Tons of people don’t tip Dashers or Shoppers

[Anonymous]

My daughter did Instacart and Uber Eats during Covid as needed a job summer of 2020.

The worst tippers lived in Bethesda in particular the condos and apartments near metro. Add to it no parking you risked a ticket and hard to drop food off. You loses money.

Best tippers were older people in big houses in Potomac. One nice old women in a big mansion on a larger order on a very hot day in summer 2020. My daughter took her younger sister to help. Easy delivery as pulled right up, she tipped 20 percent, my kids brought food into her kitchen as older she then gave $20 cash for gas and two cold water bottles.

Bethesda they were horrible. One guy on a tiny order called multiple times at supermarket, complained brands not available, did not come to lobby with car double parked then screwed her on tip. Towards end she was taking Giant in Potomac and occasionally Great Falls.

Funny how a 75 year old in a 4 million day lost home appreciated a hard working 19 year old but a 35 year old in Bethesda in a 1.2 million dollar shack in debt up to eyeballs treats delivery people like dirt.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter did Instacart and Uber Eats during Covid as needed a job summer of 2020.

The worst tippers lived in Bethesda in particular the condos and apartments near metro. Add to it no parking you risked a ticket and hard to drop food off. You loses money.

Best tippers were older people in big houses in Potomac. One nice old women in a big mansion on a larger order on a very hot day in summer 2020. My daughter took her younger sister to help. Easy delivery as pulled right up, she tipped 20 percent, my kids brought food into her kitchen as older she then gave $20 cash for gas and two cold water bottles.

Bethesda they were horrible. One guy on a tiny order called multiple times at supermarket, complained brands not available, did not come to lobby with car double parked then screwed her on tip. Towards end she was taking Giant in Potomac and occasionally Great Falls.

Funny how a 75 year old in a 4 million day lost home appreciated a hard working 19 year old but a 35 year old in Bethesda in a 1.2 million dollar shack in debt up to eyeballs treats delivery people like dirt.

Jealousy is a disease.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Why should you get a tip? Instacart pays $20/h. You earn an hourly wage.

They do not pay $20 an hour!

https://therideshareguy.com/instacart-shopper-pay/#pay-structure

And even if it isn't totally accurate, so what? If you're getting minimum wage, why do you need a tip? You are paid to do the job. End of story. Don't like it, then don't do it. It's not up to customers to ensure you make a decent salary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I used the safeway equivalent of instacart once when I was sick. I tried to google tipping rates and their website explicitly said not to tip. So sometimes the BS comes from your employer.

Instacart and doordash, ubereats are not employers. No hourly wages. Doordash I believe pays flat rate around $3 per order. The tip is the rest. If no tip, then the dasher drove around for 30 minutes using gas for $3. Not 100% sure but doordashers can see the tip beforehand, that is why no tip orders are not picked up sometimes.

Safeway, giant, walmart, etc delivery or pickup are hourly employees. Many of the websites (safeway, giant) ask you not to tip those employees.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I used the safeway equivalent of instacart once when I was sick. I tried to google tipping rates and their website explicitly said not to tip. So sometimes the BS comes from your employer.

Instacart and doordash, ubereats are not employers. No hourly wages. Doordash I believe pays flat rate around $3 per order. The tip is the rest. If no tip, then the dasher drove around for 30 minutes using gas for $3. Not 100% sure but doordashers can see the tip beforehand, that is why no tip orders are not picked up sometimes.

Safeway, giant, walmart, etc delivery or pickup are hourly employees. Many of the websites (safeway, giant) ask you not to tip those employees.

Sucker.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I used the safeway equivalent of instacart once when I was sick. I tried to google tipping rates and their website explicitly said not to tip. So sometimes the BS comes from your employer.

Instacart and doordash, ubereats are not employers. No hourly wages. Doordash I believe pays flat rate around $3 per order. The tip is the rest. If no tip, then the dasher drove around for 30 minutes using gas for $3. Not 100% sure but doordashers can see the tip beforehand, that is why no tip orders are not picked up sometimes.

Safeway, giant, walmart, etc delivery or pickup are hourly employees. Many of the websites (safeway, giant) ask you not to tip those employees.

