DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip
DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip::The app-based delivery service is alerting customers that drivers may not take their order in a timely manner if there is no tip included upfront.
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“Drivers will retaliate against you if you do not cover the part of their wage we refuse to pay them.”
There, fixed that for you, DoorDash.
I used to work in that crummy space on the HQ side of things.
That’s a little part of it, but there are bigger reasons. Orders with low driver payouts are less likely to get claimed by the contractors in the market. They will sit around longer waiting to get picked up.
Moreover, in order to move a low paying order, DoorDash’s algorithm will be more likely to bundle the order with one or two other orders. That will boost the payout or the claimed job, but it will also make your food wait on a counter an in a car.
You tried to say that it wasn't DoorDash's fault for paying like shit, but then went on to qualify every other reason with "low paying order" - none of that would matter if DoorDash didn't pay like shit.
Oh, it’s 100% doordash’s fault. I completely agree. The base pay needs to be livable.
My point was that it’s not like a dasher is going to slow walk your burger because you didn’t tip. If they see a low payout, they don’t claim it.
DoorDash likes to guilt trip the customer into tipping, when they really should just pay better.
They know that by having a separate tip line, instead of one larger service fee charge, people get tricked into thinking delivery is more affordable than it is. It’s all a bunch of dark pattern shit that fucks over customers and drivers. We need regulations around this space.
It seems like ticket master with the fees at the end and then have people go well I'm already this far into the cart so I might as well check out, or electronics where the starting price is low then few upgrades and price is more than double the initial eye catching low base price.
It's all pricing tricks except in this one they shift the blame to customers and workers while upper management watches them fight. And tricked people into saying it's somehow impossible to actually charge a product to account for all the overhead because it's a services and acting like every other monetary based activity isn't a service too but doesn't have pricing problems.
We all get that
Hey, I’m the first one in line to shit talk gig economy work. Christ, my ass got canned for being a highly internal visible leader, at large delivery service, who was constantly leading and highlighting internal research that showed big concerns with pay (or lack thereof).
That said, if you want to know why orders without tips come cold, it’s primarily because low dollar amounts are undesirable to claim.
DoorDash wants likes to dupe the customer instead of just charging the real full service price at checkout. $5 isn’t enough money for someone to want to spend 45min in time and gas for your burger.
Seems genuine to me. Why are you being a prick while adding nothing to the discussion?
@[email protected] Ignore this asshole
100%
They were definitely not assuming good intent. I was just trying to provide some dirt that others might not be aware of.
Yea so I’m a driver and the characterization that it’s drivers retaliating against customers is… wrong. When we skip an order it’s because it will literally cost us money to deliver, and it’s DoorDash that we’re saying no to.
The problem isn’t the drivers, it’s DoorDash and their unwillingness to pay us appropriately. They’ve recently reduced the base payout to $2, and there’s no delivery where $2 is enough to cover costs of delivery, let alone make the extra few bucks that we’re doing this shitty job for.
DoorDash is actively disincentivizing drivers from taking orders that customers don’t tip on. Please don’t blame drivers for DoorDash’s shitty business practices.
Then why do it? Aren't regular Uber/Lyft trips more worth it?
Car insurance costs go up quite a lot of you do Uber
Fucking.... LIE god damn. The insurance company isn't gonna find out your doing Uber unless you tell them.
They will easily find out when it shows up in a police report for a fender bender.
The legroom in my backseat (‘13 Ford Focus) is garbage and wildly uncomfortable. I also don’t really like people enough for that and prefer doing delivery, on top of having a bit more control over where I operate by delivering. I live in a small city north of Seattle and can keep my deliveries all within 5 miles and still make $30/hour. I don’t think I could do that doing rideshare.
Do you actually make $30 an hour after you factor in gas, maintenance, milage, etc?
No, def not. I’m talking gross. I set aside half for taxes, car maintenance, gas, etc, and keep about 15/hour.
It shouldn't be set up so the customer has to pay more to get good service. They should be able to add a tip afterward if they choose.
I agree but I installed the "shopper" app which is the driver side for instacart while I was between jobs earlier this year. The way it worked is you get an alert so you open the app if someone placed an order. You then see where the order is, how much you will make and can accept it if you want. If doordash works similarly what it sounds like to me is you open the app, and see $x dollars and where it is at and decide if it is worth it to them. If they decide it isn't, the restaurant is still making that food and waiting on another driver to accept the pickup. So if you open the app and see 3 orders, the ones that pay more and are closest to you is likely what you will choose. So if someone had a McDonald's order and a BK order and one is paying a lot more) they are going to have a much better time. That is all based off the theory that it works like the instacart setup.
Delivery drivers are independent contractors and DoorDash facilitates the meeting of drivers and customers. The fees go towards DoorDash and the driver, and the customer can add an additional payment to the driver to make their order more enticing to accept. There's no "refusing to pay wages" in this situation. If you want to go with the ultra low cost option, it will not be attractive to drivers so you may wait longer.
You can twist the words all you like, but DoorDash is still an employer, and they still pay like shit.
DoorDash is an "employer" as in they have employees, but the drivers are independent contractors. Employees at DoorDash are support staff, coders, etc. DoorDash pay is clearly good enough to attract many independent contractors to deliver for them, and because they are contractors they have all the options.
Them being contractors is legal bullshit. Many of the apps forbid you from running other apps at the same time, they assign orders to you, it's not an open list, and if you deny too many orders most of the apps will stop assigning you orders. They're de facto employees that the companies lie about to not pay taxes and benefits
What makes it "legal bullshit"? They are legally independent contractors, and that's not something that we're just taking their word for. There are legal tests to determine whether or not someone is an employee or an independent contractor, and there have been lawsuits about this topic as well.
Many? I've not heard of this, can you name them? As far as I understand it's quite common for drivers to multi-app.
Orders are offered to drivers who then choose whether or not to accept them.
That's your opinion. As of right now it's not backed up by anything substantial, and it's not looking likely to change. You don't need to accuse companies of serious fraud just because you don't like them.
I'm aware they are legally "contractors". It's bullshit.
There HAVE been lawsuits, yes! And DoorDash lost the class action that alleged they misclassified its workers as independent contractors when they should be classed as employees. They paid 100mil for that, and that's just one case.
But don't just take my word for it. Here's Californias labor laws on the test for determining employee vs contractor;
No, it's simply the quickest way to add an additional income for desperate people needing a second job. No interviews, no resume needed, you don't even need a car.
