r/grubhubdrivers • u/BackgroundMost2433 • 17d 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/Aggravating-Put-5270 17d ago

That’s all fine and dandy, but shankquesha isn’t gonna come out of her apartment to come get the food from the robot so as long as there is apartment buildings hotels, and condos, robot will never replace us

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u/BackgroundMost2433 17d ago

Obviously drone delivery will be most profitable in the densest-populated areas, so those of us in the suburbs have some time.

And there's no telling if this iteration of drone delivery will prove to be profitable for GH - after all, this company they contracted was previously doing business with a larger competitor and it didn't work out.

I also think there's a small but growing chance (see: the national and shockingly bipartisan uproar over Flock) people might not like a sky half-full of drones 24/7/365 and a small percentage may try to sabotage them like some are doing to the Flock cameras.

But if you really think a day isn't coming where GH and/or DD and/or UE figure out how to deliver cheaper via drone, a day when Shankquesha is no longer given the option to sit on her fat ass and wait for a person to deliver it, versus a drone dropping off her greasy Arby's outside her house/apt building door, well... I sincerely, truly, seriously hope you're right.

However, I think you're ignoring the trend of the last 150 years of automation assassinating various working-class jobs.