I recently started being a food delivery person. I am amazed and saddened at the number of times, my tip reads $0.00. I have had some go back and add it later thankfully. But a lot of people do not tip. Most orders the pay I get from the company is minimal.
Company Pay
I have done over 200 deliveries in the time I have been doing this. I recently did the average and I am driving over 10 miles per each delivery. However, for most deliveries the company pays me $2 to $3 dollars. I have seen some where I get $4 or $5 and if I am doubled up on deliveries, I have seen higher. $2 to $3 is not much and does not cover a gallon of gas in my area so I am barely making enough to pay for the gas if I am not getting tips.
Insider Fact
If you are not tipping and the order is low pay to the delivery person, the company will add them to other orders in the area to make it worth it for them to do it sometimes. This means they could be delivering other people’s orders before yours. Recently I picked up one person’s order, then picked up a second person’s order, delivered the second order before delivering the first. The app tells me what to do and how to do it, I see each person’s information in the order the company wants me to. The first order was probably delivered about a half hour or more after I picked it up.
Tip Please
If you are having a service pick up your order and bring it to you, give the person a decent tip. At least make it worth their while. Yes, they get a service fee, but it is minimal and barely covers their gas if it does. They are earning your tips. They want your tips as that is where most of their money comes from. You also don’t know how far out of their way they had to go and I have gone far. Sometimes I am a half hour or more away from my original pickup or my home area.