I hate tipping!!

[desh]

1 pizza:       $7.99
Delivery fee:  $1.60
Tax:           $0.67
Total:        $10.26

(The pizza place is about half a mile from here, in a nice neighborhood of a busy city.)

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Comments

[nnaylime.livejournal.com]

1.60 - 20% of price of pizza before tax and delivery charge (or as close to 1.60 as I could get (most likely rounding up) if I couldn't get exact change.

[janinedog]

The pizza delivery people here accept credit card orders over-the-phone, and then they just bring the receipt to sign at the door. That's how I do it. :)

[smarriveurr.livejournal.com]

I hate tipping in all its myriad forms. I always feel like a dick or a sucker. I mean, if my table gets fifteen minutes of a server's time, grand total, but we order $80 worth of food, am I really expected to tip more than I make per hour? Yet, if I don't, am I screwing my server?

It all just makes my maths-inclined brain shut down. People who know me think I have trouble calculating tips - I don't. I have trouble tipping the amount that I'm told is right when I consider the actual exchange of services.

ETA: I loved the German system. If you had decent service, you rounded the bill to 5s. If you had really good service, you'd round up 10. 10DM was about 5 bucks. I never had a problem with that, and it adds up across multiple customers in a way I think is fair. I could feel like I rewarded good service, without feeling like I was paying through the nose for it. Here, I never feel comfortable tipping.

[kazulrw.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't tip on a credit card, but I would still tip an even dollar amount in cash, so that would be more like $2 probably.

[dagoski.livejournal.com]

The delivery tax these days is probably exclusively for gas. 20% tip for all deliveries because they pay delivery guys ass. One pizza delivery job I had paid $2.00/hr. Another I had paid $1.50 because the tips at that joint were really good. They were, but that's still a scary minimum wage. I'd rather have a better system, but having lived on that side of the fence a couple of summers, I do what I can for these guys.

[goob712.livejournal.com]

I used to deliver pizza.

The "delivery charge" which is supposed to be for gas PLUS wear and tear on the car. It sometimes covers that, but only if you are taking 2-3 orders on one run.

Pizza tips are usually pretty easy to calculate... a dollar or two for a basic order, depending on how fast the driver got there and how far they came. For slow orders, go low. For far orders, go high.

If it is snowing out or raining HARD, please tip extra. Not only does this mean your driver is out in nasty traffic, but the place is probably busy cuz people don't like to cook during bad weather.

In my Statistics 151 class at Montco I did a report on how much people tip drivers. I kept track and found that people living in apartments tip significantly higher than people in houses. (I excluded condos and military housing from my data to keep things more accurate)

Pizza tipping is fascinating.

By the way, I never tip pizza delivery drivers because I NEVER ORDER DELIVERY. Jeez, I know how to drive. And I know how to cook.

;)

[fweebles.livejournal.com]

I agree with the last part. It's a very rare day when I'm too lazy to go get the food myself. It does happen sometimes, but maybe 5% of the time it could possibly happen. I just don't see the point, but I know other people disagree. :)

[rahaeli.livejournal.com]

Delivery of all sorts gets 20% of post-tax-and-any-fees total; we tend to round up to make the nearest whole number. If you think that's outrageous, God gave you feet to go obtain the food yourself. Delivery is a service-of-convenience; there's nothing saying you have to use it.

[dredpiraterober.livejournal.com]

Or you could just walk over there and pick it up yourself. Thats one of the nice things about living in a city