Please step inside if you have ever worked as a pizza delivery driver

[radcen]

If you have, did your employer charge a delivery fee?

If so, did you see at least a portion of said delivery fee?

Thanks.

 

[clownboy]

Yes, I delivered for Dominos, Godfathers, and Pizza Slut. Dominos was the last of those that didn't charge for delivery and I had left before they started. As I recall Godfather's gave me a portion of the delivery fee and I was paid per mile in addition to my wage. No one ever declared their tips. Made way more in tips than I did through wages and the like.

 

[Chomsky]

If you have, did your employer charge a delivery fee?

If so, did you see at least a portion of said delivery fee?

Thanks.

Not sure if this is any help - this was 25 years ago and I no longer live in the neighborhood, and I would guess all the dollar figures have doubled at minimum.

I did this a long time ago for a family pizzeria owned by two Sicilian brothers, who ironically made a very tasty but relatively American style pizza - but the neighborhood loved it (and them).

They did a killer landmark business, with 700 deliveries per night on Fridays & Saturdays. We had 12-15 drivers on those weekend nights - anyone they could find. They were always begging for more drivers.

They charged a delivery fee of $1.25 (then) - the driver got the entire fee and kept his full tip, too. We could count on around 30-35 deliveries per driver M-Th, and 50 or so F & Sa. This meant gross cash totals of $75-100 weekdays, $125+ on weekends (pushing $200 for the best drivers on a good weekend night). I'm quoting nighttime deliveries here, with the shift being 4P to 1A weekdays, 4P - 2:30 or 3A weekends, so they're long shifts. Daytime guys made their money mostly from the lunch trade, and might pull only 8-10 deliveries, but would do 60-70 bucks due to better tips for larger orders to business & offices.

The neighborhood was an extremely dense urban environment, but downtrodden, so the tips were usually mediocre to poor (a buck and 'change' being common, every 3rd or 4th was loose change or even a stiff).

It was an all cash business to the drivers, settled on the driver's last run of the night (credit card payments were done via the phone bank).

All vehicles were the driver's personal vehicle, and all expenses were the drivers.

 

[beerftw]

If you have, did your employer charge a delivery fee?

If so, did you see at least a portion of said delivery fee?

Thanks.

never worked as a pizza delivery driver,but have had quite a few friends who have,one was in the army who did it part time.

i would get mad because he would make 600-1k a week,mostly from tips.out of a lets say 1k week,most of it was friday and saturday night,where drunk soldiers would tip like drunk soldiers.the rest of the nights he would make around 30-80 a night,working 4 nights a week.those 2 days he would bank.

and none of them saw a delivery fee,the drivers got paid 5.25 an hour because texas allowed it because they made tips,most of them however made major money.