Comments on: Tipping Turbulence – How Much for Pizza Delivery?

By: Kimberly Brooke

Kimberly Brooke — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:04:20 +0000

@Chris Robert, Added note: CASH TIPS ARE PREFERRED. WHY? BECAUSE THEY GO STRAIGHT TO THE DRIVER. TIPS ON A CARD GET 5% TAKEN AWAY TO THE COMPANY THAT THE CARD GOES THROUGH AND AN ADDITIONAL AVERAGE OF 20% IS TAKEN AWAY AND GIVEN TO BUMS ON WELFARE WHO POP OUT BABIES EVERY YEAR SO THEY CAN STAY ON MEDICAID AND SELL THEIR FOOD STAMPS SO THEY CAN BUY DRUGS WHEN THEY SHOULD REALLY BE USING THE "STOLEN MONEY" TO BUY DIAPER FOR THEIR BABIES AND STOP FEEDING THEM MCDONALDS.

By: Kimberly Brooke

Kimberly Brooke — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:01:14 +0000

@Chris Robert, And seriously, the delivery guy drives their own car. It's insanely rude and verrrrrry inconsiderate and ignorant to not tip at all let alone less than 15%.

By: Kimberly Brooke

Kimberly Brooke — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:57:31 +0000

You foreigners are too damn stingy and have no consideration.

By: Kimberly Brooke

Kimberly Brooke — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:55:33 +0000

@Chris Robert, Most workers who get tips, work for tips. It’s annoying hoe foreign people don’t tip. No, its not only annoying, its RUDE. EXTREMELY RUDE. I don’t buy the whole “I’m forgein I don’t know any better shit.” In America, we appreciate our service. If you have bad service: 10% tip. If you have average service: 15% tip. If you have better service: 20% tip.
Personally, I usually do not tip less than 20%. Keep in mind that most of the workers that we tip WORK FOR TIPS. They get paid way less than minimum wage hourly. As for delivery guys? I don’t know how they get paid but I still feel guilty if I tip less than 15% anywhere – no matter what the service.

By: Chris Robert

Chris Robert — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:09:34 +0000

I hand them a couple condoms and tell them their good to go.
There is to much of this “tipping business” here in the US.
A tip should be for “above & beyond” normal service…not an expected
part of their income.

By: Sam Ives

Sam Ives — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 17:58:02 +0000

Being a delivery driver, I can relate to a lot of things people said. With me if you would of given me $5 bucks for a 50 dollar order, would of smiled and said thank you and would of been cool with it. To add to what your asking

Oil Changes 30 bucks a pop once a month, new tires each year at 300 bucks a pop. Usually about 20 bucks in gas a night, it all adds up. Our pizza place charges $3.50 a delivery, and we get 1.50, which at the end of the night is barely enough to cover the gas.

By: Andrew Wallace

Andrew Wallace — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 23:40:18 +0000

yes a waitress may do more work and have more social time with the customer than a pizza driver……. but think about it, Pizza drivers deserve a higher tip than a waitress, if anything. A pizza driver drives their own car, not the companys, which means you rack miles up on your car and will have to get a new car much sooner….. I bought an ’04 chevy aveo in ’05, and in ’06 I had over 100,000 miles on it. Not only that, what about gas prices? The pizza driver has to fill his own tank of gas. Most of the delivery fee, doesnt go to the driver. Out of the 5 pizza delivery jobs ive had, the highest i got for deliveries was $1, and thats when gas prices had rocketed.

By: fine

fine — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:47:44 +0000

I was just surfing this topic to see if I tip enough. I tip about 20%…more if that’s what it takes to round it up to $20 or $35 or whatever.

When I order pizza during a snow event or the tail end of a hurricane, I usually add $5 above the tip.

By: enne

enne — Fri, 28 May 2010 06:54:28 +0000

First off, that “delivery charge” is a scam, the establishment gets a dollar or more…for what? They didn’t deliver the pizza, they didn’t have to put gas in the car, they didn’t do anything and they make that dollar each time there is a delivery, people think it goes to the delivery guy — but it doesn’t.

Secondly, for just about any order you have to to tip at least two dollars, for any order, seriously. Realistically two is upkeep and three involves a tip (of a dollar). Many people don’t tip at all, almost half I would say, (the change of a dollar is not a tip). The amount of stress your car goes through requires extra maintenance and gas of course. Waiters have to drive to and from their work once a night.

Thirdly, delivery guys are not “doing just fine”, 20 dollars an hour? Not in any type of urban area. 8 – 9 dollars, maybe. And again, upkeep.

On another note I would never hassle anyone for not tipping or tipping very small. I still say thank you. However I do think if you can’t tip maybe you shouldn’t be ordering an expensive pizza in the first place.

By: Sara

Sara — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:34:38 +0000

When I was a kid and my parents ordered pizza, they tipped the driver $1 or $2, and if there was a delivery charge, they would consider that to be part of the tip. It’s weird, because they are actually very generous tippers at restaurants, but apparently they were cheap with pizza delivery!

I actually avoid getting food delivered because I don’t know how much I’m suppose to tip. If I’m getting pizza, I will just go and pick it up rather than try to guess about the tip. I wish they could just decide how much delivery should cost and charge that instead of expecting tips.