Why It's NOT Realistic To Make 200$-300$ Per Day Doing Food Delivery

When it comes to food delivery services, a lot of delivery drivers want to know how to make 200$ a day doing food delivery or how to make 300$ a day being a Uber Eats driver but is that even a realistic option ? In this video I talk about how it's not realistic to make 200-300$ a day doing food delivery services and I give a list of reasons on why it's even hard to make some money doing food delivery services food time. It's one thing to have food delivery as a side hustle, it's another thing to think you will make big money off of this when sometimes...that is far from the truth.

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[TheRussRyde]

Hi Ash, I’m in Ventura County north of Los Angeles. I think your assessment is accurate. I work daytime. I catch lunch rush it not breakfast or dinner due to my availability. I am happy to make $100 before expenses. There are times I make much more but those aren’t regular and they have been getting fewer as time goes on. I also agree if you work 12 hours or take breaks and work all peak mealtimes then you can earn a lot more. This is tough to be sustainable though because we need rest and our vehicles do too. Russ

[summersunset]

Thanks a lot Ash! Love your honesty and keeping it real

[UraniumMilk]

You're exactly right. I've done this since 2017, I only consistency made $200-300 per day during the pandemic, like right after they shut everything down and restaurants were only allowed to do delivery. As for here in 2023 I will say there are small geographic pockets and times I know of where I can realistically make $150-200 on Sunday and Saturday working 10-12 hours. Obviously I'm not keen to share this info, but I'll just give a general advice to look for clusters of restaurants around country clubs and gated communities. 🙂

[homebaseincome]

I appreciate a realist. I'm a young 55-year-old female and usually work 12:00 pm till 7:00 pm four days a week. I don't rush, I do cherry pick, and usually complete an errand for myself. I live in Long Island, New York. I average $125.00.

[MooreMoney]

I think it depends on the market as you mentioned. I tested doing Uber eats for my investing channel and in the Toronto market you can average about $25 to $30 per hour. BUT you're working the dinner/graveyard shift like you mentioned in the video. Some days you will have to go over 8 hours to crack $200 also. Also the test was 2 years ago, and ALOT has changed, I'm sure the pay has declined as you have mentioned on your channel many times.

[jimrudolph]

I agree. I do Uber Eats part-time and I work in Montreal as well. My hours are weekdays, 6-8 pm, Saturday off and Sunday 11 am-6 pm. Usually on the weekdays, on that 2 hrs shift, I make between $20 - $40. Sometimes I do get more if I come across a generous tipper, but I’m just saying in general. On Sunday, $150-$190. The disadvantage on the weekdays is that I’m limiting myself to that small time slot. I’m just doing it to cover the cost of inflation, also I live 2 blocks from all the restaurants, so I’m basically just working close to home on the weekdays since I don’t accept any trips more than 5 km. On weekend, I will go maximum 8 km if there are restaurants close to the drop off area.I know it’s not a lot of money, but I kind of enjoy driving around and by doing deliveries, I get paid to do it. Let’s just say, these food deliveries apps are the only one making the real money. The restaurants need to pay a fee to test apps and the delivery person rely on the tips for most of their pay.

[teri]

I mostly do from 8 PM or 10 PM to 4 AM and I can meet $150-$200 a night. But sometimes Monday and Tuesday are not the greatest but then I start too late on those days and I can make $80-$100 with Uber I’ll give me an example of my like my hours are not consistent I go as I feel because I do have some health issues but it’s amazing how I’m doing regardless. In a weeks time I average 800 to just under 1100 a week and that’s not even pushing myself and that’s doing anywhere from 40 to 48 hours a week, whether it’s over a four day. Or seven day. But not full hours each day. Of course it varies with me. I don’t have consistency one thing. I am consistent of those like mostly Uber in the evenings to early mornings.

I’m also located in Toronto and the area that I live is a nice area but for some reason the other areas light up a lot more around me than my own area unfortunately. But I suppose my own area I feel safer yes; but not to say that I don’t venture out into other areas, especially during the day if I start, and sometimes I may start their time once a week maybe during the day or if I start early evening or late afternoon then I end up in other areas but I always come back to my own area and then end up going further away and sometimes I stay there in the other area because to come back it’s just not worth it with the pay that I got. That’s what I feel so I might do a few, other deliveries in that area and try to find something to bring me back. But for me it’s quite lucrative in Toronto. And I am well equipped for safety stuff just in case but so far so good and I’ve been doing this since April 2023 and full-time I jumped into it full-time. I keep hearing that September October, November, December, February March, April May are the busy times so I hope to be making really good money as I need it so and right now I’ll do it double work if I can just to get my expenses down that Covid caused, I owe lots of money and credit cards but now with Uber, my primary source of income I feel confident that I’ll be able to succeed at least in a year or year and a half to have everything paid off maybe by two years.

The maximum I made was $360 300 of it was with Uber and 60 with DoorDash. But I’m quite comfortable and confident to just stick with Uber. I really don’t need to do all the extra stuff extra gigs and not just sad if there’s any problems I constantly call them to note it so that way I’m covered and I won’t be deactivated, but you do lose time doing that on the phone or through chat with Uber support. But I do find their support quite helpful. I mean there’s the Adam Uber agent that might not be that great but so you just start over with another one. And you asked for a supervisor

And again I always communicate you know like things that happened to my car and why I refuse the lowball orders request that they send constantly just to help them to see I tell them all the expenses I have on my vehicle. I tell them the accident that I had on my vehicle where once my oil pan I went slowly over crater on the delivery that I was on And I went through the back alley and this is in a nice neighbourhood and I went so slow but the crater was so deep that it punctured a hole in my oil pan and I was very fortunate that my car was designed where the motor didn’t have to be lift it out to replace the oil pan so it only cost me $1000. Mind you I could have sued the property But I just don’t have the time or effort and the money that I’m making it’s just worth just to get it out of my hair as expression goes.

