YouTuber successfully sells microwave meals via food delivery app Josh Pieters\/YouTubeYouTube star Josh Pieters hilariously exposed some issues with Deliveroo in a new video where he sold microwave meals to customers. Deliveroo is a UK-based online food service similar to that of UberEats where a restaurant will get an order and have it picked up by a driver to deliver to a customer. Normally there are legitimate restaurants on it, but as it turns out, just about anyone, including YouTubers with nearly one million subscribers can sell their products. \u201cWould Deliveroo allow me to sell microwave meals on their app?\u201d Pieters asked. \u201cProbably not. You can\u2019t just pretend your microwave is a restaurant, but if you did you\u2019d need a name.\u201d (Timestamp 0:12 for mobile viewers) And that\u2019s all it took to get the ball rolling and the orders coming. After setting up a restaurant called \u201cThe Italian Stallion\u201d with a website and Instagram page to appear legitimate, Pieters and his friend Archie Manners were approved to start selling. Even as they were waiting to get their \u201chygiene rating\u201d, they were told they could operate as long as they put the application in. With that, people literally began ordering from \u201cThe Italian Stallion\u201d restaurant, which was actually just Pieters\u2019 kitchen and by kitchen, it was just his microwave. However, Pieters\u2019 was not in the interest of scamming people. \u201cWe\u2019re obviously selling microwavable meals at a premium price to people, so when a normal person orders food from us, we are going to put the amount of money they spent on their order back in the box in cash with a note explaining what we\u2019re doing.\u201d (Timestamp 6:57 for mobile viewers) Eventually, after not having any orders, they decided to put on a sale and suddenly they started getting customers and made over 100 pounds proving that in fact you can put your microwave on Deliveroo as a restaurant. Speaking with Insider, the UK YouTuber said he didn\u2019t intend to make an expose of the application. \u201cEverything we said to Deliveroo was pretty much true. We didn\u2019t lie about anything or make anything up,\u201d he revealed. \u201cWe said, \u2018This is the address of our restaurant\u2019 \u2014 I didn\u2019t give them my flat number, I just gave the building as the address, which they seemed fine with.\u201d Considering how easy it was for Pieters to just open up a restaurant, it may make the company change how it handles applications and implement new procedures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTuber successfully sells microwave meals via food delivery app Josh Pieters\/YouTubeYouTube star Josh Pieters hilariously exposed some issues with Deliveroo in a new video where he sold microwave meals to customers. Deliveroo is a UK-based online food service similar to that of UberEats where a restaurant will get an order and have it picked up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}