‘I’m not even kidding’: Massachusetts woman tries a simple Uber Eats name change. Then Chipotle’s burrito bowl order came back twice as big

A woman from Massachusetts who posts on TikTok as Molly (@mollyisastrawberry) said she changed the name on her Uber and Uber Eats account to a man’s name about two years ago. In her first video, on-screen text stated, “me when i changed my uber name to a man’s name 2 years ago to get bigger portions at chipotle.” The TikTok clip has since drawn over 4 million views.

Molly appeared seated indoors in a white and red long-sleeved shirt with “CORNELL” across the chest. She held up a clear plastic Chipotle bowl with a lid and a white receipt on top, then set it down and opened it. The bowl showed greens, cherry tomatoes, feta cheese, and a protein topping.

In a follow-up TikTok video, she said, “If you’re a woman, you should change your name on Uber, Uber Eats, whatever, to a man’s name.” She added that she first made the change because she wanted extra portions at Chipotle and that it worked. The caption on that video read, “Replying to @Cat? i have told all my friends to do this haha.” Overlay text said, “change your name on Uber to a man’s name.”

Molly said the name change also cut down on odd Uber and delivery encounters

Molly said she later noticed another effect. She stated she was “getting less weird Uber drivers and less weird like Uber situations in general” because drivers appeared to think “that a boyfriend was calling the Uber for me or my dad was calling it for me” or that she “was going to a man’s house.”

She said, “All of like the weird comments that I used to get completely stopped.” She also described Uber Eats drivers who used to ask her to come outside even after she selected the leave-at-door option. She said that has stopped too and called the change “interesting.”

The caption on her first video said, “it works. you get less sketchy uber drivers too bc they think you’re going to a man’s place.” In the follow-up, she asked if others had seen the same thing and called the approach a “pro hack, I guess.”

She told viewers she had already shared the idea with her friends. The Chipotle bowl she showed in the first video was the order she tied to the portion claim. She did not name a specific Chipotle location in either clip. The urge to get more food from a single order has drawn attention elsewhere, like when a Minnesota man watched a customer try to turn a single steak taco into a full bowl for five people.

Molly did not present receipts comparing two orders side by side. She described the original reason as bigger Chipotle portions and said that part “worked.”

Commenters described similar name changes on delivery apps. One person wrote, “I did this too and now my Taco Bell burritos come with 3x more filling and I’m not even kidding.”

Another commenter said they changed their name after a driver called them “darling,” adding, “I know he’s not calling any man that.” A different user wrote that they use a husband’s Uber account and “actually get more food and the dasher actually follows the instructions.”

One commenter said food seemed to be prepared faster and in larger portions after a male name was used. They added that male dashers stopped calling their number and stopped asking them to come outside when the order was set to leave at the door, leaving as soon as the food was dropped off.

Someone else wrote, “been calling myself Kyle for months now.” Another said they changed a DoorDash name to a man’s name “so weird men would stop harassing me and just give me my food.”

A further commenter described a different setting, saying that when they used to argue online people only disagreed, but after they changed a profile and name to a man’s, “somehow everything I say is right,” and that they had done this on a different app. One viewer wrote, “this is just genuinely sad.” Chipotle’s customer service issues extend beyond portion sizes, as a Chicago woman was locked out after paying for her order.