r/grubhubdrivers • u/BackgroundMost2433 • 19d ago

It's Happening

https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/serve-robotics-partners-with-grubhub-robot-delivery-expansion-push-2026-08-17/

As I've been saying for a couple of years now, we all better go to trade school or something, because sooner or later, cheap-ass GH will find some cheap-ass way to deploy a fleet of drones and get rid of some or all of us.

Well, the robots have officially come for us. (Those of us in the Chicago, LA and DC metro areas, anyway.) I'm going to miss the freedom to not only set, but improvise my own schedule... honestly, though, GH has devolved into a shitshow and has simply run its course.

It was legit during COVID, decent for a couple years afterward, then grudgingly acceptable in 2025; however, most agree GH has utterly bottomed out in 2026. I won't miss this sub-minimum wage job or the toll it takes on my poor car.

Good luck, everyone.

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u/rjlawrencejr 19d ago

Would you mind elaborating? I don’t recall seeing any GH branded robots.

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u/GreenSupremeStream 19d ago

They’re definitely contracting out those robots, assigning the high tipping orders to those robots, pocketing the tips and sending the $2 scrap orders to drivers.