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Re:Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America by hotpotamus on Friday January 20, 2023 @03:55PM (#34459804)
$7 seems pretty good to me, though it's pretty mileage dependent (I assume the suggested tip is probably taking that into account), but I wonder, how much would I have to offer you to complete a Doordash order?
Re:Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America by distortionfield on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:17PM (#34460054)
The tip isn’t the price of delivering the order though, you’re conflating the price and the tip into the same thing, which they’re not.

For the record, I’ve been a delivery driver before. Getting tipped at all was amazing, so I literally can not imagine pounding on the door, handing the person their pizza and telling them that they should tip more because I want more money.

Re:Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America by xboxnolifes on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:31PM (#34460233)
For the modern food ordering app, the tip is the price of delivering. It's really a misnomer. More accurately, it should be called a bid, since you're placing a bid on your order and hoping a delivery driver will pick it up.
Re:Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America by hotpotamus on Friday January 20, 2023 @04:27PM (#34460171)
When you were a delivery driver, were you a W-2 employee? Doordash is not that - it's more like a live service market where you bid for delivery from a driver and Doordash attempts to match your order to a driver, all of whom are self employed (1099). They've got to pay all their vehicle expenses and in theory get something for their time, meanwhile Doordash is a middle-man and trying to squeeze both sides of the transaction. When it works, it is pretty impressive, but mostly it just seems like a Mug's game.