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Re:Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing? by jfk13 on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:00PM (#23214340)

I wonder about people who say things like "I average between $35-40 an hour" doing food-delivery gigs. How many hours per day is that level of work available?

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Re:Ask HN: What interesting stuff are you browsing? by antonf on Sunday May 17, 2020 @09:01PM (#23217091)

I was delivering food via DoorDash before COVID-19 (using $5k 300cc motorcycle, so my gas expenses and depreciation were low), and it wasn't hard to hit $40/h during lunch or dinner delivering food in San Mateo, CA. Sometimes, when restaurants were slow I made about $20/h (I stopped taking orders from Mendocino Farms and Sweet Basil for that reason).

I also tried to deliver food in Palo Alto, but most of the orders were coming from Stanford Shopping Center were it was hard to find parking, and then it was hard to find the restaurant, and on top of that the restaurants were pretty slow to prepare the orders.

The factors that may contribute to higher income through delivery apps during COVID-19:

- without regular visitors, restaurants are probably faster to prepare food for delivery

- with more customers there are more chances for delivery app to batch orders

- with less traffic and cheaper gas, the expenses per delivery are lower

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