Why Customers Tip More | How to DoorDash

💰Want bigger tips and more money as a DoorDash driver? In this video, we’re breaking down the top three reasons customers tip—and how you can use these to boost your earnings FAST.

🚀 Here’s what you’ll learn:
✅ Why speed of delivery leads to better tips and more orders
✅ How food temperature directly impacts customer satisfaction and higher payouts
✅ Why avoiding unnecessary order batching can lead to better customer experiences and more generous tips
✅ How consistency in service helps increase the number of customers who tip over time
✅ Why trusting DoorDash’s system can work in your favor

📌 The truth is, customers tip based on experience. A great delivery today can influence tips on future orders. Play the long game, and your earnings will add up.

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[LionsGate-ts]

DD need to start putting the driver first, I understand that we’re providing a service but let’s not forget having a person deliver your food is a privilege. Sometimes I feel like we’re not appreciated by DoorDash. Asking someone to go 7 miles for two dollars says that you don’t give a crap about your drivers. we have to drive to the restaurant, park, wait, get ignored, carry multiple drinks, multiple bags get back in the car, find the best way to exit the restaurant and navigate through traffic, drive to the customer, hopefully their address numbers are visible, carry the food to the door, and take a picture, not to mention the annoying picture we have to take of the receipt at the restaurant . And you have the nerve to ask me to accept an order for two dollars? Quitting is not an option for me, I would just like the drivers to be treated with dignity when it comes to pay and tipping.

[LamarMcFarlaneMusic]

I feel like number 2 is the most challenging to achieve. Temperature vs Time, so many variables that isn’t in a dasher control, even if you have a hot bag.

[lisalove]

Yes I'm a platinum dasher and I get sent $ 3.25 McDonald's over and over, I'm making tons of $$$$.... Not!!

[CynthiaHuerta-lu]

I get soo tired of opening my app to work..seeing the "busy" sign, log in to dash now, and then sit for the entire length of the shift with no orders!! Even when I schedule my hours, still nothing!! I'm in California, southern to be exact...and I'm platinum. It's ridiculous and I make sure the food and what they ordered is tip notch. SmH...I need a hack!

[jonathonjones]

Hi Bently. I love your videos. Sometimes, we have to just use common sense with stacked orders. Recently I got a stack Sonic + staples shopping. Sonic first, then shopping, then customers. I realize that the Sonic customer's food was going to the store next to Staples. I just jumped tasks and gave them their food instead of letting it sit an extra 10min. You should always check destinations on stacks for more efficient planning.

[subliminally]

My on time score is 93% because of traffic and waiting for pizza to be made. I don’t see anyone maintaining a mid 90s dashing at night and stack orders.

[clarencejones]

So many times I went above and beyond and got no tip after so long I adopted the no extra favors mantra especially if the job is under 4$ the rest of the delivery is still top notch always to the best of my ability

[SilentStormParadox]

Fast deliveries. This is why I don't take batch orders. DD, 90% of the time, couples a finished order with one that hasn't even started. And then they send a message to the customer "we don't know what's taking the driver so long, maybe you should contact them." And then the customer gives you a bad rating. This has actually happened to me multiple times. I never do batches anymore because DD hates drivers and sets them up for defeat. Why this hasn't earned them a class action lawsuit is beyond me.

[vaporeyes]

Has anyone ever experienced getting an offer and the app accepts the offer without you even touching the screen?

[thefaz]

It took me a week to get platinum, 48 hours, $13 an hour. Now that I'm Platinum, I average $25 an hour. I accept every order during peak pay to 80%+ acceptance, then down to 72% acceptance during non peak times. I love doordash!

[printerganginvestments]

Quit ppl it’s better on the other side dd playing games the time for talk is over. The fact dd keeps paying this guy shows dd keeps playing games

[Ottobon]

you made fun of offbrand bags before. Now I know where it comes from there some people rocking sleazy bags, but a lot of offbrand bags are way better for temperature than anything any of these companies give out for free.
bigger than that, some of them are just a lot easier to deliver with, handle and sort multipiece orders, so speed as well

Had a few, shout-out to the Himel bag and keeping a few foam cupholders around, not just for cups but blocking off one half or more the bag with hard thermal sheep and keeping things tighter and stable.

[dwillstwo]

I tell all of my stack customers they are 2nd. So if there is any complaints they can direct them to DD not my ratings. Some customers dont even realize DD does that meanwhile they are making more money only paying for one driver to do double the work

[marekgaddy]

I don’t DD too often in downtown Charlotte so more power to you Coop…parking is a mess 😂

[narcflixnchill]

I don’t argue the points you’ve made, but there are other factors to be considered.

Speed is not solely contingent upon us, but the store. I dash at night and when drive thru’s are slow I message the customer to let them know I’m waiting for their order and there’s 5 cars ahead of me. I’m sounding off indirectly that I’m here and the likely hood of your order being late is considered high, and it’s not a dasher issue but a store issue.

As far as temperature is concerned, if an order has been sitting out because it’s been declined multiple times or it’s busy and hasn’t pinged a Dasher yet most places don’t have heat lamps and that is outside of our control. I do put the order in the hot bag and put it on the floor during the winter to try and raise the temp and/or keep it where it’s at lol.

I rarely accept batch orders, but ONLY from the same store if the price is right. I will message the 2nd customer that I have 2 pickups here and they’re my 2nd delivery and will text them when I’m the way after I deliver to the 1st customer.

At the end of day, we can’t please everyone. I provide 5 star service to everyone and there will always be that customer base you just cannot please no matter what you do. I’ve had a few customers give me a 1 or 2 and didn’t do anything different as I treat everyone equally. I review my ratings daily and if I see a low rating I call DoorDash inquiring why and they have removed all of the low ratings because it was factors outside of my control.

[forthefunofit]

1-speed of delivery--restaurants fault for DELAY (not our fault for lateness) in making orders-even heard a mgr say "in house orders BEFORE DD when your order is 10 miles or more away OR restaurants put cold drinks in the bag WITH hot food!!! 3-stacking orders- HA!!! decline and get dinged!!!! overall WE are at the mercy of the store we pick up from! and DD does NOTHING to help us!!!! and those $2 orders....what a joke!!

[maddnkoolkid]

im a platinum dasher and i get orders that are sometimes 5 to 8 dollars with no tip and all dd base pay. That order got declined so many times that when it got to me it looked like it had a tip. Well that food is normally cold for sitting there a long time and i cant control that part when delivering. I take pride and providing good customer service, im fast, and i put all orders in warm bags. None tippers know they gonna get their food no matter what and when is cold they blame the dasher. They dont understand that bad orders get turndown so much that it could take 1 hour or more for them to receive their order until someone takes it and doordash adds money everytime it gets declined so when you accept an order it could look decent and then you find out it was really a trash order when you see it had 8 dollars but no tip and food was cold so now that customer gonna give you a bad rating.

[mariamoncadabeldenvillagedash]

These non tippers know the system. I did a Walgreens front end delivery that was ordered the day before. I was paid $3.25. DD let that order sit for a whole day rather than pay the driver $5. 🤦‍♀️

[bryantc]

I also noticed. Read the customer's request. Example don't put order so close to the door. Extra 2$ tip.

[correctifimwrong]

Have your hot bag in the pic when you do a drop off. Lots of post delivery tips here.