“For most markets where DoorDash operates, customers are prompted to tip on the checkout screen, with a middle option already selected by default. If they want to, they can adjust the tip later from the status screen while awaiting their food, or even after it’s delivered. That’s changing today; while blaming New York City’s minimum wage increase for delivery workers, DoorDash announced that for “select markets, including New York City,” tipping is now exclusively a post-checkout option”

It seems so ridiculous given tipping fatigue, that DoorDash is making what should be a given sound like a negative.

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    I have this alternative app called ‘Phone’. It can do anything the gig apps do: order taxi, order food… that’s pretty much it. “Yeah, but where I live all the good restaurants don’t deliver any more, you have use gig apps”. Yeah, and where I live they do because people don’t use gig apps that much and everyone is happier. You were to lazy to call and now you have to deal with the shit apps. You made your bed…

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          iopq has the right of it, have you ever had to experience when their meat flaps make noise? Yuck.

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          I’m sorry, have you actually had mostly pleasant experiences with real humans? Must be nice. Are you with the life complaints department? Yes I’ve had multiple bad interactions with real people and would like to file a complaint.

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      You are being voted down by people like me who generally try to shun interaction with other people. I’m no misanthrope, but in my 30+ years of living I’ve not met many people I would always interact with when I have a choice.

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        I’m being voted down? Good thing my instance doesn’t have down votes.

        And if someone doesn’t want to talk to people that’s fine, use the apps. Just don’t complain that the apps got shitty. That was the plan from the start. You had to be stupid not to realize that the moment they got rid of competition they will start squeezing everyone hard. The choice was always between talking to people or giving full control to bad actors. People made their choice, now live with it.

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      If the establishment has their own online ordering system, I always try to use it rather than things like door dash. If they don’t, I will not call them instead. Maybe that’s just me though