Is UberEATS Worth It? How It Works, Pros, Cons, and Tips 

I was thinking about making this my 3rd job and your vid was so helpful, detailed and to the point. Thank you!

All i want to say is thank you for just getting to the point of the video and making easy to understand, you are awesome and so pretty!.

This is a great short video that tells all about it, good job!!

Hey I love your videos! I just started driving uber/lyft today and you've helped alot :)

Love your videos, short and sweet ,and straight to the point, great jobe, keep it up.

I love your videos they give a very clear concise of what to expect. The added bonus is that I noticed you have seat covers. Great idea

Great information. This helped out a great deal. I love how your videos are concise and to the point.

You are very good at this. You will get your own show. Somebody will find you.. Have fun, play nice

You’re very good at this, describing your encounters but especially your insight. Thank you!

Very informative thank you..You covered a lot of good things to know there

BTW your info is great, i signed up and was approved by Uber, you changed my mind, never did a ride! Still need money! lol

Thank you! Been curious about UBEReats. I probably won't be doing it, but I learned something new today!

The part I enjoyed the most of Uber eats was discovering restaurants that I had no idea existed! I will only do Uber eats now if it's really slow and if the restaurant is 5 minutes or closer. Best time to do it though is during weekend or holiday boost! The payouts are much now worth it then!

Jeez. This is a great video. Thank you.

LOL I like your video persona and delivery. Succinct and precise and funny.

This was great! Im so nervous about starting. It seems easy, yet complicated, lol. I signed up like 2 months ago and never started. Do you have a video about the payment options and how each works? I signed up for the uber card just waiting for it to arrive. Seems like the best option but until then, i have it set to go to my bank debit card. Just wondering when the funds are available esp if you work on weekends. Thanks so much for making this video!

Love your videos even when you talk fast makes me laugh makes learning fun love it lol stay positive

I've done EATS on occasions. I'm in Los Angeles, sometimes I would decline the request if I suspect it's in an area with lack of parking. Normally I keep EATS off.

I am researching & considering trying Uber Eats. Your mention of a hot/cold bag touched on one of my questions since I live in the Philly area. Are there particular type, shape & size bags I should buy? I looked on eBay & saw a few types, and figure one should be a pizza type bag.

Found you from a link you left in an FB post! I’m signed up to do Uber Eats and Postmates (and more recently GrubHub). I only do Eats and not regular passenger Uber. I noticed in your Uber video you said to have both apps open. I wonder if I can do that for Postmates. Also worth noting for people who watch this - my current 9-5 job situation has me in a different city during the work week than the city where I live. I wanted to deliver in both areas but Uber makes you pick one. Customer service says you can’t do both. So I picked where I work since I’m there more often. I think this is true for GrubHub as well but I just signed up for them and picked my home city since they JUST started running here (UberEats and Postmates aren’t here yet but they are in a very nearby city). Postmates lets you deliver in any city in which they operate once you sign up so I can do both. I also just signed up for Amazon Flex, which also makes you pick ONE city... but I haven’t delivered for them so we’ll see how that goes. Overall, I like Uber Eats better than Postmates since I get more deliveries with Eats and Postmates has a smaller area in the city where I work. I haven’t driven for GrubHub yet as I’ve just signed up. Now that I know I can have both apps open that opinion may change. Regarding the insulated bag. Uber Eats says they supply one, but the Greenlight Center in my work city is in an inconvenient place, Uber doesn’t tell you you have to pay for it, and when I went to the Greenlight Center they were out of them! So I contacted customer service and they have a link to buy by mail. Postmates sent me a free bag when I signed up. Grubhub is allegedly sending me a shirt to wear while delivering but I have not gotten it yet. Most of the time, the bag I have is too small to fit the orders, which are usually in the restaurants own bags. I like that McDonald’s puts sticker seals on their orders. The fact that most places use their own bags seems to make the insulated bag a bit unnecessary, and I’m ALWAYS fumbling with it... for both of my bags. Also, the bag is not large enough for pizzas. What bag do you use? I may have to look into getting a different/better one. I’ve had customers ask me how to tip in Uber Eats. This is why it’s important to order for yourself before delivering for the first time - it’s not intuitive how to tip a driver! You have to go into the app after the delivery. A lot of times, particularly with apartment buildings, it’s difficult to find the right building or see the house numbers in the dark. Customers rarely leave their apartment number. When delivering to a hotel, very often the front desk will not allow you to deliver directly to the room (even if the customer leaves a room number). My biggest complaint with Eats is hard to find customer drop off sites.

Dear Munchkin, I love watching all of your videos. I am also driving in Idaho. I was wondering if you can tell us what kind of camera do you use to record your videos. Please also tell us what kind of camera do you use in your car for video and audio recording. Thank you.

