Massachusetts woman changed her Uber Eats name to a man’s. Then her Chipotle orders suddenly doubled in portion: ‘Im not even kidding’
Her Uber experience changed too
Getting more food without paying extra sounds like the kind of delivery hack people would immediately want to test. One Massachusetts woman claims all it took was changing one small detail on her Uber account. Suddenly, she says, her orders looked noticeably different.
It would be easy to dismiss the difference as luck, except other customers have been experimenting with male names on Uber Eats and reporting similar results. According to TikTok creator Molly (@mollyisastrawberry), the trick worked well enough that she kept using it for two years. Her videos discussing the change have attracted 4.4 million views.
The extra food, however, wasn’t the only difference she noticed. What began as an attempt to squeeze more out of a Chipotle order apparently changed another part of her Uber experience, and that unexpected result gave her an entirely different reason to keep the man’s name.
The bigger portions weren’t the only surprise
Molly explained that she originally changed her Uber name to a man’s because she wanted larger portions from Chipotle. She claims the simple switch worked, with her orders arriving with more food than she had received under her own name. “Me when I changed my Uber name to a man’s name 2 years ago to get bigger portions at Chipotle,” she wrote over one video.
There is no evidence in Molly’s videos proving that Chipotle workers deliberately gave her more food because they believed the order belonged to a man. However, she continued using the name and eventually noticed something that had nothing to do with how much food was in the bag.
In a follow-up video, Molly explained that she began experiencing fewer uncomfortable encounters with Uber drivers after changing her account name. She believes drivers may have assumed that a boyfriend or father had ordered the ride for her, or that she was traveling to a man’s home. “All of a sudden, all of, like, the weird comments that I used to get completely stopped,” Molly recalled.
The change allegedly extended to food deliveries. Molly said drivers had previously asked her to come outside to collect orders even when she knew she had selected the option to leave the food at her door. After she started using a man’s name, she claims those requests stopped as well.
Her experience comes as other women have described uncomfortable encounters with drivers who wouldn’t leave despite customers requesting contactless delivery. For Molly, what started as a way to get a fuller Chipotle bowl had apparently become useful for a much more serious reason.
Viewers had plenty of their own experiences to add. Some focused on the food. One commenter wrote, “I used to ask my man colleagues to order on my behalf in the cafeteria during lunch break, they got huge portions for me, when I ordered I got half the size for the same prize!!!”
Another commenter wrote, “I did this too and now my Taco Bell burritos come with 3x more filling and I’m not even kidding.”
Other viewers were more interested in what Molly noticed about her drivers. One woman shared her own precaution, writing, “I rarely order when I’m alone, but if I do, I always put loud music or sports in the other room (it can’t be seen from the entrance) and yell ‘FOOD IS HERE’ so they think my husband is home. So far no issues.”
Another commenter described a more disturbing encounter, writing, “one time i door dashed and the delivery man stuck his foot in my door as i was closing it to tell me i was pretty. male name + leave at door SINCE.”
Not everyone was convinced the name itself made the difference. One commenter who claimed to have prepared delivery orders wrote, “We don’t see the name at all. Just the order number.”
Molly cannot know why individual drivers behaved differently after her name change, and her experience does not establish that a male account name guarantees larger portions or safer deliveries. Still, the number of women describing their own precautions shows why what started as a food hack quickly became a much bigger conversation.
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