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‘The entitlement is killing me’: Domino’s delivery driver asks customer for tip before handing them the pizza
Daily Dot ^ | Dec 13, 2022 | Rebekah Harding

Posted on 12/16/2022 12:04:24 PM PST by nickcarraway

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To: dsrtsage

“I always way overtip.”

Me too. Waitressed a lot in high school and college.

In college, my job started at 5 a.m. On Saturdays and Sundays.

Drunks tipped great. The hung over not so much.


41 posted on 12/16/2022 2:13:25 PM PST by lizma2
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To: nickcarraway

The video got 2.7 million views on TikTok. That might be enough to monetize and get free pizza for life.

Dominos drivers often make less than minimum wage when they’re on the road. Tipping is part of their wage. If you order service from someone where tipping is part of their wage, and you have no intention of tipping, you are a thief. That being said, if service is sub-par such that you wish you had gone to get it yourself, then maybe not tipping is justified.

At pizza places that deliver, like Dominos, the drivers usually know who is known to be a good tipper or bad. The driver might have been very direct because drivers would rather not get orders from customers who steal their service. In other words, the driver was already expecting the customer not to tip and was rude and aggressive because this customer may already have a reputation.

She should have said, “I’m not allowed to ask for a tip, but I can ask for protection money.”

What bugs me more, though, is that this customer might be able to monetize his or her evil deeds.


42 posted on 12/16/2022 2:18:36 PM PST by unlearner (RIP America. July 4, 1776 - December 13, 2022. )
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To: Lazamataz

Bkmk


43 posted on 12/16/2022 2:25:22 PM PST by sauropod (Fascists also buy Comcast cable packages" - Olby - Wanna buy mine?)
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To: dsrtsage

I tip delivery people. If one asks for a tip I will not give it, but will contact the company.


44 posted on 12/16/2022 2:32:08 PM PST by I want the USA back (News media not worth camel spit. My pronouns: Who, What, I Don't Know.)
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To: nickcarraway

Did the same thing in a ‘progressive’ city. They tacked on a 3.5% (or something like that) “Living Wage Charge”, so I said, “Fine, that’s your tip”. They were pissed. And the thing was, the guy had a portable credit card processor so he knew his non-tip before he even walked away from the table.

Needless to say, he got an ‘appropriate’ review on-line.


45 posted on 12/16/2022 3:24:58 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 10 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: teeman8r

“TIPS were to insure proper service...perhaps asking before delivering is acceptable.”

Then build it into the price, like most countries do.

Now with waiters making $20+ per hour (more than twice what they made just 5 years ago), they already have their ‘tip’ as far as I’m concerned.


46 posted on 12/16/2022 3:26:23 PM PST by BobL (By the way, low tonight in Latvia: 10 degrees, brrrr!)
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To: nickcarraway
I'd tell him to pound sand and order from Papa John's instead.

Besides, paying beforehand isn't a "tip," it's baksheesh. If you want baksheesh, move to Arabia. We don't do that crap here.

47 posted on 12/16/2022 4:07:27 PM PST by Paal Gulli
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To: ansel12

Pizza delivery is traditionally a job in which the driver works for tips. This driver was rude, but to not tip a pizza delivery driver is just cheap and tacky.


48 posted on 12/16/2022 7:59:41 PM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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To: Flaming Conservative

Tips are a bonus, customers give one when they choose, it is random.
Traditionally a pizza deliverer’s job is to deliver pizza, collect his wages and gas compensation, hope for tips, and be grateful when they are given.


49 posted on 12/16/2022 8:13:10 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ChronicMA

“It was standard to tip your executioner back in the day.”
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“You know your history!” From Evelyn, in The Mummy

PS. Most folks today cannot comprehend wanting to pay someone before being executed. Though they were paying to be simply executed; they were being paid to execute correctly and true to the mark on the first swing.

Egads. What a thought, yes?


50 posted on 12/16/2022 9:28:59 PM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet. )
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To: ChronicMA

Ack!

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Though they were *not* paying to be simply executed; they were being paid to execute correctly and true to the mark on the first swing.


51 posted on 12/16/2022 9:31:09 PM PST by Notthereyet (NotThereYet. )
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To: nickcarraway

I have always tipped, and I tip well for good service. If you are unwilling to tip as you should then you should never eat out and you should never order delivery.

I even avoid eating out with people that I know who do not tip or do not tip properly.

There was this couple I knew that would not tip and always had an issue with the bill, after two or three times it became a pattern and I KNEW they were getting good service.

So now whenever they ask to meet at a restaurant I, am conveniently doing other things and can’t make it.


52 posted on 12/17/2022 10:54:05 AM PST by JoeRender
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To: Drew68

You might try posting what really happened: ‘Delivery driver demanded tip before delivering tip!’


53 posted on 12/17/2022 2:51:27 PM PST by SaintsWillWin
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