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I don't get delivery, but it's 15 minutes drive from my house to the nearest area with restaurants / stores. There are no bike lanes, shoulders, or sidewalks between here and there.

In the US it's generally 2.5% - 3.5% (plus a bunch of BS fees and charges added on top).

I do a lot of DD, and I'd bet that 75%+ of my restaurant orders are a single order going to a single house. I prefer grocery delivery, and it's probably closer to 50% for those, as we often get a couple of orders at once.

Occasionally we get a single drop off with 2 stops (pick up food from a restaurant and something from a drug or grocery store, and drop them both off together).

I've never gotten more than 3 orders at once, and those are pretty rare.

Yea, both Pizza Hut and Papa Johns can send orders from their own systems out to Doordash when they are too busy to handle them, when they are outside of their delivery zone (or I suspect when their own drivers don't want the order based on the tip or drive time).

The Pizza Hut in the small town near us doesn't even have their own drivers anymore, just sending them to all to DD.

I drive for DD, and besides a ton of Dollar General and grocery store orders, we also do some Pet Smart, Pet Supermarket, Tractor Supply, Home Depot, Lowes, and Best Buy (I'm sure there are others big box retailers I'm forgetting as well).

In my area, I'm going to have to drive 15 minutes one way to the nearest place to pick anything up, so it's not much different than having it delivered. We have never gotten delivery out here, since no one delivers but the third party ones (DD/UE), but someone delivering out here could possibly waste less fuel than I would to pick it up if they end up bring multiple orders out here.

I'm in a small city, with a lot of rural / suburban areas. I'm often delivering 15+ minutes away from the city center by car. A bicycle wouldn't be able to get to any of these places in any reasonable amount of time, and there's also no shoulders or bike lanes on most of these roads so it would be seriously dangerous.

We also do a lot of large grocery delivery orders (50 - 100+ items) so there's no way those can be done via bike or motorcycle.

Been a car guy for many years, and my next project will be an ev.

Not sure what yet, but there's a lot of classic conversions happening, and Ford sells a e crate motor now.

You were right about the rounding / keeping the extra ... it's just someone different keeping the extra money.

Lots of those Canadian quarters floating around in FL when we lived there.

Yea, we can process 4 different tax rates, and always list them separately.

The exception is in locations where tax is included in the price: bars that take a lot of cash tend to want to make everything even dollars, or quarters at the most, so that bartenders don't have to make a lot of change, and can work quickly.

In these situations, we have to do the calculation backwards after the fact, but it's still tracked as a separate tax in software.

I'm an owner, so make many decisions (but I also have smart employees who's opinions I trust very much).

This is a tough one to deal with, especially with smaller Android based handheld devices. In the 5" to 6" range we can get a few different things (wholesale costs):

• $150 - $200 dollar trash that will fail in a short period of time (Chinese imports direct from Alibaba / the manufacturer). << we don't sell these.
• $300 to $400 devices, with similar hardware specs to the cheaper ones, but better made to last a couple of years (both of these classes are slow, and a bit under-powered)
• $900+ devices that are fast and well made.

You can guess which ones we sell the most of. Especially since they tend to get dropped, or lost quite a bit (we're in the restaurant POS business).

For the stationary (15" Android) terminals, the situation is similar. But we sell these devices more than the handhelds, and after a few installs with well made but slower hardware, my tech lead ruled out offering the cheaper ones in favor of selling the ones with better specs, so that's where we are now.

But lots of our competitors give hardware away to get the credit card processing revenue (a total rip off for the customer, but it's the nature of the game), so they use the cheapest option.

I write POS software, and have written tax calculations that cover about 30 states, and several CA provinces.

While we do have to round (always up) when calculating sales tax, there's no way for the business to figure out how much that rounding would be, since it's just added to the tax collected.

And in all states that I've worked with, a business has to pay what they collected (even if they over collect), and can't just calculate a percentage of total sales (since many states have tax tables, rounding rules, or 3-4 decimal tax rates, and not a flat percentage tax).

So it's actually the government that gets the benefit of the rounding.