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are you supposed to tip the pizza delivery person?

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<< the later at night the delivery is made, the further up it goes, from $0.20 to $0.25 >>

Get the hell out of here, boy. I'm not feeling so nice anymore. I just ran out of Amstel Light, and this damn liberal state doesn't have 24 hour liquor stores. Wait. . . I am a liberal. Still. . .
 
I've also never understood why liquor stores here cannot be open past 8pm on weeknights? WTF? And they can't be open on sundays?!

*boggle*

-Phil
 
I just give a buck or two or say &quot;No thanks&quot; when they try to give me coins back

And Phil, what about the 25% of us here who are poor college kids? We do 6 hours of school AND the hard labor
 
no, tips are for idiots.

btw, i worked as pizza guy for four month and i NEVER got any tips.

I worked in CANADA btw.
 
i usually always tip the guy a few bucks
i mean he is delivering your pizza so might as make it worth his while🙂
 
I tip the delivery guy any where from $1 to $2. For some reason, my pizzas are always delivered fast. 🙂)) If the bill is $17.23. I give $19. If it is $12.87, I give $14, etc. Always $1 and then whatever change.
 
What about the girls at Sonic? Do we tip them? I always have, but it doesn't seem like other places you tip. Pizza delivery I understand... they drive and have to really work to get to your house. Waitress ladies always fill your drinks/salsa/chips whatever. But the Sonic girls walk about 15 ft. and just drop of you sack of food and drinks and are to never be seen again.

Should we tip them?
 


<< I don't believe in percentage tipping.
I think it's stupid. You go to a $10 diner or $50 restaurant, the waitress is still doing the same thing. Why should one get $2 tip, and the other $10? When I am with friends I tip 15% just not to hear a lecture. When I am alone, I tip $1 for taking the order + 50 cents each time the waitress comes back to the table, and round it up to whole dollars for meal+tip. I think $2 is the norm for delivery people. >>



Do you understands how a restaurant works? If you have a $10 dinner, it is probably at a place that burns 'em and churns 'em. The waiter has 5 or 6 table and turns them over at least once an hour. At an expensive restaurant, say $100+ for 2 people, the waiter may have two or three tables that turn over every 2 hours. They are doing different types of waiting, but still generate similar revenue for the restaurant.



As a former pizza delivery guy, I tip anywhere from $2-5. If I was having a party and ordered 5 or more pies, the tip would be much bigger - there are only so many pies a guy can carry each trip.
 
There are simple rules I follow for this sort of thing. For Pizza, tip starts at 20% of the total, unless there is a delivery charge, if there is that is subtracted from the 20%. Then, I subtract $1 for every 5 minutes they are late, based on what the person told me for a wait time. I add $1 for every five minutes they are early. For Restaurants, I start at 25%, and every time they screw something up, or every time I think &quot;I wish the waiter/waitress would come back and refill my drink/see how I'm doing/switch out my ashtray/take my empty plates&quot; I take off $1. I feel that's pretty fair. And obviously if the person serving me looks like they are being run ragged, or it's their first night on the job, they get cut some slack. But overall, it is the JOB of people working in that industry to SERVE me. If they do well, I tip LARGE. If they do poor, I tip small. The smallest I've tipped was $0.10, the largest was $20 on a $25 bill.
 
I worked as a delivery guy for 6 months before. Tell you what annoied me the most. It's not people who don't pay tip at all. It's people who give you several cents of tips(like 10 dollars for a 9.97 dollar order) and then generously tell you to keep the change.

I never spit though
 
If you are known as a big tipper, your pizza is always the first one delivered. If the guy has a five mile radius and 6 deliveries to make, this is a very good thing.
 
hell, i didn't have money for a tip before, so i gave the guy a beer. dude said it was the best tip he ever got.
 
there are some cheapA$...FRUGAL people in this world!!

people have to lean not to be so damn tight with their money.
 


<< That's the percentage that I usually tip. I guess I am better than the person who claimed to tip 20%, don't you think? >>



No, it just means you've got far too much time on your hands 😉

After reading through this thread, I remember an old episode of &quot;Married: With Children&quot; (if that's the proper punctuation for it ... can't remember). The pizza guy comes up to the door, gives Al his pizza, Al pays him, and the smart-a$$ pizza kid spouts back &quot;What? No tip?!?&quot; Al gets angry (and I'm paraphrasing the exact wording of all this). &quot;You want a tip, pizza boy?&quot; [slams the pizza guy's head against the front door] &quot;Here's a tip: DOORS ARE HARD!&quot;

Gotta love white-trash TV 😀

My two cents: The folks here who have never done a manual-labor job need to get a butt-kickin', as some of the crap that those folks deal with deserves a tip. I have never done Pizza delivery myself, but rode along with a buddy of mine who did, and it's flippin' crazy. I did housekeeping for a while for a major resort area in Central Oregon (Sunriver, to be exact) and we had to clean up some of the nastiest damn messes (think frat-boy drunken party in a house they don't have to clean -- vomit, feces, etc.. all over the damn place), and what sucked worse about it is that if folks did leave tips, the maintenance guys, who come to check all the electrical stuff before get there, take the money. And they're not the ones that have to clean all the crap. They check the plugs and the appliances, and they leave -- and they got paid more than we did! Bastards! :|

-orty
 
It seems to me, given that I'm too damn lazy to go pick it up myself, the least I can do is give the guy a few bucks. It just seems like the right thing to do. I do have a problem with Pizza Hut though, they charge like three bucks for delivery.
 
Tip the poor smucks.
Delivered fast food (KFC &amp; pizza) about half of my 6 years of university.
$2 is about right.

What pissed me off the most were the a$$es that made you dig for the dime change while you stood in the rain or freakin cold - try delivering in Canada in January - 30 and no tip, f u buddy.

Accidents, muggings, etc. too don't forget.

And paying del and tipping is not the same, at KFC we made $2.50 per del and that was it, slow day you make next to nothing. Pizza place del was free we got a measly $.50 plus $5-6 per hour and worked inside as well.

Overall though I made out okay.


 


<< What pissed me off the most were the a$$es that made you dig for the dime change while you stood in the rain or freakin cold - try delivering in Canada in January - 30 and no tip, f u buddy. >>

That's why I usually don't even carry coin. I almost never start the day with any in my pocket. I only have it if somebody gives some to me. Oh, and usually don't count it if I do give someone change. I separate out the quarters for my laundry, and toss a small handful of pennies, nickels, and dimes on the box, and then I run back to my car, laugh, and say &quot;Oh well.&quot;
 
As if it hasn' been said enough, you surely should tip the delivery people. And as people have said, if you never worked that sort of thing, i.e. food service you really have no idea on how hard these people work. In the US people don't get a normal wage to wait tables and do many other things were tips are expected, contraray to what you might think they are helping you for the tip, not for their hourly wage, sorry but that's just the way it works. I will put in the disclaimer though that the pizza places around me don't have a delivery charge so tipping someone is like the lazy tax cause I didn't feel like going to pick it up and I expect to pay for that.
 


<< Oh, and usually don't count it if I do give someone change. I separate out the quarters for my laundry, and toss a small handful of pennies, nickels, and dimes on the box, and then I run back to my car, laugh, and say &quot;Oh well.&quot; >>

LOL, that would be funny 🙂
 
I deliver Pizza's for the restraunt I work at. It's an italian restraunt and we don't deliver unless the order is big enough to be worth our time. I occasionally get tipped, but it's just enough to pay for gas, We have to deliver with our own cars because the buisness hasn't bought any simply because we don't deliver enough.
 
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