I rarely eat out, but very occasionally get a home delivery of either pizza or Asian food. All good, I pre-pay on a card, the food arrives…
BUT then I feel guilty for not tipping the delivery bloke at least a couple of dollars.
I just never have cash in my wallet, not even a dollar. And I never know on which particular night I might want to order a home delivery (last one was over two months ago) so can’t really plan ahead to have some pingas on hand.
Are delivery folks getting ‘short changed’ by the move towards a cashless society? I know mine are, but is this a common theme?
Having an owner or manager confiscate tips is so patently illegal that the punishment is quite severe. So it is generally safe to assume that tips go to the targeted employee.
This assumes that employees know their rights of course!
I live in Aus where tipping is not exactly the norm, but if you are going to tip, it will be for the driver rather than any other employee. I’d expect that tips added to the total bill will never see the pocket of the driver.
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We also live in Aus, and never tip the delivery driver. Here in Aus, there aren’t any workers whose income comes largely from tips; all make some reasonable wage, consistent with any other low-level employment like shop clerk or something.* And coming from the tip-slave economy, I don’t want tipping to become a thing in Australia. When ordering pizza online, there isn’t even a place to put a tip.
The ones I feel bad for are the street musicians; I never have any cash to drop in their hat! I imagine at some point they’ll all be carrying card readers…
It’s blatantly illegal not to pay your employees for the work you do but a few years ago I had to drag a (former) employer to court to get my wages. Illegal does not mean impossible.
But yeah, most places do pass tips onto the employee. Unless it’s a place that has a policy of pooling all tips and sharing them among the employees.
As noted, card payers have a means of providing a tip to a worker.
Anything that forces the price to fully reflect the product and services and ensures the worker gets the full wage is OK by me. If a lack of cash gets us there then so much the better.
I hate tipping, tell me what it costs and I’ll choose to pay or not.
Is it really that difficult to keep some fives and ones in your wallet or in a drawer at home?
Recently I overheard employees discussing tipping. Three of them had split a pizza they’d had delivered to work. Whoever did the “planning” had split the price in thirds and collected cash, never figuring in a tip.
I was pissed off and let them know it. I drove to the pizza place and waited for the driver to return from a run. I explained that I thought my employees had fucked him over and didn’t want him lumping me in with them. I gave him some cash.
I don’t carry cash usually, but if I’m going to actually have someone deliver a pizza to my place, I’m going to make sure he gets paid for it. I’m not a fan of tipping, and I don’t necessarily make it a point to tip at Subway or Starbucks, but it’s understood that delivery drivers make their money through tips.
Actually, if you don’t ever use cash, isn’t it really kind of a hassle to get your hands on some fives or ones? They enter circulation pretty much exclusively as change, so if you don’t ever get change… Not that it’s impossible, just an annoying hassle.
