Almost 1/3 people don't tip?! That's actually crazy. Maybe they're the orders where the restaurant is super close or something or a low meal total.

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Why not a histogram? And by tip amount as a percent off the order, too? Or I'm curious the cost of the order relative to your tips.

Prime is the extreme implementation of this business model, FedEx uses this model with tighter employment restrictions for its contractors, and UPS has both full-time employee drivers and contractors, but it’s drivers are also unionized with Teamsters and the pay and benefits are much better than the other two.

19 months

Coal kills a lot (like, a ton) more people than Nuclear every year, and Nuclear is extremely safe and well contained when you go and learn about it more.

I’ve tracked this data manually in a Google Doc since before I even had my license. About 7 years of data. I used SankeyMatic to visualize some of information I collect. My doc also includes the year, exact trim model, the date driven, and who the owner was.

The oldest vehicle is a 1986 and the newest a 2022

Only 4 of these cars were my own

“Manual” are cars with a clutch operated manual transmission

“Automatic” are cars with a traditional torque converter automatic

“CVT” are cars with a continuously variable transmission

“DCT” are cars with a dual clutch automatic transmission

“Electric” are electric vehicles

No one tips them because there is no option for that. That's still very different because the delivery is the service. Someone had already paid FedEx and UPS for the delivery. By that logic, there should definitely be a fee for food delivery.

Not sure where you are from, but in every country I have seen (including USA, where this post is likely from), you can tip $0 if you want. Where does Uber mandate a tip?

Our FY ends in January 31st as well. It's fairly common in tech I believe for 2 reasons --

1. Provides additional time to close enterprise deals after the end of the year - closing deals December 31st can be challenging, to say the least
2. Reduces cost of accounting because most firms end their FY December 31st which is busy season for the big 4

Retail companies sometimes do this as well - or end a full quarter after March 31st instead of Dec 31st. Good luck to all the EY, PWC, DeLoitte people if every company ended Dec 31st lol

UPS drivers are unionized and salaried. The rest are contractors.

Tipping delivery drivers is the only way they make a decent income. If you're ordering food, make sure to leave a good tip. Each company has its own model and are subject to local, provincial/regional, and federal laws, but by-and-large the breakdown is (numbers based on my local figures):

A service fee goes to the company. E.g., 1$ (Skip) to 10% of the order (UberEats). This does not pay much to the company, and exists mostly so that you think that they are only making a couple dollars per order.

A delivery fee goes to the driver. This is calculated vastly differently on different services. It's usually either distance-based or a flat fee. This is not meant to pay a living wage; if drivers were only paid this fee, they would actually lose money per order from gas and car degradation. This fee usually works out to 1-3$.

The order fee is where the delivery service makes most of their money. They charge usually 20-35% of the order fee as a commission from the restaurant. This is predatory as hell, but it keeps profits up and costs low for consumers. (Except that now restaurants are raising their prices so that they can make normal profits again, so the cost is invisibly passed on to consumers.) This is where the profits come from.

Finally, the tip. The tip is where the driver makes the vast majority of their money. On the standard tip on the standard order (15-18% on a 25-30$ order) this works out to around 4.5-5.5$.

So, on a 30$ order, a restaurant will make 23$, the company will make 8.5-10.5$, the driver will make 6-7.5$ from fee+tip before expenses, and the total amount cost to consumer is 43-44$.

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All that to say: In tip-based countries, you need to tip your delivery drivers or they are getting totally screwed over (instead of just a bit screwed over).

The alternative would be to pay drivers a fair fee. But companies don't want to do that because: 1) they're afraid that will make drivers look like employees and that would cut deeply into their profits, 2) consumers don't like seeing big numbers on the order.

I'm currently working on developing an alternative for my local community which would be organized as a driver-owned co-operative and would pay a flat fee and charge restaurants less. But the only reason this has a change to work is that we can operate with little-to-no profit and we're still going to need to charge more than our competitors.

No they don’t all have those salaries and benefits.

They are, like delivery drivers, independent contractors.

In my large dense city, most of these guys do it on ebikes. I don't see how it's cost effective timewise to do it in rural areas with the travel time and gas expense. In an extreme example sometimes people will order a value meal for 1 or 5 large pizzas for a party. Delivery person still has to go from restaurant to car and car to your door which can sometimes be a hassle (big yard or complicated labyrinthine apartment complex).

I also just wish tipping would not exist but I'm also not going to screw someone over. Frankly, lately I've been trying to just make food at home and pick-up myself more often.

To put things in perspective, how much hassle would it be for you to get ready and go to the food place? How much time will it take you round trip? How much would you spend on gas or transportation cost if you don't have your own vehicle? If the delivery fee + tip is really not worth it, one can pick it up themselves.

You know for a fact if someone wanted to try and start to implement flat rate tipping, the rate would be based on the most expensive possibility.

If you want to pay 500k EUR for a tiny apartment in Copenhagen or Aarhus/Århus

it's always important to educate those with little awareness! only way we can make an impact

OMG! You have a lot of no tip orders. I really hope you are getting decent base pay on those and more than the $2-$2.50 base pay that DD and UE pays.

I know, I'm just venting how stupid high the prices are where I live.

A lot of cheap ass non-tippers out there. Tipping sucks, but c'mon, it's a large part of how people get paid and care for their families. It should change, but until it does don't be a douchenozzle, tip.

Is this in the us? Then I would understand it. But anywhere with a decent beer, this would be insane.

And what about your actual salary?

Well unless the are arriving on foot, weight won't really matter - I'm more talking the difference between a takeaway for one vs for two, double the cost but why double the tip?

Tipping in restaurants has the same point too, although there you could argue I guess that you are tipping on the whole experience, including to the chef/establishment too. But yeah flat rate tipping makes sense too, though its probably more dependent on how much of their service you use (ie flat rate per number of people/dishes/etc)

Assuming that the average tip in each group is also the median of that group, then the total amount of tips you got is $3,055.50, or $3.22 per order.

The average tip if only looking at orders that were tipped is $4.72

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This is price growth chart. It does show peice level.