Funnily enough, I wrote a blog post about them yesterday. What did you want to know?

Steve

https://www.backyardsilver.com/2019/12/food-photography-with-doordash/

I've only had one sale a long time ago - a couple of years or so and I can't even remember what it was for! What I use the site for are these location based requirements. There have been many from Doordash for the local restaurants that I wrote about, plus there are ones for tech real estate company - WeWork, but none of those in my area. The payments for purchasing food have been pretty instant - ie as soon as I was approved to take those restaurants, I got the money via Paypal for the food. I only claimed my money for the fees associated with the shoots themselves at the start of this month and I'm still waiting for that. So I can't really confirm that they pay as promised yet.

The Doordash ones ones are image buyouts, but they only take the 3 that they are looking for. If you have taken more shots from different angles, you can obviously sell those on stock if you want.

Steve

For all of mine I had to take three meals. Not all entrees - you could have a soup, salad and entree. I tended to buy one salad and two entrees because I always looked for something that was easy to plate and towards the end, I had my table top set up with the lights and the camera on a tripod over the table and would take the three shots in maybe 10 minutes. Then we would eat half the food and freeze the rest for a second meal later. That meant I spent more than my allotted allowance, but we got two good meals for two people out of it. I found that the prices are higher on the doordash app than direct from the restaurant, so I tended to visit the restaurant myself instead of having them delivered. That gave me a feel for whether we would ever go back and eat there! Some definitely not!! So you could just about get away with spending the $30 and no more, but it would be hard, to be honest!

It is not a great way to make money and I'm sure is contributing to the downgrade of earnings of proper food photographers (look at one of the comments to this blog post" https://www.backyardsilver.com/2019/10/nice-little-side-earner-with-snapwire/

But there is little creativity in what they want - they define how it is supposed to look and I set up my studio set to replicate that time after time. So I felt comfortable with the process.

Steve

Steve...thanks...Scott