Singing for My Supper: Two Hours to Earn Dinner on my Food Delivery Shift

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:01]Hey, hey, hey people.

[00:00:05]It's an absolutely scorching Sunday evening here in Sheffield.

[00:00:13]Just started out on a delivery shift.

[00:00:14]Now, this delivery shift has very restricted parameters. I am going out for exactly 2 hours and basically I'm singing for my supper or at least delivering for my supper.

[00:00:29]we got no food in the house.

[00:00:32]And so I said to the family, I said, "Right, I'm going to go out for two hours. Whatever I make in that time, that will pay for whatever takeaway we're going to have this evening." So it's in my interest and my family's interest for me to earn as much as possible in these two hours. It's 8 It's 6:39 now, so I'm going to work to about 8:40 and then pick up something for us to to to take home from there.

[00:01:01]Now, I just just as I sort of turned on the uh the apps, got my first order in, which is uh a nice actually 12 order from Nando.

[00:01:13]So, nice good one to start. I'm not sure it's going too far. I think probably about six, seven miles in total, but 12 quid is is pretty damn good for a for an order. So, let's go pick this up. Hope you've been enjoying this beautiful weather. Jesus Christ. We went out today into the Peak District.

[00:01:30]Went for a long walk. Got bar to buggery with my fragile lobster-like skin.

[00:01:41]I'm looking like a very well undercooked sausage at the moment. All sort of red and pink and blotchy in places, but okay, I'll survive. It was a nice day out. Went to a place called Heather Sage and went for a nice long walk in the countryside. Took a picnic with us. It was gorgeous. that came back and realized had had no food in the fridge.

[00:02:00]So thought, hey, you know what? I'll just go out and sort of sing for my supper.

[00:02:06]I do this occasionally. My son loves it when I do this. He's like, "Yes, take away."

[00:02:12]I mean, any kid likes takeaway anyhow.

[00:02:15]All right, first order to pick up is from We got both orders, I think, are coming from Nando and then going to various a couple of places in Sheffield. I can't be any more specific than that because I didn't really look at the order very carefully.

[00:02:29]Cheers, buddy.

[00:02:32]All right. See if I can squeeze my rather rotunded frame through here. Jesus.

[00:02:41]All right, buddy.

[00:02:43]Just put that there for a sec.

[00:02:46]Let me just >> H. Not too bad. How are you?

[00:02:51]I got a couple. 5812 and 2048.

[00:02:57]Have we got them both? Yeah.

[00:02:59]Perfect.

[00:03:03]>> So 2048 and 5812.

[00:03:06]>> That's not that it. That's 2048.

[00:03:14]>> Okay. No problem, buddy. No problem. I shouldn't be longer. fatal last words of all takeaway employees for delivery drivers.

[00:03:27]All right, buddy.

[00:03:29]Not too bad.

[00:03:34]Oh, come on. Of course, what sometimes happens is they just go back into the to the restaurant and then get caught up with other stuff, then forget that they they're supposed to be looking at stuff for you.

[00:03:47]>> What do you think, Let's say give it like seven minutes.

[00:03:50]>> Okay, I'll I'll wait, I think. Let me just Which one's this one?

[00:03:53]>> Oh, >> 2048. Okay.

[00:03:57]>> Is that for me?

[00:03:58]>> Oh, perfect. Yes. Let me just uh >> let people know. We ran out of We don't ran out of some data, so they only have two, but we threw in like two chocolate.

[00:04:08]>> You ran out of what?

[00:04:09]>> Two nettas. So, it's like >> Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah.

[00:04:12]>> Know that we threw in two.

[00:04:13]>> Oh, okay. I will. Yeah, no problem, buddy.

[00:04:20]All right, let's get off these. It wasn't actually as long as the guy claimed. He said it was going to be seven minutes, but it was it was a bit less than that. So, yeah, lost a little bit of time, but might get some uh waiting time paid by delivery there.

[00:04:35]We'll see. You know, we got about six miles to this first one and then maybe a mile, a couple miles after that. So, I reckon, okay, 12 quid. 12 odd quid for I'm going to say about eight miles in total.

