Driver reveals how a lot he made delivering DoorDash in Beverly Hills

A YouTuber put Beverly Hills’ famously deep pockets to the check by spending a day delivering meals across the ritzy California enclave — and walked away with a whopping $346 after scoring some jaw-dropping ideas.

YouTuber iamBrandon headed to the 90210 armed with a supply bag, a $150 secondhand e-bike and 0 earlier DoorDash or UberEats supply expertise to see simply how a lot he might rake in serving meals to a few of Southern California’s wealthiest residents.

His mission was easy: earn sufficient in a single day to pay for the most affordable lodge room he might discover in Beverly Hills that evening.

Despite solely getting a 14 cent tip on his very first drop-off, the job received extra profitable from there. After one grueling supply took him to an opulent constructing decked out in white marble, the place he was escorted to the elevator by personal safety, Brandon nervously waited to see whether or not the upscale environment would translate right into a beneficiant tip.

It did. “Ladies and gentlemen, I just received a $35 tip,” he exclaimed after receiving the notification. “That’s insane. That’s absolutely crazy.”

But even that was topped by one other buyer who shelled out an eye-popping $43 tip — for a single bowl of soup. “That literally might be the most expensive bowl of soup of all time,” Brandon mentioned in disbelief.

As he crisscrossed the neighborhood within the e-bike, the rookie deliveryman rode previous “Lamborghinis, mega mansions, and some of the world’s most expensive stores,” joking that the variety of Mercedes-Benz G-wagons he needed to dodge was “absolutely insane.”

But incomes a buck in Beverly Hills was removed from glamorous. Brandon concurrently ran DoorDash and Uber Eats in an try to maximise his orders, battling steep hills, unsuitable turns, prolonged restaurant waits and a quickly deteriorating e-bike. At one level, he mentioned a unsuitable flip turned what ought to have been a two-mile journey right into a punishing six-mile trip — leaving him round half-hour late with a buyer’s meals.

Despite being surrounded by staggering wealth, there have been stretches when Brandon couldn’t get an order in any respect. After the lunch rush, he mentioned he waited greater than an hour with out receiving a single supply request whereas watching different drivers proceed choosing up orders.

He made a remaining push in the course of the dinner rush earlier than his e-bike lastly ran out of juice because the solar started to set. By the top of the experiment, he had pocketed a complete of $346 delivering meals: $143 on DoorDash, and $203 on Uber Eats.

Exhausted after a “successful” day, Brandon discovered what he described as the most affordable lodge choice round for $310. After surviving his first shift, Brandon teased his subsequent goal: Hidden Hills, the ultra-exclusive gated group within the Santa Monica Mountains recognized for its sprawling estates and celeb residents.