If you are gonna bitch the numbers may be off because some costs are not included, then you have to play by those rules.
They often don’t issue free uniforms. Yes, drivers do it cut early, but there is far less downtime given that most places only delivery during busy hours.
It’s higher because there are no high-end pizza delivery man jobs to speak of. There are plenty of places where the average restaurant bill is over $50. How many people get even $40 of pizza delivered? Do you know any career pizza delivery men who do that by choice? Besides, even if we discount median delivery person salaries by 15% as our friend did, we are talking about a difference of 3500/year (and much of that difference can be deducted from one's taxes at IIRC .51/mile). That’s $3500/year even though the median for servers skews higher since they take into account people who work at Alinea and The French Laundry. I would bet the real net difference between pizza delivery people, and servers who work at restaurants with similar bill totals is fairly negligible.
No, I have never waited tables. Maybe it is a bad comparison
All I’m saying is the customer should expect to pay for the price of the trip as well as a tip. As you have pointed out, the average sedan gets .60 cents to the mile. Lets say you travel 10 miles round trip. That’s $6 in gas.
So you get a $15 pizza and only tip 15% giving you a grand total of $17.25. The driver gets 2.25 but you take away the 6 and add the minimum wage and the driver only makes $3.5 an hour. You save $6 and the driver makes three but I’m the one being absurd here. Luckily, drivers typically go out with 2 or 3 orders and customers tip more than 15%, otherwise no one would do it.
It is. I don’t say that to be an asshole because you generally seem like a reasonable guy, but the jobs aren’t really any more comparable than a plethora of other service jobs.
No, the 60 cents is for the overall costs of car ownership per mile. That includes wear and tear, insurance, gas, etc. Miles per gallon for the average new car is about 25mpg. Gas is about $3.70 nationally. So gas to drive 10 miles costs roughly $1.50. Plus, any pizza place that allows drivers to clock 10 miles per delivery is woefully inefficient. Most of the time, the driver will make several stops on one outing.
As I said before, you don’t take away the $6 (even though it almost never that much). First, as you noted, most single deliveries are not 10 miles. Second, the pizza place usually reimburses drivers per delivery to offset fuel and other costs. Third, the mileage on one’s car is tax deductible at 55.5 cents per mile, or you can deduct your actual expenses up to a point. The bottom line is that pizza delivery people are not getting hosed because people are not tipping them based on what it would otherwise cost them to pick up their food. I think most service jobs suck on some level, but there is no reason to think pizza delivery guys are anywhere near the bottom of that heap. Certainly not if they think a $5 tip on a $15 bill is cheap or insufficient.
Americans are so cheap..:rolleyes: . Why do you think we have € 500 notes over here, if not to tip the pizza guy (also, of course, we let him keep the pizza).
If you’re a pizza guy itemizing deductions, you better include those tips. Which is why I’ve never known a pizza guy to itemize deductions, although it has been a while since I was in the business.
I use a Tracfone and if you hit the talk button it brings up your previous dials. Your most recent dial is therefore one talk button away from being re-dialed.
I have to call about 20% of my customers for one reason or another- they gave the wrong address, we’re out of an item they wanted, they didn’t leave a gate code, they didn’t answer the door when I knocked and rang the door bell, etc.
It’s more than good. You’re in the 95th percentile of tippers there.
That’s quite generous, and yes we do.
In response to the OP’s racist rant guy:
Racist rant butt dial deserves to get fired, yessir. Nobody should have to have such messages left on their machine at home, or even have to listen to them at all since they’re a paying customer. Yes, even if they didn’t tip. They’re assholes, but using the N-word is not necessary.
I didn’t hear the recording. I am not aware of anyone who would ever complain about a 5 dollar tip, even for large orders.
If he is complaining about a five dollar tip in addition to being a well-known racist ass, he’s gonna have fun begging Burger King for a job. Then he can work a fryer next to Jamal, earning even less per hour than he was. That will be a fun and rehabilitating experience for him, and make him appreciate what he once had.