Re:I’ve been delivering for Postmates and DoorDash
by SeoxyS on Saturday November 14, 2015 @05:49PM
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I tip before getting my order at coffee shops where I'm a regular, and where I like and know the people who work there. Other coffee shops, I don't tip.
I'm a good tipper at sit-down restaurants (restaurants where a check is brought to you after your meal), at bars when I have a tab, for my barber, etc. Some situations require tipping. Some don't.
As if tipping had logical regularity to begin with? You're expected to tip at coffee shops long before receiving the service, and for takeout orders, where there is no service. (At least, they try to dupe you into thinking it's expected.)
"Add a tip to this order when placing it" sounds stupid, but it's only revealing the pre-existing stupidity of the convention it's trying to parallel.
If they go the other route like Uber and say "tip's included", then they trigger an angels-on-a-pin lawsuit about "well which part was the tip because you can't take a cut of that".