# Restaurant delivery expectations to a condo/apartment/hotel room?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-delivery-expectations-to-a-condo-apartment-hotel-room/969098>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 4, 2022, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-delivery-expectations-to-a-condo-apartment-hotel-room/969098 "2022-08-04T15:54:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2022, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/restaurant-delivery-expectations-to-a-condo-apartment-hotel-room/969098/21 "2022-08-06T05:09:20Z")

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> [@LSLGuy](#):
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> Lotta big, enclosed buildings have dooormen. Who won’t let anyone past their station. They’ll accept your delivery on your behalf then tell you it’s there for pickup. They may call you first may be willing to send the delivery person up to your floor. Or not. Which also depends on what the delivery person is willing to do. More and more of them are in a major hurry and any excuse to stop short of your front door is 100% good news for them.

That’s exactly my situation. During most of 2020 and half of 2021, my apartment building had a strict no visitors policy so deliveries were left in the lobby, and the doorman enforced it. Now, they tell the delivery person to bring it up to the apartment but some delivery drivers run in, drop the food on a table in the lobby and run, especially if they see the door person is preoccupied with something

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