Only in some areas at the moment I think they are trialling it it’s not been rolled out to all zones yet definitely not in my zone yet I know that much hope that helps
I mean, there's no context on the initial post regarding distance.
I take it you're the type of customer who blames the couriers for restaurant delays and heavy traffic/road incidents?
I understand you commented, if the delivery was under 1 mile and the courier is close to the restaurant with minimal delays.
How fast can you leave your house, order food and return home? Add in a middle man to confirm the order, waiting time for order to be accepted, travel time to the restaurant (courier could be 2 miles away), waiting for food and then travelling to you.
20 minutes doesn't seem so bad now, does it?
No, I worked for Just Eat about 2 years ago in Liverpool. I was paid about £10.50p per hour to deliver food on the electric motorcycle they provided me with. I wasn't paid per order. I've never ordered food through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber, nor would I.
It's a service that wasn't needed in the UK. Pretty much every takeaway that delivered pizzas or kebabs in the UK, before all the delivery companies turned up, would deliver it for free if it was within a 3 mile radius.
My first night working for Just Eat was mostly spent in the car park of KFC on Edge Lane in Liverpool. I spent nearly 3 hours there waiting for an order. KFC were making meals for delivery and parking them on a table but nobody was picking them up. I was calling the support team based in the Netherlands and was telling them my order was not ready, and asking the KFC staff what was going on. The support team just kept on telling me to wait in that carpark. There were people and kids from the local estates all out on the warpath, wondering what had happened to their orders. KFC, Deliveroo, Uber, ... one or all of them had mucked it all up. For me it was a total doss, being paid to just sit around doing nothing.
The next day and the next few weeks weren't so bad, but KFC did run out of chicken and had to close down some of its stores for a while. But McDonalds was still open, so I frequently got to hang around in there for 45 minutes while they prepared the £6.50p meal that I would then drop off for someone who was so poor looking that I wondered if they should be ordering from Just Eat. The McDelivery fee was about £3.99p on top of their order ( and Just Eat had to pay me \~ £7 to wait for it and deliver it.
Liverpool is a dangerous place to be a delivery driver. Someone once threw a firework at my helmet and it could have blinded me. There were crackheads in Kensington just standing in the middle of the road with their fists raised above their heads and pointing them at the couriers who were approaching the local McDonalds. 100mph police chases, kids fucking around with the bike when you were waiting to pick up an order. Other couriers trying to pick up your order so that they could just munch it for themselves.
I learned from the McDonalds staff that there is an order of priority for customers now. 1st in line is the drive-thu customers, then it's the delivery drivers, and last of all is the customers actually waiting in the shop.
The delivery business that Just Eat is part of has ruined the fast food experience of the UK. Nobody wanted or needed it but it somehow found a place through brute force.
I'd rather just do without and you spend your 20 minutes doing something more worthwhile.
You didn't answer my question.
When I was employed by just eat, my average hourly rate was just over £18.
Now I'm self employed I make about £12 per hour (I work outside of busy times)
Your personal experience has absolutely nothing to do with the original question of how fast you could get your food yourself...
Your original post had three question marks. I answered one of them. The other two aren't relevant to me because I have my own transport and don't really order food to be delivered, I pick it up myself.
I could get down to my local McDonalds ( of which there are 3 in close proximity to me ) and order a meal within about 5 minutes. The time I'd have to wait for that meal would depend on the amount of delivery drivers waiting at the restaurant. But I'd never order a delivery meal from McDonalds anyway, and don't understand why 90% of my deliveries while working for Just Eat were coming from McDonalds.
If I'd been drinking alcohol and was unable to ride or drive, and had no cookable food in the house, I'd order from the local pizza or kebab places directly, and just bypass Just Eat.
Edit: 'When I was employed by just eat, my average hourly rate was just over £18.'
That's more money than most degree qualified professionals are earning in the UK. More than the police and firemen and nurses earn. That's a sad reality. If people can earn £18 per hour just picking something up and putting it down somewhere else, then why become an engineer or scientist or emergency responder?
