The TRUTH About Top Dasher... (DoorDash) 

Drop a damn subscription people! This man went through Tony Xu’s Squid Game for our benefit!

My only complaint is Doordash seems to constantly allow customers outside my dash zone to order from restaurants inside my dash zone... Driving back into the zone is time I could be receiving orders...

Thanks for doing this on behalf of us all so we can see a great breakdown of the top dasher program. Impressed with you research and showing us numbers from all angles. Keep it up Nuggs

THIS is the way to test TD theories. Way to go Science Glasses Man

It seems to be that Top Dasher is not McLovin approved

The only benefit of being a top Dasher in my opinion is to be able to dash whenever you want but if it is always busy in your area then there's really no benefit. I will never try to be top Dasher.

I'ma be honest... I don't think top dasher is worth period. I sometimes have days when it's slow but it's not all the time. I would rather wait 10-20 minutes than take a 3 dollar order.

The best investigation into Top Dasher "benefits" I've seen! Thanks to you and Kayla for doing this for us!

If y’all didn’t realize a week early before scheduling a dash if you check at 11pm at night you’ll be able to pick all the time slots you want like 5 days in advance that’s how I do mines even if I don’t end up working the dash I schedule I still scedule a bunch of time slots just in case literally too dasher is not worth it when you can just do it this way

Hey Nuggs I got a challenge for ya... Can you pull of a 14hr shift in a Halloween Costume for a day within the month of October

I made substantially more when I started to ignore acceptance rate and only approve things over $1 per mile and a min of 8$ overall. My rate fell, but my earnings went up.

The side by side comparisons of the two of you is very interesting. Great information. We need more Kayla in your videos. I hope you 2 can do more of the dash at the same time videos

Love your post times, because I have a fresh Nuggs video at my work break time!!! Keep it coming.

I see you 2 around town all the time😊 I appreciate the videos. I was forced to sell my business during the pandemic. This helps to keep my mind busy and puts a few dollars in my pocket. Definitely needed as my son just started college 🤦🏻‍♀️ Love watching your videos

You even made a spreadsheet. That's awesome! Thanks for doing that. It was really informative!

Dude. You put so much detail into this. This is great

Nuggs just helped all of us Dashers make a better informed choice. You didnt just do this for science, you did this for humanity!

Thank you for clearing up any confusion about this...Helped a lot! you rock sir!

Hey man, I picked up a go pro, 4 batteries, chest mount, and head mount. Can't wait to start capturing my dashes this way 😄

yES FINALLY DUDE! This video finally puts to bed a ton of questions door dashers have, this one is a must see video!!

Walmart will crush most top dasher dreams

Good video! Thanks for being down for the cause!

The 🐐. Appreciate what you do man! Looks like you lost some money to be a top dasher in your market and after you guys would basically make the same amount of money on a shift. So no benefit? Only to dash now, which could be helpful in a smaller market as you said. But is it worth it if you lose money initially? Great video nuggs!

Thanks Nuggs for taking the hit for science, much appreciated. Watch your videos all the time, and I'm fucking guilty of not being subscribed as well. Just fixed that. Keep on keeping on brother!

Love the breakdown on this, thank you!

Thank you for doing this. This is actually what I thought. Lol the background music you use is hilarious at 6:54🤣

Great breakdown!

Way to go Nuggs love your videos way to get out and hustle man keep up the good work!

Great breakdown with the top dasher research. Smaller markets should take notice

Outstanding content. Well reasoned conclusion. Thanks for this vid.

Great explanation. I missed Top Dasher by 4 orders this month. I usually make it. Just fizzled out. It's been slower since I lost it, but you never know, it's hard to figure. Some days are good with or without it. I do agree top dasher is nice to go anytime you'd like. I am in California in a medium-busy zone.

I like how you tested it to find out and confirmed my suspicions. Good for slow areas, not so much for busier ones.

Ty nuggs!!!! Ur really giving good 👍 content constantly. Have a good night

Im actually getting way more money with being a Top dasher with less orders. I guess everyone has a different experience

The ability to dash whenever you want and get priority during slow times makes it worth it for me

Thanks for doing this video.. very informative:) dash on !

I wish you were the only dasher to do this because I get so many suggestion of other dashers doing this but they don’t quite do it any justice keep it up

What up dude-This is Victory’s Voice-I talked to ya at the Penn Station on Monday-Good to see ya & stay stay/ make that money fellow Dasher…..

Great summary and good to know!

Thanks for your feedback on this science project! I wondered was it worth it.

What I needed thank you! Seems like top dasher would benefit me since I dash between 7-5. Dinner shift here is busy but really not worth it bc if the long waits and traffic

Good video. Keep up the good work on your channel

You had me at "nerdy"!

