DoorDash Driver: How to Select Orders 

Dam dude! Nice!

Got a 4 mile $26 stacked order 2 stops.

I got one today 👍

Got a 30$ double 3.5 miles

You gonna be paying 10 back in Texas 🤣

Like 2% of the time

They deliberately make the miles a very small font and the pay very large

I've learned to always look at the distance first, the hard way too

I just started driving and I’m learning that I need to look at the details first.

Id accept 5$ all day for 2 miles

Same !

EVERY SINGLE POPEYES IN MY CITY IS SOOOO SLOW. I can’t stand it 😩😩😩

I blacklisted Popeyes and one McDonalds location. They are short handed and the drive thru can take up to 20 minutes! I also decline big Red Card shopping trips when it’s peak time or after dark or almost bed time. I also need to be prepared for those orders in case it’s safe to take it.

for me, I always choose if its $4/ mile

With gas plus the havoc this reeks on your vehicle it’s significantly less than 20 an hour

@@colesisler582 i make 20/hour as well. I get 2 deliveries/hour and it's about 6 miles in total. Gas is $3 and my car runs 25mpg. That's only 72 cents of gas. At worst, depreciation+maintanence is 50 cents/mile. But in California, doordash compensates 30 cents/mile. So depreciation is only 20cents/mile. For 6 miles, that's $1.20. Total cost of driving $1.20 + $0.72=$1.92 $20 - $1.92 = $18.08/hour. Still a good pay working for doordash.

@@u-l-t-i That’s just easy math and I’ve done it myself prior to his comment just catered to my gas guzzling bread box of a 4runner. My numbers came out to be about $6-8 an hour on a hood day

@@u-l-t-i 😂

Lmfao same

Same!!!

You can choose afterwards to take yourself off the order!

Valerie Kinley how???? Please help!

I need the money so I don’t regret a thing. Then again I’ve only had a long wait twice since i started

I use to have that problem. Now I take there orders and as soon as I get them I call the restaurant say I'm on my way so can they drop the fries. 9/10 they do it and I'm in and out in less than 3 even if they are busy.

Yeah 5 guys is slow as hell

@@roose_q That's too much trouble to be calling every slow Resturaunt hoping they speed up by making that call. Its easier to decline and move on

New Level Wellness Training I feel you..but it’s not even just the fries. The past several times I went, they didn’t even make the burger yet or the shake...and had ppl order ready before my pick up when they actually came in and ordered after I told them I was there for a DoorDash pick up

@@mistermidas11 I hear you on it being more trouble, and for sure most Asian Cuisine restaurants I don't even bother with because of making order issue. But with 5 guys this has been a solution that's worked well for my situation. Of course this is all situational and will not work for everyone's situation

In simi so far chick fil a has been the best everytime! (hope I don't jinx it) lol

Did you decide to continue?

Still dashing?

Actually guys, no I’m not dashing anymore. I stopped at the end of March. I got a delivery job with Amazon Prime, starting on April 9. Still haven’t done the math to see if it was worth it. Lol

Dude your whole presentation from start to finish is flawless to say the least, however I M O its a little bit much to PROCESS for the average newbie, it is done with stellar confidence and personality and thank you for your articulation.

Yeah its worth it for me. I dash 6 days a week and make on average 865.00 (rounded up slightly) i work about 6-7 hours a day.

Are u still dasher

Nope I had to quit my car broke down and my car is being repoed tomorrow.

@@denisehenrickson-dear7605 so you quit today

@@AsakiAyame : I quit the end of March.

Thanks for the tip

I’m glad I started doing this! Tbh I get some of the best orders by my house! I don’t have a lot of restaurants by my house. There’s a few fast food spots but there’s quite a few vegan spots and the drives are short b/w pick up and drop off and they tip well! I probably lost a lot of easy money jus chasing hot spots!

How do you do it bro?

4 hours today $130! With 62 miles I think yesssss

Waitr pays their ppl $5 per order

Yes I agree!! $3 is too low and I've seen an increase in these lowball orders.

I'm saying, especially if tips aren't required!!!! People in my town do not tip

Personally I tip 20 percent but I'm good with a flat fee also.

I agree with that since I’m a dasher too, I was just saying this to myself yesterday after dashing.

@@calissaloricchio3957 I hear the voices in my head that tell me that 🤪

i work there and we were SO relieved when corporate told us we didn't have to keep the hot box in the back with all the togo food. the only downside is now if a person comes for their food really late. it might be cold but thats not our problem🤷🏾‍♀️

@@ilubmiself Dashers don't usually waste time picking up an order. If the pickup is super late, what that probably means is that the pay/distance was just too low and no dasher wants to take the order. I noticed one day while waiting around with a couple other dashers every time one of us rejected a really bad order (10 miles and some change, and only the base pay of $3 which means there was no tip), the next person would get the same order only they would get offered like 25 cents more for it. Those orders sitting around getting cold probably had customers who didn't tip, but they're some crazy distance away, so it's bouncing around from dasher to dasher until the pay is finally good enough for someone to bite.

