Can You Doordash Without A Hotbag? (What You Need To Know!) -

Doordash is an excellent company to work for, especially if you love food and making some extra money.

One thing new dashers always get when they sign up is the hot bag they send in the mail.

A Common question people ask is can you work for Doordash without the hot bag?

In this blog post we will go over everything you need to know in regards to this question!

Answer To The Question Do you Need To Use Your Hot Bag (or warmer bag):

The answer is no, you don’t have to use the bag Doordash sends you, so if you lose it or just don’t like using it, its ok.

Why Should You Use The Doordash Hot Bag?

Keep the food warm:

In order to keep the food warm, especially in colder weather , the Doordash bag is perfect. Think about all the times you’ve had cold food delivered to you when considering if you should use it or not.

Keeps the food from flying around your car:

Another good thing about hot bags is that they keep the food from flying around your car, so if you plan on driving and delivering there is no need to worry about any accidents and getting food all over your car while ruining the customers food.

Makes you more recognizable when you go into a restaurant:

When you go into a restaurant without a bag they may think that you’re just a normal customer.

When you bring the red insulated bag Doordash gives you, you will stand out to the workers at the restaurant and it could possibly lead to you getting your food quicker.

Increase Your Tips:

If you deliver the food in a timely manner and have the food hot when you arrive , you will get more tips.

Some Restaurants May Require It:

When food gets delivered cold it also reflects the restaurant.

many restaurants if you go to pick up an order and don’y bring the hot bag in with you, sometimes they may refuse to give you the order.

This is very rare, because they don’t know if you have it in the car, but i can happen.

What Are The Risks Of Not Using A Hot Bag?

Cold Food:

This is self explanatory, nobody likes cold food.

You can get lower tips:

If you deliver the food cold, customers are not going to be happy. This means that your tips will end up being lower than if they got hot food delivered.

Food can get ruined:

If something were ever to happen where the food gets spilled or somehow damaged, it’s all on you for not using a Doordash hot bag.

Your rating may go down:

Just likes tips , a customer that gets cold food may give you a bad rating.

A bad rating is not good because if your rating gets below a 4.2 it’s considered a contract violation and that leads to the possibility of Doordash deactivating your account.

Not worth the time of potential backlash:

If you’re someone that has bills to pay and can’t waste time in the hours that you should be working, just use the hot bag.

The last thing you need is to be debating a customer or someone at the restaurant about whether or not you should be using it.

Things like this will take your hourly pay and drive it down on certain days.

Other Than The Doordash Hot Bag What Are Some Other Things That Could Help Customers?

Get An Extra Hot Bag In Case Of Big Orders:

The hot bag that comes with being a Doordash driver isn’t that big, buying a big one just in case you get two doordash orders could really come in handy.

Get Your Own Pizza Bags:

Fitting pizza into the bag Doordash gives you is pretty hard, another way to stay above the competition is to get yourself a pizza bag.

This will help keep pizza warm and make customers happy.

Ensure that the food containers are shut all the way:

You can use the Doordash insulated bag all you want but if there are open food containers (even if its slight) it will be hard to make sure the food stays warm.

Double check and make sure that the containers are closed properly.

Napkins:

A lot of times you don’t know where the customers are going to be eating their food, throwing in some extra napkins for them could be very helpful.

Conclusion:

So although you don’t technically need to bring the hot bag with you, it is a good idea because you’ll be doing yourself a favor by making the odds of getting better ratings and better tips higher.

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