Delivery tipping etiquette
Discussion
Option 1. They pay the delivery person more and the price of your meal goes up by a couple of Quid.
Option 2. Their pay stays the same, the cost of the meal stays the same and you pay a couple of Quid tip.
Delivering may not be their only job either.
They may do it to top up their other s
t wage they get for doing something else for you.
Option 2. Their pay stays the same, the cost of the meal stays the same and you pay a couple of Quid tip.
Delivering may not be their only job either.
They may do it to top up their other s
t wage they get for doing something else for you.Martin4x4 said:
Many deliver drivers don't get paid the tip is their pay.
The greedy scum bags that don't tip should get of their fat asses and go get their own food.
Utter nonsense. If that's the case it's illegal and it should be reported.The greedy scum bags that don't tip should get of their fat asses and go get their own food.
To not tip does not make you a greedy scumbag. A company is offering a product at a price and you are agreeing to buy it. You're not agreeing to buy it and handle the company's payroll on a cash in hand basis.
A lot of takeaways charge for delivery anyway if you are a few miles out or the order is over a certain value.
longshot said:
Option 1. They pay the delivery person more and the price of your meal goes up by a couple of Quid.
Option 2. Their pay stays the same, the cost of the meal stays the same and you pay a couple of Quid tip.
Yup, you're going to pay it anyway. Though I'd prefer it if it was done in the transparent way of it being included in the price, as this would also force everyone to pay it.Option 2. Their pay stays the same, the cost of the meal stays the same and you pay a couple of Quid tip.
KFC said:
I guess it depends how much you earn in comparison. If you've busted your balls all week stacking shelves in Tesco for the same hourly rate he's working for then no I wouldn't say its reasonable for him expect a tip.
It's irrelevant - they're getting paid to do a job. It's up to their employer to pay them, not me. Other minimum wage jobs like stacking shelves don't get tips. What is it about this specific minimum wage job that means they deserve a tip? I've never tipped a shelf stacker, and back when I was in uni I stacked shelves, and I didn't expect a tip. What puts takeaway delivery drivers on a pedestal? I have in the past delivered pizza to support my degree and the staff were allsorts. Some were stoners living with thier parents, others WERE parents with thier backs to the wall.
Tips were always most welcome (obviously) but one thing for sure - if you were a good tipper they got the delivery first even if it meant a longer route to do it.
On the other end of the scale were those that were rude, deliberately obnoxious or found it hilarious to give a tenner with a smirk for a £9.99 meal and say keep the change. They were remembered also....
Funnily enough I never ever got a tip from anyone with an American accent - indeed they were the rudest of all.
IME about half of all people used to tip a quid so the average was about 50p a house but this was 10 years ago.
I was also tipped, oddly a pound winning scratchcard once and a couple of cans of beer another time. I was also invited in for a toke on an other occasion by a guy on his own listening to Slayer (declined) so there is a scale of what to expect.
Weirdest of all was a door openened by a guy in a white robe with rolling eyese "helloooooooo" which led to (I assume) his mum to fly out of another room shouting "NO, NO, GET UPSTAIRS GET UPSTAIRS!" and she chased him up and locked him in a room with a shoot bolt on the outside and when she came back down she was all normal "Hi how much is that? Yeah thanks etc" Wierd as hell.
I tip a quid to two quid dependant on the value and what I have in my wallet - its a nice gesture and its genuinely appreciated as well as having benefit if you are a regular customer. Happily I no longer have to worry about a pound here or there so its nothing to me - but it goes a long way if someone is forced to make ends meet by delivering food.
Id also point out that dependent on where you live delivery drivers run a real risk of being assualted, robbed and allsorts if they arent 100% switched on. Its not a fun job (sometimes it can be) but generally it sucks taking food into a sink estate where people are hungry and poor. They have that as well as taking food the more usual PH 5 bed houses in nicetown.
Tips were always most welcome (obviously) but one thing for sure - if you were a good tipper they got the delivery first even if it meant a longer route to do it.
On the other end of the scale were those that were rude, deliberately obnoxious or found it hilarious to give a tenner with a smirk for a £9.99 meal and say keep the change. They were remembered also....
Funnily enough I never ever got a tip from anyone with an American accent - indeed they were the rudest of all.
IME about half of all people used to tip a quid so the average was about 50p a house but this was 10 years ago.
I was also tipped, oddly a pound winning scratchcard once and a couple of cans of beer another time. I was also invited in for a toke on an other occasion by a guy on his own listening to Slayer (declined) so there is a scale of what to expect.
Weirdest of all was a door openened by a guy in a white robe with rolling eyese "helloooooooo" which led to (I assume) his mum to fly out of another room shouting "NO, NO, GET UPSTAIRS GET UPSTAIRS!" and she chased him up and locked him in a room with a shoot bolt on the outside and when she came back down she was all normal "Hi how much is that? Yeah thanks etc" Wierd as hell.
I tip a quid to two quid dependant on the value and what I have in my wallet - its a nice gesture and its genuinely appreciated as well as having benefit if you are a regular customer. Happily I no longer have to worry about a pound here or there so its nothing to me - but it goes a long way if someone is forced to make ends meet by delivering food.
Id also point out that dependent on where you live delivery drivers run a real risk of being assualted, robbed and allsorts if they arent 100% switched on. Its not a fun job (sometimes it can be) but generally it sucks taking food into a sink estate where people are hungry and poor. They have that as well as taking food the more usual PH 5 bed houses in nicetown.
Edited by paolow on Sunday 25th January 21:48
Mastodon2 said:
It's irrelevant - they're getting paid to do a job. It's up to their employer to pay them, not me. Other minimum wage jobs like stacking shelves don't get tips. What is it about this specific minimum wage job that means they deserve a tip? I've never tipped a shelf stacker, and back when I was in uni I stacked shelves, and I didn't expect a tip. What puts takeaway delivery drivers on a pedestal?
Because often a delivery driver for an independent chinese or indian will be "self employed" and not even have the safety net of minimum wage that the Tesco till guy has. I guess I just have some respect for them for choosing to do such a st job for crap money in unsocial hours, and I'd rather give them a couple of quid extra if they manage to deliver quickly and not mess up my order 
I try and avoid the ones with delivery charges, because that just ends up in the owner's pocket. It would be extremely gullible to think that just because they charge extra for delivery, that the driver is getting more money than the drivers at companies that don't charge extra for delivery.
It's the same reason I leave a cash tip on the table at restaurants rather than adding it to the credit card bill... that way you know it's more likely to go into your waiter's pocket than into the profit margins of the business.
It's the same reason I leave a cash tip on the table at restaurants rather than adding it to the credit card bill... that way you know it's more likely to go into your waiter's pocket than into the profit margins of the business.
Martin4x4 said:
The greedy scum bags that don't tip should get of their fat asses and go get their own food.
My usual takeaway is pizza, which is buy one get one free if you collect, so by having it delivered I'm already paying twice as much as if I was to collect it myself, I'd say that should cover it. 
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