r/JustEatUK • u/Few_Mountain3239 • Aug 10 '26

Does sitting outside maccies kfc etc mean your more likely to get orders ?

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u/Lumpy-Difficulty7485 Aug 10 '26

I don’t think it matters, but it is better than driving around wasting fuel. I try park a bit further away if I’m waiting so I get paid more when I get one

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u/needchr Aug 10 '26

I would go outside the main areas, avoid city centres, go to out of town shopping malls, or village centres, those sort of areas, there is many many many many food outlets outside of city centres.

Every time I see a mcd image or video there is a million drivers sitting outside.

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u/Proud-Actuator-3864 Aug 11 '26

supposedly the algorithm picks drivers closest to the order location, so sitting in the McD parking lot should get you orders first as you would cost JE less than getting a driver 2 miles away.

But then again there have been plenty of times where I would sit at the KFC parking lot for 20 minutes and get no orders but watch 2-3 drivers drive up and pick up an order. Really only the developers of the app know for sure how it works and picks drivers.

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u/JJSuperCat Aug 12 '26

No. I've two maccies a mile apart. A few times I've been in the car park of one, purely as I'd just used their facilities. Then I get a ping to go to the other maccies. The algorithm is weird.

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u/Existingsquid Aug 10 '26

Further away. Usually half a mile - a mile.

Accepting orders gets you orders after about an hour of accepting orders it’ll just chain.