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Uber rides take COVID-19 hit but food-delivery business doubles

Homebound customers of Uber Technologies Inc more than doubled their orders from the company’s food-delivery service in the second quarter but demand for ride-hailing trips only marginally recovered from pandemic rock-bottom.

Delivery bags with logos of Uber Eats are seen on a street amid the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in central Kiev, Ukraine May 27, 2020. [REUTERS]

The company said that despite those larger challenges it is sticking to its goal of being profitable on an adjusted basis before the end of 2021 thanks to stringent cost-cutting measures and a strong balance sheet. Uber recorded an adjusted loss in earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of USD837 million in the second quarter.

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