Some of these apps don't calculate the tip correctly

[Reverend Conehead]

I've noticed when you order food from apps like Github or just online from the restaurant's web site, the automatic tip calculation is not always right. The apps or web sites seem to always inflate the tips. Tips are super easy to calculate. It's just the total times the percentage. For example, if the total for the meal is 28.95, that's 28.95 X .20 = 5.79 if you wanted to tip 20%. If you wanted to tip 18%, it's 28.95 X .18 = 5.21. But I'm sure most people reading this already knew that. But these apps' calculations are always inflated. Then I wondered if they were including the delivery fee in the tip, which us usually something like $4. So I recalculated. 28.95 + 4.00 = 32.95. 32.95 X .20 = 6.59 tip. I recalculated with that and the app's tip was STILL inflated. Turns out they were including the meal plus the delivery fee plus the tax to calculate the tip. I cry foul! The tax doesn't count toward the tip. When you're in the restaurant, it's the pre-tax total times 20 percent (or 18, 15, 25, whichever you pick). In the restaurant, there's no delivery fee, so I'm considering that a grey area. So for an app or web site, I've included the meal price plus the delivery fee times the tip percentage (usually 20). They're inflating that. Some apps matched if you calculated including the tax. Others didn't even match after that. They were higher!

***? Am I right? Or have I been calculating tips wrong all along? Are you supposed to include meal price, delivery fee, and the tax and then multiply times the tip percentage? I was always told that tax is just the government taking a cut and you don't include it in the calculation. Then what about the apps where their calculation was STILL higher even when I included the tax in the calculation?

Are my figures off?

 

[Runwildboys]

I never get my food delivered, but I can tell you that my Hooters bills never even show the tax, just the total. It may be different here in CT, but since there's pretty much no way to know what the pretax amount would be, I'd say it's probably standard to include it when calculating the tip. As for the delivery fee, if that's going directly to the restaurant or delivery company, I'd add that into the calculations, so the driver gets a tip, unless you tip him/her at the door.

 

[BigStar]

Ah that dirty old "delivery charge" smh. I worked room service @ a Hyatt hotel for 2 years and unfortunately they included a delivery fee and then have a tip line just beneath it. 99% of the question while they are signing the bill, "does this delivery charge go to you?"...knowing they've just paid $60.00 for 2 eggs, bacon and some OJ (trifling bad prices like that) so didn't really expect a tip for the most part and 20% would've been overkill.

They need to incorporate that fake charge into the food prices bc it's a way to cover our salaries but in a self defeating way. Less tips bc of the delivery charge, but we need it to pay you "more" than the servers type thing while true, we never made the money from tips that waiters would get and kind of seen as "kitchen staff" comp to restaurant servers...and you stink like the food bc you're in the kitchen most of the night

 

[Tabascocat]

Servers tip out other staff with tax included in their sales. Always tip whatever % you want on total bill.

 

[FloridaRob]

Actually, I treat food delivery tipping differently. It is more for my convenience than a percentage of food at a sit down restaurant. I may tip the driver 10 bucks in a 10 dollar bill because of that convenience.

 

[kskboys]

Never used an app to get food in my life. Don't really understand the point of it, truthfully.

 

[dogunwo]

The whole "tip" culture needs to be done away with. Stop making it the responsibility of the customer to determine an employees wages. Pay them a fair wage and get rid of bias from the server as well as the customer.

 

[Runwildboys]

Never used an app to get food in my life. Don't really understand the point of it, truthfully.

For those days when you just don't feel like getting drunk away from home.

