I (32 F) wanted to support my childhood bestfriend (32 F)'s husband (34 M , who was my schoolmate) and his friend (33 M , who was my cousin's ex bf and a very good friend of mine) small biriyani business.

Note : we all were from a church community and same area so we all knew each other.

So for Easter I planned to order biryani with them..

The day before Easter,

1. Saw the whatsapp post of my best friend and checked with her whether I can place my order with her or should I place order in the numbers mentioned in the ad and will they deliver it at home.

• she confirmed me I can order to her and it will be home delivery.

1. I placed my order to her and said her is it ok to send the money to her .

   • she confirmed yes.

2. I sent the complete money upfront to her even she said I could have paid after the receiving.

On the day of Easter,

1. I checked with her by 12.30 PM , when will the food be delivered and who will deliver it ?

• she confirmed food will reach us by 1 PM and it will be delivered by her husband (as it is a small business venture the two partners are doing mostly all the work)

1. Haven't received the food till 1.40 PM , hence I checked with her "will it be late?"

• she mentioned that those guys started by 1.15 PM and it is on the way.

1. Haven't received the food by 2.15 PM. I was irritated by this time and messaged her "20 30 mins late is Okay , but late by 1 hour is not acceptable"

• she replied even we didn't get the food yet and they are not picking the call .. (even they are waiting, wth it means we are customers and they are family members..) , there are elderly people who were waiting for this food too.

Since we added midnight mass , we woke up late and so skipped the breakfast so we can't eat lunch well.

1. Haven't received food by 2.30 PM, people got pissed off and my brother went to get food outside as she didn't pick my call or responded to my message.

We were skeptical to wait coz they did the same with another friend of mine , they simply forgot her order and haven't responded to her message, she booked a cab by 3.30 PM and reached their place , they scraped food from other boxes and packed her 2 boxes (but she ordered 3 boxes)

1. I called my friend multiple times to cancel the order and messaged . She never responded (later she claimed that she was downstairs)

2. He brought the food by 2.55 PM and called me , I was angry by that time .. so didn't pick .. he came to home and asked my mother to get the package..

He saw us having food which we bought from outside.

Here comes his lie that the delivery guy came near the house but couldn't find so he called him to deliver. But the delivery guy didn't call me.. if it is the truth he could have shared my number to the delivery guy or they can share the delivery guy's number to me to guide ..

Later when I asked my friend about that she said yes my husband called you , I corrected her your husband called me when he delivered the food.

Why didn't that delivery guy called me . My friend conveniently ignored the message..

Since we had lunch already, we are this food on the next day.

The taste was really good so I shared my feedback via message to both my friend and her husband.

But that guy haven't responded yet but he is putting status.