How food delivery apps destabilized an industry
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🗓️ 6 October 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:37.3 | Food delivery has changed a lot in the last 10 years, especially in a place like New York City. |
| 0:42.9 | It used to be that a delivery person could work for one restaurant, hang out in the dining room, |
| 0:48.3 | while the orders came in, and never have to bike farther than a mile or two. But with a |
| 0:52.8 | rise of Grubhub and Uber Eats, the bikes got more expensive, the rides are longer, and workers |
| 0:57.8 | now have fewer and fewer protections. NYPD is on the hunt for the gunman who killed a delivery |
| 1:03.0 | worker in East Harlem. Friendsave Francisco Villalava was taking a break inside a park on Monday. |
| 1:08.7 | When someone tried to steal his e-bike, the confrontation left him shot and killed. |
| 1:13.8 | In New York, more than 65,000 workers have watched their industry transform overnight. Many of them |
| 1:18.7 | are reaching a breaking point, and they're taking action. Josh Jesa from The Verge recently |
| 1:26.4 | wrote a feature about delivery workers in collaboration with New York Magazine, and he's here to tell us more. |
| 1:32.0 | Hey Josh. Hey. So Josh, just start. Walk me through a typical day in the life of a delivery |
| 1:38.1 | worker in New York, particularly those you interviewed in Upper Manhattan. Yeah, so a typical day for |
| 1:43.6 | a delivery worker. Let's say a typical worker who works in the Bronx, maybe rides their electric |
| 1:49.8 | bike south into Manhattan in the morning, signs into the app, and gets an order, directs them to |
| 1:57.7 | a nearby restaurant. They pick it up. It tells them to take it somewhere in a certain amount of time. |
| 2:03.6 | They get there as fast as they can, because they're rated down if they are late. They drop it off, |
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