Do you drive for DoorDash, UberEats, GrubHub?

[crazymomof4]

If you have experience as a driver for these companies, please give me your pro's and con's and about how much you make in a given time frame. TIA!
Edited to add: I'm specifically looking for info on delivering during the day, M-Fri. I live in a suburban area, not rural.

I'm thinking about signing up to be an independent DD, etc driver instead. But I have limited knowledge as to how these work.
Questions: I assume there's an app where drivers see the available deliveries. Do you see what you'd make taking that ahead of time, or do you find out after you've accepted the delivery? Is there a minimum you have to take in a week or month to stay "active"?

Here's my backstory:
For several years, I've been running lunchtime deliveries for a pizza shop one day a week. Just one 4 hr shift. This money goes straight into our vacation fund. It's not a ton of money but it adds up and has helped pay for several great trips to FL and CA
The restaurant owner has signed up with DoorDash, GrubHub and UberEats but he has it set so that his driver takes the delivery. This worked out great for a while but recently he changed policy and is now pocketing the $3 delivery fee that is on DD, GH and UE instead of giving it to the driver.* The result is I'm bringing home $10-$15 less per shift but I'm running just as much.
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* I know a lot of restaurants have taken a hit during Covid, *this* restaurant is NOT one of them. If anything, this business has benefited bc they are primarily delivery and take-out, and always have been.

 

[Disneyfan754321]

I have not been driving this past 9 months or so but I did drive for door dash and postmates.
I stopped driving for them when we moved to south Florida because It paid so little compared to Kansas city. I had a rule dont take any deliveries that pay less than $1 a mile. In KC I would easily get $6-12 runs here in Boca $4-5 and with gas being $ 3.15 a gallon it is not worth it.
So I paid for vacation with just one or two orders a day. I did the math I need to pay Disney roughly 500 a month that came out to 16.66 a day so my goal was 20-25 a day so my gas was covered.
I now only work for Instacart I am getting the same money less driving.
No matter what you do get a notebook and write your mileage down. I was able to write off all my mileage and only owed about $500 in taxes so I was happy. most questions you have can be addressed on reddit/ doordash ( etc) but some of these people are rude.

Oh and dont drive for postmates they dont tell you what you are making untill you are done. Sometimes the money is good but most of the time its crap. Postmates does not contract all the businesses they just add them. So someplaces you just show up and have to order for the customer. I actually had a restaurant refuse service from me telling me they do not do delivery.
The best money I ever made was working football games etc. So unfortunately those hours are Friday nights, Saturday & Sunday

Yes like you I worked the lunch rush as well..
On doordash you take a shift ahead of time or you can grab one during a rush. I like the areas doordash has they are not huge like grubhub was.

If I were you I would look into shipt and instacart.
I pick up one shopping trip with two orders and it pays 20 + and maybe only 6 miles

 

[candy0730]

I did Doordash for the first time last Sunday. I delivered 9 orders and made $58. I worked 10:15am - 1:05pm. It was super easy to get started. During a busy time once you click dash an order will pop up. It will show you how much you will make and how far the delivery is. I declined 11 out of 20 orders because they were too far for too little money. I don’t think there is a minimum amount of orders you need to take to remain an active Dasher. They send me notifications when they are busy so I can dash if I want. I work a full time job Monday-Friday so plan on dashing mostly on the weekends for extra money.

Check out YouTube for helpful videos on dashing.

 

[LilyWDW]

One thing to take into account... your car insurance will require you to carry a commercial policy to do these jobs. If you don't and are in an accident, you will not be covered by your normal policy and may actually end up being dropped by your insurance totally.

 

[JenBush]

I have some friends who do Doordash and Shipt in their free time and they have an app on their phone that they enter how much they make and it tells them how much money to set aside to pay taxes at the end of the year. I don't know what the app is called, but definitely worth looking into if you end up working for Doordash, Shipt, Uber Eats, etc.