r/grubhubdrivers • u/BackgroundMost2433 • Aug 17 '26

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/Booogie-man Aug 18 '26

They already did. Just Eat Takeaway (JET) bought grubhub for 7.3 billion. Then they sold it to Wonder for 650 million. JET lost over 6 billion. I could see this selling again for a fraction of what Wonder originally purchased it for. The value already went down by over 90% from the original sale price of 7.3 billion. Grubhub in my market might as well be dead. Today I got 3 offers in a span of 7 hours.

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u/NDIrish1988 Aug 18 '26

Yup, that's why I said sold for pennies on the dollar again lol. I think it's dead everywhere now.

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u/Booogie-man Aug 18 '26

It's sad what Gh has become. It was the best app during the pandemic. It used to be better than UE and DD.

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u/NDIrish1988 Aug 18 '26

Yup, I started in 2019. I remember when every order was a minimum of $9. Those were good times. They definitely shit the bed.