Re:DoorDash’s about-face on tipping shows customers have mor...
by slg on Thursday July 25, 2019 @05:09PM
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You are basing your argument around just doing the minimum. Lots of people want to tip more than whatever you, society, or DoorDash decides it the minimum. Beyond simply being misleading, DoorDash's old model made it extremely difficult for anyone to reward their delivery person with an above average tip.
All you see as a Dasher is that there is a new delivery for a 'guaranteed minimum' of $10 which in this world means that you will almost never receive anything other than $10. You take the job, deliver the food, and find out after that $3 of that was tip. You take another $10 job and find out that $0 of that was tip.
In this world there is zero expectation of a tip because almost no one tips outside the app and in-app tips are worthless. The reason tipping is expected is because ...it's expected. You're an asshole at a restaurant if you don't tip because ~15% is the baseline, in DD's world the baseline is 0%.
I'm not exactly sure why you're trying to guilt yourself into paying more for the exact same service to a person that is not expecting anything extra. You're doing the equivalent of tipping the cashier at the grocery store.