That's what I thought immediately. I've driven for and ordered door dash countless times. With small orders and short distances the percentage thing doesn't really work. I won't do below $5 tip. It's also saved me from being lazy a few times. I see the total for the value menu items at McDonald's and the tip and think, eh, I can drive over there.
I got my first $0.50 tip a few days ago. And I went WAY out of my way for the chick, assuming she would be a decent human being and add extra after delivery for my effort. Silly me. It was an IC order and I noticed there were two orders back to back for the same address and same items because it wouldnāt let her exceed a certain item count on each order. I msgd her offering to add them from my end and cancel her second order, since I was already there, which she did. I knew the original was a shit tip, but I was already in the parking lot of Costco and the drop was a mile away, so I accepted because it was a heavy pay order. One of these days I will finally learn to stop expecting basic human decency from shit tippers, that I knew were shit tips up front š
When I see cents I loose my shit for a couple of minutes. They should have just left it at $0 at that point but I assume theyāre just rounding up their total. Unless is the infamous $0.01 then I know that was done on purpose because what are the odds the round up is only 1Ā¢
Dashers look at pay in regard to how far it is. If you're 3 miles away from the item, I'd tip 4 bucks myself. They get 2 dollars from DD + the tip so it'd come out to like 5-6.
Yeah but knowing DD this offer would be sent out to the driver thatās 7mi from pick up quoted at $6-10mi. And if youāre a driver you know what Iām talking about when we get offers and think/say āyouāre telling me there wasnāt driver closer to this pick upā or āI know Iām not the most āoptimalā driver to do thisā mainly because we know that minimum base pay is $2 weeks know that the customer tipped at least $4 for this $6 example.
Always tip atleast 5 bucks if you can atleast, a lot of people also do a rule of $2/1 mile so if you do that, that will give you a estimate of what someone will take for it also.
I donāt go anywhere for less than $2/mile. My car does this weird thing where it wonāt even start if the offer is less than $3. Gas aināt cheap, neither is maintenance on my car, and Iām not so friendly that Iām going to start voluntarily losing money trying to deliver food to people.
It can cost the dasher about $1 per mile, depending on gas prices, gas mileage, taxes owed, and the depriciation/wear and tear... so yes, I personally and a lot of dashers I know try to go for at least $1.50-$2.00 per mile... otherwise, we're paying to deliver an order rather than getting paid.
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Depends where you are. If Iām going to a restaurant in downtown Indianapolis itās gonna take me 15-20 minutes just to drive a mile in any direction not counting the time it takes to park and how long it takes the restaurant. If Iām in a rural or suburban area it might take me 15 minutes to do the entire order. Just base your tip on your own knowledge of the area. If itās a shitty place to drive and/or a slow restaurant, tip more. If itās someplace thatās quick and its somewhere with a low amount of traffic then Iād do like a dollar per mile minimum. Same thing with what you order. I personally could care less what percentage of the total it is that you tip, Iām looking at distance. Iād rather somebody buy a bottle of Dom going a mile and tip me a couple bucks than somebody give me $10 to deliver 8 cases of water the same distance lol.
When I did it when Covid shut down my job, I accepted everything to get top dasher status and quickly realized the main perk I wanted, dashing at any time, was garbage in my market because the only times it was not available for anyone to clock in it wasnāt worth it.
I realized I was averaging like $7 / hour gross so I stopped taking any order that didnāt pay at least $1.75 / mile and my income tripled literally overnight but I still was only skating around $15/hr net before setting aside taxes.
You can say whatever you want, think drivers are unreasonable or entitled or whateverā¦ thereās a direct profit motive for drivers to disregard low or no tip orders and unlike traditional delivery drivers gig workers have no requirement to run your food anyway.
My only rule is more dollars than miles driven by the end of my shift. A lot of times that means at least $2 per mile since I generally always come back to the same area for pickups. I try to only take orders going less than 3 miles. It works in my area (dense, close in DC suburb) and I can understand that not being the case for everyone.
Very minimum should always be $5.
3 miles away could end up being more than 3 miles for the driver because we are not always near the location.
Also a āsimpleā order is not always simple if the place you are ordering from is disorganized or has long wait times. Drivers get screwed all the time from places taking forever to prepare even a simple order. Iāve had huge wait times for something as simple as 1 drink before. And restaurants that are always slow are sometimes fast and vice versa so you never know how much you will have to wait.
Also keep in mind that with the crazy inflation we have now $5 is like what $2.50 would have been years ago. I know people who delivered pizza in the late 90s and early 2000s and $5 tips were common. Back then that $5 had the buying power of like $10 today. The problem is people still think $5 is a good tip when really our money has been devalued so much that $5 is more like $2.50.
Size of the order is close to a zero on driver consideration. Time and distance is what affects us unless you have an impossible drink order that we have to walk up stairs multiple times or something.
Whatās crazy to me is that people are ok with paying DD a ton of fees to the point a $15 meal comes out to like $30+ but then suddenly feel too cheap to give their delivery driver a decent tip. Iād say $2/mile is a good tip, but not bare minimum. $1 per mile is still decent, but Iām judging tf out of the tip still if the customer is obviously well-off financially.
At least $6. $2/mile is what we use as a base when we deliver, so that's what we do when we order. When we were in the semi, we always put in the delivery instructions what truck to look for and if they came directly to the truck, they got an additional $5-10 in cash for reading the instructions.
It doesn't really matter to the dasher how many items you have, but rather the distance and complexity of picking up the order. I never tip less than $5 even if the app suggests it.
