Just started a new job delivering pizza on weekends to supplement our income. First time in the food business and any type of delivery job. Using my GI Bill and going to school full time so a weekend job like this is a good fit more me time wise.
Basically I’ve thought myself a good tipper when we go out and I generally tip 20% and have tipped quite a bit more when we stay a while and such. Pretty generous there.
I’ll just say it. If you don’t want to tip go pickup or make your own food. We make less than minimum wage because of commissions and tips. Your tip is basically paying us to drive your food to you instead of you doing it yourself.
Now we aren’t going to mess with your food. I wouldn’t do it and you may be a known problem case but we’re too busy to **** with anything. Just want to get you out of the way to get back to the store to sign back in.
I may or may not go to someone first because they put an auto tip in that was generous and in that case I’ll get their food there before someone with a poor auto tip or it says $0 on the tip line. 9/10 when it says $0 on the auto tip you’ll stiff the driver. Auto tip is on the web order where the tip is already on the receipt. If you want to pay with a cc put tip cash put ‘cash tip’ in the delivery instructions.
If you live in apt complex put your building number and maybe come up with a code sentence to help the driver. I already did this before I started this job with jimmy johns. I simply put ‘1st bldg on right past mailboxes’ in the instruction text box. A lot of apartments have really poor numbering and lighting. A building number helps immensely since it’s often the best way to narrow where you are. I work nights so it might take me 5 minutes of driving around to find your apartment. Gate codes…if you have one put it in the instructions. We have a list of codes but not all of them or they can change. You can simply put ‘gc#XXXX BLDG X’ and it will save me 5 minutes in many cases.
If you order out often make your address easily identifiable from the street. Curb numbering or mailbox identifying people are great. Go stand in the middle of your street at night. If you have to look more than 1-3 seconds to see WTF street number you are it’s time wasted on keeping your pizza hot.
If you are paying cash have it ready and say your bill is $29 and you have two twenties. Know your amount beforehand and say give me $5 back. Have cash ready before I get there. A lot of the time people have to go find their wallet or count out money. Sucks worse when they do that after taking 5 minutes to find their apt and you’re standing at the door for another 5 minutes because they’re searching for cash.
All said most experiences have been good. Get all kinds who open the door. Face full of pot smoke, fat guys with no shirt on, flirty girls who prob watch sex and the city all day, batshit crazy…but most are normal people. Time goes by quick. 6hrs and it goes by quick. Like I said I’m PT and weekends only.
Feel free to contribute. The money isn’t bad. I’ve done shifts that averaged over $25/hr.
I’ll just say it. You picked your job, not me. You’re free to quit and/or choose something else.
I’m not really trying to bust your balls, Belmont, but I hear this complaint a lot from food service staff, like waitresses, pizza delivery, bus boys, etc. It’s not the public’s problem that you chose a shitty job in an industry that has a ****ed up wage system. Sorry.
I’m a fair and generous tipper, IF my server does a good job and is polite, attentive, etc BUT, it is NOT my obligation to supplement your shitty wage. A tip is a gratuity for a job well done, NOT A SUBSIDY.
Maybe I’m a prick, but I do not tip the pizza boy. A waitress/waiter attends me & my family for over an hour. They take the orders, fill drinks, serve/remove plates, etc. They’ve earned a gratuity for their hard work. The pizza boy expects a tip because they put a prepackaged order in their car and found my address? Lol
Do you tip the UPS guy? That’s essentially his job, right? How about your mail man? No? Why? Because they chose better paying jobs, so you’re not obligated to supplement their poor choices?
Sorry, dude. Not picking an argument, just offering another opinion.
Pork Chop, you saved me some typing. Thanks.
I will add that I don’t believe in the tipping system at all, for any profession. To an extent, we all provide a service. If we do a poor job, it’s up to our employer to address the issue. If I suck, out the door I go. Don’t like the service? Don’t support the business.
We were hardly what you’d call “rich” growing up, but one thing my dad always did, was tip well for good service. He said, “Son, don’t make someone else suffer, just because YOU’RE a cheapskate.” So I’m always above 20%, unless the service sucks.
If the service sucks I’ll still tip 15% or enough to seem reasonable. I’ll then provide constructive criticism to the manager via email or phone call the next day. I generally get more than my 15% back and providing the constructive criticism has worked well as I’ve had some servers again who seemed to take note of what was said.
I tip appropriately. A decent server with a good attitude will get a tip. An outstanding server with an excellent attitude will get a generous tip and a compliment to management. A piss poor server with an attitude like I owe them some kind of wage subsidy just for ****ing showing up will get nothing from me and a complaint filed with management or preferably the owner. If you go into work thinking the patron you are serving owes you something, you are destined to suck at your job.
There is no shame in any line of work. Be proud you have a job and do it well and good things will happen. Whether that means tips or advancement, that’s on you. No one owes you anything.
