I’m convinced that delivery app rely on information asymmetry to squeeze every last bit of cash out of consumers. Look at my doordash food bill and let me know what the appropriate tip should be. I’m generally a 20% tipper for food delivery, but after seeing the fees add up to 30% of the bill, I’m like WTF?
by ikb9
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Please don’t make this a subreddit for people who wont pick up their food in a walkable city. there’s somewhere else for you to complain
Don’t use these apps and the issue goes away.
Looks like they also left off compliance fee. /s
The fuck is a regulatory legislative fee?
good. all these fees are totally justified.
The fees are $7.42, which is 21% of $34. Tax doesn’t count. The apps are like this. Pick up in person when calling the restaurant or suck it up and give a decent tip.
Food delivery apps are still operating at a loss. Once it doesn’t, it will make it even harder for mom and pop restaurants to stay alive. Unless you have a disability that prevents you from walking, please stop using these apps, which in reality just make it more convenient to live an unhealthy and hedonistic lifestyle (until they turn on the profit lever and rack up the fees once everyone is hooked).
People telling you to just go and pick it up yourself…lol.
Don’t use the apps, but if you must they are also paying these drivers like $30/hr now, lol @ tipping them. $0 tip.
Most of my delivery orders are in the $30-$80 range and I just tip 4 or 5 bucks.
I’ve stopped using the apps when I can. John Oliver had a good episode about it a few weeks ago. The resturaunt a get like a fraction of what you pay and we already pay all these fees
Stop using DoorDash if you don’t like their bullshit
That’s why I find places without stupid fees.
Restaurant owners don’t like delivery apps, either.
Everyone knows delivery apps are a ripoff. That’s why I just go get my own food.
Tipping them based on % makes no sense. This isn’t a dine-in experience. Tip them based on effort – a normal volume of food and 5 min of travel time should get a few dollars in tips. 20% would be lunacy.
Unless you are physically unable to pick up food yourself, I don’t understand why anyone does delivery because of all of these fees to use these delivery apps and the normally higher than average menu prices. Call the restaurant, use Google Reviews to find the most recent photo of the menu or go directly to a restaurants site, and pick up the food yourself if you are physically able to. We need to bypass these apps because of how insanely greedy they got as a result of COVID.
I’ve been cooking more than ever these days, delivery is just bonkers.
Cook your own food. Case solved
We rarely get takeout anymore bc it’s just ridiculous. If we do, my husband just calls and picks it up but that kinda limits our options.
The fees are so you don’t have to tip anymore