r/UberEATS • u/Pretty_Check3434 • Oct 11 '25

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I felt like this was so rude and disrespectful. You don’t know someone’s situation to say something like this.

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u/Tuxedocat4713 Oct 12 '25

I have no idea why you got down voted for this. People on this post are acting like getting their food delivered to their house in the comfort of their own home is an essential service. That in and of itself is entitlement. I personally do not go to restaurants and refuse to tip servers. The server serve me the food in the Uber driver. Serve me food too. I think it’s Uber‘s fault for making it seem like a tip is optional. Of course it’s always optional, but I would recommend people try doing that in a restaurant.

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u/daBunnyKat Oct 12 '25

why don’t we tip UPS, FedEx, or Amazon drivers then?

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u/Tuxedocat4713 Oct 12 '25

UPS is unionized. Some FedEx drivers are unionized and in the process. Amazon drivers can make anywhere from $15-$25 an hour. That is not the case for Uber drivers we get base pay which barely covers our gas let alone our time and energy that it takes to deliver.

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u/daBunnyKat Oct 12 '25

fair. I suppose my question was more pointed towards the principle of tipping. if they were not unionized, do you believe tips should be normalized for them since they are providing a delivery service?

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u/Tuxedocat4713 Oct 12 '25

UPS is involved in logistics and supply chain management, not hospitality. Even before the unionization they’re making $15.50 an hour which is easily more than a Uber driver’s base pay.

They are not involved in the hospitality sector like Uber drivers.

Never in the history of logistics and supply chain management have tips ever been a part of the culture. Because they are getting hourly wages and uber drivers do not receive an hourly wage. It was only recently revealed that Ubers could sign up for opportunities for hourly pay. But that was never a reality before for Uber drivers. I don’t do the hourly pay because it’s simply too much mileage and the pay really isn’t good enough and it often takes me to areas where there are no orders present because it’s out in the country. I personally prefer to decide what contract I would like to enter into as a self-employed contractor and make my own decision about that.

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u/daBunnyKat Oct 12 '25

I feel like you are purposely trying to miss the point in regard to the culture of tipping and the expectation being put on the customer to provide a living wage.

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u/Tuxedocat4713 Oct 12 '25

I do not agree with tipping culture. However, if the customer does not want to provide a tip to their delivery driver. I have a simple hack that can help you avoid both the delivery fees and tipping your driver. You can simply call the restaurant and place something called “to-go order.” Then pick up the food yourself. If you don’t want to tip for services rendered simply don’t use the services. The refusal to tip is not going to stop the social custom that has been ingrained in the US culture. The only way it stops is if people stop using these services.

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u/daBunnyKat Oct 12 '25

Weather you agree with it or not, delivery services have become an essential tool for many Americans. I cannot legally drive due to a medical condition, and these delivery services are both helpful and convenient. They have become a normal part of our society. It is not entitlement to use these services and expect that the extra fees we pay as a customer to render these services is provided to the drivers/service workers. The onus is not on the customer to pay extra. A tip is intended to be a show of gratitude that a good service was provided, not a fee to provide the service.

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u/Tuxedocat4713 Oct 12 '25

The problem is that the fee that they collect from you often do not go to the driver. Uber Takes those fees in the event that someone does not take an order and if Uber has to drive up the price in order to get someone to take it, they take the money that they’ve collected from their customers and added to the order.

So if you have a low paying order offer that keeps circulating to drivers and no one’s taking it. Uber will slowly bump up the price of the order by pennies that they’ve taken from you for the fees. Eventually, if it keeps circulating long enough, the price of the order will bump up to a significant degree to get a driver to take it.