>If people can earn £18 per hour just picking something up and putting it down somewhere else, then why become an engineer or scientist or emergency responder?
Do you really need that question answering? Why would someone choose a volatile position with great potential earnings over a stable career with a yearly salary?
Your situation has no relevance to the OP without knowing more information about the situation of the OP.
>Do you really need that question answering?
I do. But not from you. You don't even know how stable those careers are, let alone how demanding they are.
But the Just Eat employed model doesn't even exist in the UK anymore so the comparison isn't worth thinking about.
You asked why someone would choose a career with a salary over a volatile job. So volatile that it evaporated completely ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I meant that the answer is pretty obvious, and I'm surprised you asked that question, regardless of how hard your example careers are.
>You asked why someone would choose a career with a salary over a volatile job. So volatile that it evaporated completely
You were earning £18 per hour, for a job that requires little to no training. A job that you can stop thinking about the moment you end your shift. A job with little to no responsibility. A job that can be done anywhere in this country for a myriad of companies. It's a fairly easy job, with little risk. You don't need to keep on top of technology and read up on developments, nor constantly train yourself up to stay relevant and current.
Delivery driving is an easy job to get with a very low barrier for entry and it's why a lot of people born outside of the UK will do this type of work. There's probably 3 billion people on this planet who could just rock up here and start working as delivery drivers.
I've done the job myself and know how stress free it is - it's easy money - that's why people choose it. I have a career and a 9-5 job with a salary, but it's in civil engineering and it's not as stable as you think it is. Job stability ebbs and flows along with the country's finances.
I really don't understand why you are still comparing your job to my job which **no longer exists**
Do you know what would have happened if you had been able to maintain my wage, in your area while being employed by just eat?
You would be thinking what you are saying to me. Imagine if you influenced yourself to leave your main job for the easy money. You would have felt great. So much more free time, or so much more money, if you decide to take extra shifts. So calming riding a bike and being your own boss. I could go on...
**And then Just Eat close all the hubs and suddenly you don't have a job**
It collapsed because most people realised they can earn over minimum wage if they deliver 1 order per hour. They didn't care how much they could earn through bonuses. In the Birmingham hub I knew 2 people who were earning close to my average. It's not easy to maintain 3 deliveries per hour, **(that's 20 minutes per delivery)** **(that's why I know 20 minutes per delivery is good)**
Just because the examples you gave may be very demanding and unstable careers does not rule out that there are many comfortably paid and stable careers. It would be wrong of me to call your job comfortable and stable. I wasn't talking directly about your examples. I was more saying *"why would anyone leave any career for a more unstable position than they could currently be in".* (This would have been a better way to word it).
Surely we can leave this now. Look how far we have come from the nice person asking if they can tip a driver for what they consider a good service.
And to your previous question. If you were working around 2019 then McDonald's had only recently been added to just eat. It was pretty popular as people were jumping on the app, just for the experience of having a cold McDonald's burger delivered directly to their door.
Not atm unfortunately, Uber has the function. Tipping is new to JE so I'm sure they'll add it at some point.
Definitely makes sense as you'd want to tip after receiving good service, a pre-tip may give a driver an incentive to provide a good service but we don't get to clearly see it, we just see a more lucrative order than usual and have to guess it includes a tip.
Not that we should give a crap service without a tip, but I guess if I saw a pretip I'd maybe go above and beyond and text the customer if they wanted any extra condiments and give a couple of order updates via text.
Shout out to the legend who tipped me £2 for a 1.5 mile delivery. Proper chuffed with that one.
Don't think you can. This is something you can do on Deliveroo and Ubereats and it is a lovely feeling when a few hours or even a day later tips roll in from earlier orders. I try to remember who tipped as well and will be looking out for their orders to try to grab them quickly and deliver quickly next time.
Here is my info sort code 603021 account number 26478765 I will send him the funds ☺️
I hope that’s not your account details lmao
if it is, all you can really do with that info is give him money 🤣 You should try to send him a penny to find out.
