Delivery Driver Takes Back Food After Getting $8 Tip

doesn't ring true to me.

 

Mostly from interacting with other people while tipping. Other clues include automatic gratuity for large parties (though this is usually 18% for some reason) and the suggested tip amounts at the bottom of receipts (usually lists 15, 20, and 25% so 20 is the middle one).

I'll let the Department of Labor handle the lists in this nice table form.
Minimum Wages for Tipped Employees | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov)

 

Yeah I'm done with delivery services. I'm going take-out on yo azz!

 

Also if I do decide to do these doordashes, I'll tip in $20 cause I'm cool like dat.

 

I miss LJS. Many locations have closed in Houston.

 

Was talking to a buddy a couple years ago and asked him if he used any of the delivery services. His basic response which I agree with was "I barely trust the restaurant making my food, why would I trust a third party to not mess with it while delivering it?"

 

I see 7 on the map.

 

"My hushpuppies are more like mushpuppies..."

 

Rake in the dough?
None of these companies are even profitable...

Still, that foodservice delivery model is imperfect. Profitability has been elusive for DoorDash and its peers—namely Uber Eats and Grubhub —while commission fees hovering around 30% have come under fire for eroding already-thin restaurant margins.

Even Uber/Lyft are not profitable.

Anywho, I tried food delivery once in the last 5 years. No thanks. If I want something, I will go get it. I am not paying double for cold food.

 

I quit my 1 and only job that depended on tips way back in my college days after a customer's tip too. I didn't make a show in front of the customer, I just ended up putting in my 2 weeks when I returnd to resturant.

It was a mom and pop burger joint, and I was delivering a meal to a guitar shop in College Station. The hippie who worked there told me to "keep the silver man", it was a quarter or dime. I don't remember. But that was the final bad tip I could stomach.

 

That’s what I do, and I leave a tip. Same amount I’d leave if I was waited on sitting at a table. I never get out of the car and I say “thanks!” when they hand me the food through my window or set it on the passenger seat when I point at it. Easy-peasy. I go to places where I normally would go inside to eat if it wasn’t for the Plague because I want to support them. Although we’ve been vaccinated, we’re still cautious.

 

Man, Profits or no Profits, they are taking advantage of employees to become profitable then. Wasn't door dash the company skimming tips from the workers? sounds like dough raking to me.

There is a reason these delivery businesses dont want to classify their workers as employees. If they are in debt, and will continue to go into debt, might as well pay the people like employees. It's okay to go into debt to expand but not to take care of your people.

 

I never understood why the more your food costs, the more you have to tip. The waiter or waitress doesn't work any less carrying you a hamburger and a coke vs a $30 steak and a glass of expensive wine. Don't get me wrong, I still tip by percentage of cost, but I think the whole standard is stupid.

 

Bro, I'm 33 and can afford it, the cost difference between delivery and me picking up food and a drink is $5 lol

 

No it's not. They are delivery drivers, not even waiters. The driving is not effected by the bill itself. Tipping culture is out of hand. Everyone wants a damn fat tip. Get a job with more upward mobility if you want fat tips. Delivery driver is not one of them. This woman deserves to lose her job and will likely benefit because she can seek more gainful employment elsewhere where she can feel like she is making what she deserves.

 

This. It's stupid and you have a HUGE needy pissy overeducated service sector that b****es and moans about 15%. The worst thing is delivery. I know delivery drivers will bring things late or blast it with A/C if they think you didn't tip enough online. Even if you were planning to give cash tips for them, many are passive aggressive sociopaths.

 

I agree to an extent, but basically you expect better service from a restaurant serving $30 steak than you would a hamburger joint. If you ordered a huge order of hamburgers, then you would expect the larger order/size the more work required.

Sadly, I've experienced both great and bad service at any level of establishment, so clearly good service is not exclusive to high end restaurants, and vice versa with bad service.

 

Exactly! That's why the percentage thing is stupid. Pay by the service you get, not by that and the cost of your food.

 

I bet you wished sales tax worked like that too.

 

I hope you aren't a betting man because you would have lost that bet. That thought has never entered my mind.