I quit after I realized it was costing more in gas and car maintenance than I was making. Imagine driving 20 miles for $3. With pick up and drop off, that's at least half an hour. At that rate, you're making $6/hour. It absolutely 100% depends on customer tips to actually pay it's dashers
Yeah, let me know how to get GrubHub to even respond to a support request for an order that never arrived, much less refund me and then you can tell me GrubHub is better. I had an order that was never delivered on Sept 23 and GrubHub has still not responded to or refunded me. At least with Doordash or UberEats I can get issues with my order addressed almost immediately.
Charge it back. If you didn’t get service, no reason they should get money.
Weird, I've gotten refunded by them easily in the past.
I did that. There were no options, just a dialogue saying they had refunded me a couple dollars for a price mismatch. But no button to report an issue on the app or web, no chat, no email or phone number. Just a Contact Us form that I filled out and submitted with all the information nearly a month ago, and no one from GrubHub has reached out. I finally just did a chargeback a couple days ago.
Yeah this is why I only use GrubHub now. I still tip well cause I appreciate people who bring me food and I can afford it.
Huh, good to know, thanks. I don’t use those services often now that Covid is going away, but if I need to again it’s good to know that one isn’t as quite as shitty.
Geez, I hope they're paying you to suck their dick this hard
Huh, who knew they had their legal reps on the fediverse.
More like blackmail, specially after this warning.
"that's a nice lunch you got there. It'd be a shame if something happened to it" - door dash mobster
Tips should always be made after service is rendered, not before.
No, it's a bid for service. Think auction house restaurant where the only people going to serve you are the ones who think your pay is worth it.
I always heard tips started as "To Insure Prompt Service" or something. Which is basically what you're doing here with Door dash, so we've gone back to the root of tips.
Nah, that's a Backronym (added to fit the name after the fact.) Tip comes from English slang, meaning "to give". You can give tips for money or information.
Door dash takes waaaay too much on bs fees from restaurants. If you have to use their app I'd suggest using it to browse menus, calling the restaurant directly and asking if they deliver and order it through them, heck pick up if you can. Fuck all these greedy apps nickle and diming everything.
It almost doubled the cost of my order last time, all the fees and tip bullshit
The last few times I tried to do delivery at food for the family, The price for four fast food meals exceeded going to a decent sit down restaurant and getting a moderate dinner for four.
I've never used any of those services. If the restaurant doesn't deliver, I pick up my order. I also try to go to the restaurant's website and use whatever ordering system they have there, under the assumption (perhaps mistaken) that the restaurant chose that ordering system because it was the best deal for them.
The whole reason I order online is to avoid using the phone. I usually find their website and see if they have their own online ordering. Smaller places often have online ordering provided by an unknown company that charges normal prices instead of having to mark it up to cover DoorDash fees.
Most of the places I've tried to order from directly still end up using door dash for the actual delivery. The only place where I've seen they actually send out their own driver is a Chinese restaurant near my house.
I’ve gotten drivers from the local pizza place using grubhub but sometimes would get a grubhub driver so at least with grubhub they must have a choice. That pizza place used to have their own online ordering but they sold the business so now they use slice which seems to charge a flat fee. I don’t think slice has their own drivers.
I really only ever order pizza from local places, I’d expect normal restaurants to not have their own drivers.
Isn't it what's called shareconomy?'
Isn't it super fancy?
:-)
No its "gig economy", and it's primary purpose seems to be skirting labour laws by calling their employees "independent contractors" so they can save money by screwing the people working for them.
What's crazy is that there's really no reason why it should be the way that it is, where every chain restaurant has a different individualized app, every mid level business has a website, and every mom and pop restaurant you just have to call on the phone, and every business has their own delivery drivers with all these other apps picking up the slack in between. Doordash takes off so much from the top of the order to make it look more appealing, as a service charge, the restaurants just increase prices, the drivers get paid a pittance, probably so does the support staff if I had to guess, and all of their programmers, who are the only party left that the money would go to, the programmers can't make an app that works for the customers or the drivers. It's like a lose-lose-lose scenario for anyone that's not a soulless finance bro.
It's crazy, if restaurants are at a point where it's cheaper for them to just have an actual, well paid delivery driver, and just use their own old school apps, websites, and phone lines, rather than paying their fees to a business that could just handle the whole thing for them all in bulk, seeing as the needs from restaurant to restaurant is generally pretty similar. The latter should be the more cost-effective solution, here, it's fucking nuts.
What kind of "tip" is paid upfront before the service is rendered?
Lots of places do this now, unfortunately.
Literally fucking every place now and I hate it. Ordering take out food that I am picking up myself? It's "swipe your card here and it's going to ask you a question". Literally everywhere. Even places designed to be walk-up and get your food and leave, like a local smoothie place or something.
All the ones that are ordered online?
Well that seems a little wrong doesn't it
Yeah... It doesn't make sense, it's either a fee, or it's as someone else here pointed out a bribe so they might go faster take better care of your food or take your order at all. But nothing ensures that if you pay first ..
Tbh I feel like tipping in general should end already... they only thing it makes is desperate people trying to get by instead of getting a proper income to begin with.
I just said that in the comment just next to that.
Tipping? Yes, very much. The entire concept is silly.
Paying your food order online? No. Why would you want it any other way?
The concept of tipping isn't silly at all, I'm not sure why NA doesn't seem to understand how it should work.
I'm fine with tipping, expecting it to happen or forcing it is the weird aspect here.
Why? There's no reason the tip can't be added after the delivery has been performed. You know, to incentivize good service, the whole point of a tip? If they already have your money why should they care how good their service is?
Are you for real? Like, how can you bootlick this hard over tipping?
How about you just do the fucking job I already paid for, you know, with the actual price of stuff. And if you service sucks, people won't order from you. No tipping required for the system to work.
Tipping rather than paying a living wage sucks balls, but if you're going to do it, it should at least be done the proper way rather than as an extortion before service is even performed.
Call the spot, order it, and go get the food your fuckin self. Stop spending an extra 35% to have somebody working three jobs get it for you.
35%? That shit doubles for me. Fuck DoorDash.
Don't make me use my phone as a phone damn it!
I don't how the three jobs factors into this. Surely they actually need those three jobs, they probably aren't working them for fun. So not like me not ordering helps them in any way.
Giving in to corporate extortionate practices doesn't help them in any way either.
If you stop using the service that might harm them though. Probably sacked if there's no work
it does please keep ordering
Only 35%? You must be on the introductory deal.
Hey, why do you hate trickle down economics so much!
/s
If I could do that I wouldn't use GrubHub in the first place.