Love this experiment. It’s too bad you missed out on working though because this week has been crazy busy so far. It’s so random. I went from like 20/hr last week to nearly 30 this week out of nowhere

That was as clear as mud LOL. I'm still wondering if I should go for Top Dasher. I'm at 62% so it would not take much but in my market, as long as I set schedules each week, I have no issues being able to dash. The only issue I have is if I want to not set a schedule (which I don't mind doing, but wish I could be freer and more spur of the moment) then I have to wait for it to be busy. So honestly, I may go for it for 1 month and see the difference and if it's worth it. Great video, love it!

Thanks for doing this Nuggs

Thanks for these last 2 videos showing top dasher. I used to get excited about being one until I realized, I make less $ working more hours as a top dasher 😳😡, than simply not caring about the acceptance rate. Dashing in NY, orders are pretty frequent and it’s 100% better just taking the orders you want and not settling for crap orders ($3 - $5 orders when busy).

The most amazing thing you found was that the good orders that went to Kayla first were NOT then sent to you as a top dasher. Thanks for taking a day off for research.

I totally agree with you and there is no benefit in dashing in a gray area when you know it's going to be dead but it does come in handy sometimes if you know your market

What you need to do is a month long test with TD vs normal dashsr. Then you can see the average with less variables.

Cool, man. I missed Top Dasher the last two months by a hair. Next month I'll be in and curious to see. Btw - I ride a pedal bike in New York City. Your exhaustive analysis is really helpful.

It’s like u knew I just hopped In the shower and loaded up RU-vid to watch something lmao.

You totally ROCK Nuggs!

I'm in New York and I will be going for top dasher, simply for the fact that 3 days in this month I have had a dash end glitch, at the very start of my shift. When I work I do straight hours no broken up shifts and trying to schedule right after glitch I would have to wait hours just for broken up shifts of

It's worth considering, speaking for California, that because of our minimum wage and Prop 22, our minimum hourly ACTIVE rate is $18/Hr. Even if you take long mileage, lower paying orders, doordash will bump you up at the end of the week to that minimum. As long as you are actually on an order you are making 18 bucks an hour, so it can be good to stay active instead of waiting for golden orders. Obviously the problem with that is that lower paying orders seems to often mean lower tips, which doordash doesn't compensate you for.

I'm not a youtuber, but I am a dasher, I had Top Dasher recently in August... before I had a car accident, 2 weeks after getting it, I've recently got a new car and have continued dashing, I didn't get to fully experience what "Top Dasher" was like so this video is very helpful, I've come to realize the kind of car you drive for this job is very important in terms of mileage, can you make a video explaining possible Gas saving strategies or how better to identify orders worth taking based on mileage, I think that would help all dashers better sort thru bad orders or potential time wasting orders, I used to take every order or as many as I could, but based on your videos it looks like I average probably $0.75 per mile, there is definitely some room to grow and I just want to get better.

Wow! Thank you for doing this Mr. Science.

Thank you for doing this test I appreciate it

Thank you for the info

That was awesome and some hard work thank you

The hilarious thing is that I would expect there to be more top dashers (as a % of people working) when it's slow than not, so the benefit kinda gets canceled out lol...

Hey Nuggs! I watched Blake Moore’s video today about top dasher and I thought about going for top dasher for November but now watching your video I’m not sure… I’m at 30% and live in Indy. I guess it couldn’t hurt to do my own experiments for SCIENCE. Great video!

Thanks Nuggs for at least saying it’s all market dependent. Even in my area it’s mixed. Sometimes it’s supposedly really busy even if it’s only 6 something orders. And then when it’s like that 6 orders they say it’s dead. Yeah top dasher is beneficial if like you said your market flips back and forth from busy to dead. However with soo many new dashers out there maybe being a top dasher would help you because if your market is slow and figure for every order there is at least 1 dasher per order if there is 12 orders and you didnt get a ding figure your number 13+.

Nice study Nuggs!!!!!!!

Tony Chu has entered the chat: smdh. Why u exposing my trade secrets?!?

I know this would be tedious, but I think I noticed a pattern if you take multiple orders in a row, you get better orders after/priority. Would love to see a vid on it

Thank you for the great content

I believe now Door Dash does not give a damn about the dashers … Started today with a 4.72 rating and now I have a 4.47 for supposedly UNASSIGNED orders … I called support and the lady yelled at me … Called again and the agent said my name at least 50 times with NO explanation. People don’t rate here in the Bay Area as much, so they’re saying I unassigned myself from 10 orders yesterday. I have a 100% completion rating so how can this be … I have DECLINED orders but never UNASSIGNED. Didn’t help me that he couldn’t understand English that good … I’m DONE!

love the content do you do this full time?

