How much to tip the pizza delivery guy?

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Jennifer_J said:
I guess I don’t have trouble tipping well…after all, 1. I called in the order I wanted 2. they had all the ingredients, assembled and baked the pizza and then 3. got in the car and BROUGHT it to my house! I didn’t have to do anything to make food appear (well except clear the table off 😃 )! HURRAY! So I give 15-30% depending on the service (which I don’t think I’ve ever had a bad delivery person!) and how much cash I have.
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Different strokes for different folks:shrug:🙂
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First off, I don’t have a problem with tipping nor am I “cheap”. I just don’t understand why anyone would pay 15-30% extra for something they are already paying for.

I understand tipping a delivery person because they have to be out in bad weather, get paid low wages etc…but just because the food appeared at my door which is what I paid for in the first place? Confuses me, lol.

Kind of like being in the grocery store and deciding between buying ingredients for a cake or buying one already made from the bakery… I’m not going to tip the bakery staff because they already did the work for me:p:D**
 
Feanaro_s_Wife said:
Different strokes for different folks:shrug:🙂
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First off, I don’t have a problem with tipping nor am I “cheap”. I just don’t understand why anyone would pay 15-30% extra for something they are already paying for.

I understand tipping a delivery person because they have to be out in bad weather, get paid low wages etc…but just because the food appeared at my door which is what I paid for in the first place? Confuses me, lol.

Kind of like being in the grocery store and deciding between buying ingredients for a cake or buying one already made from the bakery… I’m not going to tip the bakery staff because they already did the work for me:p:D**
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I tip well because I didn’t have to drag my sorry self out with 6 children in tow, to either buy ingredients to make pizza or to buy it from a restaurant (or EAT it at the restaurant :eek: lol). Those days I resort to ordering pizza, it’s such a relief, that I’m willing to pay for it 😛

I’m paying for the person to bring it to me, with their own car, and their own gas. They get paid a tuppence to do it, and I’m grateful for the service they provide me. The tip goes to them only, not to the pizza place. I’m paying for them to deliver it. Just like at a restaruant, I’m expected to tip for the service of the waitress, who brings me things and helps me out. I pay for the food AND the service–assuming both are good 😉 .

At the grocery, you DO pay extra for them to make and decorate it. Making a cake from scratch is MUCH cheaper. You often pay hidden costs for the baggers and “extras” at grocery stores. You just don’t see it because they add it on to the price of groceries. Why do you think places like Aldi’s can be cheap? They don’t offer extras (cash only, using coins to “borrow” carts, no frills, and the like). I’m willing to pay for service that is above and beyond. The pizza place could only offer pick up service and not delivery. Some days, it’s just worth it to me…
 
BlestOne said:
I don’t tip the pizza guy… I call up and order… then go pick up. I stop along the way for a soda if I am out at home. Generally, I have dh call when we are on the way home and we pick it up on the way home…am I cheap or what???
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We don’t have pizza delivery out here in the country but there is a pizza place, by the interstate, about 8 minutes from my house.

I order, drive there, and pick it up at their drive through window.

I hardly ever do that since pizza has gotten soooo expensive. I love pizza but it has become a rare treat for us since there are 6 of us now eating pizza.
 
We live in a small town. There is a restaurant that has specials on pizzas on certain days of the week. My DH and I always get the special on Wednesday nights. A large pizza with delivery is only $10! When we lived in the city we paid a lot more just for the pizza.
 
I live in the States and REFUSE to tip. it is NOT my job to pay employees for their work. That is the job of the employer!
 
perfectpeach said:
I live in the States and REFUSE to tip. it is NOT my job to pay employees for their work. That is the job of the employer!
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I’m sure your servers just LOVE you :rolleyes: In the service industry the employer pays part of their salary through what you pay them (they have to pay rent on the building, insurance, salary, food supplies, up keep, etc). Most employers in the service industries, expect their servers to be good enough to earn the other part of their salary. Because of the nature of the industry (direct SERVICE), that’s how it’s done. Good service should equal a decent “tip”, ie the rest of what you owe if the service was good. By not tipping you hurt the SERVER and NOT the employer. The employer has NO IDEA. You are short changing those serving you while the business is getting the benefit of you spending money there (for the food, etc.) Please think of another form of protest, because what you are doing is not right…
 
Here’s what I don’t get. Why do we only really tip people when it deals with food?

There are lots of jobs people do that are a service to us, but I don’t tip them, even if I know their job pays measly. I don’t tip the employee of my plumber because he came out Thanksgiving night on an emergency call to fix my leak. I don’t tip the lab tech who draws my blood every month and makes sure to do a super quick and painless job. I don’t tip my trash pickup guy for taking an extra bag. I don’t tip my hotel maid for changing my sheets and bringing me extra towels. So why is it that I am expected to tip “food” people? (I’ve never been to a fancy hotel where I had to tip the bellhop so I’m not including that).