You do not need a service that did not exist ten years ago. I promise that you can live without it.
Try not to be so judgemental.
How about letting us tip afterwards not before. That way we know how much to tip.
How about ditching tips altogether and just paying the drivers a decent, livable wage?
My local pub in Australia just got new POS machines. Day 1 I'm there. They put in the price for your beer on the till, you go to PayPass and walk off, but it's asking you to tip first. You say "No Tip", then PayPass and walk off, but then it asks if you're happy to accept the 1% CC surcharge, being like 9¢. Then you can walk off.
The staff were losing it and apologising. They were so annoyed they just started hitting "No Tip" and "Yes" for people, because that's how it normally works.
Lowest level minimum wage for someone pouring beer is $24 an hour here.
People still throw cash in the tip jars from time to time, but it's like when they really appreciate the staff or see they're having a hectic shift. Even just good conversation or chucking your tunes on, will empty the pocket change in.
That's how tips should be. Where I live it's the same probably even more on the no-tipping side. I'll leave a tip when you've gone above and beyond (which is rare, service here is "sober" to put it gently, which is fine, it's somewhat efficient but just not personal at all).
Or, if you're the Italian head of bar at the fancy restaurant I took my wife out for anniversary dinner, got seated at a bar table and then you proceed to both entertain us, rock the venue, swap out our inexperienced waitress for the maître d'hôtes, and pour us free drinks on the sly, then you better be sure I'm slipping you a 20€ on the way out. That stuff is extremely rare though.
No my tip would be for being lazy and then actually getting it to me fast and correct. Which is why I said afterwards tip not before, because that means I'm not funding their underpaid wage.
As someone that worked in the space, and was forced to AB test this, it’s because pre-tipping increases tip rates and increases the likelihood that an order will be claimed promptly.
That said, if I could wave a magic want and get my way, I’d say that these people need to be employees, and true delivery costs need to not be hidden in fees and tips.
It IS expensive to deliver stuff, and we need to be upfront with that.
It would be much worse for the drivers in that case because they would have to gamble on whether an order would be good to take or not. We've already seen something similar on Uber Eats where they allowed people to fully change tips retroactively, so people would get their orders accepted quicker with a large tip and then just remove it once they got their food.
It's not a tip then. A tip is a reward for services rendered. A tip paid before services are rendered is not a tip. It is part of the bill.
Whine some more then, it's not going to change. It's more important that drivers get paid than you saving a few bucks.
I get why people are annoyed by tips and why, but god damn some of you sound entitled as fuck on social media.
You can't have it both ways. If drivers get paid a living wage it's still going to come out of your pocket one way or the other.
Tips are arbitrary anyway. Fuck tipping culture. I don't get delivery because it's too expensive and I can do it myself for cheaper. But if you want something and pay the bill that gets charged for the service then that should pay for everything including the employees.
Yes, exactly. They copied the traditional food delivery formula but should have modified it to fit the contractor model.
Then it’s not a tip and they should include it in the price
I used to order meals sometimes through these kinds of delivery services but not anymore.
At first they were quite good but then they added extra "service fees" and the markup on the food increased, so did the delivery charge, it's a joke now and I haven't used them for a long time, and there's no good reason to, now.
Even when I do tip, and tip well, they now add so many other stops in between my food and my house that it still arrives cold anyway. I've largely stopped using them now too. They were convenient during peak pandemic and our newborn phase at home, but running out to grab take out really isn't the end of the world again now.
I only use them when I'm too swamped to go grab something or cook.
But one again learned to order at least 90 minutes out from when I expect to eat
Tipping is literally becoming extortion now.
The end result of the tipping surge is going to be the collapse of all tipped work. People will stop using tipped services entirely and eventually the pyramid of wealthy users who can afford increasingly high tip is going to shrink.
I'm a school bus driver and we get tips (at Christmastime and the end of the school year) for no fucking reason that I can figure out. This is bad enough as it is, but last Christmas one of my co-workers actually handed out fucking tip envelopes (like what the garbage collectors give out) to the kids on his buses. I was at least pleasantly surprised that he got in trouble for this.
jfc
My wife had an employee who was fired from a previous business for taking a tip.
I usually give a tip to you guys around that time of the year. Why shouldn't I? 180 days of the year, 2x a day I depend on you and I have had no problems. This is for two kids btw. Think of anything in your life that you use 720 times in one year without issue. So yeah here is 20 bucks happy holidays.
Because we're not volunteers, we get paid. Do you tip everybody who performs a service of any kind for you? I used to write software for a living and nobody ever tipped me.
Thanks for the $20 BTW - it's not like I throw out the gift cards or anything, I just think it's weird.
I am sorry you didn't get a Christmas bonus. Your old employer sounds like a tool. And no I don't tip everyone. Also I don't give gift cards I just give cash, cash is like a gift card but you can use it at more locations so it is better.
A Christmas present isn't a tip.
That's just all of late stage capitalism. Most industries are shrinking bc most people can't afford to spend on much beyond the basic necessities of rent and food anymore.
I'm in the hotel industry and occupancy rates are declining, people just aren't going out on vacation like they used to.
Inevitably any service tipped or not will be wealthies-only.
Part of it I blame on anti social behavior among people under 40. We have a lot of extreme social anxiety over simple things like talking on the phone which extends into a severe inability to date. When you have tons of incels that means that means that men and women can't share the cost of housing and women have to work as much as men, which doubles the workforce. Obviously the solution is not to prohibit women from working, the way that people like Pim Tool like to imply.
Have you considered that people are less social when everything costs so much and people have so little?
That can certainly contribute, though people have been poor in the past and we didn't have an epidemic of severe social anxiety.
All over the parks here are signs that you can't use the park unless you have your $35 annual park pass. I'm talking about random dinky local parks. If you can't pay you can't even enjoy the trees. In 1980 the average movie ticket was around $2 in 2023 in the city its more like $15. 4 kids want to go see a movie its $60, $80 if they share some drinks/popcorn.
Simultaneously to everything being expensive and having less and less to spare after they pay for drastically more expensive essentials there is more to do and see online without spending a bunch of additional money per unit of time spent.
Adjusted for inflation, that's three times what it should cost. Four kids, adjusted for inflation, it should only be $23. 15 years ago, loading up on over priced popcorn, soda and candy was only $10.
Do we though? I've not met anyone like this, but maybe there's a reason for that. My social circle is outrageously slutty and outgoing. And prefer to share Netflix logins and cook at home because you can have an amazing night at 20% the cost of going out.
