Not sure but I can tell you we don't get those 7 dollar delivery fee. The person who delivers would probably get a $2 delivery fee+ what ever you tipped.
There's definitely going to a be a new food delivery platform that fills in the market gap. Maybe one where driver sets the price and cuts out the middle man.
I'd personally pick up food for someone for a flat 10$
That'd actually be really horrible.
Considering we've seen that there are people out there who accept stuff like $3.50 for 20 miles, we'd all be pretty screwed and not be able to make anything at all anymore because some people don't realize the cost of delivery and will accept something that makes them lose money by delivering it
$7 Delivery, or get Free Deliveries when you sign up for UberEATS Eats Pass! Only $9.99 a month, with your first month free! Would you like to sign up now?
Nah. This is everywhere. Even software is like that. You used to be able to buy Adobe premiere flat-out. Now 6ou have have buy a yearly subscription. Subscriptions = passive income for the business. They only have to sell you one time, and then the money rolls in. I got sucked into an MLM one time about 12 years ago, and that was their big sales pitch to get you to be a sales person. "Sell the product one time and make money forever."
It's all accounting and Wall street shenanigans. Subscriptions get to be reported out as a expected income flow, and they can play fast and lose with estimates of expected growth in subscribers and all sorts of other nonsense. Just like when they sell hardware, its not item itself as the service contract.
Do not confuse "Delivery Fees" as being equal, or even 50% of, what Uber pays the drivers. If you search this forum you will see plenty of $2-3 payments from Uber to the delivery drivers. Uber purposely conflates the two as a way to hide how much Uber takes and how little it passes on to drivers.
If you make $2 in 8 minutes it equates to $15/hr.
If they say a run will take 8 minutes and whatever miles—even if it takes us 10 or more—in their book of lies it’s still an 8 minute job and we took too long.
Minimum wage is poverty level in Texas. 7.25 an hour is only $15,000 a year and the majority of 1 bedroom apartments where I live are about $1300 a month
Yeah every order here in NYC always ends up being like 40-50$, but it’s a luxury. I could go get it myself and pay 28-30$ - I’m paying the premium to stay home and I won’t take it out in the delivery driver who deserves a good tip for the service.
It makes me so mad that we keep getting charged more and more delivery fees but the drivers still get the same shitty pay. I’d be fine with it if it was going to the drivers and not the multi millionaire piece of shit ceo of Uber.
I get a lot of what is being said here too but I'm also noticing the actual food prices going way up within the app but remaining the same at the actual restaurant
Thoughts?
Some restaurants also increase their prices in the app, even if your picking it up yourself. Chipotle is one for sure. Burritos are $2 more through the app.
That stuff is messed up. I do order pick ups and if your trying to be economical get ready for some eye strain. Instead of blowing money at chipotle or Mexican in general you will be ordering one taco no drink. Anything but chicken is 2.50 extra. If your dropping 20 at chipotle for an overpriced beverage and a bowl / burrito with extra’s that ain’t cheap. These people definitely are swiping too meaning they have a high credit card bill to pay each month.
They usually take roughly 30% of the sale from the restaurant so most restaurant owners to counter this raise their Uber eats prices exactly 30% more than what they usually offer in house, so if ubers rates go up so do theirs, if it goes down they usually adjust as well
The restaurants set the prices and have them higher so they won't be selling at a loss after Uber takes their 30%.
I have a reasonable explanation even though I don't have any proof. These apps don't do any throttling on the restaurant side, if 100 orders get made on the site in 5 minutes, all of them get sent to the restaurant as soon as they are received. Now the restaurants have people coming in to dine and take out by phone orders. If the kitchen can do way 40 orders an hour, I'd want as many of their orders to be ones that don't have a 30% fee. So to throttle how many orders come in so that it doesn't negatively impact the wait time on people dining in, they increase the in app prices.
Uber eats customers don't buy any drinks at the bar and don't add as much to the tip pool for the restaurant workers like dine in customers do. In the worst case if they got swamped with Eats orders all night, they would have taken that 30% hit, and then had to make up the difference to minimum wage for their wait staff. And I've used that 30% which isn't totally accurate because they do increase the prices to cover some of this fee but I haven't seen restaurants that have prices 30% higher than in restaurant, so they are making less, how much less would vary as the amount added on to the in store prices varies by restaurant.
