Delivery Guy Gets 10 Dollar Tip for 85 Pizzas

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dmcowen674

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http://shine.yahoo.com/financially-...tips-10-dollars-for-85-pizzas--173851199.html

Delivery Guy Gets 10 Dollar Tip for 85 Pizzas



On Tuesday, a Reddit user named Jfastman uploaded a photo of a receipt for a pizza delivery that included 85 pizzas totaling $1,453. "My friend delivered 85 pizzas today and got a $10 tip," he wrote.



The story kicked off a fiery debate prompting dozens to write comments such as "The delivery guy deserved more" and "Ten dollars is cheap!" Others insisted that no one could realistically expect to receive a 20 percent tip on such a large order.


"The rule of thumb is that you should always tip when someone is bringing you a product or service where manual labor is involved," says Lynn. "For example, movers, food and drink delivery people, restaurant servers, house cleaners, salon workers, and hotel maids. These are also situations where you can measure the immediate value of the work, unlike say, a car mechanic or doctor where their services are more abstract and assessed over time."



There's a tricky tipping scale too. Standard tipping rates are 15-20 percent in many parts of the country but that bracket is rapidly expanding. "People are tipping more these days and the mean tip is closer to 20 percent," says Lynn. "We call it 'tip creep.' One person can boost the norm and then there's upward pressure to conform. Many now tip 25-30 percent."


And what of the pizza delivery guy—why was he given such a poor tip? "Without knowing the specifics, it's possible that the person ordering the pizza just didn't know any better," says Lynn. "Standard tipping on a pizza pie is a few bucks. So he may have figured that delivering 85 pies required one trip—the same trip to deliver just one. But instead of giving him a few dollars, he upped it to $10. The reality? He should have tipped between $85-$100."
 
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Can I guess the race of the people who ordered the pizza or no?
 

TallBill

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Doesn't have to be 20% but 10$ is fucking cheap. Pizza delivery service would blow if people didn't tip. Exactly like food/beverage service if people didn't tip at bars/restaurants.
 

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I can't say I would've tipped 85-100, but then again I might have. That many pizzas I'm assuming a pretty good party, and would've asked for tips for the guy.

If I was throwing it and paying for it all (not that rich, but "if" lol) then I probably would've gave the guy at least 30-40. Seriously it's just pizza there may have been a lot of them, but come on.. Unless maybe he had to climb some stairs.

Then again I'm not a rich bitch so I would've helped him anyways, and pretty much most people I would hang around with would also.
 

dighn

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$10 is bad, but 15% on a $1450 bill would be ridiculous. maybe 50 to 100?
 

KaOTiK

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I'm more curious what the 85 pizzas were for, like what event, that is a ton of pizza. Also curious what the delivery guy drove to be able to deliver that many. $10 is freaking cheap as hell, at the very least the person who paid should of just rounded the bill up to $1500 and even then that is being cheap.
 
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SheHateMe

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If they didn't want to tip the person delivering all 85 of those Pizzas...they could have sent someone to come get the things.
 

HamburgerBoy

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Eh, $10 seems a bit low but tipping is really supposed to cover gas more than anything. Assuming they were all loaded into a van/truck in one trip, people suggesting 10% of $1453 are crazy. I'm a weakling and I'm fairly certain that I could carry ten large pizzas at a time, so ultimately he probably has to make 9 trips back and forth from the car to the door. I can't imagine it takes much more than 15 seconds per trip, so we're talking about an extra couple minutes. Is $7 more for two more minutes a particular hardship? Well, I suppose he may have had to load them all himself at the pizza joint as well, so maybe double that figure.
 

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Ugh, who tips pizza delivery people? :/

It's not like the price of the delivery isn't calculated into the cost of the pizzas anyway. The bigger the order, the bigger the profit. Anything extra sounds like being extremely gracious to me.

Luckily I always pre-pay my deliveries, so I don't even have any money one me, when the delivery guy comes by. Of course I live in socialist France, where employees aren't slaves...
 

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I've never ordered pizza and calculated the tip like I would a normal meal at a restaurant. It's always a buck or 3. Maybe that's weird but I've never seen anyone else do it either. If they want a normal 10%-20% tip they should work in a restaurant. Pizza in a restaurant gets that kind of tip. I sure as hell wouldn't have given a $290 tip to this guy. I could see rounding to $1500 though.
 

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If the guy made one trip, and I'm guessing the customer(s) probably helped him carry them in along with his co-workers carry them out to his car, I'm not seeing the big issue.
 

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If the guy made one trip, and I'm guessing the customer(s) probably helped him carry them in along with his co-workers carry them out to his car, I'm not seeing the big issue.

This. Likely took less than 5 minutes.
 

sze5003

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When I was in school I did valet on the weekends. One night a guy handed me a small wad of cash. Looked like ones so I counted the ones as I walked back to the garage. In there were a bunch of twenties and tens. I made 134 just from that guy alone lol. I was stoked and that guy was probably smashed. I remember the car too, grey infinity suv.

Another night a hot drunk girl asked if I wanted a motorboat :)
 
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Doesn't have to be 20% but 10$ is fucking cheap. Pizza delivery service would blow if people didn't tip. Exactly like food/beverage service if people didn't tip at bars/restaurants.

Outside north america nobody tips, & they get along fine. After living in Japan for 3 years where service is impecable with no need for a tip, im really sick of all these ppl that say u have to tip!
 
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