[00:04:51]It's not fabulous, but it does go towards the old dinner fund.

[00:04:57]And that's the main focus at the moment.

[00:04:59]But yeah, you can see it's heaving out tonight. It's a bank holiday weekend.

[00:05:03]It's a Sunday night.

[00:05:06]Don't don't drift, mate. You got to indicate. You can't just drift across when you feel like it. Remember that.

[00:05:12]Doesn't matter that you're a taxi driver.

[00:05:15]The old indicator is your friend.

[00:05:21]Worship and obey it.

[00:05:24]Now, there he goes. Absolute awful driving as most taxi drivers demonstrate.

[00:05:31]Yeah, that guy in Nando was a was a a decent chap. I've had him before deal with me and yeah, he's always clear, honest, tries to gives you as much info as you need. That's really what what you want from people who reckon the takeaways.

[00:05:53]I mean, there's not much to expect from them really given that most of them are on minimum wage. You know, a general surness is to be expected and and you know, welcome. Well, not welcomed but tolerated.

[00:06:09]I think it's only when it's outright hostility that I I have an issue with them. But just sort of bored indifference I can I can deal with cuz I remember what I was like at that age working some minimum wage job.

[00:06:24]I wasn't busting my gut.

[00:06:28]But it's kind of nice when you meet one who actually seems to be or seems to give a [ __ ] this random taxi driver just amling along.

[00:06:38]It always goes to extremes with taxi drivers. They're always going at like 100 miles an hour or they're going at 5 miles an hour. I don't know if they're either trying to stretch out the journey, so it pays more on go so fast to try and get it over with to get onto the next one. This guy is sure taking his time.

[00:06:58]I mean, this is a 40 mph uh zone. Why he's doing like 20 mph makes no sense to me.

[00:07:06]Come on, mate. [ __ ] it up a bit.

[00:07:10]I mean, I'm not going crazy myself. I just want something beyond 20 m an hour. Come on.

[00:07:18]Yeah, he's going to drift over to the other lane any at the last minute. Like all good taxi drivers are going to do that. Jesus Christ, mate. Speed up. You know that thing where you have to see the face of the person who's been annoying you in a car.

[00:07:31]You know, you're not going to necessarily say anything. You're not going to have a go at them. You're not going to, you know, there's no road rage. You're just like, I just I need to see what they look like. Are they Do they look as much of a douchebag as I think they are? Sadly, I couldn't see his face.

[00:07:53]Oh man.

[00:07:57]I can feel the countryside in my nostrils. It's clogging it up.

[00:08:04]Jeez Louise.

[00:08:06]Always said that about the countryside.

[00:08:08]Yes, it's beautiful, but it does smell like [ __ ] Let's be honest.

[00:08:15]Pop us in there.

[00:08:23]Hi there. Here you go. There you go. 85.

[00:08:27]They said the guy the guy said they didn't have all the the Portuguese uh thing, so they put some chocolate cake in there instead. Okay. What was it? 85.

[00:08:36]Thank you.

[00:08:38]All right. Let's go to this next one.

[00:08:41]This is only 4 minutes, one and a half miles. So, I'm curious to see how much we get for this. Whether we did get any delivery, waiting time pay for this. I know it's it's pittance. is I can't what it is 20p a minute or something ridiculous. So every 5 minutes you get an extra quid.

[00:09:03]Hopefully we can pick up something straight after to go towards the supper fund.

[00:09:11]Otherwise we're going to be pretty threadbear fair tonight on the on the dinner table.

[00:09:16]I know we're making it sound like Oliver Twist. I mean, I mean, I can't just pay for the takeaway anyhow, but I think my son just likes this idea that, oh, if he earns more, we get more food.

[00:09:34]Park this way. Otherwise, my bike's going to fall over.

[00:09:46]Hello. How are you?

[00:09:48]There's your first one.

[00:09:51]And there's your second one. Have you got your code?

[00:09:54]>> Five.

[00:09:55]>> 55.

