| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 4/18/2006 11:03:32 AM | | I tip WAY too much I think :/ . $5 is usually the LEAST I tip. I've waitressed before, and delivered pizza, I know how rotten it can be. A friend of mine delivered pizza, and he got robbed 4 nights in a row, and they got all his tip money he had on him, so he worked 4 days for NOTHING... the next day he delivered pizza to an older couple, and they tipped him $20... Needless to say, he really really appreciated the large tip by that point! | |
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 4/29/2006 10:48:43 AM | | well you tipped him at least I would have thrown in a couple more dollars, man I even tip the people who pump gas, which I think everyone should do | |
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| Tipping the pizza girl
Posted: 4/29/2006 11:32:57 AM | my pizza delivery girl told me she'd be quitting her job to go work in a hospital
circumcision ward
she said not only does everyone give a tip there, but there's a chance to get a head | |
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| Tipping the pizza girl
Posted: 4/29/2006 6:08:07 PM | | i usually scare the poor guy away before i have a chance to tip him anything. | |
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| Tipping the pizza girl
Posted: 4/30/2006 7:07:21 AM | Normally a couple bucks is good enough cuz around here their pay covers delivery anyway.
But on certain occasions when ordering food to be delivered its a good idea to tip the pizza 'person' a little better when you catch a ride with them along with your food cuz your to sloshed to drive or even walk .. 
true story .. i have a friend who does this all the time ..  | |
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Posted: 4/30/2006 8:50:55 AM | | I over tip ...I have Chinese food delivered a couple times a week ...it's here in ten minutes! | |
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Posted: 4/30/2006 9:09:53 AM | Indigo has it figured out.
"Tip" -is actually an acronym taken from: To Insure Promptness!
Habitual non-tippers can't figure out why it takes 29 minutes and 30 seconds to get a tepid pizza to them when the pizza place is 1/2 block away! | |
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Posted: 4/30/2006 10:42:55 AM | | $5 is a standard tip, this job sucks tip the poor guy, nontippers should be burned at the stake , Acting like people owe them something ,Would you bring them food for free or even get them a coke ,i doubt it ,I got a friend who everytime we go out ,i have to follow beind and tip more ,it's embarrasing . and less than classy . tipping is not a city in China.............Actually maybe it is ..............I never been there lol | |
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Posted: 6/30/2008 10:47:57 PM | you paid for a pizza to be delivered and was told the price. why figure any more? a driver is getting paid to perform his/her service. just because the job is driving and not making the pizza, how is that job suppose to get more money per hour?
I DO NOT AND NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND THE ILLOGICAL DISCRIMINATION
that people will actively institute when it comes to dishing out extra money.
If you get audited by the IRS and the person drives to your house to collect, I hope you pay the 20% gratuity. The IRS is a SERVICE. | |
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Posted: 6/30/2008 10:57:47 PM | I always tip the pizza delivery guy because I want him to come back the next time, so usually $2-$3.
If it's $18.71 I make the credit cart slip out for $2.29; if it's $23.71 I make it out for $3.29.
I like the mental image of the manager having to pay out the $0.29. I know it's more trouble.
Tipping is customary because the food industry pay sucks. Most food servers are paid the legal minimum; management expects them to make money from tips for providing good service; bad servers starve, good servers thrive. Some servers are expected to "tip out," meaning they pay a portion (sometimes a fixed amount) to the managers, cooks, bartenders, and bus persons. In a fancy restaurant the daily "tipout" can be over $100 per server.
Only mean-spirited tightwads refuse to tip. | |
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/1/2008 2:16:00 AM | the ridiculous tipping mentality involves discriminating their tips. they refuse to acknowledge other people are getting paid the same or worse and utterly refuse to tip them.
If you are getting help in a department store, throw them a buck or two! LOL. You see, to use some screwy reasoning for only PARTICULAR services, they will rely on an outdated custom and not use their minds to figure out if there really is something behind it.
The Internal Revenue SERVICE provides a SERVICE. Pay them an extra 20%. Where are the arrogant tippers now? It's all in showing off. Usually there is no future incentive as most times when encountering a service worker, you see them only one time ever, unless you are a spoiled consumer needing to relentlessly frequent or seek out a desired service. Whoopie to the handing out of money!
