Are you a driver who just disregards
the $3 add ons?
All right, we've got the first order.
I got the first order just around the corner from home
as soon as I turned app on.
So that was very handy.
Should be a pretty easy pick up.
And then I got the add on order as well, which is on the way to the drop off.
So it's
a couple of good orders to get us started.
Hopefully that's the theme for the day.
Thank you.
All right.
We've got the first one in the bag and we're on the way
to pick up the second one, which is 3 minutes away.
Pasta Go Go.
One of my favorite pick ups, They're always ready.
So I never decline one from Pasta Go Go
really because I just know I'm not going to wait.
So it's always an efficient pickup starting off the day.
really well, it's good.
Okay, we've got both orders. Both were ready.
Quick pickups so far today.
The add on was good.
$3 for, I think it was 600 meters.
Have to check that.
I don't understand why people say don't accept add ons.
And, you know, $3 is not enough.
Like, wouldn't you accept that?
Add on $3 to 600 meters?
I like to accept add ons.
You have to assess them just like any other order.
Sometimes they're not worth it, but
the price really doesn't matter.
To me.
It's more about the number of kilometers
that adds to the trip.
And I think if you're adding 600 meters,
you can't really go wrong with an additional $3.
The only time that it can go wrong, I guess, is if you end up waiting
at the restaurant,
because it's certainly not worth waiting for $3.
But I knew the restaurant.
I knew the order was going to be ready.
I can't say no to another $3 on that order.
That one that we just dropped off was an add on for $3.
And it's basically on the way
and the order was ready.
So I'm quite happy with that add-on
I know there's a lot of drivers who say don't accept $3 add ons,
but that's never been my rule.
I'm quite happy to accept a $3 add on if it's minimal kilometers
and it's on the way to my drop off, let me know what you think.
Are you a driver who just disregards
the $3 add ons, or do you assess them
Personally
I think you need to assess each order on its merit.
You can have an $8 add on that's not good or a $3 add on
that's awesome.
So I don't think you can really just say don't take $3 add ons.
So my advice to new drivers is always just assess the order
each order that comes in, make sure it’s the right one for you.
Okay, two orders down.
I've got the next one. It's
a little bit of a drive.
8 minutes, but the order was quite good.
So I think the drop offs pretty close to pick up.
But there's some traffic up here.
So we might just
avoid the traffic.
So I haven't done a lunch shift for a while and
yeah, there's a lot of Christmas shopping
traffic around.
All of the shopping centers are very busy.
All of the car parks are very busy.
There's a lot of people out and about.
So just got to be careful where we pick up. I declined
this one on the way to that last drop off because I think the order is in the city.
I think the restaurant
and I don't
fancy going into the city at lunchtime
during the peak Christmas shopping
period.
All right.
So talking about add on orders, there's another $3 add on.
And this one I did not accept because
it looks like it's going to be hard to park
Soonta, where’s Soonta?
No, hard to park.
It's going to be really hard to park at the moment.
Okay, we need to find another way to get to the customer, because
the whole streets backed up, and I'm not going to go that way.
We'll go this way.
Yeah. Lots of traffic.
Lots of traffic. Christmas shopping.
Everyone's hecticly running around, trying to do their last minute stuff.
People are on holidays now.
School holidays and work holidays
I declined those orders because
The Parade,
the the street where the restaurants are located is really busy right now.
It's lunchtime people on holidays, people are doing Christmas shopping.
The whole street was backed up with traffic and
for $3, I don't want to try and find a park
and then go to the restaurant and then have to wait.
It's not worth it.
Whereas Pasta Go Go
I knew that I was going to be able to get a park.
I knew the order would be ready, so it makes it worth it.
So you just need to assess every order
on its merits,
make a decision.
Now we're just taking a little back route to the customer
because the traffic was so bad
on that main road that wasn't really moving. So
this will be much faster
All Right
Hopefully we can pick something up that's
going away from that
shopping precinct.
In fact,
I think I will only take something that's not picking up in that little
shopping precinct
because it's way too busy.
So if you're delivering food at the moment, like this week
leading up to Christmas, you're doing everyone a huge favor.
You're doing a good job
because it's really busy and it's hard to get around.
It's hard to get parking.
So good on you.
Providing a service for people.
Okay, we've just picked up the next order at O’Porto
which is not too difficult to get to.
So that's what I'm after and it's dropping me
back in my local area, which means I'll probably
log off after this.
I'm just doing a quick lunch run today,
so we might go to pick this order up and then head home.
Okay, Our order was ready
and we've got 6 minutes
to the drop off.
Okay, that's the last order dropped off.
I'm going to log off now.
And I’ve made $31.57
4 trips in
one hour and 7 minutes, so around about $30 an hour,
which is okay for lunch.
And considering that the traffic was pretty bad, I'm happy with that.
That's fine.
Let me know what you think about add
on orders. I'll be keen to understand what other drivers think of them.
Seems to me
there's a school of thought that you just don't accept $3 dollar add ons.
But I just can’t agree with that.
So yeah.
Keen to get some other people's thoughts.
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