Delivery Guy Gets 10 Dollar Tip for 85 Pizzas

[EMPshockwave82]

I'm usually a 15-25% tipper based on service but I would have only given the guy 20-40 bucks. He made one trip in his car and maybe 10 trips from the car to the delivery location. I'm thinking 10 is a little low but anyone who says he deserved 10% is an idiot.

When I tip a pizza guy I will usually tip 2 bucks for the first pizza and then top out at about 5 bucks but I haven't ordered more than 5 pizzas in a really long time.

 

[MarkXIX]

I will tell you how I typically tip the pizza delivery guy.

If he/she drives up in a big ass pick-up truck, I tip more to cover estimated fuel price and then some in accordance with their demeanor.

If they drive up in a beat up Geo Metro, I might tip a little less.

I typically tip between $4-$7 based on this estimate.

 

[BrokenVisage]

Every time the delivery guy had to go back to his car to get more pizzas the tip should be increased $5

 

[dabuddha]

Every time the delivery guy had to go back to his car to get more pizzas the tip should be increased $5

So if he brought the pizzas in one at a time, you'd tip $425?

 

[Farang]

People writing these articles (I've seen a few related to this case) have no clue what they are talking about. No way this guy deserved $50-$100. Delivery is a single service and the tip is not a percentage. In this case due to the large order, $20 would be acceptable. $10 in cheap but as a driver I still would've taken it, beats delivering to 2-3 houses at $2 a pop.

The people writing these articles have never worked delivery and are fucking idiots. I appreciate them standing up for the little guy, but really.

For future reference, with delivery it is $2 minimum $5 to be a good tipper. Delivery charges, avoid places that go nuts with it (anything above $2 is not acceptable if it isn't going to the driver)

<---former delivery driver

edit: just to give you an idea, a good night's work usually netted $50 in tips. So the idea you give this guy a day's pay based on one order is ridiculous.

 

[Duderodomy]

It bums me out that people can be so cheap. This person got in their car and DROVE 85 pizzas to the customer's door. I am a delivery driver. I don't do it for fun, I don't do it out of the kindness of my heart. I do it for the MONEY. It is one of the few jobs I can do while I'm in school, without having a degree yet, and make enough money to pay the mountain of student loan payments I've accumulated. This is not Europe or Japan, where prices are higher in order to pay service industry workers a living wage. This is America where people tip. This is done so consumers will have the illusion of choice. However, if you don't care, think it's "not your problem", etc, you are not only screwing over the person who brought you the food, but you're not being fair to the person who DID tip 20%. We are living in a society. If you say it's "not your problem" it is that behavior that is what makes you a bad person. My employer charges a delivery fee. I do not get that. Rather than give me, who makes $7 an hour, the delivery fee, the franchise owner (who is already rich) keeps it. I would not expect a 20% tip on the $1500 pizza order, but they should've at least given a hundred bucks. Otherwise, the customer could have easily picked up the pizzas themselves.

 

[CPA]

Why the f is this news?

I delivered pizza when I was in college, a buck was good enough for me. Only time I got miffed was when the tip was zero, but hey it happens.

The fact that this is an article on yahoo is a disgrace.

 

[CPA]

It bums me out that people can be so cheap. This person got in their car and DROVE 85 pizzas to the customer's door. I am a delivery driver. I don't do it for fun, I don't do it out of the kindness of my heart. I do it for the MONEY. It is one of the few jobs I can do while I'm in school, without having a degree yet, and make enough money to pay the mountain of student loan payments I've accumulated. This is not Europe or Japan, where prices are higher in order to pay service industry workers a living wage. This is America where people tip. This is done so consumers will have the illusion of choice. However, if you don't care, think it's "not your problem", etc, you are not only screwing over the person who brought you the food, but you're not being fair to the person who DID tip 20%. We are living in a society. If you say it's "not your problem" it is that behavior that is what makes you a bad person. My employer charges a delivery fee. I do not get that. Rather than give me, who makes $7 an hour, the delivery fee, the franchise owner (who is already rich) keeps it. I would not expect a 20% tip on the $1500 pizza order, but they should've at least given a hundred bucks. Otherwise, the customer could have easily picked up the pizzas themselves.

As a former delivery driver - $100 to carry some pizza from the car to the house? Are you nuts?

 

[Farang]

Why the f is this news?

I delivered pizza when I was in college, a buck was good enough for me. Only time I got miffed was when the tip was zero, but hey it happens.

The fact that this is an article on yahoo is a disgrace.

It was also on the Huffington Post front page. I don't get it either. As someone who has worked for tips in a few different jobs I've seen way worse.. the worst was hotel stuff where I got sent running all around the hotel doing stuff for an hour just to get stiffed (not just bad to get stiffed, but because that was time I could've been making money elsewhere)

 

[Duderodomy]

The order was almost $1500. Of course the tip should've been at least 100. If you were in a restaurant and ordered a $500 bottle of wine, you would be expected to tip 20% on it, even though the server brought it in one trip.

 

[yinan]

I want to know how they got 85 pizzas there and have them still be warm? Most pizza ovens I do not think can cook 85 at a time.

 

[Farang]

The order was almost $1500. Of course the tip should've been at least 100. If you were in a restaurant and ordered a $500 bottle of wine, you would be expected to tip 20% on it, even though the server brought it in one trip.

