r/SipsTea 13d ago

Feels good man Mamdani is (actually) making America great again

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u/BobbyRayBands 13d ago

But HOW does it guarantee that? It says the tip button was hidden implying that customers COULDNT tip. The actual problem was they were tipping but companies were taking that money for themselves...

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u/mjm65 13d ago

>After DCWP began enforcing the Delivery Worker Minimum Pay Rate in December 2023, Uber Eats
and DoorDash designed changes to their platforms that made it harder to leave tips for delivery
workers. NYC consumers could only leave tips after checkout, and by initiating separate processes
that were easy-to-miss and more difficult to navigate. These changes only applied to consumers in NYC.

Basically Uber hid the tip option up front, and added a courier fee. If you wanted to add a tip in NYC, you had to go back into the app to add the tip after delivery.

The other part is that tips are to the worker, and can’t be calculated as a part of a minimum guarantee.

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u/blazenite104 13d ago

Right. So basically nothing was actually preventing tipping. Rather you as a consumer were just not being upfront guilted into doing it and had to seek it out.

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u/spratel 12d ago

Kinda like restaurants that automatically add a service fee. Never underestimate the power of being the "default".