Should I tip if theres a delivery charge?
Any charges such as that aren’t something that gets kicked down to the delivery person. Those dropping of the food, just as in a restaurant are totally muling it around for you, unless you give them something. 15% of pretax total is generally considered the ‘average’ tip. Plus factor in the vehicle wear and tear, insurance, gas, etc. In a delivery instance, if you don’t tip them they may actually ‘lose’ money in the end. Same goes for a lot of servers/bartenders. We have to tip other people out, generally, at the end of our shifts: managers, kitchen staff, food runners, bussers, dishwashers. If you don’t tip, you cost the person helping you money. So don’t be a dickhead.
As a delivery driver for Pizza Hut: – Currently we have a $2.50 delivery charge. It’s gone up from $1.50 last January. – Back when it was $1.50, we got $0.91. It jumped to $2 and our cut went to $0.96; when it jumped to $2.50 we started getting $1.01, but now that gas prices are going down we only get $0.96 of the $2.50. – That cut goes directly into my gas tank, and the company specifically does the math so our cut is (average gas price)x(average delivery distance)/(average mpg). They keep the rest to cover their rising cost of doing business, or at least that’s what we’re told. – Once delivery got expensive enough that the math started not making sense to people (I don’t recall anyone noticing when their order was $1.50 more, but a lot of people notice the extra $2.50), we started getting stiffed a lot more. People started getting indignant about being charged extra, and they assume we get all of it. – We complain about it, but the recent drop in compensation without decreasing the f