I do tip well if the people deserve it, that’s certain. But I have left nothing at times when my waiter or waitress was just, well, plain awful.

But I’m with perfectpeach on this - I don’t understand the “why”. Why am I expected to pay someone in the food industrty more money for doing the job they should already be getting paid for? What happened that it became standard among employers to underpay waiters and expect patrons already paying for the food to pay for the service as well?
 
I tip on the cost of the pizza only, not the delivery fee. Usually it is 15% to 20%. I figure the delivery person is a student or is working a 2nd job to make extra money, so I try to be nice.

We have only had poor service from a pizza delivery person once. My husband and I were going out, so I ordered pizza for my daughters and let a check with them. I totaled the amount and wrote “$5.00 tip” on the memo line, indicating that $5.00 of the check was for the tip. The delivery guy accused my daughters of stealing his $5.00!! They called me all upset, so we called the pizza place and told them what had happened. The guy called and apologized, but it was a long time before we ordered pizza from them again.
 
sanctareparata said:
Here’s what I don’t get. Why do we only really tip people when it deals with food?

There are lots of jobs people do that are a service to us, but I don’t tip them, even if I know their job pays measly. I don’t tip the employee of my plumber because he came out Thanksgiving night on an emergency call to fix my leak. I don’t tip the lab tech who draws my blood every month and makes sure to do a super quick and painless job. I don’t tip my trash pickup guy for taking an extra bag. I don’t tip my hotel maid for changing my sheets and bringing me extra towels. So why is it that I am expected to tip “food” people? (I’ve never been to a fancy hotel where I had to tip the bellhop so I’m not including that).

I do tip well if the people deserve it, that’s certain. But I have left nothing at times when my waiter or waitress was just, well, plain awful.

But I’m with perfectpeach on this - I don’t understand the “why”. Why am I expected to pay someone in the food industrty more money for doing the job they should already be getting paid for? What happened that it became standard among employers to underpay waiters and expect patrons already paying for the food to pay for the service as well?
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Tipping is mostly custom from what I can gather. It also depends on where you live.
I tip for haircuts, if they are good, esp if they are cutting my kids hair (can you say wiggly? and SIX of them;) ). I tip for restaruants and delivery people, when it seems appropriate. I tip at the airport, for the skycap guys who take care of our luggage (we only use that when the whole family is traveling :eek: ). My current hair stylist (for me) doesn’t allow tipping, it’s all figured in. Our grocery delivery service doesn’t allow tipping either, it’s part of the fee already charged. Some of my tipping is to get good service in the future and some is because I know how cr*ppy their job is and want to reward good service. I, too, wish they would just charge a flat rate (like some restaurants do for large groups) but what do you do if you get lousy service? It’s difficult to get your money back. 🤷
 
I’d always heard it’s appropriate to tip for any service provided – hair, nails, wait staff, et cetera – UNLESS the person is the owner. I do not tip my hair stylist because he’s the owner of the salon. I tip the lady that gives me a pedicure because she does not. If in doubt, I tip. Though I will admit to wanting to know how the tipping for an actual service got started – not talking about wait staff – but you’re paying for a manicure/pedicure, et cetera. When did it become custom to tip someone for doing the service they’re actually providing.

Interesting thread.
 
Just_wondering said:
So what do you tip the pizza guy in Canada? While I was in college I was so broke that I had never ordered pizza for myself, and while I was growing up we lived so far out in the country that pizza places wouldn’t deliver.
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For sit down service, I normally give about 15%, or $5.00 even, depending on which of them results in the least amount of pennies in my change. For delivery, I normally give the change plus two dollars, or else round it up to the nearest five, whichever comes closest to a three dollar tip.

I’ve never tipped 20% in my life; I think the server would get the wrong idea and follow me home, if I did. 😊
 
There are only a few countries where we are made to feel OBLIGATED to tip. Most countries tipping is either NOT a custom ore completely voluntary.

My husband’s job pays measly, but he still does it every single day and pays all the bills.
 
There is a difference between “wait staff” and other jobs.

Here in the US, waiters and waitresses at sit-down restaurants have two things going against them that make it essential to tip.

First, they are paid less than minimum wage. It’s legal. It is assumed that they will make up the rest in tips.

Second, they are taxed, in addition to their hourly wage, on 8 per cent of their “sales.” In other words, if she brings you a meal you paid $10 for, she will be taxed 80 cents, whether you tip her or not.

