I am a delivery driver. We got paid as such – $13 when we were inside the store, $6.50 on the road, tips, along with .85 cents a mile. The reason for the high mileage was because the tips in our location were not very good. But still on busy nights it was fairly common for us to make $100-$150 in 8-10 hours.
So, news come that our franchisee sold all of his stores, and we will be under the new management fairly shortly. Then they start coming in, they make all the employees who wish to stay basically fill everything out as if they were applying for the job again.. but the biggest red flag is that they wouldn't tell us if the driver's pay will remain the same. I should've left then and there but I wanted to give them a chance and not be that negative.
So, sale becomes official and we have our first day. Low and behold – It was what everyone expected, they lowered our pay. And badly. Our new payout was $13.50 inside/$5.55 on the road/ and .28 cents mileage reimbursement. We were expecting it to be bad, but not this bad. Our delivery area is fairly small and our farthest trip was 5 miles roundtrip. But that would take you like 30 minutes because it was a fairly populated area.
So normally we would drive 50-60 miles a shift and what usually is a $40-$50 mileage reimbursement turned into $14-$18. So we would basically lose $20-$30 a shift. As expected, everyone started quitting. What used to be 7 people listed as available for full-time closing eventually turned to 1. The morning shift went from 5 drivers to 1.
2 hour delivery time became fairly common. Customers became nastier to the insider crew and drove them away. According to the people that stayed that were from the old company, which is now down 2, new hires don't last a full pay-period. Now, a year later. I still do the same thing but 20 minutes away from my house and from what I heard and personally seen (Yes I still visit my old coworkers like once every 3 months + one of my old managers ended up applying to the same company as me 4 months later) they went from 40k a week average to a whopping 24k a week average. Fairly common to have 1 closing driver for the whole day. Delivery gets shut down early and often simply because they have nobody
So now all I can think of – is good. They bought a total of 6 stores. I know the neighboring store that was 3 miles away suffered the same issue as well because I ordered twice from them and once they came 2 1/2 hours later and the 2nd time they called me and asked if I wanted to pick up my order because their last delivery driver had left.
All I can remember is just several of us asking them to please raise mileage because the tips were so shit. But they were like “Nope, sorry. We don't control that.” or the boldest response “Our drivers at our other location make less and they're perfectly fine so I don't wanna hear it.” The day that got me to quit I made $30 on 17 deliveries. It was just 0 after 0. I was the only driver so I was taking 3 – 4 deliveries at the time so my mileage was like $7.
All I can say now is I hope they enjoy their new investment.