 

[HungryLion]

I've noticed when you order food from apps like Github or just online from the restaurant's web site, the automatic tip calculation is not always right. The apps or web sites seem to always inflate the tips. Tips are super easy to calculate. It's just the total times the percentage. For example, if the total for the meal is 28.95, that's 28.95 X .20 = 5.79 if you wanted to tip 20%. If you wanted to tip 18%, it's 28.95 X .18 = 5.21. But I'm sure most people reading this already knew that. But these apps' calculations are always inflated. Then I wondered if they were including the delivery fee in the tip, which us usually something like $4. So I recalculated. 28.95 + 4.00 = 32.95. 32.95 X .20 = 6.59 tip. I recalculated with that and the app's tip was STILL inflated. Turns out they were including the meal plus the delivery fee plus the tax to calculate the tip. I cry foul! The tax doesn't count toward the tip. When you're in the restaurant, it's the pre-tax total times 20 percent (or 18, 15, 25, whichever you pick). In the restaurant, there's no delivery fee, so I'm considering that a grey area. So for an app or web site, I've included the meal price plus the delivery fee times the tip percentage (usually 20). They're inflating that. Some apps matched if you calculated including the tax. Others didn't even match after that. They were higher!

***? Am I right? Or have I been calculating tips wrong all along? Are you supposed to include meal price, delivery fee, and the tax and then multiply times the tip percentage? I was always told that tax is just the government taking a cut and you don't include it in the calculation. Then what about the apps where their calculation was STILL higher even when I included the tax in the calculation?

Are my figures off?

You should have bought the name brand Wizard calculator.

and not the Willard.

 

[Jammer]

Actually, I treat food delivery tipping differently. It is more for my convenience than a percentage of food at a sit down restaurant. I may tip the driver 10 bucks in a 10 dollar bill because of that convenience.

Bingo.

 

[FloridaRob]

Never used an app to get food in my life. Don't really understand the point of it, truthfully.

up to the pandemic, I didnt either. Then I joined the 21st century. I am tired of it because a lot a food we liked in restaurants just does not travel well. Still for the convenience we do it 3 to 5 time a week.

 

[kskboys]

For those days when you just don't feel like getting drunk away from home.

Raviolis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[kskboys]

up to the pandemic, I didnt either. Then I joined the 21st century. I am tired of it because a lot a food we liked in restaurants just does not travel well. Still for the convenience we do it 3 to 5 time a week.

I am fighting so hard to NOT join!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Runwildboys]

Raviolis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Out of the can, unheated!

 

[kskboys]

Out of the can, unheated!

If I wasn't married, I'd live on those things!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[CyberB0b]

The whole "tip" culture needs to be done away with. Stop making it the responsibility of the customer to determine an employees wages. Pay them a fair wage and get rid of bias from the server as well as the customer.

That's how it is in many parts of the world. It's definitely more convenient to not worry about it.

 

[SlammedZero]

I tried the whole food delivery thing and it's just not for me, especially at the costs. The food just heat sweats the entire way to your home and it just doesn't feel as fresh or good. Last one for me was Red Robin. Burger was fine by the time it got to me but the fries were worthless. I'd rather order a pizza. lol

 

[SlammedZero]

The whole "tip" culture needs to be done away with. Stop making it the responsibility of the customer to determine an employees wages. Pay them a fair wage and get rid of bias from the server as well as the customer.

I don't mind tipping if I'm being waited upon, but what I hate, is every little place you go to has a tip jar these days. I especially hate the ones in the drive-thru. It makes me feel cheap not to tip in the drive-thru but you're literally stuffing my food into a bag and handing it to me. There is nothing special or above and beyond in that. lol

 

[Runwildboys]

I tried the whole food delivery thing and it's just not for me, especially at the costs. The food just heat sweats the entire way to your home and it just doesn't feel as fresh or good. Last one for me was Red Robin. Burger was fine by the time it got to me but the fries were worthless. I'd rather order a pizza. lol

I just ate at Red Robin for the first time in Thursday. The fries are pretty good, especially with the spice packet they give you.

 

[BigStar]

You should have bought the name brand Wizard calculator.

and not the Willard.

"Mine doesn't have a 7...I'm ruined"
One of the low key funniest lines said by one of the older guys in the background during that scene.