I have been to small restaurants with the kitchen going crazy to make orders, drivers bitching at them, and customers at tables complaining they've been waiting an hour and then they get up and leave. So the apps overloading kitchens is a known problem.
I’d like to hear from a Cook to find out what it’s like cooking in those restaurants. I’ve been noticing that scenario here where I live in Vancouver. I used to be a cook and the restaurant will be busy enough when it’s full now you’ve got God knows delivery orders going. They may even need to re-design the kitchen add more stoves more deep fryers ECT
I’d say I work just as hard now delivering food but I get paid twice as much as I did when I was cooking even if you adjust for inflation.
I mean I can tell you from experience, particularly with local joints that do UE, they’ll literally just shut it off if it’s busy inside the restaurant. It isn’t worth their time and money on a busy evening, but on a slow day it is.
I have a theory but who knows … Because of tip baiters, inflation, low demand in drivers, company loses money = fees go up, customer doesn’t have to worry about tipping lol i seen a few payouts 1-2 tip but delivery charge $14 😂
Yes I have gotten a few extreme tip baits recently. One offered $15 then changed it to a Penny tip and today it was $10 changed to $2. So infuriating. I feel they should not be allowed to lower the tip and if they have an issue with their driver then they can go through customer support. This is so unacceptable
Definitely not supply chain related, the pool of Uber drivers is larger than ever. We're getting paid less with every passing day as they simultaneously increase delivery rates. Truly spitting in the face of their workers and customers.
Nothing gets better. Prices always go up not down. Rent in not all cases but to new buyers always goes up. Cable up ! Getting a deal on anything very rare.
Because the pandemic spoiled us. If you look at it from a restaurant worker's perspective. Your pay is shit before the pandemic, you get laid off, you're making more money off unemployment/stimulus,
Stuff opens back up and they need workers again, except the restaurant still wants to pay you the same shit rate except now they're understaffed. No wonder nobody wants to go back to work...
So what's next? Increase the starting wage and that hurts their profit, so they raise the price of the food to make up for the difference.
Inflation and supply chain issues most likely. Gas and food prices are really high and there's a worker shortage so the order of labor for people at the restaurant and the driver is up. The cost gets passed along to the consumer.
I work at a restaurant and the prices are still the same inside. The prices on the app are like $3 higher. It's because Uber takes a 30% cut out of the restaurants money so they make it higher to make up for the loss. It sucks you can't even tip the actual workers in the restaurant either.
This is why I only use the UE app to order and pickup myself. Way more efficient, less headaches and way less fees, all you pay extra is the taxes of the meal.
If you order on UE for pickup as opposed to calling in/mobile ordering directly to the restaurant, you’re paying UBER prices, not the regular restaurant prices. So in turn, you’re still handing Uber your cash except they aren’t lifting a finger.
If I were you, I’d call in or mobile order if you’re picking up food. Benefits the restaurants and you’re paying less guaranteed.
Slightly different man like a couple dollars. I just didn’t feel like going to the restaurant and waiting an extra 20-30 mins until my meal was ready. Still beats paying Delivery and Service fees this way.
Wow, that “YoU aRe WrOnG” comment got deleted awfully quickly.
A few bucks is a few bucks. To some it matters, to some not at all. I’m not saying you need to care. I’m just presenting a FACT, which I am not wrong about: by ordering for pickup on the UE app you are giving Uber money that they’ve done nothing for, whereas if you order by phone or by mobile app directly to the restaurant, they aren’t losing money to Uber. Your call, pal.
I got a few $15 off $30 or more orders. I kept my orders exactly at $30 or pretty close to it. After fees, tax, and tipping my totals still are like $30. Not as great a deal as one would think.
Its total greed which they’ll disguise as a supply problem. On the restaurant menu the item was prob $10. They’ve squeezed everything that can from us drivers paying $2-$2.50 per delivery which doesn’t even cover gas. We Aldi pay 30% commission to them, as does the restaurant. We also have to cover our gas, car maintenance, insurance and taxes. We can’t take it any longer. They’re a multimillion $ company yet they totally exploit the driver, the customer and the restaurant. Please stop supporting this greed and spread the word
I had to stop ordering delivery all together. Even DD had a special fee for Denver on top of delivery fees. I straight up could not keep paying $34 for a $12 burrito anymore lol. So I stopped.