[00:09:57]>> Let's just check that goes through. Yep.

[00:09:58]Cheers. Thank you.

[00:10:01]All right, let's go pick up this sainsbury's order. It's only like half a mile. 1 minute. So, not long at all.

[00:10:08]That one minute feels optimistic.

[00:10:11]I mean, how fast do you think I'm going?

[00:10:13]Still with this one. That should bring us up to about 16 quid.

[00:10:20]Maybe 50 minutes, 50, 45 minutes, I reckon, after this one.

[00:10:27]We'll see.

[00:10:35]All right, buddy.

[00:10:41]Just make a ski squeeze through there.

[00:10:42]Cheers.

[00:10:51]Goodness.

[00:10:53]Was that my vodka?

[00:10:59]>> There is another one in there. Yeah, >> yeah, there was a clearly he he dropped the vodka that was supposed to be in this bag. Jesus Christ. [ __ ] off.

[00:11:15]It's a problem with these phones having so many features and, you know, swipe up and tap the back and everything and, you know, every time I go over a pothole, some new AI feature pops up and and tries to do something. It's always constantly ask me to circle this and ask Gemini that, and it's [ __ ] off.

[00:11:35]I just want to see the maps. I just want to see the maps.

[00:11:49]All right, my dear.

[00:11:50]>> Child, >> that's okay. I've been there. Thank you so much. Have a great day.

[00:11:56]All right, that puts us up to 16 quid so far in about 50 minutes, which is okay.

[00:12:04]Let's get back on to Uber as well.

[00:12:07]See what the combined power can give us.

[00:12:12]Oh, that's a 13 pound order, but going 14 miles.

[00:12:18]That's going out into the peak duristic where it was today. I think Uber can just bugger off on that one.

[00:12:29]I am not doing a I'm not going 14 miles for 13 quid.

[00:12:34]It is reasonable, insulting, ridiculous.

[00:12:40]Mr. Eats keeps insects everywhere as well.

[00:12:45]I forgot. You always forget. Summer brings out their their flying ants and god knows what else.

[00:12:52]Get stuck on your wind screen.

[00:12:55][ __ ] off. [ __ ] off. Can't tell whether inside or outside sometimes.

[00:13:02]Sorry. I was just trying to get rid of some bugs.

[00:13:06]By the way, I know there's one guy who does watch my videos who gets angry with me about not wearing gloves. And I I you're absolutely right. I should be wearing gloves.

[00:13:15]And in previous videos, it was just laziness. Today, I genuinely forgot to take my gloves. They were in my other coat. So, it's my bad. That's on me.

[00:13:31]Let me just pull over and have a look at this one and see what see what we get here.

[00:13:36]So, this is a 15 pound order, but it's from two such Miller and Carter.

[00:13:45]Let's have a quick look. And then going out to Tron. Shall I do this?

[00:13:51]15 quid. It's all scattered all over the map, but [ __ ] it. Let's do it. 15 quid. That's going to be 30 quid to the fund. 30 quid to the to the supper fund.

[00:14:05]Curious to know how long this one's going to take.

[00:14:12]Where are we going first? Miller and Carter.

[00:14:15]I think it's like like a steakhouse carvy. Miller is Miller and Carter. Is that a thing? Miller. Is that Is that a chain? Miller and Carter? Sounds like it.

[00:14:25]I think it's this pub up on the left here if I remember. I've ever come here before. Driven past it many, many times, but never delivered from here. This is the place. All right, let's just park here and uh sort it out when we get inside. I better take the bag cuz, you know, you never know. Certain places are a bit fussy about thermal bags, which don't blame them, but I'll take it in.

[00:15:00]Oh, they're not they're not packed tonight, are they?

[00:15:06]Have you got the order? 2769.

[00:15:09]Cheers.

[00:15:11]Is that for me, buddy?

[00:15:13]>> Uh, cheers. If you just pop it on there and I'll scan it and then I'll then I'll do that for you. There you go.

[00:15:19]>> Thank you.

[00:15:22]Cheers.

