My boyfriend works at a pizza place that just started delivering in May 2007. The minimum order is $15, with a $3 delivery charge. When somebody has to pay the $3 doesn't it seem more like a tip, especially if they only get $15 worth of food.
He kept telling me it goes to pay for gas. I told him that psychologically people don't understand that and they probably think that the 3 dollars can be a tip. How is it at most pizza places that deliver? I have not gotten delivery in a long time and if I do its through somebody who has already written a check.Tips and gas money for food delivery?
I don't consider that delivery fee a tip. but then again i usually over tip because i personally work for tips myself. i would imagine that the delivery fee is there to protect the driver in case they do not get tipped. but then again a person who works for tips should not expect a tip they should be great-full that the person who gave the tip thought the service was worth a tip.Tips and gas money for food delivery?
Well you also have to remember that most large chains (i.e. Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, Domino's, Wing Zone and others) charge the fee, but the driver does not keep all of it. I work at one of the ones stated and have worked at all but one of the others. At the one I work at now I get $1.25 out of $3.00.
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Tips and gas money for food delivery?The way I figure it is that $3 is almost (for all intents and purposes) 17%. 18% used to be the norm years ago and I have no new etiquette book to base any other percentage on. Because people don't always pay the 18%, several years ago businesses decided to add that "tip money of 18%" or whatever was popular in the area, to the total.
In our area guys/girls who deliver pizza can make up to $35,000 a year if the are on the go all the time (delivering one order after another and having a vehicle that gets superb gas mileage), if they are working for a small pizzaria, if their customer base is lots of people in a small community, if their customers are generous like earning good income, and people who are of the age who enjoy lots of pizza (sports, university, etc.) if they are catering to parties, etc. Of course, in those situations a delivery person would get a bigger tip and in those instances the company they work for does not include the tip in the total bill.
However if the tip is included in the total bill then people tend not to add (any more money) to that as they believe it's the tip and that it goes into the delivery person's paycheck or goes to pay the gas on the company truck.
I've had two kinds of situations. The one where the guy won't go away without a tip (he just hangs around), and the other where the guy walks away in a hurry with his head down. When I order pizza I usually tip $5 on a $25 order which is 20% and that delivery person usually responds "you TWO have a great evening".Tips and gas money for food delivery?
I'd give em a 20.00 and tell them to keep the change.
where my hubby delivers theres only $1 added to the orderprice so ppl know to tip more when he shows up....should be $4 more at least or more if its a bigger order...
its his 2nd job and alot of rich ppl around here so with clock punching and tips he averages $16 per hour
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