• waldenA
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    11 months ago

    A reasonable tip ensures that someone will accept your order. Nobody is forced to go pick your food up.

    I did a bunch of ride-a-longs with my buddy during COVID. Watching him decide which orders to accept was fascinating. There are lots of variables, and a reasonable tip was a requirement.

    It basically boiled down to how much money per mile.

    Some shady people will put a $20 at first, but then change it to $0 after the food is delivered – not based on bad or slow service, but because they are assholes. The $20 is to get a Dasher to accept the order quickly. Bait and switch.

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      11 months ago

      A reasonable tip ensures that someone will accept your order. Nobody is forced to go pick your food up.

      I member when restaurants employed drivers that actually delivered reliably without needing to bid for their attention first. Hard to forget since I was one of them!

      Hourly pay was regular minimum wage instead of the server level chump change, and when using my own car I received an amount for wear and tear + gas. So in my case tips were actual tips on top of a living wage and even if nobody had tipped it would have been an alright job.

      I can’t imagine trying to do the same thing for only tips.

      • jawa21@startrek.website
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        11 months ago

        It isn’t only tips. I opt to be paid by time + tips. In my area it is $18.50 per hour driven with tips. I average about $25-$28 per hour. The real issue is that getting to the point where you can just go work whenever you want is really rough because there isn’t always a spot available.