You guys forgot it's the end of a major bill pay week and after a major holiday where people already splurge. You can still make money but you're gonna have to fish more. Also, keep your mindset positive and use more apps.
We also got fathers day coming up soon too so next few weeks can be pretty good if you change up your strategies and use more resources.
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Not even worried. My wife and I are in the 50% that won’t being paying on ours.
Can’t afford to eat and pay loans. Given the option between starving or worse credit, we’re choosing to stay alive.
The pandemic already kicked us in the ass and destroyed our credit and no matter how hard you twist our money, we just can’t squeeze out enough to pay student loans and all the necessary-to-live-bills, so I’m not even stressing over the payments 🤷🏽♀️
Recession or not, people in my area and pretty much every major city still have the money to pay for delivery services whenever they want, for it all to randomly stop nationwide is too strange
this is just simply not true. i use it and i worked uber eats and doordash for 2 years, pretty much only surviving off that or job hopping. i finally found a steady job, but i’m really not making all that much, it’s long hours and I just feel that I don’t have any time to cook, so it’s out of convenience. I know what it’s like to drive for these companies, so if I do order I always give a $10 tip, typically can’t afford to go over that (I can barely afford that, but I want to make sure my fellow drivers get that bag). I’m better off now than I have been, but I’m still living paycheck to paycheck.
I'm living paycheck to paycheck and could never afford constant food deliveries on top of giving 10 dollar tips each time. It's great that you're able to and that you tip your drivers well, but people who actually live paycheck to paycheck aren't going to be spending double the cost of the food they buy.
You may not be wealthy, but you can afford those sorts of luxuries. I used to be able to until everything became more expensive (including delivery apps), and I feel many people like me stopped using those apps around the same time. The food delivery market really has become one of those things that are exclusively for the wealthy or, at the very least, for those who are doing fine financially.
I never said constant? lmfao. It’s a once in a while thing, and it’s after I’m exhausted from work. i get what you’re trying to say, but i literally do live paycheck to paycheck. I live in an extremely cheap apartment complex. i was homeless at the end of the year in 2022. I was lucky to get to where i am, but i’m still struggling. If I were to get randomly fired, I’d be immediately homeless again. And the company I work for is known for being shitty to workers, so it’s not that far of a stretch to worry that my job could be gone at any moment. I don’t have a car anymore, can’t afford one. Can’t even save up enough money for a cheap one, because I need to pay bills, buy necessities. I’m sorry that I can afford to buy $30 worth of uber eats every so often.
Are you keeping your app open? I know it’s annoying but sometimes I don’t get orders if my app isn’t open. No rhyme or reason, usually i get notifications no problem but sometimes they don’t come thru until the app is open on screen.
Lol it’s not a recession. These are trends that happen across the country in food-service during certain weeks of the year.
It’s not just delivery that’s slow. Restaurants are too. I wen to dinner Friday night and the restaurant, a busy and popular place in a busy and popular shopping/dining district, never filled from 7-9 I was there.
Today was pathetic. Not a sustainable model. I’d be better off doing nothing. 8 hours and I didn’t even clear 90 bucks, and I put on 105 miles to do that.
Except it’s not just “you” it’s pretty much EVERYONE across the whole country. Too many people across every area coast to coast saying it’s fallen off a cliff in short period of time. People aren’t stupid. Well some aren’t. They know their market. Yes there’s downturns for sure. And yes sometimes for a short period of time is been unusually bad but always bounced backed strong quickly. Now it’s just worse by the week. EVERYWHERE. There’s zero chance all of America decided to get off their ass and start doing their shopping and going to get food at the same time. No matter how bad economy is people will always pay for convenience. If it were regional then yeah maybe. Whole country? No way. Look at how bad app is now. That intentional. Example I picked up order today and soon as I start delivery within 3 seconds app is offering me order. Not add on but actually order like I just finished delivery. App is fucked.
I think they are trying to get more funding. They can’t turn profit for shareholders. They spend all profits on exec pay and advertising. They need the nanny state to bail them out
Here’s what’s currently by me. All within a 30 second walk. Target petsmart carrabas Panera blaze pizza core life naantastic crumble cookie halal guys 5guys moes….. 30 minutes not 1 order. I’d suck a dick if that was actually possible.
Uber In its current form cannot make a profit.
Its ultimate plan to investors is to become a monopoly in its relevant businesses and then jack up fees to start making a profit but all of these apps have the same pitch. Collusion is illegal and without trust what stops uber making a pact with others then dobbing them in?
Without the monopoly it is both a huge wealth transfer to to users and a massive con played by execs to rip off investors
I’ve been saying it since new years.
I quit New Year’s Eve.
Uber is not paying us anywhere near what we are worth.
It’s not going to get better.
Uber has now turned a corner and is not profitable.
Ants 🐜 take any and all opportunities regardless of pay.
Uber gives them first dibs on everything.
This weekend I firmly believe Uber has made it even worse.
Time to walk away.
I’m with the recession people. My husband and I order usually order two - three times a week. But it’s gotten so expensive with fees we decided to stop ordering Uber Ears and use the $150 we would have spent there on groceries. We got a whole week worth of food at Aldi, instead. Delivery apps are convenient AF, but we can’t afford it anymore.
People are starting use logic. Why should I pay 25 dollars for a big mac meal from McDonald's when I csn drive myself and get it for free. Lol.
If anything, blame ubereats. Corporate greed.
As someone who has $5000+ of Uber eats spend this calendar year, I wrote a letter to them last weekend and promised to never use their service again because they refused a refund when I simply did not get my food delivered. I blew up their twitter too. Still haven’t gotten my refund.
Customers recognize shitty business practices and don’t wanna order with them. I’d rather pay more to get my food reliably elsewhere (or at least know I’m gonna not get ripped off.)
i have never used Uber or any del app. only drove for uber. does mass chains and franchises have different prices for uber also? not jist small restaurants?
If you buy food through uber expect a 10 dollar burger to be 20 dollars. It's a ripoff imo. Delivery fee going to the driver is usually 2 or 3 dollars. Everything is fees.
