Sounds like you don't realize that these delivery drivers have to pay for their own gas, and vehcile repairs....
Sounds like you don't realize that these delivery drivers have to pay for their own gas, and vehcile repairs....
I would just like to take this moment to remind everyone that *I* started this thread.
That is all.
That is all.
10 dollars for 2 pizza pies or 8 dollars for chinese food for 2 is sometimes a good deal and necessary when too tired....
C'mon now, you know what i mean.
Fair enough, just be sure to include $2 minimum for the delivery driver. Think of it as part of the price. It's really not much. If you can afford $8, then you can afford $10. I mean, you don't even need to do anything except dial the phone. You don't need to take a shower, you don't even need to get dressed--just wear a towel, OK? (Or don't, I literally don't care what you look like when you answer the door.) It's a pretty good deal, don't you think?
alkemyst
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no that's not the case, if you can't afford delivery + even a buck (outside any delivery charge) then don't order.
It's the same thing as those people that go to places that still provide carry out groceries for a tip (usually the smaller shops)....they carry your groceries out don't give them crap you forgot to get cashback...
Like delivery *all these* poor people crawl out of their water heater boxes and request service when it's storming and pouring outside...that is even more a reason to tip something. Also if the reason you are ordering delivery is because there is 12"-24" of standing water you can't go through, dont expect them to do it either. I used to take the food back to the restaurant.
Wow, I'm blinded by the brilliance of your witty comeback.
Originally posted by: tk149
Wow, I'm blinded by the brilliance of your witty comeback.Maybe you should go back and study harder for the next Postal exam.
crack. pipe. down boy.
Ok, I got tired of reading all of these posts after the first full page. These are my views. Like it or lump it, doesn't matter. It's said and done.
I work at Pizza Hut. I don't deliver. I am a waitress at one, and a Customer Service Rep. at the other (yeah, I'm the one that takes your phone calls).
Pizza Hut charges exactly $1.00 for delivery whether it's an $8.00 order, or a $90.00 order. It's for the company. Whatever the f*** they do with that $1.00, I don't know. But I do know this. Delivery drivers go through so much BS to deliver a pizza, it's unbelievable. That website someone posted, (http://tipthepizzaguy.com/gothrough/), is exactly right! Did you know that a delivery drivers insurance goes up substantially because they're delivering your pizza? They're paying crazy amounts for insurance per month to deliver the pizza to your door, and for you to tip them sh!tty. Every driver starts out per day with $15 in their pocket. 70% of the drivers I cash out when they return from delivery, get almost nothing, and we have some fast drivers, not to mention that our delivery area is fairly large. These guys are working 6 hours a day, almost everyday of the week doing something they like, just to get tipped crappy by people like WayneTEK.
Let's shoot out an example. It's Friday evening. There's 5 drivers at your local Pizza Hut. You order, delivery time is 45 - 1 hour .., so the CSR says. You just placed an order at the same time 4 other people did. It takes 2-5 minutes to make a pizza, depending on how slow the cook is. (and assuming that your order just printed up and he snatched the ticket to make it) It also takes about 10 minutes for your pizza to cook fully. There's 20 pizzas, 5 orders of breadsticks, and 4 orders of hot wings in the oven. It takes about 2 minutes to cut a pizza (or box the wings or breadsticks) and match it up with the correct ticket so (god forbid!) they don't screw up your order. The delivery driver is cutting and matching orders between deliveries. You gotta multiply that 2 minutes x all those pizzas and orders in the oven, and then add about 3 minutes for the driver to get someone to dispatch the order (so when you call back, they check, and see that the order was dispatched and gone already) and THEN tack on another 15 minutes (if traffic is heavenly and you live closeby and not in the ghetto) for the driver to get to your house. Now you're pissed that your pizza looks good, tastes good, is hot, but the driver made you wait longer (because for some reason he has control over the entire restaurant, and is there to fulfill your every need and demand) and so now you're going to pay him for the pizza, not tip him, and then take your sweet time to call and complain to the restaurant, not ONLY tying up the phone lines, but consuming the manager's time by ranting about how you were abandoned in Wal-Mart as a kid, and it reflects how you act when someone makes you wait for too long. You want a credit for your next order.. and you think the driver is going to be fired???? Whoever it was that posted was right, when they said that all you were going to achieve after you hung up was a good laugh and maybe even a potential conversation starter.
Let's focus on those "complaints getting people fired".... oh boy! Someone calls - complains - omfg, my pizza was cold, it took an hour to get here, my pu$$y hurts, etc... the manager hops on the phone, pretends to feel sorry for you, and gives you a credit! Whoopdee doo! That pizza you just bought for $14.99, costs the company about $0.89. They give you a credit for $10.00 so next time you pay $4.99 - - - the company is still banking and it makes you happy. The driver gets filled in on what happened, and all is well. Like I mentioned above, all you were going to achieve after you hung up was a good laugh and maybe even a potential conversation starter. And MAYBE, just MAYBE, someone will update your address information in the computer and put to never deliver to you again, because you were a serious problem customer.. haha.. but that's only if you b!tched for over..... 5 minutes.
