I hope more of these services examine their practices and provide some of these drivers’ perks and benefits. Others offer bonuses for a certain number of deliveries per month, and still others may pay (and charge) more at peak times. Most apps give 100% of tips to the driver, and others may offer some benefits, such as discounted/subsidized car repairs. Some apps, like DoorDash, will guarantee a minimum per ride, in case the base + tip does not meet the minimum amount. Most seem to average somewhere in between $13.00-$18.00/hour (gross earnings, and including tips). When all is said and done, including tip, the per-hour rate varies between $9.00 per hour up to $25.00, depending on the market in which you are driving and the app.
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How much do drivers make? Based on recent articles on, and, most delivery services pay a minimum fare per trip, plus some combination of distance + time + tip. Mind you, several of them have partnered with restaurants and food trucks to charge them less during the pandemic, and that’s a good thing. However, with the apps charging both the customer and the restaurant service fees (sometimes way too much, as we noted last year), and with drivers responsible for their car maintenance, gas, and expenses, the apps certainly can come across like the cat who ate the canary. Those types of systems and securities aren’t cheap. They have created complex online systems that gather, match up, and distribute massive amounts of personal information and manage to get your food to you (usually) while keeping your data private. The apps have to make their money somehow. With delivery apps, you pay for a product, pay a fee for the service, and are expected to tip on top of that. It’s a more complicated system than interacting with a server, where you pay for the product and tip as payment for the service.
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Others, who may truly need the service during the pandemic, such as the elderly, disabled, or shut-in, may be unaware of how tipping in the app works, or they may assume the full delivery fee goes to the driver. Most people tip decently, many tip very well, and a few do not tip well, or at all. Just as servers have the obligation to wait on people who may or may not tip, drivers have the obligation to deliver food that customers have ordered.
In the report in the Houston KHOU news story, drivers aren’t even sure there is no or little tip they are guessing from the estimated pay in the app (not a perfect measure).
Delivery drivers, though, also opted into that social contract when they agreed to drive for a food delivery service. The same rule of dining at a full service restaurant applies: Don’t eat out (or order the food delivery service) if you can’t afford to tip. Even though tips are a large part of their income, it’s not clear to customers exactly how drivers get paid. I choose to tip well and wish everyone would. As a customer, I understand that tipping is a choice. With my service industry background, I am super protective of servers who work largely for tips.
This one makes my blood boil on everyone’s behalf. After hearing customers complaining about not getting the food they ordered through a delivery app, or getting it hours late and cold, delivery drivers admitted they were not accepting certain orders if they thought there would be little or no tip.
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