4

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YouTuber sells microwave meals on Deliveroo.

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They already do have a portion of the business that does that. I worked for them for a few weeks in London as a way to get paid to work out. There was a sort of container warehouse in Battersea - basically food trucks that you're ordering from. You might also appreciate this: > I Sold Microwave Meals On Deliveroo this video

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Cites italexmingoiaDec 2019

“spoiler: Deliveroo let them without inspection, and someone bought it!”

YouTuber sold microwave meals on Deliveroo without inspection.

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This YouTuber tried selling Microwave meals on Deliveroo (spoiler: Deliveroo let them without inspection, and someone bought it!): this video

in “Farm to Table? More Like Ghost Kitchen to Sofa” · view on HN
Cites it333cMay 2020

“This video features (a) delivery and (b) reimbursement”

Video matching the delivery and reimbursement details of the original comment.

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While that is a good video (and demonstrates manipulation of TripAdvisor), I'm pretty sure the commenter means this one: this video This video features (a) delivery and (b) reimbursement, both mentioned in the original comment but not present in your video.

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CriticaldpflanDec 2019

“That is flabbergasting.”

Shows Deliveroo's hygiene inspection is not a blocker for accepting orders.

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This is great. From the video, a Deliveroo representative states that the "hygiene inspection" is not a blocker for the "Italian Stallion" to begin accepting orders. That is flabbergasting. > this video

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