Update 9/19/19: Deal is back and valid today only
The Offer
- Food delivery app Favor is offering a free Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich delivered on Thursday July 25th, 2019.
The Fine Print
- Offer valid on 7/25/19 from 11am-9pm in all Favor markets excluding Austin and San Marcos.
- Limit one Free Original Chicken Sandwich per customer.
- No promo code necessary, discount of $4.10 (cost of sandwich) automatically applied upon delivery.
- Delivery times may be longer than normal. A minimum tip of $2 still applies.
Our Verdict
Still need to pay the $2 tip unfortunately, but still a good deal.
With Austin excluded, a good chunk of Favor’s business would have been in Houston. Unfortunately the city was deluged yesterday (see news) and I’d be surprised if they allowed any Houston deliveries yesterday.
How is mandatory tip a tip?
Out of Delivery Area
” Favor isn’t available in your area just yet. You won’t be able to place an order to your current address, but you can still explore our app. ”
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Does it include meals?
I don’t see it on the app. Only a cheeseburger deal from P.Terry’s
“Still need to pay the $2 tip unfortunately, but still a good deal.”
This is the way I see this: If one wouldn’t have tipped the delivery person anyhow, even without the 2 bucks being *required*, then that just means a person is cheap. I do not see it as “unfortunate” at all. They are making sure that the people using this offer don’t stiff the delivery person completely.
Yeah, I’d say fortunately instead. Otherwise people would be running around delivering stuff for pennies
People might be better off making sure that the company behind the ‘app’ (namely, the company they actually work for, or ‘contract for’) is actually paying them a bit more than pennies before deciding that they’ll rely solely on other individuals’ tips to make do?
Otherwise it might quickly go down the slippery path of ‘we guarantee $20 minimal payment per delivery for our drivers/delivery people, and we charge a mandatory $30 tip (on top of service fee, delivery fee, taxes, and other fees) from the customer (and pocket $10 of that ourselves;)’, please refer to the real story of DoorDash if this doesn’t sound likely to you=)
Virtue signaling