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DoorDash, Uber Sue New York City Over Upfront Tips Prompt Mandate (gothamist.com)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by King@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@piefed.social

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Doordash announcement.

Rival tech giants DoorDash and Uber are suing New York City over laws requiring their apps to offer customers the chance to tip delivery workers at checkout — not after an order is placed — and set the default option to at least 10% of an order’s cost.

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[–] Rekall_Incorporated@piefed.social 3 points 2 days ago

My suggestion for customers was always to look up the distance to the restaurant and make sure the tip was at least as much as however many miles away the restaurant was.

Even after living in North America for decade, this kind of thing is just alien to me. I am not going to calculate the exact distance to the restaurant. What's next? Calculating the relative level of traffic? Quarterly inflation evaluation using a custom index relevant to the given segment group and regional price dynamics?

I did tip around 10%-15% percent in restaurants and closer to 10% for delivery (more for delivery if the weather was shit, I lived in norther part of the US). No way I am going to do 25% or 35% or whatever.

Don't get me wrong, I get it on some level, but the price is the price. Considering how much people (including commoners) would parrot random polemics about "free markets", I thought the complete inability to provide real prices was pretty funny.

And if you've lived in much poorer countries than the US, the arguments around North American tipping culture just sound hollow.