Comment on As if the tip actually goes to the dashers.
snooggums@kbin.social 5 months agoA 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 5 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.