How much do you tip the pizza guy (or tip in general)?

**celeb_2006** · March 9th, 2008, 04:41 PM

I've been reading a few pizza delivery websites, and some have message boards with amusing stories of tippers and other things delivery drivers deal with. How much do you guys tip the delivery guy? How much do you tip in general?

I usually tip the pizza delivery person very well.

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**qwerty** · March 9th, 2008, 04:51 PM

at least 20%

**Laurent** · March 9th, 2008, 04:54 PM

I tip 20% usually - more for exceptional service, less if the service is extraordinarily shitty.

**tee-ha-ha** · March 9th, 2008, 05:01 PM

Since I'm already paying a delivery charge and pizza delivery drivers around here make $8-$10 an hour (at least that's what the help wanted ads claim) and ALL they're bringing me is pizza, they get $2 per pie. I tip a waiter/waitress 20% for repeatedly bringing me stuff and because they make shit wages per hour, but a pizza delivery guy isn't getting any damn 20%.

**Penny Lane** · March 9th, 2008, 05:03 PM

Pfft.. when the guy shows up sweaty, an hour and a half late, and scratching his crotch I rarely tip well, if at all. I've never gotten good delivery service.

At restaurants, however, I usually tip minimum 20%.. up to 50% if the guy gave us drinks.

**tee-ha-ha** · March 9th, 2008, 05:09 PM

Originally Posted by stylejunkiex

Pfft.. when the guy shows up sweaty, an hour and a half late, and scratching his crotch I rarely tip well, if at all. I've never gotten good delivery service.

At restaurants, however, I usually tip minimum 20%.. up to 50% if the guy gave us drinks.

I remember back a few years ago we'd double the tax and that would be the tip; that would be about 16-17%, and we thought that was a good tip since the standard was 15%. When did it become 20%? When did it become a minimum of 20%? I rarely tip over 20% unless it's just easier to add the check up that way, since service that I would classify as "exceptional" is extremely rare.

For example, yesterday my fiance and I went out to dinner with a few members of his family to Texas Land & Cattle (a steakhouse chain here in TX). There were six of us and we were sat at a booth so small that we had barely any elbow room. The place was cold and the floor was filthy. The bathrooms were dirty and the service, while friendly, was slow. When my food arrived my steak was undercooked and the potatoes were cold. The salad was soggy. The sirloin nachos we got as an appetizer were cold. Basically it was a terribly mediocre meal. I felt ripped off to begin with when it cost $65 to feed my fiance and I, but I still tipped 20% because the other members of the party tipped 20% and I felt pressured. Had I not wanted to spoil his birthday by making a scene, I'd have sent everything back or asked for money to be taken off for the dirtiness, coldness, slowness, wrongness, etc. It sucked ASS.

Basically the place was an overpriced ripoff and on TOP of that, they expect me to make up the wages of their waitstaff while they enjoy giant profit margins by overcharging for substandard crap? They can suck my ass, I'm never going there again.

**witchcurlgirl** · March 9th, 2008, 05:31 PM

If I order a pie here and it's $15 I give the delivery guy $5.

I live in NY, it's a tip culture. I tip everyone, and I tip them well. They always remember and take care of me in return.

**southernbelle** · March 9th, 2008, 06:02 PM

When I order delivery, I give a minimum of $5.00. I used to work at a pizza place answering phones and I know that those delivery drivers really do work hard and often depend on tips. At the place where I worked, they were not making anything CLOSE to $8-10 per hour. They also had to pay for their own gas. My brother also worked delivery at a restaurant in high school and he had to quit because it cost him more to work there (paying for gas to drive his truck all over the area making deliveries) than he was making.

At restaurants, I give a minimum of 20%. If they give me free appetizers or drinks, I usually add the cost of whatever they gave me to their tip.

If I'm really dissatisfied with the service (not the quality of the food but the actual service) I will leave 15%, but that rarely happens. I've only not left anything once, and I felt bad doing it. The waitress completely ignored us- she rolled her eyes while she was taking our order, brought our food out after 45 minutes, literally slamming it down on the table along with the check and then walking away,and didn't come back once to check on us or refill our drinks. The orders weren't even right, but we didn't get the chance to tell her because she didn't come back.

**WhateverLolaWants** · March 10th, 2008, 03:08 PM

It depends whether or not he comes in, has sex with me, has sex with my roommate, the moneyshots in front of the camera.

Obviously.

**Just Kill Me** · March 10th, 2008, 03:13 PM

I agree with Southernbelle. I don't think I've ever not left a tip; even in the case of the most shitty service because as pissed as I may be at them I still feel sorry for them. Not that it makes any sense.

**radha** · March 12th, 2008, 03:14 PM

we tip a lot, always. those jobs are tough

**S&R's Mom** · March 26th, 2008, 05:56 AM

I was with a group at Applebees in Fl. Everyone got their drinks except me. After about 15 min. My brother got the waiters attn. 2 bartenders were talking to folkes at the bar and not making drinks. They finally looked our way and I threw up my hands like wtf how about my margarita. When the waiter brought over the drink My Brother made a comment about the wait. The waiter quickly jumped bro and said hey don't blame me blame the bartender. Not a good attitude to have if your depending on a nice tip. When the check came Bro said he would take the check and the waiter said oh no dude you don't even like me, Bro said true, but I'll take the check anyway. The kid got a nice tip, but it would have been much better if he had been much better.

We always tip the pizza guy $5.

**Aella** · March 26th, 2008, 05:57 AM

Originally Posted by WhateverLolaWants

It depends whether or not he comes in, has sex with me, has sex with my roommate, the moneyshots in front of the camera.

Obviously.

**Laxmobster** · March 26th, 2008, 10:06 AM

Pizza delivery: $5
Restaurant: 20%

I alway try to tip well because I know the servers make their living off tips and most of them(in my area) are working college students. It's good karma anyways...