Delivering drinks as a messenger
 

I recently got hired at JJ's and was wondering if there were any must-have items other than the bike. also I have fixed the drink problem...

You need a bike rack (front or rear, it doesn't matter). you need a length of pvc that is slightly bigger than your biggest drink, a cap to match the tube and a screw cap of the same size. next. once the you cut and glue, being sure not to glue it to yourself, you need to turn the whole thing so the screw cap is on the bottom. Next we need to make a platform for the drink to sit on the cap as you screw it on. I used some cheap plastic to deal with the square part of the inside of the cap. once it is made, lets have a test. just get the biggest soft drink and fill it up and cap it. put it on the cap and put the cap in the the tube. next. throw that bad boi on the side of your rack with some zipties or hose clamps and voila! a drink carrier with minimal spills!

a few mods: drill a hole on the middle of the square to let the liquid drain when there are spills. If all the drinks you carry are the same height, use some stirofoam in the closed cap to make a good seal on the top of the lid. or you can do the trick where you have some cupception. I plan on doing this seeing is how I just spent the last five hours designing the darn thing and I want it to work well.

^ way too much work. Carry two stacked one on top of the other, more than that tell the manager to get a driver to take them. Deliver those orders first, then bust the rest out. The JJ's bag suck, I used my own Chrome Metropolis with a modified box in it to keep the bags from getting crushed. Get the bike jersey because riding in a cotton t shirt in the summer doing a lunch rush sucks. Get some pens and keep them in your bag, like back up pens for back up pens. I always had spare change and enough to break a 20 hidden in my bag because sometimes your bank runs dry before you can get back to the shop to do a drop.

Did a year and some change at a busy corporate store, and am currently still employed there however I am not currently delivering (leave of absence for medical). I will post up other stuff/suggestions as I can think of them.

Plastic wrap is your friend lol. Ive delivered drinks in my large backpack by wrapping plastic wrap around the entire cup multiple times to close the lid down and eliminate any spills.

Depends on the store. We cannot use that, nor can we use the stickers that they finish the sandwich wrap with. Lids are it. Some stores are lenient, some are strict, like mine.

You're not a messenger.

There's a Trash bag for that.


/Never done that job myself, but this is the first thing I thought of.

Eh, you kind of are. You deal with the same traffic, the same weather, the same bs. Instead of getting a call on the walkie talkie or whatever, you get routed by your shop manager. You deliver stuff by bike. Sure, you don't go to point A and deliver to point B, but there definitely is an urgency instilled by the company that boasts how fast they are. Trust me, the faster you go and the more accurate you are, the better the tips. It gets knocked a lot, but honestly, the money is there waiting for you, for riding your bike.

I am finally working a shift on Wednesday for finals week at the campus. We deliver to the library. This will be pretty good.

You deliver stuff, sure. Not the same BS though. I worked at a JJ's for about a week, quit because they had me doing all closing shifts. Barely any deliveries during those hours so I was basically working in the shop for five bucks an hour (hopefully they're not still getting away with that). Long story short, I'll never make tuna salad ever again in my life.

i dont live in a world where a sandwich is considered as correspondence.

Wouldn't that be a nice world, though? Hoagies, grinders, and subs by mail. Instead of yet another waste of dead trees in your mailbox, you get lunch! (or dinner) "I need you to get this hero across town post-haste! There's a lot of money riding on this!"

JJ's Owner is kind of a dbag fyi

https://www.thedodo.com/jimmy-johns-...281549555.html

They were doing it all wrong man. Lunch is where it is at. 25 deliveries in just under 2.5 hours on most days. You are on the bike 95% of the time. Home football game days is really where they need bikes. Most routes on campus blocked off to cars, but not bikes. Drunk tailgaters often need food. The big rivalry game here last year had us set a corporate store record for one day. I worked just over 5 hours, took 40 deliveries, rolled out with $120 in tips and led all drivers for the store with number of deliveries.

Been there a year and a half now and I have never made a sandwich. Most I have done is wrap one while waiting for a delivery. Our lunch is pretty much the busiest time. I did one late night Saturday shift probably what you worked, and it sucked. Stood around most of the night waiting for deliveries.

Actually, you do. Delivering stuff by bike, be it mail, packages, legal documents, sandwiches, whatever, it happens all over the country. Messengers deliver stuff, no matter what it is. You don't get to choose what they deliver.

Ugh. Neanderthal piece of feces. That kinda stuff bothers me too much. To an unhealthy point. Instead of pondering about how to best educate those scumbags, I skip that phase entirely and fantasize about how to punish them.

im down to argue semantics and etymology if you are.

I'm not arguing anything. Just laying the facts out. You can say, "I don't live in that world." Just like some of the protestors saying "that isn't my president." It is if you live in the United States. Deny it all you want, and it appears that you don't really like it, but it is what it is man.

And that's how fast a sandwich becomes the president. :lol:

replace messenger with courier. unless you consider the receipt a message and the sandwich is a bonus? youre not a messenger.

Alternative facts and revisionist history for $500 please, Alex.

I guess this is wrong then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_messenger

That doesn't say anything about food...

What a disgusting person.

Food Delivery does not equal "Messenger".
Maybe it does, in this Efiling, Subpoena through e-mail, post-Facsimile world, but until all messages are done electronically, Food Delivery is Food Delivery.
Which may be soon.
I like to think of it as Gentrifying Labor. Why put all the paisas delivering Pollo Loco on their Wal-Mart Mountain Bikes out of work?
Not cool.

JJ's makes good sandwiches. But I won't eat there knowing what a putz the owner is.