When I used to deliver pizza, I received minimum wage, and tips, and 75 cents per delivery. This was in 1990. When I wasn't driving, I was grating cheese, or

When I used to deliver pizza, I received minimum wage, and tips, and 75 cents per delivery. This was in 1990. When I wasn't driving, I was grating cheese, or folding boxes, or cleaning. There were always slow times during the shift for this work. I had a used car, and as a teenager, and later as an adult in college, the job paid quite well at the time. Tips on busy nights would double or triple my wage. Drivers can very much make a good wage delivering pizza! This is because a traditional pizza place only delivers within a certain range, has its own drivers, and each driver(when busy) can take 2 to 5 orders, and deliver them in an optimal route. As a driver, you get very, very good at driving your neighborhood, knowing all the slow and fast spots, and the best route to deliver 4 orders in one trip optimally. I'd often deliver 20 pizzas an hour on Friday nights, all hot, all fresh! Yet an uber driver delivers for a dozen companies, each to different places, may drive miles to get to each company, then drive that single order to the customer. Uber drivers cannot optimize the same way. Just the fact that when idle, I did work (so not a loss for the company), yet when a pizza popped out I was there, ready!.. is an optimization uber eats loses at. Idle for them is a loss. Uber eats, all external delivery services are the worst. If your main business is delivery(pizza), you are nuts to even allow them to pick up at your establishment.