I’ve been tipping pizza type deliveries 20% since Covid, but it seems high to me. What’s everyone tip their delivery guys? I don’t want to short them, but I don’t want to go broke either.
Maaan you almost got me. I allllmost got into a debate about tipping etiquette online.
I managed pizza places for way too long. Pre-pandemic my gold standard was:
$5 or 10%–whichever is more. Always cash.
But, I don’t work in that industry anymore and I don’t order delivery anymore.
Either way, it’s not table service (where I tip 20%), so a straight percentage doesn’t make sense, but also that percentage can be lower IMO. Also, the delivery aps and some chains really fuck with drivers tips, so I always tip cash.
Percentage of the bill is irrelevant. The key issues are mileage and time. 50% of your $10 McDonalds order delivered 5 miles away is garbage. 5% of your $100 pizza order a half-mile down the road is good.
More important than the tip is to turn on your damn lights, and make sure your address is
“The US” is a broad spectrum. I would tip a lot more in Los Angeles, California where a shit hole house costs $1.2 million and gas is $6/gallon than I would in Anderson Missouri where a really nice house is $95,000 and gas is $2/gallon.
Most delivery drivers pay for their own gas and make minimum “tip” wage, which is lower than the regular minimum wage. They also have to pay for maintenance and repairs for their vehicle, which is more than it would be if they were just driving to work and back. When I delivered, I averaged about 60,000 miles a year. That’s a lot of gas and maintenance.
When you tip a server in restaurant, you’re tipping them to walk the food out about 30 feet to your table. When you tip a delivery driver, you’re tipping them to drive your food X number of miles to you in their own vehicle, at their own expense.
I think you should tip more for a delivery than for service at a restaurant, but the beautiful part of tipping is that it’s up to you.
I usually tip $10 for a small delivery. If I’m ordering for multiple people, I try to get everyone to chip in $4-$5 each for the tip.
Since you’re parsing it out, keep in mind that a Pizza Hut delivery driver in Missouri makes $16.64/hr while one in Los Angeles makes $18.64/hr. But I live in West Los Angeles and tip about 18% because it’s a bitch to get through traffic to my street, especially at dinnertime, and there’s no parking. I tip the same percent for weekly groceries from Yummy.com even though the total is much higher so the tip is about $50 because they’re picking out the items, bagging, driving several miles and lugging several bags to my door. If I had to do it all myself I’d damn well tip myself that much!
I find it hard to believe they make that much. We pay our driver’s $6/hour. We wouldn’t be able to get drivers if everyone else was paying almost 3X as much.
There is a link to pizza delivery showing a minimum pay of $12
You guys are all just taking advantage of people then
Wtf are you talking about? We have a profit margin of about 2%. It’s not like we have unlimited money to throw around. It’s sad how little people actually know about running a business, but act like they have all the answers.
We paid our guys non tip wages and got along fine.
If you can’t be in business without taking advantage of people then you don’t deserve to be in business.
As someone whos has been a driver and manager at multiple places over multiple years, I have NEVER seen anyone make less than minimum wage BEFORE tips.
We had split pay too, if i worked a manager shift it was $8 an hour and delivery was $5.25 IIRC
I would never order from anywhere that does that
I’ve been managing pizza delivery for almost 35 years. It’s common practice, at least in my area.
That is sad, and you guys should be ashamed of taking advantage of people.
Store I delivered at, all the drivers made below minimum before tips. Minimum in store, 1/2 that on the road. Plus a pittance in mileage that never actually covered it
I just give everyone a flat 15 bucks. No percentages necessary.
In Korea the Delivery fee is on top of what you order and it is set by the company so you know how much you need to pay before you order. I think this way it’s much better for everyone, there is no ambiguity.
The fee is around 2000 KRW ($ 1.52) and 4000 KRW ($3.03) and if you order a lot they offer no delivery fee. This is in the city where there a lot of restaurants offering it so it’s not very far they need to drive and they use a Scooter most of the time.
Unfortunately delivery fees are still very much so a thing in the US, just doesn’t go to the driver. Company pockets it.
I’ve started giving 1 star review for anyplace that asks for tip for preorder before I’ve even received anything or for drive thru. Please join me… They use shame and guilt as a weapon. We can also.
