Agreed. Similarly, if DoorDash could stop automatically setting a high tip on all my orders, that'd be great, thanks. I always give a tip, but it's rarely as high as the app auto-suggests, unless I have a tiny order.
Tips are a living wage for drivers. If you don't want to pay the recommended tip, either you are a charity case (no shame, everyone deserves help when they are down), or you shouldn't purchase the service.
On the one hand, yes, this is why I tip every time. On the other hand, if I'm already paying basically twice as much as the food order in delivery fees and service fees, DoorDash should be able to afford to pay its employees a living wage without me dropping yet an extra $7 in tips.
I've done the math before and it's ridiculous that a tipped employee, due to a lower minimum wage, can literally be starving in poverty while employed, with no regulations preventing that. Our country needs to fix its regulations in this area, but until it does, employers should be offsetting the problem, not customers. Or, hell, if they really can't bring themselves to pay their employees fairly, they should at least offset the tip amount by lowering the service fees. The other day, I ordered two subs. Two sandwiches, nothing more, not even any sides or drinks. It was $40 with a $3 tip. Literally more than double the price of the food.
What I'm saying is, I tip because I understand there's a problem, but I don't overtip because I also understand it's the employers' responsibility (if the government won't handle it) to deal with the problem on behalf of their employees, not the customers'.
Yep. Unfortunately, government regulations here in the US explicitly make the minimum wage for a "tipped job" much lower than the minimum wage for any other job, and the amount is not high enough for the tips to necessarily offset that difference. An employee can be getting paid the legal minimum wage, making the amount in tips every month that the law requires for that lower wage, and still end up unable to afford rent. The obligation really should be with the employer, but since capitalism breeds greedy assholes and the government regulations aren't well-designed, they mistreat their employees on the assumption they can just pass off their responsibilities to customers.
It's awful. A good rule of thumb for waiters/waitresses is 15% minimum tip unless they're awful, 18% if they're good, 20% if they're amazing. The idea being that larger bills usually mean more food and/or more work for them. But for delivery drivers, in my opinion, it's the same amount of work whether I order $10 or $40 in food, especially if that amount is artificially inflated by app service fees, so I give all my app delivery drivers the same tip.
