If you use Uber Eats/DoorDash/GrubHub/other similiar apps, PLEASE try to tip and well, if possible.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, what was the average tip you got in this area?

OP here. It's hard for me to put it in average tip terms but on a typical Friday/Saturday night, from say 6p-11p, pay can range between $80-$130 for me. These two nights are obviously when people order most often, and tend to tip more as they're getting food for the household vs during breakfast or lunch, oftentimes it's a meal for one, so lots of small to zero tips. I do set aside 20% as I know I'll owe during tax time as an independent contractor but no surprise there when doing this type of work.

I’m a low paid essential worker and that’s more than I make in an evening babysitting, so I’m cool with not tipping. I’m already paying for the service. Since you do so well in tips, you will be fine without money from me.

Lol. Ordering food is a luxury, not a necessity. I'll tip a few bucks regardless.

I didn’t say it’s a necessity. Which is why I’m paying for what I purchased, and only that. It’s not my job to pay Uber’s employees.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, what was the average tip you got in this area?

OP here. It's hard for me to put it in average tip terms but on a typical Friday/Saturday night, from say 6p-11p, pay can range between $80-$130 for me. These two nights are obviously when people order most often, and tend to tip more as they're getting food for the household vs during breakfast or lunch, oftentimes it's a meal for one, so lots of small to zero tips. I do set aside 20% as I know I'll owe during tax time as an independent contractor but no surprise there when doing this type of work.

I’m a low paid essential worker and that’s more than I make in an evening babysitting, so I’m cool with not tipping. I’m already paying for the service. Since you do so well in tips, you will be fine without money from me.

Lol. Ordering food is a luxury, not a necessity. I'll tip a few bucks regardless.

I didn’t say it’s a necessity. Which is why I’m paying for what I purchased, and only that. It’s not my job to pay Uber’s employees.

What? They’re underpaid and are devoting their service time *to you* for a minimum of 20 minutes. If you don’t tip you are exploiting them and should be ashamed of yourself.

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I stopped using UE once I realized what a rip off it is. It isnSO much more expensive than getting it myself.

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Anonymous wrote:I stopped using UE once I realized what a rip off it is. It isnSO much more expensive than getting it myself.

On top of the delivery fee, service fee, and tip, a lot of restaurants charge more for the same items via these delivery apps vs if you picked up yourself, in order to make up for the fees they are paying on their end.

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My daughter driving a Chevy Cruze that gets insanely good mileage did Uber eats and Instacart a few weeks in pandemic and it was around 15 an hour.

But the scammers came out if woodwork. First Instacart wants more and more shoppers so good orders only do to née shoppers. Then the Bots. Folks have created Bots that scrape Instacart, Uber eats etc for best orders and auto grabs then for you first a fee. So the shopper gets hit with double fees.

Then customers reneging tips after the fact. The worse customers in no parking zones on apts on busy streets. It can take 30-40 minutes to safely park and you lose money.

The straw that broke the camels back. Some rich dick teen in Potomac in a mansion. My daughter did a Safeway run in Potomac, after she saw in Uber eats at cheeseburger from hunters ordered. So pulls into tight lot, some women scratches up my daughters car and refused ti pay and claimed she did it. Anyhow she still has to deliver cheeseburger, pulls up to mansion and literally a 18 year old was hanging out watching tv, he comes to door before daughter called. Drop it, daughter goes sorry I am late my car hit scratched I hunter parking lot, he goes yea it is tight which is why I ordered don’t want to get my BMW scratched. My daughter cried in driveway and left and that was last time

And folks with big others. It seems a lot but you really need a second shopper and split money to do them so it is only half pay

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, what was the average tip you got in this area?

OP here. It's hard for me to put it in average tip terms but on a typical Friday/Saturday night, from say 6p-11p, pay can range between $80-$130 for me. These two nights are obviously when people order most often, and tend to tip more as they're getting food for the household vs during breakfast or lunch, oftentimes it's a meal for one, so lots of small to zero tips. I do set aside 20% as I know I'll owe during tax time as an independent contractor but no surprise there when doing this type of work.

I’m a low paid essential worker and that’s more than I make in an evening babysitting, so I’m cool with not tipping. I’m already paying for the service. Since you do so well in tips, you will be fine without money from me.

Lol. Ordering food is a luxury, not a necessity. I'll tip a few bucks regardless.

I didn’t say it’s a necessity. Which is why I’m paying for what I purchased, and only that. It’s not my job to pay Uber’s employees.

What? They’re underpaid and are devoting their service time *to you* for a minimum of 20 minutes. If you don’t tip you are exploiting them and should be ashamed of yourself.

They’re being exploited by Uber and the restaurant industry, not the essential worker who’s trying to limit people being exposed to Covid by ordering home. Wouldn’t tipping just enable that exploitation to go on forever?