I hate to break it to you but it's always worked like that. I drove pizzas for a long time pre-apps and drivers have always prioritized deliveries based on expected tip. We even had a no-go list by the phone of people who stiffed drivers. If anything it's way easier to get away with not tipping now.
So pretty much the same as if you do tip.
That's why the ridiculous North American tipping culture needs to be called out as much as possible.
This is barely related to tipping culture, this is a service bid. They just refuse to call it that.
It's part of tipping culture because it uses the acceptance of tipping to slip this bidding system in. It also doubles as a tip because there is no separate tip option and tipping is expected for delivery. I'm sure more people wouldn't mind "bidding" low if it just meant getting their food later. Instead there's also the specter threat that a disgruntled worker will tamper with their food for daring to make a low "bid".
You're more likely to not receive your food then someone tamper with your food.
Just the plausible existence of a threat is enough and tampering has certainly happened before.
Exactly. All the people complaining about extortion don't understand the economics of Door dash / GrubHub / etc.
The food delivery person sees a potential job come in and can accept or reject it. In a few seconds they decide what to do. If it takes them 10 minutes to go to the place, 10 minutes to wait for the food, and 10 minutes to drive to you, they estimate a total of 30 minutes of work.
Of course they're not going to do it for no tip. There are plenty of other people tipping. Your food is going to wait for somebody to pick it up for whatever minimum amount DoorDash guarantees them. Maybe there is a second order going in your direction.
I live way out of the city center, but any time I order I don't tip in advance but my order is picked up near instantly anyways. My trick: living in a country without tipping culture where the drivers are paid for their time no matter how big the order or how far it goes.
This is not even tipping anymore. This is paying to get normal service, not better service.
That's always been the exact problem with American tipping culture. When it's expected to tip, you're no longer doing it to get better service, just normal service - which means it's just a hidden extra price.
Focusing on the wrong issue, but you're technically correct. You're not tipping. You're guessing at what door dash should be properly paying their employees instead of DD doing it themselves in your favor.
Fuck tips.
This implies that your food won't arrive cold if you do tip, and that hasn't been my experience at all.
The order through Door Dash:
This.
I've basically started a Shit List of local restaurants that I simply won't order from because they do shit like this.
Not just delivery either. If they want to gouge customers like that I'm not getting take out or dining in either.
I stopped using DoorDash when their fees and overall cost doubled what it should be.
I'll walk down and get it myself.
It’s fucking ridiculous…they all are. Uber, Grubhub, I mean if some of that went to the drivers then fine, we could talk. But we all know they don’t.
The fee you add for DoorDash etc should not be considered a tip. Tips are given after service is rendered, and are based on the quality of service. These fees are more like a bounty. "I'll pay $10 to the person that brings me a hamburger, dead or alive."
Is it too much to ask that I might be able to just pay for this service? Sometimes I want or need food ordered. If it costs $20 to have it delivered, and pay the delivery person fairly, sometimes that's worth the cost to me. I wish tips were an extra for "thanks for doing something above and beyond or awesome". They shouldn't need to be expected.
$1.99 convenience fee $4.25 app fee $3.99 delivery fee Oh, and don't forget to tip your driver because none of this goes to them.
^^^^ this cap needs to stop. Just give me the $15-$20 delivery fee and be done with it.
15-20 USD for delivery service is really expensive man.
Which is why it’s only worth it sometimes. If that’s what it takes to provide the service without fucking someone over to the point that I’m expected to help them recoup their loss, then yeah, that’s what it should cost.
This is the spirit is what I’m after. It’s likely usually going to seem lopsided if I’m paying to have one meal delivered, but If in having a meal for a small group or the family with some leftovers expected, it likely seems more reasonable. The people doing the work shouldn’t be getting screwed, the business should get to cover cost and make a small profit, and the customer gets to make choices without having to do fee gymnastics for every different place with a sprinkle of guilt that you’re responsible to decide what to pay the workers via tip.
I expect food delivery to be kinda expensive, you’re usually saving me 30-45 min to go get it, wait for the order, and return.
That's about what they make with tips and an hourly pay for doing the task. Instead DD has created the system where that responsibility falls on the customer buying food.
No it isnt?
I live in Germany and the delivery cost here is max. 6€, usually 2-3€. Never found any delivery service more expensive than that. My bad..
I just wish the fees weren't based on a percentage of the total bill, on top of the fact they blatantly jack the menu prices up. A few of us would like to use DD and similar for work lunch, sometimes. The charges for $60-80 of food is ridiculous, when it should be a flat rate for the service. You'd think they would want to incentivize these larger orders. Assuming the food is ready when the driver arrives, there should be no difference for the driver, who would generally get tipped on top.
Just another reason to avoid Door Dash: Best to get off your ass and get food. Better yet: Cook your own food!
Exactly. It's crazy how quickly this type of services get the "can't live without it" status. One day people are cooking their own food, calling taxis and walking around and next they will starve to death if someone can't bring them their BigMac and can't get anywhere without Uber or electric scooter.
It's just frustrating because almost all the restaurants that used to have their own delivery drivers now just do Uber or Door Dash
Nothing wrong with scooters (shout out to ![email protected]), but bikes are better IMO. I agree with the rest of your sentiment though.
my friends cannot fathom the fact i walk everywhere in my college
im like come walk with me "but its so far" its a 15 minute walk you probably need it.
You'd be amazed with the number of millennials who need someone to get food for them. One of my friends from high school is a neckbeard who doesn't work and his parents literally bring all his food into his apartment and he's rude about it because they interrupt him playing video games.
I know people of all ages who can't cook.
I am a millennial lol. Not that I don't use delivery, but going to get food and cooking my own is pretty routine.
How lazy and dependent people are if they can be "blackmailed" by the food delivery service and that service doesn't fear a significant loos of customers!
DD is just explaining that it's a bidding system. Few if any drivers are going to want to drive out of their way to pick it up and deliver it to you for little or no guaranteed tip listed up front and high chance of someone bailing on it anyway. Food sits at the restaurant for a long time
Pretty sure if I were to put a $20 tip I'd have no problems getting someone to accept the order immediately.
The problem, and the reason we've stopped using Doordash completely, is that your big tip means your order will get stacked with the low/no tippers to incentive the driver to pick them all up. And your food will sit there getting cold while the driver waits to pick up the others.
This has become universally true over the last year or two in Chicago at least. We are good tippers and every single time we'd see our food get picked up then watch the driver wait to pick up some other order -- sometime waiting 30 minutes or more with our food in their car less than a block from our home.
