The case to not tip much on food delivery

[Anonymous]

Just learned from one of the delivery company corporate employees, that the companies make up the difference on low tips. They need to make sure the restaurants are getting their sales through so if you tip $1, they’ll kick in another $5 or whatever to make sure the job gets grabbed by a driver. The driver has no idea who is paying what, just their total tip.

So you’re not screwing the gig workers, you’re just taking part of investors cut

[Anonymous]

But it takes longer to get your food because no driver is picking up your order for a $1 tip. You have to wait for the delivery company to notice nobody's grabbed it, and then they bump up the tip, wait to see if someone grabs it, then bump it some more...

It could take over an hour to get your food that way. I will pay the $6 tip to get my food in a half hour. I'm a hungry, hungry hippo.

[Anonymous]

I don’t think this is true
They have a fee delivery
But no tip guarantee
This will lower their tips

If it’s company policy, it should be explicit. Not…a friend told me

[Anonymous]

I have had an order cancelled after about an hour when no one picked it up. I had tipped a standard 20% but it was a small order and a busy Friday night.

My big solution to this problem has been to no longer order food delivery. But the few times I've done so, I put a big tip on there and just considered it part of the ultra-high cost of the convenience of delivery.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But it takes longer to get your food because no driver is picking up your order for a $1 tip. You have to wait for the delivery company to notice nobody's grabbed it, and then they bump up the tip, wait to see if someone grabs it, then bump it some more...

It could take over an hour to get your food that way. I will pay the $6 tip to get my food in a half hour. I'm a hungry, hungry hippo.

Notice? No it’s a computer algorithm that brings everything up to a floor automatically. The floor may still be slower bc it’s not a top tip but it’s also not screwing a driver over

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this is true
They have a fee delivery
But no tip guarantee
This will lower their tips

If it’s company policy, it should be explicit. Not…a friend told me

This was a psa - you don’t have to believe it. She said that basically every mcd and 7-11 order is added to bc that order size and customer profile has tiny tips - but the delivery companies earn enough off the contracts to pay from their own pockets to get someone to deliver

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But it takes longer to get your food because no driver is picking up your order for a $1 tip. You have to wait for the delivery company to notice nobody's grabbed it, and then they bump up the tip, wait to see if someone grabs it, then bump it some more...

It could take over an hour to get your food that way. I will pay the $6 tip to get my food in a half hour. I'm a hungry, hungry hippo.

And if it’s near closing time , the restaurant may cancel the order before the extra inventive gets high enough to attract a dasher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think this is true
They have a fee delivery
But no tip guarantee
This will lower their tips

If it’s company policy, it should be explicit. Not…a friend told me

This was a psa - you don’t have to believe it. She said that basically every mcd and 7-11 order is added to bc that order size and customer profile has tiny tips - but the delivery companies earn enough off the contracts to pay from their own pockets to get someone to deliver

Well, I'm the PP at 18:00 and tipped 20% on an order significantly bigger than mcd or 7/11 that wasn't picked up at all during a busy time. So. My PSA: tip well or else.

[Anonymous]

This is well known among tech circles. I rarely tip over 10 percent, and my food always comes on time. There is no correlation between tip size and delivery speed. And yes, I use to tip 20 percent before the fees became ridiculous on food delivery apps.

Those who love to tip big to feel virtuous , carry on. Investors love you.

[Anonymous]

DC OAG sued DoorDash over this, and won back pay and behavior change.

https://oag.dc.gov/release/ag-racine-reaches-25-million-agreement-doordash

[Anonymous]

There are so many newcomers now eager to work that 10% gets you your order.
What makes me mad though is when they do another drop off on the way to me. I would’ve tipped less if I knew, but there is no way to know in advance, and I am not mean enough to change the tip on the fly.

[Anonymous]

Door Dash and GrubHub and Uber Eats only inflate already ridiculous prices. But if you decide you can afford the premium to be lazy, don’t cheap out on the tip. Just, wow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are so many newcomers now eager to work that 10% gets you your order.
What makes me mad though is when they do another drop off on the way to me. I would’ve tipped less if I knew, but there is no way to know in advance, and I am not mean enough to change the tip on the fly.

This. It’s obnoxious to receive cold food because you’re double dipping. I hated that with cabs picking up additional fares too.

Also when they forget one item, like a drink that was wrapped separately and leave it to me to contact the restaurant. Check your orders.

I tip well and it stinks when the service doesn’t merit it. It should be after delivery like a regular Uber.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Door Dash and GrubHub and Uber Eats only inflate already ridiculous prices. But if you decide you can afford the premium to be lazy, don’t cheap out on the tip. Just, wow.

No we don’t want to pay more than 10% thanks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just learned from one of the delivery company corporate employees, that the companies make up the difference on low tips. They need to make sure the restaurants are getting their sales through so if you tip $1, they’ll kick in another $5 or whatever to make sure the job gets grabbed by a driver. The driver has no idea who is paying what, just their total tip.

So you’re not screwing the gig workers, you’re just taking part of investors cut

Good idea if you want these delivery companies to go out of business.