Tipping amount for Uber Eats driver?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My orders are usually between 30 and 50 dollars. I generally tip 6-7 dollars/order. When I place an office order in the 300 dollar range, I tip about 40 dollars. It's a lot of food and multiple runs. On the odd occasion I order a cheap lunch (under 15 dollars) I tip 5 dollars. I would never go under 5.

Thank you.

[Anonymous]

I routinely tip the Instacart driver $10. Every time. If I don't have the extra $10 to include in the order, I don't order.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I routinely tip the Instacart driver $10. Every time. If I don't have the extra $10 to include in the order, I don't order.

Instacart is a completely different animal than Uber eats.

[Anonymous]

Why did a bunch of posts (including mine) get deleted? I was just talking about my experience in relation to the question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My orders are usually between 30 and 50 dollars. I generally tip 6-7 dollars/order. When I place an office order in the 300 dollar range, I tip about 40 dollars. It's a lot of food and multiple runs. On the odd occasion I order a cheap lunch (under 15 dollars) I tip 5 dollars. I would never go under 5.

Thank you.

No problem. I'll add that if the weather is terrible (snowstorm, torrential rain, etc) I may tip a few dollars more for the trouble.

[Anonymous]

Uber Eats Driver: what do you think is a reasonable tip? Of course you want as much as possible, what at what point do you think "cheap bastard"?

For a typical residential delivery (not a office luncheon or party or condo or hotel), is a flat $5 okay or 10% (even if it's less than $5). Or are you expecting 15-20% like a server in a restaurant?

How much more do you expect for more time consuming deliveries like condo/apt or hotel or hospital?

Do you get paid more if there are weather issues like rain or snow? Do you expect more tip?

[Anonymous]

Door Dash encourages people to tip 20%. I think tipping on the total cost of food isn't a good model for food delivery. I recently ordered 3 pizzas from a fancy hipster place and the suggested tip was about $17. If I go eat an expensive restaurant, the bill is higher and tip is higher with the rationale that customers are paying for the ambiance and a higher quality of service. If a driver delivers food, my experience of the delivery is the same whether I ordered Subway or Ruth's Chris. I would feel better about paying the higher tip if it was calculated around the effort the delivery person put into the order (distance, the challenge of pickup, higher rates for busy times), or if they just charged a high delivery fee that went to the drivers.

[Anonymous]

Our Uber eats driver dropped the pizzas off on the wrong street today. I stood outside for like 5 minutes while she was 1 minute away. Didn’t even bother to call and left it with some random house.

[Anonymous]

I thought the whole point with Uber was that you didn't need to top - that the price of the trip/food was all included in what you pay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought the whole point with Uber was that you didn't need to top - that the price of the trip/food was all included in what you pay.

It is. There’s one poster here that won’t acknowledge that fact and keeps going on and on about how we need to tip those “beneath us” aka Ubereats drivers (her words, not mine).

[Anonymous]

They might be spitting in your food with a $2 tip!

[Anonymous]

$5

[Anonymous]

I tip zero. No one tips me to do my job and I probably make as much as them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How much should I tip this guy? I think $15.00 is a good amount?

Just give him a bite or order extra.

[Anonymous]

I love Uber wars because I never have to see tongue people again, so I never tip. If I have to see people again, it’s 20% or flat $5 for pick up. Sometimes I’m cheap and do $3 pick up. Whatever.