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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.

service
836
value
774
shipping
528
returns
537
quality
668

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Pennsylvania
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Grubhub.com proved to be an incompetent business. They charged my credit card for food that was never delivered. When I contacted them about THEIR OWN mistake, they told me that they refunded my money to the bank and I would have to wait the entire weekend for it to be reimbursed back to my account. I do not know why they would have charged my account if they were not able to provide the product. I was also treated with disrespect from their customer service department. I will NEVER use this company again because they are frauds.

Date of experience: December 14, 2013
Ohio
1 review
3 helpful votes
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DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE
December 14, 2013

DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE.

The absolute WORST company in the entire world. Customer support 3 people didn't even talk to me. I sent $70 they said they didn't get it and are trying to help me and i'll have my money by Monday but I have no money to order food now.

THE WORST COMPANY EVER. DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE!

EVERYTIME I order from here it is a different problem. EVERY SINGLE TIME.

LISTEN TO ME i WOULD NEVER TAKE MY TIME TO WRITE A REVIEW BUT I AM SO MAD THIS IS THE WORST COMPANY EVER DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR MONEY I WILL PAY FOR YOUR FOOD INSTEAD OF YOU ORDERING FROM THEM.

DO NOT ORDER FROM HERE.

They left the chat when I told them my bad review is going everywhere

Date of experience: December 13, 2013
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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At home sick with a cold and thought I would give Grub Hub a try since it is about 45 degrees outside. Called at 4:16 and was told it would arrive by 5:10.
At 5:30 I called grub hub to advise that the order had not arrived. As they stalled and said they would check it out, they sent me a $10 cerificate. They assured me it would be there by 5:44.
NOTHING! At 6:00 I cancelled my order!
Ten minutes later the guy shows up and I told him it was too late and to take it back. As I was closing the door he attempted to stop me from closing the door!

I WILL NEVER USE THIS SERVICE AGAIN. I WOULD SUGGEST YOU READ OTHER REVIEWS. I did not and I'm sorry I didn't.

Date of experience: December 10, 2013
Georgia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Totally unreliable, they don't tell you the wait time until you make the purchase. Afterward, you just have to wait and wait, triple the estimated time. Everytime you chat with them to check your order status, you will be told that the driver is on the way, will be few more minutes. Then you wait for another hour and nothing. Used it once, never going to use it again.

Date of experience: December 3, 2013
Pennsylvania
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I'm only reviewing because of all the negative reviews! I can't believe it! This is absolutely the only way I order food anymore and have been doing so for about 2 years. I've never had a problem though once or twice I had an issue with an actual restaurant itself. Grubhub is just a mediator. If there's a problem it's more than likely the restaurant, not grubhub. Have a problem? Call grubhub anyway! Their customer service is beyond outstanding. They'll comp you for the restaurant'a mistake and you don't even have to ask.

Date of experience: November 13, 2013
Utah
1 review
1 helpful vote
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It took an hour and a half to get my food and the delivery charge was a bit pricey. I now have a 1.00 charge that is extra on my bank account and I'm not sure why. I know it's only 1.00 but you would think that I would get some kind of warning or authorization for that?

Date of experience: November 2, 2013
California
2 reviews
8 helpful votes
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Eat24 transferred me to support and never responded. Was kept in online limbo for over an hour. Never chatted with support. Not happy with service.

Date of experience: November 2, 2013
Massachusetts
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I wish they have a -5 star... This delivery service website is beyond ridiculous. EVERYTIME I order from them through their website there is always a minuscular problem... like they discount a dollar for everytime I click a plate even if I am trying out the website... Another thing my order arrived 2 hrs late one time. And then even though they credit me for my order now I can't pay the remainings with cash?

Date of experience: October 11, 2013
Washington
3 reviews
4 helpful votes
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I ordered for my disabled wife while I was at work. They ( The Front Room on California in SF) called her back and said to her can you come downstairs, the driver does not want to pay for parking. After a few bad remarks in Spanish they begrudgingly delivered burned pasta with no sauce. Lettuce with no salad toppings and no dressing. And the drive smiled as he took a 5 dollar tip from his disabled victim. Knowing they messed up her order. Being the day before we ordered the same thing for her she loved it, so she wanted the same thing again.

The order was pasta with garlic sauce and a Greek salad.

When i notified eat 24 they stared to want to help. Bur after 4 email, and a week still no satisfaction.
It is now my mission for everyone to know about this.

Date of experience: October 5, 2013
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I ordered for the first time on GrubHub and the restaurant delivered 1 wrong item and left off 2 other items. That was 35 minutes ago and I am still waiting for someone to reach out to me to correct. First a message came back saying that someone would call or text me. Nothing. I then went to chat with GrubHub and no one is responding to the chat. Now I am waiting on hold on their customer service number... DO NOT USE GRUBHUB!

