I’ve been tipping pizza type deliveries 20% since Covid, but it seems high to me. What’s everyone tip their delivery guys? I don’t want to short them, but I don’t want to go broke either.

  • arcrust@lemmy.ml
    111·
    2 years ago

    When I delivered pizza in 2012, if you gave a 5 I’d always be happy. The thing with delivery is that the service is the delivery, not making the food. So it doesn’t really make sense to be percentage based. Whether you ordered 2 large pizzas and a coke or just some cheese bread, my labor was the same. Of course, if you order 30 pizzas then yeah, tip more. Or if you lived far from the store. If you were literally two blocks over, a dollar is fine.

    Think about how much time you’re taking up. If you’re 15 minutes away, it’s also 15 minutes back. Assuming it’s not Friday night, you may be the only delivery on that route. Which means, I could only make 2 deliveries an hour. Papa John’s only paid me 2.50/hr while driving and 7.25 while in the store. So with those assumptions, I’d only make 12.50 that hour. And that’s not accounting for gas, which I paid for myself.

    It really varies a lot. But if you tip 5 bucks, I’d be at least making more than minimum wage. Less than 5 and it’s not even worth leaving the store and wasting my gas.

  • alianne@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    In general, I tip a flat $5 for food deliveries (pizza, Uber Eats, etc.) and $10 for grocery deliveries since they have to carry more stuff to my door. I may do more than that for special circumstances, but I find tipping the same amount every time makes it easier for me to ensure it’s fair across the board and I haven’t shorted anyone. That said, I’m only ever ordering for myself - I’d probably adjust amounts if the orders were for multiple people and routinely had a lot of items.

  • Fondots@lemmy.world
    4·
    2 years ago

    It was a decade ago, but back when I was a pizza dude, I was generally happy with either $5 or a 15-20% tip, whichever was higher. It wasn’t a hard rule, I’d be happy with lower tips in plenty of circumstances, but if I got that I definitely walked away feeling like I’d gotten a decent tip, and I generally try to keep to that today.

    That was in the days before GrubHub and such with all of their delivery fees, the economy was somewhat less crazy, etc. I really have no idea what the economics of it looks like today.

    But back then, at the place I worked, I made pretty much the same below-normal-minimum wage that waiters and such make with the expectation that the bulk of my income would be tips. The place I worked was a rarity that had their own delivery vehicle, they charged a $2 delivery fee, if I used my own car I got, IIRC 50¢/delivery and they paid for me to fill up my tank, if I used their car I got nothing extra. Normally I’d walk away with at least $20 in my pocket on a slow night, and could count on about $100-200ish on a Friday or Saturday night. Overall I probably averaged out to about $12/hour

  • Kittiesmom13@lemmy.worldOP
    3·
    2 years ago

    Thanks everyone. I didn’t mean to start a debate, I just wanted to know the average tip. With the rising costs of food, delivery has gotten very expensive for the same amount of food and same delivery trip, yet the tips keep going up on my end. I want to be fair, but don’t want to go broke either.