Just-Eat Remove Alcohol Delivery Services
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On Monday, the takeaway ordering website Just-Eat removed all alcohol/drinks and grocery businesses from their website, which I thought was a shame - citing wishing to focus on takeaway food only.
Did you ever order booze through JE?
Did you ever order booze through JE?
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They have that and they also deliver condoms and cigarettes. I think it is called "Munchies 2 U".
There's only one takeaway in town that is licensed.
It was quite a suprise when we looked at the menu and saw them offering lager, alcopops and bottles of vokda (but at £15 for 75cl it's a non starter).
There is a nice takeaway/cafe in Newcastle that has lager on draft and does a nice cheesy garlic sauce
it was more expensive than what it is in the supermarket but i was glad to pay it and have it delivered too the front door .
Could I just ask what makes you say this?
As I've had a really weird experience recently with a place on Just Eat. It's got loads of reviews and is supposedly on my road. But there is no restaurant at this address!
There was thing on BBC Watchdog earlier in the year about some restaurants on Just-Eat actually just being a kitchen in a house. Like you and me cooking up a curry and selling it on Just-Eat under a restaurant name. The Watchdog report found that Just-Eat wasn't actually checking if these restaurants were real restaurants. Pretty much anyone could sign up by the sounds of it. I'm not sure what procedures they have in place now to stop this.
As mentioned below, lots of them are just people cooking out of their kitchens and delivering it to you, so no food hygiene certificates, no license nothing!
on my local Just Eat - 2 Indian Restaurants, 2 different addresses (both on Main Street - but 20 numbers apart) - I've ordered from both.
there is only ONE - I've been there and stood across the road - and searched, and searched - thought I was going off my head!!
till the delivery driver informed me - I should check both of them before ordering, for special offers, free delivery, that sort of thing. ONE restaurant x 2 names and addresses
have no idea why
We have a takeaway like that in town.
In the main one is where you order and they cook up all the chips, burgers, pizzas, chicken, kebabs etc.
If you order Indian then they cook it across the road and a staff member or even the bouncer goes and collects it and brings it across.
Both takeaways are listed but one is never open and has a sign to say to go over the road.
You'd be suprised
I was keeping a low'ish profile on the whole thing but I run an alcohol delivery business that was on Just-Eat until the beginning of last week.
The cheapest vodka I sell is £16.99 - people pay it for the convenience. Besides which, we'd make less on that than you might think.
There's a reasonable chance it could be an unregistered, illegal food business - you should contact your local council to check.
Just-Eat send a rep round to your business to give you the terminal (and for the contract to be signed etc).
It's perfectly possible for a domestic premises to be a legally registered food business - so if these places claimed to be registered and put on a good show, Just-Eat could have easily been fooled. Although they attended our office (it's an alcohol delivery business, not a food takeaway) they never actually asked to see papers confirming we were licensed or registered.
It's perfectly possible to run a takeaway as a kitchen-only establishment, legally, as long as it's registered and complies with food hygiene law and the like.
Obviously as it's transpired, quite a few of them aren't registered, but it doesn't mean that they are all illegal and dodgy - far from it, it sounds as if the situation was misjudged and a fair few have turned out to be perfectly legitimate establishments.
The hardest thing to pull I'd imagine would be a change-of-use in the planning permission, which I'd have thought would be needed and might be hard for most ordinary terraced houses.
Not sure why that means they should remove them all.
We have a licence - if they had asked to look, they could have done so.
Delivering beer and taking payment at the door is absolutely fine unless there's a condition in your licence which says otherwise.
That 24 Hour Alcohol website is crap. It seems to list mainly supermarkets and not actual alcohol delivery businesses. I tried to get my business listed on it before but they just never responded to emails, I think it's been 'abandoned'. It doesn't look as if it's been updated for some time.
ETA: We're not on Hungryhouse as they essentially charge the same amounts of money as JustEat - but provide an inferior service. Not sure why they think they can command such a high price-tag seeing as they are the 'second best'.
That website doesn't even cover my area.
Perhaps it was issues with alcohol being supplied to under 18's when they're handling payments?
I've never once been asked by a driver from just eat to verify it was my card the order was placed with (despite them being supposed to I think?) or ask for any ID. I know my little delinquent of a brother orders booze on there for this very reason.
Maybe.. although that really is a job for local councils/licensing to test-purchase and fine/prosecute the offenders - rather than just blanket bans on a whole 'industry'. It's such a blunt instrument.
We operate Challenge 25. If we don't, we could lose our licence!