[Food] Uber Eats

[The Clamp]

Brighton is a very small place packed with tons of restaurants (the most restaurants and pubs per swuare mile in the uk), When you consider Brighton & Hove's affluence, student scene, many london commuters getting home late and tired. Plus it's the 2nd most densely populated city in the UK almost on par with London. Maybe this city is an exception in terms of what they can earn in the courier business? Either way, I don't see the harm. Being ill and having a sushi meal and a freshly juiced drink, delivered to your door in under 30 mins is something we would've dreamt of only a few years back. Definitely an industry this city benefits from.

All true but he still has to put the hours in.

 

[Megazone]

All true but he still has to put the hours in.

I don't know how many hours he does, but he targets 25 drops a day.

To be fair, that would probably take all day.

 

[The Clamp]

I don't know how many hours he does, but he targets 25 drops a day.

To be fair, that would probably take all day.

Fair play to the guy. I googled and it seems average earnings are £15 ph. So it seems I was wrong, that’s a fair wage.

 

[Megazone]

Fair play to the guy. I googled and it seems average earnings are £15 ph. So it seems I was wrong, that’s a fair wage.

Not for long.

Sadly for them, Uber are about to buy Deliveroo. Uber currently pay their courier staff £2.50 a drop.

 

[The Clamp]

Not for long.

Sadly for them, Uber are about to buy Deliveroo. Uber currently pay their courier staff £2.50 a drop.

Crikey, that’s appalling. He must be gutted.

 

[Gwylan]

Brighton is a very small place packed with tons of restaurants (the most restaurants and pubs per swuare mile in the uk), When you consider Brighton & Hove's affluence, student scene, many london commuters getting home late and tired. Plus it's the 2nd most densely populated city in the UK almost on par with London.

I don't know where you get the idea that we're the second most populated city after London. According to the Office of National Statistics, we just scrape into the top 20 - but with a density about a quarter of London. Portsmouth is the densest place outside London, just ahead of Southampton and Luton.

I haven't looked at figures for restaurants and pubs per sq mile but I'd be very surprised if we're anywhere near the top - there are a huge numbers of areas with no eating/drinking places: look at Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Hollingdean, Hollingbury, Coldean, Patcham and Stanmer - that's a massive area in total and you can count the number of eating and drinking places (not counting takeaways) on the fingers of your hands.

 

[beorhthelm]

Not for long.

Sadly for them, Uber are about to buy Deliveroo. Uber currently pay their courier staff £2.50 a drop.

there was talk of that a month ago. i understand Deliveroo are still expanding their "Editions" kitchens so they may not be interested in selling.

 

[Geestar]

Not for long.

Sadly for them, Uber are about to buy Deliveroo. Uber currently pay their courier staff £2.50 a drop.

£2.50? I was getting minimum £4+ in Newcastle

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[dazzer6666]

I don't know where you get the idea that we're the second most populated city after London. According to the Office of National Statistics, we just scrape into the top 20 - but with a density about a quarter of London. Portsmouth is the densest place outside London, just ahead of Southampton and Luton.

I haven't looked at figures for restaurants and pubs per sq mile but I'd be very surprised if we're anywhere near the top - there are a huge numbers of areas with no eating/drinking places: look at Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Hollingdean, Hollingbury, Coldean, Patcham and Stanmer - that's a massive area in total and you can count the number of eating and drinking places (not counting takeaways) on the fingers of your hands.

Sorry, made me chuckle. #twats.

 

[Icy Gull]

I genuinely believe that this might stem from a lack knowledge of this custom in the UK, due to it being a relatively new trade.

I've always tipped cabbies, waiters and barbers, but never takeaway delivery people. I only found out a couple of weeks ago that some people do. Honest.

I would be genuinely embarrassed to take the food and not tip the delivery guy

Soft touch me, not suggesting that tipping is obligatory.

I even tip the AA guy when he fixes or tows my car on a breakdown.

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Fair play to the guy. I googled and it seems average earnings are £15 ph. So it seems I was wrong, that’s a fair wage.

