Written By: Cameron Cave
Wondering how to obtain free sushi from DoorDash? Well, you are in luck because here is my how-to guide, walking you through the steps to get $74 worth of sushi from DoorDash (and $450 in airline credit). My $74 became a sushi platter and miso soup delivered to my door, but your $74 can be spent on anything your heart desires.
First, you must book a flight from BNA (Nashville, Tennessee’s main airport) to Newark Airport (which often has the cheapest flights to get you to New York). As far as I’m aware, you cannot skip the flight booking step, although you can likely book from anywhere else with similar success.
Next, go through security at 8 pm and stumble to your gate at 8:30, tired from the long trip spent packing your mom’s house up for a move. (Time of day or night, and the packing part can also be variable or removed from the process entirely.) When you hear the gate attendant making announcements, make sure to listen. This will greatly raise your odds of success in attaining said sushi.
When the gate attendant asks if “anyone is willing to give up their seat on this flight," they will offer an amount of money in flight credit and a later flight to the same destination. Hopefully, the later flight will take place the following day. In that case, they will also offer a pre-paid hotel and a meal voucher. The meal voucher is the golden ticket. From this step, you’re home-free. (Free food, that is.)
Within this step, a risky game may be played, involving your ability to read a crowd and to play price-chicken with the flight attendant. If no one takes the seat-surrender offer at the original price, they will incrementally raise the money offered in airline credit until it is taken. After some consultation with other amateurs, I learned that the airline really wants your seats. In my situation, they started at $300, and my girlfriend and I were finally swayed at $450 to inconvenience ourselves just a little bit for an effective $900 in-flight power. We also saw other people being swayed, but we probably could’ve waited another $100. I have learned they would’ve raised their offer to $850 each before giving up.
The flight change didn’t even inconvenience us. We were thankful. We would’ve gotten to Newark at midnight, 1 am Nashville time, and still would’ve had to go to baggage claim, as well as pay $80 for an hour-long Uber. Instead, we got to Newark at noon the next day and could take public transit all the way home, where we fell into greatly needed sleep until dinnertime when we decided to finally try and see if this meal voucher could accomplish what the internet experts had promised us.
And now I promise you that if this article doesn’t go super-duper mega-viral and expose DoorDash to this far-fetched sushi scheme, this is probably, maybe, your pretty simple guide to some amount of free sushi (after the purchase of an airline ticket, of course).
We ended up ordering from Miyama Sushi & Steakhouse in Bushwick. I highly suggest you go there, as the sushi platter was great, and it included eight rolls for only $55. By now, I have shown a blurry photo of the platter to all my friends and family who will listen, and now you too.
If you took this article as an actual how-to guide rather than a cheeky way to relay my interesting airport trip, then I like your moxie. Now, let's talk shop!
I have been told that airlines commonly overbook flights because third-party services, such as Expedia and Google Flights, sometimes mess up the information on what seats are taken. So, if you are an internet whiz who can find data on which flights get their seats snapped up the quickest by these third-party sites, then you have an incredibly convoluted way to get airline credit, a night in a random hotel near an airport, and some cash to spend on DoorDash food expiring at the end of the next day. (Or never expiring if you load it onto your Starbucks app.)
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