My office orders delivery (for lunch) fairly regulary on the company card--I am the one responsible for tipping the delivery guy. How much do I tip? I think 20% is kind of too much considering all he did was bring the food... But the total bill is usually between $60 and $100. What do you think is a reasonable tip?

I usually do 15% and, as Efan said, 20% if the weather's bad.

Tip?
Don't they have a salary?

Genesia said:

Good call, I do up the tip if it's yucky weather.


Of course, I almost never order delivery.

I usually tip delivery guys 15-20%.

Tip?
Don't they have a salary?

Of course, I almost never order delivery.

Don't be ungrateful. If all he did was bring your food, why didn't you go pick it up yourself?

Tip?
Don't they have celery?

Lammastide said:

I'm not being ungrateful; it's not my job to go pick it up. It is their job to deliver it. I tip very well at restaurants -- at least 20%, but the server is refilling my glass, bringing appetizers, the table is already set, etc. Delivery service does not include those things. And they usually mess up the order.

My neighbours ALWAYS order in when the weather is really bad ... strange

I'm English. We don't tip. Well I bloody don't anyway. Nobody ever tips me where when I do my job!

BlueZebra said:

thats when i order out

Genesia said:

Good call, I do up the tip if it's yucky weather.


Of course, I almost never order delivery.

Cuddles said:

funny thing is that they don't seem to remember that they ordered something ... then bring me pizza

If I have one operating philosophy about life it is this: "Be cool to the pizza delivery dude; it's good luck." Four principles guide the pizza dude philosophy.

Principle 1: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in humility and forgiveness. I let him cut me off in traffic, let him safely hit the exit ramp from the left lane, let him forget to use his blinker without extending any of my digits out the window or towards my horn because there should be one moment in my harried life when a car may encroach or cut off or pass and I let it go. Sometimes when I have become so certain of my ownership of my lane, daring anyone to challenge me, the pizza dude speeds by me in his rusted Chevette. His pizza light atop his car glowing like a beacon reminds me to check myself as I flow through the world. After all, the dude is delivering pizza to young and old, families and singletons, gays and straights, blacks, whites and browns, rich and poor, vegetarians and meat lovers alike. As he journeys, I give safe passage, practice restraint, show courtesy, and contain my anger.

Principle 2: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in empathy. Let's face it: We've all taken jobs just to have a job because some money is better than none. I've held an assortment of these jobs and was grateful for the paycheck that meant I didn't have to share my Cheerios with my cats. In the big pizza wheel of life, sometimes you're the hot bubbly cheese and sometimes you're the burnt crust. It's good to remember the fickle spinning of that wheel.

Principle 3: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in honor and it reminds me to honor honest work. Let me tell you something about these dudes: They never took over a company and, as CEO, artificially inflated the value of the stock and cashed out their own shares, bringing the company to the brink of bankruptcy, resulting in 20,000 people losing their jobs while the CEO builds a home the size of a luxury hotel. Rather, the dudes sleep the sleep of the just.

Principle 4: Coolness to the pizza delivery dude is a practice in equality. My measurement as a human being, my worth, is the pride I take in performing my job -- any job -- and the respect with which I treat others. I am the equal of the world not because of the car I drive, the size of the TV I own, the weight I can bench press, or the calculus equations I can solve. I am the equal to all I meet because of the kindness in my heart. And it all starts here -- with the pizza delivery dude.

Tip him well, friends and brethren, for that which you bestow freely and willingly will bring you all the happy luck that a grateful universe knows how to return.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4651531

They make less than minimum wage.

wildgoldenhoney said:

my pizza guy is cool, and he will pick up shit from the store too if i ask him