DoorDash Dasher: How To DECLINE Orders (2023 NEW Screen Scenarios)

If you're a DoorDash Dasher consider declining your orders in these 10 common scenarios.

🖥Video Chapters🖥
0:00 - Intro
0:29 - Understanding The Basics (Profitability)
1:13 - High Count Grocery Runs
2:02 - Long Wait Nightmare Spots
2:55 - Mall Food Court Requests
3:42 - Double Negative Stacked Orders
4:33 - Growth Opportunities (Learn Faster, Earn More)
5:20 - No Mans Land Positioning
6:15 - Navigating To Bad Part Of Town
7:25 - Restaurant Grand Opening
8:07 - Late Night Drive Thru Only
8:40 - Too Much Traffic In The Region

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Doordash: Here's a 4 dollar order.
Dasher: Decline - Reason: Order too small.
Doordash: Oh yeah? Here's another order for $2.50

[janileegig]

I always avoid large-quantity grocery orders UNLESS they pay $40+! That way, if it does take me a while shopping the order, it's worth my time. Amazing tips Mike!

[MikaMitenaLives]

I’m at a 27% acceptance rate atm.
I don’t understand why, well I think I do but it’s too long to explain (DoorDash saving money)
Every day DoorDash try’s to send me Very far away in a total opposite direction than I prefer to go. This is a shady, dangerous sorta situation and I’m a lil 50yr old woman. I stay in my safety zone. Also, I find myself wishing I could talk directly to the algorithm and explain the lil Human details that pop into my thoughts as I’m out dashing, that would make it better for my numbers.

[VincentDangerWater]

As a new driver, i am accepting everything.just to learn what I like, what I don't like what's worth it. And just to get a sense of the metrics involved in taking certain types of orders. After a couple of months of doing this, i'm going to have a really good picture of what types of deliveries suit me. But yeah, five hundred plus deliveries, one hundred percent acceptance rating. I do feel like dordash does a good job of giving me high pay deliveries that I really like right after feeding me a bullshit order which obviously nobody else wanted to take.

[mirthfullyminded]

I will not go to Panera in my city. It’s always a mess with 30 people waiting for to gos and delivery, and the employees are so stressed out because of it.

[leep_]

One of my favorite things about my market is how accessible the mall food court is. They have a specific "Order Delivery/Pickup" zone directly next to the staircase that leads directly into the mall food court, creating an insanely high density zone as well as giving very nicely accessible parking.

[legendvalley]

Thanks just got started in a truck that takes to much gas, had 2 good days and one bad. I work in a Lake area with expensive homes. Not many fences few good hott restaurants around, not much traffic and I don't even have to lock my car up most of the time. my new goal is 125. a day. I'm retired and I really enjoy it, ps my Chevy S10 ZR2 had just rolled 300, 000 miles when I started. Thanks for the help :)

[dasherbenj]

Personally in my area there are very few restaurants that are *always* super slow. It seems everybody just has good days and bad days, so it's hard to set a solid blacklist. I recommend, if a restaurant gives three strikes in, say, a week or two, take a break from that restaurant and check in on them again in about a month. Sometimes they're just short staffed for a time, or any number of issues.

[jnlollar]

