how much do you tip the pizza delivery person?

[toga22]

$5.00

 

[dballer]

If the pizza is late.. or the guy has an additude.. I will tell him that is why he or she gets nothing.

If the service is good.. or on time. They get between 5 and 10 dollars.

I am sorry.. but if you tip change or $1.... your name goes into the computer with a * next to it. The next time you order.. you will be eating somthing nasty.

I think that people who tip shitty deserve to have nutsack hair put on their pizza.

(I have a friend who works at Pizza Hut while going to school... he tells me some of the shit they do to pizzas... I make SURE I tip good.)

 

[kronk]

If the pizza is late.. or the guy has an additude.. I will tell him that is why he or she gets nothing.

If the service is good.. or on time. They get between 5 and 10 dollars.

I am sorry.. but if you tip change or $1.... your name goes into the computer with a * next to it. The next time you order.. you will be eating somthing nasty.

I think that people who tip shitty deserve to have nutsack hair put on their pizza.

(I have a friend who works at Pizza Hut while going to school... he tells me some of the shit they do to pizzas... I make SURE I tip good.)

Agreed, this is what I do as well. If they get her quick and the service is good, I will tip $3-$10 depending on my order. Usually my order is under $13.00 so I will give them $3 to $5.

If they were not that good, I will give them $1 to $2, but thats only if they are complete asswipes.

Doesnt happen anymore, becuase the pizza place knows I tip good so I always get my pizza hot and in 25-30 mins.

 

[Testoterone Tom]

Oh, I play the game as well - I just think that it's ridiculous and downright wrong that the customer should have to pay for the employer's greed. Now, I'm not saying that greed is a bad thing - it's only a bad thing when it fucks the customers.

Think about it, especially when going to a nice restaurant where the bill may be close to $100 for only two people. The waitress will be getting close to $15, and for what? For bringing two drinks, two plates, and one dessert? It's not like she cooks the damn thing. She picks it up and brings it over.

Let's do a rough analysis of the difficulties of being a waitress.

Step 1) "Hi what would you like to drink?"
Duration: < 1 minute
Step 2) "Table X needs blah blah blah and blah"
Duration: < 1 minute
Step 3) Bring items requested
Duration: < 1 minute
Step 4) Repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 for x such that x is an element of {"Food","Dessert","Bill"}
Duration: 3 x 3 = < 9 minutes

9 minutes + 3 minutes = 12 minutes.

Add 3 minutes for "is everything OK?" and we get 15 minutes.

So...

$15 in 15 minutes = $60 in 1 hour + $2-3 per hour normal salary = $62 per hour for performing services requiring nothing but basic writing, speech, and lifting skills.

And 10% of the bill is considered cheap?

5% should be the maximum.

-Warik

I hope everyone doesn't think like this.

Um, I don't really know what it is that I want to say here, but all this tipping talk is REALLY PISSING ME OFF. The service industry is the one of the most humble trades that a person can have. To some it's easy to some it's hard. But, I don't know anybody that makes a living at it, that hasn't been doing it for a couple of years. This is a trade that requires an un-American amount of restraint when it comes to dealing with people that have VERY wide misconceptions of what to expect from the server and don't know how to treat people, let alone someone trying to make that date or special evening go smoothly, or that bad day go away.

I bring home about 40k a year after taxes, no thanks to people that think I owe THEM something and don't tip. My regulars that do tip, get drunk, as fast as they want, thay also treat me like an American Human Being. Like a friend. And THAT'S WHY YOURE TIPPING. I have over 400 regulars. I know them all by name, I know what they drink, I've slept with some of their daughters ( well, not really SLEPT ) and I see them home safely after a hard day. I listen to the good, the bad, and the ugly. I help the girls find the "good' guys, and the guys find the easy girls. I EARN MY KEEP.

See that computer terminal they just typed your order in? It's tracking there sales. And basing his/her taxing and tip-outs on those sales. That means, if you didn't tip AT LEAST 7 or 8% you've COST THEM money to wait on YOU. That is SHITTY.

But that's fine, the next date you go on, enjoy your COLD food and WEAK drinks. And pray for a server that isn't a little under the weather, or else he'll make sure YOU'RE having what HE'S having. And, by the way that "dumb" blonde you're on a date with will know EXACTLY why you got bad service.

