Posted on 11/08/2012 1:54:07 PM PST by Morgana
Next time Chloe Teply orders a pizza maybe she'll budget a few extra dollars to tip the delivery driver.
Teply learned the hard way delivery men don't like being stiffed when a Des Moines, Iowa, Pizza Hut employee urinated on her doorstep in retribution for the denied tip.
'It's just one of those things where unfortunately, I don't have the money,' Teply told KCRG.
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She forgot about it the delivery until a few hours later when she opened the door and saw a yellow puddle.
'I was like 'Hmmm who was at my door that might be upset with me' and it kind of hit me that it was the pizza delivery guy,' she said.
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A number of years ago I was going through MIA on my way to a flight. A luggage handler walked up and asked if he could assist, to which I said yes.
When we got to the counter I realized I did not have any bills, so I dug into my pocket and gave him a couple of bucks in change. (Generally at that time this was the standard “tip”.) (I will not tell you what part of town he was from, but they were all union.)
He muttered an obscene oath and threw the change on the ground at my feet (which a number of astonished bystanders noted).
From then on I have always carried my own luggage. If they think this advances them, they are extraordinarily stupid.
Uh, no they don’t. I don’t know where you get your information or what state you live in.
Delivery drivers are paid minimum wage at least and places like PH, Dominoes, etc. pay them a small price per delivery - usually around .55 to $1.00.
Tips are a plus. In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s no one tipped delivery drivers. I drove for and managed the biggest PH delivery store in a college town. We kept a list of address in the back of places that did tip because it was rare. But then in those days pizza cost a lot more than today. A large, deep pan Supreme would run you $22 or more.
If they only made tips today there wouldn’t be any since you, on average, only deliver about 4-5 per hour even in a 2 mile radius delivery zone.
Next time she’s gonna get “free toppings” on her pizza.
Wire the door to an electric fence charger then order another pizza... :-)
Remins me of the time a few years ago when I found a wallet while riding my bike on a countryside road here in Japan . Filled with credit cards and about 800 dollars in it . Researched the woman’s phone # from her address on her license and called her up . What was my reward ? An $ 8 sponge cake .
LOL. she's got a list?
The standard when I worked was this.
20 deliveries a day.
4 dollars base delivery fee + tips.
Average driving distance was 50 miles a day.
Average tips were about 2 dollars per delivery, so we made about 120 dollars in an 8 hour day. so roughly 12 dollars an hour.
if he would have handled it properly she might have tipped next time however this almost assuredly garauntees she wont.
That must have made you feel so very superior.
You are an a$$.
I think the base around here is $6 + .55 per delivery.
A tick fan eh?
You are wrong. My son worked as a delivery driver for Pizza Hutt last year and he only received tips. The ‘delivery charge’ goes to Pizza Hutt and pays for the insurance for the drivers, that’s it.
If a driver receives NO tips during their shift, they can collect an hourly wage, but that never happens. If you get ONE tip, that negates that option.
As for tipping a waitress... I worked for $2.60 an hour as a waitress.
Why?
Because they assume you’ll make up the difference in TIPS.
People who don’t tip are garbage.
Waiters and waitress are different. In my opinion the laws should be changed and employers should be forced to pay them minimum wage. People don’t tip the wait staff like they ought to and at times the staff may not deserve it. So just pay them minimum wage and anything after that is a bonus.
I delivered Chinese food in 1965. I was paid minimum wage of about $1.30 per hour plus tips. The tips would generally make up about one third of my total pay.
You get to be pretty good at fumbling with change in order to maximize tips. You carry a lot of one dollar bills. You don't want to hand a customer 35 cents plus a five dollar bill in change unless you really want a 35 cent tip.
The total purchase price was key to getting a good tip.
It was terrible if the total bill was $9.35. You're getting a 65 cent tip. Much better if the bill was $8.70. Then you got $1.30, twice as much.
Would you want one of your employees leaving nasty notes for YOUR customers? This unruly employee could destroy your business without your even knowing what was happening.
I give delivery drivers 10%.
The take-out place I worked for delivered to a wide area in the mid San Francisco peninsula. Some deliveries might take about eight minutes; some closer to 25 minutes.
Sometimes the orders would be for just a couple of menu items, totaling perhaps $5 or less. A large order might get up to about $25 dollars for dinner for four.
Using your formula, small orders to a distant customer might net about $1 per hour in tips. Large orders to close customers could earn $27.50 per hour in tips.
I would suggest that you look at what percentage of his income your tip makes up. It should probably be between 50 to 100 percent of his wage, taking into accound how much of his time you have used. The actual value of the item delivered is probably not very relevant.
Where? Sounds like NY or San Fran! lol
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