[00:15:24]Oh, well, that was nice and quick.

[00:15:26]Now I've got to go to a Chinese restaurant in a small town outside Sheffield called Drumfield which I find myself in a surprisingly frequent amount. That's about four and a just over 4 and a half miles to there.

[00:15:43]So at this stage you're looking at about just over 5 miles for the two pickups.

[00:15:49]Suppose the big question next is how far to the customers.

[00:15:53]Still 15 quid. Can't be argued with.

[00:15:57]It's only going to take 11 minutes to get there.

[00:16:01]All right, let's get off to this next pickup.

[00:16:06]Shouldn't take too long.

[00:16:09]I mean, this will bring us up to a very handsome £31.

[00:16:15]They should definitely feed us this evening. It' be interesting to compare pricings in different parts of the country, you know. 30 quid can get you a decent decent takeaway here in Sheffield.

[00:16:32]Is that true of other places? I imagine London's probably a hell of a lot dearer, but what about other cities?

[00:16:37]Manchester, Leadeds, wherever people are based. Let us know.

[00:16:45]Oh man, I love delivering in the summer.

[00:16:49]It's beautiful.

[00:16:54]All right, here we go. We're at the uh restaurant now. Let's pull up. There's a couple of the people picking up stuff.

[00:17:04]This is basically the only restaurant here.

[00:17:09]Sorry, mate.

[00:17:11]>> You go first.

[00:17:14]>> Pleasure. Thank you.

[00:17:17]>> Oh, okay. They're asking for another one. Another quid.

[00:17:22]I don't know. I don't know.

[00:17:25]No, I'm not going to do another one.

[00:17:31]>> Um my 94484.

[00:17:37]>> Okay, no problem. Uh that's the one.

[00:17:42]>> Thank you so much. Cheers.

[00:17:46]>> See you, buddy.

[00:17:49]off yours.

[00:17:50]>> Yeah. Yeah. It was just They added an extra one. It was like a pound, but I thought I'm not taking that cuz it's not worth it. Just not worth it.

[00:17:57]>> Yeah. For me, they added 345. So, I wonder.

[00:18:00]>> But maybe it's a different one. Maybe it's >> It'll be the same one because I'll be going from a different direction.

[00:18:06]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:18:07]>> Yeah.

[00:18:08]>> More mileage for me.

[00:18:09]>> It might be. Yeah.

[00:18:12]>> No, it's not.

[00:18:14]>> See you, buddy.

[00:18:17]only sort of two or three minutes to this first one which is you know encouraging. So we've probably only done it'll be six miles at this point when I get when I do this first one. Six miles for 15 quid. Excellent. Absolutely excellent.

[00:18:36]But obviously there's one more one more to drop after. So we'll see how far that one's going. I don't think it's going too far though. I'm sure it's in this area.

[00:18:46]Uh, okay.

[00:18:52]Oh man, that's bright. That is bright.

[00:19:04]>> All right, there, buddy. Is that for you?

[00:19:08]>> 15. Thank you. All right, that one's dropped off. We've now got another Oh, just under three miles. another 7 minutes.

[00:19:17]See, I'm trying to do all the maths in my head at this point.

[00:19:21]I think in total this has worked out to be about 9 miles probably, which for 15 quid, it's not too bad on a Sunday night. Can live with that. I just 15 quid feels like a a chunky old amount to get as well. It hasn't taken that long.

[00:19:38]I think the whole thing's probably only taken about 20 minutes, which when you kind of do that on an hourly basis, it's it's it's pretty good. You know, if you got 15 quid every 20 minutes would be laughing.

[00:19:52]Rarely happens. In fact, almost never happens. I think I once earned I think the best I ever did was 50 quid in an hour. It just just had a couple of these kind of insane orders with tips and everything and and it was like Valentine's Day or or Mother's Day or something and I I remember just absolutely raking it in. But it's very very rare. But I'll still have half an hour left on my 2hour timer to see how much more I can add to the to the 31 32 quid I've already made.

[00:20:25]I might be able to slip in another one or two deliveries.