NOW - about not tipping a waitress.. whoever it was that said that about how.. if you don't tip her good the first time, next time she's not going to be at your every call.. that's hella true!!!!!
There are so many customers that come in, get the buffet for $5.49 and just leave a dollar because they're going by percentages, (and they admit it openly!), yet they get about 4 refills without asking (I am pretty quick), and mess up about 10 buffet plates (the jollier ones) and they expect me to be on top of everything on their next visit??? I think not!! And what's funny is that, it's almost as if everyone as a bit of a masochistic side to them. I've noticed that if I treat customers worse, I get a better tip. If they end up walking up to me asking me for a refill, they tip like $5.00! It's so strange! Whatever - doesn't bother me. I've got other means of financial resources. Then there are the people who tip wonderful, and don't expect anything, don't ask for anything, and are just all-around good people. These people are called "teenagers". Older folk think the one dollar bill is a masterpiece, and feel as if they are donating life when tipping $1.00 on WHATEVER. Their faces light up and they specifically hand the $1.00 bill to you themselves, and announce it and thank you generously. They are extremely overwhelmed with joy as they're walking out with their Nanny's and walking canes, while you're left in amazement. These things you gather on a Sunday morning. It's quite interesting.
My point with all this ranting: If you have it, spend it. Don't think some "pimple-face in a Geo Metro" joy rode over to your house with a pizza and doesn't need the good tip. Besides.. if he's in a Geo Metro... donate more.. he needs a new car!!!
BTW...
That's a damn good point.
*exhale*
I work at Pizza Hut. I don't deliver. I am a waitress at one, and a Customer Service Rep. at the other (yeah, I'm the one that takes your phone calls).
Pizza Hut charges exactly $1.00 for delivery whether it's an $8.00 order, or a $90.00 order. It's for the company. Whatever the f*** they do with that $1.00, I don't know. But I do know this. Delivery drivers go through so much BS to deliver a pizza, it's unbelievable. That website someone posted, (http://tipthepizzaguy.com/gothrough/), is exactly right! Did you know that a delivery drivers insurance goes up substantially because they're delivering your pizza? They're paying crazy amounts for insurance per month to deliver the pizza to your door, and for you to tip them sh!tty. Every driver starts out per day with $15 in their pocket. 70% of the drivers I cash out when they return from delivery, get almost nothing, and we have some fast drivers, not to mention that our delivery area is fairly large. These guys are working 6 hours a day, almost everyday of the week doing something they like, just to get tipped crappy by people like WayneTEK.
Let's shoot out an example. It's Friday evening. There's 5 drivers at your local Pizza Hut. You order, delivery time is 45 - 1 hour .., so the CSR says. You just placed an order at the same time 4 other people did. It takes 2-5 minutes to make a pizza, depending on how slow the cook is. (and assuming that your order just printed up and he snatched the ticket to make it) It also takes about 10 minutes for your pizza to cook fully. There's 20 pizzas, 5 orders of breadsticks, and 4 orders of hot wings in the oven. It takes about 2 minutes to cut a pizza (or box the wings or breadsticks) and match it up with the correct ticket so (god forbid!) they don't screw up your order. The delivery driver is cutting and matching orders between deliveries. You gotta multiply that 2 minutes x all those pizzas and orders in the oven, and then add about 3 minutes for the driver to get someone to dispatch the order (so when you call back, they check, and see that the order was dispatched and gone already) and THEN tack on another 15 minutes (if traffic is heavenly and you live closeby and not in the ghetto) for the driver to get to your house. Now you're pissed that your pizza looks good, tastes good, is hot, but the driver made you wait longer (because for some reason he has control over the entire restaurant, and is there to fulfill your every need and demand) and so now you're going to pay him for the pizza, not tip him, and then take your sweet time to call and complain to the restaurant, not ONLY tying up the phone lines, but consuming the manager's time by ranting about how you were abandoned in Wal-Mart as a kid, and it reflects how you act when someone makes you wait for too long. You want a credit for your next order.. and you think the driver is going to be fired???? Whoever it was that posted was right, when they said that all you were going to achieve after you hung up was a good laugh and maybe even a potential conversation starter.
