Here’s ONE silver lining to the city’s moronic micromanaging of delivery apps

Why, oh why, is the city’s political elite obsessed with micromanaging food-delivery apps?

So much so that it waxes indignant even when it’s simply reversing its own diktats to the (minor) industry.

A new law now going into effect forces the apps to put the “option” to tip your deliveryman before checkout.

At least two main apps — UberEats and DoorDash — presented the gratuity screen after you got your food, a practice they adopted to comply with previous guidance from City Hall.

(Not to mention: Tipping the delivery guy when he delivers worked just fine for decades.)

And of course this follows years of City Council laws imposing a hefty minimum wage on this casual work.

Gotham became the first city to impose a minimum wage for app-based food deliverymen in 2021; in reaction to the higher prices that resulted from rising labor costs, the apps moved the gratuity screen to dampen “sticker shock” for their customers.

The city now calls this a “design trick” that “stole” $550 million from the workers — sliding right past the inconvenient fact that deliverymen still came out way ahead, having earned an added $1.2 billion in higher wages.

Cue thundering about restoring “economic justice” from Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

OK: The new system will yield higher tips — but probably less work.

For starters, grocery-delivery app Instacart is adding a $6 fee to cover its higher labor costs from the wage mandates; we don’t blame them, but it will drive away some customers.

And others will realize they need to tip enough to ensure the deliveryman doesn’t just pass on the job, turning what’s supposed to be a bonus for good service into an entitlement; bet that a significant number of people resent that, and figure they’ll get their food some other way.

Most likely, some deliveryfolk will wind up with the ultimate minimum wage, which is zero.

The only silver lining we can see here is that every hour the politicos spend messing with this industry is time they’re not devoting to screwing up some other part of the local economy.