Bentley I love all of the information you are giving but here is my question. How are you getting all this information before you even accept the order . I have an Android but the only thing I can see during the the time it shows the offer is the amount of the offer and the restaurant it is at. I don't get any other details until after I already accept the orders and I only have like 20 seconds to decide if I should accept it or not so of course being new at this the anxiety is pressuring me to accept it before I miss it.

We found out that acceptance rate DOES matter in our tiny town. If you're not Top Dasher in our town, you are on schedule, and it is NEVER busy. If you are Top Dasher, magically it's busy all the time. So, it all depends on where you live. We have less than 17k in our little town, and the towns near us in our "zone" are also small, but rural as heck, and we always get taken OUT of our zone, so that sucks too. It really all depends on where you live if you can just push that AR aside. Lucky that you can! We can cherry pick, but have to be VERY selective as to what we decide NOT to do. We usually make between $20-$30 an hour, so we're happy with that.

Thanks fam!

Just politely tell them that everything is sealed, and remind them that you don't prepare the food or put it in the bag. Some people are just ignorant and don't understand that we only deliver. As for condiments, just tell the restaurant workers that they text you and requested extra.

DoorDash policy is clear: we don’t open sealed bags. But even if it’s not sealed, I’m not going to rummage through the bag looking for extra ketchup. I will compare the order in the app against the receipt.

You can still get the extra consents tho

Levi That is low, aim over $20/hr

I'm holding steady at 56 % to 58 % ar.. 15 for lunch.. 20 to 25 for dinner on average money wise

what’s that?

Where/ what is dash utility?

What's dash utility?

A Rob I don't take anything less than $8 on Doordash and that's if it's short distance but I'm also in Uber eats and Grubhub. You shouldn't never rely on one app platform. You can make almost double by doing this

Life of Richard but won’t the irs track u down bc u makin sm monaaaaey!? (I’m 19 btw n still claimed as a dependent.. I think?!?) But anyways!!! Sum1 pls respond!

Life of Richard do you do multiple orders with at the same time with different apps?

#ShoutOut to H-Town!!

Me to

Got a Walmart offer today....a 5 order pickup that paid under $16 total. Couldn't decline it fast enough

I just started and didn't know this rule. The pick up was only outside in this small parking area with constant cars going in and out. It took them 30 minutes over the "pick-up by__" and I had 4 deliveries and about 11 miles. I made $13. In the end I was waiting and driving for over an hour with traffic. Never. Again.

*Dashing*

Every time I've gotten an order at a huge rich house that's 20 minutes away...they tip $0.00. it's crazy lol

oh they HIDE part of the tip? I always thought when the tip comes out to be more that the person added more of a tip when I got there

@@mattheauperry8358 yup you cant trust that just because its a huge house that they will tip. Wealthy people are sometimes cheap or its their teenager that ordered the food and didnt tip

True and there are some people who dont know that no tip means we get paid 2 or 3 dollars, so they wait until after the delivery to tip. I have a friend who did that before I told him how doordash pay works. Still though, it's not worth it to me to gamble on that because more likely than not it's probably not going to have a hidden tip or bonus tip, and no order is worth 2, 3, or 4 dollars to me even if it's only 1 mile away

All the time low order$ equal no tip

I take all orders regardless

*spoken

How much did you have to pay in gas?

@@vanessahaldeman5257 yeah that’s the question

Well I've been doordashing for a couple months now and honestly if you keep your mileage reasonable (how far you're willing to drive for an order) it's about 70% profit 30% gas which is fair i think

same. there was a line on the street and i was in line for about 20 minutes and then had to wait more time for them to pur the order together

In my area that is the case with most fast food restaurants.

Popeyes is beat

Facts smh

Whenever I accept an order, I call the place before I get there and ask if their lobby is open during all of this shit that’s going on. Most of the time they are, but if they’re not, it’s even easier because someone else will run it out to you. My market is Chicago’s south side.

Yeah I saw one that said 45 items for $3 lmao

I will never take a Walmart order again because every time I accept an order from them it’s a complete joke.

Yes Walmart orders r a joke most of the time. Customers never tip

I made $3,000 in 3 weeks. Lol get on my level.

