Delivery Tip

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    What types of food do you order for delivery?

    How do you determine your food delivery tip? How late is too late?

    Should you tip if the food is late/cold? (Even if it's not the fault of the driver.)
     
    I never tip delivery. I only tip barbers $2 and I don't go to restaurants without family so I never leave tip for waiter either; that's my mother's or brother's decision.

    I only order Chinese food for delivery because I crave it the most. My brother usually picks up pizza or fried chicken.
     
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    I pretty much only use delivery for pizza when I absolutely don't feel like driving, which is really rare. I tip $4 every time no matter what I get, unless it's raining or snowing. I'll tip $6 if it's raining, and $8 if it's snowing.
     
    Patchisou Yutohru said:
    I pretty much only use delivery for pizza when I absolutely don't feel like driving, which is really rare. I tip $4 every time no matter what I get, unless it's raining or snowing. I'll tip $6 if it's raining, and $8 if it's snowing.
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    What would you tip if the delivery is takes longer than 2 or 3 hours? (In normal weather conditions)
     
    I pretty much only order Chinese. I love pizza, but if I had my way I'd eat a whole pizza easy so I stay away tehe. I usually tip $4 or more if it was an insane order, but I typically only order two or three things. I really don't care if I get it cold I actually prefer my food room temperature or cold. Especially pizza. I really hate steaming hot pizza. Whenever I order a pizza once it comes I put it in the freezer for a few minutes so it will be more room temperature like. I've only had one experience where my delivery was really late and that's because the driver got in an accident so I obviously wasn't going to hold that against him ahaha.
     
    The Dark Avenger said:
    What would you tip if the delivery is takes longer than 2 or 3 hours? (In normal weather conditions)
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    $4, as long as the box is still hot. But at that point I would have already called them and found out why they were so late. But the delivery guy could have gotten lost on the way, which I understand, or they could have been flooded with orders, which I understand. Or they could have gotten into an accident or something.
     
    If I'm ordering pizza which I usually only order, I'll give a $2 tip. I'm kind of cheap if I've already spent enough on ordering pizza.
     
    Pizza is $5. Waiting for one or two is $5, three or more is between $10 and $15. Large orders of delivery may get more out of me depending on if the person is nice. Exceptional service obviously warrants more, circumstantial faults are non-applicable, and bad service gets nothing from me.
     
    I usually tip a 3-5 dollars for orders for smaller orders, food for 2 people. The max would be 10 dollars depending upon circumstances.

    I submitted this thread as I awaiting one of the least responsive businesses I have dealt with.

    After 1 hour and half I called and told that it would be there any minute. I called at 2 hours and half, no phone answer. (I called 3 times after that no answer.)

    At 3 hours, I called and someone answered as the door bell rang. I explained the wait, and they sent a free large pizza coupon for next time.

    I paid a 4 dollar tip since there was no use punishing the driver when the business itself was poorly run, and had made some effort to compensate. I mean free food is free food!

    I still don't know if I would have tipped if they didn't answer at the 3 hour mark.
     
    I rarely order for delivery. If I did it would be pizza, but choosing delivery for me is pretty rare. Most of the time I can just drive down to the place on my way home from uni or dad picking up stuff from work. Delivery time here is pretty decent so I've never had to worry about things be late or whatever.

    In terms of tips, it's not as common to tip people as it is in America and other countries - Tipping in New Zealand is not obligatory (Most kiwi workers are paid a decent wage to start with and so a tip is not considered part of their salary). More or less, it's more of a belief that good service and hospitality is just part of the job. You can if you want, it's more common if the service was reaallly great, exceptional or more special than the norm, but even then it's not like you'd have to even that did happen.

    I remember this coming up in an article once in the newspaper once, but a lot of people here are against tipping since they don't want tipping becoming the norm both in theory and in practice. Workers here just doesn't expect to get tips with their service.

    My family does do tips sometimes and that's usually in the once in a while restaurant dinner or event. I guess for that we'd tip about $20 normally since we rarely get any bad waiters and bad service is that comes once in a while - but not common.
    Things like pizza deliveries or what not, no one really does tip unless it's like they give a $20 and there's $3 change in it. But that's more of how people aren't really bothered to deal with change (and that doesn't always happen either).
     
