Pizza delivery tip on both tax & delivery fee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you tip for curbside. That’s called carry out.
I’ve prepaid to make it easier. They open my back door, put bag on seat. Sorry. That’s not a tip service. Their being paid to work.

A driver gets a tip because they drove to you and your helping cover their time and fuel.

Am I going to tip the pharmacy that hands me the bag at the door? No. That’s their new procedure.

Am I going to tip all the package drivers? Nope. That’s their job.

Instant cart yes. Because they shop for me.

PIzza. The standard $5-8 on any order is fine.

Flame away. But I’ll continue to be fiscally conservative.

You are making them work for free. These are tipped jobs and you are a cheap theif.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are so cheap!

My sister and her DH are preschool/middle school teachers. They really cannot afford a $10 tip on top of the delivery fee (they tip like $8-10% in addition to the delivery charge). They want to support the local restaurants, but are afraid of looking cheap, and even worse, if the delivery person may do something to their food if their tip is small. What do you suggest? Should they not order delivery?

They should tip as much as they can. The delivery people have a lot less than your sister and brother-in-law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are so cheap!

My sister and her DH are preschool/middle school teachers. They really cannot afford a $10 tip on top of the delivery fee (they tip like $8-10% in addition to the delivery charge). They want to support the local restaurants, but are afraid of looking cheap, and even worse, if the delivery person may do something to their food if their tip is small. What do you suggest? Should they not order delivery?

Delivery charges usually go to the restaurant and tips to the delivery person. If they want individuals to get more of the money they can do curbside pickup.

How could the restaurant take the entire delivery fee? $1 or $2 is fine, but why $4.49?
How much to tip for curbside pickup?

Curbside is like tipping when you pick up at the bar from a restaurant that doesn't normally do take-out. That person had to package your food. Tip as you would for a meal.
Because the delivery person earns a full hourly wage. How can you possibly think that $4.49 is not worth the time for one individual to get to and from your house, plus gas and car maintenance? How many minutes of you working day would it take you to earn that much?

So to pp, this thread shows that there are lots of people tipping $1 or $2 just because they're cheap, not because they have limited means. It's much better for a restaurant to rather have any business than none. They may pool tips or be doing other things to help their workers now, and to have a job on the other side.

[Anonymous]

Poorer people always tip better than rich people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are so cheap!

My sister and her DH are preschool/middle school teachers. They really cannot afford a $10 tip on top of the delivery fee (they tip like $8-10% in addition to the delivery charge). They want to support the local restaurants, but are afraid of looking cheap, and even worse, if the delivery person may do something to their food if their tip is small. What do you suggest? Should they not order delivery?

Delivery charges usually go to the restaurant and tips to the delivery person. If they want individuals to get more of the money they can do curbside pickup.

How could the restaurant take the entire delivery fee? $1 or $2 is fine, but why $4.49?
How much to tip for curbside pickup?

Curbside is like tipping when you pick up at the bar from a restaurant that doesn't normally do take-out. That person had to package your food. Tip as you would for a meal.
Because the delivery person earns a full hourly wage. How can you possibly think that $4.49 is not worth the time for one individual to get to and from your house, plus gas and car maintenance? How many minutes of you working day would it take you to earn that much?

So to pp, this thread shows that there are lots of people tipping $1 or $2 just because they're cheap, not because they have limited means. It's much better for a restaurant to rather have any business than none. They may pool tips or be doing other things to help their workers now, and to have a job on the other side.

I never tip on takeout. Do you tip at McDonalds? The people packaging make a normal wage in the kitchen. Someone taking my credit card doesn't deserve a tip regardless of pandemic or not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you tip 15% on pizza delivery, is the 15% on the pizzas itself, pizzas+tax, or pizzas+tax+delivery fee?
The pizza store online apps suggested tip amount is on top of pizzas+tax+delivery fee. Why do you tip on the delivery charge (which is already $4.5 itself)?

Is the difference a couple dollars? Just give them the $2.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you tip 15% on pizza delivery, is the 15% on the pizzas itself, pizzas+tax, or pizzas+tax+delivery fee?
The pizza store online apps suggested tip amount is on top of pizzas+tax+delivery fee. Why do you tip on the delivery charge (which is already $4.5 itself)?

