<p>$40 thirty years ago for a haircut was very expensive! Yikes! I doubt if I would have gotten any haircuts at that salon!</p>
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<p>I’m not getting how a mom not wanting to put all her kids in the car to go pick up a pizza compares to the work of delivering it. Presumably the delivery guy is not loading up a bunch of kids into carseats and unloading them at each stop, etc. I’m not saying it isn’t work, but the comparison to what I was describing doesn’t work.</p>
<p>mimk6 - the point is if you want the convenience then you need to pay up for it. It doesn’t come free. Those delivery people depend on tips to make a living. If they weren’t making a delivery to you then they could be delivering to someone else who would tip them.</p>
<p>Oldfort, I’m not disputing tipping. The issue at hand is how much, not whether to tip at all.</p>
<p>I don’t have food delivered…I think I made an exception once. So I’ve never tipped food delivery people except for one time. </p>
<p>But as general question, do you tip the same even if the restaurant charges for delivery?</p>
<p>A few years back, the pizza companies started charging $2 for delivery. People stopped tipping (or tipping as much) because they felt they paid for the delivery already.</p>
<p>I rarely have food delivered- and never has the restaurant charged for delivery.
We had weeks when my kids were young that I had to leave all the groceries at the checkout counter because of crying ( husband worked 2nd shift- not available)
I tried to keep a few frozen pizzas on hand for those times- but we had lots of cold cereal for dinner.</p>
<p>A few years back, the pizza companies started charging $2 for delivery. People stopped tipping (or tipping as much) because they felt they paid for the delivery already.</p>
<p>What % is that of the cost of the pizza?
If the pizza is $10, then $2 is 20%
When we get pizza delivered- we would get two 17" pizzas , which are $24 ea.( not inc tax)
Still tipped 20% but it was enough food not only for dinner for the 4 of us, but breakfast & lunch too.
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<p>So if the pizza is $10 and the delivery charge is $2, do you still tip?</p>
<p>The reason for the delivery charge is “high gas prices”! (This was from about three years ago.)</p>
<p>Does anyone who has delivered or knows someone who delivers have an idea of how many deliveries occur in an hour? I live in a state that pays minimum wage for deliverers plus tips. Usually the delivery area is only within a few miles of the restaurant, so the entire minimum wage salary is not going to gas. I’m trying to calculate what the average hourly rate would break down to if they go to four houses, or six, if it’s anywhere from $2 to $10 a house, etc. Given that this is not skilled labor, how much should we expect them to make compared to people who work in jobs on the list of the eight lowest paid jobs in America, some of which seem much more labor intensive than delivering food. I think when we talk about fair pay, that actually comparing the job and its pay to other jobs is reasonable. </p>
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<p>This is a connected but different issue.
Say I was a delivery driver, it is conceivable, that some nights I don’t get any tips/few deliveries- yet I am showing up for work every evening.</p>
<p>When I as a customer tip a delivery person- it is not only for the actual service involved as I am about one mile from the restaurant and they aren’t taking my order/getting me glasses of water etc.
However, I am ( IMO) I am paying for the convenience of having this service even available in the first place. If the money earned isn’t worth the drivers time, then eventually, the service will no longer be offered.</p>
<p>Similar reason to why I frequent shops in my neighborhood, even though they may be a tad more expensive than going to a big box store. I like giving them my business, because it makes it nicer for me- and that is worth paying for.</p>
<p>My bf used to deliver. They would take about 2 or 3 orders per delivery. When it was busy they may get 2 runs. So 4 to 6 orders an hour. Slower drivers may get less. Those who had problems reaching the person and had to wait forever may get less. When its not busy they may get just 3 deliveries in an hour. Drivers there made decent money, as they were paid minimum wage + tips. Some drivers in the area don’t make minimum wage but rather 4 or 5 an hour. This is also a college town so more delivers than maybe some less busy areas.</p>
<p>Please ask your driver if they get the delivery charge! Some restaurants will take all or half of it and give none to the driver (even if the driver is using their own car). I think its BS, but it happens.</p>
<p>Drivers put a lot of miles on their cars and need to maintain them more than the average person, so I take that into account to when tipping.</p>
<p>Hey guys, a PSA:</p>
<p>I work at the counter at a cafe/deli. The drivers and servers make LOTS of tips. </p>
<p>however, lots of people see carry out as a way to make an expensive order and not tip. If the order’s over $50, chances are less than 5% I will see any tip at all. I usually get the most tips on orders $20-30. I probably average about $2 in tips an hour, on top of my minimum wage.</p>