And now knowing that there’s disability insurance coverage for delivery people, I don’t know if all the other ones have it too but you can pay per kilometre it’s like .08 cents and I just did another comment on that under this video. So you can look under questions and answers you know accident benefits, or whatever there’s like survivor benefits it’s quite amazing what is actually available and actually in the states I’m sure this is applicable to Canada to but in 2023 California now is automatically covered under that for free and then there’s optional ones that they could still get like it’s phenomenal where this is all going. So if you’re injured you’ve got medical expenses it’s covered and you can’t work they pay you up to a maximum of $500 a week because of the accident or whatever like if you die survivor benefits God forbid, pharmacy, so medication‘s, which I would personally stay away from seeing I almost died from an antibiotic more than 10 years ago, and I have lots of permanent damages, sicknesses and diseases just from taking nine Cipro antibiotic, pills and fluoroquinolone family of drugs always watch what the doctor prescribed you. If you don’t if you’ve never had it, I would do my research and Everly and the best thing is to do your research and Facebook to Google and see how many victim groups there are if there is a victim groups for medication, stay away from it but there’s many resources to check for that anyway, sorry off-topic a bit.

So it’s quite interesting that there really this gig work is turning more and more professional to protect the driver. It doesn’t say about other people being protected that are outside of Uber. You know so you have an accident it was your fault no, I don’t. That’s totally different ballgame that I guess falls under our own insurance which in Canada stinks from what I’m understanding and I did talk to an agent insurance agent a friend of a friend. There’s really no coverage the best coverage that you can get is if your Uber driver with people there is insurance and you can ask Uber which insurance companies have auto insurance for Uber drivers not Uber eats. There’s no coverage for Uber eats drivers. Unfortunately not yet.

[simoor]

I really love your videos. I can relate to everything you said and I’m in New Jersey. 300 usd is completely out of the question, $200 is still possible but you need to put in a lot of hours and you need some luck as well. Most of your time will be just waiting around for the right offer.

[carlacameron]

I live in Hamilton. You can’t make that amount here anymore. During the pandemic it was possible but you would have to work almost 12 hours. Things have gotten really bad here. We are not even making minimum wage here anymore with Uber Eats. I am looking for a new part time job.

[angelita]

Hi Ash I live in Australia. I work 11am-8pm and nearly always make $200+. When ubereats has good quests it is closer to $250-$300. I usually work Mondays and Fridays. In our after xmas slowdown, that amount will easily halve tho 😢

[ankurkool]

I never did 8 hours, Lately I’ve been doing 5 hours and make about 85-110$$ I do dinner and late night shift.

[GTQcNumber]

If you add UberX like me now and deliveries then yes, 200 to $300 per day is doable but at the same time you’ll still gonna stay online a long time. In Sherbrooke they are pushing more promos uberX

[hebrewsvs]

There is something to be said for contentment. Take care of the kid when you can, Because you are blessed with that time.

[thefuzzman]

I just about guarantee you're not making that much in my market. Maybe if you multi-app and do it for over 12 hours per day, maybe it's possible, but I have doubts even at that. I did it full-time (about 10 hours per day using only DoorTrash) for a while and I was getting about $120-150 per day. Now I'm doing it part-time now (possible due to different living arrangements) and I make about $50-75 per day for 3-4 hours "on the clock". I work in part of the North Little Rock, Arkansas (it's kind of butterfly shaped, and I work the better part) market. I don't do Little Rock itself due to it being a large area, and it's fairly low-income residents. Meaning low, if any, tips. That's my experience anyways. Awesome video, Ash, and no, I'm not offended after all lol

[SAHLINROB]

I was making between 200 and 300 (about an average of 240) consistently in Silverthorn Colorado (a resort area), during the winter ski season and the summer tourist season (ski season is the best) and in South Denver during the "off seasons." However, they were long days; 12-13 hours, from about 8AM to 9-10PM. This was with Doordash, exclusively.

[raheelsiddiquei]

When thr avg trip is 4 to 6 bucks a delivery, you will be lucky even to make 100 after gas. Also at nights, few places are open and 95 percent is McDonald's which means that long long time to go drive thru to pick order up.

[jamesskinner]

It depends on your market. I make between $80.00 to $100.00 in 5 hours. So it's realistic to make $200.00 in an 8 to 10 hour period. I'm in the Racine, Wisconsin area and I mostly do a 10-3 shift.

[JanJanInfinity]

This needed to be said, Ash. I come across the bait titles of shoppers making $80.00+ doing delivery apps but it isn’t from one single app though.

[AnonymousBS_X]

I'm in AZ. $200 requires 10-12 hours. But that's before $30 in gas. Most are $2-$5 offers going long miles. I don't take the low offers period. If I did it'd be more like $10 an hour. Doesn't matter which app. Delivery gig work is not worth it anymore.

[TheRussRyde]

Additionally, I’ve noticed the service fees on UberEats are crazy. Look what the customer gets charged just to use the platform. In many instances I can understand why the customer doesn’t tip because they could easily assume that the driver gets most of the money. How are service fees in your area? This could be a good topic to explore in a future video? Russ