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Author Topic: do you tip pizza delivery guys? Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-12-2010 04:17 PM                     Subject speaks for itself.  |  IP: Logged Mark Lensenmayer Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1605 From: Upper Arlington, OH Registered: Sep 1999 posted 08-12-2010 04:23 PM                     Yes.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 08-12-2010 04:31 PM                  $20 *IF* he's cute! Hubba Hubba! (God! I'm soooo shallow! HA!)  |  IP: Logged David E. Nedrow Master Film Handler Posts: 368 From: Columbus, OH, USA Registered: Oct 2008 posted 08-12-2010 04:42 PM                        In the context of home delivery? Or delivery to a theatre? I always tip with home delivery... assuming the pizza arrives whole and hot, and seemingly without additions. We've worked with a couple of pizza places, one of whom has a no tip policy specifically because they have a delivery charge that they basically hand to the driver. The current place we're working with is great and I tip the drivers because I want them to get the pizza to us within 20 minutes of the order being placed. -David  |  IP: Logged Sean McKinnon Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1712 From: Peabody Massachusetts Registered: Sep 2000 posted 08-12-2010 06:33 PM                        Just so everyone knows... typically a pizza delivery driver uses their own vehicle, insurance, and fuel. They typically make minimum wage to cover their labor and may or not get paid a small stipend per delivery (a dollar or so) to help defray their fuel and wear and tear. Without earning tips the delivery person would actually lose money by using their own gas, and paying for wear and tear on their car and for their auto insurance. Earning tips makes it worth it for the driver so that they can take home their minimum wage without having to spend it just to work.  |  IP: Logged David Stambaugh Film God Posts: 4021 From: Eugene, Oregon Registered: Jan 2002 posted 08-12-2010 08:20 PM                        Yes.  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 08-12-2010 08:51 PM                    Yep.  |  IP: Logged Richard Hamilton Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1341 From: Evansville, Indiana Registered: Jan 2000 posted 08-13-2010 12:13 PM                     Interesting artical I just found. pizza By the way, my 2 dominos pizzas which are advertised as $5.99 each cost me almost $20 bucks after delivery charge and tip.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-13-2010 12:58 PM                     Sounds to me like the Teamsters should organize pizza delivery drivers They are clearly being abused. Steve  |  IP: Logged Louis Bornwasser Film God Posts: 4441 From: prospect ky usa Registered: Mar 2005 posted 08-13-2010 01:00 PM                        I'll tip a $5 MINIMUM. Louis  |  IP: Logged Todd McCracken Master Film Handler Posts: 263 From: Northridge, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 08-13-2010 01:37 PM                    Yes, however the amount depends upon the included delivery charge. In LA its getting kinda stupid, pizza+ 5$ delivery charge+tip. No delivery charge very nice tip, delivery charge reduces that option.  |  IP: Logged Bill Enos Film God Posts: 2081 From: Richmond, Virginia, USA Registered: Apr 2000 posted 08-13-2010 02:15 PM                     At the theatre the minimum tip is $5.00, I never order at home.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 08-13-2010 04:25 PM                     Yes. I always tip.  |  IP: Logged Chad Souder Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 962 From: Waterloo, IA, USA Registered: Feb 2000 posted 08-13-2010 04:29 PM                     I adjust my pizza delivery tip based on attitude and weather. If they earn it, why not?  |  IP: Logged Frank Angel Film God Posts: 5305 From: Brooklyn NY USA Registered: Dec 1999 posted 08-13-2010 05:54 PM                        Yes I do, but in principle, I am vehemently against tipping the way it has evolved today. Tips were intended to acknowledge particularly good, personal service, not an automatic number that is both expected and in many places even MANDATORY; it is a perversion of the original intent of our Founding Fathers. What automatic tips at automatic percentages of the bill do is, they reward the employer for being a cheap unethical bastard for not paying his employees a decent living wage. And how does he get away with it? He doesn't have to pay that decent wage because TIPS are built into the system; he knows WE will subsidize his workers salaries. The expected 15% is not graded to the quality of service, but simply a fixed, presumed amount that will, if the worker is lucky, be added to his take home pay. Make the damn employer give them a 15% pay salary increase and be done with it and I will tip the person giving me service commensurate with how exceptional or mediocre I feel that service has been, or not at all -- my choice. And not meaning to criticize delivery or waitering workers, but maybe they SHOULD get a little proactive and speak up for themselves and yes, unionize; demand a decent wage. We should all write on the checks when we add the tip, "Mr. Cheapskate Employer -- pay your workers a decent wage so they don't have to rely on the kindness of strangers to support themselves." My JoAnne says I am insane.  |  IP: Logged

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