Top 7 Reasons You’re LOSING Money As An Uber Eats Driver (2025)

Submitting a pic of your pizza bag does nothing. It will ask for another pic every time you pick one up and reset the verification every time. Without it you still get pizza orders just fine without the extra annoyance.

Uber's system is set up to keep sending orders to drivers after they're reported as already picked up. I've confirmed this with multiple support staff including supervisors.

I'll tell you this if you get like a $40 offer for like a low amount of mileage and you're right next to the place I took it and the right most of the time it doesn't pay off but one time it did if you're next to the place I would risk it

I actually get the 30-45 dollar orders that start out at like $5.86 goes round and round twice bam pay shoots up. We have TONS of doordash driver but very limited UberEats and UberX drivers so it works out nicely. If its super late at night ill sknetimes call to confirm they have the order before I head out.

I’m a hustla. I usually just do 3 at the same time (grub hub, door dash & uber eats). Especially late night when only McDonald’s or Wendy’s are open. You just gotta make sure the food from all 3 are heading in same direction.
Example:
If Uber eats gives me a $8order at Wendy’s for 15min trip, I’ll mark it’s not ready, sit there for a couple minutes until DD OR GH gives me orders from same Wendy’s because it’s the only one open. So I just make sure they’re going in sane direction. It’s worked 8 outta 10 times. I’ll have like 3uber eats orders, 1 DD & 1 GH. All going in sane direction. So I’ll go from $8 for one trip to like 5-6 orders at once for $40-$50plus going in same direction. All I do is make sure I communicate with each customer. As long as they know you’re coming and not too late their cool 😎

I'm auto accepted into quests

drivers steal the food and then cancel the order on ue so then it sends the order to another driver , its only until someone calls CS does the snowball stop. They need to make restraunts force drivers to confirm the order when they pick it up.

And apparently recently , Uber eats has said it’s “software glitches” when you get somewhere and they have no record of order. One restaurant around here always says someone already picked it up. I sense they are lying and have no 😮idea where it is. I always contact the customer to tell them either restaurant is closed or that restaurant does not have their order. Then I tell them to contact Uber eats support to find out how to get their food. I feel quite bad for people waiting for food that is not coming, plus if they contact support then the next 5 drivers don’t end up wasting time on a ghost order.

You give a lot of great advice which I usually follow and it works out well. Thanks Mike!

Stuff like those overpriced offers are red flags! They happen ALOT. Ghost orders are ALWAYS way too much money; I get one or two ghost orders every time I go out.

Just take the ghost order and just go close the the drop off and get paid it works every time.

I used to get $3 for each of these. Three or four times they remake them for me especially if it is easy like a sub.

I have a Mexican restaurant my area They have a sign on their door to clearly says if you don't have a food bag don't even bother coming in.
Some restaurants are trying to protect their brand and protect the quality of their service to their customers.
This also helps weed out the drivers that just go around and steal food.
If you want to be taken seriously you need to have a food bag

Uber Eats is the best. Thank you for such great offers today. One of which triumpt all offers I have received, $5.02 for 35 miles 4 stops. Too bad I couldn't take it because I was on break and eating my sandwich.

Shop and delivers were good about 2 months ago. Approx $20 per shop for 1 mile

I got a shopping order from uber once 35 dollar pay from Uber for 2 things of cookie dough plus he tipped 2 Only a couple of miles. How does that happen?!?!

Here in California we haven't had any Ubereats quests in more than 2 years.

what's crazy about those ghost orders is that it's high pay from uber, not the customer. you'd think it was the custy upping the tip because nobody delivered, but it's actually uber raising the pay. so does that mean the longer it takes for a driver to commit makes the rate go higher??

every time i've had one of those the restaurant said somebody already picked it up. very strange. might be the customer picking it up but I've customers that sounded really mad

I open mine everyday for the past year and never seen a quest. Ever.

Allways call 1st to varify order is still there?

nice

I haven’t seen quest bonuses in some months here in south Florida market

If the app sends us and it's not there, that is negligence on the app company's part. They offered and we accepted. Made up my mind, I am suing the next time. It will include my time filing cost, going to court, money lost because of their negligence because I had to waste time to recover the cost of the contract breech! And... some for punitive damages. Enough of these suits and they will be more careful.

Hey there. Those ghost offers do exist. I grab them if pickup location is within a mile or so. Usually it's one-two item orders. If it was picked up by someone else some restaurants still will remake them if you ask politely. If not then call support. Agent will tell you that UE is no longer compensate for time and mileage traveled to the restaurant. Tell the agent that you request to escalate this matter to a supervisor and you'll get $10 or $15 so called "adjustment". Works every time for me so far.

I jade a few of those too good to be true orders. I will make it work if it makes sense.

I turned down a shop and pay for $18 for like 15 items bc I didn’t know the store at all. Never seen it, never heard of it. Decline, for safety measures.

Man I hit a new low 0% acceptance rating

UE is hot garbage

Is it just me or is it that every time I see a female with an African name they are sure not to tip ? Anyone ???

Yeah,I see crap like that all the time. GUARANTEED a 30 dollar McDonald's order is not real. NEVER. UE is AWFUL in my market. A typical UE order is something like: $4 for an 18 mi drive. Ridiculous. My AR is in the low teens.

I sometines drive for Ubereats in Long Island. Last Christmas season I accepted 2 package deliveries, each time I was sent to Manhattan! I did not know the destination until I picked up the packages. I could have canceled, but at that point I was with the customer and did not want to disappoint. They were so not worth it.

Question: I now fear picking up package deliveries. Has the software changed to show the destination before accepting it?

I get bonus pay every weekend on delivery in pittsburgh. I have taken low paying orders and the customer put the tip on after delivery. Also some low paying offers will bring me back closer to home after a long distance delivery.

UE IS Dumpster Sh7t Compared 2 the other food delivery platforms. It's Sad BUT TRUE.

I get quest bonus $2 to $4 per order most every day . Extra $30 for 10 shop and deliver completed in a week.

I’ve had some ghost orders from Taco Bell and McDonald’s that were $30-$40. What I ended up doing was spending the 10 or $11 for the order and still delivered it and got paid.

I'll always take those high paying ghost orders because occasionally I complete them. Either by having the restaurant remake a stolen order or having the customer change their order if the restaurant is out of an item

Greedy drivers should be fired

31% AR i still cherry pick its gotta make sense or I’m not accepting it, honestly i don’t take anything less than $5 , were out here to make a profit this isn’t charity work, the most annoying thing about delivering is the Meet at door ( generally having to wait on the customers )/ needing a Pin to complete order, and apartment complexes ( in general lol i despise them! ) Almost 250 deliveries in i have only not received a tip 1 time. The great thing about it is the flexibility i prefer UE App setup far more than DD.

Uber eats is squid games at this point

The number one reason you are losing money doing ubereats is because your working for them and accepting those high paying $2 orders 💯😂