I just left an 80 cent tip...
- Thread starter lschmidt
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...and I was feeling generous. I ordered a pizza from pizza hut's website, and in multiple places it tells me to tip the driver. Here's the checkout, and on the previous page I had a similar reminder.
I gave the driver a $20 bill and asked for $2 back. He gave me a dirty look.
I'm trying to wrap my head around this dumb idea that I should feel obligated to pay the driver a tip. Why doesn't pizza hut (and all delivery places) just increase the delivery charge?
The driver doesn't see anything off the delivery charge. Grow a pair and tip the dude! I mean after all, in some areas he IS risking his life. Google how many drivers have been robbed or shot over something as simple as a pizza.
Yeah I am cheap, and broke at the moment too. Go dig up my dual monitor thread and you'll see. But I gotta have my stuffed crust pizza!
Hope he sees that and sues the shit out of Pizza Hut. The delivery charge was $2.75 on a $14 order. Why should he tip more? Oh yeah they're cheap bastards and don't give it to their drivers, but pay them at least fed min wage.
huh? I don't work for pizza hut, lulz. Just saying if you don't tip your drivers on a regular basis you're asking for trouble.
I didn't figure you did lol. Just saying if you see spit on your pizza that place is asking for more trouble than they want.
Yeh, if they get caught then lschmidt can finally afford to tip
, but I wouldn't count on them getting caught.as far the the adding another 10% or whatever, IDK, I try to avoid places with delivery fees. There is a pizza place on every corner where I live, so it isn't hard to do. If I choose to get pizza from a place with a delivery fee, I don't take it out on the driver. They are usually students or already have a job and doing this part time, just trying to get by. Delivering pizzas is one of the few jobs where you can make $10-15/hr (hourly wage + tips) working part time and without having a specific skill. No need to punish those guys for shitty corporate policy.
If they start paying their drivers more, I guarantee they are going to make up the lost income with higher prices.
I tip well (one of my buddies in college was a delivery guy and we had more free pizza than I knew what to do with, so I guess karmaicly I owe them) but this recent concept of a "delivery charge" really bothers me. What is it for anyway?
If it wasn't some innocent driver that would get screwed over by it I would skimp on tipping as well.
If it wasn't some innocent driver that would get screwed over by it I would skimp on tipping as well.
Revenue down = need new source of income?
kind of like american airlines charging $10 for a pillow and blanket?
Sucks cause companies do this type of shit and it hurts the employees more than anyone else. Read up on how Sky cap fees turned one of the most profitable jobs in the airline industry (from an employee perspective) into a worthless job and sent guys that had worked for the same company for decades scrambling to find new jobs.
As said before, Pizza Hut adds a delivery charge, which the driver doesn't see jack shit of. If you don't want to pay it, drive to the fucking store and pick up your pizza yourself. Otherwise, you will have to pay the delivery charge, and if you aren't a cheap fuck, you should tip the driver 2 bucks.
Then who would deliver your pizza? It's not like there's a line of people waiting to become pizza delivery drivers.
#getreal
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That's why I always tip when it comes to food and don't mess with the people that serve it.