It's true everywhere. My wife and I both placed separate orders. I placed mine first and watched the driver wait 30 minutes, after picking up my order, until her order was ready. Then they got confused that both orders were coming to my house and didn't drop my order off. They figured it out after a few minutes and came back, but after 45 minutes of sitting in a car nachos are pretty fucking gross.
It's been four years since I lived there (Bucktown) but I started seeing that somewhat. We always tip pretty decent. Obviously it's best we avoid apps like these whenever possible but it has its utility still.
I would have said go pick it up yourself but lol your parking situation.
Yeah we have one car and mostly don't drive unless we're visiting family out of town. But we are lucky and have a lot of restaurants within walking distance from which we can pick up, which is pretty much how we order these days. Also we have one of the best public transit systems in the US (at least we did pre-pandemic) but taking public transit to pick up food is still a PITA.
But there are lots of others in the city who don't own a car at all because the CTA is enough to get to work, and may live in a food desert without much around.
If they see the tip before taking the job I could see that making sense.
Gross.
Also, in my experience, an tip doesn't even guarantee warm food lol
I used door dash maybe 5 times ever, tipped 20% and still got cold AND wrong food everytime.
My mom sent food to my house one time and it sat out for probably 20 minutes because they were too afraid to knock on the door.
The apps default to "leave at door" and most people don't expect a knock since they are the ones who ordered and have an app that will notify them food was delivered (if they weren't following along every step of the way like most people do)... Has nothing to do with being "scared".
That makes sense.
I used DD a lot during the course of the pandemic and I’d say it was completely botched at least 70% of the time. Part of the reason I used it so much was that they were giving me a ton of money to use in credit due as a resolution to the constant issues. This actually made it very cheap overall so it was hard to complain. I always gave above average tips too
Same.
Similar experience with GrubHub as well.
HOW MUCH?! General sales tax here is 20% and food sales tax is 10%! It is double of food sales tax.
I honestly wish people would quit using these delivery services in general.
They literally have done nothing but cause problems in store. They cause people who actually came to the store to have to wait because we got a fuckin door dash order for $60 and we're told to put mobile orders as top priority.
Not to mention all the headaches of trying to contact customers about substitutions or out of stock items. It's just a fuckin mess.
You're paying more for lower quality and I honestly don't even feel bad when I fuck up an order. You'd have been able to tell if you actually came in.
And before anyone brings up disabled people the main users of these delivery services in my area are college kids.
I honestly don't get the hate. People obviously want to order restaurant food to have at home. Maybe they're watching a series, studying, have kids, are introverts... like who even cares the reason. And they're willing to pay more. Why not try to accommodate that?
To me it sounds like the issue is UX related (contacting customers) and store related (expediting orders in the best sequence). Neither of those seem like the solution is wishing people wouldn't use the service.
You clearly don't work in food service where we've had a constant increase of work load with basically no increase in pay.
And now we're forced to deal with online ordering which completely disrupts the normal flow of things.
It's not optimized it's forced and as a result both the employee and the customer are more stressed.
That still doesn't sound like the customers fault at all. It should be possible to set certain things as out of stock, depending on the system probably automatically.
The fact that you're interrupted for online orders sounds like your workflow isn't optimised for having online orders at all. Just look at McDonald's drive-in, that's a completely separate flow from the in-store orders usually and they make it work. That might be a very visible example but many other stores have updated their workflow to accommodate online orders if offered.
So both these issues (calling customers to fix shit and the forced workflow) are completely fixable. You shouldn't be mad at customers using delivery services, be mad at the store owner that just wants the money from delivering without making sure their system is up for it (not to mention they underpay you, even more reason to be mad at em)
It boggles my mind that people use apps like these
I sit there at work sometimes, and people are ordering food from takeaways ten minutes walk up the road, paying easily three times what you'd pay to go and get it yourself.
It just doesn't seem to occur to them that they can go and fetch it.
Only time I ever used DoorDash was when I was too high to feel confident about my ability to put my shoes on. Too bad I didn't think about how unlikely it was that I would open my door.
It occurs to them, but sometimes you just don't want to.
I brownbag lunch and we do a group lunch once a week at work at a restaurant.
The only real reason I can see people using apps like these regularly is if they're disabled or otherwise unable to drive and can't easily go out to get it themselves.
Just go get the food yourself. Forget these delivery companies.
Underrated comment
It's definitely not, it's very recent and rapidly gaining upvotes.
Lazy people are downvoting because they want to waste their money on Door Dash.
People are free to spend their hard earned money on whatever they enjoy, it doesn't mean they are lazy either.
If someone is rich, then I agree. A millennial or zoomer making between $40-80k doesn't have the money to be blowing on their unwillingness to leave their house, or even to be going out all the time.
If they want to spend what little disposable income they have on it, they should be free and happy to do so.
I guess, but is it really wise for them to spend it that way?
You're ignoring the main problem and point of the post here, but you're also ignoring some people's needs and how "just go get it" is often not an option. This isn't a useful comment and it also doesn't make any discussion.
If you can't go get the food, eat what you have at home. If you're not at home, bring something with you to eat later or plan better.
We lasted so long without uber eats. We can do it again
We can, but everyone should always have the choice to do what they want, not keep having others tell them what they should or should not do. Whether or not you like these services doesn't mean others can't. I don't care for certain clothing items, it doesn't mean I should tell people not to wear them or do what they like because it isn't my choice.
For some it's often not as simple as just eat what you have at home and that's often not an option.
Wow, how did people survive before food delivery to your door was commonplace?
Obviously by being forced to either do it anyways, get help or skipping that meal?
Tips subsidize business owners who don't pay their employees enough.
*in US
THIS IS IT. All other comments in this thread that don't say this are focusing on the wrong problem or are flat out wrong.
Not really. Money for everything at a business comes from customers. If anything you are subsidizing customers who don’t tip.
No, you are subsidizing owner's new yacht.
That’s what you’re doing by spending money there at all. Do you think these owners would replace tips with money out of their own pockets?
US minimum wage laws say yes. See: minimum wage for tipped vs non-tipped employees.
"The minimum wage for employees who receive tips is $2.13 per hour. The amount of tips plus the $2.13 must reach at least $7.25 per hour. If not, your employer must pay to make up the difference."
Employees who fall into that category are either bad at their jobs or the restaurant is about to go under due to poor sales. At 20% tip they would only be selling $25 worth of food an hour per waiter.
