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August 20, 2025 6 mins

Have you ever wondered what goes through a food delivery driver's mind when they steal your meal? We get the insider scoop in this juicy episode.

You'll hear hilarious and shocking stories from both sides - customers who have had their food stolen and a former delivery driver who spills his secrets. We find out just how common food theft is amongst drivers and the creative ways they get away with it - including faking car accidents and damaged orders.

The highlight is an anonymous delivery driver confessing to stealing a $350 order of Mediterranean food, admitting he and his girlfriend couldn't even finish the feast.

 

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
My Hard podcasts, hear more kiss podcasts, playlists, and listen
live on the Free I Hard a the food delivery driver,
ate your meal. I mean, we do want to hear
from the other side. I know it's very hard for
you guys to admit because by the very nature of
this it is a Swan song. To eat someone's meal.
You're disgraced, you're blank, you're blacklisted from the company, you're

(00:32):
never driving food again.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Everyone.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
I'm sure the door Dash guys know about it. The
uber guy, I mean, this just gets out. It gets
out that guy can't be trusted now. But there's something
beautiful about that. For me, it's a it's it's the
last meal on death row. It's it's the final meal
you're going to eat. So what made you quit? I mean,
if we can get we get that perspective.

Speaker 3 (00:48):
I love it.

Speaker 4 (00:48):
But Hailey's called up.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
Hailey, you've unfortunately been on the other end where you
watch them turn right instead of left and sail off
into the sunset with your pizza.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yes, I absolutely have.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Except for me, it was about fifty dollars worth of sushi.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
It's a good deal. It's a strange one to do
a Swan song on. Really you've got with sushi, I'd
take that.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
We're talking sashimi and we're talking.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
The thing we've been discussing though, is that when you're in.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
The car, it's what entices that he's probably picked it
up from a boutique sushi jar and he's got the
receipt as well, so he's not just the smell.

Speaker 4 (01:25):
Yeah, because they checked there.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Of course, am I getting out of you with what
was in there?

Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's funny you say that, because it was pretty much
all wag you a burry. We were staying at an
apartment down in broad Beach for a mates twenty first
and it was a bit of a wild night. So
we all woke up really late in the day and
then I've jumped on my food delivery app and I'm like, okay,
I'm going to get myself a good feed. Ordered fifty

(01:50):
dollars worth of sushi. They drove all the way to
the apartment we were staying in, got to the front door,
and then immediately clicked order completed, and then they just left.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
They took the photo and everything. I reckon of like,
look the bags here, take a photo.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
It was like as soon as the car pulled up.
It had gone. We went downstairs, spent about twenty minutes
half an hour looking for the food could and they
had come to the door, so the app would think
that they had delivered it.

Speaker 4 (02:17):
Brilliant, So then it looks like the food's been stolen
by Is.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Their respect there, Haley? I mean, like I said, when
the guys told my food, I was, you know, there's
you know, of course you're annoyed, but is there a
bit of respect there?

Speaker 5 (02:27):
You know what?

Speaker 2 (02:28):
Honestly, yeah, considering the amount of effort they put in.

Speaker 1 (02:31):
There, they know how those jobs are as well. They
have got the worst jobs in the game of the
food delivery guys. That really does look like they're doing
it tough out. Yeah, I mean, sounds like a two
man operation as well. They you're going to have the
getaway driver, like with the engine humming.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Do you know what I mean? It's a quick getting
Let's go to Diana here, Diana, you had a meal
that never arrived.

Speaker 5 (02:52):
I had pizza that ordered for about fifteen people ahead
over and we were tracking him on his little masts
and eventually he just stopped moving. So we were texting
him and he was messaging our back and we're like,
are you okay? He said, I've just been pulled over
by the police, so I'll be there in a sec. Well,
it took him about sixty minutes and we ended up
chasing him down the main road and so I turn

(03:12):
off heading shouts. Never seen him again.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
How many fezzas, Tiana?

Speaker 4 (03:21):
How many we've had?

Speaker 5 (03:23):
At least at least ten we had.

Speaker 4 (03:27):
Great hall that?

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yes, sorry, back Toiana again. I'm fascinated in the psychology.
A bit of respect there, Deiana?

Speaker 5 (03:36):
Sorry?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Was that a little bit of respect for him?

Speaker 5 (03:40):
A little bit? Chasing him down the road?

Speaker 4 (03:43):
Well, I mean, what a moment. He's got three people
chasing down. It's awesome.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
It's just one song, so it's as good as it
gets for those guys. There's a reddit thread somewhere where
these guys all just post up.

Speaker 4 (03:55):
I finally had my sponse on guys, what was your meal?

Speaker 1 (03:59):
Did they down the road?

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Well, why don't we ask anonymous here? Because I reckon
he would be part of that reddit.

Speaker 1 (04:04):
Fred Wilbur, you want to remain anonymous for obvious reasons.

Speaker 4 (04:08):
You've got a story for us, Anonymous.

Speaker 3 (04:11):
I do, yes, I do. Tell it's not my proudest
moment in life.

Speaker 1 (04:15):
So you a food delivery driver, mate.

Speaker 3 (04:18):
I was a food delivery driver during the COVID era
when it was really popping off. Originally I did it
as a way to escape the house legally.

Speaker 4 (04:26):
Oh oh yeah, right, because you.

Speaker 3 (04:28):
Could drive anywhere you wanted because you were an uber driver.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
Of course, Genie, that's quite clever.

Speaker 3 (04:33):
It is now. I was doing delivery driving during the
evenings and every now and then I'd be like, oh,
you know, I haven't made too much money tonight, so
you know what, I'm going to mark this order as
damaged and you know, free dinner.

Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, so you would get away with that, anonymous.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Yeah, yeah, if you mark the orders just damaged, you
would get away with it. And I wasn't a bad
human being because if you run up to the door
and market has completed, then it charges the customer. You
did it as damage, just the customer wouldn't pay for it.

Speaker 1 (05:11):
You're still my big mate.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
The Big Heights happened. There was a huge order from
a restaurant called Ala Seal, which is like a high
end restaurant.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Seal.

Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yeah, they do like Mediterranean grille like.

Speaker 4 (05:27):
Yeah, prettig. A big order yeah.

Speaker 3 (05:31):
The receipt was about three hundred and fifty dollars people,
and it was just me and my girlfriend at the time.
And mate, we had the feast of all feets.

Speaker 4 (05:44):
Yeah, this one's been damaged as well. And sorry, so anonymous,
you got away with this as well?

Speaker 3 (05:50):
Oh yeah, mate? In this?

Speaker 1 (05:55):
In this like are you were you in Cahoutza in
contact with any other delivery drivers?

Speaker 4 (06:00):
Like is this? Is this a thing? Like is it
within the fraternity?

Speaker 3 (06:04):
I'll tell you what. I don't do it anymore, but
I can tell you now that it is a big thing.
Towards the end of the driver's night, they will pick
an order that they like the best and it will
not get delivered. It'll be their dinner.

Speaker 4 (06:17):
That is just great. I do love that respect. Respect
with a cat.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
I don't think anyone's going to beat three hundred dollars
worth of top shelf Mediterranean grill dream. Did you get
through it? Mate? Did you eat it all?

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (06:33):
Absolutely not?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
Oh wow, that's awesome. Hey, Tach the iHeartRadio Music Festival
in Vegas. It's putting somebody on the standby Liz Alight
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