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Grubhub Reviews Summary

Grubhub has a rating of 1.1 stars from 4,556 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Grubhub most frequently mention customer service, delivery time and next order. Grubhub ranks 182nd among Food Delivery sites.

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value
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returns
537
quality
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New Jersey
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Incompetent
November 5, 2017

Terrible customer service. I have been using delivery services for YEARS. I have never dealt with this level of incompetence with any other company. First and foremost, a website should know beforehand if a restaurant is closed for business. Instead of calling they send an email, after charging me to inform me they cannot reach the restaurant. Why not call immediately instead of waiting for a customer to check their email? I ask for credit so I can order from another restaurant. Nope, can't do that. Then I ask for a coupon for a future order. Nope, can't issue more than $2.00. First, that's clearly a lie and second, really? Give me the refund and I will take my business elsewhere. Never again. Done.

Date of experience: November 5, 2017
Maryland
6 reviews
28 helpful votes
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Disappointed
November 5, 2017

I Placed an order with GrubHub, and they gave me a 60 to it 90 minutes delivery period. A half-hour past the expected delivery time, I called customer service to see what was going on. I was told that the problem was with the restaurant and that our food would be delivered within a half hour. Another hour goes by before 2 frantic and petrified looking women from the restaurant, not a GrubHub delivery person delivered my order. I was told by these women that GrubHub called in our order about 45 minutes before they made the delivery. Evidently, someone is lying, and I'm inclined to believe its GrubHub, and here's why. I paid GrubHub to make the delivery, hence food delivery service. The restaurant that we ordered from does not deliver. Ever. So why did the restaurant workers delivery the food? I also gave GrubHub a tip that is supposed to go to the delivery person, and they looked at me like I was 7 kinds of crazy when I mentioned that we gave GrubHub a tip for them. GrubHub if your reading this, this tip should go to the restaurant worker who delivered our food, not your company. GrubHub gave us a $10 coupon, but we won't be using it. I abhor dishonesty.

Date of experience: November 4, 2017
Arizona
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ordered food through Grubhub yesterday, got Red Robin. The food had finally arrived 4 hours late! I had called Red Robin durring the whole thing who basicially told me my food has just been sitting there waiting and is cold by now. They claimed they would remake the item when the driver arived, but when i got my food it seems they had just reheated it as I got 3 incredibly soggy sub-par burgers with like 10 fry's each. I also tryed reaching out to Grub Hub which finally answered after an hour of waiting on the phone, who said all they could do was give me a $10 coupon for GrubHub even though I plan to NEVER use this service ever again. Go with UberEats guys, way more professional and ON TIME!

Date of experience: November 4, 2017
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The foodler/GrubHub merger has been a disaster! Foodler never had such problems. The GH customer service can be great when the numerous problems pop up, but this week, it just took a nose-dive. Items left off of orders, surly drivers, fighting with and through GH customer service to get corrections made, promises of refunds lagging when they hadn't previously, courtesy discounts to compensate this regular customer for the overall bad night of service promised but not made good on. Even when I called to follow-up, it still did not reflect the promised email evidencing the courtesy discount, on top of the meager refund for the kid's meal that had missing items. By the time I fought them and got the items and promised refund and discount, (the latter verbally) I was spent and lost my appetite. It was like I went hunting and prepared and cooked my own food, which is not the point of ordering this expensive food. This is becoming an abomination that will have me looking for another food service. Too many days of bad food and/or service, with this week being the absolute worst. If you make a promise GH, keep it! Don't? That is called bad faith or worse, just bad business. I need to cut you off like a bad ex.

Date of experience: November 3, 2017
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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This is the worst way to get food, Im finding out the hard way. 2 hours since my food was promised and still nothing. The restaurant did their part and now the food is wasted.

Date of experience: November 3, 2017
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Grub Hub is unreliable. This is just one particular bad experience of many. I ordered food 3 hours ago and it shows delivered but i have no food. The restraunt is one mile from my house.

Date of experience: November 3, 2017
Nevada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Food is two hours late
November 4, 2017

Food is over two hours late and not even a call from the driver. I have been a loyal grubhub customer and use them often in the past. This is unaccectable to not even call. Have been on hold for 30 minutes with customer service. Have yet to speak to a live person. Online chat is busy as well. Very bad customer service experience.

Date of experience: November 3, 2017
Illinois
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Takes forever to deliver
November 4, 2017

I ordered my food 2 hours ago and I still haven't received my food. Even worse than that Customer Service won't answer my calls.

Date of experience: November 3, 2017
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I've been waiting for two hours for food from a restaurant that is 10 minutes away. The last 3 times I've used GH it was the same thing. It always estimates delivery time in about an hour and a half, but then keeps pushing back the delivery time in twenty minute intervals. I have to call the restaurant every time and they always say, Oh its on it's way right now. There currently isn't any incentive to use this delivery service. There's a fee to use it, plus you have to tip the drivers, even though this driver is now an hour late, and they make you pay with credit card; you can't use cash. I could've walked to and from this restaurant by now. If I had known it would take two hours, I would've made other arrangements.

JUST received a call as I was typing this review saying that my order has been canceled because they couldn't find a delivery driver. JUST now telling me this. It's almost 11pm.

