DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar

Re:DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar by jghn on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:45PM (#20517658)

The pizza driver does not get the delivery charge. Generally that goes to the pizza shop itself. It's covering the overhead of maintaining a delivery program.

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Re:DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar by unreal37 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @01:55PM (#20517783)

Oh no doubt the pizza shop keeps the "delivery charge".

But pizza is a delivery food. Dominos doesn't even have seats. 90% of what it does is delivery. So the "overhead of running a delivery program" is just a business expense that should come out of their revenues.

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Re:DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar by scarface74 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @02:10PM (#20517965)

What overhead? The employees generally use their own car.

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Re:DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar by sixstringtheory on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:24PM (#20518729)

I will say that during my short stint as a delivery driver for a small non-chain pizza shop, I got a flat rate (less than the delivery charge, mind you) for each delivery I took.

Not sure if that happens in all cases, but I can see the case for charging a delivery fee. Baking it in to the cost of a pizza in general would unfairly charge people eating in or picking up. With delivery, you are paying for the pizza, and then an additional service.

I still think tips should be eliminated from the equation, though.

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Re:DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar by scarface74 on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @03:29PM (#20518771)

Pizza chains already have “carry out only” specials. I don’t have a problem with the delivery fee - but the driver should get it.

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