Dashers should complete at least two dashes per hour
Every dasher should have a goal of completing at least two dashes per hour. This means if a dasher gets a call at 5p.m they will need to pick it up from the restaurant and drop it off to the customer by 5:30pm. If running a little late and the food is dropped off at 5:35, there's no need to feel discouraged, and they should try to have the next order delivered by 6pm. This is the most lucrative way for a dasher to make sure that they are earning as much as possible.
When a dasher completes two dashes per hour, they can easily add up what those two dashes paid and figure out their earnings for that hour. If one call paid $6, and the other call paid $8 then it's easy to calculate the $14 earned for that one hour. Of course, we are simplifying it here as we're not calculating gas expenses and other expenses such as wear and tear on your vehicle. This is just giving a simple figure about how much you'll get paid for your hour of work.
How to do two dashes per hour
Completing two dashes per hour is not difficult at all and should be easily attainable for most dashers. As long as Doordash keeps pinging assignments, you should never have a problem doing two dashes per hour unless something holds you up. A restaurant taking forever to prepare a customer's order can be a time waster. Most of the time though this is not the case. Another thing that can mess up your two calls per hour goal is when Doordash gets really slow, and no calls are coming in.
Those that work at large metropolitan areas such as the Downtown area of Los Angeles or New York City will rarely experience the problem of not having enough calls coming in, but it can and does happen every once in a while. Those that dash in the suburbs will have streaks of no calls happening a bit more often that the big city dashers. Then you have those dashers that are dashing in rural areas and have it even worse. Lengthy streaks of no calls coming in can happen anywhere, but generally this is not the case and you will be busy.
How about completing three dashes per hour?
Those that are real quick may be wondering why they shouldn't shoot for three dashes per hour. After all, they are pretty quick and navigate around their area like a breeze. There has been those that claim to have averaged three dashes per hour which is honestly very unlikely. Sure, there are hour blocks when a dasher can do three dashes per hour. Heck, there may even be an hour when they do four dashes, but it is a guarantee that they will never average three dashes per hour. There are just too many things that can and will go wrong.
On the opposite side of the token, if you are averaging one dash per hour, then you are doing something very wrong. It should not take you one hour to complete an assignment. Either you are a very slow driver, or you don't have a good sense of direction. I'll tell you this though; there is a rural area that I have dashed in and only one call came in per hour. If you are in an area that is normally slow like this, there is really not much that you can do. The only way out of this is to work multiple apps at the same time so that you can get as many calls as possible.
How many dashes do you average per hour? It seems like the norm for most dashers is three completed dashes every two hours. If you are at this pace, you are doing alright. Dashing does get easier for a person when they learn the area that they are dashing in. In my area, whenever I get a ping and see the name of the restaurant, I already know where I am going. If I were to work a new region that I have never worked before, I would of course be a bit slower, and the dashes would take me longer as I do not know the area.
Not impossible to balance three deliveries an hour if you are working on a batch order of 2 + 1 regular order or even a 3 batch.
ReplyDeleteI agree that you can do 3 dashes per hour, but to be able to do that consistently throughout the day is highly unlikely. You will not even get 3 orders every hour throughout the day, but even if you did, there would be orders that would end up being far that would through you off of the 3 per hour pace. It's great to try 3 per hour, and it can be fun, but when you don't succeed, it's nothing to be shamed about. If you are averaging 2 dashes per hour, you are doing great.
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