Delivery Guy Gets 10 Dollar Tip for 85 Pizzas

[bamaaviator]

It's a shit job, expect shit money.

You people expecting to get rich off being a delivery boy or server make me laugh. Want to get paid well, go to school, don't expect automatic extra pay because you think you deserve it for bringing someone food or filling their water glass, something that's in your basic job description. Tipping even for crappy service is even more laughable. You letting them make you think they don't get paid minimum wage is also funny since every single one in the country by law has to. I'd rather tip the trash man since they actually do a job that most of us would not want to do but for some reason you guys seem fit not to.

You dont have the first clue wtf you are talking about. Most delivery drivers are in school while they are driving in the first place. Tipped positions have their place in the economy are in fact a reason the prices are not higher than they are.

I suggest you go to school or learn some real life experience instead of posting on the forums 30,000 times about stuff you dont have the first idea about.

 

[dabuddha]

You dont have the first clue wtf you are talking about. Most delivery drivers are in school while they are driving in the first place. Tipped positions have their place in the economy are in fact a reason the prices are not higher than they are.

I suggest you go to school or learn some real life experience instead of posting on the forums 30,000 times about stuff you dont have the first idea about.

Apparently he has more real life experience than you considering he's right that it's a shit job lol. Bottom line, if people who work in an industry where tipping is a main part of your income, either find a new job or put the onus of change on the owners. I don't get tipped for the software I write.

 

[JM Aggie08]

You dont have the first clue wtf you are talking about. Most delivery drivers are in school while they are driving in the first place. Tipped positions have their place in the economy are in fact a reason the prices are not higher than they are.

I suggest you go to school or learn some real life experience instead of posting on the forums 30,000 times about stuff you dont have the first idea about.

You sir, are out of touch...and probably deliver pizza

 

[bamaaviator]

Want to have a debate about tipping being apart of a business plan? I run a $35million a year restaurant at Disney World. Id like to hear your experience level.

 

[Capt Caveman]

It's a shit job, expect shit money.

You people expecting to get rich off being a delivery boy or server make me laugh. Want to get paid well, go to school, don't expect automatic extra pay because you think you deserve it for bringing someone food or filling their water glass, something that's in your basic job description. Tipping even for crappy service is even more laughable. You letting them make you think they don't get paid minimum wage is also funny since every single one in the country by law has to. I'd rather tip the trash man since they actually do a job that most of us would not want to do but for some reason you guys seem fit not to.

I actually know someone who graduated from an Ivy League school with honors. She was looking to get her PhD at Harvard but decided that spending a career chasing after grant money wasn't worth it. Instead she works at one of the top restaurants in the city and was able to buy her first house at the age of 27.

She works nights and has the days to spend on her hobbies - brewing beer, beekeeping(selling honey to restaurants) and working a CSA share at a local farm.

She goes to work and serves Noble Peace Prize winners who know her by name and her accounts include some of the biggest companies in the area. She busts her ass at work and gets tipped accordingly. And she is able to leave work every night without having to bring any of it home. If she wasn't good at her job and requested by customers, she wouldn't be helping her restaurant make money and be replaced.

I think it's funny how so many folks look down on others here based on their profession. I'm sure she more educated and works harder than most here sitting behind their computers. And when she makes $1k+ more in a night in tips, I'm sure it boils most of you. And fwiw - she takes no cash home. So yes, it's all taxed.

I'd rather having tipping than having it included in the price of my meal where I have less control over rewarding/not rewarding the service I received.

 

[KK]

Want to have a debate about tipping being apart of a business plan? I run a $35million a year restaurant at Disney World. Id like to hear your experience level.

Sure you do. Run it as in being head waitress?

 

[dabuddha]

Want to have a debate about tipping being apart of a business plan? I run a $35million a year restaurant at Disney World. Id like to hear your experience level.

Yes I run a $600 trillion a year chicken and waffles joint in south central LA. See what I did there?

 

[JM Aggie08]

I actually know someone who graduated from an Ivy League school with honors. She was looking to get her PhD at Harvard but decided that spending a career chasing after grant money wasn't worth it. Instead she works at one of the top restaurants in the city and was able to buy her first house at the age of 27.