Do yourself a favor and don't use GH.

Date of experience: November 2, 2017
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Updated review... Worst customer service ever and I also don't appreciate being lied to
Updated 11/1/17
So to follow up, I had initially called their customer service line to get this resolved before I posted my complaint. The CS rep had basically told me "too bad".

Finally, Grubhub did actually reach out to me as a result of my post. They have refunded me the price of the burger plus the extra 20 cents they'd charged me. They also said I could keep the $10 discount promo as well. So, they did actually step up and correct the situation eventually. Thank you, Grubhub.

Original review 10/3/17:

Date of experience: November 1, 2017

I ordered a burger from Red Robin via Grubhub. I paid extra to have an egg added to my burger and specified that it be cooked over hard and not runny. When I cut my burger in half (which I'd also requested and the restaurant did not do) the runny egg oozed all over my burger thereby making it inedible to me. So now let's add insult to injury. I called Grubhub to report this. I was told I'd get a full refund. Instead I was sent a discount code for less than the value of the burger. This meant that I would need to spend more money with Grubhub/Red Robin in order to get my "refund". In addition, I received a follow up email stating that they had also decided to charge me an extra 20 cents for "special instructions". Wow. Worst customer service ever. Will never order from grubhub or Red Robin again.

Date of experience: October 30, 2017
Maryland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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First (and likely last) experience using GrubHub. The delivery driver failed to reach me on my cell (he was 30 minutes ahead of schedule and so I did not have my phone on me); unfortunately, rather than walking up to door to deliver food (side note: I live in a standalone single family residence in a family-friendly neighborhood), he simply left. When I called GrubHub to report the missing delivery, the rep was unable to reach the driver and offered to re-order my meal for a re-delivery. Thirty minutes later, the restaurant called me directly to see if GrubHub was sending another driver to claim the order. Confused that the rep hadn't dispatched another driver, I called GrubHub back to request a driver to pick up the ready food and was informed by another rep that they "don't do that." And nothing else -- no research to figure out the previous rep who assisted me to clarify what happened, no additional solution or assistance or offer to refund my money, nothing -- just awkward silence on their end of the phone.

Terrible customer service experience, and much more hassle than if I had just driven out to the restaurant -- which I ended up having to do anyway to feed my house full of guests.

Date of experience: October 30, 2017
New York
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I've been waiting more than an hour and 30 mins for my food.It ruined my day. I've waisted 2 hours of my day and now I have to leave home. Worst experience ever

Date of experience: October 29, 2017
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I want food
October 29, 2017

Its been waiting 2 hours since Ive placed my order and Im still waiting for my
Food to be delivered (from 15 mins away). Im confused? I could have walked there, got food and eaten it in a faster time. This is my first experience with grubhub and I am NOT HAPPY.

Date of experience: October 28, 2017
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Horrible!
October 28, 2017

I have been very sick this week so my husband used them an hour ago to get us food from Hooters so we wouldnt have to leave the house. It took over an hour to get our food. The food was cold, we were missing several items, and when we called grub hub back they told us that they would not go pick it back but refund the money. I called the restaurant and told the lady what I was missing. The lady informed me that she did in fact put those missing items in my bag. Not sure who is to blame but I will NEVER use this horrible company again

Date of experience: October 28, 2017
Oregon
1 review
0 helpful votes
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It's just too unreliable. We once had a driver take our order no joke 10 times in the opposite direction of where we live and was well over 2 hours late before we had to cancel the order.

Date of experience: October 26, 2017
Massachusetts
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It took them more than 30 minutes longer than they said to deliver my food. And they gave me a ridiculous two dollar coupon. Wow! Terrible experience and terrible service. Do not use them

Date of experience: October 26, 2017
New Jersey
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Awful.
October 26, 2017

Awful. Every time i wait an hour and a half. Won't be using again. Drivers take so long. Customer service is ok.

Date of experience: October 26, 2017
Indiana
1 review
1 helpful vote
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DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE
October 26, 2017

I ordered and spent about thirty dollars. I got the complete wrong order. I told
Them and they at first offered to redeliver. When I said the whole order was wrong and sent them pictures as proof they didnt respond to my two other emails and then deactivated my account. I filed a dispute with PayPal but talk about bad customer service. Didnt even attempt to fix it or make it right. DO NOT USE

Date of experience: October 25, 2017
Connecticut
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Unreliable
October 26, 2017

We usually order via Foodler and have had no issues. Unfortunately Foodler has been acquired by Grubhub and now all orders are through GrubHub. We ordered this evening and got an email an hour later saying our order was cancelled. Reason was not clear. Overall a waste of time.

Date of experience: October 25, 2017
Oklahoma
1 review
2 helpful votes
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First time user here and I was really excited since my husbands gone all day with our only car. So once I get over the sticker shock of paying 25$ after tip to get lunch I decided it was worth it and went to place my order. Their website is BY FAR the worst Ive ever felt with. Made me log in 4 times, then once I get past the glitches, and it not letting me enter my info it decided to tell me that the website cant process Apple Pay, even though its an option. After trying three times I said screw it. Its safe to say that I will never use them again.

Date of experience: October 23, 2017