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    If it's just one pizza then around $2. More for bigger orders. I've never had a time in which they took more than an hour to deliver my food though if that ever is a case it'll depend on the circumstances. Something they weren't responsible for then I'll still tip but yeah. I don't really think about these things until they actually happen, haha. And sometimes I would put the tip on the card so I technically already tipped them before they even got to my house so hey whatev.
     
    The only thing I get through delivery is pizza. They get the same standard tip I would give if out at dinner.

    We have two local Chinese joints. One we only like eating at in person (doesn't travel well and gets all steamed out lol). The other place offers a significant discount if you pick up, and we live close enough so gas fare isn't an issue and we don't have to tip
     
    I have gotten sushi, pizza and Chinese food delivered! I think that is pretty standard. I always tip, but then again I've never had a bad experience with delivery. I grew up in a place with no delivery and it was really only at different points in the last 4 years that I could get it. I lived in a city and typically just walked to pick up food instead of asking them to bring it to me.

    I don't really know how to not tip. That sort of thing just makes me feel guilty. I do tip extra for especially good service though.
     
    We get weekly vegetable boxes every Wednesday morning, and meat orders fortnightly, usually in the afternoon, on a random day. Usually it's me that answers the door, and I've never been given money to tip the deliverer with, and it's sure as hell not coming out of my pocket as I don't eat hardly any of it. My parents aren't overly keen on supermarket meat and veg - and I can't say I blame them; it tastes horrible or costs a small fortune for a tiny amount - so we get it from other suppliers. It's nice stuff in general, although the vegetable box is random a lot of weeks, which is highly aggravating sometimes.

    Never ordered pizza or anything; no plans to...I prefer not to let other people handle my food, even if it's in a box. Call me paranoid, but I wouldn't eat anything I hadn't seen prepared, or prepared myself.
     
    Just how many things do Americans tip for? If the driver isn't being paid enough that's their own problem. And if they go beyond the duties of their job description, that's at their discretion. I've done deliveries myself, of things that take a lot more backbreaking to handle than food, and I'm not inclined to expect extra money for any reason.
     
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    Honestly? I never do delivery. If I want Chinese, I just go to the place cause there aren't any that actually deliver around here. They're all take-out exclusively or buffets. As for pizza, my favorite is Little Caesar's deep dish and they don't deliver either, so I always go pick it up.

    If I were to do delivery, I'd probably do 15% of the bill, maybe extra. I have to live off pooled tips and I understand how difficult that is. So yeah. I just assume that the delivery person is getting paid like shit like I do so I'd give them whatever I can. I don't really keep cash on me, so that's a thing lol.
     
    I know that for many, and most, countries tipping is not expected. Rather, the employer pays the deliverer better base wages.

    It's a nice way for businesses to reduce overhead by shifted burden on to the consumer. If the tip is high or low, the employer wins either way. The consumer has lower base prices due to lower overhead of employers, though with a added tip, the cost is either a bit lower, the same, or higher, and lastly however, the service person is left in limbo (and thus it's assumed they will work harder to better their predicament.)

    If this is the system of tipping, and we maintain this system is established for the purpose of improving service industries and effort-based pay, is it not better as a consumer to actively vary tip based on performance?

    It seems like there are low-tipping consumers and high-tipping consumers, who tip fairly the same regardless of the performance of the service person. In that case, does this negatively impact the service industry? As a consumer, do we affect other consumers by the way we tip?

    That is, if I give a high tip to a low-performing service person, does that encourage low-performance to the next consumer? Similarly, if I give a low-tip to a high-performance service person, does that discourage workers from continuing excellence and sense of job security? As you can see, there are negative implications to both consumers and workers.

    That is the argument to be made for varying how much we tip. Though, abolishing the custom of tips all together might be a better solution, though I am not prepared to argue either side.
     
    I get pizzas delivered to my college every so often, that's about it. I've had a few friends work in delivery and I know how it can be a pain dealing with cheap customers, so I usually tip about 50 percent.
     
    Tipping is much less a thing in the UK so I don't tip very often at all. Then again we can't really afford to have food delivered either. ...or purchased out. So the opportunities for tipping are minimal in the first place.

    Spiff said:
    I get pizzas delivered to my college every so often, that's about it. I've had a few friends work in delivery and I know how it can be a pain dealing with cheap customers, so I usually tip about 50 percent.
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    > in college
    > can afford delivery
    > can also afford to tip 50%

    teach me your ways
     
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