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A DoorDash driver who was caught on camera appearing to spit into an Ontario man’s drink has been removed from the platform, the food delivery company has confirmed.
On Friday, Sept. 27, George Bishay of Whitby, Ont. said he placed an order through DoorDash after he and his wife were up all night tending to their two-year-old immunocompromised son who was battling the flu.
“It's his favorite drink that we get when we go out sometimes. Let's order it from DoorDash, like we always do, and to kind of cheer him up and hydrate him, because he was really dehydrated,” Bishay recalled in an interview with CTV News Toronto on Thursday.
Bishay said he placed the order, tipped the delivery driver 18 per cent through the app, and waited for the drinks to arrive at their home.
He said his wife was monitoring the app while waiting for the drinks and noticed that although the driver had arrived at their address, the order wasn’t immediately showing up as delivered. Thinking that was odd, Bishay said she checked their front-door surveillance camera footage in real time.
“So she went to look at our camera, and she's like, ‘Oh my God. Did he just sneeze on our drink?’ And then after she played it back, she goes, ‘Oh my god, he lifted the lid and he spit in it,’” Bishay recalled.
Stunned, Bishay said he “bolted” to the front door to confront the driver, but he had already left. After checking the drink seals applied by the restaurant, Bishay confirmed that one had been broken.