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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This guy is wrong, and an entitled a-hole, but I always tip food delivery people. DoorDash is kind of predatory towards their drivers, and they really need those tips to make any kind of income. It’s the regular business transactions, like a cashier handing you the stuff you just bought, that get a side-eye from me if there’s a tip screen.

However, this guy seems like the kind of person who wouldn’t tip well if the food were coming to his own home.[/quote]

People who work for DoorDash fall into two categories - people who cannot anything else, whether it’s because they are not educated, don’t speak English, or don’t have trade skills. The second category are people who want flexible hours. My nephew is in the second category. He is about to start law school and could have many other jobs, but he wants to sleep in, set his own schedule, take off for a week to visit friends when he wants.

He said he doesn’t get paid that much and he’s annoyed when people in big houses don’t tip well, but he’s not annoyed enough to go get a real job commensurate of his education and skills. The convenience of being able to take an order when he wants and go spend a week with his friend at the beach is worth it.

The reason why there is a backlash against tipping is pretty simple. It’s not a valued enough service that can support consumers willing to pay 20% in fees and another 20% in tip, not to mention a 20% markup on DoorDash menu vs the dine in menu. It’s just not.

Once a certain amount of people either refuse to use DoorDash (like me) or tip less/not at all, DoorDashers will quit and the company will have to figure something out. The economics are the economics. If gas costs x, and DoorDash wants to make y, but consumers will only pay z, at some point the business model won’t work. DoorDash will either lose money or struggle to find people willing to work for so little money. [/quote]

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