Uber Eats by Walking in Canada as an International Student

Many students and working professionals are doing Uber Eats delivery in Canada. It is the best hustle to make money by working in your free time. Well, there are three modes of doing Uber Eats such as car, bicycle, and on foot. But in this post, we are going to give a detailed overview of Uber Eats Walker.

People have many questions in their minds regarding the Uber Eats walker in Canada. Questions are how to become Uber Eats Walker, who can do it, what are the benefits of it, and how much money to be made. Any person who is living in Canada can do Uber Eats.

Due to the recession, the number of jobs has decreased and prices of the products have increased. It has become harder for people to cope with the expenses. It is especially harder for international students who do not have any connections t get a job. Every student wants to do at least a part-time job so that they can handle their expenses on their own.

Of course, people can’t afford a car for Uber Eats. However, they can do Uber Eats Walker and Uber Eats Bicycle with very little investment. Uber Eats Bicycle is better than Uber Eats Walker, but you can choose which fits you. Just refer to the linked post for a better understanding.

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3. Why is Uber Eats Walker Delivery Good for People / International Students?

Usually, people, especially international students, in Canada do not have any connections or friends who can refer them to jobs. For them, it is really hard to find a job and pay for their expenses. Now in the current market, it is even harder to get a job than it used to be due to the ongoing recession. It feels very bad when you don’t have any income source but a lot of expenses.

Let’s discuss the benefits of Uber Eats Walker for International Students.

No Interview to Get Started

Most jobs require you to go through a challenging and boring hiring process. You also are required to give a bunch of interviews. And even after that, there is no guarantee of getting hired.

However, the best part of Uber Eats is there is no interview to get started. You just need to sign up for Uber Eats and you are ready to go. You need some personal details and a couple of documents to get started. We have a step-by-step guide to signing up for Uber Eats Delivery Driver. Therefore, every single person should try Uber Eats and make money in Canada.

No Time/Schedule Restriction

Employees of most companies have a schedule for their job. If they do not appear at the workplace at the scheduled time, they do not get paid. However, Uber Eats works on the “be your own boss” slogan.

You do not need to show up according to schedules. You can do Uber Eats Delivery whenever you have free time maybe after your job, at night time, or on holiday. There is literally no restriction on time. You just need to open a Uber Driver mobile application and go online and then start accepting and doing Uber Eats Food Deliveries.

Especially, this is greatly beneficial for students. Students have to attend a lecture in the college four days a week and complete a bunch of assignments, even on holidays. That is why it is hard for them to keep up with a regular job with a schedule. Therefore, Uber Eats is a perfect hustle to make money for international students and cope with their tuition fees and expenses.

No Major Initial Investment to Start Working

To start Uber Eats Walker does not require an initial investment, except for an insulated food delivery bag. You have to buy an insulated food delivery bag for Uber Eats.

People feel risky when they are required to put a bunch of thousands of dollars into a business to start getting paid. This is the major benefit of only investing a hundred or two hundred dollars in Uber Eats and getting paid alongside.

Always prefer to purchase a large black insulated backpack. Black in color so that you can use that same backpack when you work with other online delivery companies like Doordash, Instacart, and GrubHub. Do not compromise on the quality of the bag because you want it to use for years to come. I bought the best quality bag a little expensive but I have been using it for 3 years. We have a guide to food delivery bags for Uber Eats for you to pick the best bag.

On the other hand, Uber Eats Bicycle does require little investment, but not in thousands, to buy or rent a bicycle, helmet, lock, and phone mount but it is worth buying. An electric bicycle is the best Uber Eats Bicycle. You can rent it if you are new to Uber Eats Bicycle.

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2. Problem With Uber Eats Walker

Low Frequency of Order Requests/ High Waiting Time

Uber Eats Walker has a low frequency of order requests means it will take time to get a new delivery request. This is the only reason why people switch from Uber Eats Walker to Uber Eats Bicycle.

Earning is associated with the frequency of the order. Uber Eats pays on a number of completed deliveries. Therefore, if the frequency is low then a person will end up doing less delivery, in turn, less money to be made.

