Posted on 09/13/2023 1:35:36 AM PDT by Morgana
A DoorDash customer got a side of saliva with his takeout after the deliveryman was caught spitting on the food as revolting revenge for a 'small tip.'
Elias Crisanto, 13, ordered food for himself and his mom to be delivered to their Miami apartment. The teenager left his DoorDash deliveryman a $3 tip, which he thought was 'good' for the half-mile journey for the driver.
Crisanto watched the delivery happen in real-time through the Ring doorbell camera, and it seems normal at first.
The deliveryman, a man wearing a casual outfit of flip-flops and shorts, approached the door and put the food down before taking a picture to prove the food had been delivered.
But in a disgusting moment caught on Ring camera footage - the DoorDasher is seen crouching down to spit on the food, not once or twice but three times.
The Spanish-speaking deliveryman strutted away whilst complaining about not receiving a good tip for picking up the food and delivering it half a mile.
Elias said to Telemundo 51 he watched the incident happen through the security camera app on his phone.
"If it wasn't because of the camera, no one knows. I wanted to vomit, because who does that?' the teen asked.
Tampering with anyone's food is a felony in the state of Florida, according to Florida's Anti-Tampering Food Act.
If a person is convicted of food tampering it's considered a second-degree felony, which could result in penalties including up to 15 years in jail or $10,000 in fines.
DoorDash responded to the sickening situation in a statement:
'While we empathize with the frustration of not receiving a tip, this behavior is unacceptable and falls far below the high quality experience we aim to provide.
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"This behavior by a Door Dash employee is wholly unacceptable under any circumstance. The employee has been terminated immediately, and law enforcement has been notified. We are instituting a training regimen for our employees to ensure they understand our policies and procedures in this regard, and that any deviation from those policies will result in immediate termination."
I see your point, but I have no problem with tipping, as it is a real income enhancer for jobs that are necessary for the industry, but don’t pay well enough to attract quality people without tips.
In any case, it should be wholly voluntary. Quality waitstaff understand this concept completely. Entitled turds like this one, and there are more and more of them, might spit in your food.
I never have food delivered, just for this reason. There is no “customer service” involved, and the people doing it often understand that completely. It is different with quality waitstaff, who DO understand the concept of “customer service” and deliver it. For them, a meager tip is not reason to spit in food, but to reinforce their desire to serve the next customer in such a way that they are likely to get a good tip.
“While we empathize with the frustration of not receiving a tip,”
Oh my heavens! The guy got a tip. Tips are known as a gratuity, not an obligation or a fee. If you work for tips you are at the mercy of your customer’s grace. I hate tipping culture. Absolutely hate it.
While a big store, it was also a neighborhood store so some elderly people were well-known and we were expected to carry their groceries to their homes nearby.
If we were lucky, they would sometimes give us a quarter (silver!).
A quarter, at the time, was a gallon of gas or a pack of cigarettes - not a bad tip.
That's a fair point. I have never used any of the food or grocery delivery services -- maybe a pizza to the barracks back in the nineties?
” as it is a real income enhancer for jobs that are necessary for the industry, but don’t pay well enough to attract quality people without tips.”
But that’s the thing - it doesn’t need to be.
In Japan, waiting jobs are paid well enough to attract quality people. This hasn’t resulted in huge prices.
” as it is a real income enhancer for jobs that are necessary for the industry, but don’t pay well enough to attract quality people without tips.”
But that’s the thing - it doesn’t need to be.
In Japan, waiting jobs are paid well enough to attract quality people. This hasn’t resulted in huge prices.
Thank you very much!
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