UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of trips

Re:UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of ... by toast0 on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:17PM (#24265031)

I mean, it's not that bad. Delivery is an important part of many restaurants (pizza, jimmy johns (sandwiches), chinese in many cities). The issue in my mind is those restaurants with hugh delivery volume can do multiple deliveries in a single run, and can time the completion of the food to the return of the driver, so the food doesn't spend a lot of time sitting at the restaurant, and neither does the driver.

It's very hard to do that when you're aggregating restaurants and drivers.

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Re:UberEats could be underpaying delivery drivers on 21% of ... by WrtCdEvrydy on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:20PM (#24265054)

Right, but there's an incentive to perform well because if you don't, the food is returned.

Uber can just write off the loss as more and more money is shoveled into it like coal was shoveled into an engine on a trail.

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