I think McDonald's being on UberEats is what kills it, at least for me. I had a REAL restaurant say you Uber? There it is bye. That was $100 worth of food. McDonald's wants you to come in and sign for it. Like those fries are coming out of the vault 😂😂😂

Very in depth videos

Another great video with awesome info and tips! Thanks, Kym. Could you share your experience regarding earning differences between Eats and Regular Uber? I'm very antisocial and my English is not great, so I'm considering working more with Eats or Skip the dishes. Thanks again!

Perfect. I want to make a RU-vid channel like this. All the talky talk drives me nuts. You have a question tab?. I need you to be my RU-vid mentor ♥️

I dislike everything about Uber and rideshare and would never do it, but I still watch your videos, lol. You have such a great personality. It would be outstanding if you could switch it up and do some videos on other things. Maybe reviews or something

Lady, You knocked it out of the park...BOOM !!!

You were perfect. Explained all about the business and had a nice happy attitude. Question about the tip. With UBEREATS a delivery fee of between 3.99 and 6.99 is charged and I don't feel an additional tip is required? Your thoughts. On Uber rides again a ride fee is being charged so I don't tip additionally.

Wait staff in the United States are always paid in accordance with the minimum wage, as the difference between their fixed hourly wage and the federal minimum is ultimately compensated by either tips and/or the employer if tips prove inadequate to cover that difference.

Hi miss, new to your channel. I'm signing up for uber eats now it's asking for invitation code, do I put your uber driver one or is there a separate code? Also is this available in every city? I live in New Jersey Thank you

Hey Kim thanks for the tips. You should be a professor, because your are sharp with your advices and explanations. Have great weekend

Don't advertise tips, there are 90 precentage people that don't tip at all......only 10 precent will tip. Facts

I figured out one strategy that works out really well, I live less then a mile from a lot of popular restaurants in my area and start out the day by accepting requests from those restaurants that are the most closest and if the delivery takes me across town near a McDonald's then after dropping off my delivery then I will wait for pings from that McDonald's, a person just needs strategy and also needs to know their market to make money on ubereats

Thank you for your insight on Uber eats

Good info, thanks 👍🏻

You need to sign up for an eats only account so it’s not attached to rides share, when it’s a stand alone account you get boost areas

It depends....if I'm on a quest, (a certain amount of trips in a certain amount of time) then I'm more interested in the the trips than the actual distance of the dropoff from the restaurant. In this case, McDonald's is welcome because the dropoffs are usually close by. Also, if you're working on a guaranteed hourly (2 trips per hour for $14/hr etc. then McDonald's is good.

@munchkym I do UberEats, Caviar, and Doordash all on a bike. I would say if you want to make a sustainable profit, driving is not the best choice, though each area is different. I live in Chicago and biking has proven to be the best method. With $200+ days every day, I don't need a "real" job. I get to bike as much as I'd like and still get paid for it lol I believe services like uberEats can be highly lucrative if you are serious enough and treat it like a micro-business.

I love this girl, she's got such a great attitude and seems like she would rock to hang out with. Totally my type of friend.

I'm doing eats and you're awesome I'm in Idaho too. Up here in Coeur d Alene.

I work full time 5am-2pm and then do ubereats until 8-9pm and do it again. It’s a lot of time but so worth it

Wow you remind me of a friend and the last time I saw here coincidentally I advised her to do Uber eart for some extra cash:anyway thanks for the supercompaceadvice

How often can you get paid doing UE? Do they have instant pay like DD?

Thx for the help

My favorite Uber Eats experience didn't involve me directly. The drunk in the other unit of my duplex apparently ordered a pizza then passed out. The poor delivery guy was pounding and shouting at about 11:30 PM. I went out to console him, and considered taking the pizza myself. But since it was pepperoni (which I don't eat) I suggested he just leave it out for the raccoons. He did. And the next morning, sure enough, the pizza had obviously been ravaged by tiny beasts. Good times!

You totally crack me up in a good way!!! Lol

Hello. I have a question, can we start working for UberEATS with a new driving license? I have a test in 2 weeks and I'm planing to get car for UberEATS right after that.

You are the guru of uber/lyft 😉

I waited 20 min for food. Totally worth it. Food was hot and good

Ohh it's a good thing I don't really have Uber in my area - this would make it infinitely more easy to give in to my late night cravings when I can't be bothered to go out myself :P

Good video and advice, and really good topic on servers and wages because they don't get paid minimum wage or if they do it's averaged out for the week . Vetted process 😉 Uber doesn't really have a vetting process as in training. One popular complaint from riders is the language barrier. And you would be surprised at how many of these driver's drop off riders at the wrong location because "following gps only in combination with lack of English" One rider didn't know the area that well and got dropped off in the different town haha.