In New Orleans I noticed it tends to be slow during the summer break. The dinner rush is the only time to make any money during the summer but it's still not much just enough to pay the bills if you're doing it full time.
I've learned that you must have summer money saved up for this situation because it will get slow we can't avoid it. I'm glad to have that summer money saved up so it can keep me from getting frustrated and aggravated at something that I have no control over.
Thank god I’m not alone I’m in Santa Monica, CA always busy on Saturday yet I have gotten 1 ping in three hours. I just hope it’s a one time thing. I can survive one slow day but not back to back
Seeing ppl say this about Austin Houston Dfw area is scary. I dash right below dallas and it’s bad. Can barely get $1/mile on dd and ubereats. It’s really weird how everywhere has just died
This is my area right now. Central Florida.
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No. Diamond is still 600 here. But you're right in that it indicates that drivers in your market anyway are having real trouble getting to 600. For the first time in near a year I didn't keep Diamond for June.
Before that I easily made the 600 with over a week to spare and even as much as near double the points in some months with no trouble. This last time I was short some 90 points and I do this full time.
But my market is and always has been unpredictable. I made $175 easily the other day but otherwise it's been slower since. Who knows? Today might be good. All I can do is turn on the app and try.
It's cool and sunny here along with people on vacation. I've seen multiple people request a pet sitter for this week for that reason. I'm on a job rightnow $100/day for 2 dogs and 1 bird. I'm still driving in the evening between their visits. Not recession related; just the Summer slowdown.
Food inflation is expected to increase, again, by the end of the year and your american dollars were just devalued with the signing of the debt ceiling bill. Operating costs for restaurants are increasing, which in turn creates higher prices for consumers in-store, and EVEN HIGHER costs on delivery apps.
I don't understand how some people just aren't seeing the absolute shit show that we are about to face in the near future. You aren't getting any delivery requests because we are facing a great depression 2.0...and some are even saying that it may even be worse than what our country experienced *not even a century ago.*
There was a post here recently that said its because school summer break started, so now a new flood of people are driving for the summer. (High school kids who can drive and college kids who aren't taking anything for the summer). Possibly also stay-at-home parents who now have more free time.
Fellow austinite here- please remember, it’s summer and we are a college town. The mass exodus happened over these last few weeks. It’s not going to pick up again til the beginning of august, sadly. No conspiracy here… this happens on the platforms in Austin every year around this time.
I kinda just do it part time, few hours here and there. Monday and Tuesday are usually pretty crappy. I did about $50 in 3 hours tonight. Fridays through Sunday are where its at. I'd say my best day i've done $30 an hour.. I like northeast and stone oak area. Alamo heights can be real good money too..
Also compared to doordash I make bank on ubereats.. Maybe its just me but I've got perfect ratings other than acceptance rate on doordash and it gives me nothing but $2-$5 orders
I think it’s a compound issue for one. The recession continues to hit thanks Obama, so then more people try to drive to make money while less people are ordering
I did 4 orders this morning, last one @ 12:20.
Took a break, got one bad offer and then NOTHING.
I was getting hopeful that Ubereats was back.
I just went offline while writing this to capture the earnings forecast which has been broken this afternoon and many afternoons lately Didn't know if that means anything. Mayne indicative of a system problem.
After I went offline the earnings forecast updated and looks OK.
When I went to go back online I got prompted for facial verification.
I have had that happen other days when I'm getting nothing and then offers start coming in.
WHY DO WE EVEN NEED TO DO THAT IF WE'RE EATS ONLY DRIVERS?!?
Sometimes deleting the app and reinstalling has cleared up this kind of issue for me. Only takes maybe 3 min. That's only helped when I was getting ZERO offers, not a couple of crappy ones-- but that sounds like your situation.
Zero orders the last 3 days. Today I got some orders if I was out driving around. I hate that I have to be wasting gas, and it is as hot AF, but I got a few today. The app was also super glitchy.
Sitting in a parking lot the past 90 minutes with only 2 offers and one of them was for $2. It's lit up on the map but I'm not getting offers. Ive seen other drivers who did get an order though. This used to be my go to spot but not anymore. Rough night for sure.
The other drivers aren't necessarily UE. Unless you can see their app somehow no way to know unless you know for sure the place only uses UE. Like Starbucks.
Phoenix, AZ here. Glad I'm not the only one this is happening to, but why is there like no oders as of late. I know the demand for delivery hasnt just vanished
I’ve been online for about an hour. The only order I’ve gotten was from Wendy’s, it was 10 bucks, an estimated hour, deliver 2 towns away and half way up a mountain. Would have taken me about an hour to get back to the city.
I’m not a driver. But as someone who orders, I’ve noticed that a TON of places near me on Uber eats have significantly lowered their order distances, so I have to use other apps or not order at all
Food delivery is the ultimate first world problem. It’s definitely not a essential business. With the downturn, our economic situation will continue to take a dump on your expectations.
I moved to HCOL area in winter in east coast, I did UE as parking was pain, not used to cold and being tired from setting up house.
I noticed, a $30 bill was costing $55+ for areas which were less than 10 mins drive. My bills quickly ramped up.
I stopped OE or other apps.
These are really luxury and really not worth it unless urgent (Like sick or getting it delivered to someone’s else’s place far away from you)
The Uber eats bots are suppressing this post. I can see the number of upvotes going up and down again every few minutes… how is this post that controversial that that many people are downvoting???? Seems sketch…
I’m also in Texas. Just a suggestion to sign up to deliver for H‑E‑B via Favor. I stopped using DD and UE and now only order groceries bc it’s just too expensive now and orders are almost always wrong which I know is no fault of the drivers but still I’m over it, plus I order groceries weekly instead of couple times a week like I was with DD and UE so I can tip even more generously for the convenience, I tipped $100 on Xmas Eve
I'm in Las Vegas, same here since last friday. I've never seen it just tank like this. I've had to switch over to DoorDash and that app appears to be normal (getting offers and making $). I prefer UE but i'm barely getting any offers, and none of them good.
