Six-Year-Old Boy Orders $1,000 in Grubhub Food On Dad’s Phone

A young boy ordered $1,000 in food from GrubHub over the weekend after playing on his dad’s phone.

Mason Stonehouse is a six-year-old from Michigan and was using his father’s phone when he bought $1,000 in to-go food items, which involved $183 of jumbo shrimp and “endless” Chili fries and ice cream are both acceptable, according to the New York Post. When he finished his purchases, the bank stopped them. It was successful Place your order “$439 worth of pizzas.” 

“That would’ve been on top of the thousand dollars worth of food that was piling in my kitchen,” Keith Stonehouse was his father.

Stonehouse claimed that his son played a game on his smartphone for 30 minutes before he went to sleep. Delivery drivers from tHe GrubHub app started coming to the child’s home after he went to bed.

“I was putting Mason to bed and saw a car pull up and the doorbell rang with the driver dropping off a big bag of stuff,” he Telled MLive was earlier in the week. “My wife owns ‘A Slice of Heaven Cakes’ bakery and it was a big wedding weekend, so I thought it was just someone dropping off decorative stuff they used from her. But it was from Leo’s Coney Island. I said, ‘What the heck?’”

“The doorbell rang again and it kept happening. Car after car. Cars were pulling into the driveway while others were pulling out. I finally asked one of them what they were delivering. He said we ordered chicken shwarmas [sic]. I took the food and then it hit me. I looked at my phone with repeated messages that my food was getting ready, my food was being delivered. I looked at my bank account and it was getting drained,” He concluded by adding

“I looked at my phone and all of a sudden I see ‘Grubhub, Grubhub, Grubhub’ and in that same second all these cars and all these lights and the doorbells going off,” Stonehouse Telled Good Morning America interview with Zoom “They kept coming and they kept coming.”

“This was like something out of a ‘Saturday Night Live’ skit,” Stonehouse stated. “I was probably a 9.5 out of 10 anger while it was happening. The next day, I was at an eight and now I’m at about a three. I don’t really find it funny yet, but I can laugh with people a little bit. It’s a lot of money and it kind of came out of nowhere.”

“He’s 6, so it doesn’t kind of sink in. It’s not like if our 13-year-old did this, then it would sink in to him,” Stonehouse was noted. “Trying to explain this to a 6-year-old, we told him we took money out of his piggy bank to pay for this bag of food and this one and so on. We could tell he was upset, but we don’t know if it has really sunk in. That’s the frustrating part.”

Restaurants charging so much for orders to go could shock many. Americans are feeling the pinch of inflation especially when it is food. Restaurant food Go Decent was up 8.3% compared to the previous year. 

Stonehouse explained that most of the items were kept in the refrigerators of Stonehouse’s family. They also invited neighbors to come to their home to enjoy some of the food.

After hearing about the incident, the company offered some assistance. 

“We wanted to make things better for him and his family, so have offered to send him $1,000 worth of Grubhub gift cards,” A representative spoke on Good Morning America.