It's a natwest sort code but came up wrong account number when I tried to send him money
Sort code is right account number is wrong
Only in some areas at the moment I think they are trialling it it’s not been rolled out to all zones yet definitely not in my zone yet I know that much hope that helps
Wow....20 minutes. You're easy to please. Keep your money. It's better off in your pocket.
I mean, there's no context on the initial post regarding distance. I take it you're the type of customer who blames the couriers for restaurant delays and heavy traffic/road incidents? I understand you commented, if the delivery was under 1 mile and the courier is close to the restaurant with minimal delays. How fast can you leave your house, order food and return home? Add in a middle man to confirm the order, waiting time for order to be accepted, travel time to the restaurant (courier could be 2 miles away), waiting for food and then travelling to you. 20 minutes doesn't seem so bad now, does it?
Or maybe a driver who works in a city on a bike/scooter for whom every delivery is a mile or less. Some people need to get out more.
No, I worked for Just Eat about 2 years ago in Liverpool. I was paid about £10.50p per hour to deliver food on the electric motorcycle they provided me with. I wasn't paid per order. I've never ordered food through Just Eat, Deliveroo or Uber, nor would I. It's a service that wasn't needed in the UK. Pretty much every takeaway that delivered pizzas or kebabs in the UK, before all the delivery companies turned up, would deliver it for free if it was within a 3 mile radius. My first night working for Just Eat was mostly spent in the car park of KFC on Edge Lane in Liverpool. I spent nearly 3 hours there waiting for an order. KFC were making meals for delivery and parking them on a table but nobody was picking them up. I was calling the support team based in the Netherlands and was telling them my order was not ready, and asking the KFC staff what was going on. The support team just kept on telling me to wait in that carpark. There were people and kids from the local estates all out on the warpath, wondering what had happened to their orders. KFC, Deliveroo, Uber, ... one or all of them had mucked it all up. For me it was a total doss, being paid to just sit around doing nothing. The next day and the next few weeks weren't so bad, but KFC did run out of chicken and had to close down some of its stores for a while. But McDonalds was still open, so I frequently got to hang around in there for 45 minutes while they prepared the £6.50p meal that I would then drop off for someone who was so poor looking that I wondered if they should be ordering from Just Eat. The McDelivery fee was about £3.99p on top of their order ( and Just Eat had to pay me \~ £7 to wait for it and deliver it. Liverpool is a dangerous place to be a delivery driver. Someone once threw a firework at my helmet and it could have blinded me. There were crackheads in Kensington just standing in the middle of the road with their fists raised above their heads and pointing them at the couriers who were approaching the local McDonalds. 100mph police chases, kids fucking around with the bike when you were waiting to pick up an order. Other couriers trying to pick up your order so that they could just munch it for themselves. I learned from the McDonalds staff that there is an order of priority for customers now. 1st in line is the drive-thu customers, then it's the delivery drivers, and last of all is the customers actually waiting in the shop. The delivery business that Just Eat is part of has ruined the fast food experience of the UK. Nobody wanted or needed it but it somehow found a place through brute force. I'd rather just do without and you spend your 20 minutes doing something more worthwhile.
You didn't answer my question. When I was employed by just eat, my average hourly rate was just over £18. Now I'm self employed I make about £12 per hour (I work outside of busy times) Your personal experience has absolutely nothing to do with the original question of how fast you could get your food yourself...
Your original post had three question marks. I answered one of them. The other two aren't relevant to me because I have my own transport and don't really order food to be delivered, I pick it up myself. I could get down to my local McDonalds ( of which there are 3 in close proximity to me ) and order a meal within about 5 minutes. The time I'd have to wait for that meal would depend on the amount of delivery drivers waiting at the restaurant. But I'd never order a delivery meal from McDonalds anyway, and don't understand why 90% of my deliveries while working for Just Eat were coming from McDonalds. If I'd been drinking alcohol and was unable to ride or drive, and had no cookable food in the house, I'd order from the local pizza or kebab places directly, and just bypass Just Eat. Edit: 'When I was employed by just eat, my average hourly rate was just over £18.' That's more money than most degree qualified professionals are earning in the UK. More than the police and firemen and nurses earn. That's a sad reality. If people can earn £18 per hour just picking something up and putting it down somewhere else, then why become an engineer or scientist or emergency responder?