The server would require much more skill in serving the wine. From making recommendations to physically pouring it. That's why servers get 20%. Because the server at a high end restaurant is providing more than the server at Applebees.

Pizza delivery is a single service item.. carry X to my home for me. If X is larger than usual, yes tip more, but not a percentage.

 

[1sikbITCH]

Well I know it couldn't have been Caucasian people, because they would have tipped zero dollars.

Plus we would have bitched that the first pizzas got cold while he was carrying taking all that time unloading the rest of the pizzas and demanded a full refund!

 

[1sikbITCH]

On a serious note, if someone was delivering a refrigerator to your house, you might tip the delivery men 10 bucks each. You wouldn't be handing out $100 tips.

I see this as no different and I delivered pizzas for years including the occasional large school or business order. True he probably made at least 8 trips (10 pizzas each) from the car to wherever the cafeteria was in the building. He probably was there for 30 mins or so carrying stacks of pizzas into the building and then getting paid. A $20 tip would have been more appropriate here and the $10 wasn't THAT egregious. It still was just one delivery.

 

[Duderodomy]

The server would require much more skill in serving the wine. From making recommendations to physically pouring it. That's why servers get 20%. Because the server at a high end restaurant is providing more than the server at Applebees.

Pizza delivery is a single service item.. carry X to my home for me. If X is larger than usual, yes tip more, but not a percentage.

This is a big part of the problem. Confusion on how to tip. Most people tip 20%, and that is what delivery drivers expect, especially when they take a large order like that mentioned in this article. I believe that in order to reduce confusion on the part of the customer, tipping should simply be abolished in America and prices should be raised 20%, with that full 20% going to the employee. Then nobody has to worry about it, and the delivery drivers and waitstaff make what they deserve.

 

[ponyo]

The pizza restaurant should fire the whiny ass delivery person. I would tip the pizza restaurant if they did.

 

[soulcougher73]

When ordering bulk pizzas who orders $17 ones? You get the cheap $5 kind. Sheesh. Loser lol

 

[sze5003]

So I guess he expected 300 bucks as a tip for this ? That's a lot, if he made 8 trips that's almost 30 bucks and some change each set of pizzas. I would have given him 25 bucks if it was just me.

But if this was for a huge party then I don't see why each person there could not tip 2-5 bucks each.

 

[Wonderful Pork]

I used to work at a restaurant which did catering/large deliveries (not pizza though) and they generally tipped when they placed the order, often pretty well and it was already on the charge.

We didn't expect a tip upon delivery, which was usually a couple days/week later but if we got something, then that was an added bonus.

Also, we usually sent 2-3 people in a van for huge orders and we could get the food out in 15 minutes or less depending on where exactly they wanted the food delivered (inside a hotel ballroom or just on a cart outside the venue or whatever).

 

[dabuddha]

Do we know if the place added a tip to the order already? I know a lot of restaurants around here (DC area) add a tip and/or delivery charge whenever we've had to order for a work party. A percentage based one, not a set amount.

 

[CPA]

The order was almost $1500. Of course the tip should've been at least 100. If you were in a restaurant and ordered a $500 bottle of wine, you would be expected to tip 20% on it, even though the server brought it in one trip.

And that's the problem with tipping based on cost of product rather than value of service.

A large cheese could cost $10, while a large veggie could cost $15. It's still one pizza, no additional effort is needed to deliver the more costly one, yet a 50% larger tip is expected with the veggie. Explain to me how that makes sense.

 

[waggy]

$10 is insane and so is 20% on delivery. When i was delivering i would have been happy with what i tip. $2 for first pizza and $1 after. so his tip would be $86

 

[kami333]

$1453 for 85 pizzas is $17/pizza, sounds like a horrible deal for a fairly large order. Plus 85 pizzas aren't something you call in on a whim, you generally have to call ahead a few days so either we aren't getting the full story or the organizers are idiots.

Also who's to say the delivery guy had to actually carry any of the pizza in? I've helped out (aka free labor) at a couple events where the pizza guy would just back the van up to the tent and we'd all help him unload or we'd meet him at the delivery dock with carts.

 

[Farang]

$1453 for 85 pizzas is $17/pizza, sounds like a horrible deal for a fairly large order. Plus 85 pizzas aren't something you call in on a whim, you generally have to call ahead a few days so either we aren't getting the full story or the organizers are idiots.

Also who's to say the delivery guy had to actually carry any of the pizza in? I've helped out (aka free labor) at a couple events where the pizza guy would just back the van up to the tent and we'd all help him unload or we'd meet him at the delivery dock with carts.

And for really big orders you never expect a huge tip, largely because the person paying is probably not the person with the money (i.e. they are using the account of the organization that is buying the pizza). It's just an expected hassle/part of your job to take care of the restaurant's big accounts. In fact not tipping, or tipping lightly, is often part of the deal they have with the restaurant (we don't have to leave a big tip because we order 85 pizzas every week). At the restaurant I worked at, we had an account like this and the restaurant would pay the driver a flat $25 to make the delivery.

 

[ponyo]

$10 is insane and so is 20% on delivery. When i was delivering i would have been happy with what i tip. $2 for first pizza and $1 after. so his tip would be $86

Lol. $86. For delivering pizza.