Well, as a former delivery driver, it was our prerogative to know which houses got preferential treatment vs which did not. If you call at a bust time of night, and we have a 4 stack of deliveries, guess who gets put at the bottom? Before you get pissed off because of this, would you waste your time giving someone excellent service when good enough would do if your compensation would be the exact same either way with no negative repercussions? Good enough is bringing your pizza on time. Excellent service is bringing the parm and peppers, 2 liter in a bag, running up to the door and knocking, and asking if there is anything else you need before you close the door.
Caveat: this is only after words gets around of a shitty tipper and is not isolated to where you are. There are some deliveries that have such high consistent tips that gets better service as a result. The free market kicks ass.
I have a sliding scale on deliveries. It starts at 20% and depending on how early or late the delivery is, how nice they seem at the door, and a combination of other things, the tip goes up or down. lowest tip I have ever given a delivery driver was $2 on a $20 order. The most I ever tipped was $8 on a $15 order. I lived on tips for too long and know how much a good tip can make a persons night.
I tip waitresses/waiters, barbers, and food delivery people. I add 20% if they do a good job and 15% if they do a crappy job. If the food delivery people do a consistently crappy job, I stop calling that restaurant or I go pick it up myself. If the restaurant automatically adds a tip, then that’s the tip they get.
Indeed, it does. I am FREE to order pizza from a competitor if my pizza takes an excessive amount of time because I’m at the bottom of a “shitty tipper” list. You are also FREE to choose a job where you get paid a decent wage that doesn’t depend on other’s generosity and/or your work ethic or service standards.
I think minimum wage should be minimum wage. Period. If you work as a waiter/waitress/pizza boy, whatever, you should get the federal minimum PLUS whatever tips you EARN. Tips should neither be expected nor considered as part of your hourly wage by your employer. They should be voluntary gratitude for a job well done. I know that’s not the reality of the current system, but that’s how it should be, in my opinion. I purposely avoided those types if jobs when I was in that stage of my life because of it. Anyone job hunting is free to do the same, because the free market does indeed kick ass.
We must be on the good list. I’ve gotten pizzas in 15 minutes with online ordering, I live 5 minutes from the store on an average day.
Tipped $20 on a $12 pizza. I suspected that we got someone else’s order or they were slow as hell. It was a large pepperoni pizza, common.
Best part about it was that our meal was still cheap, got it way early, and it looked like I made someone’s day for only $20. Can’t do it for everyone but I’ll do what I can.
I tip as much as I can. I was a waiter once. It sucked the nut and I still had to put on my happy face for 8 hours running. I was in high school and that experience really brought me to my maturity. I would have turned out much more sour if I thought I had provided good service and not gotten rewarded for it.
That said, if I go out to eat and the service is horrible, then I tip accordingly. If it’s the chef, then the waiter still gets a good tip. If the waiter is being an ass, then he gets little to no tip. It’s all about attitude and rewarding that attitude.
Yes. You can order a pizza from your competitor, but delivery drivers are like teachers and pilots and every other industry. Word travels and soon you become the pariah delivery and no one wants to bust their ass at the new place. You then move onto the next pizza place and so on, so forth.
You are right about people choosing where to work. I don’t work as a delivery driver anymore because the wear and tear on my car, combined with the shitty work hours, unsteady income, and peoples bullshit made it a job not worth having anymore. But also realize that these people personally BRING you YOUR food. The food you were too lazy to get off the couch and get yourself. There is a premium for that service. If you don’t like it, you can always pick it up. It will be hotter when you get it, the service will be faster, and the odds of the cheese sliding off your pie is much less when you get it.
Now, that being said, I earned my tips and those people that never tipped regardless of the level of service got exactly the service they received. Treat me like shit, you get shit service. I couldn’t give a **** if you didn’t order from my joint anymore because to me, you are taking up one valuable slot where I could have earned a tip instead of hauling carbs and fat to your door step where the chance of getting a tip is less than a snowballs chance in hell.
FWIW, I am not trying to single you out, I am speaking to the general mindset of people that don’t tip. No tip? No hot pizza unless you are the ONLY delivery.
I’m not offended and not singling you out, either, but pizza delivery boys are not independent contractors. You seem to feel like you are doing my lazy, fat ass some special favor by bringing my fat & carbs to me. You are not some special stork bringing me my bundle of fatty joy by the grace of God and out of the good grace of your generosity. You work for an establishment that provides that service to the customer. You took the job at that place of business. You’re not some entrepreneur, you’re hired help. Your job is to bring fat, lazy people their pizza. Those people paid an up charge to the company for this service. If you bring me my pizza late, cold or with the cheese slid off, that’s not the product of my reluctance to tip, that’s you sucking at your job out of spite because of your position in life.
That kind of attitude will follow you through life and rarely gets you anywhere.