{"id":13699,"date":"2024-05-19T16:04:22","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T16:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13699"},"modified":"2024-05-19T16:04:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T16:04:27","slug":"food-delivery-fees-have-soared-how-much-of-it-goes-to-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13699","title":{"rendered":"Food delivery fees have soared. How much of it goes to workers?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Much attention has been paid to the fact that delivery apps aren\u2019t profitable, or were on a long road to becoming profitable \u2014 but that\u2019s in large part because they chose to invest aggressively in growth over being in the black at the end of the year. Last year, DoorDash\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net\/CIK-0001792789\/22478833-4051-473e-9a9d-048e0c200bfa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">profit margin<\/a>&nbsp;was nearly 49 percent. Even after deducting a bunch of its biggest expenses, including driver pay, Uber\u2019s delivery segment&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net\/CIK-0001543151\/6fabd79a-baa9-4b08-84fe-deab4ef8415f.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pocketed $1.5 billion<\/a>, an increase of 173 percent from 2022.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/money\/24118201\/food-delivery-cost-expensive-doordash-ubereats-grubhub\">https:\/\/www.vox.com\/money\/24118201\/food-delivery-cost-expensive-doordash-ubereats-grubhub<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Much attention has been paid to the fact that delivery apps aren\u2019t profitable, or were on a long road to becoming profitable \u2014 but that\u2019s in large part because they chose to invest aggressively in growth over being in the black at the end of the year. Last year, DoorDash\u2019s profit margin was nearly 49 percent. Even after deducting a bunch of its biggest expenses, including driver pay, Uber\u2019s delivery segment pocketed $1.5 billion, an increase of 173 percent from 2022.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.vox.com\/money\/24118201\/food-delivery-cost-expensive-doordash-ubereats-grubhub<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13701,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions\/13701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}