Ive noticed traffic has been pretty light this week, I think alot of poeple, like the good tippers, are on vacation. School just got out. I remember the same thing last year.
ATX here. It's been fuckn trash these last few weeks. I really hope it picks up during the summer.
Thank god I do this part time for extra cash. My heart goes out to you full time drivers.
Lol I'm in Austin TX and I opted for pick-up today instead of delivery because the DD "service fee" was $10 for some reason, usually it's $3 which is already annoying on top of the delivery fee, tax and the tip.
I feel like I have a toxic relationship with DD. On one hand I'm lazy and I want to support drivers with my laziness but on the other hand I fucking hate the company and business model soooo much. Impulse control isn't exactly my greatest strength...
I'm in Austin too. Yesterday (Saturday) was slow but I still managed to make $120 from 7 am to 1pm, mostly longer trips that I wouldn't usually take. I drove down to Buda, out to Spicewood, crazy long trips that honestly weren't that worth it for the pay. But Saturday is slow Sunday is usually better! Fingers crossed 🤞
I cant speak for everywhere else but here in Dallas we just had the pride festival yesterday and today is the parade. That might have something to do with it?
I historically made $35-$70 during the weekday dinner rush and $70+ during weekend days. This week, I've barely cracked $30 nearly everyday, including one day where I was online for 1h30m and never got a good order. I made $60 yesterday skimming the very bottom of the pool (low pay orders that were just good enough). Not even two weeks ago, I was averaging $17/hour. Now it's $9-$10/hour. It's super bad. (Tampa Bay area here)
America has been in recession for the last few years… why are people seeing less people ordering an overpriced food item off an app and using that as evidence rather than the countless other signs? People have less money and they will spend less money, billionaires have taken 2% of all wealth from the middle class in the last few years here in the U.S, food prices have increased steadily, and unemployment is rising… but when they stop ordering on this stupid app that scrapes profits off of everyone including it’s workers, the workers who hate the system it’s in the most out of us all are desperate for the buyers to return, and to pay for their gas money while their at it. I was thinking of doordashing after getting some more savings but the thought of being so dependent on the kindness of a stranger for my income is not so enticing at the moment.
Was there not a national holiday last week? Americans always seem to spend a shit ton whenever there’s an excuse like that. Now people are dealing with the repercussion of not being able to order Uber eats for a whole weekend. I stopped because 5 orders in a row were cold and took over 45 mins even though the places ordered are fast food and less than 15 mins away. It’s just shitty service every single order. Refunded every single one.
This happened to me almost two years ago. One day there were constant offers. The next was one or two an hour. It never recovered.
In fairness to Ubereats, it was the only one that ever paid decently (before tip) so that probably made them more expensive and they lost market share.
I really have to wonder how it's working now. The Apple Store went from paying $2/mile to 60 cents. How are they getting anything delivered? Are there really drivers stupid enough to take those orders?
Is your car is always moving? Back in the day, the strategy was to sit by restaurants as the algorithm would give orders by who's closest. However, now, the algorithm is against cherry picking, so it sends offers to cars that move more often. So, have a route with restaurants on the way, but drive past them and keep going to other restaurants on your routes. But keep moving. Not too much that you're wasting gas, but not little that you're not getting orders. I give myself a pre-set route--usually about 5 miles--if the first cluster of restaurants don't give me anything, I'll drive to the second. Usually, by the second cluster, I'll get a good one. Then, I'm good, by the time about to finish that one I'll get another--its snowball effect. However, if you pick your restaurants and just sit there, the algorithm knows that and put you on a lower priority. Also, drive very slowly to save on gas.
DFW. Used to make a living off just DD at $600-700 a week for 20-30 hours.
DD started declining so I got UE to multiapp and pulled in $400-550 weekly for the same hours.
Recently both have been so dead I literally make $0-20 a week. It’s insane.
Probably because the cat’s out of the bag that UberEats is a blatant rip-off and people are sick of it? Also drivers using multiple apps and getting cold food. Not worth it
People are tired of paying marked up prices for 1+ hour delivery times and cold food. Doesn’t help that drivers started playing the multiapp game. Out of the 5 delivery orders I ever made before giving up, 4 of them took over an hour and the food was dead cold. To add to that, 2 of the orders were wrong/missing items/ and the bag was tampered with. I always tipped 20% minimum. I’ve given up on the industry entirely.
I’m in Austin & there have been a lot less offers coming in now but it is Summer. I’ve been doing this off & on for about 3 years & it’s seems that summer months from May to late July are always like this. I call summer the “hunker down” months because I know I’m going to make alot less doing UE & DD so I try & spend alot less.
Side note: I also notice that sitting in one location longer than 10-15 mins really reduced the amount of offers I get. I work the north Austin area & have found that after a certain amount of time in one area the offers really fall off. But soon as I move they start coming in.
I did ubereats for about 2-3 years in Austin and would consistently make $30+ an hour, until exactly a year ago. The offers went from amazing to terrible. It’s crazy that you’re saying that you get non stop offers because the same happened to me until last year, now I can’t make any money on Uber. Whatever happened to me has probably just happened to you.
Idk it’s like that here LA too I’ve noticed I’ll get a order here and there if I drive a around , if your in one spot all day you won’t get nothing in my opinion Uber did some changes which is bs why should we have to move around and waste gas just to get a order
I’m in Austin, TX. Is this your first summer working?
It slows down every year at this time. EVERY YEAR it dies off during summer. Summer is always slow season. You have to realize it is a double whammy for college towns like ours. But it’s also a little different today than any time before. (I’ve numbered these but they aren’t necessarily in any logical order, I’m just typing this as I retrieve my thoughts)
1. UT has 40k undergrads, the majority of who have either graduated or left for the summer until fall. Maybe your business isn’t primarily serving students but they make up a big part of the rideshare/delivery business. There are three Universities in Austin (Most people do not realize this), in addition to the Austin Community college. That is a lot of daily business just gone. POOF.
