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Ancedotally (I don't have a ton of concrete details here): 1. From what I understand restaurants doing delivery largely were breaking even on it considering th
by jcdavis 6y ago
Ancedotally (I don't have a ton of concrete details here):
1. From what I understand restaurants doing delivery largely were breaking even on it considering the costs - there was no third party looking to take 20-30% of the gross.
2. Again anecdotally, I suspect the old school pizza/chinese delivery places are more efficient in terms of deliveries per driver per hour. What I see with a lot of UberEats/Grubhub etc is drivers waiting a lot at restaurants, bouncing around a bunch to pick up one or 2 orders each. Vs the old-school pizza model of a driver being able to pick up a bunch of orders at once.
- kiwidrew 6y ago> the old school pizza/chinese delivery places are more efficient in terms of deliveries per driver per hour Precisely this! It's amazingly inefficient to dedicate an entire person (and their 1000kg car) for the delivery of a single 2kg takeaway meal. Uber tries to "solve" the problem by giving drivers two orders at the same time, but their implementation is terrible: 1. Sometimes the restaurant doesn't have both orders ready at the same time, so one of the orders is growing cold and soggy. 2. Uber's dispatch system has such a strong preference for batching deliveries together that a driver will often get assigned two orders that are going in opposite directions from the restaurant! 3. The high-volume restaurants (like McDonald's) have managed to exempt themselves from the double-delivery system [for the obvious reason that customers hate getting cold food!].