17 More Things Your Pizza Delivery Guy Won't Tell You

Instead of a taxi next time go to a pizza store and order a pizza to be delivered to your house. Then ask the driver for a lift home. Pay for the pizza and a decent tip and it is still cheaper then a taxi fare and you have dinner as well.

Yes, definitely tip the driver. Remember, like waiters, they get paid based on minimum wage and tips, and pay taxes on estimated tips. So when you don't tip, it actually costs them money to serve you. I disagree with "12. If you live across the street, please don’t call for a delivery". There are reasons why room service exists and they apply to next door deliveries as well...injuries, watching children, working/conferencing, etc... If the tip is there, what difference is it?

"Mike" if you can't afford the tip, don't get it delivered, talk about just rude. I'll gladly tip $5 for a $12 pizza. A large pizza will feed 3-4, you'll spend more at any fast food place, and if you want to save money, pick it up, or Digorno it!

Look, normally, I'm a decent tipper. This used to be true of pizza delivery as well. Lately, though, I don't tip delivery drivers from major chains very well. Here's the deal. I'm ordering a $10-$15 pizza. The chain is tacking a $1.50 - $2.00 delivery fee on me. Then you want another $2 - $3 tip for delivering it? No, sorry, but I'm not paying 50% more for my pizza just to have it delivered. And for the record, yes, I have expressed this sentiment to both Domino's and Papa John's.

The $1.00-$2.00 is a pity prize for the delivery driver who get stiffed by the customers. Look at it this way, you're paying the extra money so YOU don't have to drive out to the store to get your pizza. Nobody would be delivering your pizza if tipping didn't happen. Most of the community tips, I guarantee if you always stiff the driver, when your address appears on the monitor, drivers will wait as long as possible until something near there pops up. You will get food faster with tip.

fyi - the included delivery charge is to cover the driver for gas, and in all reality they don't even see all of that, the store still keeps some of it. so you shouldn't really think of it as an included tip.

Pizza is way to expensive to just throw away money like that. Times are hard and you should pinch every dollar you can manage. As for the delivery drivers who are saying, woe is me. Like Ronzander said, it's your job! Plus there is already a delivery fee added to the bill. So, in actuality I'm paying for your service to be delivered to my door twice with a tip. Songbird, you're an idiot. You're going to tip someone more than the price that you paid and on top of that you don't have an oven. WOW

Not everybody has good paying jobs. For most of us, this is our 2nd job to support our family and feed our kids. We make minimum wage and use our own cars to deliver. We have extra expenses for car maintenance. We rely on tips. WE ARE NOT WHINERS! Why do people tip waiters and not us? We bring your food to your house and we are more exposed to more hazzards on the road. If you can afford to pay $20 for pizzas, why can't you afford to tip $2?

There's almost always one thing you can do to guarantee that you're going to get some kind of tip this or the next time you see them: If their bill is like $15.18, just keep some extra change to help them with the $0.18. A surprising amount of people will just give you the extra dollar they were going to spend in addition to your regular tip since they don't have to get back even MORE change. If not that, a lot of times they'll repay you at least the next time you see them. It's not a bad idea.

I have not seen so many whiners in my life. If you can't live on what they pay, then GET A REAL JOB! If a pizza shop can't find idiots to take advantage of, they will increase their wages. Simple economics tells you that, but I doubt any of the professional pizza delivery drivers complaining here about bad tippers etc, will ever be doing anything productive their whole lives. Don't hold your hand out if I pay a delivery fee, because delivering IS YOUR JOB. No one tips me at my job, so shut up!