Posted on 06/26/2024 10:50:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
obama tried once.
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One was health insurance the other is lunch but both no business of government to control.
If it isn’t real then they should end letting people post fake tips, paying in advance isn’t a tip anyway, it is telling someone what you will pay them to deliver your package to you, like the USPS or Fed-Ex.
Exactly. But hear me out....
The pre-tip feature is a way for customers to induce drivers to accept that order for pickup. Let's say someone is craving chips and guacamole from Chipotle, and it is a 20 minute drive, 8 miles. Now the driving fee is solely distance based, and the suggested tip on a $5 order may be 1$. So the total amount a driver would normally be offered for this order might be calculated at $4.00. And no driver is really going to want to accept that order.
So, the customer has an opportunity to add an additional incentive up front by promising a $6 tip. The pickup is now for $10, and a driver may well accept that. What too often happens is that the driver accepts the offer expecting $10, but after the pickup, the customer has the ability to reduce the tip - supposed to be just for bad service but some customers abuse this - and zeros it out. So now, the pickup that was supposed to pay $10 now only pays $4, and the scummy customer is laughing because they pocketed the promised tip themselves.
That's a bad system. However, the customer having the chance to offer that "pre-tip" is a good idea because it essentially is freedom of contract. Suppose you've ordered $150 worth of food from a decent restaurant, and don't want it getting cold waiting for a driver to accept the order. So, you offer an extra $20 for the order to be picked up, which will happen very quickly once it gets posted for drivers. You get your food dast, driver may have made $40 total, and it's a win-win.
Alternatively, you could just not call it a "tip" anymore and make it irrevocable, but that would screw the drive in terms of taxes and also reward bad service. That's why simply posting the percentage of times a given customer (and yo don't know their nes or anything) paid the promised pre-tip would be a fair solution.
Well, a qualitative rating like that would be better than the quantitative rating by percentages that you first mentioned. I personally wouldn’t want delivery drivers rating me at all, but I have never used one of these food delivery outfits anyway (and don’t plan to), so it doesn’t matter. I don’t think they’d come out here in any case.
I understand it and have read about it a number of times, but to me it is a stupid system that very much fits into the constant mistakes and misdirection’s of the modern era, and some of our current population, a system that needed repair before it hit the market.
You did a very good job of explaining it though.
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