She works nights and has the days to spend on her hobbies - brewing beer, beekeeping(selling honey to restaurants) and working a CSA share at a local farm.

She goes to work and serves Noble Peace Prize winners who know her by name and her accounts include some of the biggest companies in the area. She busts her ass at work and gets tipped accordingly. And she is able to leave work every night without having to bring any of it home. If she wasn't good at her job and requested by customers, she wouldn't be helping her restaurant make money and be replaced.

I think it's funny how so many folks look down on others here based on their profession. I'm sure she more educated and works harder than most here sitting behind their computers. And when she makes $1k+ more in a night in tips, I'm sure it boils most of you. And fwiw - she takes no cash home. So yes, it's all taxed.

I'd rather having tipping than having it included in the price of my meal where I have less control over rewarding/not rewarding the service I received.

...Because this is such a common situation for someone waiting tables.

Kudos to her, but step foot in a Red Robin and tell me that the majority of people posting in this thread are not right in thinking the way they do.

 

[bamaaviator]

Guess you cant have a discussion with ill informed retards. I posted my credentials, guess $35m is too much for you to comprehend. We arent even the top grossing restaurant here at Disney, and in fact there is another restaurant pulling in $40m at Downtown Disney this year.

But cant have a discussion with the ignorant.

 

[JM Aggie08]

Guess you cant have a discussion with ill informed retards. I posted my credentials, guess $35m is too much for you to comprehend. We arent even the top grossing restaurant here at Disney, and in fact there is another restaurant pulling in $40m at Downtown Disney this year.

But cant have a discussion with the ignorant.

If your grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure were a little better it'd be just a smidge easier to believe :thumbsup:

 

[Capt Caveman]

...Because this is such a common situation for someone waiting tables.

Kudos to her, but step foot in a Red Robin and tell me that the majority of people posting in this thread are not right in thinking the way they do.

Tip accordingly to the service you believe you received but don't also don't lump everyone in the food service industry as all the same. Makes me sick that so many folks here believe that so many jobs only deserve minimum wage.

 

[bamaaviator]

In other words you just arent educated enough about the topic to say anything other than some stupid one liner. Understood.

 

[LumbergTech]

Apparently he has more real life experience than you considering he's right that it's a shit job lol. Bottom line, if people who work in an industry where tipping is a main part of your income, either find a new job or put the onus of change on the owners. I don't get tipped for the software I write.

Just admit it, you are a cheap ass. Driving jobs beat up your vehicle, and people should give at least a minimum..They don't have to, but it still kind of makes you a dick. They could have given the dude 20 dollars instead of 10. 10 is just cheap as hell for that many pizzas. If you want to start analyzing the value of someones job, a lot of software that isn't worth shit gets made all the time and people get paid to do it just because the company doesn't know any better.

 

[LumbergTech]

You dont have the first clue wtf you are talking about. Most delivery drivers are in school while they are driving in the first place. Tipped positions have their place in the economy are in fact a reason the prices are not higher than they are.

I suggest you go to school or learn some real life experience instead of posting on the forums 30,000 times about stuff you dont have the first idea about.

Yep, when I was going to college people who I went to school with ended up my being my delivery driver fairly regularly.

 

[dabuddha]

Just admit it, you are a cheap ass. Driving jobs beat up your vehicle, and people should give at least a minimum..They don't have to, but it still kind of makes you a dick. They could have given the dude 20 dollars instead of 10. 10 is just cheap as hell for that many pizzas. If you want to start analyzing the value of someones job, a lot of software that isn't worth shit gets made all the time and people get paid to do it just because the company doesn't know any better.