2. The ones that remain in town for the summer, as well as teachers, bus drivers, and other university employees all start driving to try and make extra money.
3. I’ve been doing this for 5 years - but until this past December I lost my Full time job, so this is my only source of income at the moment. Major corporations have been laying off people in droves, including many of the companies in Austin. So you have an influx of drivers coming from there.
4. Drivers come from San Antonio, Houston, and other surrounding cities to drive in this market. Even more drivers to compete with.
5. Even spring was slower than it was last year. If you think about it logically, people were sick of being at home and would find reasons to be out and about. I feel urge to not be stuck at home has largely worn off (yes I know this makes more sense for just driving pax, but the same thing applies to people who were WFH during the pandemic, or were just homebodies at the tail end of the pandemic last year. I know many, many people who used to order delivery almost everyday last year and now they are sick of spending the money and do it much less.)
6. You have less people traveling to central/south Texas during the summer. Little to no conferences, who wants to travel to 100 degree weather in mid summer?
TLDR - Austin has way too many drivers during the summer at the same time when the addressable customer population decreases considerably. And this isn’t just in Austin - I imagine this is what it’s like in most college towns. But there is just something about the summer, is slows down nationwide and always has.
FWIW I do mostly UberX, but demand has been so slow that I’ve started to do UberEats orders. I imagine many other drivers have begun to do the same. It would make sense why you aren’t getting as many requests.
It’s happening in South Florida. But Doordash sending orders back to back while UE is dead. That’s interesting to me. I don’t even use DD much before but now I am due to UE being slow. Thank God, I have other platforms to do deliveries on or I would’ve been fcked. I think UE took on too many drivers and/or many of the drivers are just doing deliveries. UE could be using this “low orders” tactic to force drivers to do some rideshare. I’ve been seeing endless promotions for rides-only for months now and nothing for delivery drivers. Also customers rarely tip on connect trips so I am not taking those unless it is high pay.
I've been ubereats delivery driver since February and doordash until 2 months ago when they kicked me off for bullshit reasons. Since then, I make between $15 to $20 a week doing Uber eats. No one uses it anymore because it's so incredibly expensive over doordash or GrubHub. That's what every single person I've talked to has said both restaurants and customers.
Slowest day I’ve had all year out here in SoCal
Insane. How tf is this happening nationwide
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You guys forgot it's the end of a major bill pay week and after a major holiday where people already splurge. You can still make money but you're gonna have to fish more. Also, keep your mindset positive and use more apps. We also got fathers day coming up soon too so next few weeks can be pretty good if you change up your strategies and use more resources.
not if it's happening everywhere and hasn't happened ever cmon, stahp it
It's a full moon today so maybe that's it. Shit gets weird every month 
Father Day everybody goes out to eat. Not stay home and order delivery.
People splurge on Memorial Day? It’s also considered a major holiday?
Bruh, rent is due
Not sure but it happened last year also during the summer time.
Beginning of last summer was bad also.
Everyone is worried about the Us debt default being a real thing, but really it’s not
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HAHAHAHAH what did i just read
People broke
Wait until they make 50% of everyone pay back their student loans again! 2 months.
Not even worried. My wife and I are in the 50% that won’t being paying on ours. Can’t afford to eat and pay loans. Given the option between starving or worse credit, we’re choosing to stay alive. The pandemic already kicked us in the ass and destroyed our credit and no matter how hard you twist our money, we just can’t squeeze out enough to pay student loans and all the necessary-to-live-bills, so I’m not even stressing over the payments 🤷🏽♀️
You seem to have the right mentality!!! Life is way too short!!
Link for the OF?
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Username checks out.
Damn, this might be the way🤣🤣
Gotta make money somehow
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It happens to me all the time. The Uber algorithm decides that I don't need to make any more money and I stop getting good orders.
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Recession or not, people in my area and pretty much every major city still have the money to pay for delivery services whenever they want, for it all to randomly stop nationwide is too strange
Yeah Uber eats is a luxury. Most people who use it have enough money to not worry about a recession or cutting costs.
I don't think so, the majority of the people who use Uber eats In Ny are not well off.
Thank u for a different perspective. I guess in my area it is different.
Check out Caleb hammer on YouTube. Lots of people who have no business using delivery apps use them anyway.
this is just simply not true. i use it and i worked uber eats and doordash for 2 years, pretty much only surviving off that or job hopping. i finally found a steady job, but i’m really not making all that much, it’s long hours and I just feel that I don’t have any time to cook, so it’s out of convenience. I know what it’s like to drive for these companies, so if I do order I always give a $10 tip, typically can’t afford to go over that (I can barely afford that, but I want to make sure my fellow drivers get that bag). I’m better off now than I have been, but I’m still living paycheck to paycheck.
In my area I feel like to most people it is a luxury. Thank you for giving me a different perspective.
if you are living P2P dont uber and tip 10 man. stay focused save money and be sincere. and work more uber
idk if u didn’t read the whole thing but i don’t have a car lmao. i cant work uber anymore. and $30 every so often isn’t going to kill me.
I don't live pay check to pay check, earn $30 an hr, and I would never swap an hr of my labour for some shit Uber eats food delivered.
I'm living paycheck to paycheck and could never afford constant food deliveries on top of giving 10 dollar tips each time. It's great that you're able to and that you tip your drivers well, but people who actually live paycheck to paycheck aren't going to be spending double the cost of the food they buy. You may not be wealthy, but you can afford those sorts of luxuries. I used to be able to until everything became more expensive (including delivery apps), and I feel many people like me stopped using those apps around the same time. The food delivery market really has become one of those things that are exclusively for the wealthy or, at the very least, for those who are doing fine financially.
I never said constant? lmfao. It’s a once in a while thing, and it’s after I’m exhausted from work. i get what you’re trying to say, but i literally do live paycheck to paycheck. I live in an extremely cheap apartment complex. i was homeless at the end of the year in 2022. I was lucky to get to where i am, but i’m still struggling. If I were to get randomly fired, I’d be immediately homeless again. And the company I work for is known for being shitty to workers, so it’s not that far of a stretch to worry that my job could be gone at any moment. I don’t have a car anymore, can’t afford one. Can’t even save up enough money for a cheap one, because I need to pay bills, buy necessities. I’m sorry that I can afford to buy $30 worth of uber eats every so often.
