Uber Eats Driver Gets a Rush from Big Exciting Tips. He Takes ‘High-Value Orders’ & Receiving the Tips Feels ‘Like Gambling’
A 56-year-old Uber Eats driver in California focuses on “high-value orders” that he hopes will tip more, such as orders coming from Beverly Hills or Pacific Palisades.
An Uber Eats driver in California lives by a simple motto: “Go big, or don’t bother at all.”
The New York Times reported what it is like for Brantley Bush, a 56-year-old Uber Eats driver that gets a rush from high-paying orders. Brantley moved to Los Angeles in 1991 from Mobile, Alabama as an actor and has followed a similar path of other “struggling actors” trying to make ends meet while between acting gigs. He waited tables and has done catering gigs, but he wanted the flexibility to take acting classes and go to auditions. To fill the income gaps, he ended up delivering food for Uber Eats.
Bush Seeks Out the ‘High-Value Orders’
Some orders pay good tips, while others do not. This is the life of an app-based delivery driver.
Bush tries to carefully select “high-value orders” that will get him big tips. He focuses on prime establishments that are frequented by celebrities, and sometimes they pay handsomely. Do they always pay big? No, but some…
