Posted on 10/12/2022 2:54:48 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
A customer says that she tipped $4 on a $17 UberEats order and couldn't get a driver to pick it up in a now-viral TikTok, sparking debate about tipping expectations on delivery apps.
In the video posted by TikToker Syd (@stillpoorandhungry) on Oct. 10, she references the viral "table of shame" of UberEats orders that never get picked up due to a low or missing tip.
"I ordered my food a really long time ago, and it still doesn't have a driver, so I'm worried that it will end up on that shelf of bad tippers," she says in the clip.
She continues that her order total "with fees and taxes" was $17, saying that she even "rounded up" the tip to $4.
"I'm gathering on this app that that is a bad tip. The app was even suggesting that I tip $8 to $10," she says. "I was a server for like ten years. On what planet is a 50% plus tip like a standard tip? Why would I tip almost the equal cost of the entire meal?"
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That was going to be my comment. Glad others are also thinking it.
Another wonderful consequence of fake money transfers via Big Brother.
Paying for everything BEFORE receipt.
Stupid.
I never tip on the tax. So to do my 20%, I have to have the pretax amount.
It depends on how far. If I have a $20 order but they guy has to travel an hour to bring it to me and return, I’ll give a tip based on the DELIVERY EFFORT
If I had to drive, how much gas would it cost me, how much time.
A tip for food in a restaurant is one thing- The Water only has to walk to the kitchen and back. But a car delivery is a whole different thing.
I have regularly tipped at least $10 minimum for deliveries
Ouch. 5%! Even for my cheapskate ways, that is pushing it.
Sorry, no way I’m paying 20% tip for someone who only picked it up and took the food.
20% is for GOOD service from a waiter, who has to hustle back and forth and get your order right and get the kitchen responding.
Sorry, I don’t care about the behind-the-scenes, just delivering is not worth as much as waiting tables.
What do they do compared to a waiter?
No freaking way.
NOT A WAITER.
THE WAITER DOES MUCH MORE WORK.
She is thinking that paying someone to drive your meal to your house is worth nothing.
If she ordered a $5 hamburger and nothing else, would she think to give a $1 tip? Because that’s 20%?
Your paying for the delivery service IN A CAR.
I sometimes work from home- when I have a ton of work, it’s not cost effective for me to stop and cook and eat and cleanup. Its also not cost effective for me to drive and get a meal, since I make more than the hour it would take me to go pick it up myself.
So I routinely ‘tip’ a minimum of $10 to pay for the delivery service, and if they would stay and clean up afterwards I would tip them another $10 and share my meal with them.
“come with an entitlement attitude.”
Seems to be a very common attitude with Gen Zers. Narcissistic bunch.
Everywhere I go there’s a tip jar nowadays. I saw one that said “please give back”!! Give back for what? I had just spent $10 in a fast food restaurant and I’m certainly not going to tip!
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I don’t like carrying change in my pocket so when I get coins back from a purchase and there is a tip jar my change goes into it.
But that is just me.
“I used to be a waiter back in the day, most people SUCK”
Hungry people can be mean! I was a server too and people could suck, but I made decent money overall (and back then the hourly min for tipped employees was $3, lol). Waiting toughens one up. But we were WAITING on people, for 45 min or longer. A viable service must be provided. I’m am not an employer and therefore not responsible for payroll (the tip jar on the drive thru fried chicken joint ledge???).
I am sorry but 5% is just plain stingy in this day and age.
First of all, the tip should be designed to go with the delivery circumstances, not the price of a meal.
So, if I schlep 3 pizzas and 3 2-liter sodas up to your 4th floor apartment with no elevator, you should tip more ($6 *minimum*) than if you live on the first floor (should be $4).
If you live around the corner from where I am delivering, that is a quicker job with less gas and wear and tear on my car than if you live 4 or 5 miles away—so paying 50 cents to deliver an $10 pizza to the latter when it takes me 15 to 20 minutes round-trip is actually kind of insulting.
I think when you paid 5% you were paying it to someone who was getting paid a full hourly wage and driving a company truck with company gas.
Most delivery people for restaurants get paid what a waitress gets paid (1/2 minimum wage) from the time they accept the delivery to when they return.
They get paid a few cents on the mile (used to be 25 cents per mile) for their car expenses.
The above is for food delivery through the restaurant, not through a third-party.
“Even dining in the restaurant is pushing the limits of no being “worth it” anymore. Tough business to be in.”
One thing my wife and I have done during the pandemic was when we dined out, depending on the service provided by a reduced staff, we actually did tip higher. These kids were under a lot of pressure which wasn’t their own doing.
Now, we only dine at establishments where the staffing has been brought back to pre-pandemic levels. Texas Roadhouse is our go to restaurant.
Actually, it is. On those apps, people input their anticipated tip, but they have the ability to reduce or increase it after the delivery is complete. But the implied contract is that if the driver picks up the food and delivers it properly, they'll get the promised tip.
“’please give back’!! Give back for what?”
I hate that phrase. Someone volunteers for some virtue signaling event and says, “I’m giving back”. If you want to do it because it’s the right thing to do, just do it. This “giving back” statement is annoying.
Anything else is colonialist, white supremacist, and racist. Africa was doing just fine before you white men arrived!
“The server told her that none of the tips go to the workers (!), that they are paid an hourly wage.”
When I met my wife back in 1986 she had two jobs. Her main job was M-F from 8-4 running the lunch rooms in two plants. Pretty good money.
On weekends and evenings she was a waitress at a local restaurant. Everyone in town thought she was rolling in cash because of the tips she was raking in. She was paid $2.50/hr plus tips. Only problem was she had to share her tips with three people in the kitchen because they were paid out of the tips as well.
I educated the cooks on what they should be making and how they should be paid. They filed a couple of suits against the restaurant owner and won years of back pay. The owner only ran the place another couple of years since he couldn’t screw the help anymore.
Just the term “Uber Eats” makes me nauseous.
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