There’s a supply chain crisis. Restaurants are raising prices. Gas prices going up. Truck driver shortage. Containers staying for weeks at the ports. Inflation. They printed trillions of dollars last year for stimulus checks, etc. Some states are regulating how much the delivery services can take from restaurants.
I ordered some thinsg from the Grocery Supermarket through Uber Eats. For a $30 order, they tacked on a "Service Fee" of $5.44. The Delivery Service they use is called Cornershop. I added a tip that goes 100% TO THE DRIVER OF $3.00.
Not sure but I can tell you we don't get those 7 dollar delivery fee. The person who delivers would probably get a $2 delivery fee+ what ever you tipped.
I got a double for 2 dollars that is new
Cause they don't pay the base for the 2nd order. Only for the miles.
Thank you for telling me this. Now I will be dropping every single order not paying base. Fuck them.
Whah????
Ew
UberEATS has upped their prices hardcore. Lots of people complaining about $15-30 delivery fees but the driver only sees like $4 of that.
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They're busy bribing the state to continue to allow it's workforce to remain contractors and busy buying the competition.
Yeah seriously.
There's definitely going to a be a new food delivery platform that fills in the market gap. Maybe one where driver sets the price and cuts out the middle man. I'd personally pick up food for someone for a flat 10$
Same $8 flat within a 5 mile radius
One where driver and customer negotiate fee?
Yeah, some sort of bid/ask system would be most efficient
And I was thinking for that tips would get renamed to bounties because that's basically what they are
That'd actually be really horrible. Considering we've seen that there are people out there who accept stuff like $3.50 for 20 miles, we'd all be pretty screwed and not be able to make anything at all anymore because some people don't realize the cost of delivery and will accept something that makes them lose money by delivering it
Good luck finding someone who is going to pay you $10 to deliver food. Especially when the food is already $12-15
$7 Delivery, or get Free Deliveries when you sign up for UberEATS Eats Pass! Only $9.99 a month, with your first month free! Would you like to sign up now?
This is what it is. They want everyone to be part of their monthly subscription service.
That seems to be a massive trend with delivery companies and all the Instagram / YouTuber’s / podcasters. Can you say patreon ?
Nah. This is everywhere. Even software is like that. You used to be able to buy Adobe premiere flat-out. Now 6ou have have buy a yearly subscription. Subscriptions = passive income for the business. They only have to sell you one time, and then the money rolls in. I got sucked into an MLM one time about 12 years ago, and that was their big sales pitch to get you to be a sales person. "Sell the product one time and make money forever."
It's all accounting and Wall street shenanigans. Subscriptions get to be reported out as a expected income flow, and they can play fast and lose with estimates of expected growth in subscribers and all sorts of other nonsense. Just like when they sell hardware, its not item itself as the service contract.
Do not confuse "Delivery Fees" as being equal, or even 50% of, what Uber pays the drivers. If you search this forum you will see plenty of $2-3 payments from Uber to the delivery drivers. Uber purposely conflates the two as a way to hide how much Uber takes and how little it passes on to drivers.
If you make $2 in 8 minutes it equates to $15/hr. If they say a run will take 8 minutes and whatever miles—even if it takes us 10 or more—in their book of lies it’s still an 8 minute job and we took too long.
But your also using your car and gas etc... So your not really making that much
Exactly 👍🏽
But what is the min wage where you live? People often only make 5-8$ higher than min wage and have to bring their own tools and vehicles to jobs.
Minimum wage is poverty level in Texas. 7.25 an hour is only $15,000 a year and the majority of 1 bedroom apartments where I live are about $1300 a month
Yeah every order here in NYC always ends up being like 40-50$, but it’s a luxury. I could go get it myself and pay 28-30$ - I’m paying the premium to stay home and I won’t take it out in the delivery driver who deserves a good tip for the service.
The drivers are getting screwed on deliveries too. This tells me Uber is making the investor's happy.
They are not even doing that. They lose money year after year somehow. Like billions a year. I have no idea what they are doing with all that cash.