This is why I stopped doing Postmates.... they usually tip more but it’s always a mystery if I’ll get tipped

Right or at the very least doordash could let the customers know that drivers will only be offered $2 or $3 for the delivery if they aren't tipping. Just simply making that known would likely increase tips by a lot. Literally every person I've ever explained how doordash pay works to had no idea that the base pay is $2-$3 and that if you dont tip upfront drivers are only offered $3. Most customers that dont tip probably just dont know that it's actually objectively stupid to take no tip orders because you'll likely end up losing money or barely breaking even. I understand too if a customer wants to wait to tip until the delivery is completed so that they aren't preemptively tipping for a messed up and/or late delivery, but unfortunately if they do that they have to keep in mind that their order may take longer to be assigned a driver

Like seriously, how hard would it really actually be for doordash to clear up this confusion and make the experience better for both drivers and customers? Maybe half an hour to an hour to just add a little information to the app? That's all it would freaking take for this to be a non issue. Inform the customers of the base pay so that they are aware not tipping leaves us with a whopping three dollar payment. And also maybe add the option to set a tip to be paid after the delivery if the delivery is done in a timely manner without compromising the food. And then simply show the driver the post delivery tip amount. Ofcourse doordash will never do this, because if they did then (you would think lol) no one would ever accept no tip orders anymore because they know that there will be no secret tip at the end and also that the customer purposefully decided to request someone hand deliver them their food for $3. I just gotta say though, to all the people who order doordash knowing how the base pay works and they STILL dont tip: you deserve to get your food cold, late, and messed up. Screw you for being so entitled as to willingly pay someone a measley $3 to pick your food up for you and bring it straight to your doorstep. And screw you for implying your time is more important than the drivers time, because you dont feel like getting your own food so youd rather have a stranger bring it to you with basically no compensation

I agree startimg this week I have been in pink zones and on schedule and not getting orders. I called door dash support and was told 😄 😆 onr of my orders was still open causing a glitch 😲 I just laighed at them. My acceptance rate jas gone from 48% down to 33% because I refuse orders under $6 and i decline orders that miles to drive is over $1.10 over pay and drives way oit of zone or boonies that I lose $$ on backend switching zones or driving 12 minites or more and MILES to drive back to civilization is too high and iblose my pay on back end!

Richard Pidaniy oh dang. Doordaah needs to fix its washer app since it always glitching. Also, new washer accept low pay orders which cause doordash to give out more low pay orders especially Walmart. I'm not delivery 8 dollars for 42 items. Also, it is worse since you will be late for the order because of Walmart is terrible at it.

@@richardpidaniy6915 😂😆

@@jadenguyen6244 I had a Wal Mart today. 172 items for $8.00 and a 9 mile drive. No thanks!

@@leb5410 grocery pick-up so time-consuming and you lose money

🤔 I think I could do that

Seriously?

How many hours worked though?

How

🤘Damn team no sleep nothing but dashing !

Damm

@Peter Miller LMFAO 😂😂😂 "Dammit my customer asked for *NO PICKLES* !" In that case, should you take the food back and have them remake it...or continue eating it sans pickle.

If they want they order right, let them get they lazy ass up and get it themselves, I don’t check shit I just take it to em

LilGoCrazyy that’s how I feel. I ain’t got time to be checking inside the bag. And if the customer is ordering something with some f’d up names like sushi or something, you can forget about it. The most I’d ever do is make sure I got all the bags and the bag is tagged with the right customer name.

Arcadio Sincero that’s why I make sure there’s a receipt. I text the customer whether I saw their face or not that, “I’m only authorized to verify the receipt and number of containers. Specific inaccuracies should be directed to the restaurant, have a wonderful morning/ day / night / weekend.” Wipe my hands and walk away.

LilGoCrazyy first off it’s mainly people who can’t drive or are to young to drive like me so before you say “they can get there lazy ass up and get it themselves” make sure you think about wtf you talking about .

Wingstop?! Try buffalo wild wings 😂😂

@@bigcdadon30 not in my area.

@@2_2_4_3 they just got on my list. They were cool when the first opened but now they acting like they doing me a favor. They dead to me also

@@2_2_4_3 I can relate. Stop allowing them to waste our time.

My Wing stop in west side Jacksonville Florida is pretty good. Especially pay outs.

Rich people are the worst tippers.

they don't tip. I delivered orders to rich neighborhoods a couple of times and they all don't tip. So I know how to roll with their orders. Lol

Shhhhhh lmfao

Is it alot worse during normal times?

I stopped doing them. They never tip

I delivered vitamins in a snow storm 8 plus miles. No tip

@@mwoods4608 damn... I see why u stopped..

T-MUSTAFA 33 where do you dash in Houston? I just started last weekend and I do it in Sugarland. Where is the best area in your opinion? I would love to make $50+ in a few hours

They shouldn’t even pay the drivers I get, like I ordered something right now and they at their house?

Atlanta hast to be the worst at night

I dashed one time at night and it was pouring down rain so hard I thought I was going to die. Also some places were flooded. I was pissed when I didn't get a better tip for driving in heavy rain