Hey, by the way, I have a friend who makes only $200 per month as he's only getting a few days work per month. Please, let's pass around a hat because he's underpaid. LOL. When is it your duty to try to figure out who's underpaid and then give them some money? If you do this, fine, as that's your decision but don't try to drag the rest of society to follow your path.
If you are at a library and someone helps you, I hope you tip them. Maybe ask them their salary first and then if you think it's not enough, offer them some money. When at the post office, I hope you pay a 20% gratuity for them servicing you. It's only fair!
When you see a bank teller, please give them 20% of the transaction on each visit.
If a cop TAKES THE TIME TO PULL YOU OVER and has a chat with you about your unlawful behavior on the road, I hope you give a large tip for the service he/she conducted in PROTECTING AND SERVING the community!
I could go on and on but there's a mental block preventing many to digest this.
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/1/2008 2:37:16 AM | The fees attached to your order for delivery do not go to the pizza delivery person. They go to the pizzeria, to help offset the cost of wages and insurance costs. Delivery people do not make the best money in the world, especially with fuel costs skyrocketing. I calculate my tip based on the following:
How long will it take the delivery person to get to my home?
Since I live 30 minutes away (just on the outskirts of the delivery area here) I baseline my tip on half of minimum wage (7.50 per hour / 2 = 3.75). Now that's my starting point, since he still has to pay for fuel on top of getting at least minimum wage. I therefore add the following: 10% of the total bill, so if it costs $27.00, I add an additional $2.70.
OP for your order I would have tipped $6.45 - for a half hour at minimum wage, plus ten percent for the fuel.
If you live closer (15 minutes away) you could adjust accordingly. ($7.50 * .25 = $1.87 (+ 2.70) = $4.57). | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 4:57:39 AM | I usually give $3, that's risen over the years from $1 back in the days when I was delivering pizza. It won't get them gushing to their coworkers about how generous I am, but they won't be ****ing about me being a cheap **stard either.
Tip....HUH, i don't tip no damn body, the way i c it they already making money from thier hours why the hell get tipped? unless the delivery person a chick id tip her w/ some sausage!
So I guess you like spit in your food?
When I was in town they always charged a delivery fee, and so I never gave more, because it wasn't required.
Do you tip the waitress in a sit-down resteraunt? It's not required to tip them either.
DO NOT AND NEVER WILL UNDERSTAND THE ILLOGICAL DISCRIMINATION
that people will actively institute when it comes to dishing out extra money.
I can understand the point you're trying to make, but what I think you're missing is that the people in the food industry make much less than most other people. There are probably a few other jobs that deserve tips (like clerks), but tipping jobs tend to be among the lowest paying. | |
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/1/2008 1:19:52 PM | | I usually give the same amount I give to waiters, sometimes more depending on how far away the pizza place is. I may be generous but I will always try to give 20%. Gas being the way that it is at this point and time. Think about it this way, if a frienddrove you home from their house would you give them some money for gas? This is pretty much the same thing. | |
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Posted: 7/1/2008 1:47:25 PM | We had pizza and pasta delived the other day - I gave a $10 tip because that was the smallest bill I had
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Posted: 7/1/2008 2:27:32 PM | I have an older friend who is a pizza delivery guy. He's been doing it for 20 years for a major chain pizza joint.
The friend has a Masters Degree in Economics and makes more money delivering pizzas.
On a typical day he makes something like $7.50 an hour plus about $100 in tips. Plus he gets a percentage of the delivery fee that the pizza joint charges. He declares 10% of his tips to the feds.
So... Remember that next time you give that big tip to the pizza guy because he has a crappy job.
That poor pizza delivery guy is probably making more money per hour than you after you've both declared taxes.  | |
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/1/2008 2:40:30 PM | I just went to dinner with friends. We dined at this fancy schmancy place.
The bill had a 28% gratuity already added in. Now the service was nothing to write home about. AND The drinks were really weak The truth is we are great tippers she would have made more! | |
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/1/2008 4:07:47 PM |
The truth is we are great tippers she would have made more!
