If you can tip a delivery driver $4 with a straight face I feel bad for you. $8 minimum for direct-to-doorstep food, regardless of the cost of the delivery.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Even with an insane 20% tip I don’t think you’ve worked it out right. A 20% tip on the food (because why would you tip on a service charge??) comes to 4.09
UmeU@lemmy.world 5 months ago
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You yanks are crazy with your attitude to pay.
UmeU@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I didn’t say I like it, I just said that is the right thing to do.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Only because you live in a country where they don’t pay people properly.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Depends on your area.
When I was a delivery driver I’d refuse anything less than $20 total, which meant about $18 of tip.
UmeU@lemmy.world 5 months ago
$18 is a bit much, but I have 10 downvotes that say $8 is too much, so who am I to judge.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It just meant bigger / more expensive food orders.
Delivering $100 worth of food takes almost exactly the same effort as delivering $10 worth of food, but the difference in tips is huge.
scottywh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
20% tip is not insane.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s double what’s standard to tip for good service.
scottywh@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nowhere is the standard only 10%.
It’s been 15% for average service and more for “good” or exemplary as the standard for the half century I’ve been on the planet.
You Europeans are something else, man.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You Europeans are something else, man.
Lol because we expect companies to pay people properly rather than expecting customers to top it up.
Tipping is immoral as it allows companies to underpay. Tipping is anti free market as companies should be competing for staff through their remuneration packages.
The thing I’ve never understood about tipping culture in general and especially the American culture around it is why some low paid staff get it and some don’t.
Why do you tip your food delivery driver and not the guy delivering your Amazon package?
Why do you tip your wait staff, but not your supermarket checkout assistant?
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yep. He tipped on top of the delivery charge and taxes. I it was 20% tip button that doesn’t isolate food.
then_three_more@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Lol that’s so bad.
arin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
By design, they know most Americans suck at math