You seem to be moving the goalposts or talking about something different - we're talking about employer obligations when changing between tipped and non-tipped. I quoted the department of labor to show that contrary to your incredulity, yes all employers are required to increase base pay to a higher rate in the absence of tips. You seemed to suggest that employers would not cover any increase in pay if tips were removed - however federal law requires that employers meet a higher base pay for untipped workers. This is regardless of how well a restaurant is doing - if a Michelin 5 star restaurant pays it's employees 2.13 + tip but decides to go tip free, yes they too will be required to increase base pay to 7.25.
The detail about restaurants also being required to cover the difference between tipped pay and 7.25 in cases where the restaurant underperforms is an unrelated detail not central to this discussion. My quote of the department of labor was only to demonstrate the 2 minimum wages between tipped and untipped pay.
No, I’m talking about their take home not the legal minimum. Waiters aren’t making minimum wage after tips. If tips went away tomorrow, no waiter is going to staying making $7.25 an hour. Employers having to cover wages for those that don’t receive enough tips is an inconsequential part of it.
Tipping needs to die.
I have no problem tipping, I have a problem with DoorDash and Grubhub calculating the tip on the total bill with all their fees included.
I have no problem tipping 20% with a $4 minimum, but it's going to be based on the meal I ordered, not your bullshit service fees.
Tipping is weird to me. Since every other business doesn't have tips because they already price their services or products correctly to account for their employees salary, since it is 100% their responsibility as the employer.
This shifting of responsibility and blame to the client by underpaying staff and pushing a system of begging and guilty tripping is incredibly weird.
This all signifies a pricing problem. Well I guess not one for the employers who are cheapskates raking in profits in a system where they shift attention of blame away from themselves.
Tipping is paying for the service. Having someone deliver food to your doorstep is a luxury. The restaurant needs to be paid for the food, the service needs to be paid for facilitating the delivery, and the driver should be paid for the service.
Why not actually price it into the cost of the food. Like any delivery x distance will cost x amount. Like actually charge what they want instead of this arbitrary guessing game.
Like you know... Like how online orders will provide the shipping cost to the consumer and then not expect tips, since the shipping cost is already accounted.
Charge what they want...
Because the restaurant isn't doing the delivery.
Now, I agree, if you're talking a restaurant doing delivery themselves, yes, bake it into the price of the food... Except then you're dealing with competition from other restaurants. If Pizza Hut is $4 more a pie because they pay their drivers more, what happens when Papa John's under cuts them?
In the case of Door Dash, you're dealing with three entities all trying to make money, the restaurant, the Door Dash service, and the contractors they have driving.
That is the business justification for it. I'm saying set the price themselves and if it's door dash than actually set a high enough fixed price as opposed a system worse than ticket master where it's a guess game of begging and charity.
You try to make it out to be so complex but really is as simple as an online company not being the one to do the delivery but providing different delivery options from various different companies that have set a clear and upfront cost to deliver the package.
Instead of a weird paying the cost of the product and being charged cost of shipping but then that actually not being enough, since delivery companies can be bothered and having to start tipping hoping x delivery company eventually delivers it since they don't know how to set prices themselves.
Door Dash doesn't set the menu prices, the restaurants do. Door Dash sets the delivery fees and then leaves the tipping of drivers to the consumers.
If Door Dash set the delivery fee at $10 with no tip, and Grub Hub sets the delivery fee at $5 with tip to be decided by the consumer, nobody would use Door Dash.
Seems like a company that shouldn't exist if they can't stay in business by actually charging what is necessary to remain solvent because customers will be scared off as you claim.
Seems more an excuse for door dash to justify why they don't set a proper delivery fee to lure customers and underpay drivers and just sit back and have the blame game being played between customers and workers.
Gonna be real boss, as a driver for DD, delivery drivers don't care what you ordered. They care about mileage, pickup & drop off times, and stairs. A $5 tip will cover most sane orders. $10 will usually cover insane orders / stairs.
If you're concerned about timing, tip $5 and then text them when they are assigned the order and let them know it is time sensitive and that you'll add cash tip on arrival for prompt delivery.
Which stage of enshittification is this?
Cutting edge
Lol
DoorDash "tips" are done before your food arrives, not after, and you can't change them after you order.
They're not tips, they're bribes.
As a driver for one of these apps it's more of a bid than a tip. People send me bids to deliver their food and I deliver to the highest bidder. It sucks because that's not what a tip is supposed to be and the majority of the delivery fee doesn't go to the driver. That's why I don't really order from these delivery apps myself anymore.
Yes, and next we will have: No tip to cook and you will have delayed ordered preparation, No tip to Doordash and we will delay placing your order.
It's time to just cook the meal or go buy it directly.
Both are better options
No, you tip for adequate service in America. You’d tip a lot for exceptional service. You’d only not tip if the service worker completely blew it. The only time I’ve not tipped was when a waiter bombarded me with a political candidate’s campaign spiel right before bringing me the check. Practically held me hostage. That fucking guy didn’t get a cent.
It’s because of a legal exception that allows businesses to pay service employees below minimum wage. Then the customer subsidizes their wages with tips. So you tip service workers just for doing their job as a matter of course when you dine out. We don’t do it because it makes sense, we do it because we like eating at restaurants and that’s how eating at restaurants works. We could change it, but that would require a change in legislation and/or a mass boycott of all restaurants, and neither is likely to happen any time soon.
The delivery driver has 0 control over this.
Deja vu!
They do when they take multiple orders at multiple restaurants before delivering your food.
How does doing that shave 5 minutes off a 20 min ETA?
No idea what the time estimates are based on, but 20mins is a long time and food will certainly be cold was my point.
20->15 is not exceptional. 20->2-3 minutes is.
Usually yes, but then again, when you're getting paid $7.50/hr, it's essentially supplemental income.
The worst part is some lazy restaurants just link to doordash instead of paying proper delivery drivers so you can't even avoid door dash if you like certain restaurants.
I mean in fairness before these services most restaurants did not have delivery options at all, so I don’t think this is that surprising? It was not long ago that your delivery options in many places were just pizza or Chinese.
There are more than a handful of places near me that used to have decent delivery but Door Dash etc basically shut them out. They lose business by not being affiliated and not getting exposure, so they get on Door Dash and lose even more business to Door Dash, next thing you know they have no in-house delivery and all the prices on Door Dash are jacked up so they can give Door Dash their take.
Don't like the concept, stop using the service. It's that simple.
But also that annoying, because this model where your ""tip"" becomes a bribe is a cancer upon society that needs to be eliminated.
They should also warn that they'll spit in your food too.
Cold food would be an improvement over the last three times I ordered food with DoorDash. Last three times, the driver stole my food. I'll never use them again.