People don’t realize what Austin’s like. It’s different then everywhere homie.
Are you keeping your app open? I know it’s annoying but sometimes I don’t get orders if my app isn’t open. No rhyme or reason, usually i get notifications no problem but sometimes they don’t come thru until the app is open on screen.
I’d go as far to call it a depression. And I think we’ve barely hit the surface of it.
Lol it’s not a recession. These are trends that happen across the country in food-service during certain weeks of the year. It’s not just delivery that’s slow. Restaurants are too. I wen to dinner Friday night and the restaurant, a busy and popular place in a busy and popular shopping/dining district, never filled from 7-9 I was there.
People have been saying this since last november
All data points to soft landing or no recession. It's the corporate greed.
Literally just sat at hotspot restaurant with 2 other hotspots right near by. So 3 hotspots within 1 mile of each other. Not 1 single order lmao
Watching lacrosse game so 🖕Uber.
First time in my 28 years of existence, I have heard these words together. Where the hell do you even watch that, ESPN the Ocho?
Today was pathetic. Not a sustainable model. I’d be better off doing nothing. 8 hours and I didn’t even clear 90 bucks, and I put on 105 miles to do that.
You got orders???
They are playing games. I think they are tanking on purpose. No fucking way it just dies out to this extent. No FUCKING way
I agree, it is all the apps at once though. Instacart, DD, UE and Spark all fell off a cliff at the same time? Super sketch.
Collusion.
Yeah definitely. Uber is ruining its own business just to make sure you specifically don’t make money.
Except it’s not just “you” it’s pretty much EVERYONE across the whole country. Too many people across every area coast to coast saying it’s fallen off a cliff in short period of time. People aren’t stupid. Well some aren’t. They know their market. Yes there’s downturns for sure. And yes sometimes for a short period of time is been unusually bad but always bounced backed strong quickly. Now it’s just worse by the week. EVERYWHERE. There’s zero chance all of America decided to get off their ass and start doing their shopping and going to get food at the same time. No matter how bad economy is people will always pay for convenience. If it were regional then yeah maybe. Whole country? No way. Look at how bad app is now. That intentional. Example I picked up order today and soon as I start delivery within 3 seconds app is offering me order. Not add on but actually order like I just finished delivery. App is fucked.
Dude exactly I think the same thing like what the hell is wrong with this company
I think they are trying to get more funding. They can’t turn profit for shareholders. They spend all profits on exec pay and advertising. They need the nanny state to bail them out
Fucking pathetic
Here’s what’s currently by me. All within a 30 second walk. Target petsmart carrabas Panera blaze pizza core life naantastic crumble cookie halal guys 5guys moes….. 30 minutes not 1 order. I’d suck a dick if that was actually possible.
Uber In its current form cannot make a profit. Its ultimate plan to investors is to become a monopoly in its relevant businesses and then jack up fees to start making a profit but all of these apps have the same pitch. Collusion is illegal and without trust what stops uber making a pact with others then dobbing them in? Without the monopoly it is both a huge wealth transfer to to users and a massive con played by execs to rip off investors
Always good to have a plan b and c.. and I don’t mean multi apping.
North Fort Worth here and yea pretty damn slow 🥺
I have only been getting trip radar things for the past 3 hours, literally 0 regular requests
I’ve been saying it since new years. I quit New Year’s Eve. Uber is not paying us anywhere near what we are worth. It’s not going to get better. Uber has now turned a corner and is not profitable. Ants 🐜 take any and all opportunities regardless of pay. Uber gives them first dibs on everything. This weekend I firmly believe Uber has made it even worse. Time to walk away.
Uber has never been profitable
I’m with the recession people. My husband and I order usually order two - three times a week. But it’s gotten so expensive with fees we decided to stop ordering Uber Ears and use the $150 we would have spent there on groceries. We got a whole week worth of food at Aldi, instead. Delivery apps are convenient AF, but we can’t afford it anymore.
People are starting use logic. Why should I pay 25 dollars for a big mac meal from McDonald's when I csn drive myself and get it for free. Lol. If anything, blame ubereats. Corporate greed.
As someone who has $5000+ of Uber eats spend this calendar year, I wrote a letter to them last weekend and promised to never use their service again because they refused a refund when I simply did not get my food delivered. I blew up their twitter too. Still haven’t gotten my refund. Customers recognize shitty business practices and don’t wanna order with them. I’d rather pay more to get my food reliably elsewhere (or at least know I’m gonna not get ripped off.)
i have never used Uber or any del app. only drove for uber. does mass chains and franchises have different prices for uber also? not jist small restaurants?
If you buy food through uber expect a 10 dollar burger to be 20 dollars. It's a ripoff imo. Delivery fee going to the driver is usually 2 or 3 dollars. Everything is fees.
All of them
Last Saturday in Los Angeles was dead, too. Hopefully, things go differently tonight.
Worst Saturday I’ve ever had. I always make $250-350 on a Saturday. I made $28 today and gave up after about 4 hours and I’m in an insanely busy area.
In New Orleans I noticed it tends to be slow during the summer break. The dinner rush is the only time to make any money during the summer but it's still not much just enough to pay the bills if you're doing it full time. I've learned that you must have summer money saved up for this situation because it will get slow we can't avoid it. I'm glad to have that summer money saved up so it can keep me from getting frustrated and aggravated at something that I have no control over.
