Coronavirus effect: rider tips doubled. We've become more generous with cyclist delivery drivers.

In America, a platform has even been created that collects and distributes tips for drinks and meals consumed at home. It's as if we were at a restaurant. 75 workers are registered.

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The race at tips, another positive effect of the Covid-19 pandemic. It's as if the coronavirus, almost instinctively, has brought out the dark, and sometimes repressed, side of our generosity. Especially towards the most vulnerable. For example, the riders, the cyclist deliverymen, who are invaluable during the quarantine period for delivering any food to our homes, and giving us the feeling of having been served as if we were in a restaurant.

TIPS TO RIDERS

Do you remember? More than once the rider committees have accused the Italians of stinginessThey spend hundreds of euros on sophisticated sushi dishes and then don't leave a single tip. They've even gone so far as to pillory, using a highly questionable method, popular figures like the Fedez-Ferragni duo, accused of being too tight-fisted with delivery riders. They've thus been exposed to public ridicule on the blacklist published on Facebook by the "Deliverance Milano" collective. Now all this seems like water under the bridge, and the increase in tips for delivery riders, and others, is calculated around 99 percent.

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TIPS TO DELIVERY MEN

The phenomenon is widely observed, especially in America, where tipping is considered a habit, a style, a custom. Something you can't give up, no matter what. And when the bad habit of some restaurateurs banning tipping in their establishments became widespread, surveys revealed the public's perspective. And it was discovered that 81 percent of Americans are absolutely in favor of tipping and decidedly opposed to banning a tool that often helps offset truly paltry salaries. Italy, along with other countries like Germany and China, belongs to the group of nations where tipping is highly optional. Perhaps too much so. Indeed, those who work in contact with customers are often warned: "Don't expect tips."

How long will this change last? How long will we be able to tip more generously? Harvard professor Michael Norton, in an interview with the BBC on the topic, offered an optimistic hypothesis: "These are small gestures that demonstrate how the perception of poverty has increased significantly. There is greater awareness, and this, given the very difficult times ahead, will continue to grow and consolidate..."

THE AMERICAN PLATFORM FOR VIRTUAL TIPING

Meanwhile, to ride the wave of tipping in America, the platform was born Service Industry Tips 75 workers are registered and have already shared 1230 tips. It works very simply: after eating, or after an aperitif, at home, you feel like you're at a restaurant, so you go to the website and donate a "virtual tip." It then becomes a real tip.

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