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Doordash seems to have higher menu prices than the restaurants' own websites, so unless I'm missing something, it seems the restaurant has the ability to choose
by boring_twenties 6y ago
Doordash seems to have higher menu prices than the restaurants' own websites, so unless I'm missing something, it seems the restaurant has the ability to choose to recoup those fees from the customer if they want to.
What gets me is that Doordash is triple dipping here. There's the fee to the restaurant, which may or may not translate to higher menu item prices. There's the fixed $2-5 delivery fee which is pretty obvious. And then there's the percentage-based fee in addition to that, 10 or 11% I believe, that's kind of hidden along with the taxes.
I mean come on. Sometimes I am willing to pay a rather high price to have my food delivered. I'm not willing to have to fire up Wolfram Alpha just to determine exactly how much higher, though.
- SheinhardtWigCo 6y agoThere's also the 15-20% tip, of which the restaurant staff aren't getting a cent.
- dmix 6y agoDon't you normally tip the driver for deliveries? I've never tipped a restaurant for take out or delivery normally...
- wittyreference 6y agoI stopped tipping with DD. I used to tip, when delivery was "free" (included in the menu price). But DD jacks up the menu price (which, at least around here, is already increased to account for their own direct delivery service - they use DD to source more customers) and then adds a delivery fee - if I'm paying that much more of a premium to use a specific delivery person, I don't really feel I owe them a gratuity on top of it.
- manigandham 6y agoWhy would you tip the restaurant staff?
- labster 6y agoBecause tipping restaurant staff is what normal people do when they go out to restaurants in the U.S. Those same people still prepare and package the food, even when someone else delivers it.
- sokoloff 6y agoI do not tip at fast food or counter-service places or when I pick up takeout. Presumably GP was comparing the delivery experience to the picking up takeout experience where someone else just happens to be picking up the takeout.
- manigandham 6y agoPeople tip the waiters when dining in. Depends on the location if those waiters share with the rest of the staff. Picking up food usually has no tips. Delivery involves tipping the driver, which delivery apps already support and they don't take any fees from it.
- MereInterest 6y ago> Depends on the location if those waiters share with the rest of the staff. Legally, any tips go solely to the individual waiter to whom the tip was given. Restaurants may not legally require a tip sharing program, either between servers, or from the servers to the cooks. In practice, you are right.
- JoshTriplett 6y ago> Picking up food usually has no tips. I typically tipped even when picking up food. And restaurant staff remember that, precisely because so few people do it.
- manigandham 6y agoWho the does the tip go to? The person handing you the order?
- Wowfunhappy 6y agoI don't tip for takeout. If they deliver, I tip the delivery person, but if the restaurant isn't the one delivering that's not relevant. (I hate tips, restaurants should just charge what they need to charge. But that's not how things are done in the US, and it's hard to change the culture...)