Delivery Guy Gets 10 Dollar Tip for 85 Pizzas

[Farang]

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.

Delivery is not a percentage. Table service, it isn't an exact science but generally the more you're paying the more service you require (whether per item or just ordering more in volume)

 

[jupiter57]

$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!
Way back then, gas was what, $0.35 gal., decent car was $500, and Minimum Wage was what, $1.65?

Get with the times, man.:biggrin:

(As I've stated before, if anyone uses their car, their gas, & their time to bring food to MY door, they will get tipped rather well! $5.00, minimum!)

 

[waggy]

LOL!
Way back then, gas was what, $0.35 gal., decent car was $500, and Minimum Wage was what, $1.65?

Get with the times, man.:biggrin:

(As I've stated before, if anyone uses their car, their gas, & their time to bring food to MY door, they will get tipped rather well! $5.00, minimum!)

lol i'm not that old

gas was $1 a gallon (ohh it was great). my car was a mustang 5.0 (though i got it very cheap. dad owned the car lot). Min wage was. no clue i can't remember

delivery (at least in il) get Min wage+delivery charge (at most places)+tip I made on avarage $12 /hour and th is was in err 94 or so.

I think a $2 tip on a pizza delivery is good. if i ordered 2 pizzas i would give 3-4 bucks.

i'm not paying 20% on delivery. i pay that where the wiater makes $2 an hour and can give me advice on food etc.


I think $2+1 per pizza would make a good tip on this.

Also i agree with ponyo. you don't call in and say hey i need 19 pizza's you usually call in and set it up. i suspect we aren't getting the full story

 

[bignateyk]

Meh.. I would have probably given him $20 or $30. Sure as hell wouldn't have been anywhere near 20%.

 

[JM Aggie08]

You all forget that reddit is filled with late-teen/early twenties, privileged, self-entitled, white kids rights right?

Not to excuse shitty tipping, but I feel absolutely no sympathy for anyone on that site.

 

[richardycc]

the fact that the customer ordered pizza to feed a big party like that, the delivery guy shouldn't even expect a tip at all.

 

[Jimzz]

When I delivered pizzas in college I had a order like this. My buick had pizzas in the trunk, backseats, front pass seat, and I had to move my drivers seat up to get them all in. So much steam was comign out of the car people probably thought I was smoking pot.

Got $40 or $50 and that was when gas was in the "awful" $2 range. Went back and bought all the line people (people that make the pizzas not drivers) a drink with the money.

the fact that the customer ordered pizza to feed a big party like that, the delivery guy shouldn't even expect a tip at all.

What? What does it being a party have to do with it?

 

[bignateyk]

When I delivered pizzas in college I had a order like this. My buick had pizzas in the trunk, backseats, front pass seat, and I had to move my drivers seat up to get them all in. So much steam was comign out of the car people probably thought I was smoking pot.

Got $40 or $50 and that was when gas was in the "awful" $2 range. Went back and bought all the line people (people that make the pizzas not drivers) a drink with the money.

That makes sense to me. Assuming they all fit in your car, it really isn't that much harder to deliver 80 pizzas than it is 5 pizzas (Maybe an extra 5 minutes of work on either end to load and unload them). It's harder for the people who have to actually make the 80 pizzas. Why should the delivery driver get hundreds of dollars extra for all their work?

 

[SaurusX]

$2-$3 max for tipping the pizza delivery guy. You're already paying a delivery fee, so they should be grateful to be getting anything at all.

And tipping 30%??? I calculate out 15% every time I'm in a restaurant and anything more is insane. I don't feel obligated at all to to do anything more, so tip creep is not something I'm concerned with.

 

[Jimzz]

That makes sense to me. Assuming they all fit in your car, it really isn't that much harder to deliver 80 pizzas than it is 5 pizzas (Maybe an extra 5 minutes of work on either end to load and unload them). It's harder for the people who have to actually make the 80 pizzas. Why should the delivery driver get hundreds of dollars extra for all their work?

No it was a pile of work and I was doing about 10mile less than the speed limit due to my windsheild steaming up.

Let alone the driver usually is the one that cuts their order and then packages it up. Let alone unloading all the pizzas and then seperating them etc...

Mind you the money I got was good and made up for it. Now if I knew I was only going to get $10 I would have said hell no and took 3-4 other orders in that time plus the $.50 run money vs 3-4 times the $.50 run money.

$2-$3 max for tipping the pizza delivery guy. You're already paying a delivery fee, so they should be grateful to be getting anything at all.

And tipping 30%??? I calculate out 15% every time I'm in a restaurant and anything more is insane. I don't feel obligated at all to to do anything more, so tip creep is not something I'm concerned with.

There was no delivery fee in my day but I was told the driver does NOT get the delivery fee.

 

[drebo]

The question is whether or not delivering 85 pizzas took substantially more effort than delivering 2 pizzas. If not, then $10 is fair.

