Tipping 'nudges' are now popping up on DoorDash. If you don't leave a gratuity, you'll hear about it.

I'm far from a cheap tipper, but the way tipping culture has evolved in North America is ridiculous.

pay your workers a fair wage! end tipping culture!

• Ban tipping as a substitute for min wage.
• Ban tipping companies,
• Allow tipping people.

Until then, tip people with cash.

America’s whole tipping thing is a nightmare. Just make companies pay employees properly and if they can’t, maybe they shouldn’t be a business.

Fuck Tipping Culture

The fact I'm getting asked to leave a tip before the service is rendered is what drives me really nuts. I've tipped on things and got terrible service and there is no way to adjust your tip down (and it can even be hard to increase it if they really do go above and beyond in some way).

It bothers you even when you do tip. I always just tip 20% when I pay, before any service has happened, but I still get like 6 texts after my order has arrived asking me to "rate and tip!" "Don't forget to tip your driver!!" "HEY FUCKER!! GIVE US ALL YOUR MONEY!!" Then at some point "Your driver says: Thanks for the tip! Don't forget to rate your order from Jack in the Box!" I'm not going to fucking rate my food from Jack in the Box. It's deep fried shame, it's delicious and I don't want to talk about it. Leave me alone please, it's the middle of the night and I'm full of jalapeno poppers and onion rings and shame.

I killed all delivery nonsense a while ago. It was like 4 fees plus a demand for a tip on top of inflated prices; go to the restaurant and pay $15 or pay DoorDash $35 for the same shit? Fuck that, I'll drive and pick my own damn food up.

And bonus, if half of it gets eaten in the car - I mean "wasn't given to me by the restaurant", sorry - at least I'm the one who ate the damn thing.

Tips help the company a lot more than the worker. If everyone decides to just be an asshole for a while and stop tipping, the workers being exploited will quit, and companies will be forced to pay actual living wages to attract/retain workers.

But that’s not going to happen because the social pressure of tipping is just too strong… and I say that as someone who is part of the problem by always leaving a tip :/

Don't want to pay your employees a decent wage? No need to worry, that's for the customers to sort out!

American tipping culture is off the rails, and business owners are rejoicing, I bet.

Their fees and tipping finally got me to stop using the service at all. So many times a $10 tip would be left only for my food to show up an hour later and cold. It just stopped being worth it. Half the “drivers” are on foot or e-scooters at this point and the food is destroyed by the time it gets there.

I’m sure I’m not the only one coming to this conclusion too. The prices keep going up and the quality goes down

I view tipping as a form of hostage payment, I'll tip you today so you don't mess with my food tomorrow. My highschool time showed me how vulnerable people's food was to the whims of teenagers.

When a app nudges for tipping I just think they haven't set the right price for the service.

Luckily I live in a place without a tip culture now, so relaxing to know how much things actually cost.

I think wages should be increased and tip if the service is good, not force those employees to live off of only tips.

We get asked for tips here in Australia where we have a minimum wage and no tipping culture - it’s rubbish because we don’t need to subsidise people’s income at all, but the app doesn’t differentiate countries customs it seems. Uber’s apps are the same always asking for tips despite minimum wage….

I always tip, but I'm pretty fucking over it from a company perspective. Doordash, Uber, and Grubhub are raking in INSANE profits while they stiff their workers.

These companies shouldn't be taking more than 1% or less of every transaction. Instead, they take a WAY larger cut. They do it in the worst possible way, too. There are layers of hidden fees - everything from menu items being secretly increased in price, to fees you don't see until the final second that they discretely lump (hide) under the sales tax column.

Fuck these companies.

I've never used GrubHub, DoorDash, or any of those meal delivery services. I know I'm in the minority here, but I just don't trust people to not mess with my food in between the store and my house.

well that's the end of dardashian GrubHub for me I'm tired of that shit

I used Grubhub exactly once.

Fucker ate my kids chicken tendies. I'll pick up my stuff from now on.

I travel for work often so used to use them. It was nice since it worked with my receipt software. I used to use them

1. Costs are way too high

2. Food was spilled, messy, and cold

3. The tracker was a lie

This is going to make me never use them again

Sounds like it is annoying even if you tipped well to start with. Glad I stopped using those apps a while ago. The only value they have to me now is to browse local restaurants when I can't think of a place to go. And a lot of times I just end up eating at home anyway.

I've never used one of the delivery services, I doubt I ever will. I haven't been to a restaurant or a movie theater since the troubles, I don't see myself going back, neither have anything to offer me I can't have better at home.

Easily the app with the worst delivery service quality, in my experience, now also pushing hardest for gratuities... You're fired.

As soon as the pandemic was considered done, I’ve just deleted those awful apps. They overcharge you for the products, they stack on a bunch of bullshit fees, and they guilt you into tipping for the 50% chance that you get your order in a reasonable time and without things missing or wrong.

First I don’t use door dash.

Second I basically tip when I get excellent service. A tip is not given in the service isn’t great. If it’s average service then you might or might not get a tip depending on my mood.

The tip isn’t a replacement for a wage.

Edit to add . If I am having something delivered, the tip is in cash at time of delivery, NOT in advance. Why would I tip before I even get the item?

I use these as a central place to create an online order for pickup.

This makes no sense to me. When you submit the order, it gives you the option to add your tip. 0% is not an option. Though I did notice recently the option for an additional tip.

If you don't want to tip your driver then don't use door dash. Just because tipping sucks does not entitle you to using other people to who rely on tips to make a living. It's how the system works now so either write to Congress or stfu and stop using these services. It's not that hard. The constant whining on this topic is incredibly annoying and the people who rely on tips are never considered by redditor types.

There is no magical solution to this problem where you don't end up paying more money for your food, whether it's a living wage or something else. And even the "living wage" people propose would almost certainly be a pay cut for most servers/drivers. So don't try to pretend you're helping anyone other yourself with it.

I hate the tipping culture, it's garbage that takes advantage of the workers, but as a customer of something that tipping is built into the component of a workers pay you have a responsibility to remember these rules:

• if you can't afford to tip, then you cannot afford your meal, buy something cheaper and leave a tip.
• the only acceptable time to not tip is if the service was bad.
• fake money and church related literature are not fucking tips! Don't be an asshole, those service workers are forced to rely on your fair assessment of their service through gratuity.