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Pizza Delivery Tipping
@csuave's post reminded me I've had a tipping question I've wanted ask you all.
What do you all tip for pizza deliveries?
My H and I tip $2-$3, depending on the size of our order. But our good friend was, semi-jokingly, chastising us for being cheap. He said he tips at least $5, sometimes more. He said (paraphrasing), "If someone is showing up to MY DOOR. With FOOD!!! They deserve a good tip."
For what its worth, I've done a lot of pizza delivery mystery shops, and the instructions always say they'll reimburse the tip up to $2. So I've always figured $2 must be okay/average.
Re: Pizza Delivery Tipping
Does anyone else tip for carryout??
*I say this partly as someone who worked at Dunkin' Donuts and Taco Bell in high school. I got tons of great tips working at a coffee shop and not a penny at a fast food restaurant even though the base pay and amount of work/effort involved was identical. I never understood the tipping discrepancy and still don't.
I also thought 20% was the standard for tipping so when I get a massage I usually tip $15-20 (cost is $65 for an hour). This weekend my massage therapist was talking about people who tip so little and she mentioned when people tip $15 or less and I was like ohh crap, is this her subtle way of hinting at me? Haha so I guess I need to reconsider my tipping percentage.
PS: I'm so sorry, I totally didn't mean to hi-jack the thread by asking if people tip for carryout.
I am inconsistent on tipping for carryout stuff. My pizza place doesn't even have a tip jar, so that makes it easy. I randomly tip at my coffee shop since I am a regular there, so if I have an extra dollar in cash, I'll leave it, but I don't tip every time I'm there. There is really only one other restaurant I get takeout from, and I will leave a couple dollars for a tip there, because the servers and bartenders put the orders together there.
Going back to when I worked at the Italian restaurant, I started out there as a hostess and did part of the carryout orders. The kitchen boxed it up and all I had to do was check it for accuracy and maybe put in some napkins and stuff. It really wasn't hard and I got paid above minimum wage for being as hostess which wasn't very hard overall. The kitchen staff did as much work as I did and if I got a tip I wouldn't have an easy way to share it with them or even know who to share it with. Just because I was the face of the order though I would have been the tip recipient. I rarely got tipped for takeout orders. It was nice when I did, don't get me wrong, but since I got paid a decent wage (for a teen at a low skill job) it didn't really even make a dent in my overall earnings.
One time a new retail store was opening up across the street and they placed a large order for their employees that were getting everything set up. I was sitting around doing nothing as a hostess that afternoon (with another person as my backup) so I offered to help carry the order to the store. I got tipped that time but honestly I was just happy to get some fresh air and have something to do for a few minutes.
I hate the automatic tip lines that are added to carryout receipts because I do feel like I should tip. In Vegas, I once bought doughnuts at Krispy Kreme and the receipt had a tip line. I tried to write in a tip and the guy told me that I couldn't. He said the line was there, but I couldn't use it. It was fine with me! I normally would not tip for doughnuts, but I thought, if I am tipping everyone else in Vegas, why not this guy!
Not going to lie, I hate how much tipping has gotten out of control in the US. You can tip for anything and everything. The one that has gotten to me is the tipping line at the coffee shop. The person who takes my order is a different person than who actually makes my drink. So who am I tipping and what for? Does that mean I'm supposed to start tipping at McDonalds now too even though I get and take care of my own food the way you do at a coffee shop?
Now I'll tip if it's a small place and the barista is especially helpful in answering my questions or helping me decide on what to order (I'm indecisive) and they're the same person that also makes my drink.
But to tip at Starbucks? Doesn't make sense to me.
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For places like a coffee shop, I'll typically throw whatever my coin change is into the tip jar.
At a restaurant for take-out, I'll usually tip a couple dollars. I don't tip for carry out pizza, though.
@jtmh2012, I was reading an article about a Japanese/sushi restaurant in NYC that started a "no tipping" policy. They pay their servers an attractive wage, including health care. Their menu prices are appropriately higher. Their staff loves it. Their customers love it.
@abrewer5, I've also heard that massage therapists should be tipped 15-20%. Similar to a server. I think $15 is a perfectly good tip for a $65 massage. I just did the math. It's a 23% tip.