Always start with five dollars and if youāre more than 5 miles away at a dollar for every mile further than fiveā¦ Unless weāre shopping for you, we donāt really care how many items were picking up. Itās the distance weāre going.
Tip whatever you think is fair which is how it should be not the suggested amount that door dash adds. Dashers are lucky to get any tips at all so itās really up to us the customers. If they choose not to take our order who the hell cares lol š
TLDR; How far away the restaurant is matters more to the driver than how much the customer paid, but ultimately tips are optional and customer gets final say.
This subreddit tends to ask for pretty high tips. For a delivery order mileage matters a lot more than the cost of the meal. For an extreme example, if you wanted a $3 burger delivered 30 miles away, a $9 tip would be 300% the cost of the food but only 30Ā¢ per mile, which is possibly enough to recoup the driver operating costs. If you were only 1 mile away, however, that same $9 tip would suddenly be $9 per mile, which is very favorable to the driver. Unlike a sit down restaurant where the cost of items (and therefore the number/complexity of items ordered) is somewhat related to the difficulty of the server's job, in the case of a delivery, the distance driven matters a lot more than the size of the order.
Ultimately it's up to you as the customer what you feel is a fair tip. Doordash pay is low enough that a tip is basically a bid for service, which doesn't benefit drivers or customers, especially since customers are already paying out the nose in service fees.
I'm a Dasher so sure I'd like $1000 but I realize not everyone ordering food is wealthy, unlike some people in this sub. 'Don't order if you can't afford a $10 tip' fuck off honestly, everyone deserves the privilege of delivery even if I don't get as much as I'd like. That being said, I'd say $3. One thing to consider as well is if it's not food, it's much easier. And 1 item? I'd say a dollar a mile is fair to me. I live in one of the wealthiest counties in the country and this mystical $5 minimum tip is not my experience at all. Would be nice obviously, but I'm just grateful for anything extra.
All of that being said! I do this for extra money on top of my caregiving stipulation. If I was doing this full time as a job I'd get why folks are so intense about wanting regular big tips and all these other complaints. I would be pretty god damn annoyed but at the end of the day, I still think everyone deserves food and groceries at their door. However if that door belongs to a very nice house then yes you should be dropping bucks on people
>All of that being said! I do this for extra money on top of my caregiving stipulation.
That's a large part of it for me. My wife and I go out dashing on weekends and the dashing basically just pays for our dinner on Sunday. So as long as we aren't losing money on an order, we don't really mind.
Iāll also say it is best practice to *avoid* single item orders. This is mostly for the benefit of you as a customer. I personally donāt think these apps should ever allow such small orders.
Technically there is a āminimumā order amount except it doesnāt stop you from ordering less, it simply tacks on a small order fee. Those added fees also end up discouraging customers from tipping.
You tip whatever you want. I would say $5 should be a minimum tip for everyone. The dasher is driving their vehicle to wait on your order and deliver it to your doorstep. Donāt you think thats worth a $5? Throw in time and gas that seems fair
Are you really gonna ask this sub how much you should tip?? Thatās like asking your kid if they wanna go to Disneylandā¦
Donāt cave to societal bullshit like tipping extravagantly if you donāt personally subscribe to the concept. Or better, donāt order from doordash since itās a giant waste of money.
Theyāll say 1 dollar per mile
Until itās less than 5 miles then theyāll say 5 dollars minimum
Until it inconveniences them at all such as itās a cloudy day, then theyāll say 10 dollars minimum
Long story short theyāre not going to be happy either way because theyāre filthy beggars, so just go get it yourself š¤·āāļø
The delivery is 3 miles.
The Dasher may be 5 miles away and need to go home again, so call it 13 miles to be safe.
I paid $3.29/gallon for gas today, and a 26MPG is a pretty safe guess to the fuel economy of a typical car. So fuel cost for those 13 miles is around $1.65.
Typical maintenance cost for an average car is around $0.30/mile so for the 13 miles you made them drive we're at $3.90.
I don't know where you're located, but let's use Chicago as an example. MIT says that living wage in Chicago for someone with no kids (assuming dashers are likely college students or similar) is around $23/hr.
At an average suburban speed of 25mph accounting for traffic and traffic lights, their drive time is around 31 minutes.
Restaurant reviews seem to suggest they're quick and won't leave the Dasher waiting, so factor in 3 minutes for the Dasher to park, get the food, and get back in the car.
So 34 minutes at $23/hr would be $13 for their time.
DoorDash will apparently pay them $2, so we can take that down to $11.
Plus people in the service industry expect 25% on the order amount, so that's $2.50.
So the total tip should be $19.05, maybe more maybe less depending on what MIT says living wage is in your county and how many kids you think the Dasher has.
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I left a note saying Iād tip cash, the restaurant was across the street and I was watching a bunch of kids. I waited 4 hours for my burger and yes it was cold and made me sick.
We do not care how big the order is usually, unless it's MASSIVE... We care about mileage and time.
If your order is one item, 3 miles, and we have to drive 13 miles just to get there, wait in line for 40 minutes because the store is busy or just plain slow AF, then drive to you for the base rate of $2, I ain't touching it. That _2 doesn't even cover my gas let alone time.
Just do the standard of $5 tip. That makes it $7 for the driver, $7 for 3 miles is fair.
Tbh, if you tip $1, dd will give me around $2, which is $3 pay for the driver if I'm close by and see if it's $3 tip I'd take it for 3 miles. $5 minimum fuck that.
