Does the Food Delivery Lunchtime Peak ACTUALLY Exist?! - Sometimes You Gotta Cut Your Losses...
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
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Both food delivery apps I work on claim lunchtime is a 'peak' period, where demand spikes. I decided to test that theory... and not to my benefit!
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as an ex full time DoorDash driver for over 2 years i feel your pain on this one. Hoping that it somehow picks up for you! Love your chill vibe and real content though and keep on pushing through! ❤
Said this before your content is superb be great seeing more regular videos (but completely understand life gets in the way)
All the best
Thank you! Life has been manic as a new dad, plus we’ve had a new roof being done at the flat and we’ve had to go stay with my parents whilst that’s going on (too noisy for the baby to nap) so the videos took a hit, but things are getting back to normal now. I’m gonna keep the videos coming. Thanks for the encouragement!
@@autohustles1 hour wait not too bad compared to how long i had to wait for 1st order on a Friday dinner peak, 1st order on uber eats 3hour wait. Ive been doing this for over 5 years and the decline in fare price and orders is ridiculous only because that pratt little rishi allowed more indian students to come to this country who are all working without work permit and its a fact so something needs to be done by this incompetent government about these illegal workers
Love the channel, enjoy that chat. Did this and Amazon for 5 months and it solved a short term employment issue. But fair play for people who do it longer it’s a very hard graft.
found your videos about a month ago, i love getting on youtube and seeing youve posted a new video, keep it up brother!
I love watching your videos. I come up to Taunton quite often to watch cricket from Cornwall and its good seeing all the places. Mambo is calling my name for a return soon! 🍻
Totally understandable why the riders/drivers strike lately on just eat and delivery’s, it just isn’t worth the money, but if they up pay the food will go up so it’s a crazy situation :/ but I feel for delivery drivers/riders
Yep, I understand the business challenges of maintaining a free login model for drivers so we can work when and where we want, they have to make sure they always have the coverage, but they’ve gone too far. 3 years ago, things were perfect, the apps weren’t too expensive for customers and the driver numbers were about right, it was busy almost every night and most daytimes were steady too. We could make good money and customers were happy. Now it’s all gone tits up.
I think it heavily depends on where you are, when I'm waiting 10m away from the middle of town i get 2 orders an hour max, but if I park within a few minutes of a busy restaurant it's non-stop orders. There's obviously lots of factors when it decides who gets offered which order, but i'm pretty sure this is one of them. I've had periods where I've been stuck waiting for 30m+, but soon as I park at one of those restaurants I get an order strait away. It's barely 1-2 miles difference but clearly matters. I'm guessing this why you weren't offered much at the start of the video, your distance to the busy restaurants was greater then the majority of the drivers in the area, just taking a guess here though. My area is Carlisle which has a slightly higher population then yours, so could just be that
Mate Uber has become an absolute joke in Sheffield also, a whole heap of new drivers. It definitely benefits the apps massively this way they can make sure they have so many drivers that the crap paid jobs are guaranteed to be picked up. In my experience just eat is the best at the moment, I respect that they limit the amount of drivers they take for one and I also believe they pay better. I am surprised you mention Amazon flex as a good thing I found I did way to many miles on Amazon flex for the pay I got, as mad as it sounds I was making more on Uber than Amazon flex but that could be because I don’t really know the best tips working for Amazon. Thanks for the video it was a great watch 💯
Plus all the additional wear n tear on your car, whilst not noticeable short term, will see an increase in brakes, tyres and other moving parts MoT to MoT
Exactly. Wasn’t a problem when the earnings were consistently good, now it’s just painful.
Hey 3 pounds 29 an hour is pretty good in Indian standards
I hate to say it half the workers on these apps don’t have permission to work they need to get ride of the substitute
I would love to see them get rid of substitutes - they keep it there solely to prove to governments that we're truly self-employed. That is the ONLY reason they have the substitute option. They know it opens doors to dodgy workers and account renting/selling. But as long as they can continue to operate the model they have, they don't care. I like being self-employed in this job, but I hate that it attracts illegal workers to undermine everyone who does it properly.
Too many illigal workers with multiple apps of uber and deliveroo and on e-bikes. Get rid of dem ffs
£3 yesterday between 12:15 and 13:15. The problem with Roo and Uber is that you could get back to back orders and without tips you're only making slightly over min. wage atm.
youve done such a good job. you make the job look well worth doing . so all the extra drivers could be down to you tubers . you have 7000 subscribers,and I wonder how many have become uber drivers since seeing your vids. but beside that your content is excellent and looking forward to the next vid many thanks
My audience is still pretty small compared to some delivery TH-camrs! But I think the main problem is the companies hiring too many people. I want to inspire people to try the job, but I don’t want the companies to just let everyone do it whenever they want to sign up, we need to have a good balance and at the moment it’s not there. Thanks for the kind words 🙌🏻
@@autohustles thanks for the reply and all the best
@@autohustles the companies would have to then remove the right to work whenever because that wont work with the limited amount of people employed, or they would have to have a base pay because people on certain shifts like the not busy ones will complain that they are not earning as much as other people. So a base pay and shifts have to be introduced
but what i wonder is how did it work before when there was less drivers and those lunch time hours were still being adressed? Also why did the companies hire more people if that worked
Noticed nearly all deliveroo places have a min £20 order now or you get a small order fee, since this was introduced a few weeks ago, deliveroo has gone down the pan in my area
If you are ordering for multiple people its fine but if you are only ordering for yourself then I can see how that would put many people off. I personally can't justify spending 20+ on a meal. If I'm feeling too lazy to cook I can easy go down the road to a supermarket and get a ready meal or pizza for far less than £20!
