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Before I Explain
My 5 Star Driver Qualities?
Customers, It Really Does Benefit You
To Report 5 Star Service

Drivers With Better Ratings
Are Offered Higher Paying Orders First
Basically The Orders With Tips
If You Tipped Well,
Don't You Want Top Drivers Offered Your Order First?

Every time you 5 star a good driver, it likely increase your chances of getting a good driver next time you order. And I really don't want to give this one away, but since I appreciate all my customers equally. My folks that don't tip, you really need to 5 star when you had a good driver. Anything published on this site is never intended, to encourage you to give a bad driver a good rating.

They claim to offer higher paying orders, to drivers with better ratings FIRST. (basically orders with tips) The drivers with low ratings get the left over, low paying orders. I'm not sure how far they go with this. But I have reason to believe that even if I'm sitting at the restaurant. And a low paying order is available, they offer it to a lower rated driver first. Who may be much further away from the restaurant as I am. And the app waits to offer me a higher paying order. This one is really hard for drivers to test and figure out. But all suspicions point us to believe that this actually happens.

Now they have sent me some orders labeled as “high pay” And I'm like “ya that amount is high pay if you are a oompa loompa in Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory lol. Doordash and Instacart claim to offer deliveries to drivers with higher ratings FIRST. Based on your star rating, and acceptance rate. And Doordash seems to follow through with that way of doing things. I have tested this with a few drivers. We parked in the same location, compared our ratings. Then waited to see who was offered a delivery first. All 5 times we did this had the same result. The driver with the higher acceptance rate was offered the delivery first. If our acceptance rate happened to be the same. Then our star rating seemed to be the tie breaker.

Lets Get Into My 5 Star Qualities
Delivery Selection
I focus on one delivery at a time
Even though the apps offer extra deliverys
Which will earn you more money
But it will make your 1st delivery take longer
So I basically take a pay cut, to make your delivery faster
That doesn't deserve a 5 star?

Also drivers get to choose their delivery's, after seeing the tip. But I accept the majority of all orders regardless of tip. As long as it doesn't dip into the negative profit area.

Your order may have been bounced around the dispatch pool for several minutes, drivers declining because of low pay. Before it even gets offered to me, so please don't punish me for that time gap with a bad rating

It's out of my control, and I can do anything about it.

Heated Delivery Bags
I Think I'm The Only One In The Yuba / Sutter area

The Inside temperature of my heated bags reaches 150 degrees. Some drivers don't even use regular bags
Thankfully the number of them is decreasing. The sooner the better, I mean come on. When did a pizza driver ever show up at your door, with no hot bag. We're no different, in fact it's more important we use them.

Your Delivery Instructions
I Take Them Seriously

I follow them best I can as they are written. But sometimes they can be a little unclear. I try to communicate through text to clarify, so watch out for texts from your driver.

It's kind of odd, but you have to ask your driver to knock before leaving. If it's not in the delivery instructions, we're not supposed to do it.

Order Verification
And Quality
I Do All That's Possible

I check orders best I can, but most bags are sealed. And we absolutely can't break that seal. bags that are not sealed we can do an item count. But we simply can't get into if the items are prepared correctly.

If the bag is obviously wrong, I'm NOT leaving the restaurant until they open it and check it.

No exceptions lol, I've really gotten into it with some restaurants. In the end they are always like "oh you were right"

My GPS Navigation Game
A Little Overboard, he he

I use 3 common GPS systems, and one I built myself. That covers apartment complex numbers, business parks, the Google Errors Etc.

And I remember what a good old fashioned road atlas is. So my brain knows how to find stuff as well as the GPS.

When Drivers Earn A 5 Star
Why Is It Vital You Give It To Them?
Doing So also Benefits The Customer

Some of these ratings surveys have the equivalent logic of the Salem witch trials. And their punishment is like something out of the medieval period. It takes 100 new 5 star ratings, just to clear 1 bad rating.

This no logic system, where they don't even forward the driver your complaint. Has accidentally kicked many good drivers off the platform. Because the bad ratings never go away, and eventually get you.

When you give that deserving delivery person their 5 star. It means they get more road time, and priority access to delivery orders over others. Don't you want the great drivers having first dibs on your delivery?

Well give them their earned rating, and they will.