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.

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Maaan you almost got me. I allllmost got into a debate about tipping etiquette online.

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Given that gasoline is high and many pizza places pay pathetic sums of money, I always give 30% unless the driver was just plain rude and then I reduce it to 20%.

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Why do you tip at all when they’re rude?

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Well as they say, every dog has their day. It could be that the driver is just having a shitty day and we all have them. I try to be empathetic. As long as the guy isn’t spouting out hatred and biogtry, they’ll just get a reduced tip. I’ve been known to give even bigger tips to delivery drivers that are just plain awesome.

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As someone who used to be a delivery driver in the uk the idea of getting a tip for doing a shitty job is bat shit insane, I almost never got tips beyond people telling me to keep the change and even when I did get a tip it was usually £2 for driving about 20 miles to do a delivery.

The absolute highest tip I ever got was £10 for delivering 2 full bags of food to a super rich neighbourhood in about 15 mins because it was the first house on my route. (And that £10 was still less than 10% of the cost of the order.)

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Because the penalty for being rude shouldn’t be starvation, probably.

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I mean, doing your job poorly usually gets you fired, which kinda does lead to starvation if you don’t find a different job. Why should delivery people be the exception?

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In general, I tip a flat $5 for food deliveries (pizza, Uber Eats, etc.) and $10 for grocery deliveries since they have to carry more stuff to my door. I may do more than that for special circumstances, but I find tipping the same amount every time makes it easier for me to ensure it’s fair across the board and I haven’t shorted anyone. That said, I’m only ever ordering for myself - I’d probably adjust amounts if the orders were for multiple people and routinely had a lot of items.

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I just give everyone a flat 15 bucks. No percentages necessary.

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Basically the same.

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I’m feeding an entire household so my orders are never small. Anyways, I used to be a pizza delivery driver as my first real job , so now that I’m better off financially I like to give the kids an amount I would be happy with for my work.

Keep in mind you can literally die on the road just trying to bring someone else hot food, I like to show the driver they’re appreciated.

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“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.

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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

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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

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I’ve been managing pizza delivery for almost 35 years. It’s common practice, at least in my area.

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That is sad, and you guys should be ashamed of taking advantage of people.

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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!

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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.

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You guys are all just taking advantage of people then

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https://g.co/kgs/7B2Cjn

There is a link to pizza delivery showing a minimum pay of $12

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