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Anonymous wrote:I have never used DoorDash or any meal delivery or grocery service. So my question is genuine. I know the prices are marked higher for these services, but they also are charging a service fee and a delivery fee and you’re still supposed to tip on top of that?

Yes.

In other words, four levels of price hikes built into one order! I would think the delivery fee is a kin to the tip. Who does the delivery fee go to? And how is it different than a service fee?

Anonymous wrote:I have never used DoorDash or any meal delivery or grocery service. So my question is genuine. I know the prices are marked higher for these services, but they also are charging a service fee and a delivery fee and you’re still supposed to tip on top of that?

Yes.

Anonymous wrote:Ordered a bit from doordash last month as I had a newborn - absolutely outrageous. Service fee AND delivery fee? Between taxes, the fees, and the tip, I recall a $50 order ending up costing about $80. It’s no one’s fault, but I consider these platforms to be a total scam. Back to cooking at home, thank god.

What do you expect? You're putting a very large delivery corporation on top of the actual restaurant. Restaurant margins on food are miserable, so you aren't getting a discount on the food itself. Meanwhile, the delivery company needs to make money and the driver needs at least minimal pay.

I have never used DoorDash or any meal delivery or grocery service. So my question is genuine. I know the prices are marked higher for these services, but they also are charging a service fee and a delivery fee and you’re still supposed to tip on top of that?

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Anonymous wrote:I order $13 worth of food yesterday. I was slapped with an automatic delivery fee, a $3 service fee, and now there is tip. By the time I was done, I pay $11 in extraneous charges.

As people already said, Door Dash is a luxury service. It is not a budget option. Do not use the service if you can’t also tip.

I absolutely hate tipping culture at Starbucks, fast casual restaurants and so on. But you should always tip for SERVICES.

So do you also tip ups, usps, fed ex, and dhl?

Do you also tip your dentist, doctor, physical therapist, and garbage collector?

Those are all SERVICES provided to you.

We have conventions about tipping that are not bound by logic, but by tradition. We tip our waiter, but not the librarian who helps us find a book. We tip the pizza delivery person, but not the ups person who delivers a heavy item. Stating that there is a blanket rule about SERVICES is not true.

Tell me you haven’t set foot in a library in 20 years without telling me.

What do you mean by this? I’ve had help from librarians from different branches help on finding books. I’m not sure what you mean by this.

I’ve never ordered from one of these services. We started to once during early Covid and the markup was so egregious we backed out the transaction and got our own takeout. I’ve never ordered groceries delivered either, and for the same reason. I’m able bodied and can’t stand all the markups, plus the quality is inferior.

The thread on tipping at Apple stores in Towson is a good companion to this one

Perhaps someone has said this already, but a lot of the saltiness here is due to the fact that tipping of shoppers, food delivery people, and point of sale service has changed since pandemic restrictions have disappeared.

Pre 2020, point of sale tipping (tipping when picking up food, ordering an ice cream cone) was not that common. And I’m not positive, but I think default food delivery tipping was well below 20% of the total. I think I remember seamless giving a 10% option which is never offered anymore. From 2020-2021/22, tipping increased a ton because these services were valued in a way they had never been before. Now all the restrictions in the us are gone, and the services are not valued as much. Food delivery people might find this hard to stomach, but that’s the way a free market economy works. People pay less when the value drops. In the meantime, the default tip is set to 20% on food delivery, as is the donut shop where they grab a donut from the case. People are pushing back at tipping the same amount they did during the pandemic.

Notice I’m not saying people should or should not tip, just explaining why they don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is already a service charge / delivery fee included, then why should I tip?

Because who knows who gets the delivery fee. The worker counts on the tip to make the $20-$25 an hour. Please stop ordering things. They have enough work without your cheap ass.

If you want $20-25 an hour, get a job that pays $20-25/hr. It’s not my job to supplement your income.

So you tell the waiter/waitress you are not tipping before you shove food in your gullet?

I don’t tip when I just get the take out and pick up myself. If I do, it is only like $3-5. Not 20% of the total. I DO atop door dash or Uber eats or pizza delivery though and always have but again, $6-8 not 20% of the total.

Ordered a bit from doordash last month as I had a newborn - absolutely outrageous. Service fee AND delivery fee? Between taxes, the fees, and the tip, I recall a $50 order ending up costing about $80. It’s no one’s fault, but I consider these platforms to be a total scam. Back to cooking at home, thank god.

I order delivery maybe once a week at most. I don’t know what the big deal is to pay an extra $5-7 in tips. And I am not rich at all. I don’t know why everyone is arguing about it? There are quite a few issues that make me much more agitated than this one.

Anonymous wrote:Not tipping on a luxury service like food delivery feels crass to me.

Just like going out to eat, if you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to go out to eat.

This. Such lazy, selfish @ssholes posting on here.

Anonymous wrote:Eddie Murphy always picks up his own food and coffee. I recall him saying it is not like I made the food or coffee. How lazy are you?

Eddie Murphy spends most of his time as a man of leisure, with ample support staff at his beck and call. It's not like he's scrubbing his own toilets, working all day, then shuttling kids around to various activities. The man has the time. Some of us don't. Now of course I always tip.

Eddie Murphy always picks up his own food and coffee. I recall him saying it is not like I made the food or coffee. How lazy are you?