{"id":312030,"date":"2026-08-02T18:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312030\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T18:17:07","slug":"nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-celebrates-104m-surge-in-delivery-driver-tips-as-critics-slam-higher-costs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/312030\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Celebrates $104M Surge in Delivery Driver Tips as Critics Slam Higher Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said a crackdown on &#8220;deceptive tipping practices&#8221; by food delivery apps has delivered $104 million in additional tips since January. Officials said New York City tipping rules now require apps to show tipping options before checkout and include a minimum suggested 10 percent, affecting Uber Eats and DoorDash.On Wednesday, July 30, Mamdani called the delivery apps tipping increase a &#8220;$104 million victory.&#8221; Business Insider reported tipping rates have doubled and estimated about $2,287 more per worker per year. Critics said customers are paying more, and DoorDash and Uber, who sued before the rules took effect, argued the policies pressure customers; DoorDash called the city&#8217;s assertions &#8220;flat out wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said a crackdown on &#8220;deceptive tipping practices&#8221; by food delivery apps has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[118045,9,56,63,65,64,46085,82],"class_list":["post-312030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-food-delivery-apps","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-uber-eats","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}