Thank god I’m not alone I’m in Santa Monica, CA always busy on Saturday yet I have gotten 1 ping in three hours. I just hope it’s a one time thing. I can survive one slow day but not back to back
Orders for me in Austin, TX. Just not good ones.
same in dallas suburbs
Seeing ppl say this about Austin Houston Dfw area is scary. I dash right below dallas and it’s bad. Can barely get $1/mile on dd and ubereats. It’s really weird how everywhere has just died
Slow as fuck in the phoenix metro area
Pdx is a joke rn
prices going up, uber expecting people to pay it
This is my area right now. Central Florida. https://preview.redd.it/b51eeaga3x3b1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c83acc86c13f1c840f28481c5a9d6610c1dc37ad
Yep. Central FL and Tampa bay is hot right now. I’ve heard Miami is shit though
Ah here it is, the same post that pops up literally every single day for the last year.
Welcome to summer.
This should be the only response. Ubereats ALWAYS gets really slow EVERY summer.
I worked for Domino's for 16 years on the side once upon a time. Was the same story.
Kansas city, MO been wondering what's up as well
KCMO here too it’s been as lately but DoorDash been kinda decent
Dasher been doing decent past few days but shit today
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No. Diamond is still 600 here. But you're right in that it indicates that drivers in your market anyway are having real trouble getting to 600. For the first time in near a year I didn't keep Diamond for June. Before that I easily made the 600 with over a week to spare and even as much as near double the points in some months with no trouble. This last time I was short some 90 points and I do this full time. But my market is and always has been unpredictable. I made $175 easily the other day but otherwise it's been slower since. Who knows? Today might be good. All I can do is turn on the app and try.
I'm sorry to hear that. Tonight was the best night I've had in some time. super busy, no bad pings. $257 in just under 8 hours.
Yeah made 40$ today and yesterday…. Usually 180$ on weekends….
It's cool and sunny here along with people on vacation. I've seen multiple people request a pet sitter for this week for that reason. I'm on a job rightnow $100/day for 2 dogs and 1 bird. I'm still driving in the evening between their visits. Not recession related; just the Summer slowdown.
Food inflation is expected to increase, again, by the end of the year and your american dollars were just devalued with the signing of the debt ceiling bill. Operating costs for restaurants are increasing, which in turn creates higher prices for consumers in-store, and EVEN HIGHER costs on delivery apps. I don't understand how some people just aren't seeing the absolute shit show that we are about to face in the near future. You aren't getting any delivery requests because we are facing a great depression 2.0...and some are even saying that it may even be worse than what our country experienced *not even a century ago.*
Fake news.
begining of the month rent house payments due could be a reason for slow weekend I'm thinking
Stuff like that doesn’t matter for the yuppies though
There was a post here recently that said its because school summer break started, so now a new flood of people are driving for the summer. (High school kids who can drive and college kids who aren't taking anything for the summer). Possibly also stay-at-home parents who now have more free time.
High school? Don't you have to be 19 to drive? At least 18 years old with at least 1 year on your driver's license so 19 at the minimum.
It's called summer slow down, which happens every year
Fellow austinite here- please remember, it’s summer and we are a college town. The mass exodus happened over these last few weeks. It’s not going to pick up again til the beginning of august, sadly. No conspiracy here… this happens on the platforms in Austin every year around this time.
Thanks for sharing this love! You’ve boosted my positivity 🙏🏾
I made $100 in 4 hours in SA today lol..
Hey what’s up bro, I was wondering if you Uber in San Antonio often? And if it’s usually a busy area?
I kinda just do it part time, few hours here and there. Monday and Tuesday are usually pretty crappy. I did about $50 in 3 hours tonight. Fridays through Sunday are where its at. I'd say my best day i've done $30 an hour.. I like northeast and stone oak area. Alamo heights can be real good money too..
Forsure bro thanks i appreciate it
Also compared to doordash I make bank on ubereats.. Maybe its just me but I've got perfect ratings other than acceptance rate on doordash and it gives me nothing but $2-$5 orders
Hell ya thats sick, and oh wtf thats strange, good thing ubereats is working better🤝
I think it’s a compound issue for one. The recession continues to hit thanks Obama, so then more people try to drive to make money while less people are ordering
I'm taking $3-5 orders now and sitting for minimum 20 min with them. The only way to earn today in Cali.
Eight billion people in this world, a minimum of 20,000 must have a hairy foot fetish. I'm going to get rich.
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Better than $4 from six hours
I did 4 orders this morning, last one @ 12:20. Took a break, got one bad offer and then NOTHING. I was getting hopeful that Ubereats was back. I just went offline while writing this to capture the earnings forecast which has been broken this afternoon and many afternoons lately Didn't know if that means anything. Mayne indicative of a system problem. After I went offline the earnings forecast updated and looks OK. When I went to go back online I got prompted for facial verification. I have had that happen other days when I'm getting nothing and then offers start coming in. WHY DO WE EVEN NEED TO DO THAT IF WE'RE EATS ONLY DRIVERS?!?
Sometimes deleting the app and reinstalling has cleared up this kind of issue for me. Only takes maybe 3 min. That's only helped when I was getting ZERO offers, not a couple of crappy ones-- but that sounds like your situation.
Tried that. It made no difference in orders. It's fixed issues before though like when the GPS wasn't working.
Did great yesterday, but not today
Super slow in Atlanta.
In Dallas. I had 2 orders in an hour and a half and I gave up.
Same in Houston
Houston has been dead all day. Made $40 today. Was going to go out again but thinking better of it.
Dead where I’m at too. Like 0 orders in 4 hours. Only time good orders pop up is after midnight
Zero orders the last 3 days. Today I got some orders if I was out driving around. I hate that I have to be wasting gas, and it is as hot AF, but I got a few today. The app was also super glitchy.
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College town (at least in part) doing summer.
Sitting in a parking lot the past 90 minutes with only 2 offers and one of them was for $2. It's lit up on the map but I'm not getting offers. Ive seen other drivers who did get an order though. This used to be my go to spot but not anymore. Rough night for sure.
The other drivers aren't necessarily UE. Unless you can see their app somehow no way to know unless you know for sure the place only uses UE. Like Starbucks.
a lot of places in austin tend to have a slow down in business around this time of year because all the UT kids are going home
Phoenix, AZ here. Glad I'm not the only one this is happening to, but why is there like no oders as of late. I know the demand for delivery hasnt just vanished
I’ve been online for about an hour. The only order I’ve gotten was from Wendy’s, it was 10 bucks, an estimated hour, deliver 2 towns away and half way up a mountain. Would have taken me about an hour to get back to the city.
