> out of the 22 dollars the customer paid for the delivery, I received 5.61 before tip
I am completely ignorant on how this works on the driver’s side, so I could be missing something here:
Those 22 dollars the customer paid include whatever food you were delivering, right?
Now, I’m sure the Food cost/Service cost split changes from country to country (I’m somewhere in the Euro zone)… but interpolating from those numbers, I get the feeling that Uber must be subsidizing the service very heavily.
They don’t charge that much extra money to the customer, so I wonder where the profit is coming from.
I’m having trouble conceptualizing how they are making any actual profit after expenses, and in the meantime they (and their ilk) are pushing the traditional restaurant delivery network away since they cannot compete or price nor convenience.
I don’t have a conclusion for this train of thought, just a bit of shock here in the early morning.