Ur videos are so informative and I kno help many ppl. What about something about the rideshare competition. It seems like lyft is signing up more drivers than needed. I been an Lyft driver for a year now and it was so different say 5 months ago. Thankfully I have an great paying job and do this Part time but I dont see how ppl can live off of this .

I did a Harris Teeter Grocery run it was super easy. They load your car and the customer unloads you I did offer to help them but they had it handled.

Love the video

Here in Brazil we are earning $25,00 plus the trip to drop off the order. The R$25,00 is a promotion bonus!

Hi, how do I find my ratings for UE. I found how to find tips, but am curious if I was good, bad or indifferent from the customer. Oh yeah, I got a really nasty waitress from one restaurant today. Can I find out if she gave me a thumbs down?

You know what ?? I notice when I watch utube videos, I find the ones that are edited like this one is, my brain can't process the constant blabbing. I'm an ubrreats biker, your tips are valid

I just turned on app for first time yesterday. I keep getting Uber x request but not any Uber eats request. Do you normally get way more Uber x request than Eats???

I like your lip ring! :)

This video covered pickup, drop off, tips, but not taxes which is a HUGE part of this job. UberEats is miscellaneous pay, so if you’re not putting aside money for taxes, at the end of the year all that money you got from UberEats is basically paid back as taxes. To do this right, you need to be keeping track of your mileage, vehicle expenses (car insurance, gas, repairs, tires), phone bill etc to lower your taxable income for the year as stated on Uber’s website. Uber drivers are also given access to Quickbooks Self Employed which allows drivers to pay quarterly taxes instead of a lump sum at the end of the year. Paying taxes 4x a year hurts a lot less than one big chunk

Good video!

i do not do uber eats but i once accepted a regular uber ride,she called me up and requested i pick up food for her and deliver it,lol,after telling her 3 times i do not deliver food she angrily hung up,cancelled the ride,giving me 3.00 bucks,lol

Are urban areas vs suburbs better, worse or the same for tips, ease and parking

Thank u for the info

Hey Uber Eats people! I have a question! I've been looking this up for awhile and I'm a college student that's having trouble paying the bills in-between classes. I currently work a campus job but it's getting difficult to have a set time schedule. Is doing only Uber Eats a good idea? Thank you

One Uber eats delivery I'll NEVER forget. I travelled 4 minutes away to a Five Guys. Literally waited 28 minutes because the order wasn't even ready. Found out that they serve orders in the order they receive them. After patiently biting my tongue, the order was finally ready after confirming the small order. I travelled 19 minutes away to end up at a gated apartment community. After calling customer, I was finally in after 7 minutes. It took me an additional 6 minutes to find the right building through the maze of buildings. Next, I had to take the stairs up to the 4th floor because the elevators were out. That took another 6 minutes. I had to call customer again just to answer the door. Another 6 minutes😡 Basically all that for chump change which resulted in a LOSS. NEVER will I ever do Eats again.

hi i like your videos!

The SMELL!!! Besides the bag have that bottle of Fabreeze ready to go!!! Also in Atl UberX > UberEats. Keep up the great content!!!

The app doesn't tell you where you are going before you accept. I ended up going back to the same place a couple times.

I drive Uber in Boston. Tips are rare. About one out of ten jobs or less. I used to do Postmates in Portland OREGON and I hated it because I had to park at meters usually and in Portland that basically takes half of what I earned. Big problem. Uber automatically added UberEats to my account. It’s nice to have but I didn’t ask for it.

They only charge customers between $4 & $6 for Denver and pay us about $6 on average. One of my deliveries was $10. They take about $2 on top. Then I read they charge the restaurant 30%. They're likely raking it in

My big con is that I will be in the middle of DC waiting for an hour and a half like today and no delivery

Munchkym can you do more rideshare videos

Question: Is there a chance I might have to pay for the food if the customer didn't pay for it yet? Might be a stupid question but I rather ask.

Ubereats is pretty good here in Orlando FL. Especially by the University of Central Florida area with all the students. And of course in the tourist areas, Disney, Universal, Sea World. Where the tips are good. On a good day I can make $100 or more in about 6 hours. And there's ALWAYS a promotion going on.

💥👍👍🏾❤️.... As Always .... Essentially Informative ...... Articulate ... And Cute in the process 😊💥

What I hate about it is that the food is never ready when I get there, so I waste a lot of time waiting, and the customers almost never tip. Every other delivery driver expects a tip, and receives it 90% of the time. Why are we any different?

UberEats just went live in my city 2 days ago. :-)

How will a bag know to keep food hot or cold??? :O)

I love how chipper you are!