We've had multiple orders delivered to the wrong address. We get confirmation pictures of our food sitting on someone else's doorstep. Has happened with all of the services. We live in a regular neighborhood with houses and streets pretty much laid out on a grid and signs everywhere so I don't get the problem but it happens about 50% of the time. None of the places with employee delivery have trouble finding us.
Grub hub was the last one we hadn't canceled since we get discounted delivery fees through something ( a credit card bonus I think?) Ordered dinner two weeks ago, and got another wrong address delivery, so my husband calls customer service for a refund and they insist on trying order again first. They got it right, but we got food 2.5 hours after we'd ordered.
We've canceled all delivery services now.
Did you report it? I imagine they take that seriously but they also don't have any way of knowing if someone is just being psychopathic.
Holding your food hostage for tips. lmao. Just pick it up yourself or drive-thru and make it part of your existing commute.
Yeah this is so fucked. Tipping at the vary least should happen after the transaction.
One of the many reasons I get my own damn food. I'm not paying out the ass for something I could do myself for half the price.
you'd have to wait until the food gets lukewarm and soggy if you want to compare with them.
I have never used any of these food delivery services, and I'm pretty sure I never will.
I have younger family members that use it a lot, and I've asked how much they spend a month. Holy smokes, I could cook some damn nice meals for what they spend a month - one person has spent as much as a family of 4 would spend on groceries a month. My average home-cooked per-plate cost is about $3.50. Nicer meals (steak) may go to $5 per plate.
It's understandable occasionally if you're pushed for time; shit happens. Paying someone to deliver shitty fast food or whatever just because you can't be bothered to cook makes no sense to me.
It doesn't take much planning to get started making your own meals. And the more you do it, the bigger your pantry gets with all the pieces and parts you need for other meals. Even if it's a lot of canned and boxed stuff, that's a start.
Yeah, I'd rather just cook or even pay for those overpriced prepackaged ingredient packages to cook at home.
Probably healthier too, and lot of stuff at restaurants is prepackaged microwaved stuff anyways.
@Tb0n3 It's to the point they will also say "They Might Spit In Your Food If You Don't TIP" like hey I didn't order this shit.
How about I just get food from one of the 15 places in easy walking distance as I'm in a city.
Or even if you're not in a city, drive a little bit and pick it up. I have that many options within 5-10 minutes' driving distance
Some people's don't have cars? They want to stay and focus on their homework or chores or anything? How about those with 30 minute breaks who order and time it to land within their break time? How about those who are who are sick/disabled/less fortunate and unable to get to locations easily without extra effort?
Only the last one of those is mildly valid. The rest are not good enough to tip the scales to make it reasonable.
Even if you don't have a car, you should probably be saving up for one instead of blowing money on Doordash. Grocery delivery would be more practical.
Huh, if I went out to the corner and bought food and came back, it would take 20-30 minutes. Sometimes, the restaurant is busy, and I sit there knowing I will have to not eat it because I will just have to clock back in the second I get back. Sometimes, I have to explain why I was late. Why would I put myself through that and not just get someone to do it for me in advance.
Mildly valid for disabled or less fortunate individuals...
One other thing. I bought food for someone, and it is more attractive to receive it from the comfort of their home instead of being annoyed by traffic or getting dressed. How about those with a car that don't want to deal with traffic? Ever hear of comfort, or are you one of those people who think no pain no gain hard-core lifestyles are the only way to live?
It's just silly that you think not using Doordash is some kind of uncomfortable or hard life.
Bottom line is that it's a luxury that is unnecessary for most people. If you want to waste your money on unnecessary delivery, that's on you. I prefer to keep more of my money to spend on durable things rather than temporary conveniences. That's part of the reason that I own a house and land.
Lol.
I frequently find food bag have been opened when a doordasher delivers orders. It's odd because the tracker typically shows the dasher stopping in weird residential areas and parking for extended periods of time.
'That's a really nice and hot meal you've got there. It would be a shame if it were to be... how you say... room temperature when it arrived.'
I hate Doorsdash so fucking much but I'm pretty sure I'm addicted to it. It's one of those terrible destructive relationships and I find myself screaming at the app every time I use it. I recently discovered a neat trick though, where if I order from the website then the app won't spam me with the double-dash popup but I'll still get my delivery statuses.
As someone who doesn't use it* I'm curious, why is it so addicting?
*My wife used it once when we were out of state for a wedding but only because I was stuck inside due to illness.
It's a time saver for sure. My husband and I use it a lot though over the past 2 months we've made conscious efforts to cook at home more for both money saving (it's fucking expensive) and to reduce our calorie intake.
That being said, it's really nice to just press a quick button, and then start sweeping, doing laundry, vacuuming, taking out the trash, etc, and then food just shows up that can now be conveniently cleaned up quickly as well.
Cooking yourself not only takes away time from the other chores kicking them to getting done later, but also now adds chores as well with the dishes.
I reason that something has to give between work, fitness, chores, schooling, sleep, and downtime. So far it's been my sleep, but I don't feel guilty using food delivery services to get some gaming/social time back in as well.
Thanks, that does make sense. I just finished raking leaves, walked 2 miles today for fitness, cooked dinner, and cleaned up. And there's still more to do...
If it wasn't for the tip I would honestly do it too. But I hate tipping non-wait staff so I'll go pick a pizza up just to avoid it.
Learn to cook. This is why everyone became broke and fat. It is scary how fast you lose money this way. A single meal for one person can be the same as a family of four food budget for a week and the food you get is loaded with salt and calories.
My rule for eating out is simple: it has to be food I can't resonably make at home. I love Indian food but it wouldn't be realistic for me to start cooking it.
I know how to cook, but only in a commercial kitchen and only when I'm making 150+ servings of something.
I know how to cook, but sometimes I don't want to cook. I don't see why this is such a hard concept to grasp, and I don't know why everyone is so hostile towards people who choose to spend their money on this
Because it is hard to feel bad about someone complaining about a luxury that caters to human laziness being slightly more expensive. There is about a billion people on earth who don't have enough to eat or don't have access to a good diet and you people are whining about spending 41 dollar laziness premium vs a 38 dollars laziness premium.
Try using a bicycle, maybe you will lose some weight.
People are "whining" about an out of control tipping culture. Doesn't matter if you like the service or not, tips are fucking ridiculous right now.
Just stop tipping in that case?
