My haircuts cost $25, and I write a check for $30. That’s 20%, and I hope it’s good enough. She always says thank you, but if I’m cheap I hope somebody will tell me. I don’t know where else I could go that I could find somebody who won’t always be pushing me to buy products I’m allergic to.
This. I always tip the pizza guy well. As a result, we get our pizza fast, first and with any extras they can figure out to include. It’s a bitch of a job. The least I can do is make that one delivery a bit more pleasant.
From earlier threads here, that delivery fee is NOT passed onto the drivers, or at least very little of it is. It was just a way for the delivery places to raise their prices without actually bumping up their list price. And as a number of you have mentioned, it probably leads to decreased tipping, so the drivers get screwed.
We usually try to tip on the order of 15% of the order, maybe more (we had a 32 dollar order the other day and gave the driver 5 dollars). Definitely more if the weather is especially nasty out.
Or we pick up and avoid the frapping delivery fee.
Just for the record, the Big Three national pizza chains pass along only a portion of the delivery charge to the driver- less than a dollar. The whole thing was originally basically a scam to avoid a price hike because of ingredient cost increases- came along well before $3-4 gas.
Figure the driver’s getting about 75 cents from the delivery charge and deduct that from what you’d normally tip.
FWIW, between 2001-2003 I averaged about 80 cents per pizza. Lots of $1s, lots of “keep the change”, which was usually 15 cents. I usually tip $2 plus whatever the change is, on top of whatever the guy gets from the delivery charge. Bit more if I get sodas and stuff. Lot more if I’m drunk!
Just don’t be the guy who ordered 18 pizzas for his Superbowl party, which were at his door within an hour (on Superbowl Sunday, that’s freakin’ amazing) and wrote me a check - for ten cents over the price.
So is it true that you don’t tip the hairdresser if they own the salon? Or do they still get tipped?
I hate tipping, just charge me what the service is worth and pay your people appropriately.
I’m getting annoyed with tip jars too. It seems like almost everywhere I go that has a counter now has a tip jar. I’m expecting to see tip jars at convenience stores and retail sales counters next. :rolleyes:
I was taught, and this was 35-40 years ago, that you do not tip the owner of a salon. This is because he/she is setting the prices and his/her employees wages, and therefore has more control over how much the salon (and therefore what he/she) makes.
I have my hair done by a women who owns her own salon and is the sole operator. I do not tip her each time she does my hair (color and cut), but I do give her a cash gift at Christmas that is a couple of bucks more than the cost of one usual visit.
I’m seriously thinking about printing up some business cards that say, “you aren’t supposed to be getting tipped,” and dropping them in inappropriate tip jars (like at fast food places).
I do quite often tip for services that are related to saleable goods/services, but aren’t required often enough for the business to bother charging.
For example, I used to run a sunglass store, where we’d replace lost screws or nosepads for no charge. Sometimes we’d get tipped, sometimes not; I used to joke that we were the only business anywhere on Disney property that offered anything for free.
Enough hair has fallen out that I’m working by memory. Usually I’ll round up to the nearest $5 - say from $13 to $15 or from $16 to $20. If the difference is say a buck, I’ll usually toss in at least one more for good measure. Assuming the cut was good. If it wasn’t I would usually take the change and not visit that place again.
For delivery food I am a little generous. Around our area we have had drivers robbed, beaten and killed so I figure its almost like combat pay. Plus in addition to doing part of the job of a waitress, the driver is saving me the use of my own car. 20% to 30% as a rule and maybe a bit more if its a regular who gives especially good service.
In either case, if I make a special request or the person does something special, all bets are off. When my Dad passed away, I ran past my usual barber for a fast “make the hair and beard neater”. His usual charge for this was $5 but he got $20 and my loyalty until he retired. I once had some pizzas and hoagies delivered to a park slightly outside the delivery area; total came to about $40 and some change. I had set it up with the shop in advance and paid so they knew it was legit - and the driver got $20 for his end of the job once he had finished it.
I always tip my hairdresser well. When I go in for the works it can be 100+ (cut/color/brow waxing) and this person has put a lot of time into me. I don’t always go to the same person as I think stylists can get into ruts, but I always tip at least 25% - more often 30%. My hairdresser makes me look good, and I feel they deserve it!
For delivery, I’ll usually tip at least $3 ($2 if the order is **very **small), and usually closer to something in the 15% range. The worse the weather is and the faster the delivery, the bigger the tip. Delivery charge has no bearing on the tip. The delivery people I’ve gotten to know by sight (and vice versa) always seem quite happy to see me, so I’m guessing they’re happy with the tips.
I’ll generally tip about $5 on a $30-35 haircut. A few months back, when I had my hair cut and put in an updo as part of a wedding party (and they were able to squeeze me in for the cut pretty last-minute), I tipped over 20%, because the stylist did an amazing job.
ETA: FWIW, 20% tends to be my baseline restaurant tip, rounded up. A waitperson has to be pretty bad to get me to drop to 15%, abyssmal for 10%, and unspeakable to get nothing. (IIRC, I’ve tipped zero exactly once, at a bar.)
Your neighbor is mistaken. It’s very rare that all of that charge goes to the delivery driver.
I frequently pay for delivery from a couple of restaurants that are relatively close to me. For me, it’s worth the extra money because I can keep doing what I was doing. Delivery: maybe a collective ten minutes spent ordering and then buzzing the person in and paying them. Get it myself: 30-60 minutes to call in an order, walk to the restaurant, wait for my food, pay for my food, and walk back home.
This is my understanding of etiquette, yes.
Hell, even my lawyer has a tip jar these days!
That’s a reasonable assumption unless you generally answer the door in the buff, in which case they’re still happy with the tip, as it were.
There used to be fistfights in my store over who got to deliver to 1411 Broadway Avenue*, because the customer was a rather attractive twentysomething who invariably answered the door topless, and was quite often wearing even less.
That’s not a tip jar. It’s formaldehyde for storing body parts.
*Address changed to protect the innocent. And the guilty.
“I have the heart of a small child. … I keep in in a jar on my desk.”
Sounds like you live in a city, which I said doesn’t apply to what I was saying.
Ah, I thought you were specifically excluding someone in a city who didn’t drive and had restaurants farther away. Whereas I’m someone in a city who doesn’t drive, but has restaurants <1 mile away.
I mentioned Idle Thoughts’ particular situation because I know him, but I said that my thoughts on the matter apply to the suburbs. And after all, they’re only my thoughts.
Or **are **they?! ominous cello music swells