As usual thanks for killing it

This was a great breakdown! Much appreciated 🙏 Especially bc I'm in a Midwest market. Also part of your Top Clown cost was the *additional gas you spent on the additional miles, and the *added depreciation to your auto parts which you would not have added. The additional depreciation thing is the hardest factor to quantify because from that point on you're always driving the vehicle on a higher amount of wear, so all wear you incur from that point forward accrues more quickly since the car is more worn down to begin with. Day after day. Snowballs.

One thing that gets an automatic decline from me is food bank orders. I did that once, I figured, I have a Kia Sedona minivan, so I can do that...found out it's like $2 per delivery average, and I was going all over Akron, including some sketchy areas. Not worth it IMO. Today I was doing Wadsworth/Barberton like I usually do, and it kept on trying to throw a food bank order at me (Akron/Canton regional). I kept declining and it STILL kept throwing it at me...my acceptance was at around 75% and it plummeted to 24%. WTF. Even though I kept selecting "I don't want to go to this store." Get a clue! It was so slow, and all I kept getting was Walmart (another automatic decline) and food bank, I said "screw you guys, I'm going home." LOL So...forget about being top dasher. Besides, I travel with my teenaged son, who's on the autism spectrum and can't be left home alone. Generally he's quiet, he just watches videos on his phone. Still, an 8 hour day is out of the question because he'll get antsy, and I don't blame him.

Ty Nuggs!

What's bunk is you get down rated by douchs from mistakes restaurants make.

There's so many content creators trying to make something of nothing going on in industry nice to see something that matters!!!!

Great job ty!

great job!

They send it to the top dashers all the garbage when it starts slowing down.

Hey Nuggs. I agree with your assessment on top dasher. I live in West LA and I was a top dasher for 2 months. Not worth it man! I had to take too many crappy orders to maintain that status. Now I cherry pick and make more than I did when I was top dasher. Gas prices, lack of parking, constant traffic, car maintenance etc make it not profitable to maintain top status here. You can't drive 12 miles for $7.00 where I am. It's just not a smart option for a driver.

Interesting observations. Curious though- if you upped the antie and day have five phones/people three top dasher and two not top dasher and then run the testing. The only variable that we will not ever know is how many drivers are active at any given time.

That’s good to know Nuggs! I still can’t figure out why I don’t get the total trip miles on every order. Some come through and some don’t. I have an IPhone any ideas?

Your the man Nuggs!

I just started dashing about a week ago. I'm in the Tacoma Washington area and was really wondering if it was worth it... But I can literally go dashing whenever I want and orders are usually back to back so after watching this I don't think I'm going to worry about it

Awesome work bro 👍. Top dasher 🙈🤑

I dash in a bigger market. I've sat next to another dasher and we pass orders back and forth. Sometimes she gets the first sometimes I get them. Almost 95% of the time we'll both see the same orders.

Great video, in my area I can only dash now for about 2 hours of the day, otherwise I need to drive 20 or sometimes 35 minutes to a hotspot. I'm going for top dasher in my case, it'll be a grind at first but I'm hoping it'll at least let me stay and work in my area. I'm in Australia btw, EVERYTHING is either dead or busy, no inbetween in this shithole.

Ty for the info

I have been wondering whether or not top dasher would be worth it or not. My area isn't busy all of the time so the biggest benefit for me would be dashing whenever I want so that's a huge perk.... but lose the Harry Potter glasses LOL!

I like the clean shaven look!

Ive done a 4$ meijer order. Afterwards I recieved 17$ from completion. I literally accept everything except taco bell because the taco bell where I live is dog shit, takes them 10-15 minutes per car and its drive through only. The gm or owner only puts 3 workers in there at night for a line of 30 cars. I only go to taco bell at 1am because its all thats open after that and all the drivers just sit around the lobby shooting the shit with each other until our order is called. Its bullshit there too. Taco bell needs to put 2-3 people on delivery orders. the other 4 on drive through, instead they have one person doing all the delivery orders.

I'm from Cullman, AL. You have to look at the area. It looks like a pair of pants. When it's red, the pants are on fire 🤣🤣

Thanks for the research.

It's crazy busy in my area. I could get top dasher, but I do this part time, so it's not worth it for me.

Great info

Very cool results! In my market with a HEAVY Dasher presence - being Top Dasher has its benefits. Remember; you can schedule ANY shift you want and further out on calendar than non Top Dashers. Reserve that spot and keep another Dasher out! LMAO..... As far as bigger orders - I have seen a definite increase in shop and deliver orders that pay pretty good here.

Link to your outro song??? It’s dope

Great video

I feel like by slow they mean between lunch and dinner when orders are sparse but they need people there

Watched your video about working at Wendy’s, it’s crazy they didn’t pay you anything for all those hours. Starting pay at Wendy’s in my area is 17$ an hour

thank you for doing gods work