[00:20:42]That's okay. No problem.

[00:20:45]There you go. Have you got that?

[00:20:48]Have you got it? Okay. Have you got your code?

[00:20:50]>> Uh 32.

[00:20:51]>> 32. Thank you.

[00:20:53]>> Bye.

[00:20:56]>> All right. Well, that's done. That's brought us up to about £31 for That's exactly an hour and a half now. What's that?

[00:21:07]Oh, that was working out at Oh, I don't know. I can't believe I can't work this out. That's 20 quid an hour, isn't it?

[00:21:13]Sorry. I mean, you're going to have to do the math on some of these. That one was easy. I mean, if I could do maths, I wouldn't be doing this job for pittance.

[00:21:21]But, all right, got half an hour left.

[00:21:25]See what else I can make. Going to head back into Sheffield. Ideally try to get an order which is sort of taking me roughly towards where I live rather than going you know miles away but you know these must for devil drives. If if if it is taking me a bit further away that's okay. I can live with that. It's been very very frisky this evening in terms of orders. So hopefully definitely get at least one more order before I close for the night. Let's see. I mean, I'm heading towards an area with Sainsbury. Oh, here we go. Asda.

[00:22:04]Do I want to do two orders from Asda, though? That's Do I want to do two orders from Asda?

[00:22:12]That's going to be massive. I think I'm going to just cancel that one just cuz I got a feel as always big orders and even though it's £7, it is two orders. It's going to take a while.

[00:22:23]Uh, you know, I'm feeling lucky.

[00:22:27]Holding out for something better. It feels like one of the and Asda could be really slow as well. So, you can end up waiting ages for them and then you end up have to like cancel an order and then you've just wasted so much time. So, nah, let's let's keep pushing on. Let's head back into Sheffield. See if there's anything else to offer me which is better than that.

[00:22:50]480 for 5.3 miles.

[00:22:55]But it is kind of going towards where I live.

[00:22:59]That's a crappy order though. It's a crappy order. Do I do it just because of its proximity?

[00:23:07]Uh, okay. And now it's offering it to me again, but for for less money. Well done, Uber. I love it when they do that.

[00:23:15]Just on principle, I'm going to say no to that cuz it's such a shitty thing to do.

[00:23:23]Come on. On a Sunday night, bank holiday weekend, we can do better than a pound for for a mile. That's just insulting. Come on.

[00:23:34]Deliver Uber Eats, you can do better.

[00:23:38]I think the problem is certainly with Uber Eats, I don't know if this is this is true where you're delivering, they've started doing this £50 for 50 orders where you got to do you know from sun it's like Sunday to Sunday.

[00:23:54]So if you do 50 orders then you'll get an extra £50.

[00:24:00]And of course, you know, people are are are trying to get those done. So they'll just take any bloody order, any crappy old order to get the extra 50 quid. So they'll take anything which, you know, even less than a pound a mile just and I don't know. I think I think it ends up probably being a false economy. Okay, they're offering me that stupid Asda order again. No, no, no.

[00:24:25]So yeah. So, this Uber stuff, I think it's Yes.6 Thai Traveler. Oh, I might have to do a bit of a turnaround, but that's okay. I can live with that. And it's going to ringing low road, which is kind of in my wheelhouse. Wonder if I can just do a I probably can't do a turn around here, but it's only at the end of this road. I can do a little one. I could do a little one.

[00:24:52]Uh, let's just do it in that bus stop.

[00:24:55]Ah, and then go back up. Okay, let's just find ourselves. Yeah, there's a Thai restaurant not far from here. 1 minute away.

[00:25:10]0.6 miles.

[00:25:13]So, yeah, this is definitely worth it.

[00:25:15]Six. So, this is half a mile to here, then maybe two, three miles to the customer for six quid. Yeah, I'll do that one. That'll bring us up to a rather nice 37 38 quid. That's going to buy us a takeaway, isn't it? That's going to get us fairly chunky little supper. Nice. My son is going to be delighted.

[00:25:41]Let's do it.

