Tipping Grab Food Delivery Driver

[AsiaTraveler1234]

I often order Grab Food Delivery and pay with the credit card tied to my account. It always makes for a seamless and efficient food delivery process.

 

Upon completion of each delivery, Grab always asks me to rate the delivery driver, and then it gives me myriad tip options.

 

I'm curious how much, if any, people generally tip when ordering Grab food delivery and are prompted with all the tipping options.

 

I usually tip THB 20, but I recently tried Food Panda and it says "most popular option" under the THB 10 tipping box.

 

Personally, I hate tipping and wish they would just set the proper price and not solicit for tips (like most things in my home country, Australia) so that customers aren't paying different prices for the same product or service resulting in differential treatment from employees.

 

Grab recently implemented 3% (Thailand) and 4% (Vietnam) foreign transaction fees on credit card payments, which is also offputting and made me install the Food Panda app recently which doesn't do that.

 

[Jingthing]

20 to 30 baht.

Not American style based on percentage of bill.

I think Panda changed most done tip from 10 to 20 months ago at least in Pattaya. 

[In Full Agreement]

 

I stopped tipping 20 Bath years ago.       

 

I make it a minimum of 50 baht or more.

 

20 Baht does't go very far in Thailand.

[AsiaTraveler1234]

11 hours ago, Jingthing said:

20 to 30 baht.

Not American style based on percentage of bill.

I think Panda changed most done tip from 10 to 20 months ago at least in Pattaya. 

I am in Jomtien Beach (Pattaya area) and Food Panda here still lists THB 10 as "most popular' tip option, so I usually select that option for that reason. When in Rome.

 

 

[Jingthing]

41 minutes ago, AsiaTraveler1234 said:

I am in Jomtien Beach (Pattaya area) and Food Panda here still lists THB 10 as "most popular' tip option, so I usually select that option for that reason. When in Rome.

 

 

Interesting. Yes you're right it does currently say 10. Perhaps it temporarily said 20 before. They don't offer a 30 option so it jumps from 20 to 40. So sometimes I'll do the 20 when paying online and if the service was exceptionally good like very long ride, rain, super quick etc. I'll give them an extra 20 on arrival. I could give an extra 10 but coins feel unseemly. When I do thst its embarrassing how greatful.they are  Not judging you but I do think 10 total is really not good enough.

 

 

On Grab you can choose a custom amount so I pay 25 or 30 which is paid after delivery unlike Panda.

 

Occasionally the service is crap like they make two other deliveries before and the food is cold in which case I don't tip at all.

 

I do wonder if the drivers have access to customer tipping records. If they do I would expect them to avoid non tippers.

 

While I'm against tipping American style percentage of check in Thailand I still do very much appreciate how affordable delivery services are here in comparison and also that doing bike deliveries is hazardous and underpaid work. What's a luxury service there is much more widely accessible here.

Edited September 27 by Jingthing

[spidermike007]

If you're a decent person you will tip a Grab or a Food Panda driver, they make nine baht per delivery from what I'm told, which is barely a living wage. The 20 baht does not mean much to us, but it means an awful lot to them.

 

Not only that but tipping keeps the heart open, which is a nice quality to have. 

 

If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. 

 

Stay away from stingy people. They are trapped in small souls.

Anne Fortier

 

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.

Gautama Buddha

 

“I have begun in old age to understand…that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.” ~ Saul Bellow

 

The rich man who is stingy is the worst pauper. — Yiddish Proverbs

 

In finances, be strict with yourself, generous with others. — Maimonides

 

The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness, but yields no fruitful herbs or plants for the benefit of others. — Zeno of Elea

 

We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is. — Gary Snyder

 

 

[ronster]

Usually tick 40bht for the tip as what's 40 bht when you are usually ordering over 300bht of delivery items.

[maxx58]

I always tip Grab or any delivery driver 20 baht.

I was using my credit card for Grab taxis and food, but after noticing that the taxi drivers were padding the bill, I'm back to paying with cash.

[Liverpool Lou]

9 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

If you're a decent person you will tip a Grab or a Food Panda driver, they make nine baht per delivery from what I'm told, which is barely a living wage. The 20 baht does not mean much to us, but it means an awful lot to them.

 

Not only that but tipping keeps the heart open, which is a nice quality to have. 

Hear, hear!

[Liverpool Lou]

B40, every time.

[brianthainess]

Do you tip other deliveries like Kerry etc.. I normally let them keep loose change from COD, but the other night at 7.30pm in pissing rain I got a Kerry delivery and gave him 20b. My generosity has no bounds init.

[OneMoreFarang]

I tip in restaurants and bars, taxi and in traditional massage places.

I don't tip at gasoline stations, street food vendors, market vendors, and for food delivery.

 

Why? I never thought much about it. But I guess the easiest explanation is that someone at the gas station or the food delivery just does his job. There is not much do to better than average.

In the places where I tip the interaction takes time, and it can make a big difference how good the service is. This is why I tip in those places when the service is good enough. Seldom I don't tip, if they do a bad job.

[OneMoreFarang]

12 hours ago, In Full Agreement said:

20 Baht does't go very far in Thailand.

 

Correct.

But 15 times 20B = 300B which is the minimum salary which many people receive.

So, if a delivery driver gets only 20B tip per delivery and he delivers only 2 times per hour all day long then he still makes 2x8x20=320THB tip.

[scorecard]

14 hours ago, AsiaTraveler1234 said:

I often order Grab Food Delivery and pay with the credit card tied to my account. It always makes for a seamless and efficient food delivery process.

 

Upon completion of each delivery, Grab always asks me to rate the delivery driver, and then it gives me myriad tip options.

 

I'm curious how much, if any, people generally tip when ordering Grab food delivery and are prompted with all the tipping options.

 

I usually tip THB 20, but I recently tried Food Panda and it says "most popular option" under the THB 10 tipping box.

 

Personally, I hate tipping and wish they would just set the proper price and not solicit for tips (like most things in my home country, Australia) so that customers aren't paying different prices for the same product or service resulting in differential treatment from employees.

 

Grab recently implemented 3% (Thailand) and 4% (Vietnam) foreign transaction fees on credit card payments, which is also offputting and made me install the Food Panda app recently which doesn't do that.

 

 

My family pay for food deliveries COD, mostly using scan, plus a 20Baht / 40Baht cash tip direct to the mocy driver. Works well.

[Skeptic7]

B20-30 is sufficient and they appreciate it. I always give it "in hand" upon delivery. Surely many tip nothing, which is unacceptable and cheap-O.

[AsiaTraveler1234]

8 hours ago, maxx58 said:

I always tip Grab or any delivery driver 20 baht.

I was using my credit card for Grab taxis and food, but after noticing that the taxi drivers were padding the bill, I'm back to paying with cash.

How do they pad the bill when paying with credit cards? 🤔 I always know the total cost before I place the order, whether taxi or food, which is why I use Grab, Bolt, Food Panda, Lineman, etc.

[LarryLEB]

Food delivery and Lazada orders, I give 20 to 30 Baht in cash.  I never use the online tipping option because how do I know that the delivery person will actually get the tip?

 

These delivery people do not make much, so I'm happy to add the tip.