Pizza tip controversy

[Pittenger5]

If you havent seen it, this is blowing up the internet today: http://shine.yahoo.com/financially-f...173851199.html

Just curious what you guys thoughts are.

I'm under the belief that its 1 trip for the pizza guy, no different than delivering 1 pizza and getting a couple bucks. Unless he had to schlep them up 3 flights of stairs to an office party or something, I think 10-20 bucks is more than appropriate. Its not like he took the order, or baked all the pizza, so why should he get a massive tip over it?
Your thoughts?

[Stoneman]

Am I missing details? I see it's 85 pizzas, but not what he had to go through to get them into the customer's hands...

[Degsy]

Wirelessly posted

I have delivered pizza and I would be happy with a $40 tip for that. $10 is cheap as hell. Just my opinion.

[Sheppo]

should have atleast got 5% or $75.00. I would lean for more than that, but I tend to tip higher anyway.

[CBR929RE]

I'm under the impression he doesn't own a vehicle capable of carrying 85 pizzas and the shop probably wasn't capable of making 85 pizzas to be delivered all at once. and even if he could bring them all at once he probably had to make at least 8-10 trips from the car to the door. 85 pizzas is nowhere near the same as delivering a normal order of 1-5. I'm not saying he should deserved a $200 tip but $10 is a little short.

[JettaJayGLS]

I'm more blown away that each pizza cost over $17 on average...what the hell are you people getting for toppings these days???

[SRTie4k]

I don't think the work involved could only be considered "1 car trip". The work involved includes making those 85 pizzas and keeping track of them all, then hefting 85 pizzas into a house, of which you can probably only do 6-10 at a time. That's at least 8-14 trips back and forth.

Not to mention if you can afford $1400 worth of pizzas, you sure as hell can afford more than a $10 tip.

[Awesome]

Wirelessly posted

I have delivered pizza and I would be happy with a $40 tip for that. $10 is cheap as hell. Just my opinion.

I have as well, and this is reasonable.

[Eddie]

Funny fact: My pizza is delivered by a Pizza Motoboy.

[Eddie]

Shoot...just saw that article...or the headline and bill anyway....that's cold man.

I am all for building the delivery charge into the bill. That way the buyer wouldn't have to feel compeled do tip...unless he did really appreciate the services. Personally, I allways tip the gas station guy and the car wash guy as well.

[B440]

Isn't gratuity usually included on large orders over a certain dollar amount?

[Eddie]

Isn't gratuity usually included on large orders over a certain dollar amount?

I believe that is true only for large restaurant orders. Personally I haven't seem a Pizza bill that already included gratuity. I could be wrong about that.

[KB]

Here is a tip: Get a job that doesn't require a tip! Ahole is lucky he has a job

KB

[Pittenger5]

Not that I disagree with any of you, and yes details are lacking, so we dont have the full store, but still, just wanted to see popular opinion.

QUOTE=SRTie4k;1259729]
Not to mention if you can afford $1400 worth of pizzas, you sure as hell can afford more than a $10 tip.[/QUOTE]

I HATE this argument more than anything. I have a friend that did work on Michael Dell's house. He's worth 20 billion dollars, so he should be able to afford 1 million bucks for some simple plumbing work right?
Just because you CAN doesnt mean you have to.

[Eddie]

Wanna hear something else that is funny: I tried to tip one of those motorcycle pizza delivery boys...who deliver in bad weather and he refused saying that it was against his company's policy.

[Eddie]

Right on Richie. Tipping is a courtesy...one shouldn't feel compeled to unless he/she really appreciated the services. Waiters/waitresses in the other hand earn less the 3 bucks an hour so they best earn those tips.

[SRTie4k]

I HATE this argument more than anything. I have a friend that did work on Michael Dell's house. He's worth 20 billion dollars, so he should be able to afford 1 million bucks for some simple plumbing work right?
Just because you CAN doesnt mean you have to.

There's a huge difference between paying a plumber for his hourly work, which is a fixed rate, and paying someone a tip, which is simply a form a gratitude. Nobody is asking anyone to pay a percentage of their own worth, what's being asked for is a fair compensation for an above average amount of work in comparison to the norm.

[tsorfas]

I did that job for 2+ years. Anything less than $50 the guy is a douche

[tsorfas]

I'm more blown away that each pizza cost over $17 on average...what the hell are you people getting for toppings these days???

could have been some party size pizzas with combo of large and smalls.

[tsorfas]

Right on Richie. Tipping is a courtesy...one shouldn't feel compeled to unless he/she really appreciated the services. Waiters/waitresses in the other hand earn less the 3 bucks an hour so they best earn those tips.

delivery drivers in MA make anywhere from $4-$10 per hourse and id say the average is $6 today.

[KB]

On a side note i always tip the pizza guy 5 bucks

[Evadd]

I agree the issue isn't "they can afford $1500 in pizza so they can afford a big tip." It's the fact that he had to go way above his normal duties in hauling their 85 pizzas from the shop to the vehicle and then into your facility. That's a ton more work than delivering a handful, as was mentioned above. It likely took him a lot of time and effort - probably several times the normal delivery, if not more, especially if he had to drive more than once. In any case, their selfish ass prevented him from making several normal deliveries, so he lost additional tips there.

Bottom line - they should tip more because it's the right thing to do when having someone making minimum wage work so hard to feed your fat ass.

Edited to add: when I order a pizza, I tip $4-5. A few seem to think it's expected and brush it off (which kind of pisses me off), but most of the delivery guys are more than grateful. I'm not saying it's overly generous by any means, but I figure I'm taking up about 20 minutes of this guy's time and it seems right to try to make his job a little more tolerable.

[R7]

I wish I had a Pizza place that would deliver in my area

[tsorfas]

I wish I had a Pizza place that would deliver in my area

Yamaha Blvd is a tough location brotha

[Degsy]

When I was delivering one night a week, I was happy with $2 a delivery for a normal order (2 pizzas or so).
I did extra things like not putting salad next to hot pizza (I hate that) and hustled to get places quickly. I made $200 on a Friday night in tips and about $30 in salary.

Christmas week regular weekly customers would tip up to $100.

One older lady gave me a $100 bill instead of a $20 by accident. I pointed out the mistake and she gave me $20 tip on her 1 pizza order.

I delivered 22 pizzas to a wedding reception once. I hot a $20 tip which I thought was good.