I am sure it is £4 a drop, plus any tips.

Adds up if you are doing short trips.

 

[astralavi]

The new pay structure is a month or so old. Uber take about twenty per cent of car delivery, 25 of scooter and 30 per cent of cycles

Minimum fee is 4 pounds then uber take a percentage, so a cycle drop is £2.80 fee, then, beyond one mile, there is an add of approx 10p per mile

A take over of Deliveroo is not desirable!

 

[Megazone]

I don't know where you get the idea that we're the second most populated city after London. According to the Office of National Statistics, we just scrape into the top 20 - but with a density about a quarter of London. Portsmouth is the densest place outside London, just ahead of Southampton and Luton.

I haven't looked at figures for restaurants and pubs per sq mile but I'd be very surprised if we're anywhere near the top - there are a huge numbers of areas with no eating/drinking places: look at Moulsecoomb, Bevendean, Hollingdean, Hollingbury, Coldean, Patcham and Stanmer - that's a massive area in total and you can count the number of eating and drinking places (not counting takeaways) on the fingers of your hands.

Check wiki. We're the 2nd most densely populated city. Liverpool 3rd.

Watch the programme 'undercover princes'. They send 3 princes to Brighton to fall in love, they mention on the programme that brighton was selected because it has more restaurantes and pubs per Square mile than any other city in the uk, plus the most single people in the uk.

 

[Megazone]

I don't know where you get the idea that we're the second most populated city after London. According to the Office of National Statistics, we just scrape into the top 20 - but with a density about a quarter of London. Portsmouth is the densest place outside London, just ahead of Southampton and Luton.

The Brighton/Worthing/Littlehampton conurbation is also the UK's most densely populated major conurbation outside London with 5304 people per km².[1] This is due to its tight boundaries between the South Downs national park to the north, and the English Channel to the south together with less land devoted to domestic gardens in English seaside towns than in inland towns.

It is a multi-centred conurbation and the eastern part, the city of Brighton and Hove, has approximately half of its population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_and_Hove_built-up_area

 

[Gwylan]

Check wiki. We're the 2nd most densely populated city. Liverpool 3rd.

Er .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by_population_density
"50 Brighton & Hove 3,480 Unitary authority, City (2000) East Sussex" (this does consider all the London boroughs separately, we'd be 20th if London was treated as one place)

 

[Megazone]

Er .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_districts_by_population_density
"50 Brighton & Hove 3,480 Unitary authority, City (2000) East Sussex" (this does consider all the London boroughs separately, we'd be 20th if London was treated as one place)

Read above post.

Your list is districts, my list is conurbation areas.

Maybe we're both wrong and right?

 

[Gwylan]

Read above post.

I did but it doesn't contradict what I said. B+H is not the 2nd most densely population city in the UK. You've added a completely different set of figures.

It's a bit like someone from Crawley saying they had to two Premier League teams in the area because they count Croydon and B&H as part of Crawley.

 

[Lush]

question this raised is how are supposedly poor students affording take away?

Based on my experience visiting my daughter at uni... delivery costs are not too bad if you're ordering for the whole house. Everyone presses a few buttons on their phones and their share of the order goes straight to the person doing the ordering - it's that easy. Plus you don't have to change out of your pyjamas and slippers.

My major bug bear is that in most professions you would have to be trained to use a work vehicle and pass a test. Not just stick L plates on it and you're good to go. Especially a vehicle where the business model requires you to drive as fast as possible.

 

[MattBackHome]

£2 tips on 100 deliveries is a disgrace

 

[Megazone]

I did but it doesn't contradict what I said. B+H is not the 2nd most densely population city in the UK. You've added a completely different set of figures.

It's a bit like someone from Crawley saying they had to two Premier League teams in the area because they count Croydon and B&H as part of Crawley.

You are aware that districts aren't cities?

Greater london is the most densely populated conurbation in the UK. The Brighton and Hove conurbation 2nd. Not sure how Crawley hs come into this?

Here's a reminder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_and_Hove_built-up_area