‘My dasher…told me to cancel’: Atlanta local spots DoorDash ‘restaurant.’ Then they realize it’s run by an unhoused person and see the ‘kitchen’
A TikToker pointed out that an Atlanta business listed on DoorDash, Nasty Azz Cheeseburger, was actually a street cart with very poor sanitary conditions.
Now the cheeseburger cart—which an unhoused person apparently operated—has been removed from DoorDash. This was due to widespread reports and social media coverage.
TikToker Teejay (@drivingwithtiff) discussed the now viral story in a video with over 762,000 views. In it, she questioned whether people purchasing food on platforms like DoorDash were actually examining the places they ordered from. Because, as many people found out after the fact, ‘Nasty Azz Cheeseburger’ quite literally came from a street cart that commenters claimed was entirely unsanitary.
How did TikTok discover ‘Nasty Azz Cheeseburger?’
Teejay wasn’t the first person to notice the cart. Rather, it seems that a TikToker named Boom Sheeka Jones (@sheekajones) first noticed it. She posted a relatively positive video discussing the cart, which received 1.7 million views. She asked the business owner, whom some content creators have referred to as “Chad,” a few questions.
Then, reposters, commentators, and other content creators posted reactions to Jones’s video. It referred to the cart as a “trashy food kiosk.”
Jones’s original video also ended up generating a lot of negative reactions. Particularly, Atlanta customers who apparently ordered from Nasty Azz Cheeseburger without seeing the store realized that the “restaurant” did not have a brick-and-mortar location. On top of that, viewers pointed out that the signage and items surrounding the cart did not seem clean. For instance, sections of the cart held the business owner’s personal belongings.
Commenters also noticed that the unhoused man was drinking out of a Publix Soup cup while running the cart. While not illegal or necessarily disgusting, it rubbed a few commenters the wrong way.
For that reason, many people reported “nasty azz cheeseburger,” to DoorDash. The business had 3.8 stars on the platform, which proved that multiple people had ordered it before. So, many viewers reasoned that it really needed to stop being listed on the platform.
“[I know] he[‘s] just trying to make a living but this is highly unacceptable,” one viewer said.
Nasty Azz Cheeseburger gets taken down by DoorDash.
Within a span of less than a week, the DoorDash listing for Nasty Azz Cheeseburger got taken off the platform.
Viewers questioned how Nasty Azz Cheeseburger even ended up on the platform. What address did the unhoused man running it list? Didn’t DoorDash have more protections against literally anyone signing up for the platform?
That led to even more questions about ghost kitchens and whether or not customers feel comfortable ordering from them. DoorDash has long allowed ghost kitchens to operate on its platform. With a business like Nasty Azz Cheeseburger actually taking orders on the app, it made viewers question where all of their food is coming from.
“This is what scares me about ghost kitchens cause you never know,” one viewer said on Jones’s video.
Other commenters shared that they’ve seen people running ghost kitchens out of their residential houses. Because DoorDash offers so many options on its market, many people assume that they’re usually ordering from established restaurants or small businesses. But that isn’t always the case. It appears as though businesses that may not necessarily pass food sanitation vetting sometimes end up on the platform.
@drivingwithtiff Be careful when you order from DOORDASH #doordash #atlanta ♬ original sound – Teejay
Teejay asks the very same questions
In Teejay’s video, she ended up asking the same questions that many who originally watched Jones’s clip had. She emphasized that the deceptive nature of some DoorDash ghost kitchens can trick customers into ordering food from restaurants they wouldn’t normally feel comfortable getting food from.
“ They don’t tell you that the restaurant is right outside [the] central train station. They don’t tell you that they got all kind of pictures on the DoorDash under his restaurant…This is what the people need to see,” Teejay said, while showing photos of his cart.
She added that she wasn’t trying to ruin the unhoused individual’s business. “It’s more so [that] the information just shocked me and so I felt like I wanted to share it… with other people.”
We’ve reached out to Jones and Teejay via TikTok direct message. We’ve also sent a press email to DoorDash.
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