I’m lazy. There, I admitted that first. I don’t wanna call and be put on hold with a pizza place for delivery so I just log online and order pizza from Papa John’s. They’ve got coupons there, add toppings for half or the whole pizza, soda pop, sauces etc. I can even pay for the whole thing and have the tip paid for online with a credit card (or something called a Papa’s card).
So here’s what surprised me. After I add all the items to my basket and go to check out, there’s a box to add a tip to be charged to my credit card. My pizza came to $12.83 and it had a “tip calculator for your convenience”
To me, these seem awfully low considering I thought that average was about $3-$4. (I know that there are pizza tipping threads out there already, but this practice is now being done by a major company).
15% is the standard tip, but since pizzas are so cheap, I generally round up and give them $3.00. If it’s really cold or raining, I’ll give them a fiver.
For a 12 dollar pizza, I think that those tips are accurate. However, I don’t think I’d tip on my credit card for the express reason that I wouldn’t know if my tip was going to my delivery guy or not.
You can pay for your pizza with a credit card online?
The online ordering for Papa John’s that I have only gives the option to pay with cash or check. Credit cards would be nice.
But I generally tip cash, even when I pay with a check, and I tip a minimum of $3 for one pizza. If the weather’s nasty or something like that, I’ll go up to about $5 for one pizza. That tip calculator may be accurate as far as percentages, but the actual amounts seem low for a delivery tip.
Same here. I’ve paid for an awful lot of things with a credit or debit card, but I always tip in cash. I’ve never done a service job where I got tipped, but I think that I would prefer immediate cash to a later transfer from a credit payment.
The tip does go to the delivery person. The way it worked when I was with Domino’s, and I’m sure the other pizza places have a similar system, is the driver holds on to all cash and credit slips for the orders they deliver until the end of the night–at my last store, we had locked individual drop boxes so as not to have to carry all of it around. At the end of your shift, you’d sit down with a manager and cash out; the store would take the total amount of the sales, minus your mileage, and you got to keep the rest.
I used to work at a Papa John’s and I can tell you that a buck or two is fine. Those drivers make a pretty penny every night. Yours isn’t the only pizza. Also, most drivers are actually ex-managers that switched because of the better pay and less work days (managers work seven days and drivers only five).
I never tip anyone less than a dollar. Above that, I tack on , for drivers, 15% beyond that if they drive any sort of distance, 10% if it’s only a few blocks.
So, your calculations are about right if the driver has to go more than a mile or so, but actually for me approaching the high side for a quickie delivery. (And I usually pick up my pizza, but order delivery when I am, ummmm, impaired.)
My brother delivered for Papa John’s for a few months years ago. This is in a middle class suburban area, with one rather upper middle enclave in the delivery area. There was one regular customer who ordered one small cheese pizza every week or two. They lived in the absolute farthest edge of the delivery area in the upper middle neighborhood. It took almost 30 minutes to drive there and back, and for the $5.99 pizza, they family had exact change and, you got it, no tip.
And, of course, that’s how they afford a luxury house, they don’t tip the pizza guy. Damn chiselers!
He told me most people would tip $3-5 for a standard 1 or 2 pizza order, more for larger orders.
I’ve always preferred to give the delivery guy cash instead of trying to put it on my card. That way, it goes to the guy I want it to. If he feels like putting it in tip share when he gets back, that’s his business.