Posted on 10/12/2022 2:54:48 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
My hubby and i go to Walmart when we want to feel like supermodels, lol.
how hard is it to show up clean?
It’s the $4 part.
Not the percentage.
I’ll tip 20% for great service at a nice place with a substantial bill.
A quick, cheap lunch where 20% is $2? No way I’m leaving just $2.
Your $1 on a $5 burger example is a bit strained, IMO. For one thing, the $5 burger. :0)
Secondly, UberEats and what drivers are paid isn’t just the tip.
https://ridelancer.com/how-ubereats-pays-drivers/
That said, have you ever ordered ‘just’ a $5 burger from UberEats?
I've said the same for years--it may be convenient for some...in a pinch, but not for regular business. It's way too expensive for consumers, and the Uber drivers make far too little to cover their costs and make it worth their while.
The suggested tip was $8 to $10.
i once went to a pop up nursery and bought some mulch and plants.
I tipped the kids that loaded my mulch but the cashier wanted a tip too.
Why? she’s sitting under a canopy. Never mind, people are way too comfy with their hands out.
GoFundMe is a plague too.
Did anyone even verify this was true?
Most of these apps don’t even tell the driver what the tip is until after the order has been completed. Maybe it is different with Uber Eats but that is not the norm.
Many items that Sam’s sells can be delivered free for Sam’s Plus members. FedEx will do those deliveries. Something like fresh meat, etc needs to be delivered right away and the delivery fee is the $8 you spoke of. I just had 10 containers of Tasters Choice and a couple multi-packs of canned beef delivered, as those are not sold in the store. As Plus members, it was free for us...and got here in one day, I believe...maybe two. Well packed too...which hasn’t always been the case with Sam’s. All in all, a great service...even at $8 for fresh items.
Excellent point. I can totally see that happening, direct in-person serving gets demoted.
Just like drive-thru is priority at fast-food joints.
Only if the indoor line is far down while the d-t is long is it generally wise to go in.
For anybody to think they could get someone to go to a restaurant to pick up a food order, then deliver to their home for a measly $4.00 is just crazy. It doesn’t matter what the cost of the food order is, the customer is paying for a delivery service. I’ve always thought that time is a much better measurement for a tip. In a restaurant, if I spend a great deal of time, but haven’t really spent that much money, I will boost the tip accordingly.
Good. Don’t.
My nephew works with UberEats and God bless him. But I don’t like it.
We tried ONCE with DoorDash, dealing as 3rd party to a decent restaurant, and never saw the stuff. Never again.
Only delivery from places that do their OWN delivery.
Really makes me wonder how much longer Bob Evans as a chain can continue…..
Other than occassionally seeing a family in there with their grandparents or something hardly see anyone under 70 in the place. Customer base has to be eroding by mortality…. Not sure what they can do to get younger folks in the door but if they don’t figure it out, I’d assume they got a few decades at best left.
Nothing. Wrong with the concept if you want food from someplace that doesn’t deliver themselves and don’t want to or can’t go pick it up yourself. Delivery is a huge expense for a business to cover, in house especially if they don’t do a ton of it..
The business idea and model is fine, but you will pay a premium for it… and enough people are deciding they will… at least for now.
I would suspect however that charges will go up as these companies all have yet to show a profit as far as I know from their food delivery businesses… when they investor cash dries up and they have to actually show a profit rather than lose money to gain market share, that’s when we will see where this lands.
I suspect it will wind up like Webvan did 20+ years ago, in that the real cost of the service is entirely on customers the usage will drop and may end up finding they are spending more to acquire a new customer than they make on them…. Or some other math that just shows the price point and model are untenable for the scale and scope desired.
We shall see, probably end up with consolidation and a much smaller overall footprint limited to larger cities as smaller markets will be the first dropped
Time will tell
LOL ... round up and the “no” button did not work.
When cashier said it was only 88 cents, I would have said right then and there, “Really? Give me dat 88 cents first. In fact let’s round you up ... gib me a dollar first.”
I always respond, “thanks but not today.” Never had a problem and I don’t care what the cashier might think internally about me. Life is too short.
i did make her give me my change.
again- everybodys got a hand out or in my pocket as of late.
What I was thinking. Who wants to be a driver at $4.00 a delivery? Doesn’t seem sustainable.
Ha, ha. I'm 72!
Imagine the surprise the delivery person must experience when he/she suddenly finds out he's expected to actually, uh, deliver the order.
Um....signaling what your tip will be is effectively tipping before the service is rendered no matter when the actual payment is processed.
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