Moment woman says she caught Deliveroo riders eating her lunch order outside

A woman has alleged her Deliveroo rider ate her lunch in front of her after claiming to have delivered it to her work.

The woman, who has asked not to be named, told the M.E.N. she ordered £50 worth of food from Almost Famous, on Great Northern Square, for her and two colleagues at lunchtime today (April 28).

When the Deliveroo app reported that they had tried to deliver the food and had left it by the entrance of her work’s building in the city centre, she said the food was nowhere to be seen.

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“I got a notification at 12.54pm saying they’d tried to deliver it and tried ringing the intercom but just left it by the entrance of the office walk,” she explained. “Two minutes later, I walked down and it wasn’t there.

“I immediately thought my food had been stolen, so I contacted them and they said they couldn’t refund me because the driver had been outside for eight minutes.

“This was still within the eight minutes, and I always see drivers hanging around outside the Pret round the corner, so I just thought I’d look there and I saw a bunch of people outside eating our burgers.

"I knew it was the drivers because they had our food on the table, and the exact same order number on the bag.

“I took a picture of them and they just laughed in my face and said ‘well, we’re still getting paid for it’. They couldn’t care less, they just continued to eat it.”

The woman said she said the situation was ‘so ridiculous’ and many of her friends don’t believe it happened. After seeing the drivers, she contacted Deliveroo and the restaurant.

"It was literally two minutes from getting the notification on my phone to say they were trying to deliver it to me getting