Date of experience: September 27, 2013
California
1 review
4 helpful votes
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When I found grubhub I thought, yay this is great, it lists all the places who deliver and their minimum delivery charges. I was so wrong about this company! I found a pizza place and put in my order. After I submitted my order, I got an error message. I assumed the credit card number I put in was wrong, so I typed it in again and submitted it. I received the same response.

So now I check my bank account wondering if something has been processed that I wasn't expecting. What I wasn't expecting to see was two separate $1.00 charges from grubhub. All I could think was WTF!?! I was blindsided by this information.

Because of these charges, I was now unable to order dinner. I was given no warning of this procedure of holding money. I did not authorize the company to do anything of the sort!

I decided to chat with someone from grubhub after some yelling and venting. The live chat only made me angrier unfortunately. The person on the other end must've been using prewritten statements to respond to my questions and comments.
I asked at one point while "she" was giving me the run around, whether or not "she" was a computer or a real person.

Next came a "supervisor" who was just as useless. They don't mean it when they say they're sorry!

I know they could've done something to help, they just chose not to help, so I choose to tell people never to use their company or it's affiliates.

Date of experience: September 23, 2013
California
1 review
3 helpful votes
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The site itself is practical to browse nearby restaurants by categories. However, when there's a problem with your order, they will just say I am sorry but the restaurant said your order was fine. No refund, no rollback. Therefore, I'm not coming back either.

Date of experience: September 11, 2013
Texas
5 reviews
27 helpful votes
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I use Paypal to order food online. I couldn't otherwise use Paypal to order from these places so that's pretty cool for me.

Date of experience: August 1, 2013
California
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Do not plan on eating tonight if you order from this website. After checking if the restaurant was in our delivery area we ordered and waited and waited. An hour later we were informed that that their maps were not updated and too bad so sad no dinner for us tonight. This restaurant would not deliver to us and because eat24hour is NOT local there is NOTHING they can do about it. Too bad for you.

Date of experience: July 12, 2013
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I had a coupon for Grubhub from a restaurant I'd tried once. Wasted half my lunch hour trying to get the lousy site to let me pay via PayPal. Total waste of time, too late to take time to drive to get the order if I could ever get the thing to work. Their customer service claimed there was no order up but their own site showed I had an order pending. Terrible waste of time and effort and no lunch today as a result. Avoid this even if you have a coupon "lure", the "convenience" of this site is lost by how inadequate it is for the task it is designed to fulfill.

Date of experience: June 17, 2013
Maryland
1 review
5 helpful votes
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The food quality was AWFUL! Order was supposed to go through Wings Things and More in Owings Mills MD. The chicken was AWFUL. Dry inside, greasy outside, and their buffalo sauce tastes like vinegar and maple syrup. Just disgusting. STAY AWAY!

Date of experience: June 14, 2013
Pennsylvania
1 review
4 helpful votes
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The first time we ordered from here it worked great but the last time it took 2 hours and the food was cold and they gave us a credit and we used it only to wait over 2 hours and the restraunt closed and never got our order and it was too late to order from anywhere else

Date of experience: June 8, 2013
Rhode Island
4 reviews
25 helpful votes
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I end up using grubhub quite a bit, if only because it is a great aggregator of all the delivery options nearest to me. The software is a bit "janky" on my computer... actually runs smoother on my cell phone. The full web pages load poorly and are difficult to maneuver on my PC. So for convenience of browsing lots of choices it is great. I do not like how to make up for the grubhub cut some places raise their prices but I get it. I take it with a grain of salt because I am getting "free delivery". If I was a business I would feel almost compelled to sign up for it just because people like me are so likely to use it and not search the web for other places. The review system is pretty harsh (a lot like this site lol!) a lot of people go on just to rant and complain and will give some really good restaurants terrible reviews for things that are really trivial and not indicative of a restaurants' overall quality. Gotta love the internet as a place for people to recklessly vent and hurt businesses... sigh.

Date of experience: May 29, 2013
Illinois
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Ordered for years and usually good. But tonight I did not know that roommates paid by credit card asked driver how much he said 25 so I gave him money and tip so he stoled money so watch the drivers not so honest. Right now never want to use again. They hire criminals

Date of experience: May 26, 2013
Georgia
1 review
6 helpful votes
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Absolutely, terrible business! This is the second time Grubhub has done this to me. After waiting two hours for an order, calling twice and being reassured that the order was on its way (even though, the restaurant had been closed for two hour), then a very rude unapologetic customer service agent was completely unhelpful. My advice, don't ever use Grubhub.

Date of experience: May 26, 2013