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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Agree. People I know just look at the bottom figure and tip on that. Pre-tax is the way to go.
They’re idiots.
Ordering in.
I’ve never lived inside of a big metropolitan area, always way out in the hinterland regions of suburbia. Now rural. Almost 50 years ago I was a trained and conscientious military stewburner.
The only time I ever ordered anything delivered was at a hotel that had a restaurant attached and they brought it up to the room.
Hence... I can put a pizza together from scratch and have it on the table in about 25 minutes. You’ll have to bus your own dishes.
Fast food is plain ‘ol tasteless blah... to begin with, coupled with warmish food, and ye old topping slide-offs around sharp turns at speed... by a delivery driver whose concept of tipping approaches the cost of the meal itself. Nah...
Besides... I wouldn’t want the poor youngster to wear out Mama and Daddy’s car delivering my less than mediocre pie.
The only food I’ve ever had delivered in my life is pizza, except Chicken Delight a couple times in the ‘60s. I can’t imagine the food tasting good after sitting in a car for a half hour after being prepared.
Actually, it is the customers who "need to understand" that no driver is going to pick up their food if the total compensation isn't worth the driver's time and expense. They don't need your particular business .
If fewer people end up tipping enough to make trips worthwhile, they'll just be fewer drivers. But they still won't pick up orders that don't make economic sense for them. Pandemic or not, $6 of total compensation isn't enough to get a driver to drive 10 miles and waste a half hour.
Don’t order $17 worth of stuff and expect somebody to deliver it to you. That’s just rude. Not everybody can be “Amazon”. One gallon of gas wiped out this guy’s tip. And if she were a bar server, see if she’d want to deliver a $4.75 beer to a house 3 miles away and get a generous $1 tip.
One of my pet peeves.
I clearly remember as a kid the standard tip was 10%.
The standard response to that is “well food costs more now”. Exactly, I’m no math major but a 10% tip of a larger number is in fact a bigger tip. It’s the same proportion.
Now when I do those self pay devices on tables they don’t even offer a A 10% tip. It goes 15-20-25, or custom.
It makes sense for people who have more spare money than spare time.
Right???!!!
The videos of drivers sneaking French fries or taking the lids off of drinks to take a sip are enough for me to never use any of those delivery services. Ever.
https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-eats-delivery-drivers-eating-food-2019-7
I’m seeing a phrase becoming annoyingly common, and when I searched it’s origins it has a LGBTQWERTY+*^=¥ stink all over it and by that nature it’s also a leftist liberal phrase by default. It always comes across as condescending. “I love that for you”.
You didn’t read the entire article. She got a prompt to tip $8.
the size of the tip should relate to the distance in this case more than the food cost.
That's racist. You are obviously a white Freeping supremacist.
I disagree with most of the responses here.
I tip generously at resteraunts. That’s because my server keeps my drinks topped off, remembers that I want a spoon with pasta, has my soup in the order queue by the time I am seated, ...
I refuse to give a driver the same amount of tip as I would give to table service.
And for the people who complain about the cost of gas, the wait for food, the ... -— what the hell are all of the “delivery charge” “service fee” and “subscription charge” if not to offer a base level of compensation to the driver?
Very good point. A server not only handles multiple tables, but usually has multiple customers at each. So essentially, those customers are all splitting the cost of her time.
And of course, the distance from the kitchen to your table is significantly less.
Convenience of having the food dropped off is worth a $10 tip. If that’s too much for people than they need to go pick up their own food. I do tip well when I order food normally pizza. Just the idea of not having to go out and get it myself makes the tip easy. Sometimes were just lazy. But the people doing the work are not lazy.
Feel free to disagree and have nobody pick up your food because the compensation you offer isn’t worth their time.
You must be lucky to get great service or dine at 5 star restaurants. Seems nowadays whenever I order anything they get the order wrong, give me the wrong side, i ask for well done and i get it rare, ask for A1 or mustard out hot sauce and get none, and will have to ask a second or third time and by the time I get it the food is now cold. If I order coffee, I feel like a dentist pulling teeth as I’ll have to flag down waiter/waitress for a refill. Maybe 5% of the time will they ask if I need a refill before my cup is empty and sitting at the edge of the table making it obvious it needs to be refilled. Same situation with water out tea glass. Empty on the table waiting to be refilled. I sort of resent going out to eat anymore.
That doesn’t bother me as much as every damn store has some sort of donation crap going on. I went to Walgreens on a Thursday and they were given to red cross and then I went on Saturday and they were going to Florida hurricane relief. I was like really? I said I’m sorry I gave on Thursday. But the cashiers hate it too so don’t worry. It’s annoying having to ask for money every damn time you come to the register.
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