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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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Should I Deliver Uber Eats in Bad Weather? How UE and Weather Affect Your Earnings Potential

My first experience delivering in the gig economy was with Uber Eats. It was February. It didn’t take long before the first snow, and I figured tips would be pretty good, right? You know, you’d expect peope were more thankful that they didn’t have to go out. They’d respect that we were willing to put …

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Is Doordash Stealing My Tips? Increase Earnings by Understanding the Doordash Pay Model.

No. No, Doordash isn’t stealing your tips. At least not technically. But you can’t blame drivers for getting that impression. Editor’s Note: This article was written during Doordash’s previous pay model so some things will seem different. Some things haven’t changed – I’ll talk about what’s changed at the end of the article. The Doordash …

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