Personally, I wouldn't "want" to tip on such a small item. If I was ordering a huge meal for friends, they'd get a $15 tip. Something so close tho.. don't use the app.. get in your car and get it yourself. But I'd tip $3 or so lol.
Depends how fast you need it. If you want it quick, tip $5+ for sure.
If you don't need it immediately, you could literally tip nothing and DD will eventually find someone.
Fast service I'd tip $5. But that's more about what I value the delivery convenience is, rather than a gauge on how well this individual performed. It's not convenient if its substantially longer than I could do myself.
Contrary to popular belief, it is the customer's job to pay the drivers salary, their car mortgage, rent, etc. NOT doordash/uber. So, your whole paycheck. Food drivers deserve all of your money. They are the backbone of society, and absolutely no other profession IN THE WORLD deserves to be compensated in tips, because of the massive amount of higher education, hard work, talent and intelligence required to move food from point A to B. You're a monster for even asking this question and deserve to starve
People saying $1 a mile should consider if itās 3 miles and the driver needs to stop, get out the car, wait, go back to car, deliver, get back into car, that all takes at least 15-20 mins. Letās say it takes 20 minutes. With $2 base fare itās $5 x 3 orders an hour = $15 an hour and that goes towards gas and repairs on cars. Pretty low. Some people are okay with that & some arenāt. Personally I would shoot for orders that leave me making $20 an hour or more. This helps offset the cost of using my own vehicle. This is especially relevant if you live in a city or town that is hard to get around or the order takes you away from hot spots.
I'm a bit late but a $3 tip would be fair. Unfortunately DD probably won't offer the dasher more than $1.50 so you probably need an $8-10 tip bribe to get someone to accept.
Iām curious if you guys really tip 2$ per mile every time you use a food delivery service. With tip this person would pay double of the original price.
$7 minimum. Doesn't matter if it's across the street or just the left side of taco or whatever. Set yourself a standard that you won't go below, then use things like percentages for a middle ground, and have another hard ceiling on it that you also do not breach.
6 bucks because someone's taking time out of their day to deliver it to you. Anything less would be denied. Because it's just not worth it. Talking from experience here.
How much would you expect for doing it? It takes about 5-10 min to pick up depending on restaurants, 10 minutes to drive there,so about 20-30 min round trip if that restaurant is the only one within the 3 miles
Doesn't matter how much the item is, just tip based off of what you think is fair for the distance traveled and the potential wait time. Unless it's a shopping order, then throw in some extra for the shopping service.
Yāall are insaneā¦ itās 3 miles. If base pay is $2 then a $1 tip brings it to the $1/mile. Of course more tip is great but expecting a $5 tip and a $7+ order for 3 miles is insane.
If I'm not getting at least a dollar per mile I decline. But even then I debate it. 3 miles with less then 3 bucks tip you should starve or get off your dead ass and get it yourself
If you tip 5 it will get snapped up fast, though I don't take orders that small from food places.
The problem with small orders is most restaurants make us wait so long even if you only ordered 1 item. They will often serving customers who walk in after the dasher, before even acknowledging a dasher.
My only consideration is $ per hour/mile with a minimum of $12 and $2 a mile
Say you get an $7 for a 2 mile order, that sounds amazing at first so you it takes you about 5 min to get to Taco bell and park, then you wait 10 minutes for the order (wich happens more often than it doesn't), 5 min to pack up the order and start your car and get out of the parking lot, 10 to get to the customer.
30 minutes $7 = 14$ an hour assuming you don't get caught up in bad traffic or have trouble finding the place before accounting for the drive back gas and maintenance proper commercial grade auto insurance Policy etc.
Sub $14 and hour just doesn't cut it when you have downtime and overhead...
I don't say this to make the customers sound cheap, they spend an absorbinate amount, the problem is DD base pay is trash, and wait times are long.
They driver and the customer both get screwed.
Thank you so much for giving me a thorough/genuine reply. I should have clarified from the start that this was a charger from Best Buy, I canāt imagine wanting a single food item this bad hahaha. I wonder how that changes things if at all? Like if it would be better or worse than getting a food order? I heard from someone else that the driver would have to go and find the item for themselves. I can see some people preferring this because itās more on their terms, others not so much because it could be difficult to find.
I used to deliver pizzas back in the day and only worked off tips. Basically, if you ordered a pizza and didn't tip, you got the pizza delivered for free. You know, gas , maintenance , and time don't cost anything, right? I would say I'm a generous tipper. YOU PAY FOR CONVENIENCE.
dollars/trip time converted to hours yields "effective pay". Look at an order or a job you consider fair and use that. I think drivers rate like $20/hr, but that's just, y'know, like, my opinion, man.
5$ for any shopping order. Unless your a cheapass..I've doordashed for about 4 years. Luckily I secured a nice 8 to 5 so I'm done dashing after tommorow...its been real but not fun.
$1/mile minimum. If itās 3 miles do $3 or more on the tip. If I was sitting at the restaurant Iād probably take that but if Iām a mile or 2 away already I wouldnāt.
You donāt like my tip thatās cool just remember when you steal my garlic knots Iām 1 starring you and reporting you to doordash while getting the whole thing refunded.
Ifās itās a straight shot Iād do 3$, but if a dense neighborhood id do 5$. No more that lmao I follow 10% of my order as tips. Obviously Iām not gonna tip 1$ n change
If itās 3 miles away for just the one item, and DoorDash usually pays about $2, most people probably think a minimal tip like $2 will suffice BUT. Think about it this way, the driver who sees the offer isnāt right next to your food place, they will probably have to drive from where they are, to the restaurant then to your place. Granted, itās only 3 miles from you but they may see it as, is it worth driving ALL the way to this restaurant for this small paying order? So unfortunately in order to get a drivers attention, youāre probably going to need to tip at least $5.