I have a couple of comments regarding these issues. 1. I live in Auburn, Alabama. During football season, traffic is ridiculous. On game days, there are over 100, 000 extra people in this small town. Especially when the football game is almost over. Traffic lights will be turned off and the cops will be out directing traffic. I have been stopping for over 2 hours on one street, just waiting to turn. All the while, I'm getting messages from Doordash saying, "Oh, it looks like you haven't moved in a while. Do you need assistance?" Or, "It looks like you have no intentions of making this delivery." All sorts of messages like this. I have only made the mistake of trying to deliver down town a couple of times during a game. 2. Doordash has expanded its delivery zone to a community that you described as "dead man zone" or something similar I think. I can't exactly remember. This community is 10-16 miles away from anything. I mean, you are lucky to see a street light. This is rural Alabama I'm talking about. So, I've had this issue maybe 5 times. The customer will put an address that is just inside the delivery zone but put no house number or lot number. So when you get to the road that the GPS takes you to, you know that the customer has been following your location and then they will send you a text with the actual address of their home. It's obviously outside of the delivery zone. If it's just a couple miles on down the road and they call and say they have a nice cash tip, then I'll go ahead and take the order to the customer. But, half of the time when it's a situation like that, the customer actually lives 10 miles or more further on down into thecountry, down dirt, gravel, or mud roads. I stop on the side of the road and call customer service. People will try any way to get their food. Now, you are at least 30 minutes away from anything. I mean...nothing. So, now I've wasted an hour to and hour and a half for nothing. That's just drive time. Not including time at a drive through or waiting inside a restaurant. I could go on but I think I've typed a lot. If, you guys read this, let me know if you have similar situations. Especially if where you live gets really "rural" just a couple miles outside of town.

[ragsrichesstevens]

Mike your videos have help me with dude hustles out so munch ty for all the work u put into this

[Jasonsgt]

New to dashing. Started for the first time this Friday. Took most orders Friday and Saturday and tried 2 different markets. Sunday went to the market I went to Friday and cherry picked for better dollar to mileage ratio. My rating dropped to 49%. But made more money the previous 2 nights.

[mofosoto]

I always calculate the return mileage into the trip.

[bigc]

Ever since they’ve started this earn by order/earn by time format in my area, DoorDash has completely died off for me. Before that, they were my number one app by far. If I did $200 in a day, DoorDash usually accounted for at least $160 of it. Now I’m doing $40-$50 in 7 hours. Yesterday I did $56.50 in 8 hours. It’s completely dried up.

I haven’t done the earn by time thing yet, just the normal earn by order. I’m working on an intersection that has 56 different stores and restaurants to pick up from. One on intersection. That intersection is surrounded by 25, 000+ homes and apartments in a 5 mile radius. I go 20-30 minutes at a time in between offers sometimes. It’s real common for that to happen now. I don’t know what the hell is going on.

[drewwhezzy]

If your in Visalia/Tulare area avoid Wing Stop. I don't care what your accpentce rate is or how much the order is, your gonna wait at least 20 mins or more. They're horrible.

[RickyIcecubes]

I'm in Dayton, OH and you can't cherry pick anymore, at least not to the degree you could just a couple weeks ago. If your acceptance rate is below 50% you wont get any orders above $5 during lunch and dinner rush.

[DriftingMunki]

Waited almost 45 minutes at a restaurant because DD wanted me to unassign myself and take the hit. I refused to and let the orders become late. They also hit me mid wait to say “hey, you should consider trying hourly pay, you could get paid for waiting right now” 🙄 manipulation! lol

[GoldenEagle]

Decline or Ignore, Which one will effect. the points ? Aslo prefer the pay always to be a double the distance so when I back to my spot it likes getting another order to my main spot . .

[instantchow]

Very informative for consumers of gig delivery services. After being burned by two initial food deliveries, I'll probably never use them again (terrible quality, wrong food, no recourse) and it sounds like gig workers are also being burned...

[WhatIsTheMeta]

Dashing through 2020 through 2023 on, and off, pre during and post pandemic, has had his ups and downs.
I live in Columbus Georgia and with food pricing on the rise it's getting a bit harder to get orders that are in dense areas and not pulling me away from those dents areas.
They're a lot of foods coming out of those dense areas but not a lot of food food places outside those dense areas going back into those areas.
From this video, positioning is the most important for me if I'm doing Per Order and not Per Hour.

[timwoody]

I heard you mentioned your market in PA was 12.50 per hrs on the base pay mode. Its 9NLY 7.50 here in the Greensboro / Winston Salem NC market. Just foe tour records.