If he's delivering in a car, then it doesn't take any extra time. If he's delivering on a bike, then he deserved the 20%.

Tipping threads are funny.

 

[diesbudt]

$25, maybe $50 tops would have been my tip.

I see no reason to follow the 15-20% rule when bill starts getting higher than $250. (excluding fancy setting resturants when taking people out)

 

[Kaido]

$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

Yeah, I think something more reasonable would make sense - maybe $20 or $25 or something. $290 would be fairly ridiculous as a 20% tip on this guy's delivery. I think the most I ever got for large events was like $40 back in the day, when I had to carry in 20 or 30 pizzas up several flights up stairs. Then there's this line from the article:

And do you always have to tip 20 percent—even when service is poor? A waitress could be forgetful and slow but odds are she only makes minimum wage (a paltry $2.13 in many states); does she deserve a sympathy tip?

I've never understood why service is so bad at so many restaurants. The job only seems to be made up of 3 components:

1. Check on the customer every 5 to 10 minutes...not too often, not too far apart
2. Write down what they ask for so you don't mess it up
3. Check what the cooks give you and give the customer the food

That's pretty much my entire requirement for a good tip. Bring me what I asked for and check in once in awhile. It's annoying when people check on you every 2 minutes, and it's also annoying when they forget about you. Our 1-year-old is pretty good at restaurants, but the last time we went out the waitress took so long we ended up leaving the table and paying at the entrance...it was over like 20 minutes since we finished and the baby was starting to go nuts!

That and getting the order right...I have food allergies and always request both the food off (like no cheese because of my dairy allergy) and also that they write down that I have an allergy on the slip for the cook. And then they come back with a burger dripping with melted cheese and I just think, really? You wrote it down twice (no cheese, and dairy allergy) and didn't even check it when bringing me the food? Then everyone else gets to eat, my food comes, and everyone is ready to leave. Bleh. In fact, really good service is so rare that when I get it, I'll leave them a dang good tip

 

[Capt Caveman]

Can I guess the race of the people who ordered the pizza or no?

85 pizzas, more than likely not the race you wish it was.

In regards to the tip, $50-100 would have been good. I'm assuming this guy had to make 8-10 trips and if it was a business, probably have to travel a distance to deliver them from the vehicle.

 

[bignateyk]

85 pizzas, more than likely not the race you wish it was.

In regards to the tip, $50-100 would have been good. I'm assuming this guy had to make 8-10 trips and if it was a business, probably have to travel a distance to deliver them from the vehicle.

8-10 trips? So you could only fit 8 pizzas in your car?

 

[Capt Caveman]

8-10 trips? So you could only fit 8 pizzas in your car?

No, I meant trips as in carrying them from his car to where he needed to deliver them.

 

[wirednuts]

that's what the delivery surcharge is for.

that covers the gas. do you expect people to work for free?

 

[wirednuts]

$25, maybe $50 tops would have been my tip.

I see no reason to follow the 15-20% rule when bill starts getting higher than $250. (excluding fancy setting resturants when taking people out)

really? can you even imagine delivering 80 pizzas? that is real work. i think $50 would be the lowest the guy should have got. $100 would be much more realistic in fair terms.

pizza delivery guys always get the lowest tips of any other service though. people always asked me "how much for a good tip, like $2?" and i would always say "waitresses get 15% and they just walk from the kitchen to your table. i have to get in my car and drive it through all the risks out there and get it to your door before it gets cold."

if i got 15% on every delivery i would probably still be doing it.

 

[Legios]

A dollar a pie is my standard tip. Is it less then 15%, most assuredly but its what I do and I dont feel bad for doing it.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Pizza delivery tipping is not the same as restaurant tipping. With pizza tipping, it shouldn't be based off a % of the total purchase price but rather with the physical amount of pizza ordered, within reason of course.

For 85 pizzas, I'd say a $50-100 tip would be my range, depending on what accommodations he had to provide to get the pizzas there. $10 is definitely a bit low.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Given that many pizzas I would just get everyone to pitch in a few dollars for the tip. I'm guessing there was well over 100 people so that would be quite a nice tip.

As cheap as that tip was, I don't see what the huge outrage is about though, a tip is optional.

 

[TechAZ]

Tipping based on price of food is retarded. I do it, but I just feel it's so stupid. These waitresses/waiters spend a grand total of 10 minutes on me TOPS and I am expected to tip them over a buck a minute?

I've had no better "dining experience" at Ruths Chris than at Applebees and the difference in tip is quite large.

 

[diesbudt]

85 pizzas, more than likely not the race you wish it was.

It is obvious though isn't it?

The turtle race ordered them.

 

[BlahBlahYouToo]

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 this is exactly why a percentage based tipping system is stupid.

 

[slayernine]

I don't tip the pizza delivery guy ever.