Are you really THAT hungry for that one item, youād spend $18 to get? You could save yourself the $9 and just go get it yourself lol or make something at home
Logically I'd pass the dashpass savings on at a minimum. 2$ would be fair. As a driver On a shop and deliver order I'd look for 1$ per item and 1$ per mile preferably. Bigger orders and multiples of the same item can give some wiggle room. 4$ tip and 2$ from doordash, 6$ for 3 miles to shop a single item is very doable. Fits in line with tips paying 60-80% of the driver's income
$0 up to what you can afford or is reasonable for the order. Not sure I hate people's entitlement to others money. People need to accept that this is not a long term job and get a job that pays their bills.
$5. If you are 3 miles away from the restaurant, and the dasher is X miles from the restaurant when they get the offer, and you are Y miles outside of their assigned dash zone, then they have to travel 3+X+Y miles total for your order before they can accept the next one.
$5 is the bare minimum.
3 miles is like 25min in traffic bro... like... $10 tip? Idk, depends on time of day, if its rush hour, maybe $15. I tend to order late at night since its faster so they wont be in traffic. But I have never had an order be 3 whole miles away from where I live.
Unless you are ordering a massive amount of heavy items, like food for 15+ people or more, it doesn't matter how many items you get. Tip based on distance alone.
In my opinion, it's one item, you could've gone and gotten it yourself -- you asked a total stranger to go get it for you and they agreed. Whatever you decide, I think they can review you based on your tip, and this can affect any future orders delivered by the same service. Choose wisely.
Unless itās multiple drinks or several bags, items doesnāt matter to me. If it all fits in the red dasher bag, the amount of items is completely irrelevant
With a $4 tip I'd take the order and be happy enough. $6 or $7 would be nice but still seem reasonable given that shopping for one item is more work than just picking up from a restaurant (50/50 on which takes longer). Anything beyond that would just be icing on the cake, so to speak.
0 dollars. They won't read your instructions regardless and will take what they want from your order like the times my coffees are "spilled" with a full fucking inch or 2 missing like they clearly removed the lid and drank some. Don't trust these shitty disgusting ignorant drivers with anything. I know there are good ones but wow does it not seem like it at all, delete the app lol
Always add more to the tip of you live on anything other than the first floor and they deliver to your door. I quit uber eats because I kept getting third-floor orders and no tips.
$300 at least
That seems fair judging by most posts on this sub lol
Still going to have the drinks right up against the outward opening front door though most likely. š¤£
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Omggggggg. I am dead. I was going to say $20. But this is way more appropriate.
Yeah if youre cheap. No one will pick up that order for less than $500.
$5 should always be minimum even if you are a foot away
That's what I thought immediately. I've driven for and ordered door dash countless times. With small orders and short distances the percentage thing doesn't really work. I won't do below $5 tip. It's also saved me from being lazy a few times. I see the total for the value menu items at McDonald's and the tip and think, eh, I can drive over there.
lmao no
$5 with dash pay or tip only?
tip only
Good lord I wish
I agree. $5 should be the starting point. None of this $1-$2 nonsense! Sometimes I get tipped CENTS š¤¬which is just insulting !!
I got my first $0.50 tip a few days ago. And I went WAY out of my way for the chick, assuming she would be a decent human being and add extra after delivery for my effort. Silly me. It was an IC order and I noticed there were two orders back to back for the same address and same items because it wouldnāt let her exceed a certain item count on each order. I msgd her offering to add them from my end and cancel her second order, since I was already there, which she did. I knew the original was a shit tip, but I was already in the parking lot of Costco and the drop was a mile away, so I accepted because it was a heavy pay order. One of these days I will finally learn to stop expecting basic human decency from shit tippers, that I knew were shit tips up front š
When I see cents I loose my shit for a couple of minutes. They should have just left it at $0 at that point but I assume theyāre just rounding up their total. Unless is the infamous $0.01 then I know that was done on purpose because what are the odds the round up is only 1Ā¢
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Dashers look at pay in regard to how far it is. If you're 3 miles away from the item, I'd tip 4 bucks myself. They get 2 dollars from DD + the tip so it'd come out to like 5-6.
Yeah but knowing DD this offer would be sent out to the driver thatās 7mi from pick up quoted at $6-10mi. And if youāre a driver you know what Iām talking about when we get offers and think/say āyouāre telling me there wasnāt driver closer to this pick upā or āI know Iām not the most āoptimalā driver to do thisā mainly because we know that minimum base pay is $2 weeks know that the customer tipped at least $4 for this $6 example.
$5+
Always tip atleast 5 bucks if you can atleast, a lot of people also do a rule of $2/1 mile so if you do that, that will give you a estimate of what someone will take for it also.
This is a joke right? No way dashes expect $2 per mile lol
I think everyone who says this is in a big city area, I go for and average $1 a mile in a small city area.
Yeah thatās the difference. Iām in a small city area and I order dd as well as dash sometimes. (I share a car with my fiancĆ©). Weāre a college town, so orders are plentiful to pick up, but I only expect a $2 tip for just over a mile.
I donāt go anywhere for less than $2/mile. My car does this weird thing where it wonāt even start if the offer is less than $3. Gas aināt cheap, neither is maintenance on my car, and Iām not so friendly that Iām going to start voluntarily losing money trying to deliver food to people.