Here's the main problem as I see it. With these tech services is that you can take a basic framework that acts as a middleman between people wanting a service and people willing to provide it and then scale it up immensely by just adding more computing resources. But not everything scales that way, including the checks and balances that ensure everything is going smoothly and filtering out people trying to use the service in bad faith or incompetence. Support (for both customers and staff), QA, HR, and training don't necessarily scale (training can, if you have workers that are smart enough to be trained solely from media, but if anything is confusing then it stops scaling well).
And add on to that with it being so scaled up, interactions are often with random people, for both the customers and the workers. They don't form relationships like what happens in smaller businesses. A good experience won't say much about what to expect next time. Same thing with a bad experience. And support people have no idea who is complaining and who they are complaining about. They know their identities but not there personalities, or if this driver is generally good and might have had a bad day, or a customer is lying to get free food, or that driver is generally an asshole. A lot of these services do what they can to avoid having a relationship that goes beyond "fulfill order, get paid".
And on top of this, it's not really able to handle fluctuating demand well, since services need to have extra capacity to handle spikes in demand. If things are slow, drivers will just log off and do something else with their time, where as a pizza place handling its own delivery will have a better chance of predicting activity levels and scheduling people to be in at that time (and offering incentives to be there in case it turns out to be slow). That's not to say businesses handling their own delivery service are perfect, but at least they'll have people seeing what's going on who can deal with it (eg by sending inside staff to deliver or hiring a delivery service to help with the load until it's back to manageable levels).
And this article indicates that door dash considers this a feature rather than a bug. After all, if they are taking a cut of all money that gets transferred through their app, of course they'll encourage customers to pay more. It's all pretty much passive income for them, other than maintaining the code and servers.
Stop attacking the drivers. If you're upset about how door dash works, get upset at DOOR DASH itself, not the people they can't seem to pay properly.
Stop using the service...
People who waste their money on DoorDash deserve to lose it. Learn to make your own food or pick it up your damn self. At least order from places that do their own delivery.
You're acting like that is an option for everyone and you're blaming the people who order from DoorDash which is both pointless and ignorant and helps absolutely no one.
Outside of emergency situations where you’re physically unable to go out and your power is out so you cannot cook and have nothing edible without being cooked, there is no reason a food delivery service is necessary. Food can be delivered from grocery stores and can be cooked.
I'd like to just link my other comment but I'll rewrite my point, there's a lot of health conditions and other scenarios where someone may be unable to cook or get help in that moment.
If you have the income for it, DoorDash is an amazing option for this in the US. It's a lot simpler where I live where you can just get ready to eat fresh food from supermarkets and the restaurants deliver things themselves, but people themselves are not to blame for using DoorDash.
If they are unable to prepare meals themselves, how are they getting up and answering the door? You’re describing a very narrow niche that likely doesn’t really exist. The vast vast majority of people who use these services are capable but unwilling to get it themselves.
I don’t support any of these gig-economy services for various reasons, but this isn’t on DoorDash. This is the reality of the situation, and the consumer isn’t being screwed.
My comment is more or less focused on mental health, where there can be huge blockades to go and prepare food and it's quite common. I do understand that a huge chunk of people are simply unwilling though.
Over here things like delivery is more of a fun thing you do every 2 weeks, and not a common occurrence which is ideally how it should be. I find comments targetting people like the original quite lame as it accomplishes nothing, and the root cause is how corporations and education in the US works.
"Mrrrm, I HAVE to order McDonald's at DoorDash, I can't be expected to do for myself as an adult Mrrrrrrrm"
That's how you sound right now.
Not quite, there's a lot of health issues and other things that can impact someone's ability to cook on their own or get help at that current moment. DoorDash is oftentimes great for scenarios like that and the people aren't to blame.
Mockery instead of trying to think of reasons why my point could be valid is also a very low blow to make.
Who the heck is still using it and the ones like it past the point of once? The few times I played with it just to check it out the meal was 3x the price of getting it myself. I have used it twice while on work travel and both times the food was cold and messed up.
'Food might get cold' is a euphemism for getting spat into.
Nah, just that they won't pick up your order if the driver sees that there's a real possibility they'll only get paid $2 to drive your starbucks order across the city.
Porque no los dos?
Which is why tipping culture is turning into extortion.
Dont forget to tip the OP for this lukewarm post
It would be nice if you could put the tip you PLAN to pay, but without a certain rating afterward it doesn’t get paid. Sadly that would likely get abused by customers too. I would rather give them a better cash tip than a (ahem) documented one…
Uber Eats lets customers change the tip retroactively. As a driver this is riskier because people bait drivers with a big tip and then go in and remove it entirely after the fact for no reason.
The other issue is that most people don’t know what they’re eating when they give a rating. My 1 star reviews are from customers who’s food was done incorrectly by the restaurant or who gave such shit directions for delivery that it was impossible (had one apartment customer who wanted me to enter the secure building to leave it at their door but didn’t give access instructions, respond to my texts, or answer any of my calls… and they decided I deserved 1 star for that).
I’d like something that gives both customers and drivers more confidence. Like a proper wage from DoorDash that’s baked into the cost of service (maybe from those exorbitant fees they charge?). Just cut the tip all together and pay drivers appropriately and stop hiding behind the independent contractor shit as an excuse for exploiting people.
RacketcapitalismThis is the best summary I could come up with:
DoorDash has added a pop-up in its app this week warning customers that orders with no tip might take longer to get delivered.
The move appears to be an effort by DoorDash to show customers that drivers are likely going to prioritize more profitable work.
According to DoorDash spokesperson Jenn Rosenberg, the prompt is “something that we’re currently testing to help create the best possible experience for all members of our community.”
It appears the pilot is not live in every locale; one Verge colleague in New Jersey got it, while another in South Carolina didn’t.
While tipping isn’t something anyone who lives in America should be surprised about doing (or should ever consider not doing without a really good reason), pre-tipping is a relatively new concept in our gig economy.
Update October 31st, 4PM ET: Added statement from DoorDash confirming the message is part of a test it’s piloting.
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WTF?
The driver "the clock is ticking bitch ! your food is getting cold" This is actual ridiculous
If my food is not McDonald's coffee hot...
Why can’t people just learn to cook for themselves. It’s a basic life skill. Your body needs food, learn how to make the stuff. It’s not even a hard skill There’s even food you can do low effort and fast. And it’s healthier cuz when you order out you’re consuming so much more salt and sugar than you’re supposed to and it’ll literally rot your organs.
I simply take it as DoorDash warning that it provides poor service. Ok.
The word 'tips' originally came from an acronym "To Insure Proper Service".
As a great etymologist once said, "it's never an acronym."
"Ensure" would be the correct word in that context
I heard it as "To Insure Promptness".