Let's focus on those "complaints getting people fired".... oh boy! Someone calls - complains - omfg, my pizza was cold, it took an hour to get here, my pu$$y hurts, etc... the manager hops on the phone, pretends to feel sorry for you, and gives you a credit! Whoopdee doo! That pizza you just bought for $14.99, costs the company about $0.89. They give you a credit for $10.00 so next time you pay $4.99 - - - the company is still banking and it makes you happy. The driver gets filled in on what happened, and all is well. Like I mentioned above, all you were going to achieve after you hung up was a good laugh and maybe even a potential conversation starter. And MAYBE, just MAYBE, someone will update your address information in the computer and put to never deliver to you again, because you were a serious problem customer.. haha.. but that's only if you b!tched for over..... 5 minutes.
NOW - about not tipping a waitress.. whoever it was that said that about how.. if you don't tip her good the first time, next time she's not going to be at your every call.. that's hella true!!!!!
There are so many customers that come in, get the buffet for $5.49 and just leave a dollar because they're going by percentages, (and they admit it openly!), yet they get about 4 refills without asking (I am pretty quick), and mess up about 10 buffet plates (the jollier ones) and they expect me to be on top of everything on their next visit??? I think not!! And what's funny is that, it's almost as if everyone as a bit of a masochistic side to them. I've noticed that if I treat customers worse, I get a better tip. If they end up walking up to me asking me for a refill, they tip like $5.00! It's so strange! Whatever - doesn't bother me. I've got other means of financial resources. Then there are the people who tip wonderful, and don't expect anything, don't ask for anything, and are just all-around good people. These people are called "teenagers". Older folk think the one dollar bill is a masterpiece, and feel as if they are donating life when tipping $1.00 on WHATEVER. Their faces light up and they specifically hand the $1.00 bill to you themselves, and announce it and thank you generously. They are extremely overwhelmed with joy as they're walking out with their Nanny's and walking canes, while you're left in amazement. These things you gather on a Sunday morning. It's quite interesting.
My point with all this ranting: If you have it, spend it. Don't think some "pimple-face in a Geo Metro" joy rode over to your house with a pizza and doesn't need the good tip. Besides.. if he's in a Geo Metro... donate more.. he needs a new car!!!
BTW...
That's a damn good point.
*exhale*
alkemyst
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Also sort of the counterpoint to this. You get to the house with a ton of food....go and ring the bell and knock on the door......nothing.....ring ring ring......nothing....knock knock ring.....nothing. Five minutes later the guy comes to the door and says you should have used the door bell. Now he says give him a minute to find his wallet. (the ticket says to pay by cash)...he comes back and hands you a credit card....(most drivers cannot take the card, the restaurant has to process and run the card...if the restaurant even takes credit).
Now you have to get into an argument since he is pissed you can't just write down the numbers and go back to the restaurant.....You mention that the ticket said cash and he can call the restaurant, but the slip has to be signed (the manager used to sometimes drive back out to get a signature for regular customers). Then he starts questioning why do you need a signature, whenever he orders over the phone for items the mailman brings them and he doesn't have to sign anything....So now you are 15mins there trying to explain the restaurant needs a signature.
Now he says hold on, let me find my checkbook....again you say well I have to call the restaurant and see if a check is ok (tons of people write bad check after bad check....the restaurant never takes them again after the first, but some bad customers manage to get the weaker drivers to take them again and again).
Now the guy acts as if you are attacking his character...."DO I LOOK LIKE A CROOK?" "DO YOU THINK I NEED A $5 FOOD ITEM THAT BAD?" [meanwhile the order is $40, not $5],....he's pissed and says "LET ME JUST GIVE YOU CASH FOR THIS. MY FOOD IS COLD NOW!" 20 mins have gone by since you hit the door.
ok cool you think, that was the plan from the moment the order was made. Order is $40.09, he hands you two twenties and starts to walk away....now I was a more vocal driver and a good one there so I had more range with what I could say (the manager also was cool and had a policy: no tip = last service)
"Excuse me, sir, you gave me $40, the order was for $40.09."
"What? It's just 9 cents, can't you use petty change for it?"
"hmm we don't get petty change, I get $20 bank and the money from my orders...at the end of the night that 9cents I pay. The first problem I have doing that is you did not include a tip, and it's now been 20 mins I am standing here with a carload of food for others, that's going to now give the other customers a LEGITMATE reason to be upset with me."
"let me go find some change....."
Comes back with 9 cents
I mention it was a pleasure bringing you your last order from our restaurant....the manager puts a do not deliver flag on his name, phone number, and address.
I take the next 5 orders....4 go smooth, but 1 guy...another one that takes 5 mins to get to the door and immediately starts yelling profanities and insults, then wants to claim the delay ruined his life and cost him tens of thousands of dollars as his clients left that wanted food [yeah Joe Millionaire, here ordering the $10 minimum with a Pinto on blocks in the driveway...just lost the deal of a lifetime because his Chinese food is late]. I am now set off and mention "well with such a feast with 8oz of lo mein, 8oz of rice, a small wanton soup, and a can of coke, I think they went to get some champagne to celebrate your deal."