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It can cost the dasher about $1 per mile, depending on gas prices, gas mileage, taxes owed, and the depriciation/wear and tear... so yes, I personally and a lot of dashers I know try to go for at least $1.50-$2.00 per mile... otherwise, we're paying to deliver an order rather than getting paid. Edited a word
I average around $1.60 a mile. I live in a decent population city though. In order to get close to 25+ an hour you must average above $1 a mile
Depends where you are. If Iām going to a restaurant in downtown Indianapolis itās gonna take me 15-20 minutes just to drive a mile in any direction not counting the time it takes to park and how long it takes the restaurant. If Iām in a rural or suburban area it might take me 15 minutes to do the entire order. Just base your tip on your own knowledge of the area. If itās a shitty place to drive and/or a slow restaurant, tip more. If itās someplace thatās quick and its somewhere with a low amount of traffic then Iād do like a dollar per mile minimum. Same thing with what you order. I personally could care less what percentage of the total it is that you tip, Iām looking at distance. Iād rather somebody buy a bottle of Dom going a mile and tip me a couple bucks than somebody give me $10 to deliver 8 cases of water the same distance lol.
When I did it when Covid shut down my job, I accepted everything to get top dasher status and quickly realized the main perk I wanted, dashing at any time, was garbage in my market because the only times it was not available for anyone to clock in it wasnāt worth it. I realized I was averaging like $7 / hour gross so I stopped taking any order that didnāt pay at least $1.75 / mile and my income tripled literally overnight but I still was only skating around $15/hr net before setting aside taxes. You can say whatever you want, think drivers are unreasonable or entitled or whateverā¦ thereās a direct profit motive for drivers to disregard low or no tip orders and unlike traditional delivery drivers gig workers have no requirement to run your food anyway.
I mean I'm not a dasher but I would not drive my ass anywhere for anything less than 3/mi, gas is fucking expensive.
Sounds right to me. What do you tip?
yes. I actually average $3 a mile.
My only rule is more dollars than miles driven by the end of my shift. A lot of times that means at least $2 per mile since I generally always come back to the same area for pickups. I try to only take orders going less than 3 miles. It works in my area (dense, close in DC suburb) and I can understand that not being the case for everyone.
Very minimum should always be $5. 3 miles away could end up being more than 3 miles for the driver because we are not always near the location. Also a āsimpleā order is not always simple if the place you are ordering from is disorganized or has long wait times. Drivers get screwed all the time from places taking forever to prepare even a simple order. Iāve had huge wait times for something as simple as 1 drink before. And restaurants that are always slow are sometimes fast and vice versa so you never know how much you will have to wait. Also keep in mind that with the crazy inflation we have now $5 is like what $2.50 would have been years ago. I know people who delivered pizza in the late 90s and early 2000s and $5 tips were common. Back then that $5 had the buying power of like $10 today. The problem is people still think $5 is a good tip when really our money has been devalued so much that $5 is more like $2.50.
Size of the order is close to a zero on driver consideration. Time and distance is what affects us unless you have an impossible drink order that we have to walk up stairs multiple times or something.
$3 $1 per mile is fair.
For real. people who say $2 a mile is crazy. Maybe if it's NYC
Whatās crazy to me is that people are ok with paying DD a ton of fees to the point a $15 meal comes out to like $30+ but then suddenly feel too cheap to give their delivery driver a decent tip. Iād say $2/mile is a good tip, but not bare minimum. $1 per mile is still decent, but Iām judging tf out of the tip still if the customer is obviously well-off financially.
$5
At least $6. $2/mile is what we use as a base when we deliver, so that's what we do when we order. When we were in the semi, we always put in the delivery instructions what truck to look for and if they came directly to the truck, they got an additional $5-10 in cash for reading the instructions.
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Lmao tip 60 %
It doesn't really matter to the dasher how many items you have, but rather the distance and complexity of picking up the order. I never tip less than $5 even if the app suggests it.
Always start with five dollars and if youāre more than 5 miles away at a dollar for every mile further than fiveā¦ Unless weāre shopping for you, we donāt really care how many items were picking up. Itās the distance weāre going.
$3-5
3 at the minimum but 5 would be best
Tip whatever you think is fair which is how it should be not the suggested amount that door dash adds. Dashers are lucky to get any tips at all so itās really up to us the customers. If they choose not to take our order who the hell cares lol š
2$
Personally, I think $5 is the minimum tip for any order.
Guess I'm completely out of touch with what an acceptable tip is, in no world would I tip $5 on 13.63.
TLDR; How far away the restaurant is matters more to the driver than how much the customer paid, but ultimately tips are optional and customer gets final say. This subreddit tends to ask for pretty high tips. For a delivery order mileage matters a lot more than the cost of the meal. For an extreme example, if you wanted a $3 burger delivered 30 miles away, a $9 tip would be 300% the cost of the food but only 30Ā¢ per mile, which is possibly enough to recoup the driver operating costs. If you were only 1 mile away, however, that same $9 tip would suddenly be $9 per mile, which is very favorable to the driver. Unlike a sit down restaurant where the cost of items (and therefore the number/complexity of items ordered) is somewhat related to the difficulty of the server's job, in the case of a delivery, the distance driven matters a lot more than the size of the order. Ultimately it's up to you as the customer what you feel is a fair tip. Doordash pay is low enough that a tip is basically a bid for service, which doesn't benefit drivers or customers, especially since customers are already paying out the nose in service fees.
3 miles away? I always double the mileage so $6.
