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Grubhub IS Using Tips to Calculate Delivery Fees, And Here’s Proof.

When Grubhub rolled out their new pay model, they stated that the delivery fee would be determined “based on time and mileage, in addition to the full tip from the diner.” It’s pretty clear they lied. There’s something else going into the calculation of earnings on most deliveries. The pattern is pretty clear and it’s …

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Is Grubhub a Good Delivery Option for Independent Contractors?

As part of the Deliver On Your Business Podcast, we are looking at the four leading delivery companies and examining some of the pros and cons of working with each. This week, we’ll get a look at Grubhub. For the longest time, Grubhub was king of the mountain. It was only earlier this year that …

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With Grubhub Cutting Pay on Stacked Orders, Are They Still Worth It?

If you are a Grubhub drivers in one of the markets where a new pay model rolled out this week, you will soon find that maybe the most significant change is in how Grubhub pays on multiple orders. It was a change that they buried deep in their email, and not a lot of people …

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Let’s Just Blame it All on The Cherry Pickers… (a Cherry Pickers Manifesto)

It’s all their fault. Death. Famine. Poverty. War. Justin Bieber…. Blame it all on those evil doers, those villains, those ne’er-do-wells. Cherry pickers. Those nasty, evil, horrible beings who stomp on babies, kick puppies, put pineapple on their pizza and, horror of horrors, reject orders while on delivery. All of our problems with delivery would …

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First Impressions of the New Grubhub Pay Model

Editor’s note: I wrote this about Grubhub’s original pay model update, introduced in March, 2019. Grubhub tweaked their pay model again in late June, 2019. Grubhub created quite a stir in the driver community by notifying drivers of a new pay model. They seem to be taking a page from Doordash as they are not …

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Doordash Has Grubhub in Their Sights, and It Looks Like Grubhub is Getting Nervous.

For the longest time, conventional wisdom was that Uber Eats would be the one to eventually knock Grubhub off their perch as market share leader in the food delivery business, with Doordash and Postmates seemingly left behind to battle for scraps. And yet recent reports like this one and this one show Doordash taking over …

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