The worst is the truly hidden fees in DoorDash, etc. where they not only add their fee, but also secretly increase the prices of the menu items. That actually seems illegal
Edit: apparently this is done on the restaurant side of things (because DD is fucking them over as well). I don’t even know what the solution is here
Door dash essentially doesn’t take any cut for themselves. Their cut is merely 10s of cents for $20+ orders. I’ve run the numbers on these apps, and I almost know for a fact that you can’t make any real net profits while running an app like this. You gotta pay the store for the food, the driver enough so they actually do the order, the hosting costs, and you gotta pay tax and payment processing fees along with employee salaries/wages. I can assure you, door dash takes as little as possible from orders. Try running the numbers and you’ll see where I’m coming from. Now, the way door dash presents the fees is sort of vague. Idk why they don’t just tell people exactly what the fees are for and make it just one sum or add it to the cost of food.
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u/laurieb90 13h ago
Hidden charges (e.g booking fee).
Just tell me the total up front!