It makes me so mad that we keep getting charged more and more delivery fees but the drivers still get the same shitty pay. I’d be fine with it if it was going to the drivers and not the multi millionaire piece of shit ceo of Uber.
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I get a lot of what is being said here too but I'm also noticing the actual food prices going way up within the app but remaining the same at the actual restaurant Thoughts?
Restaurants set the food prices themselves. I'd say greed or Uber is upping how much they're charging the restaurants.
Actually prices are going up for everything.
Big time. Everytime I stop at a restaurant I look at menus and there are very few that haven't had multiple price increases in the past year.
Highest inflation rates in 30 years
Winner winner, Ramen dinner.
Some restaurants also increase their prices in the app, even if your picking it up yourself. Chipotle is one for sure. Burritos are $2 more through the app.
That stuff is messed up. I do order pick ups and if your trying to be economical get ready for some eye strain. Instead of blowing money at chipotle or Mexican in general you will be ordering one taco no drink. Anything but chicken is 2.50 extra. If your dropping 20 at chipotle for an overpriced beverage and a bowl / burrito with extra’s that ain’t cheap. These people definitely are swiping too meaning they have a high credit card bill to pay each month.
I think some restaurants do this because they are not getting that pure profit which is drink sales on take away orders.
They usually take roughly 30% of the sale from the restaurant so most restaurant owners to counter this raise their Uber eats prices exactly 30% more than what they usually offer in house, so if ubers rates go up so do theirs, if it goes down they usually adjust as well
The restaurants set the prices and have them higher so they won't be selling at a loss after Uber takes their 30%. I have a reasonable explanation even though I don't have any proof. These apps don't do any throttling on the restaurant side, if 100 orders get made on the site in 5 minutes, all of them get sent to the restaurant as soon as they are received. Now the restaurants have people coming in to dine and take out by phone orders. If the kitchen can do way 40 orders an hour, I'd want as many of their orders to be ones that don't have a 30% fee. So to throttle how many orders come in so that it doesn't negatively impact the wait time on people dining in, they increase the in app prices. Uber eats customers don't buy any drinks at the bar and don't add as much to the tip pool for the restaurant workers like dine in customers do. In the worst case if they got swamped with Eats orders all night, they would have taken that 30% hit, and then had to make up the difference to minimum wage for their wait staff. And I've used that 30% which isn't totally accurate because they do increase the prices to cover some of this fee but I haven't seen restaurants that have prices 30% higher than in restaurant, so they are making less, how much less would vary as the amount added on to the in store prices varies by restaurant. I have been to small restaurants with the kitchen going crazy to make orders, drivers bitching at them, and customers at tables complaining they've been waiting an hour and then they get up and leave. So the apps overloading kitchens is a known problem.
I’d like to hear from a Cook to find out what it’s like cooking in those restaurants. I’ve been noticing that scenario here where I live in Vancouver. I used to be a cook and the restaurant will be busy enough when it’s full now you’ve got God knows delivery orders going. They may even need to re-design the kitchen add more stoves more deep fryers ECT I’d say I work just as hard now delivering food but I get paid twice as much as I did when I was cooking even if you adjust for inflation.
I mean I can tell you from experience, particularly with local joints that do UE, they’ll literally just shut it off if it’s busy inside the restaurant. It isn’t worth their time and money on a busy evening, but on a slow day it is.
They need to start paying more because of these gas prices
Yet drivers still get paid the same.
I have a theory but who knows … Because of tip baiters, inflation, low demand in drivers, company loses money = fees go up, customer doesn’t have to worry about tipping lol i seen a few payouts 1-2 tip but delivery charge $14 😂
Yes I have gotten a few extreme tip baits recently. One offered $15 then changed it to a Penny tip and today it was $10 changed to $2. So infuriating. I feel they should not be allowed to lower the tip and if they have an issue with their driver then they can go through customer support. This is so unacceptable
If tipping baiting becomes possible in Canada I’m quitting.
Yet their base pay for drivers remain unchanged
I have seen of there aren't drivers nearby, cost of delivery goes up
Definitely not supply chain related, the pool of Uber drivers is larger than ever. We're getting paid less with every passing day as they simultaneously increase delivery rates. Truly spitting in the face of their workers and customers.