I’ve noticed that this year I’ve earned way more on Uber Eats than Deliveroo, and that’s never been the case before. This could be a reason why. Deliveroo also lost KFC from the platform. Not looking good for them tbh.
1 hour wait not too bad compared to how long i had to wait for 1st order on a Friday dinner peak, 1st order on uber eats 3hour wait. Ive been doing this for over 5 years and the decline in fare price and orders is ridiculous only because that pratt little rishi allowed more indian students to come to this country who are all working without work permit and its a fact so something needs to be done by this incompetent government about these illegal workers
Horrendous isn't it, not only that but recently some of the newbies I've seen have been stealing orders, went to pick up a Morrisons and was told it was already collected, saw the guy outside on his moped drinking a Red Bull from the bag he stole. Had to hold myself back from confronting him. We need a crackdown.
I'm sorry you had such a lousy shift, but I enjoyed watching you anyway. ❤
Thank you! I probably could have rescued it if I worked into the evening but it was one of those days, just couldn’t be bothered!
Hi mate, good to see you back. Hope the family are well. Wondered if you could cover the uber parent payment you mentioned in a previous video and how it works. Can't find any details. Cheers
loved the vids pls do more pls can u do a 72 hr non stop orders it would be a good idea !!!!
72 hours? Probably not good for your health!
72hrs 😂😂 💀☠️💀
Why not just make it a round 168 hours 🥴
Maybe not 72 hours 🤣 but I have some challenges lined up, bigger than I’ve ever done before, so stay tuned!
Really hope there isn’t people driving around with no sleep for 3 days
I normally work lunch time and it’s usually dead.
keep working bro its worth it
can you tell me what phone holder you have for your vent as i have similar on my ford ka and i need to get what looks like the same one. thank you so much in advance.
Does it ping the closest driver first? Or does it ping everyone at same time and it’s whoever accepts first? Or is that why you drive closer to restaurants so you get the first ping?
It’s an algorithm that selects a rider to offer the job to - it offers the job to “the most suitable” available rider. What that means exactly is a closely guarded secret to these companies. But location, delivery history, vehicle type, traffic conditions etc. are all factors.
@@autohustles ah I see. And howcome you don’t keep both apps running all the time? Does it penalise you or something? I think once you mentioned you forgot to turn Uber off as if it matters that you left it on?
been thinking about maybe trying this, but i do wonder if it is worth it now, as i do see a lot of riders sitting around all over the place around Birmingham. so even in a big city there could still be to many riders. I was wondering how it works when you take out the insurance where you pay by the hour, how do the insurance company know when your working, are they monitoring the the apps to know when you are working ?
Would you consider showing what it's like doing deliveries for a day in bigger places like Exeter and Bristol?
Used to deliver in Bristol when I lived there, but last time I tried it had the same problem of too many riders, plus the added problem of traffic being way worse than smaller towns. Mopeds and e-bikes are king in Bristol. That said, I would like to try Bristol again and Exeter for videos so watch this space!
@@autohustles Assuming the algorithms are smart I imagine you'd get mostly longer distance suburban orders but who knows! One of my colleagues used to do Amazon flex on the side out of Bristol and would get sent everywhere from Clevedon to Bath, although she wasn't a fan of the narrow roads and hills in Bath...
Love your vids love your customer service to the people paying your wages & your expenses but unfortunately customer came 2nd in this vid do there waiting extra time for food or groceries because you cancelled 🤷♂️🤷♂️🤷♂️ (only my opinion) keep the vids coming
It's not always rosy... Regards...🙂🙂🙂
Probably earned more from this video than the shift
Lunch counter needed.
to much people on the bike accept shit money
I'm asking for your prayers and support. Please send healing vibes my way.
What is that green sticker on the windscreen?
My parking permit for home - I need to move it to the windscreen so there isn’t a reflection but I keep forgetting, I’ll get to it 🤣
Hi mate, what do you use to film the chest cam stuff as far as camera mounting wise?
GoPro for both head and chest cam 🤞
Great video, grim shift though.
😂 told ya not worth it.
Do you think you'll have to give up working on the food delivery apps/Amazon flex as a full job given the way things are now and get a job with an hourly/annual wage?
I definitely need to start working late shifts more regularly. Amazon Flex in the afternoon, food delivery in the evening. But as a new dad, I don’t really want to work lots of late nights. I may well end up going back to employment in web dev and just doing deliveries for the video content. I enjoy being self employed and the freedom, but it’s getting exhausting at this point, it used to be great but those days seem to be long gone.
Do you ever leave the food apps on while doing a flex ?
If I have a short Flex route that I know I will complete early, yes 🤣 gotta hustle, and as long as my Amazon deliveries aren’t late, it’s all good!
Hi mate hope your well do you do this job full time and how much do you aim to earn in 1 week
Hello, how are you my brother, where in the United States do you work, thank you
He's in the UK
He is in Tennessee
Your new subscriber from south east asia.
Thanks for watching! 🙌🏻