What’s with people who don’t tip?
They’re really Weebles?
This should end well.
Sorry, tried to put this in the original post, but my editing time limit expired:
I’m delivering pizza now, and I wonder what compels people to not tip the delivery guy? I had one guy who did not tip on a $30 delivery. Another person gave me a $0.05 tip, which is more insulting than no tip at all. I always deliver on time, and with a smile, so there is no justification for this. Some people tip very well. Last night I got $7 on a $21 delivery.
As far as what is appropriate, I think that $2-3 is appropriate in most circumstances. If the order is less than $15, then $1-2 is fine.
Why be like this guy?
I am guessing you won’t be changing your user name anytime soon then. Then, before I actually worked in a restaurant, I thought that waitresses shared tips with the staff that prepared the food and bussed their tables.
Some people note that there is a delivery charge, and believe that some of that goes to the driver. My brother-in-law is one such, I’ve had to argue with him and finally actually called the pizza restaurant to ask the manager.
Also, in some countries, there is no tipping. So, for instance, a newly arrived Japanese family might not be aware of U.S. tipping practices.
Then, some folks are just jerks and jackasses.
Been there, had that done to me. Drove cab, waited table, a lot of people really bite it yadda blah, yadda blah. Of the people I know who have such a shared experience, none would fail to tip, if I can’t afford to tip, I can’t afford the service, shouldn’t be there in the first place.
Consider 15% standard, that way, when I tip 20% I feel generous. If I thought 20% was the standard, I wouldn’t get the juice.
If it ever ends. I predict many pages.
On preview: WRT pizza delivery, especially if there’s any kind of delivery charge and even if there isn’t, I don’t think most people have any idea what they should tip, if at all. It’s not an established custom. I don’t tip the mailman, or the UPS or Fedex humans.
I would tip the pizza dude of course, but that’s because I’ve worked food service jobs. Not everyone has.
When I cooked in a pizza place, the waiters and waitresses did share tips with the back-staff. Very nice.
As to why don’t people tip delivery guys, I think there are a few reasons:
- There may be a delivery charge, so they don’t feel the need to tip. I don’t agree with this mentality.
- They have just enough money for the pizza, so don’t tip.
- They are cheap bastards, and since you aren’t going to be hanging around, they don’t feel bad stiffing you.
I don’t know, but if the thread title is ever a “Wheel of Fortune” clue, I know what I’m not guessing.
I assume the same, but your solution is a good one. Gabe, is there a delivery charge? 
Oh good, a fresh topic. :dubious:
I thinks a lot of kids order pizzas as one of the first cool things they can do with their money. This is often when the parents aren’t home or supervising. I know when I saw my kid order a pizza and pay for it, I had to educate him that a tip was also required.
If my pizza takes more than 30 minutes to arrive, you get NOTHING (and you’ll like it).
If it’s cold you’ll get a right tongue-lashing.
As a former delivery driver, I must protest this one, if you’re serious. I don’t think any pizza place (at least none of the major chains) is providing a 30-minute guarantee anymore (after some high-profile car accidents happened, IIRC), and I use to frequently curse Domino’s name for ever having come up with the concept. I worked for a rival company that didn’t have a 30-minute guarantee per se, but the notion was so ingrained in people’s minds, thanks to Domino’s, that we had to give a couple of dollars off now and then to placate the occasional dickhead who’d be standing at the door pointing at his stopwatch displaying 31:14.
I fully agree it should never be cold, but IMO anything under an hour is a perfectly reasonable delivery time. Stiffing the driver at 30+ minutes is especially poor form. I probably wouldn’t have actually wiped my sweaty ass-crack with the underside of one of your slices the next time I had a delivery to your house, but I sure would’ve fantasized vividly about it.
Not for the local area. If the customer lives in one of the outlying towns there is a $2 charge. There is also a $1 charge for deliveries to the local military base (about 20-30% of our orders) because these take longer given the necessity to go through security and have the vehicle searched each trip.
Yes, we’ll pull the pizza out of the Magic Box which prepares them.
Pizzas take around 10 minutes to cook, a few minutes to prepare. I also do not own a Star Trek transporter, so I actually have to drive to your house, deal with traffic, stop signs, bad roads, etc. Someone who places a complicated order (many toppings, side orders, etc) on a night when there actually might be other customers (we might actually be busy!) should expect it to take 40 minutes to an hour.
But the pizza is NEVER cold. We’ve got those insulated carriers, like most pizza places. The other place I used to deliver for even had heated ones that plugged into the cigarette lighter.
$7 for a $21 order seems more than reasonable to me.
I always tip extra if the guy comes out in the rain or arrives especially fast. I view it as my duty to encourage reckless driving in poor weather.
The need to tip a cab driver always baffled me (I tip otherwise).
If you’re a metered cab, you’re getting the going rate is set by the taxi commission in your city. The meters are even set to take account of slow/stalled/stopped traffic.
Unless you’ve helped me load and/or unload my bags or waited for me to do something (for which the meter can be kept running, but I’ll tip), why do I need to tip you?
All you’ve done is hit you brake, waited for me to get in, accelerated, braked, and maybe turned a few corners, eventually braked and waited for me to get out. This is your job.
Unlike a waiter, etc. who can make your experience with them a little better or worse by their service, and would deserve a tip for doing so.
What, I’m gonna tip you 'cause you showered and used deodorant that day,* didn’t play Tasmania throat-singing at full volume and didn’t take me from Manhattan to Brooklyn by way of Kansas?
- A common problem in New York; maybe I should tip for that.
My delivery guys get very little from our customers. They delivery solid-wood furniture that can be very heavy, and still get only a penance from people.
The company charges for delivery, obviously. We charge a VERY reasonable rate for in-town delivery. You can have an entire bedroom suite delivered, upstairs, set-up, in the location you want, for $25. Can’t beat that! There is no reason not to tip the boys who carried that 200 lbs maple mule chest up your stairs and into your bedroom - and then moved it 6 inches to the right when you mentioned you wanted it centered under the window.
Generally, the rule is people will either give you $20 or nothing. An exception was the customer who gave them both $100. But, then again, they had just delivered an entire household worth of furniture. (If you must know, in total $32,000 in wood furniture.)
My idea of tipping for pizza is rounding up the bill. If it comes to $21, the driver gets lucky and makes $4. If the bills comes to $19, sorry bud but you’re only getting $1. Win some lose some.
I think this is a big part of it right here. Just about everybody knows that if you go to eat in a restaurant, it’s standard to leave a tip of 15-20% of the bill. It’s far less widely known that if you order pizza, it’s standard to tip the delivery person, or how much.
What is the standard tip for pizza delivery? If most of the people reading this thread post the same answer, I’ll retract my statement.