Can you make a living delivering takeaway food ?

[DSLiverpool]

My local KFC and McD have a small army of moped driving delivery people hanging around almost any time of the day, I see the main brands charge £2.49 for delivery but surely you could only do 2 an hour? also do the drivers get the £2.49 ? anyone got an insight?

[alorotom]

The drivers do not get the £2.49 or whatever the punter pays for delivery.

Most people do it for cash in hand beer money in my experience. Not as a single income.

[gtsl]

When I first passed my test i used to make 80-130 a night, I kept all the delivery money.

Was good considering my weekly wage wasn't much different to that.

This was for a local take away though. Might have changed.

Tips could be good sometimes too.

[alorotom]

gtsl said:

When I first passed my test i used to make 80-130 a night, I kept all the delivery money.

Was good considering my weekly wage wasn't much different to that.

This was for a local take away though. Might have changed.

Tips could be good sometimes too.

Most foods ordered online via ubereats, just eat, etc... now and the transactions are card based so many delivery people don’t even carry cash at all.

[DSLiverpool]

gtsl said:

When I first passed my test i used to make 80-130 a night, I kept all the delivery money.

Was good considering my weekly wage wasn't much different to that.

This was for a local take away though. Might have changed.

Tips could be good sometimes too.

Surely 3 drops an hour is max - so how ?

[wazztie16]

Have a look on YouTube, there's at least a couple of people who do deliveries for uber eats /deliveroo etc.

[MDMA .]

DSLiverpool said:

gtsl said:

When I first passed my test i used to make 80-130 a night, I kept all the delivery money.

Was good considering my weekly wage wasn't much different to that.

This was for a local take away though. Might have changed.

Tips could be good sometimes too.

Surely 3 drops an hour is max - so how ?

The delivery boxes will have more than 1 order in it. Maybe 5-6 orders. Normal drops would be within a mile or two so easy to drop the 5-6 off within 30 mins. Nip back to the shop and pick up another load. 10-12 drops an hour is possible I would think.

[sparks_190e]

I can't really see how delivering takeaway food is that lucrative when you have income tax and business insurance (if you bother with these) and fuel/wear and tear on the car. Do people tip delivery drivers any more? We have already paid for ours before it arrives and we don't normally have anything to give them

[dimots]

I always tip. £2 minimum.

[burritoNinja]

I use to do it at weekends for a family friend who owned a Chinese takeaway. Would make about £230 for Friday and Saturday. Cash in hand. Though it was getting home from work then doing deliveries from 4.30pm to 1am.

[Gompo]

'Make a living', I'd say you could, but you would have to have fairly low outgoings.

A couple of friends who've done it have made fairly reasonable money, but it's always supplemented another more permanent or rigid income.

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MDMA . said:

The delivery boxes will have more than 1 order in it. Maybe 5-6 orders. Normal drops would be within a mile or two so easy to drop the 5-6 off within 30 mins. Nip back to the shop and pick up another load. 10-12 drops an hour is possible I would think.

10-12 drops would be nigh on impossible, even if all 10 drops lived in the same street. An average of 4 drops an hour is more realistic especially given the amount of time the driver spends going backwards/forwards to the shop.

An acquaintance of mine pays drivers £40 a night if they use the shop vehicle for deliveries, £2 a drop if they’re using their own car.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

I just can't get my head around the whole concept, unless you're housebound or have no transport. It's lazy enough to be getting someone else to cook for you, but to then be too lazy to go and get the food someone else has cooked for you is a laziness step too far for me. I will always pick up my own takeaway.

[ReallyReallyGood]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I just can't get my head around the whole concept, unless you're housebound or have no transport. It's lazy enough to be getting someone else to cook for you, but to then be too lazy to go and get the food someone else has cooked for you is a laziness step too far for me. I will always pick up my own takeaway.

And if you don’t own a car?

[DSLiverpool]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I just can't get my head around the whole concept, unless you're housebound or have no transport. It's lazy enough to be getting someone else to cook for you, but to then be too lazy to go and get the food someone else has cooked for you is a laziness step too far for me. I will always pick up my own takeaway.

Kids in bed, working from home etc everyone’s circumstances differ.

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DSLiverpool said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I just can't get my head around the whole concept, unless you're housebound or have no transport. It's lazy enough to be getting someone else to cook for you, but to then be too lazy to go and get the food someone else has cooked for you is a laziness step too far for me. I will always pick up my own takeaway.

Kids in bed, working from home etc everyone’s circumstances differ.

yep - you could be doing a million other things rather than waiting in the Takeaway.

[sparks_190e]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I just can't get my head around the whole concept, unless you're housebound or have no transport. It's lazy enough to be getting someone else to cook for you, but to then be too lazy to go and get the food someone else has cooked for you is a laziness step too far for me. I will always pick up my own takeaway.

I can't get my head around why you wouldn't want it delivered, we always do if applicable. Not as if I'm lazy, I cover 35-40 miles a week walking at work!

[untakenname]

I can understand proper takeaway like a chinese or curry which will still be hot 15 minutes later but surely the takeaways from Macdonalds/KFC etc... will be stone cold by the time they arrive?

I think it would work as a part time job if you're in an urban area and cycle but insuring a moped for deliveries then accounting for fuel, bike etc... you must only make pennies per drop.

[mrtwisty]

AIUI, it depends on what else you might be delivering to the regular clientele...

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anonymous said:

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Yep utter nonsense isn't it, typical of PH posters who like to adopt an opposing view to the majority to sound quirky or edgy or different or whatever.

He knows exactly why someone might have a takeaway delivered. It's not exactly hard to get ones head around.