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Residents said that drivers delivering to Range View have provided scant information about the people placing the orders, either because they don’t have details or are not authorized to share them. They’re the sort of places where hipsters might turn their noses up at an offering from Starbucks or McDonald’s, even if it were free. There you’ll find establishments slinging $6 turmeric lattes and $15 vegan Nashville fried chicken. The street, whose parkways are dotted with loquat trees, is a few blocks from York Boulevard, one of Highland Park’s main drags. The section of Range View that has been on the receiving end of the deliveries is an eclectic stretch of about 25 houses and apartment buildings between Avenue 49 and Avenue 50. “I don’t think anybody has seen it as anything sinister - it’s just varying degrees of annoyance,” Neal said. It has also highlighted the degree to which anonymity is woven into transactions carried out on the platforms of food delivery services, which have grown dramatically since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. But the mystery of the fast-food deluge, which has the feel of a joke whose punchline has yet to be revealed, is the talk of the neighborhood. As far as whodunits go, the stakes are low. The spokesperson also said the company is monitoring orders sent to the affected section of Highland Park. We were joking at first: It must be Elon Musk - I don’t know who else could afford it.”Ī spokesperson for San Francisco-based Uber, the parent of Uber Eats, told The Times that the company has launched an investigation into the source of the unwanted orders and has taken action against a number of accounts using the delivery service, without providing details of those measures. “I don’t trust it - I’m throwing it out,” said Dean Sao, a carpenter at Pasadena City College. Now, though, after more than two weeks of the confounding conveyances - and plenty of time spent theorizing about the phenomenon - it has become, for at least some, a nuisance. 25 - the first of about 40 deliveries to their home. “It is kind of remarkable what they are able to do with a pancake sandwich,” said bemused Range View resident Will Neal of the four McDonald’s McGriddles he and his wife received Feb. A handful of people said they have gotten dozens of orders. Six Range View residents interviewed by The Times said that they had received several Uber Eats deliveries of food they did not request - and that many of their neighbors had, too. The items, residents said, have mostly come from McDonald’s and Starbucks, though a few other fast-food chains have been represented, too. Since late February, a stretch of Range View Avenue in Highland Park has been inundated with unwanted deliveries from Uber Eats, the online food delivery service. The thing is, the recipients never ordered any of it. Then the items started arriving multiple times a day, at all hours, delivered by Uber Eats. There were chicken sandwiches, milkshakes, pastries, lattes and more. At first, the deliveries were sort of delightful.
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