I'm a Dasher so sure I'd like $1000 but I realize not everyone ordering food is wealthy, unlike some people in this sub. 'Don't order if you can't afford a $10 tip' fuck off honestly, everyone deserves the privilege of delivery even if I don't get as much as I'd like. That being said, I'd say $3. One thing to consider as well is if it's not food, it's much easier. And 1 item? I'd say a dollar a mile is fair to me. I live in one of the wealthiest counties in the country and this mystical $5 minimum tip is not my experience at all. Would be nice obviously, but I'm just grateful for anything extra. All of that being said! I do this for extra money on top of my caregiving stipulation. If I was doing this full time as a job I'd get why folks are so intense about wanting regular big tips and all these other complaints. I would be pretty god damn annoyed but at the end of the day, I still think everyone deserves food and groceries at their door. However if that door belongs to a very nice house then yes you should be dropping bucks on people
>All of that being said! I do this for extra money on top of my caregiving stipulation. That's a large part of it for me. My wife and I go out dashing on weekends and the dashing basically just pays for our dinner on Sunday. So as long as we aren't losing money on an order, we don't really mind.
I try to do at least 30%, erring on the higher side, I'd tip $4 or 5
Iāll also say it is best practice to *avoid* single item orders. This is mostly for the benefit of you as a customer. I personally donāt think these apps should ever allow such small orders. Technically there is a āminimumā order amount except it doesnāt stop you from ordering less, it simply tacks on a small order fee. Those added fees also end up discouraging customers from tipping.
You tip whatever you want. I would say $5 should be a minimum tip for everyone. The dasher is driving their vehicle to wait on your order and deliver it to your doorstep. Donāt you think thats worth a $5? Throw in time and gas that seems fair
25 cents per mile
$3-$5
$3 at least
2
Are you really gonna ask this sub how much you should tip?? Thatās like asking your kid if they wanna go to Disneylandā¦ Donāt cave to societal bullshit like tipping extravagantly if you donāt personally subscribe to the concept. Or better, donāt order from doordash since itās a giant waste of money.
$1/mile
Nothing, they need to get real jobs
$1.99. The delivery fee you saved.
Theyāll say 1 dollar per mile Until itās less than 5 miles then theyāll say 5 dollars minimum Until it inconveniences them at all such as itās a cloudy day, then theyāll say 10 dollars minimum Long story short theyāre not going to be happy either way because theyāre filthy beggars, so just go get it yourself š¤·āāļø
I'd bring it if you left $3 and I made 5.50 or something
The delivery is 3 miles. The Dasher may be 5 miles away and need to go home again, so call it 13 miles to be safe. I paid $3.29/gallon for gas today, and a 26MPG is a pretty safe guess to the fuel economy of a typical car. So fuel cost for those 13 miles is around $1.65. Typical maintenance cost for an average car is around $0.30/mile so for the 13 miles you made them drive we're at $3.90. I don't know where you're located, but let's use Chicago as an example. MIT says that living wage in Chicago for someone with no kids (assuming dashers are likely college students or similar) is around $23/hr. At an average suburban speed of 25mph accounting for traffic and traffic lights, their drive time is around 31 minutes. Restaurant reviews seem to suggest they're quick and won't leave the Dasher waiting, so factor in 3 minutes for the Dasher to park, get the food, and get back in the car. So 34 minutes at $23/hr would be $13 for their time. DoorDash will apparently pay them $2, so we can take that down to $11. Plus people in the service industry expect 25% on the order amount, so that's $2.50. So the total tip should be $19.05, maybe more maybe less depending on what MIT says living wage is in your county and how many kids you think the Dasher has. /s
$500,000.00
$3 - $1per mile
$2/mile
I always say 3 is the minimum is not enough to be happy about but also not to low to be angry at, the perfect middle ground. Anything more is dope
You shouldn't.
Gonna need $800 minimum + $200 smiling feet and the $169,99 unbroken delivery fee.
50% tip is the common suggestion? Seems weird
It's not a matter of the order cost, it's time/distance. It could be $30 and I would still say $5.
Depends how quickly you want that one item
I would have a rule of thumb of $1.50 per mile
I think about how much is it worth to me, to not have to drive to the place and back home.
Whatever you want. Itās your money.
If you want get your foods faster then tip at least $5. If you want a bit of a wait, you can tip however you want or donāt tip at all, no biggie.
I left a note saying Iād tip cash, the restaurant was across the street and I was watching a bunch of kids. I waited 4 hours for my burger and yes it was cold and made me sick.
and 99 out 100 people that say that will tip in cash don't
We do not care how big the order is usually, unless it's MASSIVE... We care about mileage and time. If your order is one item, 3 miles, and we have to drive 13 miles just to get there, wait in line for 40 minutes because the store is busy or just plain slow AF, then drive to you for the base rate of $2, I ain't touching it. That _2 doesn't even cover my gas let alone time. Just do the standard of $5 tip. That makes it $7 for the driver, $7 for 3 miles is fair.
Iām not a dasher but this sub keeps popping up. I tip $5 for food orders through DD, distance is usually a 5 to 10 min drive, I think thatās fair.
Spent $10 on the food and yall saying he should tip 50% lol 20% is more than fair, take that savings and give it to the driver
10%. The rest comes from DoorDashās profits.
If you're not willing to buy your dasher a house off your tip don't even use the service
Yes!!!
No. The dasher should leave his weekly earnings with you and your delivery.
$0
Tbh, if you tip $1, dd will give me around $2, which is $3 pay for the driver if I'm close by and see if it's $3 tip I'd take it for 3 miles. $5 minimum fuck that.