Thats right indigo rose, your smile alone is service compre!
I have a topless delivery gal and she gets....... what was your question? ~smile~
the tip is at least $5.00 buck, gas is over $4.00 you know. | |
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/1/2008 6:24:33 PM | On a typical day he makes something like $7.50 an hour plus about $100 in tips. Plus he gets a percentage of the delivery fee that the pizza joint charges
my friend delivered pizzas as well just for extra money. he'd also get a free pizza every night (PRICELESS, as he could make it any way he wanted, even if it had 1 pound of jalapenos on it).
we cannot assume they are all underpaid. however, lots of people remain ignorant.
many don't even know some waiters make $50K/yr at just Denney's (as extrapolated). I had a cousin who waited there more than 15 years ago and made from 30-35K. with the inflation and greater pride in trying to show off these days, I imagine the wages are considerably higher. Just like when i worked at a restaurant in 1983 DOING THE HARD PREP WORK and making $4/hour and the waitresses were showing off with their base pay of $2 or so (it's min wage in Oregon and one or two other states and people do not even take that into account) and $120 in tips per a 6 hour shift. Hmmmm, I wonder who made more money. Where's all these big tippers in trying to seek out those who are underpaid. Why don't they go to the cashier and give an extra 20% on top of their 20% to give to the underpaid workers behind the scenes???????? It's utter nonsense how they go about tipping and they will never admit to it. ignorance is bliss as usual. It is simply best to not tip anyone. why show to all around you that you are like a robot, unable to think for one's self, by following a ridiculous custom while overlooking so many other hardworking people? Keep that head in the dirt! | |
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/1/2008 7:25:58 PM | I have never tipped a Pizza delivery man...
Not because I am mean or tight fisted I simply believe that the food house charges delivery and they pay staff a wage...I do tip taxis,restaurants and hairdressers etc | |
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/2/2008 10:52:50 AM | | I used to tip my pizza guy $3.00 ~ now that gas prices have soared, I figure I'm actually saving money and he's spending more to bring it to my house. The tip went up to $5.00. Hey, I didn't have to get out of my pajamas and that's worth $5.00 to me! | |
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Posted: 7/2/2008 3:01:35 PM | Heck yeah, Moon - wouldn't it be a drag if places stopped delivering?
Does anyone here remember Chicken Delite? Or am I the only mouldy oldy?
Don't cook tonight, call Chicken Delite
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| Tipping the pizza guy
Posted: 7/2/2008 8:54:01 PM | oh the spoiled attitudes - too special to drive and save money and more willing to pay extra and be catered to. relax....just take a breather and think hard on it before overreacting. our culture has become like this and it wasn't always this way. to see beyond what you've been trained to think can be difficult.
when simply at a restaurant, the being catered to and spending 5X more than what the food is worth and then tip the highest paid people (after tips of course...feeding too much to enable them to get a high amount) and forgetting about the cooks, prep-cooks as they don't count being they didn't spend 10 seconds to carry a plate to a table...yeah that's worth a ton of money. If I carry a 90 pound bag of concrete 200 feet it deserves no tip but bringing a 2 pound plate to a table earns $2. do you see the IRONY????
all in feeling SPECIAL.
self-sufficiency would enable people to not be in debt, and more importantly, be above the ego augmentation of having others in a subordinate position.
I imagine since there is over $25K in credit debt per household, lots of it is from being irresponsible and likely those who are into this tipping are showing their irresponsibility with money and have a good chance of contributing to the overall debt in this country. | |
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Posted: 7/2/2008 10:58:24 PM | | I've got news for you actualized...I work my butt off every day and if I feel the need to be spoiled by ordering a frickin' pizza and tipping the guy $5.00, I have every right to do so just as much as you have the right to feel the way you do. I'll leave it to you to contribute to the national debt. I'm sure you're a big contributor! | |
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Posted: 7/3/2008 7:42:48 AM | Interesting. I would think a dating site would be the one place where a guy likes to demonstrate his generosity and compassion.
I don't mind letting people know I'm a tightwad, but I am compassionate and understanding: I tip for good service, more for excellent service. But then, I've had actual dates with waitresses, dancers, lady cab drivers... | |
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