I live in a working-class neighborhood and it blows my mind how often DoorDash visits my neighbors (particularly considering there are dozens of restaurants within one mile).
The only time I encourage delivery service is when we're too intoxicated to drive.
I stayed with distant family for a bit around COVID when everyone was WFH. Him and his wife must have gotten 3-5 DoorDash deliveries a day pretty reliably, I was blown away. Each ordering their own thing from different restaurants. Random “I want a donut from 711 at 1am” where I’m sure fees/tip were multiples of the actual food cost. Sometimes the different drivers would arrive at the same time and we’d have a little jam up on the porch.
> Random “I want a donut from 711 at 1am” where I’m sure fees/tip were multiples of the actual food cost.
Obviously I can’t say if this was the case for your family but a friend of mine pays for the premium dash pass subscription and this is exactly the kind of thing he would do, knowing that he won’t be charged the delivery fee. Dunno about tips but that’s optional anyway.
(Man, I sure hope that individual delivering the donut was paid for their time, though. No clue if the economics of Doordash’s subscription model actually allows for that but I can’t imagine how it would, with 3+ deliveries per day at [$10/mo](https://help.doordash.com/consumers/s/article/What-is-DashPa...). Gotta be a combination of some drivers getting screwed, Doordash losing money, and/or dash pass subscribers who rarely order. The order minimum does not apply everywhere. Maybe there are different payment tiers but that’s not detailed on their help page.)
When COVID started my wealthiest elders decided to start eating out for every meal in order "to support local businesses." Ironically, they did not leave any tips because "you don't tip unless you sit down in the restaurant." You're not helping in the way you think you are, Gramps.
>You're not helping in the way you think you are, Gramps.
Why do you believe this? Tips cannot go to the business, and businesses were closing during covid because they weren't making any revenue.
The tips helped servers sure, but so did buying food from their place of work such that they can continue to have a job, unless that job literally paid less than minimum wage or unemployment, which is its own atrocity.
I can afford it but I don't use it because it's obscene.
I'm tempted to say that some people are poor because they're imbeciles with poor financial sense.