A DISGUSTED family claim to have caught a Just Eat delivery driver scoffing their takeaway on their front drive.
Stuart Knight ordered the Pizza Express meal to share with his girlfriend and their three children but says it arrived half-eaten by the courier.
The 46-year-old claims he noticed the seal on the dough ball boxes appeared to be broken before opening them to discover eight of the 16 were missing – and the side of garlic butter was half empty.
He checked the CCTV footage from outside their house and reckons it shows the "slob" female driver rifling through their order while on their drive, then munching on a dozen dough balls dipped in garlic butter.
Stuart, from Farnham, Surrey, said: "The pizzas were fine but the boxes looked open for the dough balls.
"The kids opened it up and one of the girls goes 'I've only got three dough balls'.
"First of all I thought they might be trying to save money and just put a few in at a time so I checked online to see how many you're meant to get and the picture showed a lot more.
"We were left with four dough balls from two boxes and the butter was half eaten as well. There were still bits of bread in the butter so it was no accident.
"As soon as we saw the butter I said 'one of them has had it' so then I checked the CCTV and there she was sitting in the driveway eating it.
"I think there's meant to be about eight in each packet so she'd stuffed quite a few.
"You're not even meant to open the food and she was just sitting there going through it in our driveway."
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Stuart complained and Just Eat quickly apologised and refunded him for the missing food items.
But the photography business managing director wants more to be done about "cheeky" delivery drivers chomping customers' orders.
He had ordered a margherita pizza, a margherita pizza with ham and two portions of dough balls to share with his girlfriend Toni Greenway, 37, and their children Chloe Greenway, 15, Molly Greenway, 13, and Daniel Knight, 13, on January 22.
But the family were disappointed when the order, totalling £31,70, arrived from the Aldershot branch with bits missing.
Due to concerns about catching Covid, they threw the remaining dough balls away, leaving them with just the pizzas which were still in sealed boxes.
"We said 'do not touch anything' to the kids and my son had already taken his box up to his room so I told my daughter to run up and get it and take it away from him," Stuart said.
"The pizzas were okay because we checked and they were still sealed and from what we could see on the camera it looked like she'd gone into the boxes of the dough balls.
"If there was a little box on there to say 'donate a box of dough balls to the driver' then I would've ticked that if they're that hungry and it wouldn't have been a problem to me but she stole it, that's the thing.
"She didn't have very good customer service when she came to the door either, she looked like a bit of a slob."
'NO ACCIDENT'
Stuart now checks every takeaway order thoroughly to ensure it hasn't been tampered with – and he wants the driver they had to be sacked.
Stuart said: "We complained to Just Eat and all they did was just refund us for the two dough balls, so it's just too easy for them to get away with it.
"They should've got rid of that driver or at least disciplined her but they're more interested in just giving the money back.
"If she's still working for them then she's probably still doing that for her dinner every night.
"It makes you think twice about ordering from them really because you just don't know what you're going to get."
Just Eat said the food was delivered by a self-employed independent contractor, who was being investigated and would face appropriate action if necessary.
A spokesperson added: "At Just Eat, we want all of our customers to have a positive experience when ordering food online and expect all couriers delivering on our behalf to act respectfully and responsibly at all times.
"We are currently investigating the incident and are also in touch with the customer."
Pizza Express was also contacted for comment.
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