There's a name for this

Too many lunchtime rowdies ordering food never tipping it sounds like.

I always tip but I'm banned from DD.

Catch me on that UberEats tippin ya baby mama player.

a reply to: JJproductions

Over 10,000 eh. That is actually pretty impressive!

I hope it continues to serve you and help with your business startup. Best of luck!

As for me I reached a point where I pretty much just stopped getting orders. That's when I did some research into how all the AI routing and assigning works.

I mostly did it as a hobby and an easy way to make extra money. Eventually it didn't pay enough for me to keep doing it.

a reply to: 2Narcoleptic2Buddha

Where I live my market is super busy at night! It stays busy till late in the night. My friend lives 11 miles from me and he is in another zone. His AR is at 6% with 5000 delivery’s and now he only gets the low orders!

originally posted by: JJproductions
a reply to: 2Narcoleptic2Buddha

6 years! Only at night. I got very lucky and they gave me Large Order Program within a month. Here are my stats

Man you are hammering the hell of it!
I only do it during the day, I don’t like the night time crowd.

a reply to: RazorV66

I have a small filming company and it’s a startup! Any extra money helps while this business grows.

DD has helped make this possible!

The night orders where I live are amazing!

a reply to: DAVID64

It's not extortion. Nobody is forcing you to use the service. Nobody holds a gun to your head and says, Call DoorDash or UberEats or you'll die.

I have never used a service like this. I'll either cook at home or go out and get the food myself to either eat out or bring back home. I may call ahead and order a pizza for pickup, but I don't even use pizza delivery.

Seriously, there's no extortion as there's no force. If you don't like their terms and conditions, don't use them. It's real simple.

You could just burn your own gasoline and your town time going to pick up the order yourself. What is that time and fuel worth to you? Obviously, it's worth something because you are wanting somebody else to use their time and fuel in your place. Figure what your time and fuel are worth and give them that much plus a bit more to cover their labor and expense.

Or go get it yourself. Really, how hard is it?

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originally posted by: 2Narcoleptic2Buddha
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So if DoorDash doesn't pay their drivers, and customers don't tip their drivers, what are you expecting of the drivers?

It's not extortion. It's not unfair or unethical. It's just a terrible business model and all parties are in the wrong here.

I agreed with everything you said up to that last line. The problem is not with the business model but, like you said, with people who expect five-star service for free.

If' I'm using a service and that serivce tells me that I am expected to tip, then I either choose to use the service or choose to not use the service. That sounds like a good business model to me. I have the freedom to choose if I want to use the service, and the business has the freedome to choose if they want to serve me.

If I know that a restaurant is going to include the gratuity in my bill, I probably won't go there. If the service is good, I'll tip at least what the gratuity would be. If it's not, the tip may be low or non-existent. (I have, on rare occassion, left nothing or - better - two nickles when the service was inexusably bad.) There have been a couple of instances where I was going to tip say 25%, and the business added a 15% or 20% gratuity to the bill, so I just left that, costing the server 5% to 10%.

Where's the problem? Again, if you don't like the T&Cs, just don't use it. Really, how hard is that?

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a reply to: JJproductions

Catering aren't as easy on a scooter. You get smaller ones, and corporate tips are freaking awesome, but you get lower value closer ones for the most part.

I agree with everyone that said it's worth it to spend 25 hours a week or so for some extra money... Haven't done it in a while, but it's AWESOME when you need it for a few weeks. Especially in Prop22 land. Guaranteed earnings.

You can make it a main job here. Why you'd want to, I don't know... but...

And since people are sharing personal information...

a reply to: Degradation33

Yes the Cali Prop22 is great! My friend dashes out there! No way a catering order on a scooter would be super hard!

The corporate tips are amazing! That’s great your amount!!!!!

a reply to: JJproductions

I was hesitant at first, but there are 200k+ dashers in California, and it's on the side. Use to do it full time. Which was great when the Covid lock down took out the service part of the restaurant industry.



Made a lot of money delivering to a lot of mandated shut-ins. Just felt it should be noted that there's some satisfied freaking crackheads if that's now the stigma of dashers.

a reply to: Degradation33

You did amazing!!! During Covid I could not work so I did Doordash too! I could not believe how much money I made!
I only Doordash at night after work, most nights $200.00 easy! You have great stats!!!

a reply to: JJproductions

I pull it out when I need it now. But during Covid it was 3 or 4 deliveries at time for hours and a lot of shopping for people. 200-300 a day, every day. Up to 45/hour during the lockdowns. So busy, I barely hovered above 70% acceptance rate.

Got sick of it though. It was nice to be able to avoid parking but burnt-out dealing with drunk people.

a reply to: Degradation33

Lol, the other night I had a massive alcohol order for a party. Big payout. The guy was so drunk he could not find his ID. I got a full pay and in Michigan where I live you cannot return booze. I do not drink. Now I have a massive amount of Tito’s.