If they charge a $6 delivery fee for food, do you still tip? If so, why?

Give at least $1 or $2 if you can not afford more, even if it is a small tip, the gratitude matters and by the end of the day, dollars add up for the delivery person. The company keeps majority of the delivery charge.

Yes, because the fee is going to the company, not the person delivering the food.

Yes? They don’t get any of that as tip. If you can’t afford or don’t want to pay both tips and fees, then pick up your food yourself

Yes!!!!! Of course!!

These people are often braving the elements (or at least the hell that is ny traffic) to get you your food. Why in the world would you not tip? They don’t get all (or sometimes any) of the delivery fee.

I don’t tip unless the meal is covered by work - if the delivery driver is dissatisfied with their earnings, they can find another job

The delivery platforms are the only winners in the entire transaction - the delivery drivers get zilch, the restaurant owners whose margins are tight to begin with are squeezed even further when the delivery platforms take their cut and the end customer has to make an increasing share of the fees for delivery, service etc I have seen orders where the add on fees is around 30%-40%. Absolute nuts for food that gets delivered 20-45 mins afters it's made in plastic containers.

You either go out and patronize the place you want to eat at or go pick up the order directly. In that way you get rid of the middle men and most of your dollars go to those who are making the food.

never tip — never give away money when it’s optional, and tips are optional — what the tip is for, who it goes to, if they are paid enough to have two children is completely irrelevant — it is still optional — welcome to America

No, because it’s not my problem that these apps are shifting responsibility for backstopping wages.

If they need that tip to make ends meet, the app fee should be that much higher.

I don’t tip my landlord because my apartment doesn’t have roaches or I have a new quiet neighbor. My rent better cover that crap. Lord knows we pay enough already.

If you’re cheap just admit it. Stop trying to justify your actions.

Food delivery (and eating out, valet parking, doorman buildings, etc.) are not god-given rights. They are luxury services/goods. If you can afford to tip the lowly paid employees working in dehumanizing roles who are supplying those luxuries, then pick up your own food.

There is a pretty big fee associated with this food purchase and people here are saying I’m cheap etc. Do you all tip your UPS drivers when you get an Amazon purchase? No, and that shipment was free. When there’s a shipping fee of like $9 for something you bought, do you scoff at it (obviously I do). Do you tip that guy? I’m just confused why you people think I’m in the wrong here and why the restaurant/corporation isn’t? Go pay your employees more but please don’t make the customers feel like we need to pay 2x for our food “just because we were too ‘lazy’ to get it ourselves”.

For those who wanna know deets - it was an $11 pizza pie with a $6 delivery fee. Why should I tip when I’ve already paid a 55% premium? The restaurant can do better but don’t ask that I fork up another $5 just because I have the money. That ain’t the point here.

This is a matter of which fee you’re ALLOWED to skip. The app won’t let you check out without paying their fee, but they will allow you to check out without tipping. You’re not protesting the premium, you’re buying right into the system you claim is unfair by allowing the app margin to be prioritized.

Call the restaurant directly. Or use Toast. Then tip your delivery worker, if you can’t afford the app margin. It’s courtesy, manners, ethics. Don’t like it, move to a country where tipping is sheerly symbolic. You got the money to get food biked to you in the rain? Tip your delivery worker. Don’t stiff them because Seamless is a rip-off.

Who in their right mind gets food delivered?

I mean the least you can do is give $2. I'm sure if you can afford take home food then you can do that too. It not then run for Congress, make a new bill that pays service industry workers a minimum wage.

The 6 dollar delivery fee doesn’t go into the delivery person pocket I believe, so yes. However, in general tipping has gotten out of control. Everyone wants to be tipped these days for doing their work and that is disgusting.

I’d never order from a place with a $6 delivery fee in the first place

I try to order from restaurants directly. You save money and make up the savings by tipping the delivery guy the difference of what these apps charge and what you paid. Win win

I want to rephrase this question a bit - if you eat at the restaurant, you tip. That is clear and I begrudgingly abide by it and always give 20% (even though it’s creeping up to 25-30% now which I will not ever do). I pay this tip because of the service provided. But what would you all do if there was a restaurant service fee on top of your meal? Are you still tipping? I’d honestly argue no because that service fee should cover…you guessed it…the service. Waiters that don’t like it, can work elsewhere. Who is with me?

Yea because that fee is going to the store or the app and not the contractor delivering the food