I Tested the Best Food Delivery Service Apps, & I’ve Chosen a Clear Winner

We tried all the best food delivery apps so you don’t waste your money or time on your next order!

The best meal is one you didn’t have to cook… or is it?

Find out if the best food delivery service is Grubhub, DoorDash, Uber Eats, or Postmates! I tested, rated, and reviewed them all so you’re informed next time hunger strikes.

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We live in a world where getting your favorite restaurant foods delivered to your doorstep is just a few taps away but each one onlinees with a cost. To save you the hassle of knowing which one is worth your hard-earned cash, I vetted these free apps for you!

My plan to determine the best food delivery service was to order the same meal, from the same place, and all at the same time to see which one performed best and had the best price.

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Here’s how each food delivery app ranked based off my recent experiences:

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1. Postmates

Postmates allows you to order groceries and food from many different restaurants and nearby stores. Delivery and service fees will vary depending on the restaurant. For my location, the delivery fees ranged from $0.49 to $2.49 (without a membership) with the majority being just 49¢ to 99¢. 👏🏻

My Postmates delivery app experience:

I immediately took notice of the wider selection of chain restaurants in my area on Postmates onlinepared to when I first tried them 3+ years ago. However, I still found them to be lacking many of the smaller local eateries in my area.

Overall the Postmates app is easy to use, but I thought navigating through some of the selections could use improvement for a more seamless experience, such as changing the size of a drink or adding dipping sauces to your order. I was still able to find everything I needed despite this small inconvenience.

My order from Postmates was one of the fastest delivery times and one of the cheapest. 👏🏻

From the time I placed my order to my doorbell ringing, my food took just 22 minutes which was seriously impressive! However, I was originally quoted 30-60 minutes for delivery so my food could have been sitting for a while had I not been home. After my order, I received two different coupon codes to save on my next order which none of the other services did.

Would I order from Postmates again? 👎🏻

No. Sorry, Postmates, but I was pretty disappointed with the selection of restaurants in my area. Although they’ve added some onlinemon restaurants like Panera, they still don’t offer staples like my favorite sushi and breakfast spots. That said, this will vary everywhere, so make sure you vet your delivery area before onlinemitting to a membership.

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2. Uber Eats

Uber Eats gives you the ability to order food from hundreds of different restaurants and stores, but I found the variety of selections to be even more limited for my area than Postmates.

Delivery and service fees will vary depending on the restaurant and, for my location, range between $0.49 and up to more than $5.49. Some places offer $0 delivery fees without a membership which they’ll display on a green banner in the app.

My Uber Eats experience:

My Uber Eats food delivery was right on time and arrived in just 25 minutes. Since I was quoted 22-45 minutes, I was pleased with this turnaround. Just like Postmates, my order was correct and still hot.

However, Uber Eats was the most expensive service I tried and was nearly $2 more than Postmates.

Over time that can really add up! My favorite feature of this food delivery app is that you can adjust your driver tip amount up to 1 hour AFTER delivery, but I also found the customizations to be a little less than user-friendly.

Would I order from Uber Eats again? 👎🏻

No. Overall, I was pleased with my experience with Uber Eats. They seem to have made drastic improvements in delivery times from the last time I placed an order 3 years ago, but the restaurant selection left a lot to be desired. Since numerous restaurant favorites are missing from their list and it was the most expensive order I placed, I wouldn’t personally consider this the best food delivery service.

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3. DoorDash

DoorDash offers numerous options to order food from smaller local and big chain restaurants, flower boutiques, retailers, catering, and so much more! Delivery and service fees will vary depending on the restaurant, however, I found most of the delivery fees near me to be free with a minimum purchase order. Plus, they had some fast delivery quotes under 20 minutes available.

My DoorDash ordering experience:

I want to preface my DoorDash experience and share that I personally use DoorDash regularly and have had multiple amazing experiences. That said, they really let me down on the day I was specifically testing this service. 😫

I was stoked to place my order because I’m already a DashPass holder so my delivery and service fees were waived and I happened to see Chick-fil-A was offering a brownie freebie with $12+ orders.

With my membership, my order total was only $14.99 delivered which was significantly cheaper than the rest!

However, if I wasn’t a member, this food delivery service would have actually been the most expensive at $22.98! 😐

Sadly, after my order was picked up, it was canceled for unexpected reasons (see photo above). Definitely not ideal for anyone in a time crunch. However, this has never happened to me before and I always found DoorDash to be the most reliable and best food delivery service of all.

I immediately received a full refund to my DoorDash account in lieu of not receiving my order, which made it feel like less of a hassle, but when replacing my order I was unable to use the same brownie freebie since there was a 1 per customer limit. 😣 Strike two DoorDash! Since I was ordering solely for this review, I opted to cancel it altogether and had to call customer service to reroute my refund to my credit card, rather than my DoorDash account. It was a quick and painless request via phone nonetheless.

Since I’ve ordered through DoorDash numerous times and 8 times just in the last month alone, I still felt confident to rate their services. I also felt like what happened recently wasn’t typical of their service and I don’t anticipate it happening again.

*Pictured above is a recent DoorDash order from my favorite sushi place!

Would I order from DoorDash again? 👍🏻

Yes. Although I didn’t receive my intended order this time around, I’ve had countless seamless transactions through DoorDash with speedy delivery every other time. I also find their app to be the easiest to use out of all of them with the most user-friendly features. On top of that, they have the widest selection of restaurants to choose from in my area including my favorite sushi and breakfast places.

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4. Grubhub

Grubhub offers the ability to order food from many local restaurants and convenience stores just like all the other best food delivery service apps I’ve tested. Delivery fees in my area range from $1.99 to $7.99 making them the priciest fees of the ones I tested, but they also offered some of the fastest turnaround times at just 15 minutes which I found to be true! 👏🏻

However, a major downside to this food delivery service is they’re missing staple restaurants (at least in my area) and Chick-Fil-A was one of them! 😳😱

My Grubhub ordering experience:

I was filled with so much disappointment when browsing my area’s restaurant selection. As I stated already, Chick-fil-A wasn’t even an option which was shocking! To get the closest meal to my other orders, I went with Popeyes’s nugget meal. I also signed up for their Grubhub+ free trial so delivery was waived and I only paid $17.61 for my order which included an extra side and biscuit to top it off. If I hadn’t received free delivery my order would have been over $20 making it about the same as every other food delivery service app I tested.

I couldn’t believe how quickly my order was delivered and it was the speediest of all the best food delivery service apps I tested.

From the time I ordered to the time the Grubhub delivery was dropped off, it was exactly 16 minutes! 😱 That said, I specifically requested for my food to be hand delivered when ordered, and instead, it was left at my door. I did receive an alert on my phone once it arrived, but I wasn’t a fan of my food sitting on the ground next to leaves and debris. Maybe that’s how they are so speedy? 🤔

Would I order from Grubhub again? 👎🏻

No. Customer service is everything to me so being underwhelmed by my delivery wasn’t a win in my book. I also can’t get past the lack of options and solely, for this reason, would pick other food delivery services. On top of that, I can’t believe how much some of the delivery fees are and even with a membership, you’ll still be paying for some delivery at select locations.

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So what’s the best food delivery service of all?

🏆 My pick for the overall winner: DoorDash ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

I know, I know. This is a shocking verdict considering I was empty-handed at the end of the day. However, the countless other seamless orders I’ve made since then and previous to my review more than make up for this one mishap.

It was the cheapest meal I purchased with my membership, the easiest app to navigate, on-time deliveries, and fast and reliable customer service. What more could you ask for?!

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