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Uber Eats is simply horrendous. Think about this. You get pinged to pick up some food for someone. You don’t start the meter until you pick up the food to deliver it. Most people don’t order food from outside of their neighborhood. So you get pinged, drive 17 to 30 minutes to a specific restaurant, the food is not ready when you arrive so you ave to wait another 5 minutes. Or if the food is ready, it’s cold by the time it gets to the customer. You drive maybe five minutes from the restaurant to the address. And you rarely get a tip. At night, this would entail a trip to McDonalds, where there is a line of cars and the slowest fast food workers in the city. You drive 17 minutes, wait 45 minutes in line to pickup the food, (all the while not getting paid) then you drive to the address all for a 3.50 payment and no tip.

Amazon flex is better for deliveries. You can work when you decide but there the blocks are between 1 to 4 hours and you know up front what you are making per hour. Except when you finish you may have to return the package to the station, You don’t get paid for this if your block finishes. They tell you to count on delivering 15 packages per hour. Sometimes they will go over that and sometimes you will go under. I have delivered one package in a 4-hour block and got paid for the full four hours. Unless it is a package delivery, where i pick up the packages then do my route, I don’t go the stores.

You can make 50K gross. However, that is reduced by expenses and is tax-deductible.

Here is something I see in the future for densely populated neighborhoods: Mobile Restaurants on wheels.

For example, a pizzeria might purchase an RV-sized vehicle and configure it with a a full-sized pizza oven. Maybe even a brick oven, complete with venting to the roof.

As the pizza chefs make their pizza, the vehicle is driving around the neighborhood taking orders via mobile app of nearby residents. They will have an onboard delivery person who will take the finished pizzas and deliver them house to house as the "pizza van" cruises by.

I think the biggest sticking point is getting permits to have a travelling kitchen. But they already kind of do it with food trucks (that park before they cook the food). They just need to find a way to cook while in motion.