"A$$H)l3 I am calling the restaurant, I know your boss, we're pals, and I have connections there, I bring them a ton of business"
"
"ah man! your done, your last day starts now....hahaha...this order is free too!"
"whatever dude, I need at least $10 to hand over the 'feast', You can call your 'pal' and work it out with him, I hope your 'pal' doesn't put you on the 'no delivery list' though."
Originally posted by: rbloedow
Originally posted by: Broohaha
im in college. i'm allowed to give a dollar for delivery.
LAmest excuse ever. I'm in college too, but I'm no cheap ass.
When I was in college I'd give a dollar + whatever change rounded it out. Now I do standard 25% of the order.
alkemyst
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there were tons of yahoos on our routes....most of us were working just to do something with our cars and big bills covered by our parents, delivery gave us cash to hit the clubs and petty cash, also since it got our girlfriends out with us (typical highschool nonsense, parents thought nothing could happen if we were working ) it was cool....
There were the voyeurs who'd always be having sex as you walking up and answer the door in a towel (even the Domino's guys in the next plaza knew that house)....there was the cow guy who'd make you wait 15 mins and then tell you to fill the cow trough up with water on the way out and open the small gate in the pen and lock up the other gates around his house (other than the one you needed to enter and exit from)...he's always call the restaurant pissed we didn't lock all the gates or in my case any....he never tipped and always ordered about $50-75 in chinese food + he was slightly outside the area. Eventually he was boycotted by all the delivery places.
There was the Jesus Saves people that looked like a scene from Deliverance...complete with screen door that would fall off the hinges on you. We stopped delivering to them once they started trying to trade kittens and puppys for the food (how about you pay for the dinner and we give you this nice cat)...I had T tops and they kept sticking animals in my car, I had about 10 kitties and pups by the time I got to the edge of the property (this was in the Acreage, big lots but crappy land). I swear I was getting bit by fleas on the way home....
There was the cocaine brothers, two rich kids (about 20-25) in the Polo villas, always had drugs and two or more prostitutes?(could be girlfriends possibly always different chicks and always totally naked). They'd tip big time like match the order amount $30-40.
There was the 'mistress' some 18-21 yo chick married to some rich old guy who was never home, a big painting of them was in their foyer, we'd always ask if that's her dad and stupid crap...she'd be half naked (loose nitegown and robe) with a wine bottle and glass in hand.
There was the 'burn victim?', they'd have the money in an envelope with nice tip and slide it through the mail slot and say 'leave it on the mat, please go'. You'd just see the door crack and a hand reach out and grab the food. wierd.
man I am remembering alot of them....
There was the 'hobble house' two people with disfigured feet, they were nice but always had you put dishes away, take out the trash and open things for them....they tipped decent and went exactly ordering the best food, so noone gave them hell except one guy they didn't like for some reason. He eventually took their ramp to get out of their apartment (6" stoop) sort of cruel, but that was his deal.
) it was cool....There were the voyeurs who'd always be having sex as you walking up and answer the door in a towel (even the Domino's guys in the next plaza knew that house)....there was the cow guy who'd make you wait 15 mins and then tell you to fill the cow trough up with water on the way out and open the small gate in the pen and lock up the other gates around his house (other than the one you needed to enter and exit from)...he's always call the restaurant pissed we didn't lock all the gates or in my case any....he never tipped and always ordered about $50-75 in chinese food + he was slightly outside the area. Eventually he was boycotted by all the delivery places.
There was the Jesus Saves people that looked like a scene from Deliverance...complete with screen door that would fall off the hinges on you. We stopped delivering to them once they started trying to trade kittens and puppys for the food (how about you pay for the dinner and we give you this nice cat)...I had T tops and they kept sticking animals in my car, I had about 10 kitties and pups by the time I got to the edge of the property (this was in the Acreage, big lots but crappy land). I swear I was getting bit by fleas on the way home....
There was the cocaine brothers, two rich kids (about 20-25) in the Polo villas, always had drugs and two or more prostitutes?(could be girlfriends possibly always different chicks and always totally naked). They'd tip big time like match the order amount $30-40.
There was the 'mistress' some 18-21 yo chick married to some rich old guy who was never home, a big painting of them was in their foyer, we'd always ask if that's her dad and stupid crap...she'd be half naked (loose nitegown and robe) with a wine bottle and glass in hand.
There was the 'burn victim?', they'd have the money in an envelope with nice tip and slide it through the mail slot and say 'leave it on the mat, please go'. You'd just see the door crack and a hand reach out and grab the food. wierd.
man I am remembering alot of them....
There was the 'hobble house' two people with disfigured feet, they were nice but always had you put dishes away, take out the trash and open things for them....they tipped decent and went exactly ordering the best food, so noone gave them hell except one guy they didn't like for some reason. He eventually took their ramp to get out of their apartment (6" stoop) sort of cruel, but that was his deal.
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