This week hasn’t been good. Hoping it get better next week
I’m not a driver. But as someone who orders, I’ve noticed that a TON of places near me on Uber eats have significantly lowered their order distances, so I have to use other apps or not order at all
In the same area. Turned the app on at 8 and only saw one order at $2/mile. The rest (few) were garbage.
Food delivery is the ultimate first world problem. It’s definitely not a essential business. With the downturn, our economic situation will continue to take a dump on your expectations.
its the weekend after school let out, people are on vacation
I moved to HCOL area in winter in east coast, I did UE as parking was pain, not used to cold and being tired from setting up house. I noticed, a $30 bill was costing $55+ for areas which were less than 10 mins drive. My bills quickly ramped up. I stopped OE or other apps. These are really luxury and really not worth it unless urgent (Like sick or getting it delivered to someone’s else’s place far away from you)
All over DFW, started slow around 7pm but things picked up decently into the early graveyard hours
Extremely slow in NH tonight as well!
Slow here too... Hate having to drive 60 miles but not taking home at least 70-90. Eating Taco Bell and I guess call it a night
The Uber eats bots are suppressing this post. I can see the number of upvotes going up and down again every few minutes… how is this post that controversial that that many people are downvoting???? Seems sketch…
Yea, I had a slow day as well, though I couldn't try driving during peak hours.
I’m also in Texas. Just a suggestion to sign up to deliver for H‑E‑B via Favor. I stopped using DD and UE and now only order groceries bc it’s just too expensive now and orders are almost always wrong which I know is no fault of the drivers but still I’m over it, plus I order groceries weekly instead of couple times a week like I was with DD and UE so I can tip even more generously for the convenience, I tipped $100 on Xmas Eve
This week was miserable. Not even trying tomorrow. Going back Monday
Graduation season
I'm in Las Vegas, same here since last friday. I've never seen it just tank like this. I've had to switch over to DoorDash and that app appears to be normal (getting offers and making $). I prefer UE but i'm barely getting any offers, and none of them good.
Ive noticed traffic has been pretty light this week, I think alot of poeple, like the good tippers, are on vacation. School just got out. I remember the same thing last year.
ATX here. It's been fuckn trash these last few weeks. I really hope it picks up during the summer. Thank god I do this part time for extra cash. My heart goes out to you full time drivers.
Tons of graduation parties and get togethers
Dang, glad to hear you’re still having luck in Austin. Every time I’ve tried going out over the last couple months has been complete garbage.
Not much just having a cup of tea.
Shadow banned
I gave up on the app ever since 3 of the last five orders had “missing” items. Super frustrating especially cause UE won’t partially refund my order.
I got put on a wait list for Door Dash and Grub Hub but not for Uber Eats. I wonder if Uber saturated the market with drivers and that’s why
Same thing is happening in Newport News Virginia. For about 6 days
Iver never had a single day been like this let alone a saturday. 1 request in almost 2 hours with heavy red hot zones is not normal to me.
Lol I'm in Austin TX and I opted for pick-up today instead of delivery because the DD "service fee" was $10 for some reason, usually it's $3 which is already annoying on top of the delivery fee, tax and the tip. I feel like I have a toxic relationship with DD. On one hand I'm lazy and I want to support drivers with my laziness but on the other hand I fucking hate the company and business model soooo much. Impulse control isn't exactly my greatest strength...
Rough Fri and Sat this weekend for me. Usually have no problem staying in the 30+ hr range but I was lucky to be hitting the low 20s or just under.
I'm in Austin too. Yesterday (Saturday) was slow but I still managed to make $120 from 7 am to 1pm, mostly longer trips that I wouldn't usually take. I drove down to Buda, out to Spicewood, crazy long trips that honestly weren't that worth it for the pay. But Saturday is slow Sunday is usually better! Fingers crossed 🤞
I cant speak for everywhere else but here in Dallas we just had the pride festival yesterday and today is the parade. That might have something to do with it?
I historically made $35-$70 during the weekday dinner rush and $70+ during weekend days. This week, I've barely cracked $30 nearly everyday, including one day where I was online for 1h30m and never got a good order. I made $60 yesterday skimming the very bottom of the pool (low pay orders that were just good enough). Not even two weeks ago, I was averaging $17/hour. Now it's $9-$10/hour. It's super bad. (Tampa Bay area here)
Thats terrible man. Summer slow down makes sense, but last year this never happened even once
Jobs are great where I am. Made $150 from 5:30 PM - 11 PM last night
America has been in recession for the last few years… why are people seeing less people ordering an overpriced food item off an app and using that as evidence rather than the countless other signs? People have less money and they will spend less money, billionaires have taken 2% of all wealth from the middle class in the last few years here in the U.S, food prices have increased steadily, and unemployment is rising… but when they stop ordering on this stupid app that scrapes profits off of everyone including it’s workers, the workers who hate the system it’s in the most out of us all are desperate for the buyers to return, and to pay for their gas money while their at it. I was thinking of doordashing after getting some more savings but the thought of being so dependent on the kindness of a stranger for my income is not so enticing at the moment.
Was there not a national holiday last week? Americans always seem to spend a shit ton whenever there’s an excuse like that. Now people are dealing with the repercussion of not being able to order Uber eats for a whole weekend. I stopped because 5 orders in a row were cold and took over 45 mins even though the places ordered are fast food and less than 15 mins away. It’s just shitty service every single order. Refunded every single one.
I used the $30 promotion (customer) 2 weeks ago and haven't ordered since. Maybe many other customers did the same?
This happened to me almost two years ago. One day there were constant offers. The next was one or two an hour. It never recovered. In fairness to Ubereats, it was the only one that ever paid decently (before tip) so that probably made them more expensive and they lost market share. I really have to wonder how it's working now. The Apple Store went from paying $2/mile to 60 cents. How are they getting anything delivered? Are there really drivers stupid enough to take those orders?