So, not tipping a waiter in a restaurant at all is (in my opinion) stealing from them.

Pizza deliverers seem to get minimum wage (as opposed to waiters), so my tip isn’t making up for being “underpaid.” If they don’t get taxed like waitresses do, then I’m not responsible for that, either. I’d like to find out for sure whether they pay for their own gas, and whether a delivery fee goes to them. I’d adjust my tip accordingly.

Of course, that’s all moot for me right now. We live too far out for anyone to deliver food.

We usually tip 20 percent, rounding it up. We leave extra for exceptional service, especially when it’s really busy. We once tipped more than the cost of a meal, at a very busy breakfast place, on Sunday after church. She was working her feet off, got everybody their stuff on time and hot, and was smiling and cheerful the whole time.

I really hope she wasn’t stiffed by (as was mentioned on another thread) some folks leaving tracts instead of cash!

Ruthie
 
Ruthie said:
Pizza deliverers seem to get minimum wage (as opposed to waiters), so my tip isn’t making up for being “underpaid.” If they don’t get taxed like waitresses do, then I’m not responsible for that, either. I’d like to find out for sure whether they pay for their own gas, and whether a delivery fee goes to them. I’d adjust my tip accordingly.
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When my husband and I had a pizza restaurant in the late 1980s, we paid the drivers $2.00 per delivery, and they paid for their own gas and car expenses. They drove their own cars.

Most of them would pick up a “beater” car at a used car lot, repair it themselves using parts from the scrap metal yard (they paid something like $5.00 a pound for scrap metal pieces, and they were often able to find working spark plugs, doors, radios, and all kinds of stuff in the scrap yard) - they would also cannibalize abandoned vehicles that they encountered in their travels, so their vehicles were normally very inexpensive, to begin with, and then they also did their own repairs, oil changes, and so on, so it wasn’t too expensive for them to maintain their cars.

We had one guy for a while who used to repair his car with cardboard and tape. It was the oddest thing, seeing this car coming down the road, with bits of tape and loose cardboard flapping in the wind. 😛

Most of the guys made between $200.00 and $300.00 a night on weekends, and typically about $150.00 a night from Sunday to Thursday. The full time drivers worked from 4:00 pm to closing from Wednesday to Sunday or else from Friday to Tuesday. The part timers worked from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm on the days of their choice. We also had some casual drivers who just worked the supper rush and then went home at 7:30 pm.
 
perfectpeach said:
I live in the States and REFUSE to tip. it is NOT my job to pay employees for their work. That is the job of the employer!
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You must love Mr. Pink:)

Nice Guy Eddie: C’mon, throw in a buck!
Mr. Pink: Uh-uh, I don’t tip.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don’t tip?
Mr. Pink: Nah, I don’t believe in it.
Nice Guy Eddie: You don’t believe in tipping?
Mr. Blue: You know what these chicks make? They make __
Mr. Pink: Don’t give me that. She don’t make enough money then she can quit.
Nice Guy Eddie. Let me get this straight - you don’t ever tip?
Mr. Pink: I don’t tip because society says I have to. All right, if someone deserves a tip, if they really put forth an effort, I’ll give them something, a little something extra. But this tipping automatically, it’s for the birds. As far as I’m concerned, they’re just doing their job.
Mr. Blue: Hey, our girl was nice.
Mr. Pink: She was okay. She wasn’t anything special.

I believe in tipping especially in the food industry where they don’t even make minium wage. Most of my friends will only make 3-4 dollars and hour and then they’re dependant upon tips for the rest.
 
I tip the pizza guy about 15% (although last time our pizza was a lot more expensive than I’d thought so I only tipped $2 on a $25 pizza delivery 😦 )
I’m a pretty generous tipper in restaurants cause it’s easier to calculate 20% than 15% (although where we live, it’s not customary to tip that much. DH and I have had many waiters come up to us after and embarass us lol)
I tip the cab driver $1.50 or $2.00 on a $7 cab ride cause they always help us get our groceries up the stairs outside the apartment.
When I look back on my life I’d rather feel embarassed or stupid for tipping too much than cold and mean for not tipping enough…
It’s nice to think you just made someone’s day!
 
tapiocapudding said:
I tip the cab driver $1.50 or $2.00 on a $7 cab ride cause they always help us get our groceries up the stairs outside the apartment.
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So would you tip a cab driver who only did his job and got you from point A to point B? Because helping you with groceries sounds like an “above and beyond” kind of situation and that is what I think tips should be reserved for.
 
I consider tipping as part of my ‘giving’. And it gives me great pleasure to give to someone who is actually out there working and trying to provide for himself.
 
Y’all are awesome, *37 posts *so far on what to tip the pizza guy.

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