In simple words, suppose, you have completed delivering an order. Now, to get the new delivery request, you have to wait for 5 to 15 minutes. If it is really busy, then you might get a new order request one after another. If you are in a dense city like Toronto then you might get new delivery orders. But most of the time, you have to wait for new orders. This affects your overall earnings per hour from Uber Eats.

This is not good, especially for international students who have restrictions on the number of hours of work per week. In Canada, international students can only work a maximum of 20 hours. In Uber Eats, waiting time for new delivery requests while you are online on a mobile application also gets counted as work time. This means it is better to switch to the other mode of Uber Eats where the frequency of new orders is high.

If you want to get rid of waiting time and want to boost your earnings then you should go for Uber Eats Bicycle.

Getting Tired Easily

Uber Eats Walker means delivering food orders by walking on foot. In Uber Eats, a delivery person has to walk right from accepting a food delivery request until it gets delivered to the customer. It is exhausting and involves a lot of walking compared with other modes of Uber Eats delivery like by bicycle or by car. You cannot work for several hours straight a day as you do on a bicycle or in the car.

Walking a lot was one of the reasons why I switched from Uber Eats Walker to Uber Eats Bicycle. In single delivery, a courier has to walk to the restaurant to pick up the order from the place where he accepted a delivery request. Then, from the restaurant to the customer’s delivery address. You have to do it on each delivery.

You also going to do the same with other modes of Uber Eats. But instead of walking, you are going to ride a bicycle or drive a car. If you cannot afford a car then you can buy or rent an electric bicycle.

Of course, you will get tired when you do Uber Eats by walking on the very first day. But as time passes, you will get habituated.

3. Distance of a Delivery in Uber Eats Walking

What is the Distance of a Delivery? The distance between your current location to the restaurant where you have to pick up food plus the distance between that restaurant to the address of the customer where food has to be delivered.

Usually, the distance of delivery is between 300 meters to 1.5 km in Uber Eats Walker. Most of the deliveries are between 500 meters to 1.2 kilometers. Very rarely, you might get a delivery with a distance of delivery over 1.5 km.

4. Earning from Uber Eats Walking

Now, let’s discuss how much a person makes from the Ube Eats walker. I am going to give you a breakdown of my earnings from Uber Eats by walking. This will give us an insight that how much I was making per hour.

First of all, I want to clear everybody that there is no fixed pay in Uber Eats. It fluctuates a lot depending on many factors. The main factors or parameters are base fare, surge, boost, promotion, and tip. The tip is a major factor. In Canada tipping is a culture, so most Canadian customers will give tips.

On average, people make around 15$ to 18$ an hour from Uber Eats Walker and which is a little over the base minimum wage in Ontario.

I made 81.27$ in almost 5 hours by delivering 10 orders. You can take a look at the image. It is averaged out to be 16.2$ an hour. If we break it down even more then 59$ was a net fare, 11$ was a promotion and the tip was 10$.

This is the earnings at the time of ongoing recession. I used to make more. Of course, there is a drop in earnings because of the recession. People are cutting their tips and even Uber Eats is also giving less amount in base fares and promotions to cope with the recession.

Look at the image above, I made 118.76$ in 6.5 hours by completing 10 trips. But here, I made more in tips and promotions. 58$ was made from a net fare, 30$ was from promotion and 26.57$ was from tips. Even though the number of trips is the same, everything else is different. In this case, the waiting time between the delivery request was high which is why it took me 1.5 hours more to complete the same amount of deliveries.

Final Words

Uber Eats walker is a good hustle to consider. If you are new to Canada and do not have a job then start working for Uber Eats. The signing up process for Uber Eats is simple. It is a really good way to make money with little investment. Along with that you can utilize your free time and make money wherever you like.

However, Uber Eats Bicycle does require a little more investment to start but it is better than Uber Eats Walker. Earning from Uber Eats by bicycle is more than Uber Eats Walker.

Though you can give Uber Eats Walker a try same as I did and then you can switch to Uber Eats Bicycle if does not fit you.

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