[Anonymous]

Yikes. Yes, the folks driving for these types of companies ARE probably being exploited. Yes, the companies should be paying the bulk of drivers' incomes and not relying on customer tips to cover most of it. I say the exact same thing about restaurants and servers BUT I'll still tip in both scenarios. It may not be what I'd tip sitting in a restaurant but I know from being a server in my college days, tips sure as heck add up.

We all know about the fees guys. It is what it is and comes with the territory. We use Uber often enough that we pay the monthly subscription to save.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter driving a Chevy Cruze that gets insanely good mileage did Uber eats and Instacart a few weeks in pandemic and it was around 15 an hour.

But the scammers came out if woodwork. First Instacart wants more and more shoppers so good orders only do to née shoppers. Then the Bots. Folks have created Bots that scrape Instacart, Uber eats etc for best orders and auto grabs then for you first a fee. So the shopper gets hit with double fees.

Then customers reneging tips after the fact. The worse customers in no parking zones on apts on busy streets. It can take 30-40 minutes to safely park and you lose money.

The straw that broke the camels back. Some rich dick teen in Potomac in a mansion. My daughter did a Safeway run in Potomac, after she saw in Uber eats at cheeseburger from hunters ordered. So pulls into tight lot, some women scratches up my daughters car and refused ti pay and claimed she did it. Anyhow she still has to deliver cheeseburger, pulls up to mansion and literally a 18 year old was hanging out watching tv, he comes to door before daughter called. Drop it, daughter goes sorry I am late my car hit scratched I hunter parking lot, he goes yea it is tight which is why I ordered don’t want to get my BMW scratched. My daughter cried in driveway and left and that was last time

And folks with big others. It seems a lot but you really need a second shopper and split money to do them so it is only half pay

Your daughter needs to be protected by her employer. She's using her car for work, and needs to be compensated accordingly. What if, god forbid, she got into an accident? Would the company cover her healthcare expenses?

[Anonymous]

Also, I don't get people piling onto low paid essential workers for not tipping. Grocery store clerks/ bakers / cooks make no more than $10-$11 an hour. Even registered nurses make as little as $16 an hour. All this in awful working conditions and with high infection risk. They're supposed to subsidize Ubereats for not paying its employees enough? How have they managed to gaslight you all so much that you would blame the customer rather than these rip-off artists for not paying their employees a living wage? And don't even start with "if they can't afford to tip, they shouldn't order in" - ordering in is safer for all of us

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Anonymous wrote:Tipping in this country is getting ridiculous. You're supposed to tip everyone apparently. Between the delivery fee, special charges based on the total and then expected to leave a huge tip. It's also pretty ableist to say " get your own food"

Uh, what the hell did you do before food delivery apps existed, then? Starve? I don’t think so. So many people are just cheap users.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, what was the average tip you got in this area?

OP here. It's hard for me to put it in average tip terms but on a typical Friday/Saturday night, from say 6p-11p, pay can range between $80-$130 for me. These two nights are obviously when people order most often, and tend to tip more as they're getting food for the household vs during breakfast or lunch, oftentimes it's a meal for one, so lots of small to zero tips. I do set aside 20% as I know I'll owe during tax time as an independent contractor but no surprise there when doing this type of work.

I’m a low paid essential worker and that’s more than I make in an evening babysitting, so I’m cool with not tipping. I’m already paying for the service. Since you do so well in tips, you will be fine without money from me.

Do you also not tip your hairdresser, since she probably makes more than you as well? If you’re as poor as you claim, you have no business ordering food. Cook your own meals, or go pick them up, you cheap scum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, I don't get people piling onto low paid essential workers for not tipping. Grocery store clerks/ bakers / cooks make no more than $10-$11 an hour. Even registered nurses make as little as $16 an hour. All this in awful working conditions and with high infection risk. They're supposed to subsidize Ubereats for not paying its employees enough? How have they managed to gaslight you all so much that you would blame the customer rather than these rip-off artists for not paying their employees a living wage? And don't even start with "if they can't afford to tip, they shouldn't order in" - ordering in is safer for all of us

It’s obviously not safer for the poor schmucks you stiff on tips.

[Anonymous]

I hear you, OP. But those services are expensive. It’s not worth it to me to pay more for them. So I will just quit using them. The choices are either I use them one per month or less and tip as I currently do or quit using them. I’m not willing to pay more. I will forgo the service rather than pay more, in other words.

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you, OP. But those services are expensive. It’s not worth it to me to pay more for them. So I will just quit using them. The choices are either I use them one per month or less and tip as I currently do or quit using them. I’m not willing to pay more. I will forgo the service rather than pay more, in other words.

Good call. If more people do this, it might incentivize the companies to treat their workers better.

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Anonymous wrote:I hear you, OP. But those services are expensive. It’s not worth it to me to pay more for them. So I will just quit using them. The choices are either I use them one per month or less and tip as I currently do or quit using them. I’m not willing to pay more. I will forgo the service rather than pay more, in other words.

Yeah, same here. It makes sense to stop using what I can barely afford now instead of paying even more.