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Uber Eats Deleting 1,000s of “Ghost Restaurants” from the App

Posted by: RideGuru Team in Rider Community 1 year ago

 

Who knew that you could be “ghosted” by Uber Eats! According to The Wall Street Journal, who first reported this story, Uber Eats is working on delisting some of restaurants on its app to help weed out low-quality listings. Through this delisting process, Uber is introducing a new set of standards for listed restaurants that will help to cut down on ghost listings that contain the same menu as other listed restaurants.

 

The Verge describes Ghost Kitchens as “Virtual restaurants (Ghost Kitchens) don’t have a physical location where you can actually sit down and eat. Instead, they’re often run …

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An All-Inclusive List of Lyft Ride Types 2023

Posted by: RideGuru Team in Rider Community , Rideshare Knowledge 1 year, 1 month ago

Lyft has come quite a long way from originally having only one ride hail option to now having over 10 different options to suite everyone’s needs. While some ride types are only available in select cities, almost every city will have at least 3 different options to choose from. For fare estimates and a list of available ride types in your cities, visit our RideGuru Fare Calculator. 

 

Current List and Descriptions of Lyft Ride Options (according to Lyft.com)

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Women Rider Preference, Uber’s Newest Feature

Posted by: RideGuru Team in Driver Community 1 year, 1 month ago


Photo Credit: Uber.com

 

For this past International Women’s Day, Uber expanded on their Women Rider Preference feature. This feature lets women and nonbinary drivers set a preference for picking up only women riders. Originally debuted in Saudi Arabia in 2019 as a way for Women drivers to safely earn on the Uber app, Uber has now expanded this feature to 23 countries spread across 5 continents.

Uber has announced this expansion after a large number of requests were taken from women drivers around the globe who wanted more choice and flexibility regarding their work. Seeing how the most optimum earning …

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Uber’s New Redesign, Explained

Posted by: RideGuru Team in Rideshare Knowledge 1 year, 1 month ago


 


Uber loves to constantly update their app and this week they announced a brand new redesign of their user interface. This is the first rollout in a series of updates that Uber has planned for the new design of their app. Here is what you will see if you login today:

 

A New Homescreen

 

Uber has simplified their homescreen design to make it easier to navigate between rides and deliveries. They have also added a new “Services” tab as a “one stop shop to find all of the rides and delivery offerings available in your city – from a nearby …

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Need to Change Your Banking Information in the Uber Driver Partner App? Here's how.

Posted by: RideGuru Team in Driver Community 1 year, 2 months ago

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Have you recently switched banks and need to update your Uber driver app so you can make sure to keep your payments on time? Luckily, Uber makes it very easy to update your banking information through the driver app or at partners.uber.com.

Instructions on Updating Banking Info on Uber Driver App

1. Tap the profile photo in the upper right corner of the map screen
2. Tap "Account" > "Payment" > "Add payment method"
3. Enter your bank account details
4. Tap "NEXT"
5. Enter your tax details
6. Tap "SUBMIT"


Instructions on Updating Banking Info on partners.uber.com

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