So, what's the recommended way to transport a fast food order for a family of four by bike?
I mean, my bike has a basket, so that's an easy solve for the food part. But the drinks! What's the recommended way to bike with four large sodas?
I'm tempted to learn basic CAD and 3D print some kind of 4x wide cupholder to hang from the front of the basket. Or two 2x holders to hang from each side.
#Brazil#IFood#GigEconomy#FoodDelivery: "- Brazil’s biggest last-mile delivery app iFood set up a help center for its gig workers in January, but none have shown up so far.
The facility aims to provide legal and psychological support to workers who have been harassed or assaulted by customers while making deliveries.
But drivers say the facility’s location is inconvenient as it is too far from their work areas."
Here's Nesrine Malik making at length a point that I've been posting on for some time.
#gigeconomy firms, here specifically #fooddelivery firms, whatever their claims around innovation in their #technology or organisational approach, are only profitable because the exploit there #workers via low(er) wages & denied employment rights.
Otherwise, their businesses are not sustainable: 'The business model itself demands exploitation'!
#GigEconomy#PlatformWork#FoodDelivery: "The knowledge that workers have of the systems they work under is an outcome of strategic choices by platforms and by workers themselves. Based on three initiatives undertaken by food distribution workers in Scotland, this article explores the obstacles that platform workers face when conducting inquiries into their systems of control, and investigates the potential for workers to overcome these obstacles through collaborative research projects. By drawing analogies from the history of workers' inquiries into changing labour processes, the article evaluates these three initiatives in light of previous efforts by workers to monitor complex and concealed management structures. It offers a new concept of ‘worker data science’ to describe the techniques, skills and methods that workers require to arrive at answers to questions that emerge through their inquiries, and concludes that such purposive science has the potential to equip workers to support one another and to resist and challenge some of the commands and calculations that emerge from platforms' hidden algorithmic systems."
Grab PH should not be allowed to buy Foodpanda PH because that would create a virtual monopoly in online food delivery services. Grab PH already controls the 4-wheeled-vehicle ride hailing market when it bought Uber PH.
So that's why getting a delivery rider last night took so long, I had to cancel twice and resort to having my husband pick up the order instead. I do hope Grab rectifies this ASAP for the sake of (primarily) the hardworking riders and ultimately, the customers:
Does DoorDash not have any rules about delivering your food to a person? I've never used it before but I just watched a DoorDash driver throw somebody's bag of McDonald's food by our entry door on the dirty parking lot. As somebody with OCD I don't like people to handle my food to begin with so the least amount of people doing it the better. Having my food thrown in a dirty parking lot would ruin it for me, even if it is in wrappers.