I never said the guy didn't deserve more. $10 is way too fucking cheap for 85 pizzas considering the logistics of loading and unloading them. I'm laughing at the retards that think he should have been tipped 10-20% of the total amount. If I had ordered 85 pizzas, I would have probably tipped about $20-30 (I of course would have taken advantage of Dominos $5.99 2 topping medium specials )

 

[Pr0d1gy]

I never said the guy didn't deserve more. $10 is way too fucking cheap for 85 pizzas considering the logistics of loading and unloading them. I'm laughing at the retards that think he should have been tipped 10-20% of the total amount. If I had ordered 85 pizzas, I would have probably tipped about $20-30 (I of course would have taken advantage of Dominos $5.99 2 topping medium specials )

Agreed, normal tipping scales do not apply to pizza delivery guys. I did it for several years while in school. Obviously, $10 is pathetic for a $1400+ order but I think the max tip any driver could expect is $40-50 at the very most.

Just to put this in perspective. I worked a double for Pizza Hut the first day of this century, 1/1/2000, and made $120 in tips and never spent more than 2-4 minutes in the store that day. People are obviously welcome to tip more, and probably would if these companies weren't screwing them over with delivery surcharges (which also screw the drivers), but to say that you're supposed to tip a delivery driver like you would a waiter is absurd. We sit on our ass listening to good music and smoking cheap weed in our cars all night.

Here is the common tipping scale I use for pizza delivery guys, i.e. my favorite people in the world outside of friends and family:

If the order is under $20 I tip them at least $3, if it is $20-40 I will usually tip them $5-7, anything more than that is $10-20 unless it is something outrageous like this $1400 order. I would have tipped this guy $50 at the very least.

 

[TallBill]

Tallbill, you are a coward for one. Definitely not intelligent for two because you cannot figure out, even with all the time you have on forums to compose your thoughts, why I called you an idiot.

I don't care what you have to say about anything, I don't believe it either unless I get proof from other sources. I won't look it up myself because I just don't care to spend the effort required.

Wwybywb?

 

[JM Aggie08]

In other words you just arent educated enough about the topic to say anything other than some stupid one liner. Understood.

Educate me then. I'm really interested.

They didn't offer restaurant ethics, finances, and economical impact courses in school.


/sarcasmoffthecharts

 

[dabuddha]

Educate me then. I'm really interested.

They didn't offer restaurant ethics, finances, and economical impact courses in school.


/sarcasmoffthecharts

I think they do at Devry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdM7vNOgGPM

 

[HAL9000]

I never have and never will be tipping a pizza delivery person. They'd have to do something exceptional for me to even realise tipping them is an option.

 

[TallBill]

I never have and never will be tipping a pizza delivery person. They'd have to do something exceptional for me to even realise tipping them is an option.

Probably not standard in England. I'd bet that delivery costs are higher or service is worse. Or you just enjoy consuming bodily waste of minimum wage workers

 

[dabuddha]

I never have and never will be tipping a pizza delivery person. They'd have to do something exceptional for me to even realise tipping them is an option.

You're already paying for it with your £16 large pizzas ($24)

 

[HumblePie]

Question,

How much harder is it to deliver 85 pizzas at once instead of 2 or 3? Sure a few more minutes of walking back into a car. But since his car was full for one trip, it's not like he's spending a bunch of extra gas delivering the same amount of pizzas all over his city.

Yah it's nice to get 10-20% tip, but it's unrealistic every time to expect that. $10 might be a little low, but I wouldn't be tipping $40 or $50 bucks either. I MIGHT have gone as high as $20 personally. But complaining about $10? Fuck no. If he had been stiffed then I would certainly understand the complaining.

I know a bunch of people would be HAPPY to have received $10 for 5 minutes worth of work. Fucking ingrate.

 

[bearxor]

I've not read the whole thread, but just my opinion:

I might have tipped $20 max. The delivery driver already gets paid per trip from the company and the company is likely already tacking on a delivery fee. But I also would have helped the driver unload pizzas from his car. I don't think $20 would be out of line for such an order.

And yes, I have delivered pizzas at one point in my life.

 

[phucheneh]

Probably not standard in England. I'd bet that delivery costs are higher or service is worse. Or you just enjoy consuming bodily waste of minimum wage workers

When I worked at Pizza Hut during high school, notes could be put into the customer database. E.g. 'repeat non-tipping douchebag.'

Enjoy your dick cheese and floor seasoning, Hal9000.