I think it is ridiculous that DoorDash is asking me to tip as a function of total food cost. Like 10 dollars for 60 dollars. I hate this tipping culture encouraged by these companies. I am giving in because I feel bad for the delivery guy. In that respect Instacart seems more reasonable. The tip suggestion is less plus more items means more work for Instacart shoppers.
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Tip in cash. Don't tip on their platform. If you tip, they use your tip to pay driver. Otherwise they will have to pay
DoorDash is scum for proudly saying that "100% of your tip goes directly to drivers" without adding "but we subtract the same amount from their salary lmao get fucked". Always tip cash when you can. Tape a $5 to your door for no contact.
how does that work? they leave it at your door and disappear before they send you the photo of the food to avoid human interaction. you leave a $5 taped to your door or something?
If anything, rant about the platform fees. But don’t project your guilt for being a poor tipper when they’re trying to encourage people to tip gig workers reasonably. Tipping on total cost is standard and compensates people proportionally based on how much they’re ferrying to your door. $10 on $60 isn’t even that much, percentage wise. If you can’t afford the tip, get your food yourself.
Not when items are already priced higher compared to what you pay in store, and there is lots of fees added on top of it.
Yes, it turns out that a service to bring food to your door costs more money. If you want that service, you pay for it. The small businesses mark up their prices to offset the cut the platforms take. Margins in food and beverage are razor thin, so it’s what they do to stay profitable. The platforms also add fees on top of that so they make money. Is it more money? Yes. Should you take out your cost anxiety out on delivery people by stiffing them in the tip? No. Consider it the cost of the service, don’t be cheap at the expense of the delivery person.
I use to be a pizza delivery guy in high school when it was pre-apps. Getting a tip was definitely expected but based on the act of the delivery (avg $5) not the total food. It work led out nicely. I too am annoyed with this. All of those POS apps do it. Like... if I buy a coffee and you literally give me a cup to fill myself, wtf am I tipping you?!
As per few folks here in other comments, STFU and tip or else stop getting your coffee.
Personally my recommendation for getting a much better idea of how doordash and these other delivery companies work is to sign up and drive for them for a couple evenings (just for fun-it’s fun the first couple times lol, then it’s just boring) in general tho from a drivers perspective I’m not accepting an order for less than $1/mile sometimes more if it’s busy, doordash exists by being a crappy middleman that charges the business more, basically pays their drivers nothing (hence the tips) and as a result, you the consumer pays for it all for the sake of convenience After driving for a while in my free time for some spare shekels, I can honestly say that doordash drivers only make money on either tips, or they are paid from doordash extra during high active times (at the expense of investors). Also realize it might be $10 for $60 of food, but because doordash usually charges a fee to restaurants, the food in the app is almost always universally more expensive than just going to the restaurant, so it’s really $20 for $50 of food, again if you’re willing to pay that up charge to save some driving, it’s worth it, but otherwise delivery drivers are either A) not going to accept your order so doordash subsidizes the meal by increasing their portion of driver pay in small increments until someone accepts the order (this can take a while and is increases doordash cost) or B) some poor shmuck driver accepts the order and makes almost nothing Personally is use it to make some extra cash and I enjoy driving around in my fully depreciated car and it’s a great opportunity to make some extra money while on the phone, but I would never use this app to order food cause you pay so much more for your food
How about not using DoorDash or Instacart? Anyway both are terrible services.
Cheap ass
I tip $1 per mile from house based on suggestions from ubereats subreddit. Maybe add modifier if weather is bad. I’ve always hated the flat % of bill.
Interesting. I usually to 20% to a max of $15
They should pay their workers a livable wage and this wouldn’t be a problem.
Drivers drive lexus or newest honda/toyota.. they are doing fine
For all these idiots calling you cheap, they fail to understand that these platforms push the higher tips onto the customer rather that paying the delivery worker a decent wage. I mean, why would you suggest a tip and guilt trip me. I have a brain, let me decide what I want to pay.
Although, in fairness, the people tipping are subsidizing the ones not tipping. So, win-win?
The people tipping are subsidizing the platforms
I don’t tip at all, plain and simple. It’s a revolution that I want to start, make the employers pay more -don’t put that on the consumers.
So you save $$ and make the delivery people (who are losing out the most) pay for it...
I’m starting a revolution, basically I pay less and delivery people make less