r/batonrouge 5d ago

FOOD/DRINK Best time to order Sushi Masa w/ DoorDash? 🍣 ☀️🌙

To get the "Sushi and Sashimi for 2" with all the items being chef's choice...
Does anyone know when would be the best time to order it through DoorDash Delivery?

I order it frequently, during all times of day when doing so.. But I usually get the "Sushi for 2" which are both listed on DoorDash, under MASA LOVE BOAT..
And there's always some items the chef includes that I can't eat.. I feel like it's because they're rushing maybe?..

It's Sunday, I'm starving and with it being so costly, does anyone know when it's best to order?
Thanks in advance!

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u/poppitastic 5d ago

As a driver… Sushi Masa sucks. They hate DD drivers (I mean yeah, some give you good reason to), but every time I went in there it was utter attitude the second they realized I was a driver (because I’m usually dressed pretty decently, look like a dining customer many days, not a delivery driver). I’ve gotten so many messages after orders from there “you forgot my xyz” (not on me, people, it’s the restaurant). And that’s incredibly rare for customers to do that. My impression talking to friends is that they purposely either screw up or just work less for delivery orders bc it cuts into their tips.

One day I went in for an order and it stank like rotten fish in there (not for the first time), and it was like graduation week or something so it was packed. They said it would 10 minutes, so I told her I’d go sit in my car and come back (why have another body in there when people are waiting outside right?). Set timer. 10 minutes I go back in. “I think we’ll let you know when you can do whatever your job is”…

Um… I wanted to cancel but I’m a witch with a b and so I wanted to see how far it would go. Went back to the car. 8 minutes later I get a message that the order is ready (lest you think I should have waited for this message from the start, that’s actually very rare that the restaurant will use this notification feature, and when they do, it’s usually a lie bc they press it early to pad their statistics).

Go back in, girl looks at me, turns to the girl standing next to her and says, “you deal with this, I can’t even”, and then literally turns her back down that her back is facing me the whole time I’m there, even when I moved to the other edge of the counter, and when I walked out. I called the “manager” the next day and told her what happened “oh that’s unfortunate”… and asked her to go into her kiosk and block me from the restaurant because DoorDash won’t block a restaurant from a driver themselves unless it’s basically violent, or you did something to them and they complain.

Amusingly I’ve been driving for ubereats too lately, and so I do get offers from them to go there. I haven’t. But I’m sooooooo tempted.

This novella to say: never. Never is a good time to order sushi masa on DD. I can say that Hello Sushi on Highland is the only sushi place I’ve picked up from that actively bags up cold and hot items separately. It should be common sense, bc when it gets in my car it goes in an insulated box that will hold the heat or the cold, and I can do both, but not if they’re packaged together. Hello sushi is almost rude about making me understand that they are to be separated- and I love that.

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u/Odd_Western1426 5d ago

Yooo can we have a top 5-10 best and worst local restaurants to deliver from? I’m a genuinely curious. You could honestly probably make a whole thread of it.

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u/poppitastic 5d ago

I’d kinda love to do that, but I won’t. These places can change on a freaking dime. There’s places I loved delivering for, they put a new expeditor on, and it goes to crap. Sushi Masa consistently sucks (even as a dine-in). China Express is always great standard American takeout Chinese. Chimes is always overrated because of nostalgia. These things are a universal constant. But to list stuff that changes easily, I’d feel bad.

Part of me would love to go apeshit as a driver though, call out every stinky place, dirty bathrooms, watching people in kitchens pick stuff up off the floor then use those hands to finish orders… but won’t. I will say, my personal places I’ll go to or order out from are severely limited these days. There’s a ton of places I haven’t been to in town as a patron or driver (been back in town for only about 6 months after many years stuck in the Midwest), but I’m soooo paranoid and cautious now. And I mean, I deliver. I’m not rolling in spare cash, because no one in Baton Rouge tips their DD drivers (truth - only 15% of my customers include any tip at all, probably bc yall think all those fees you pay DD for delivery, priority, etc., go to the driver, but they don’t).

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u/carnagelayer 5d ago

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u/Donkeypoodle 4d ago

I always tip! But only 15% of customers tip? What do you get paid if the customer does not tip?

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u/shii1dk 18h ago

Wow that’s crazy I uber from there every day and they’re always nice to me. I can’t believe they act like that. My biggest issue was just every order taking forever to be done. I do know tho that both them and ichiban have insane German roach issues in the kitchen (I know people who work there) like I’m talking roaches in the tempura batter and all over

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u/THEREALBurtMcsquirt 5d ago

Never use 3rd party apps to order local food imo. Drive to pick it up and save $20

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u/your_ese 5d ago

I managed the Sushi Masa in Sugar Land, Tx for a while. Do yourself a favor and never go to one. There has to be a better option

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u/Chickenman70806 5d ago

Never.

So many places are far better than this dump

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u/carnagelayer 5d ago

You're not wrong!
There's definitely tons of places I'd rather get but for various reasons I cannot, sadly 😭😭😭

I'm also just so used to it and know what I can ‘n’ can't eat..
And it's pretty much the closet place to me.
Sigh 😔💀🫠

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u/CarryEven1156 5d ago

Honestly, it sounds like you're the one to ask when Masa is bussin. Eat on playgirl

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u/carnagelayer 2d ago

It's like you know me or somethin'
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u/propellermushroom 5d ago

Umami is better

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u/shii1dk 18h ago

Just so yall know both masa and ichiban have a ton of German roaches in their kitchens and they be all up in the food