$1-$2, pizza place is less than a mile (2 left turns and no stairs) from my place and i normally pick it up myself. If it is from a pizza place in a different part of town (ie longer drive), i tip more.
What would you tip a waiter to bring you $20 worth of food from kitchen? Now imagine him getting in his car and driving to your house. I try to give at least the same amount for both services. In house more service, at my house more trouble to do.
If I'm at a restaurant, you've got the server coming to my table to seat me, relay specials, take a drink order, go get the drinks, come back for an order, put that order in, check on me several times to make sure I don't need more frosty beverage, bringing my food to me, replacing any napkins, condiments, silverware, then clearing the table.
If I order pizza (unless I'm missing something), you've got the guy taking the pizza, putting it in his car and driving it to me while listening to Slayer on the car stereo. That's it.
Call me ignorant, but it just doesn't seem equitable.
Some of the unknowns for me (and thus make the question of tipping very subjective) are:
- The wage of the delivery driver
- Whether or not it is assumed (as with most servers I've heard of) that the driver will get a tip. For example, will the driver be taxed on 10% regardless of whether he gets that tip or not (like many servers)?
- How much, if any, drivers are reimbursed for mileage
I usually tip a few dollars if it's there speeeeedy fast. Otherwise I let the pizza man fvck your mother!
$20 =
$2 minimum (slow, didn't bring other stuff like red pepper/plates if i requested)
$3 (slow, but brought other stuff)
$4 (didn't take too long, brought other stuff)
$5 (if weather is bad, no matter how long it took to get to my house)
$2 minimum (slow, didn't bring other stuff like red pepper/plates if i requested)
$3 (slow, but brought other stuff)
$4 (didn't take too long, brought other stuff)
$5 (if weather is bad, no matter how long it took to get to my house)
A percentage tip scale makes absolutely no sense to me in relation to a pizza delivery (and even sometimes with a meal).
Ok, so since I put 3 extra toppings on my pizza, you should get a bigger tip? Wha?
Same goes for a large meal somewhere. I'm more than happy to tip my server, but if I order breadsticks and water and then have the server come back 80 times to refill my water, I'm not expected to leave as big a tip as if I'd bought a fat steak, bottle of wine and dessert and had the server come back once, maybe twice?
Ok, so since I put 3 extra toppings on my pizza, you should get a bigger tip? Wha?
Same goes for a large meal somewhere. I'm more than happy to tip my server, but if I order breadsticks and water and then have the server come back 80 times to refill my water, I'm not expected to leave as big a tip as if I'd bought a fat steak, bottle of wine and dessert and had the server come back once, maybe twice?
As a former pizza deliverer, I will say that these $5 are over the top. I'd feel very fortunate to get one, and it would usually be if I went to a rich persons house.
You've probably already tipped him but $2 was the norm, $3 was nice, and anything beyond I considered myself lucky.
Oh, and I'd hardly make mental notes of who tipped good. Only a couple of the people who had been delivering for years knew which houses tipped $5. The only one which was universally known was the $10 tip house, which was a huge mansion and of course a great place to deliver.
But the people who left no tip got a mark in the computer and they'd be the last to go. Those orders would sit on the rack for up to an hour, and if they complained we didn't care. It isn't worth my time or gas/maintenence money to drive 3 miles for $1.
You've probably already tipped him but $2 was the norm, $3 was nice, and anything beyond I considered myself lucky.
Oh, and I'd hardly make mental notes of who tipped good. Only a couple of the people who had been delivering for years knew which houses tipped $5. The only one which was universally known was the $10 tip house, which was a huge mansion and of course a great place to deliver.
But the people who left no tip got a mark in the computer and they'd be the last to go. Those orders would sit on the rack for up to an hour, and if they complained we didn't care. It isn't worth my time or gas/maintenence money to drive 3 miles for $1.
nothing. I'm a cheap bastard who believes as long as kids are being paid by the hour, they can keep getting paid only by the hour.... unless they drive up in an ashton marton sporting pimp hat and golden cane.
Fritzo
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No, but when I see a 40 year old guy wearing a pizza hat coming up to the door, I want to say "Dude, you need to sit down and determine what vocational error was made in your life and correct it immediately!" It's probably a good job for someone in school, don't get me wrong, but if you're that old and delivering food, something has to change.
Wow, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
A lot of people who take tipping jobs (especially older people) usually only do so for some extra cash. A couple of delivery guys at my store were around 40, working it as a second job. They were making anywhere from $38k to $50k a year. But working an extra 10-20 hours a week and averaging $15/hour (with tips) gave them an extra $150-$300 a week.
That's an extra $600-$1200 a month, for a relatively easy job.
Go take your elitist attitude and shove it up your arse.
Thought of another thing about tipping.
The speed of the order and the actual tip aren't really as related as you might hope. Say the driver has nothing to do with the pizza taking forever to cook, then he barrels down the road to you. You give him no tip because it was "slow". You're not saying anything to the actual business, just punishing him.
Same goes for servers at restaurants. There are days when the cooks are clueless. The server does everything right but still gets a lame tip, because the food was cooked poorly or something. bleh.
ok, time for bed.
The speed of the order and the actual tip aren't really as related as you might hope. Say the driver has nothing to do with the pizza taking forever to cook, then he barrels down the road to you. You give him no tip because it was "slow". You're not saying anything to the actual business, just punishing him.
Same goes for servers at restaurants. There are days when the cooks are clueless. The server does everything right but still gets a lame tip, because the food was cooked poorly or something. bleh.
ok, time for bed.
moshquerade
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- Nov 1, 2001
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