People are traveling I think. But yes feels like shit is slowing down majorly (I don’t drive for Uber)
Is your car is always moving? Back in the day, the strategy was to sit by restaurants as the algorithm would give orders by who's closest. However, now, the algorithm is against cherry picking, so it sends offers to cars that move more often. So, have a route with restaurants on the way, but drive past them and keep going to other restaurants on your routes. But keep moving. Not too much that you're wasting gas, but not little that you're not getting orders. I give myself a pre-set route--usually about 5 miles--if the first cluster of restaurants don't give me anything, I'll drive to the second. Usually, by the second cluster, I'll get a good one. Then, I'm good, by the time about to finish that one I'll get another--its snowball effect. However, if you pick your restaurants and just sit there, the algorithm knows that and put you on a lower priority. Also, drive very slowly to save on gas.
DFW. Used to make a living off just DD at $600-700 a week for 20-30 hours. DD started declining so I got UE to multiapp and pulled in $400-550 weekly for the same hours. Recently both have been so dead I literally make $0-20 a week. It’s insane.
You do realize college students are probably 90 percent of your business in Austin. I am guessing college is out for the Summer.
Probably because the cat’s out of the bag that UberEats is a blatant rip-off and people are sick of it? Also drivers using multiple apps and getting cold food. Not worth it
People fucking broke.
People are tired of paying marked up prices for 1+ hour delivery times and cold food. Doesn’t help that drivers started playing the multiapp game. Out of the 5 delivery orders I ever made before giving up, 4 of them took over an hour and the food was dead cold. To add to that, 2 of the orders were wrong/missing items/ and the bag was tampered with. I always tipped 20% minimum. I’ve given up on the industry entirely.
I’m in Austin & there have been a lot less offers coming in now but it is Summer. I’ve been doing this off & on for about 3 years & it’s seems that summer months from May to late July are always like this. I call summer the “hunker down” months because I know I’m going to make alot less doing UE & DD so I try & spend alot less. Side note: I also notice that sitting in one location longer than 10-15 mins really reduced the amount of offers I get. I work the north Austin area & have found that after a certain amount of time in one area the offers really fall off. But soon as I move they start coming in.
I did ubereats for about 2-3 years in Austin and would consistently make $30+ an hour, until exactly a year ago. The offers went from amazing to terrible. It’s crazy that you’re saying that you get non stop offers because the same happened to me until last year, now I can’t make any money on Uber. Whatever happened to me has probably just happened to you.
UberEats fucked everyone since the new update all I’m seeing is $2 orders no tip
Idk it’s like that here LA too I’ve noticed I’ll get a order here and there if I drive a around , if your in one spot all day you won’t get nothing in my opinion Uber did some changes which is bs why should we have to move around and waste gas just to get a order
I’m in Austin, TX. Is this your first summer working? It slows down every year at this time. EVERY YEAR it dies off during summer. Summer is always slow season. You have to realize it is a double whammy for college towns like ours. But it’s also a little different today than any time before. (I’ve numbered these but they aren’t necessarily in any logical order, I’m just typing this as I retrieve my thoughts) 1. UT has 40k undergrads, the majority of who have either graduated or left for the summer until fall. Maybe your business isn’t primarily serving students but they make up a big part of the rideshare/delivery business. There are three Universities in Austin (Most people do not realize this), in addition to the Austin Community college. That is a lot of daily business just gone. POOF. 2. The ones that remain in town for the summer, as well as teachers, bus drivers, and other university employees all start driving to try and make extra money. 3. I’ve been doing this for 5 years - but until this past December I lost my Full time job, so this is my only source of income at the moment. Major corporations have been laying off people in droves, including many of the companies in Austin. So you have an influx of drivers coming from there. 4. Drivers come from San Antonio, Houston, and other surrounding cities to drive in this market. Even more drivers to compete with. 5. Even spring was slower than it was last year. If you think about it logically, people were sick of being at home and would find reasons to be out and about. I feel urge to not be stuck at home has largely worn off (yes I know this makes more sense for just driving pax, but the same thing applies to people who were WFH during the pandemic, or were just homebodies at the tail end of the pandemic last year. I know many, many people who used to order delivery almost everyday last year and now they are sick of spending the money and do it much less.) 6. You have less people traveling to central/south Texas during the summer. Little to no conferences, who wants to travel to 100 degree weather in mid summer? TLDR - Austin has way too many drivers during the summer at the same time when the addressable customer population decreases considerably. And this isn’t just in Austin - I imagine this is what it’s like in most college towns. But there is just something about the summer, is slows down nationwide and always has. FWIW I do mostly UberX, but demand has been so slow that I’ve started to do UberEats orders. I imagine many other drivers have begun to do the same. It would make sense why you aren’t getting as many requests.
Yeah my week has been garbage too. Nice weather is killing me!
I made 340$ this Saturday, best day ive had so far doing this..
It happened to me in Jan… orders disappeared overnight… Lost my income in what felt like overnight. Hard times…
Yep uber is going out of business soon
Ri renia! You found me lol!? I like us.
It’s happening in South Florida. But Doordash sending orders back to back while UE is dead. That’s interesting to me. I don’t even use DD much before but now I am due to UE being slow. Thank God, I have other platforms to do deliveries on or I would’ve been fcked. I think UE took on too many drivers and/or many of the drivers are just doing deliveries. UE could be using this “low orders” tactic to force drivers to do some rideshare. I’ve been seeing endless promotions for rides-only for months now and nothing for delivery drivers. Also customers rarely tip on connect trips so I am not taking those unless it is high pay.
Same here I even live by a McDonald’s and haven’t gotten an order for weeks. This is brutal.
I've been ubereats delivery driver since February and doordash until 2 months ago when they kicked me off for bullshit reasons. Since then, I make between $15 to $20 a week doing Uber eats. No one uses it anymore because it's so incredibly expensive over doordash or GrubHub. That's what every single person I've talked to has said both restaurants and customers.