[00:25:43]Assuming, of course, this restaurant has the food ready, which they don't always.

[00:25:47]I've been here a couple of times.

[00:25:49]They're lovely people, but it all see all I think the whole delivery thing is is is all a bit confusing and new for them.

[00:25:56]And so they always seem a bit numb plus by what to do when a delivery driver turns up.

[00:26:03]And often you do have to wait quite a while for the orders. But time traveler, let's just park in here.

[00:26:23]Hello, my dear. How are you?

[00:26:27]>> Um, not too bad. Is that 1547?

[00:26:30]Excellent. All right, I'll scan that for you. Wait, come on. There you go. Thank you so much. Have a good evening.

[00:26:40]Bye-bye.

[00:26:42]All right, we got about three and a half miles to go to the customer. So, yeah, a little bit further than I was thought it would be, but it's still not bad.

[00:26:52]That's still about alltogether it's about four miles for six odd quid. So, it's about one and a half pounds per mile. Yeah, it's fine for me.

[00:27:02]Let's go.

[00:27:04]And then I think that will probably be it. I don't think I'll be able to get another one in before my time's up, but I can then go and get myself something to eat, which will be nice cuz I'm starving.

[00:27:18]Yeah, I think it's weird when you've got a really limited time to deliver in. I find I don't know why I always find myself earning a little bit more just cuz tend to be a bit more clinical about what orders to accept and not you're like, "Right, I'm not taking that. I'm not taking that."

[00:27:35]because you know you want to earn a good chunk in that time and poorly paying orders is just not worth your brother. So you become, you know, a bloody delivery ninja if there is such a thing, which I don't think there is.

[00:27:54]Although I suppose we could add a bit more money doing ninja duties on top of the deliveries in the way that taxi drivers also do uh food deliveries.

[00:28:07]I suppose you know we could also do I don't know assassinations, takedowns, intimidation.

[00:28:19]Must have thought.

[00:28:24]All right, on the countryside.

[00:28:37]Oh, it's a bit chillier out here, I tell you. Once the sun goes down and there's no cover from the buildings.

[00:28:45]Oh, you can feel that.

[00:28:49]But yeah, I love it when it's like this.

[00:28:50]When it's kind of just just sunset and you got all these beautiful fields and trees and houses. It's lovely. Going to some inn pub. Is that some kind of pub I'm dropping off at?

[00:29:04]Oh, I think it must be at the end of this road.

[00:29:08]Yeah, there is a pub there. I've seen this before. All right, let's see where this is. North comes. Is it in there?

[00:29:18]Is it the in there?

[00:29:22]Okay. Adorable. Adorable.

[00:29:28]Uh, let's just park outside and see.

[00:29:32]Uh, all right, mate.

[00:29:49]Have you got your code?

[00:29:51]>> 0. Thank you so much.

[00:29:57]There you go, sir. Have a great evening.

[00:30:00]Bye-bye.

[00:30:03]All right, good people. Well, drop that one off.

[00:30:09]That gives us £37.51.

[00:30:14]And that was all done in 1 hour and 50 minutes, which if you do all the magical calculations in your head, which I'm not going to do, but you know, I imagine it works out roughly at 20 quid an hour.

[00:30:29]So, that's been nice and profitable.

[00:30:31]Even better for me because I get to then spend this money on a takeaway for me and my family. And I'm heading back into Sheffield now, which you can see over there over the trees, um to grab myself a Greek takeaway from a place called Apollen.

[00:30:50]It's a really nice uh place to to order from.

[00:30:55]Go home and enjoy it.

[00:30:58]Hope you enjoyed this sort of smash and grab run.

[00:31:02]This singing from a supper. Pay him away.

[00:31:05]It's always nice when you're hitting way above minimum wage. Well, thanks for hanging out with me. It's been it's been a fun little one, hasn't it? Enjoyed the whole thing. So, uh, wherever you are in the world, whatever you're doing, whatever day, day, time, month, year it might be.

[00:31:26]Have an absolutely stupendous one.

[00:31:31]And I think if you are eating my uh sulaki see you later.