View Poll Results: Tip the Pizza Delivery Person?
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137
93.84%
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9
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to tip or not to tip?
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From: MN
I agree with not complaining and working harder, but I've got to say that it's actually not as easy to get hired at Wal-Mart as you think, or maybe I'm just a super-loser mechanical engineering student who never even got called back from Wal-Mart for a part time job? If all the pizza delivery guys looked elsewhere, who would deliver the pizza? If everybody in a lower paying job packed up and looked elsewhere, there'd be a lot of gaps to fill. I'm sure delivering pizza probably isn't the most exciting job, or the most rewarding so they should at least get compensated for it. Throw the dog a bone once in a while, eventually you'll get one as well.
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I work with drivers and it sucks to see them come back with no tip. Would you want to drive to someones house and give them food for nothing in return HELL NO. Im not saying you should tip if its bad service but ATLEAST 2 dollars what is change or a dollar gonna do these days..get a third of gas
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You know, years ago tips were received when someone provided better than "normal" service. Go out of your way or go above and beyond and you were rewarded. Not today. Today, everyone has a hand out, expecting a tip for service in general, even bad service, or service that's part of their normal duties (like the monkeys pouring coffee at Starbucks or spooning ice cream at Marble Slab); and some even threaten non-tippers or those who don't tip "big" with the thought of getting a little something extra in their next order. And I'm not talking extra pepperoni. And some think because a customer can afford to tip "big" they should. That's B.S. Some will even go as far as tell you some sob story about crappy wages, the high cost of gas, and point out they don't make squat without tips. Not the customer's problem. Walmart usually has an opening. Quit complaining and work harder. Delivering pizza not paying the bills? Look elsewhere. That guy with the big house on the hill with $50k+ cars parked in front didn't get there on handouts.....
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From: Birmingham, Alabama
I'm glad there are so many tippers out there. I just found out my roommate doesnt' tip when he orders a couple of days ago. We went in on a pizza, the delivery man brings it and we all put in our money and he's short a couple of bucks... I said you got a couple more? He says yeah, but we're good. Right in front of the delivery man I had to tell my roommate to tip the poor guy. I couldn't believe it. Heck, we're even college kids and I still think you should tip. My roommate said he used to work in a pizza joint and never tips, apparently he doesn't have any respect for the job? I said next time he can run and get it and we won't tip him, he said it wasn't worth his gas to go get it...
Bottom line is, for how often the average Joe orders pizza, you can afford a couple of extra bucks every other week or so. It'll definitely help someone else out.
Bottom line is, for how often the average Joe orders pizza, you can afford a couple of extra bucks every other week or so. It'll definitely help someone else out.
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From: Claremont, Virginia
If they bring it to my door, they get a fiver. They don't get a lot from the office and it was worth my while to have it brought to me (normally when I stay away from home, they don't deliver to Claremont). Put yourself in their shoes for a few hours and you may change your mind about tipping.
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From: Skiatook OK currently Pecos TX
I'm a heavy tipper when the service is good, but I will also make it known when the service is bad. I think a unusually LOW tip is worse than no tip. Last week the girlfriend and I went to a wing/chicken joint and the college aged kid who was our waiter just plain out stunk. I ordered a beer, that took 10-15 minutes, and came to me warm, I told him about it and order ice water instead of another beer. That took 15 minutes as well. The GF ordered some nacho platter with chicken and ground beef, well it came with no chicken, but when we told our waiter, instead of correcting it, he told us that the chicken was near the bottom. We ate a bit more and still no chicken. When it came time for the bill, he "hooked us up" for the lack of chicken...which meant he took $2 off of the $8 nacho platter.
No tip wasn't enough for this kid who had plenty of chances to make right but just didn't care. My bill was $XX.56 so I tipped him $.44 so the charge on my card was an even dollar amount. No tip is sometimes just a sign of a person who was raised not to tip, but a minimal tip is insulting and I hope he got the picture.
On the other hand my buddy and I were regulars on the weekend at his little diner when we left the bar/party at 2-3a.m. and ALL the gals working in there remembered us. When we came in they knew already what to bring and would take care of us like we were their own children. We would leave tips that were as much as or even more than the bill (the bill was usually small anyway since they didnt charge us for drinks or other little items)
No tip wasn't enough for this kid who had plenty of chances to make right but just didn't care. My bill was $XX.56 so I tipped him $.44 so the charge on my card was an even dollar amount. No tip is sometimes just a sign of a person who was raised not to tip, but a minimal tip is insulting and I hope he got the picture.
On the other hand my buddy and I were regulars on the weekend at his little diner when we left the bar/party at 2-3a.m. and ALL the gals working in there remembered us. When we came in they knew already what to bring and would take care of us like we were their own children. We would leave tips that were as much as or even more than the bill (the bill was usually small anyway since they didnt charge us for drinks or other little items)
You know, years ago tips were received when someone provided better than "normal" service. Go out of your way or go above and beyond and you were rewarded. Not today. Today, everyone has a hand out, expecting a tip for service in general, even bad service, or service that's part of their normal duties (like the monkeys pouring coffee at Starbucks or spooning ice cream at Marble Slab); and some even threaten non-tippers or those who don't tip "big" with the thought of getting a little something extra in their next order. And I'm not talking extra pepperoni. And some think because a customer can afford to tip "big" they should. That's B.S. Some will even go as far as tell you some sob story about crappy wages, the high cost of gas, and point out they don't make squat without tips. Not the customer's problem. Walmart usually has an opening. Quit complaining and work harder. Delivering pizza not paying the bills? Look elsewhere. That guy with the big house on the hill with $50k+ cars parked in front didn't get there on handouts.....
If they bring it to my door, they get a fiver. They don't get a lot from the office and it was worth my while to have it brought to me (normally when I stay away from home, they don't deliver to Claremont). Put yourself in their shoes for a few hours and you may change your mind about tipping.
I give them a five as well forget the circumstances placed on the delivery boy fuel etc... He carried your food to your house which means you stayed home doing whatever ir is that you want to do. What is your time worth to you? I get paid 43.57 per hour to do my job. If I call and place an order then drive to get it It costs me 43.57 per hour for the time I am spending picking up the food plus the cost of the pizza. When I could sit at home and answer emails etc... charging the company for my time. You are paying for convience what is it worth to you not to have to get dressed in something you wouldnt be embarrased to be seen in and drive through traffic to get a pizza. If you ask me five bucks is well worth it. After all you are not paying pizza hut or who ever you already bought the pizza think of the delivery boy as a contractor providing a completely different service. He is allowing you to stay in your jammies.
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