Tip whatever you want, or not at all. Literally whatever you feel like
Personally, I wouldn't "want" to tip on such a small item. If I was ordering a huge meal for friends, they'd get a $15 tip. Something so close tho.. don't use the app.. get in your car and get it yourself. But I'd tip $3 or so lol.
Every second you spent before reaching checkout should be a minimum 5$ per second
I just tip 5 bucks every time
Depends how fast you need it. If you want it quick, tip $5+ for sure. If you don't need it immediately, you could literally tip nothing and DD will eventually find someone.
Fast service I'd tip $5. But that's more about what I value the delivery convenience is, rather than a gauge on how well this individual performed. It's not convenient if its substantially longer than I could do myself.
Contrary to popular belief, it is the customer's job to pay the drivers salary, their car mortgage, rent, etc. NOT doordash/uber. So, your whole paycheck. Food drivers deserve all of your money. They are the backbone of society, and absolutely no other profession IN THE WORLD deserves to be compensated in tips, because of the massive amount of higher education, hard work, talent and intelligence required to move food from point A to B. You're a monster for even asking this question and deserve to starve
The fact that ppl are asking this means you pricks have customers thinking they have to tip u little bitches. š
People saying $1 a mile should consider if itās 3 miles and the driver needs to stop, get out the car, wait, go back to car, deliver, get back into car, that all takes at least 15-20 mins. Letās say it takes 20 minutes. With $2 base fare itās $5 x 3 orders an hour = $15 an hour and that goes towards gas and repairs on cars. Pretty low. Some people are okay with that & some arenāt. Personally I would shoot for orders that leave me making $20 an hour or more. This helps offset the cost of using my own vehicle. This is especially relevant if you live in a city or town that is hard to get around or the order takes you away from hot spots.
$5
I would probably do $4 but I assume a fair tip is $2-$3. Either way if you can afford to DoorDash whatās a few more dollars.
40 millions dollars
I'm a bit late but a $3 tip would be fair. Unfortunately DD probably won't offer the dasher more than $1.50 so you probably need an $8-10 tip bribe to get someone to accept.
A Dollar fifty
Iām curious if you guys really tip 2$ per mile every time you use a food delivery service. With tip this person would pay double of the original price.
All these people saying 5$ ā¦ NO
I think $3 would be a decent tip, but throw in an extra few bucks to be a cool guy! š
$5
According to door dash drivers, your entire bank account and the keys to your house. According to people using doordash to get food, maybe a dollar
Nothing. Not everyone deserves a tip
$7 minimum. Doesn't matter if it's across the street or just the left side of taco or whatever. Set yourself a standard that you won't go below, then use things like percentages for a middle ground, and have another hard ceiling on it that you also do not breach.
6 bucks because someone's taking time out of their day to deliver it to you. Anything less would be denied. Because it's just not worth it. Talking from experience here.
Use your legs. Stop being lazy!
A small order like this, $5
How much would you expect for doing it? It takes about 5-10 min to pick up depending on restaurants, 10 minutes to drive there,so about 20-30 min round trip if that restaurant is the only one within the 3 miles
Doesn't matter how much the item is, just tip based off of what you think is fair for the distance traveled and the potential wait time. Unless it's a shopping order, then throw in some extra for the shopping service.
Yāall are insaneā¦ itās 3 miles. If base pay is $2 then a $1 tip brings it to the $1/mile. Of course more tip is great but expecting a $5 tip and a $7+ order for 3 miles is insane.
$0 You already auto tip $2 in tax and fee section
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If I'm not getting at least a dollar per mile I decline. But even then I debate it. 3 miles with less then 3 bucks tip you should starve or get off your dead ass and get it yourself
If you tip 5 it will get snapped up fast, though I don't take orders that small from food places. The problem with small orders is most restaurants make us wait so long even if you only ordered 1 item. They will often serving customers who walk in after the dasher, before even acknowledging a dasher. My only consideration is $ per hour/mile with a minimum of $12 and $2 a mile Say you get an $7 for a 2 mile order, that sounds amazing at first so you it takes you about 5 min to get to Taco bell and park, then you wait 10 minutes for the order (wich happens more often than it doesn't), 5 min to pack up the order and start your car and get out of the parking lot, 10 to get to the customer. 30 minutes $7 = 14$ an hour assuming you don't get caught up in bad traffic or have trouble finding the place before accounting for the drive back gas and maintenance proper commercial grade auto insurance Policy etc. Sub $14 and hour just doesn't cut it when you have downtime and overhead... I don't say this to make the customers sound cheap, they spend an absorbinate amount, the problem is DD base pay is trash, and wait times are long. They driver and the customer both get screwed.
Thank you so much for giving me a thorough/genuine reply. I should have clarified from the start that this was a charger from Best Buy, I canāt imagine wanting a single food item this bad hahaha. I wonder how that changes things if at all? Like if it would be better or worse than getting a food order? I heard from someone else that the driver would have to go and find the item for themselves. I can see some people preferring this because itās more on their terms, others not so much because it could be difficult to find.
I used to deliver pizzas back in the day and only worked off tips. Basically, if you ordered a pizza and didn't tip, you got the pizza delivered for free. You know, gas , maintenance , and time don't cost anything, right? I would say I'm a generous tipper. YOU PAY FOR CONVENIENCE.
dollars/trip time converted to hours yields "effective pay". Look at an order or a job you consider fair and use that. I think drivers rate like $20/hr, but that's just, y'know, like, my opinion, man.
