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How much do you tip for pizza delivery?

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How much do you tip for pizza delivery?

- ...if the order is $12

- ...if the order is $20 or more

- Or, do you tip percentage and not mindful of dollar amounts?

- Do you factor in the delivery fee( if any)? Do you tip on the price minus the fee, or the overall total amount including the fee?

- Do you add it to your credit card when ordering (prior to knowing if delivery was good), or do you cash tip when delivered?
 
I generally tip $3-$4. I tip more when the weather is bad. I have tipped $10.00 on a $20.00 order when the weather was REALLY nasty.

Maybe it has to do with the fact I delivered pizzas in college.
 
Oh, and no, I don't base it on the price of my order. My orders are pretty uniform. If I ever did order a large number for a party I would probably use a percentage. I don't factor in delivery fee. The driver usually doesn't get that anyway. And I usually put the tip on the credit card ahead of time.
 
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Our pizza delivery is spotty at best, and awful the rest of the time. I tip based on just how late they are. Seeing as how I am .9 miles from the pizza place, it should take them 5 minutes to get here. I've had my pizza get here an hour and a half late. Every time I would call, they'd be like, "It's in the car. It's on the way."
 
I used to not tip before because the pizza delivery was always late where I am so instead I made a lot of complaints and got a few pies for free, but then they adjusted and I started to get my pizza within 15 minutes so I definitely started tipping around 15-20% and they loved it because they had a no tipping policy. Soon however, my doctor told me to stop eating pizza so I havent ordered anything in months now. :(
 
PoS said:
I used to not tip before because the pizza delivery was always late where I am so instead I made a lot of complaints and got a few pies for free, but then they adjusted and I started to get my pizza within 15 minutes so I definitely started tipping around 15-20% and they loved it because they had a no tipping policy. Soon however, my doctor told me to stop eating pizza so I havent ordered anything in months now. :(
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Change doctors.

Problem solved.

No charge! :D
 
$10, whatever the order. That way, I know it won't be cold by the time it arrives. I also know I won't need to ****ing shave by the time I sit down to eat.
 
My solution to this dilemma is to never have anything delivered.
I always go get our take-out food.
Always.
 
radcen said:
How much do you tip for pizza delivery?

- ...if the order is $12

- ...if the order is $20 or more

- Or, do you tip percentage and not mindful of dollar amounts?

- Do you factor in the delivery fee( if any)? Do you tip on the price minus the fee, or the overall total amount including the fee?

- Do you add it to your credit card when ordering (prior to knowing if delivery was good), or do you cash tip when delivered?
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3 to 5 bucks. If it is a big order, or the weather is nasty I will give a larger tip, maybe 10 bucks. The tip is for the driver, and is over an above any delivery fee.

I try to tip cash if I can.
 
I generally pizza tip (or general food delivery) based on the expected amount of stuff the driver is juggling/carrying , not the actual price itself
assuming he/she is timely and friendly, and the order is right

good weather

eating for 1: $3
eating for 2: $5
eating for 4: $8
eating for 10+: $2 per person

bad weather (as in I wouldn't be out driving in it)

eating for 1: $10
eating for 2: $12
eating for 4: $16
eating for 10+: $4 per person
 
radcen said:
How much do you tip for pizza delivery?

- ...if the order is $12

- ...if the order is $20 or more

- Or, do you tip percentage and not mindful of dollar amounts?

- Do you factor in the delivery fee( if any)? Do you tip on the price minus the fee, or the overall total amount including the fee?

- Do you add it to your credit card when ordering (prior to knowing if delivery was good), or do you cash tip when delivered?
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Heck, I haven't had a pizza delivered since the 70's, LOL. How come it is just pizza that gets delivered? I'd spring some green if someone would deliver me a big steaming mess of Pad Thai from time to time (with extra limes and blistering hot chile sauce and some extra fish sauce).
 
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Heck, I haven't had a pizza delivered since the 70's, LOL. How come it is just pizza that gets delivered? I'd spring some green if someone would deliver me a big steaming mess of Pad Thai from time to time (with extra limes and blistering hot chile sauce and some extra fish sauce).
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depending where you live........... are you unaware of grubhub?
 
radcen said:
How much do you tip for pizza delivery?

- ...if the order is $12

- ...if the order is $20 or more

- Or, do you tip percentage and not mindful of dollar amounts?

- Do you factor in the delivery fee( if any)? Do you tip on the price minus the fee, or the overall total amount including the fee?

- Do you add it to your credit card when ordering (prior to knowing if delivery was good), or do you cash tip when delivered?
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I don't tip pizza deliveries, post deliveries, bread deliveries or fish deliveries. Why would I? American tipping habits are a never-ending source of bafflement to outsiders. There doesn't seem to be any logic to who does and who doesn't get tipped, and how much, and why.
 
Dragonfly said:
My solution to this dilemma is to never have anything delivered.
I always go get our take-out food.
Always.
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I'm with you. The only time I have anything delivered is at the office and even then it's maybe a couple of times a year.
 
radcen said:
How much do you tip for pizza delivery?

- ...if the order is $12

- ...if the order is $20 or more

- Or, do you tip percentage and not mindful of dollar amounts?

- Do you factor in the delivery fee( if any)? Do you tip on the price minus the fee, or the overall total amount including the fee?

- Do you add it to your credit card when ordering (prior to knowing if delivery was good), or do you cash tip when delivered?
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I don't do deliveries, period.

I can pick up anything I want and when I do, I don't tip as I have received no "service"

More and more we see "tipping" as wage passed directly to the consumer, we even have restaurants with the tip built in. Anymore, the tip is simply wage subsidy and not reward for generous, polite and prompt service
 
I don't tip for pizza delivery. If I'm going to eat pizza, or any takeout, I get off my lazy ass and go pick it up. At least I burn a few calories that way.
 
Help me out here. I really want to understand how this tip thing works. Here are a list of service industry employees. Which ones would expect to be tipped for their work?

  • Cellphone (mobile) shop assistant
  • Cinema usher
  • Dental hygienist
  • Bank teller
  • Croupier
  • Real estate salesperson
  • Car salesperson
  • School lunch server
  • Gas (petrol) pump
  • Courier service delivery person
 
Dragonfly said:
So you call Papa Johns and place an order, or place it over the internet, and you drive yourself there to get it.

And you still leave a tip? :doh
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i read their comments to extend to all restaurants.
carryout (from a no seating place) =/= takeout from a sit down restaurant.
odds of employees @ 2.xx / hour ? slim.
 
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