In 2017-2018, friends of mine became delivery cyclists in-between jobs for UberEats and Deliveroo, I also have a friend who went to a local delivery business. D

In 2017-2018, friends of mine became delivery cyclists in-between jobs for UberEats and Deliveroo, I also have a friend who went to a local delivery business. Deliveroo paid best slightly above hourly minimum wage, UberEats pulled the rug from under their drivers when changing from hourly pay to per-delivery pay. The local small business was the worst paying, paid less than minimum hourly wage. Deliveroo and UberEats back then were fine back then as a temporary in-between job or to earn on the side when they were burning through venture capital and fearing strict local European worker rights law. In Brussels, they definitely paid better then many local delivery companies. Now that they are well-established and some European countries have legal frameworks for "the sharing/gig economy", they are squeezing both sides. The delivery workers are pushed by lowering rates, lowering delivery time, unfair algorithmic task asssignments, etc. Restaurants are being squeezed by increased rates. Personally, I try to order straight from the restaurant and I seek out restaurants that employ their own drivers. There are still plenty of those around here, but that number is decreasing.