As I made clear in that thread, there isn't much difference between the providers, in many cases it's the same riders using two or more Apps, I haven't a lot to add to that post. I objected there to the idea that all these riders can be lumped together and treated as some sort of homogenised group, I still do, it simply is not the case.Paradiddle wrote: ↑23 Aug 2021, 11:33am I know there's already a sizeable Deliveroo thread here: viewtopic.php?f=7&t=103492&hilit=deliveroo
but I'd like to get a view on other food delivery riders as well e.g. UberEat, JustEat.
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There have been some pandemic changes, though they're unlikely to have effected the way people ride.
Just Eat are rolling out a plan to take most of their deliveries in house, with fully employed riders/drivers, it hasn't happened in Derby yet, but those I know who transferred in another city found it much worse. McDonalds are also planning to offer their own delivery service, though the details are sketchy. Outside of the major city centres, there's now less bikes and more cars, many taxi drivers transferred when their work dried up at the start of the first lockdown, I expect quite a few will continue. Deliveroo have recently started differentiating between bikes and E-bikes, with the latter getting a premium, so much so that I'm considering changing.
I did 7 hours yesterday, 62km, it was fairly busy, I don't think any of the gaps between jobs was more than 10 min, yet it was still less than four hours riding, the rest of the time is waiting, for the job, at the collection, at the delivery... changing the way you ride isn't going to have a huge impact on that.