I think this is out of control and I just go get my own food
I have a difficult time understanding the whole concept.
My neighbors have DoorDash type delivery twice a day, every day!
I occasionally enjoy dinner out.
But, I generally prefer my own cooking.
It’s usually better and always less expensive than dining out.
The fees for food delivery are absurd.
Unless I’m asking my assistant order a meal for a business meeting to be delivered (like for 12 people), I don’t use it.
I think this is out of control and I just go get my own food
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No good, there’s a tip jar on the counter, too. And you get the tip screen to come up when you check out. I guess you can skip those and nobody will spit in your food.
This time.
Learn how to cook ... it’s an enjoyable endeavor and you save a bunch of dough (pun intended).
“The DoorDash driver then wrote: ‘It’s heavily raining out here if you can add compensation that would be greatly appreciated and helpful.’
Rob added: ‘Driving more than 10 miles to get your food delivered.”
Sounds like lightly veiled extortion to me.
It is very easy to open a can of chili. One can even put a pot pie in an oven. I have heard rumors that one can heat up a saucepan and scramble eggs in it.
Good rule of thumb is to tip at least $1 per mile the driver will have to travel to deliver your food to you.
Do you know how much of that $1 is deductible (current federal per-mile mileage deduction)?
Pro tip: Make an effort to tip enough so that the total amount of revenue your driver takes in is greater than what is deductible in terms of the driver-owned vehicle being used to deliver your food order.
When did tipping before the activity start? I tip for a good job.
Tipping, and feeling of entitlement to a tip for even the most mundane service is out of control.
Also, I try to keep the number of people handling my food to minimum, so for me paying God knows how much extra for some random do drive to my house with a burger and fries is out of the question.
If you are dumb enough to order Door Dash, you are dumb enough to be extorted. Learn to cook.
If a person starts thinking of how uneven the concept of tipping is they will see how irrational it is.
If a plumber comes to your house and pulls some hair out of your bathroom sink his boss pays him his normal pay, if your water main is broke on a 30 degree winter day he digs through the mud and works wet and cold in knee deep water until he can get you back in service so that the family can prepare for school and work the next day with meals and showers, and the boss pays him his normal pay, if you look at all the people around you there is a lot of that kind of special services given to you, yet a waitress or valet and other jobs are expected to get special treats for showing up at work, and many even think they will be mean and not do their job if their palm isn’t greased.
Never used DoorDash and never will.
What I object to most is at some places where I go to make my own take out order I have to wait an extraordinary length of time while multiple “pick up” orders are being prepared and picked up, while I wait and wait.
I could add to that all the extra reserved for pick up parking slots (often unused) at places like Home Depot or Best Buy, while I have to hunt for a parking space.
What is good for the technologists and their technologies is often penalizing the rest of us.
The technologists even win on billing. Multiple outfits now charge extra if you get a paper monthly bill, which means you are a less-than-upright customer if you don’t use the latest technology.
Tipping should be eliminated. The quoted price should be the price you pay, including taxes and tip. The current way of doing things is dishonest.
The owner makes money off Door Dash but we don't. And then we have to deal with the angry customers. 😠
I’ve never used door dash or other independent food delivery service. The only food I have delivered is pizza, using the people who work for the pizza shop. Nobody ever paid me extra money for having to be out in all kinds of weather during my 25 years in Corrections, when as an officer, I had to spend hours in the yard watching inmates lift weights during a snow storm or below zero temperatures, or walk all over the grounds of the prison complex in bad weather as a supervisor, to make required rounds of my assigned areas. It was part of the paycheck.
There is a reason I don’t use DoorDash and I rarley go out to eat.
This entitled BS has gotten WAY out of hand.
I tip extra when the weather is bad, HOWEVER, they know where the food will be delivered and how much the tip is BEFORE they accept the delivery.
They have no right to demand extra tips at the door. Don’t like the tips, then don’t pick up the food. Simple concept really.
IMPORTANT FACT: I use DoorDash a lot. At least 3 times a week and sometimes more.
Never used these services. If I’m alone, hungry and too lazy to go get my own food, then I always have PBJ ready to roll!
They’re pricing themselves out of a job. Call it ‘Tipping Fatigue’ or just being fed up with the insanity of it. I don’t usually order food delivered, but if the likely tip is more than the gas I’d use to go get it myself… there’s no point in delivery.
And as far as tipping the person taking an order and working the cash register… that’s a hard NO.