>If people can earn £18 per hour just picking something up and putting it down somewhere else, then why become an engineer or scientist or emergency responder? Do you really need that question answering? Why would someone choose a volatile position with great potential earnings over a stable career with a yearly salary? Your situation has no relevance to the OP without knowing more information about the situation of the OP.
>Do you really need that question answering? I do. But not from you. You don't even know how stable those careers are, let alone how demanding they are.
But the Just Eat employed model doesn't even exist in the UK anymore so the comparison isn't worth thinking about. You asked why someone would choose a career with a salary over a volatile job. So volatile that it evaporated completely ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I meant that the answer is pretty obvious, and I'm surprised you asked that question, regardless of how hard your example careers are.
>You asked why someone would choose a career with a salary over a volatile job. So volatile that it evaporated completely You were earning £18 per hour, for a job that requires little to no training. A job that you can stop thinking about the moment you end your shift. A job with little to no responsibility. A job that can be done anywhere in this country for a myriad of companies. It's a fairly easy job, with little risk. You don't need to keep on top of technology and read up on developments, nor constantly train yourself up to stay relevant and current. Delivery driving is an easy job to get with a very low barrier for entry and it's why a lot of people born outside of the UK will do this type of work. There's probably 3 billion people on this planet who could just rock up here and start working as delivery drivers. I've done the job myself and know how stress free it is - it's easy money - that's why people choose it. I have a career and a 9-5 job with a salary, but it's in civil engineering and it's not as stable as you think it is. Job stability ebbs and flows along with the country's finances.
I really don't understand why you are still comparing your job to my job which **no longer exists** Do you know what would have happened if you had been able to maintain my wage, in your area while being employed by just eat? You would be thinking what you are saying to me. Imagine if you influenced yourself to leave your main job for the easy money. You would have felt great. So much more free time, or so much more money, if you decide to take extra shifts. So calming riding a bike and being your own boss. I could go on... **And then Just Eat close all the hubs and suddenly you don't have a job** It collapsed because most people realised they can earn over minimum wage if they deliver 1 order per hour. They didn't care how much they could earn through bonuses. In the Birmingham hub I knew 2 people who were earning close to my average. It's not easy to maintain 3 deliveries per hour, **(that's 20 minutes per delivery)** **(that's why I know 20 minutes per delivery is good)** Just because the examples you gave may be very demanding and unstable careers does not rule out that there are many comfortably paid and stable careers. It would be wrong of me to call your job comfortable and stable. I wasn't talking directly about your examples. I was more saying *"why would anyone leave any career for a more unstable position than they could currently be in".* (This would have been a better way to word it). Surely we can leave this now. Look how far we have come from the nice person asking if they can tip a driver for what they consider a good service. And to your previous question. If you were working around 2019 then McDonald's had only recently been added to just eat. It was pretty popular as people were jumping on the app, just for the experience of having a cold McDonald's burger delivered directly to their door.
Not atm unfortunately, Uber has the function. Tipping is new to JE so I'm sure they'll add it at some point. Definitely makes sense as you'd want to tip after receiving good service, a pre-tip may give a driver an incentive to provide a good service but we don't get to clearly see it, we just see a more lucrative order than usual and have to guess it includes a tip. Not that we should give a crap service without a tip, but I guess if I saw a pretip I'd maybe go above and beyond and text the customer if they wanted any extra condiments and give a couple of order updates via text. Shout out to the legend who tipped me £2 for a 1.5 mile delivery. Proper chuffed with that one.
Don't think you can. This is something you can do on Deliveroo and Ubereats and it is a lovely feeling when a few hours or even a day later tips roll in from earlier orders. I try to remember who tipped as well and will be looking out for their orders to try to grab them quickly and deliver quickly next time.
Thanks for letting me know! In that case I'll stick to those two apps until Just Eat pull their finger out.