Walmart subcontracts out. It’s people in personal cars.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid works for a major chain restaurant and delivers food on a bike. My kid says lots of people don't tip.

I tip, but I hate the system and wish we would do away with it. Just pay the people a living wage instead of confusing and guilting the customer. And recently, tip jars and software have been showing up in new and random places.

I get that restaurant servers are paid less than minimum wage; is that true for Dashers too?

How hard do you think they would try to deliver your order? Probably they would slack off

Are you tipped at work?

+1 Why is the default assumption that people don't want to do their job? Do you tip your doctor or your lawyer too? How do you know they're not slacking off?

Because you value a good job and don’t care for a crappy one

Exactly, so get Doordash to pay the delivery person a decent wage so it's not a "crappy" job. And yes, I understand that means the base cost of the service goes up for all. But that's a fairer system.

Yeah yeah it’s so easy they will just go and ask nicely or maybe go and break some glass in protest and they will get a living wage
I personally don’t doordash and I would rather not tip them but i think people who don’t tip have problems with delivery
If that isn’t so feel free to tell us more

Put this in the bucket of problems unique to the US then. Somehow the rest of the world has figured out how to pay people an actual wage. Here, we'd rather maintain an unfair system and then use it to feel superior about our generosity.

[Anonymous]

Why work in this industry then complain? Tipping is so subjective to expect us is ridiculous these days. Between the delivery and service fees, it's crazy to pay more just for a food delivery. That's the job. People who choose this have to note that from a business perspective, assume no tips at all- be grateful anyone gives you anything. Cause no other line of work professionally white collar wise is based on tipping. When you work a job that is dependent on how others deem worthy of a tip or not - you have zero control of your earnings. That's the worst possible job to get. I mean seriously nobody owes you anything.

[Anonymous]

If I select cash tip on a restaurant order that uses door dash for their deliveries, does the driver see that or do they think I just didn’t tip?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Why should you get a tip? Instacart pays $20/h. You earn an hourly wage.

They do not pay $20 an hour!

https://therideshareguy.com/instacart-shopper-pay/#pay-structure

And even if it isn't totally accurate, so what? If you're getting minimum wage, why do you need a tip? You are paid to do the job. End of story. Don't like it, then don't do it. It's not up to customers to ensure you make a decent salary.

Those figures include tips you moron.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I select cash tip on a restaurant order that uses door dash for their deliveries, does the driver see that or do they think I just didn’t tip?

If you hand cash great, but know many drivers who see just the base pay, they have no idea a cash tip is coming. I won’t drive for less than $2 a mile unless it is on my way home.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I select cash tip on a restaurant order that uses door dash for their deliveries, does the driver see that or do they think I just didn’t tip?

If you hand cash great, but know many drivers who see just the base pay, they have no idea a cash tip is coming. I won’t drive for less than $2 a mile unless it is on my way home.

Then don’t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If I select cash tip on a restaurant order that uses door dash for their deliveries, does the driver see that or do they think I just didn’t tip?

If you hand cash great, but know many drivers who see just the base pay, they have no idea a cash tip is coming. I won’t drive for less than $2 a mile unless it is on my way home.

Then don’t.

You just never tip your restaurant servers then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Been earning some extra gelt as a shopper and food Dasher.

You wouldn’t believe the number of people who don’t tip ever for this SERVICE.

I could go on and on about not leaving lights on in the dark and not having a properly marked address either on the house, curb or mailbox. Not only does it make your food late, it also could be life threatening!

Whenever I order, I input $0 for tip. If you choose to pick up my order, that’s on you. I told you in advance there was no tip.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You chose to do that OP. Go work at a clothing store if you would prefer to be paid an hourly wage.

I’ll set my own hours and know never to deliver to cheapskates like you!

I hear this argument all the time, but I live in LA, have never tipped, and always get mg orders on time. I get monthly credits from Amex and Chase, so I order weekly from doordash, instacart, Uber eats, and Walmart+. Never tip, never an issue with my order! If you don’t like it, get a job working in a store. If tip was required, it would be part of the bill, it’s optional, so my option is no tip.