The food delivery industry is no longer attractive?

Many food delivery workers complained that their income was lower than before. Some people only earned RM50 for working 12 hours. After deducting petrol and food expenses, they only had a net income of RM5!

Azim, an IT graduate who works as a food delivery worker , pointed out to Kosmo! that in addition to a decrease in income, most food delivery workers are often in a state of "waiting" due to delays in fulfilling orders by restaurant operators.

"The high number of food delivery staff , coupled with the fact that many people rather go out and takeaway, is one of the reasons for the decline in orders received.

"In addition, the restaurant operator delayed the completion of the order, which caused the delivery staff to sit outside the restaurant to 'wait' for up to two hours. If the customer chooses to cancel the order, it is our delivery staff to suffer ."

Hilmi, another food delivery man, pointed out that he only earns RM50 for working 12 hours a day and only RM5 after deducting gas and food expenses, which he thinks is not worth the situation, but in the Until he could find a new job, he can only grit his teeth and keep going.

"If I give up now, I'm afraid I won't even have money for my daily expenses. Sometimes my income can reach RM200 a day, and sometimes I only receive nine orders, which is quite exhausting."

While working as a food delivery man in 2020, Mohd Rizal said he was earning RM6,000 a month at the time, but his income dropped significantly after the country entered the transitional phase of the endemic.

“Currently I work 12 hours starting at 8am and only get RM80 to RM100 a day.”

Mohd Firdaus , who has been a food delivery worker for 4 years, believes that the frequent policy changes of the food delivery platform have caused a lot of inconvenience to the delivery workers .

“In the past , the delivery staff receives a delivery fee of RM4 for each order delivered, but now, the delivery fee will be reduced for each order being delivered. In order to meet the key performance indicators (KPI), they have to keep on accepting more orders, otherwise, if the KPI is not hit, there will be less income."

https://www.kosmo.com.my/2022/10/14/upah-ma...idai-yang-lama/
https://www.chinapress.com.my/?p=3154650

This post has been edited by premier239: Oct 14 2022, 08:16 PM

Yup, I can confirm restaurant really delay rider food….

I order char siew rice,
I saw riderwait almost 1 hour….
Walao…not that much people also can so long….
I know cos I got go that stall eat,
Normally, just need wait 5~10 minute for 6 people food…

poco loco really ka

time for the delivery fees to plummet

Semua olang nak grab RM6k, siapa nak masak?

Kejap earn 4k, 8k, kejap earn 5bux

Cool setori

Why the restaurant do that?

Tomas said work 4-5 hours can get rm100 liao.. me want join don't like that la rm5 so cb..

Meanwhile, gaji menteri naik, but work didn't increase value.

for mcd, they give prioritize to mcdelivery order

I don’t know…
That restaurant now day quite expensive…
I no choice cos no lunch to eat, and got gastric…

Like pisang goreng cheese. One person do, then everybody do, then everybody mati.

Actually when bukak the rider association already sound the warning. Earnings dropping

But the kuda post on soc med that keeps saying rider can earn money keep blinding ppl to what we most suspect. Bubble has burst. But the hype train keeps rolling on the Internet, don't need to study just do grab

Sometimes I wonder if the ppl behind the hype got an ulterior motive.

If they have equal traffic of customers between walk in and grab, they prefer to cater walk ins because they pay full fare and dont cut into profit. Grab makes profit like crazy off restaurants, but they have no choice if they want volume orders each day. Some hardly make any profit at all selling off grab, but still do so simply for exposure.

Many ppl think they are smart without education. No need degree just go earn money. No need to study. Form 5 enough just go do gig economy.

End up they dont even know how the world works and just become sheeps to the slaughterhouse

I see. Yea, while I'm grateful for the 50% vouchers by Grab, I sometimes wonder how can the restaurant make any profit from me since I always order the minimum amount to quality for the vouchers.

lmao meals on grabfood is at least double the price vs walk in

truly has become a luxury

Why need deduct food expenses, when u can songlap customer's food


Owaii

Yup. Don't need degree can purse vocational or trade craft. Cannot do formal can try apprenticeship
It's hard but there is a light at the end of the tunnel. When ppl say this the argument is do grab can get 5K with freedom to boot

Ppl don't know that the 5K has a very thin margin of error. Sick or motor rosak that's it for the week or worst case the month. There is no progression. In fact no progression is a best case scenario assuming gig riders serving food delivery can operate in the same economic climate in perpetuity. Now if this report is correct, music has stopped

Still I hope it's not the case and ppl still can make a decent living. For those that earn money hopefully they saved up to do other stuff that can kick start their careers in other areas

Its just basic supply demand...when u have people dropping outta university education because they say delivery guy can earn big then u know this is bound to happen