Is the difference a couple dollars? Just give them the $2.

The issue is not the $2. It is about being scammed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are so cheap!

My sister and her DH are preschool/middle school teachers. They really cannot afford a $10 tip on top of the delivery fee (they tip like $8-10% in addition to the delivery charge). They want to support the local restaurants, but are afraid of looking cheap, and even worse, if the delivery person may do something to their food if their tip is small. What do you suggest? Should they not order delivery?

Delivery charges usually go to the restaurant and tips to the delivery person. If they want individuals to get more of the money they can do curbside pickup.

How could the restaurant take the entire delivery fee? $1 or $2 is fine, but why $4.49?
How much to tip for curbside pickup?

Curbside is like tipping when you pick up at the bar from a restaurant that doesn't normally do take-out. That person had to package your food. Tip as you would for a meal.
Because the delivery person earns a full hourly wage. How can you possibly think that $4.49 is not worth the time for one individual to get to and from your house, plus gas and car maintenance? How many minutes of you working day would it take you to earn that much?

So to pp, this thread shows that there are lots of people tipping $1 or $2 just because they're cheap, not because they have limited means. It's much better for a restaurant to rather have any business than none. They may pool tips or be doing other things to help their workers now, and to have a job on the other side.

I never tip on takeout. Do you tip at McDonalds? The people packaging make a normal wage in the kitchen. Someone taking my credit card doesn't deserve a tip regardless of pandemic or not.

+1. It is Ok to tip $1 or $2 now for curbside takeout, but "tip as you would for meal"? No!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you tip 15% on pizza delivery, is the 15% on the pizzas itself, pizzas+tax, or pizzas+tax+delivery fee?
The pizza store online apps suggested tip amount is on top of pizzas+tax+delivery fee. Why do you tip on the delivery charge (which is already $4.5 itself)?

Is the difference a couple dollars? Just give them the $2.

The issue is not the $2. It is about being scammed.

+1 That "delivery fee" does NOT go to the driver. It goes straight to the employer and I don't think the driver sees a penny. It is a huge scam.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:People are so cheap!

My sister and her DH are preschool/middle school teachers. They really cannot afford a $10 tip on top of the delivery fee (they tip like $8-10% in addition to the delivery charge). They want to support the local restaurants, but are afraid of looking cheap, and even worse, if the delivery person may do something to their food if their tip is small. What do you suggest? Should they not order delivery?

Delivery charges usually go to the restaurant and tips to the delivery person. If they want individuals to get more of the money they can do curbside pickup.

How could the restaurant take the entire delivery fee? $1 or $2 is fine, but why $4.49?
How much to tip for curbside pickup?

If you order online some places it specifically states that the delivery fee is separate from tip and does not go to the driver. It may indirectly to reimburse for mileage but the restaurant keeps the fee because they can. $5 or $10 is a good curbside tip if that's what they can afford. At this point some restaurants are staffed mostly by salaried managers and all tips are pooled for employee relief funds (My husband is a manager)

Exactly this. The "delivery fee" is a huge scam.

[Anonymous]

I tip pre-tax, pre-delivery fee.

For pizza I tip starting at $3.50 for a $20-25 order. I haven't changed that since the delivery drivers work for the company and the driver's modus hasn't changed with the virus. The whole "delivery fee" thing for pizzas is a big ripoff. Over the past 3-4 years we have significantly decreased our usage of pizza delivery because of it.

I have increased my tip for other deliveries like GrubHub because those drivers do not work for the restaurant. And the procedures for retrieving the foods from the restaurants has substantively changed.

[Anonymous]

We usually order 2 pizzas and cheese sticks. I tip $10.

[Anonymous]

The drivers are using their own vehicles to deliver so why does the entire delivery fee go to the restaurant?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We usually order 2 pizzas and cheese sticks. I tip $10.

What is the delivery charge for your order? I would tip $10 if no delivery fee, but not on top of the $4.49 delivery charge.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The drivers are using their own vehicles to deliver so why does the entire delivery fee go to the restaurant?

A scam.