--- title: "New York granddaughter teaches her 102-year-old grandpa and 89-year-old grandma Uber Eats on TikTok" url: https://badiyaa.com/granddaughter-teaches-102-year-old-grandpa-uber-eats/ published: 2026-11-07T13:18:00+00:00 modified: 2026-11-07T13:18:00+00:00 section: Offbeat publisher: Badiyaa --- # New York granddaughter teaches her 102-year-old grandpa and 89-year-old grandma Uber Eats on TikTok Francesca Rietti's grandparents George and Annie learned on a desktop because their iPhones were too old for the app, and Annie took notes all the way to a steak dinner order. Grandpa George is 102. Grandma Annie is 89. When they asked to learn Uber Eats, their aging iPhones would not even install the app, so granddaughter Francesca Rietti sat them at a desktop computer instead and filmed the whole lesson for TikTok. The clips, first posted from her @francescarietti account in May and now circulating again, reached what Rietti describes as millions of viewers. Brands rushed into the comments: Uber, DoorDash, Popeyes and Applebee’s all offered gift cards, and doorbell camera maker Ring wrote, “This is adorable. We’d love to send them a doorbell so they can check in on their deliveries!” ## UberEats 101, with a notebook Rietti opens the first video with “Welcome to UberEats 101.” Annie arrives with a pen and notepad and fires off questions while her granddaughter explains what a browser is and how to reach the homepage. At one point Rietti taps the monitor, surprised to find it is a touchscreen. Her grandmother already knew. The practice run used a steakhouse menu to show off delivery-time estimates, the “add to cart” button and the default tip, which George wanted explained. In a second clip Annie tried to order from a favorite local steak place, except neither of them could recall its name. “My mind is a sieve,” she said, before warning that the restaurant was cash-only and might not be on the app at all. ## The real order Once the videos took off, Rietti filmed herself phoning her grandmother with the news. Annie began jotting down the viewing figures so she could brief George when he woke up. The trio then booked a dinner date to place a genuine order. George drove this time. He picked steaks, appetizers and dessert, read the cart back aloud and settled on a 10% delivery tip, while Annie pointed out they would leave 20% at a restaurant. On a hypothetical $120 steak dinner, that works out to $12 for the courier instead of $24. Then he pressed order. “This is fantastic! I love Uber Eats!” Annie announced. “Good work, George!” One commenter who said they had driven for Uber for seven years wrote simply: “I wish I could deliver to them.” ## Older than the app by nine decades Uber’s food arm began in August 2014 as UberFRESH in Santa Monica, California, took the UberEats name in 2015 and now operates in more than 6,000 cities across 45 countries. Run the numbers on George: at 102 in 2026, he was already about 90 when the service launched, which means he was born roughly nine decades before app-based food delivery existed. ## How to run your own family app lesson - **Check the hardware first.** If an older phone refuses the app, the website on a desktop or laptop does the same job on a bigger screen. - **Bring paper.** Annie’s handwritten notes let her review each step later without starting over. - **Do a dry run.** Browse a menu, build a cart and read the delivery estimate without paying, then schedule a separate session for the real thing. - **Explain the money screens.** Show where the default tip sits and how to change it, and read the full total before confirming, since the platform has faced criticism over hidden fees. - **Hand over the mouse.** In the final clip it was George, not his granddaughter, who clicked the button. Rietti said in an interview published after the clips spread that she is now in talks with Uber about taking the idea to more seniors, “whether that’s a class, lunch and learn, or something similar.” Her pitch is simple: plenty of older people would benefit “if someone just took the time to sit with them and make it feel approachable.” ## Further reading - [Wikipedia: Uber Eats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uber_Eats) *Image: Julia Justo, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons* *This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. [How we work](https://badiyaa.com/editorial-policy/).*