As someone who would rather be at home than at a crowded restaurant, I am a rather big fan of food delivery services. However, I am not blind to the various issues that can stem from ordering food that’s being delivered by a random person. In New York City, New York, a woman wanted nothing more than to wind down with a cheesecake from Cheesecake Factory.
Unfortunately, the DoorDash driver selected for the task must have also really been in the mood for cheesecake, because he took off with the order immediately after photographing that it had arrived. It’s a good thing that there are cameras pretty much everywhere.
The above video was posted to the TikTok account @samanthaeforsyth, which belongs to a woman named Samantha. She is an artist with a following of over 30,000 fans on the site who are all fans of both her art and the phone cases, mugs, and other items she prints them on. However, this video was a little bit different.
It starts off with a conversation between Samantha and a DoorDash driver named Rolanda. The driver was expected to pick up a cheesecake that Samantha had ordered from Cheesecake Factory and deliver it to her door, but it looks like Rolanda had other ideas. Samantha decided to use the app to try and communicate with Rolanda to get answers for what happened.
Unfortunately, it appears that Rolanda’s “phone fell in water that’s why I’m not answering I won’t be able to hear your calls.” Just before replying with this, however, she asked for Samantha to provide video proof of what she was claiming. I’m guessing now that she wished she hadn’t asked for that.
New York Doordash Driver Snatches Nighttime Cheesecake Dinner
Samantha was immediately able to provide video proof from a camera placed inside her apartment complex that shows Rolanda going up the stairs with the food and then coming back downstairs with the same bag. What’s even worse is that the person delivering the food didn’t even appear to be a woman, let alone named Rolanda.
There is even video footage of the DoorDasher and a friend, who was likely the lookout for the situation, walking back to their car with the Cheesecake Factory bag in hand. I mean, it’s a brightly colored, branded bag, so it isn’t very hard to miss, even on a grainy camera.
Other Doordash drivers jumped into the comments, giving their opinion on the whole situation, with one person saying, “I don’t know why drivers would do that…I make enough on there it wouldn’t be worth it to steal 1 meal and risk a ban.” Even a Cheesecake Factory employee chimed in, saying, “I work at ccf. the amount of times the dasher steals the food is astronomical. please just order from the website and pick it up I beg of yall. the curbside people work so hard to ensure the order is correct and fresh.“
I’d like to think that Samantha got a refund and that the Dasher’s account was punished in some way to avoid something like this happening again.
