This isn’t big brain stuff. The delivery fee is a summation of all the costs a restaurant has to offer delivery service. The big cost is insurance. Parking is also sometimes a factor, the signs, thermal bags, driver delivery payment, and incidental stuff.
A lot are just relying on things like DoorDash and Uber Eats which I have the premium / plus memberships but they are slower and the food doesn’t come as fresh.
Also tips were never optional. It’s always been 15% for food service thats pays below minimum wage for just basic service. More if you feel it’s warranted and if terrible tell the manager. Just tipping low or not just says you are another that can’t afford to eat out and doesn’t address the problem.
A restaurant has a hard choice to raise its prices by 15% to cover that wage increase as everyone will now be here whining that a restaurant is charging more.
Also the 15% service fees have nothing to do with tips that many see lately. It has to do with prices and tariffs. All the to-go stuff and food costs have gone up a lot, but to change menus and signs and websites is expensive. And even if they printed new menus some asshat will say the menu they have from two years ago says the item is $3 less (even though they have used the excuse a million times).
The place I delivered for would blacklist the house, the name and the credit card for anyone that didn’t tip. They’d have to come in with cash for the server or driver to be reinstated.
If they ordered in restaurant we’d obviously have to take the payment since they are but the owner would make a scene at the table and it usually went down like this:
This is none of your business!
Manager: but it is my business, I am the manager.
Well I know the owner and he will hear about this and you will be fired.
Manager: ahh that is me too and I don’t know you except you don’t tip.
This was for everyone to hear and usually tips would be really good for the servers during that :)
@Mayor_of__benue People are to used to movies. A gun wound usually doesn’t have a lot of blood. A knife wound usually does even if trivial like a scalp laceration.
@0laratrump1 Most haven’t been in a real situation. Easy to play white knight. When a women grabs your ear and is tearing it off the quick way to subdue is the only way to stop it.
Not saying a beat down takes place, but if I didn’t react the way I had my ear would have been torn off.
Yes retrievers have attacked people. The main problems are lack of training and lack of willingness to neuter. Almost 80% of bites are by unneutered dogs. Kids are the number 1 victims usually elementary school aged.
In most fatal bites the breed could not be reliably confirmed. The breeds in the top list are German Shepherds, Pit-bull types, Rottweilers, Jack Russel terriers (I worked for a vet that had a lot of polo/equestrian clients and JRTs had maimed kids and killed larger dogs in the family), chow chows, collies, spaniels, st. Bernards, mixed breeds and retrievers.
Pit bulls are news worthy the rest not so much.
Top three for severe attacks are the pit bull types, Rottweilers, and German shepherds.
Some smaller breeds bite more but usually the bite is not a major issue so left unreported.
These include dachshunds, beagles, border collies, Australian cattle dogs, chihuahuas, cocker spaniels.
@TERPENE_PIRATE@DonaldTrumc8 Even the best fighters don’t want to get into a gang fight. No one is that good if the gang is serious and not just a couple idiots that got bored of Twitch that night.
@SRGraves_X@jjeffrose Careful guys we have a badass here that is implying he may understand advanced math yet cannot think of situations where blocking a sidewalk would be bad. Maybe another with an IQ of 177 on the potato scale.
@jjeffrose Especially those that backup to shrubs or have an extended tongue on the rear forcing you to end back into the street.
Worse are those that back in at places like Costco and Home Depot and then try to load their vehicles at yours expense.
@Kapioleilani22@ZamBetsy18483 Oh but you do have that right. Clearly you don’t have any dog in this fight. Most of what police ask you to do is usually to plant grounds for an arrest that you helped them set up.
@NatalyaOba It’s clear based on all these poors posting that most are not going to tip and think it’s ok. I am going to start using the same logic whe one of you detail my car…the last customers already paid, I am good.
@mala_sarkady It’s clear that Crazy Bitch was some kind of AI addressing the OP. I’d feel very uncomfortable with one of my wife’s friends walking around in just a towel. And of course everyone says “I don’t want them” or “I don’t like them like that.”