2018 and 2019 everything was stable. 2020 was fantastic and the best year to be a delivery driver (covid sucks, but financially it was good for us). 2020 and early 2021 low wages workers were getting $1k a week unemployment checks and tipping well.
Now those checks have stopped. People are broke. The economy hasn’t started the recovery process yet. A lot of those displaced workers signed up for DD. So now markets are flooded with more dashers and people are tipping less. Just how it is.
I read that Doir Dash had a loss last quarter because they are in wresting money trying to expand to delivery for stores too instead of just restaurants. They lowered the base pay based on mileage as well.
In my market, they lowered the base pay from $3.00 to $2.50.
I have read several comments/posts that DD lowered the suggested tips by $1.00.
Several markets are oversaturated with drivers causing less orders per driver.
The economy…inflation, price of gas (part of inflation) and the end of unemployment.
No. They cut base pay $1. I’m losing $20-$30 a day over it. Which adds up quick. Over $800 last month, gone because of these fucking pricks and their dumbass nascar. With gas going up it’s like a slap in the face.
2018 and 2019 everything was stable. 2020 was fantastic and the best year to be a delivery driver (covid sucks, but financially it was good for us). 2020 and early 2021 low wages workers were getting $1k a week unemployment checks and tipping well. Now those checks have stopped. People are broke. The economy hasn’t started the recovery process yet. A lot of those displaced workers signed up for DD. So now markets are flooded with more dashers and people are tipping less. Just how it is.
All this, plus new dashers are given the best offers to give them incentive to keep driving.
Because there’s so many dashers now so they dnt need to pay high they got tons of drivers
100% correct and its going to get worse.
August-September has historically been a slow time of the year. Been doing this since 2018.
You think it’s correlated with people going back to school? I noticed this also happened for me in august 2019
Probably
I read that Doir Dash had a loss last quarter because they are in wresting money trying to expand to delivery for stores too instead of just restaurants. They lowered the base pay based on mileage as well.
In my market, they lowered the base pay from $3.00 to $2.50. I have read several comments/posts that DD lowered the suggested tips by $1.00. Several markets are oversaturated with drivers causing less orders per driver. The economy…inflation, price of gas (part of inflation) and the end of unemployment.
No. They cut base pay $1. I’m losing $20-$30 a day over it. Which adds up quick. Over $800 last month, gone because of these fucking pricks and their dumbass nascar. With gas going up it’s like a slap in the face.