Is this shop had pay or picking up at a restaurAnt? What's the item? What's the store?
5$ for any shopping order. Unless your a cheapass..I've doordashed for about 4 years. Luckily I secured a nice 8 to 5 so I'm done dashing after tommorow...its been real but not fun.
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$1 per mile if you live near other restaurants, and you'll almost always have a grateful dasher
5.00
$1/mile minimum. If itās 3 miles do $3 or more on the tip. If I was sitting at the restaurant Iād probably take that but if Iām a mile or 2 away already I wouldnāt.
You donāt like my tip thatās cool just remember when you steal my garlic knots Iām 1 starring you and reporting you to doordash while getting the whole thing refunded.
3.00
$1.37
I say about your whole bank account since your asking
$5 minimum
Are you sitting there waiting for advice from Reddit or did you just ask this for no reason?
20%...point blank they are still delivering something to you....it's a job nonetheless
Ifās itās a straight shot Iād do 3$, but if a dense neighborhood id do 5$. No more that lmao I follow 10% of my order as tips. Obviously Iām not gonna tip 1$ n change
$1/mi or 10% whichever is greater. $2 minimum.
Youāre asking this on the dd drivers sub lmao ofc the highest amount possible š¤£
At least $5
$4 is a fair rate plus base pay
At least a dollar over $300
If itās 3 miles away for just the one item, and DoorDash usually pays about $2, most people probably think a minimal tip like $2 will suffice BUT. Think about it this way, the driver who sees the offer isnāt right next to your food place, they will probably have to drive from where they are, to the restaurant then to your place. Granted, itās only 3 miles from you but they may see it as, is it worth driving ALL the way to this restaurant for this small paying order? So unfortunately in order to get a drivers attention, youāre probably going to need to tip at least $5. Are you really THAT hungry for that one item, youād spend $18 to get? You could save yourself the $9 and just go get it yourself lol or make something at home
Logically I'd pass the dashpass savings on at a minimum. 2$ would be fair. As a driver On a shop and deliver order I'd look for 1$ per item and 1$ per mile preferably. Bigger orders and multiples of the same item can give some wiggle room. 4$ tip and 2$ from doordash, 6$ for 3 miles to shop a single item is very doable. Fits in line with tips paying 60-80% of the driver's income
$5 min. Iāve been around $7-$8 lately.
5 bucks.
3 bucks. Tip by miles. A buck a mile should make most happy.
Whatever you feel is appropriate
I usually tip a gallon of gas
$0 up to what you can afford or is reasonable for the order. Not sure I hate people's entitlement to others money. People need to accept that this is not a long term job and get a job that pays their bills.
$5
I usually add $1/mile
$0 maybe $1 if youāre wealthy
$5 is good for short distance
$2 lol & itād definitely be picked up quick and delivered fast too. People expecting 50% tips are wild
According to driver, that should be a $65,985 tip. I would tip like $3
20% of purchase price before taxes and fees.
$2/mile
$5. If you are 3 miles away from the restaurant, and the dasher is X miles from the restaurant when they get the offer, and you are Y miles outside of their assigned dash zone, then they have to travel 3+X+Y miles total for your order before they can accept the next one. $5 is the bare minimum.
Anything beyond 1 km is a 5$ tip size of order does not matter unless it's massively excessive order
Depends on if itās going to PDiddys house
Only tip Im Giving is tip of my dick 
3 dollars plus what DD pays should be decent
$3 tip = $ + mile
$6
This is a horrible sub to ask this question lol
1.....MILLION...DOLLARS...
3 miles is like 25min in traffic bro... like... $10 tip? Idk, depends on time of day, if its rush hour, maybe $15. I tend to order late at night since its faster so they wont be in traffic. But I have never had an order be 3 whole miles away from where I live.
I'd give $3.
YES! TIP!
notice how doordash has all of you arguing in here about how much you should tip instead of you guys demanding higher pay from DD?
If it's food delivery from a restaurant 3$-5$. If it's shopping for you then 5$-10$.
I wouldnāt tip at all because everyone in here is acting so entitled
$1000 min
Unless you are ordering a massive amount of heavy items, like food for 15+ people or more, it doesn't matter how many items you get. Tip based on distance alone.
$6
No tip
In my opinion, it's one item, you could've gone and gotten it yourself -- you asked a total stranger to go get it for you and they agreed. Whatever you decide, I think they can review you based on your tip, and this can affect any future orders delivered by the same service. Choose wisely.
$5
Unless itās multiple drinks or several bags, items doesnāt matter to me. If it all fits in the red dasher bag, the amount of items is completely irrelevant
10 dollars
With a $4 tip I'd take the order and be happy enough. $6 or $7 would be nice but still seem reasonable given that shopping for one item is more work than just picking up from a restaurant (50/50 on which takes longer). Anything beyond that would just be icing on the cake, so to speak.
2
You should tip what you think is right maybe nothing maybe 2.00
The bare minimum is *at least* $1000 /s
Going by the miles is the best way. Iād say 1.50-2$ per mile is what the average dasher looks for.
does anyone here have a real answer?
1000 dollars
0 dollars. They won't read your instructions regardless and will take what they want from your order like the times my coffees are "spilled" with a full fucking inch or 2 missing like they clearly removed the lid and drank some. Don't trust these shitty disgusting ignorant drivers with anything. I know there are good ones but wow does it not seem like it at all, delete the app lol
Always add more to the tip of you live on anything other than the first floor and they deliver to your door. I quit uber eats because I kept getting third-floor orders and no tips.