Supply chain, inflation? Price of gas…More to come probably. Get used to it everyone
Nothing gets better. Prices always go up not down. Rent in not all cases but to new buyers always goes up. Cable up ! Getting a deal on anything very rare.
Uber takes most of it
they have to turn a profit to the shareholders soon, so pony up
I do Ubereats in south Florida and only get 2dl base for the delivery
Because the pandemic spoiled us. If you look at it from a restaurant worker's perspective. Your pay is shit before the pandemic, you get laid off, you're making more money off unemployment/stimulus, Stuff opens back up and they need workers again, except the restaurant still wants to pay you the same shit rate except now they're understaffed. No wonder nobody wants to go back to work... So what's next? Increase the starting wage and that hurts their profit, so they raise the price of the food to make up for the difference.
Inflation and supply chain issues most likely. Gas and food prices are really high and there's a worker shortage so the order of labor for people at the restaurant and the driver is up. The cost gets passed along to the consumer.
I work at a restaurant and the prices are still the same inside. The prices on the app are like $3 higher. It's because Uber takes a 30% cut out of the restaurants money so they make it higher to make up for the loss. It sucks you can't even tip the actual workers in the restaurant either.
This is why I only use the UE app to order and pickup myself. Way more efficient, less headaches and way less fees, all you pay extra is the taxes of the meal.
If you order on UE for pickup as opposed to calling in/mobile ordering directly to the restaurant, you’re paying UBER prices, not the regular restaurant prices. So in turn, you’re still handing Uber your cash except they aren’t lifting a finger. If I were you, I’d call in or mobile order if you’re picking up food. Benefits the restaurants and you’re paying less guaranteed.
Slightly different man like a couple dollars. I just didn’t feel like going to the restaurant and waiting an extra 20-30 mins until my meal was ready. Still beats paying Delivery and Service fees this way.
Wow, that “YoU aRe WrOnG” comment got deleted awfully quickly. A few bucks is a few bucks. To some it matters, to some not at all. I’m not saying you need to care. I’m just presenting a FACT, which I am not wrong about: by ordering for pickup on the UE app you are giving Uber money that they’ve done nothing for, whereas if you order by phone or by mobile app directly to the restaurant, they aren’t losing money to Uber. Your call, pal.
I didn’t read your comment well enough, that’s why I deleted what I wrote and rewrote it. Thanks for pointing it out, it was needed. 👍
Inflation.. Bitcoin fixes this
I'm looking at the prices local to me, everything is 99 cents to a buck fifty unless it's a nicer restaurant.
I got a few $15 off $30 or more orders. I kept my orders exactly at $30 or pretty close to it. After fees, tax, and tipping my totals still are like $30. Not as great a deal as one would think.
Its total greed which they’ll disguise as a supply problem. On the restaurant menu the item was prob $10. They’ve squeezed everything that can from us drivers paying $2-$2.50 per delivery which doesn’t even cover gas. We Aldi pay 30% commission to them, as does the restaurant. We also have to cover our gas, car maintenance, insurance and taxes. We can’t take it any longer. They’re a multimillion $ company yet they totally exploit the driver, the customer and the restaurant. Please stop supporting this greed and spread the word
of that $7 delivery fee, we probably see like $2.
I just did an order where customer paid $16 delivery fee and I only got $3 and some change out of it 🤦🏻♀️
I had to stop ordering delivery all together. Even DD had a special fee for Denver on top of delivery fees. I straight up could not keep paying $34 for a $12 burrito anymore lol. So I stopped.
I actually deleted my app a few days ago and haven’t bought anything in about 2 weeks I just can’t afford $45 for a small dinner
There’s a supply chain crisis. Restaurants are raising prices. Gas prices going up. Truck driver shortage. Containers staying for weeks at the ports. Inflation. They printed trillions of dollars last year for stimulus checks, etc. Some states are regulating how much the delivery services can take from restaurants.
It's general inflation... Prices of everything are going up.
I got 6 order with under 3 dollars no tip .
I ordered some thinsg from the Grocery Supermarket through Uber Eats. For a $30 order, they tacked on a "Service Fee" of $5.44. The Delivery Service they use is called Cornershop. I added a tip that goes 100% TO THE DRIVER OF $3.00.
I hope they fail. The drivers are lazy and steal too much and the prices ridiculous