DoorDash’s blog post on the matter is ridiculous: https://help.doordash.com/consumers/s/article/Should-I-tip-m...
How can they possibly justify the bit about dashers receiving 100% of tips which is repeated several times?
How can they possibly justify the bit about dashers receiving 100% of tips which is repeated several times?
Amazing how every sentence here is accurate and sounds positive yet it describes a scheme where tips are used for the base pay.
1. Suppose DoorDash provides a minimum payout of $0.01 instead of whatever algorithm they use. Then, clearly, 100% of your tip goes to the dasher.
2. Suppose you tip the dasher $1000 under the current system. The dasher receives $1001 and 100% of your tip feels like it's going to the driver.
3. Suppose dashers are paid a minimum of $100 per order, and your tip never reaches that level. In this case it feels like 0% of your tip is going to the dasher.
We actually don't have enough numbers to know which of these is more like reality as far as I know. If the typical tip is much larger than the minimum, then the minimum feels like it’s just protecting the dasher and their compensation is just tips. If it’s calculated to be right at the level of a typical tip or larger than it is clearly manipulative.
Pay the workers what they deserve and charge the customers what you need to.
This ridiculous game where the more generous people subsidize the rest of the customers out of guilt is absurd.
Encouraging customers to tip and suggesting 100% goes to the deliverer is fraud.
That’s obviously lame, since you’d have to basically tip over the minimum to see the pay change. But they lying when they say “100%”.