{"id":432572,"date":"2026-10-20T01:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432572\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T01:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T01:41:23","slug":"watch-receptionist-admits-eating-travelers-doordash-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432572\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Receptionist admits eating traveler\u2019s DoorDash order"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-2026-10-16-at-7.47.49-am.png\" alt=\"Man Confronts Receptionist Who Ate His DoorDash Order\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\"\/>    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/screenshot-2026-10-16-at-7.47.49-am.png\" alt=\"Man Confronts Receptionist Who Ate His DoorDash Order\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"vod-poster-image vod-poster-image--embedded\" data-v-fab1b86c=\"\"\/>   <a href=\"https:\/\/livenowfox.com\/video\/fmc-0q4zr4ix3r7xok0r\" target=\"_new\" data-v-892ef6a8=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Man Confronts Receptionist Who Ate His DoorDash Order<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-892ef6a8=\"\">A traveler confronted an apartment building receptionist in Tampa, Florida, who admitted she ate his DoorDash order after he dozed off and left the food unclaimed for about two hours. (Credit: Wendell Smallwood via Storyful)<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">TAMPA &#8211; A traveler confronted an apartment building receptionist in Tampa, Florida, after she allegedly ate his DoorDash order while he was asleep.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"livenowfox.com\/news\/watch-receptionist-admits-eating-travelers-doordash-order\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Wendell Smallwood told Storyful he ordered the meal while staying at The Mav &#8220;after a long day of traveling.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;Unfortunately, I accidentally fell asleep while waiting for my order,&#8221; Smallwood said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;Approximately two hours later, I woke up and noticed that DoorDash had marked my order as delivered, along with a delivery confirmation photo. I went downstairs to retrieve my food, but when I arrived at the location shown in the photo, it was nowhere to be found,&#8221; Smallwood said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Smallwood said he searched a nearby break room and saw a front-desk worker eating what appeared to be his order. He recorded the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;I ordered Mexican food, and you ate it, right?&#8221; Smallwood asks in the footage.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">&#8220;I admit it\u2019s what I did. I understand. I do apologize, and I\u2019m really sorry,&#8221; the receptionist says.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"livenowfox.com\/news\/watch-receptionist-admits-eating-travelers-doordash-order\" origination_station=\"LNFX\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">The two appear to agree that the receptionist would reimburse Smallwood for the order through Cash App.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2c6143fb=\"\">Storyful said it contacted The Mav for comment but had not received a response at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Storyful contributed to this report. The story is based on video captured by traveler Wendell Smallwood and his account provided to Storyful. This story was reported from Los Angeles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/food-drink\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food and Drink<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/viral\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viral<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2c6143fb=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man Confronts Receptionist Who Ate His DoorDash Order A traveler confronted an apartment building receptionist in Tampa, Florida,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,4451,555,115,135,137,136,628,8065],"class_list":["post-432572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-fl","tag-food-drink","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}