Why You’re NOT Getting Orders On Uber Eats

If you drive for Uber Eats why might you not be receiving orders? In this video we take a look at Uber’s official policies and even some research data to answer this question.

🖥Video Timecodes🖥
0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Understanding Three Basics Of The Order Process
1:04 - How Are Delivery Requests Created?
1:57 - Uber Research Data (What’s Considered)
3:42 - What Merchants/Restaurants See
4:03 - Merchant Prep Time & How It Affects Order Flow
4:38 - The Biggest Link Between Merchant & Driver
5:13 - Why Am I Arriving Early To A Restaurant?
6:02 - What If The Restaurant Is Ready Early?
6:12 - Driver Strategy To Optimize The Algorithm
7:10 - Why Your Proximity Matters

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QUESTION - How important do you feel proximity to the restaurant is when driving for Uber Eats (or other apps)? Let us know in the comments section of this video.

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[mike]

Remember when you said at the beginning of video that you didn’t want to waste time? That’s all you did.

[elbauer]

Look. I park in front of 3 restaurants and time goes by and I get no delivery requests. What gets me upset is when I driver coming up to the restaurants to pickup a order. So this theory about hanging near the restaurant doesn't work 100 %

[darrylcarden]

I’ve been doing similar the last few days and it’s worked out really well for me. If I don’t have an order waiting after a drop off, I head to a nearby parking lot that I know is near a good area with busy restaurants and just sit and wait. Usually not too long to see some offers come in. Biggest problem lately is it’s mostly all 2-3 bucks for 6-8 mile fast food orders so having to decline a lot to get to anything with worthy dollar to mile. Thanks for the vids and all the great info! 👍🏻

[justinhenderson]

Key takeaway, hang out near restaurants

[akave]

Uber has been difficult lately and it’s affecting drivers, restaurants and customers. Whenever an issue comes up Uber does not communicate between all parties and it can be pretty frustrating. I’ve had to apologize to so many customers lately for things that are out of my control.

[thebeluvdtrex]

Uber definately throttles the pay for drivers who made "too much" I worked a work week of 12 hours and made $480 thanks to big tippers and at a certain point I stopped getting big orders then eventually stopped getting orders (I mean literally driving around for 30 minutes in a surge zone before getting offered a $5 order). Lets not mention the fact that I get $5 orders while driving in a $3 surge zone. Which means NO TIP and the base pay was TWO DOLLARS. Comon man.

[CharlesGrant-gnie]

I think Uber punishes for declining orders. 80% are about .50 per mile. Which is horrible.

[brittanyschmalfeldt]

I've noticed I keep getting orders for nearby restaurants but the customer is on the opposite side of town and they have the same restaurant closer to them.

[NotSure]

Here’s a non related tip. If a restaurant has an excessive wait time, call support to cancel. It won’t count against you and you’ll get a few bucks for the inconvenience

[georgeguzman]

I got zero delivery the minute the weather got nice. I went from making $120 a day to 0. The past 3 weeks I try the morning, the afternoon and the night. Crazy thing is… I’m not the only one experiencing this. The city I delivered from always busy but now it feels like people are not ordering. I tried other cities near by and nothing. And I’m doing this on an electric bike. I got to see what other gigs I could do other than ubereats.

[Beardyvlogger]

I drove to a hot zone that was paying $3 extra and didn't get served any orders. Yes I hit go lol.

[tracykowald]

Why do I get an order 10 miles away when there is another location of that restaurant closer to the customer ?

[George-nnui]

Uber Eats used to give a great incentive it wasn’t much but if you did 5 deliveries you would get 5 dollars. That adds up each day, 5 times 5, 25 bucks per week, 100 plus per month.

[rappergentile]

I get a lot of orders in my area. The real issue is that Uber pays wayyy too little in base pay per order. If they raised their base pay up by even 2 dollars, that will change the outcome of the amount of orders people decline. I can dream... lol

[jkills]

I can’t speak for everyone but here in California I know a lot of the low pay comes from the fact that Uber is now having to pay both prop 22 and stipend pay. I know they are upset by that and have created ways to make even, I’m seeing a daily $50 decrease compared to what I used to make. Another reason is people are going out more now.

[iansalgado]

Am very sure its due to the fact there's too many drivers and not enough orders to deliver. I strangely enough get more job offers when I'm at home. When i park near restaurants i get zero offers.

[breezyfrogz]

There's definitely something going on with uber eats on both sides, my mom works in a restaurant and she says uber orders used to be hectic and now there's barely any orders

[warmgun]

Uber doesn't give the driver the closest retailer to the customer. For example, I get a delivery from Starbucks to the customer but the Starbucks I'm sent to could be 8 kilometers away from the customer and you know there is Starbucks much closer to the customer so why does Uber not give the order to the closest Starbucks instead of one further away. This drives me nuts.

[davido]

I'm almost certain they throttle deliveries to drivers for too many skipped deliveries and favor drivers who probably drive during their most needed times and accept low paying deliveries. Just to get delivery drivers to start driving people again instead of deliveries.

[boyversusworld]

I think some of the merchants throw off the algorithm by clicking that the order is ready to make it look like it doesn't take them that long to prepare the order. So then it looks bad on the UE driver for not picking up the order when it's marked ready even though the UE driver is standing in the restaurant waiting for the order to be ready. Maybe it's important to mark the order not ready in the UE driver app so that Uber knows the time statistic is off so they don't dispatch a UE driver at that 7 minute mark?