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I also balked at it until my credit card gave me free delivery and only 5% fees. The final cost is cost of food + 1 dollar + tip to the driver (which I'm perfec

I also balked at it until my credit card gave me free delivery and only 5% fees. The final cost is cost of food + 1 dollar + tip to the driver (which I'm perfectly OK with!). This comes out to a real marginal difference of about 4-6$, which I don't really care about. Edit: people keep mentioning markups. I see those much more often on GrubHub (actually, every place is marked up on GrubHub except big chains), but don't see markups my regular set of local restaurants.

DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago
I find that the prices of the food are also inflated over what the restaurant would charge.
strombofulous 6y ago
What card?
- javiramos 6y ago
  Chase Sapphire Reserve: https://www.doordash.com/dashpass-v2/chase/sapphire-reserve/en-US https://www.doordash.com/dashpass-v2/chase/sapphire-reserve/...
  - aloknnikhil 6y ago
    https://media.chase.com/news/chase-partners-with-door-dash-to-deliver-new-benefit-for-freedom-sapphire-slate-cardmembers https://media.chase.com/news/chase-partners-with-door-dash-t... Seems like free DashPass is valid only for a year. > Complimentary DashPass Subscription for Chase Sapphire Reserve and Preferred cardmembers: Your Chase Sapphire account will receive one complimentary DashPass subscription from DoorDash for at least 12 months when the subscription is activated by 12/31/21. After the DashPass discounted period ends, you can choose to continue to be enrolled and charged the then current monthly DashPass rate They also have an offer for the Freedom and Slate cards (which have no annual fee) albeit free DashPass only for the first 3 months and a 50% discount for the next 9. So, still a good deal overall when compared to paying $9.99 every month. Thanks!
- r0m4n0 6y ago
  I can attest to using Chase sapphire reserve getting DoorDash and American Express platinum getting Seamless (from Lyft Pink) and Uber Eats. Agree with the parent, with these faux discounts and ordering for more than one person makes it well worth it. I say faux because the fees are negotiated and paid with the credit card membership fees invisible to us
  - dhruvrrp 6y ago
    Pretty sure Lyft pink is through Chase sapphire as well, which in turn gives Grubhub+ (at least for me)
diarrhea 6y ago
This only means the cost is somewhere else, just hidden. No free lunch. This remark is useless since I have no clue where, just that it is somewhere.
- Spivak 6y ago
  The cost right now is all that sweet sweet investor cash which I am more than happy to burn for them.
8GUQyfqKYy 6y ago
> food + 1 dollar + tip to the driver (which I'm perfectly OK with!). In many cases there's a markup on the food over the restaurant's prices. There's delivery fee that's generally $2-$3, a service fee that's hidden in the "taxes and fees line item", not to mention a small order fee etc on some orders. And, of course the tip. This I do not understand. It went from tipping the waiter a bit more because you were well taken care of at the restaurant dining experience, to pre-paying a tip to the driver before knowing if the food's good or if the delivery is late etc. The restaurant doesn't get any of the tip. Anyway, a subsided food delivery that you got is not sustainable. To be honest I do not understand the tipping culture at all. Its expected to tip a restaurant staff if you eat at the restaurant, but not if you get the food delivered. But, expected to pre-pay a tip the driver who delivered the food (irrespective of quality of food or delivery) but not the USPS/UPS/fedex driver who delivered anything else even if he/she carries a heavy package over a flight of stairs. Its expected to tip a uber/lyft driver even on a shared ride with other folks but not a bus/metro/train driver. None of it makes sense to me :)
- coldcode 6y ago
  I prefer to order food from the restaurant directly and pick it up, so that they get the maximum $. Door dash is convenient to see what's out there, but not very good to the actual business of the restaurant. Plus you are paying for that convenience. I also don't see how DD will ever be cash positive as the fees would have to go up, which seems bad business.
- thebean11 6y ago
  I think it has less to do with any culture, and just how the pay structure works for all the different things you mentioned. USPS/UPS/Fedex/bus/metro/train drivers all make livable wages and have benefits. I'm not defending the tipping pay structure, but it's certainly not some confusing mystery.

DontGiveTwoFlux 6y ago

I find that the prices of the food are also inflated over what the restaurant would charge.

strombofulous 6y ago

What card?

javiramos 6y ago
Chase Sapphire Reserve: https://www.doordash.com/dashpass-v2/chase/sapphire-reserve/en-US https://www.doordash.com/dashpass-v2/chase/sapphire-reserve/...
- aloknnikhil 6y ago
  https://media.chase.com/news/chase-partners-with-door-dash-to-deliver-new-benefit-for-freedom-sapphire-slate-cardmembers https://media.chase.com/news/chase-partners-with-door-dash-t... Seems like free DashPass is valid only for a year. > Complimentary DashPass Subscription for Chase Sapphire Reserve and Preferred cardmembers: Your Chase Sapphire account will receive one complimentary DashPass subscription from DoorDash for at least 12 months when the subscription is activated by 12/31/21. After the DashPass discounted period ends, you can choose to continue to be enrolled and charged the then current monthly DashPass rate They also have an offer for the Freedom and Slate cards (which have no annual fee) albeit free DashPass only for the first 3 months and a 50% discount for the next 9. So, still a good deal overall when compared to paying $9.99 every month. Thanks!
r0m4n0 6y ago
I can attest to using Chase sapphire reserve getting DoorDash and American Express platinum getting Seamless (from Lyft Pink) and Uber Eats. Agree with the parent, with these faux discounts and ordering for more than one person makes it well worth it. I say faux because the fees are negotiated and paid with the credit card membership fees invisible to us
- dhruvrrp 6y ago
  Pretty sure Lyft pink is through Chase sapphire as well, which in turn gives Grubhub+ (at least for me)

diarrhea 6y ago

This only means the cost is somewhere else, just hidden. No free lunch. This remark is useless since I have no clue where, just that it is somewhere.

Spivak 6y ago
The cost right now is all that sweet sweet investor cash which I am more than happy to burn for them.

8GUQyfqKYy 6y ago

> food + 1 dollar + tip to the driver (which I'm perfectly OK with!). In many cases there's a markup on the food over the restaurant's prices. There's delivery fee that's generally $2-$3, a service fee that's hidden in the "taxes and fees line item", not to mention a small order fee etc on some orders. And, of course the tip. This I do not understand. It went from tipping the waiter a bit more because you were well taken care of at the restaurant dining experience, to pre-paying a tip to the driver before knowing if the food's good or if the delivery is late etc. The restaurant doesn't get any of the tip. Anyway, a subsided food delivery that you got is not sustainable. To be honest I do not understand the tipping culture at all. Its expected to tip a restaurant staff if you eat at the restaurant, but not if you get the food delivered. But, expected to pre-pay a tip the driver who delivered the food (irrespective of quality of food or delivery) but not the USPS/UPS/fedex driver who delivered anything else even if he/she carries a heavy package over a flight of stairs. Its expected to tip a uber/lyft driver even on a shared ride with other folks but not a bus/metro/train driver. None of it makes sense to me :)

coldcode 6y ago
I prefer to order food from the restaurant directly and pick it up, so that they get the maximum $. Door dash is convenient to see what's out there, but not very good to the actual business of the restaurant. Plus you are paying for that convenience. I also don't see how DD will ever be cash positive as the fees would have to go up, which seems bad business.
thebean11 6y ago
I think it has less to do with any culture, and just how the pay structure works for all the different things you mentioned. USPS/UPS/Fedex/bus/metro/train drivers all make livable wages and have benefits. I'm not defending the tipping pay structure, but it's certainly not some confusing mystery.