How do I know if my area accepts Uber eats how if my nears McDonald’s accepts it

Someone once told me nothing good ever happens at 3am. lol

Any other driving jobs out there where you don't have to use your own car?

so small talk is an issue for you? answering the same question is a problem? how are you rated 4.7?

I currently work at pizza place and I make an average of $70 a day (WAGE + TIPS - EXPENSES). I was thinking of quitting so I can work at Walmart and just do this maybe 2 nights a week. what is everyone's daily income?

Hey, there's munchkym!

Can i do Uber Eats if I'm deactivated from regular Uber passenger driver

I'm hesitant to use an app to order food, idk why. I just don't like over-complicating things, I guess.

In Toronto we ride bikes rather than drive cars for Uber Eats, more cost effective.

If do part time , deliver pizza and expected traditional tips and you will not be disappointing, concern about "will be tips?"

Walmart has good Cooler Bags they 5 bucks each I have two they rock and have a good capacity.

I have questions: I've been driving for 3 days now and I'm noticing something I didn't see on the first 2 days called "Min Fare Supplement". Its only on a few orders though. How is this determined? It can't be mileage because there's one order that was 1.06 miles away with it, and another order that was 1.06 mi without it, so how is this factored in and why don't I get it on every delivery? Also, I've seen comments mentioning something called 'Boost' or 'Surge'. What is that, and is that in all areas because I've never seen it? Things I wish I could change: The pay. The End. ..Seriously though, I wish you could rate a customer after the order is completed. Right now I only have the option to thumbs up or down while the order is still out for delivery.. I'm about to get a real job, but I want to start thumbing down everyone that doesn't tip and put that for the reason in the comment section in hopes that people (and uber) might get the 'hint'.. (but I cant do that because I dont know ive been tipped or not until long after the order has been completed).. When I delivered pizzas almost everyone tipped, plus I got paid minimum wage + commission. So why are uber customers such cheapskates? You'd think they'd tip better because you can get sushi and other high end food from exotic places that normally wouldn't deliver.. Out of 20+ orders, Im lucky to get 2 or 3 tips and it's not worth destroying your car for $5 or $6 an hour. Its not like Im late either. I almost always get to the restaurant before the food is ready and I race it to the location and keep it in a hot bag/cold bag etc. My profile says "High Ratings". So does your rating eventually get you more pay or what? Someone using their own vehicle should be making $15-20/hr just to break even with minimum wage. After gas, my best night I averaged $9.79/hr on Sat and it was non stop driving for almost 10 hrs. During the week Im lucky to break $6/hr. I'm in a small car that gets 32mpg city so the only thing I can do to improve that is buy a hybrid. But at $6/hr I'll be lucky to make rent. That's not good considering mcdonalds starts at $12.50 where I live and average rent is over $1,200..

I have a 2015 Nissan it was in a small vender bender but the insurance salvaged it. Can I still work Uber or lift with it? By the way ur so cute

Hi Im wondering. Do yo work out of the airport? I know you can get long rides out of the airport.

I read online you only get few dollars for uber eats thats not enough for gas

It’s nice side cash, but if your not located in a big metropolitan area you won’t be raking in cash. UberEATS just launched in my city, I get maybe 2-3 delivers an hour during dinner hours if iam lucky, & most of them are McDonald’s. Overall however its a very easy job, I literally signed up & started delivering the next day.

No! Uber Eats is not worth it. Waste of time! Low pay! Long waits. Your blamed by customer if order is wrong. Customer hard to find at night. Uber Eats pays you for one delivery when have you delivering two yet Uber got paid twice. My recommendation dont waste your time with Uber Eats. Its not worth it.

Another UberEats tip: Don't do UberEats

I only just tried uber eats two days ago. Did 2 deliveries. Kind of the spur of the moment thing on my day off. After seeing videos on how much I was expected to get paid, I wasn't surprised. Did my first delivery for Panda Express for 2 different customers. Got paid $7.34 . From the drive to Panda to when I delivered the second order was about 30min. I expected it. The I was like let's keep it on and see if anything else pops up. Sure enough I got a ping for a restaurant 5 min away. I took it, waited for the food and got in my car. It was to be delivered 15 miles where I was at. About 22min to arrive to the destination. It was far out and I ended up getting paid 7 something as well just for that 1 delivery. Which I was surprised and the girl gave me $4 dollars. I needed with basically $18 for 1hr and 20min of Uber eats driving. I drove home after that since I was far from home and low battery. I will try again on Sunday and see how it goes. But so far it's everything I'm expecting. People hate on this app for the low pay. It's not a full time job and shouldn't be looked at that way. I have a full time with benefits and the whole package. I have alot of spare time some days that I just wanna do something that gets me paid lol

They really need to have a charge to the restaurant if they make us wait. I spent 30 minutes waiting for McDonald’s