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$10 tip for 85 pizzas
Somehow this made the news. Thoughts? http://www.kctv5.com/story/21535929/delivery-driver-tipped-10-for-85-pizzas
Re: $10 tip for 85 pizzas
I delivered pizzas during my freshmen year of college and from my experience this would piss me off. That number of pizzas probably required multiple delivery drivers (or one VERY large deliver truck) so that had to be split among several drivers. If one person did drive a large truck to deliver they had to take the time to load and unload all the pizzas which would take time away from other deliveries they could make.
When I was a delivery driver 13 years ago we got minimum wage, $1 per delivery for gas expense, and tips. The $1 for delivery covered a gallon of gas back then but wouldn't cover much now. With the gas expenses now you really rely on those tips. So, if you are taking the time to load and unload pizzas (and missing out on other deliveries) you should get more than $10. The $2 per pizza suggestion is a little steep but I would think a minimum of $50 for one driver and $80 for two drivers. That is just the amounts I think I would be comfortable with but I don't often order 85 pizzas so I can't say for sure.
I thought the comments in the article were interesting. There were many people who said there's a delivery charge and that $10 was fine. Othere people said $100. Some people were ruthless and said pizza drivers shouldn't be tipped and the delivery charge took care of that.
One example was a guy who would get up at 6am so he could make 200 pizzas every Friday. His driver would come in at 11am. Deliver them (5 trips to the car) and get a $40 tip out of it and wouldn't share it.
Another example was similar, but there was no tip involved. Said it was just the nature of the business.
One guy said a pizza holder can hold 8 pizzas. So it would take him 6 trips to the car. So it probably took him 10 minutes longer to deliver 85 pizzas compared to 1 pizza. That would mean he would get bumped from $5 to $50 for an extra 10 minutes of work. So a bump from $5 to $10 for an extra 10 minutes of work does seem logical. However, the % is a bit shocking. $20-$30 would have been more appropriate.
That goes for tipping anywhere though. I could go to a restaruant and spend $15 and tip $4 and the guy next to me could order more expensive food and spend $60 and tip $6. Server does the same amount of work. It's impossible to determine who the better tipper is.
Tipping is such a contreversial thing. I wish there was away around it.
I think that's pretty fair. I usually only tip a few bucks for delivery. The last guy seemed pretty happy with it. I think most delivery drivers get compensated for their car expenses. So it's just time and virtually no risk of messing up. Each trip is about as hard as the last so it should be more of a fixed amount.
Servers have to take orders, check back, fill drinks, take complaints if the food is bad. Their work load can be expected to increase with the size of the bill.
I agree with this last bit - there is no way that a pizza delivery driver needs a 15-20% tip; they don't have to do all of those things PP listed, and on top of that they get (at least) minimum wage + gas expenses, because it is known that they can't depend on tips. Waiters make what, like $3/hr plus tips?
That said, I would still tip much more on 85 pizzas than on 2, so it's not exactly fixed - but my guess is $20 is plenty in this case.
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Our company ordered pizza today (25-30). We teased them about the tipping. The lady said she was generous with the company's money, but didn't say how much she tipped. We are on the 12th floor of a downtown building so I bet it was pretty good.