<p>Cashiers <em>love</em> getting tips. We are the ones who answer the phones (most of the time) as well as prepare food for the drivers (often). </p>
<p>I feel like tipping the cashier for carry out isn’t on a lot of people’s radar. I’d just like to say that tipping even one dollar will always make us cashier workers happy. We’re service people too!</p>
<p>Everybody has a point in which they draw the line on tipping. I draw the line at walk-up service at cafes/delis. I believe that my meal price already includes the cost of taking my order, ringing up the bill, and returning the receipt and food to me.</p>
<p>I think it’s reasonable that deli workers are paid minimum wage. Making a sandwich does not require education, specialized skills, or other characteristics that would warrant an employer to pay wages higher than minimum wage. It’s indoor work (climate controlled), safe (not like working on a construction site), and many would say enjoyable work.</p>
<p>Why not view it as a continuum rather than black and white?</p>
<p>Another poster said that they will tip 15% for delivery, and 20% for service.</p>
<p>I would be thrilled to get an average of 5%</p>
<p>Obviously I am biased, but I really don’t see how a server’s job is worth such a large tip anyway. Servers probably average (bad shifts included) $20 an hour at the restaurant where I work. That’s for running food back and forth to people while smiling (and often, not smiling). Doesn’t seem many orders of magnitude more difficult than what I do.</p>
<p>I agree and don’t tip on counter service/walk up or phone ahead orders. Heck, my family loves Sonic but the servers there drive me crazy because do you tip/not tip because they delivered to your car (but walking up to the counter isn’t an option).</p>
<p>I base my tips on water when eating out. I drink a ton of water and do not want an empty glass in front of me - so if I have finished my glass and a server hasn’t noticed in a reasonable time or I have asked for another glass and it is forgotten or held up the tip will decrease and this is directly dependent on the server in most situations. Then again how they handle drinks is often indicitive of how they have handled serving in general so it tends to work out :)</p>
<p>Question - when eating out do people tip on total amount, pre-tax amount or just food/drinks (but not alcohol) amounts? I’ve heard all scenarios and usually end up somewhere in the middle but am curious how others do it.</p>
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<p>I tip on the pretax amount, including alcoholic drinks.</p>
<p>I used to be a take-out/delivery cashier and am now a server. There is a lot more work involved with being a server… more cleaning, more prep work, I have to enter the orders in the computer which takes some time, make salads, soups, desserts, milkshakes, get drinks, check on tables for refills, money, complaints, and then bus the tables, restock various things and sometimes take and make take out orders. Its not dangerous/extremely hard work, but its def. a lot of work in a short amount of time to make sure I’m not letting people’s food get cold or just sit there waiting to pay. Lots of running around and my feet kill me after an 8 hour shift. If me and other servers averaged $20/hour we’d be ecstatic but its certainly not the case.</p>
<p>As a cashier I put food in a bag and gave change to people and then did a little bit of cleaning.</p>
<p>Gee, I was raised that one of the customary situations to tip was when you were in a hotel you left something for the cleaning person - used to be a dollar a day, now a couple of bucks a day.</p>
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<p>Probably the difference was that I was raised to stay in motels rather than hotels. </p>
<p>We always stayed at Motel 6, and I don’t think tipping the cleaning person was too common.</p>
<p>Had I stayed at the Four Seasons, it might have been a different.</p>
<p>Son worked at a sandwich shop two summers. I hated when they assigned him to deliver. The shop charged $5 to deliver but they did not give that money to the driver. They figured they are already paying him his hourly wage. I think the owners took advantage of the young employees or the employees whose english skills were lacking. I finally told my S he could not take the car to work. If he didn’t have the car he couldn’t deliver. It was my car and my gas. He rarely got tips since people felt they had paid for the delivery. The worse offenders were the tech firms in the area that would order large orders and only be charged $5 but expected S to carry everything inside to the conference room.
The only place that delivers to my house is Dominos and a local pizza place. We rarely order since I prefer the another pizza place. For Dominos I usually give 3 bucks.
Walk up places I rarely leave a tip or just my extra change.
Where I never know what to tip is the local place where you wait in line to order and get a number. The wait staff delivers the meal to your table on real plates and silverware. What is an appropriate tip in this case? Not 20% since you have to stand in line to order but 10 or 15% or a few bucks depending on the order?</p>
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<p>Take that up with the government or the employer. Not the consumer.</p>