And go ahead and complain to the managment. You may get one over on us there. Just make sure you're not alone at any time for the rest of the week. Bartenders and servers have more friends than you. And our friends are Judges, Cops, Drug Dealers and Thugs.

Just make things easier on yourself, DO THE RIGHT THING, and tip. 15% really isn't that much. I go out all the time, and I tip 30%. And treat the server like a free American for Christ's sake!!!
Sorry, struck a nerve.

 

[bigguns7]

So...

$15 in 15 minutes = $60 in 1 hour + $2-3 per hour normal salary = $62 per hour for performing services requiring nothing but basic writing, speech, and lifting skills.

-Warik

Warik I think your math is a little fuzzy there. I restaurant that costs $100 for two people will likely take close to two hours for the whole meal/dining experience. True, it only take 15 minutes of her time in total (actual work), but you are the waitresses responsibility the whole time you are there.

You can't really measure out peoples' salary only counting the time they're doing something.

Here's an example of Warik math:

A parking lot attendant (one of those guys who sits in the little booth) makes $8.00 an hour normal salary. But, out of every hour he's there, he only does a total of 3 minutes of actual work, the rest of the time he does homework and reads science fiction novels. The only thing he does is give people change when they leave the parking lot. Ten cars leave the parking lot per hour, and each car takes him 10 seconds to take the ticket, take their money and let them out, totalling about three minutes of work. At $8.00 an hour, he's making about $2.66 per minute of actual work. So using Warik math, HE MAKES $159 AN HOUR.

Can you believe it, a parking lot attendant makes $160 an hour?

Give me a break.

 

[alexiarenee]

Depends how much the total was...
Usually 2 dollars..
1 seems too cheap

 

[Warik]

If you take that much time to break down what a waiter does and his worth then you do mind paying tips.

"That much" time? It didn't take me much longer to figure that out than it often does to figure out the tip.

I can figure out the integral of x^2 pretty quickly and I really don't care about that either.

The fact is, I don't mind paying tips, but I don't think anyone should. It's the employer's responsibility to pay the employees - not the customer's.

Imagine if you had to pay the cashier at the supermarket whenever you bought groceries because the supermarket didn't.

-Warik

 

[Warik]

Out of every hour he's there, he only does a total of 3 minutes of actual work

Fact stated by you.

about three minutes of work. At $8.00 an hour, he's making about $2.66 per minute of actual work. So using Warik math, HE MAKES $159 AN HOUR.

Another fact stated by you.

Can you believe it, a parking lot attendant makes $160 an hour?

Give me a break.

You've just proven that it's true. A parking attendent does THREE MINUTES OF ACTUAL WORK per hour. As such, after ONE HOUR of ACTUAL WORK he will have made $160.

Is that so hard to believe? Do you not know how to multiply and add? Where I come from, you work for one hour and you get paid in accordance to amount of personal time you gave to the company. If the parking attendant only gave 3 minutes per hour of personal time to the company, than he would have to work for 20 hours in order to give 1 hour of personal time to the company - which would equate to a $160/hr salary.

Let's compare this to a computer programmer, a teacher, an automechanic on a busy day, or a cashier at the grocery store WHO ACTUALLY WORKS FOR ALMOST THE ENTIRE HOUR and, in reality, makes less than the parking attendent who sits there picking his boogers for the remaining 57 minutes in each hour.

To quote you - "Give me a break."

-Warik

 

[FletchNJ]

I'm good for 2 bucks and the change.

 

[bigguns7]

Fact stated by you.



Another fact stated by you.



You've just proven that it's true. A parking attendent does THREE MINUTES OF ACTUAL WORK per hour. As such, after ONE HOUR of ACTUAL WORK he will have made $160.

Is that so hard to believe? Do you not know how to multiply and add? Where I come from, you work for one hour and you get paid in accordance to amount of personal time you gave to the company. If the parking attendant only gave 3 minutes per hour of personal time to the company, than he would have to work for 20 hours in order to give 1 hour of personal time to the company - which would equate to a $160/hr salary.

Let's compare this to a computer programmer, a teacher, an automechanic on a busy day, or a cashier at the grocery store WHO ACTUALLY WORKS FOR ALMOST THE ENTIRE HOUR and, in reality, makes less than the parking attendent who sits there picking his boogers for the remaining 57 minutes in each hour.

To quote you - "Give me a break."

-Warik

You totally missed my point.