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13+ Things Your Pizza Guy Won’t Tell You

Love pizza? Get smarter about service with our list of things pizza delivery people wish you knew before dialing in your order.

By Maureen Mackey from Reader's Digest
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1. It's a pizza, not a lifetime commitment.

My other line is ringing, so choose the toppings before you call.

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2. We know when kids are prank-calling us.

They can’t mask their voices very well. The smart ones block the phone number. The dumb ones don’t.

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3. Accidents happen.

If I drop your pizza on the way, sometimes I’ll shake the box to get the cheese to slide back on right.

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4. Patience, please!

It takes about 20 minutes to go from raw dough to fully baked pizza. And then I have to drive to your house.

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5. Why won't we deliver to some neighborhoods?

In some neighborhoods, a kid getting out of a car with a pizza in his hands is like screaming, “Rob me! I have cash!”

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6. I'm a human being.

When you see me drenched and shivering in the rain, it’s not nice to close the door in my face while you search for some quarters in the sofa cushions.

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7. Use your manners.

When you open the door, please hang up your cell phone or put it down. It’s basic etiquette.

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8. Before you open the door,

I’d prefer that you have a shirt on (and definitely some pants).

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9. Tips should be 10 to 15 percent of your order.

If you order a lot of pizza—say, hundreds of dollars’ worth, for a party or something—but give me a $1 tip, well, I’m going to have a problem with that.

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10. The more gated the community, the more guarded the wallet.

The best tips actually come from middle- and lower-class people who know what we go through.

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11. I remember every customer who doesn't tip.

I won’t do anything to jeopardize my job, but shaking the soda on the next delivery would not be out of the question.

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12. I can't wait forever.

I’ll knock on your door three times and call you on the phone twice. If you don’t answer, don’t call later to complain that you didn’t get your food.

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13. Some people want more than just pizza.

A guy once ordered pizza from me just so he’d have some help moving his sofa up a flight of stairs. I agreed to help him. He gave me a few extra bucks. I took it.

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14. Telling me your address is just the first step.

Making sure the number is on your house or mailbox is kind of important too.

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15. I can't afford to be choosy.

We have some fantastic customers and some who are just terrible. But I’ll deliver to them all—this is what I do.

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16. I'm just a kid.

Many delivery drivers are teenage boys, and most parents don’t like their teenage boys driving around at night in downpours or blizzards. Yet these same people have no qualms about having other teenage kids deliver their pizza in these conditions.

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17. There are always special customers.

Like the little old lady who wants to pay her bill with a $5 check. I’ll take it because none of us want to be mean to a grandmother. But if she hasn’t ordered from us before, I won’t take it.

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18. Keep it short and sweet.

We act like we really want to have a conversation with you at your door, but we don’t, unless we know you. Basically, we just want to get the delivery over with. I will try to be as nice to you as possible, but if you complain that I’m late, or if you have a problem with your order, I won’t be so nice.

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19.The majority of our employees work 12-14 hours a day.

At the end of the day, we just want to go home. So please don’t call for a delivery at closing time and then complain that we can’t accommodate you.

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20. At our shop, we use our own cars to deliver pizza.

Last week one of our guys smashed his car into a pole on an icy road. Now he’s using a rental car.

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21. I'm one of the easiest people to get along with.

But if you’re rude to me, I have no problem going toe-to-toe with you.

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22. I can't wait much longer than a few minutes.

Don’t jump in the shower right after you order pizza and then not the answer the door.

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23. If you live across the street, please don’t call for a delivery.

Get off your rear end and pick up the pizza yourself.

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24. I'm over pizza.

After I leave this job, I’m sure I won’t be able to eat pizza for at least a year.

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25. Time is money.

The majority of customers who stand there chatting about the weather are just trying to make up for not giving us tips.

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26. You ordered the pizza.

You know how much it costs. Please have your money (and tip) ready when you answer the door.

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27. I don't have the authority to give you a discount.

Really, I don't. I'm just the delivery guy. 


Sources: Anonymous pizza delivery people in New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

Your Comments

  • AZ Guest

    #9 It’s always good to ask when you place the order if gratuity is included in the quoted price. Some places already add their drivers tip to the bill. I also learned that many of these places have people who don’t understand the word “gratuity” so you”ll need to use a more familiar word like “tip” or “added charge”.

    • Dannyboy6

      I’m 55,have Never had a TIP included on the bill,maybe a Service Charge,for delivery,but not a Tip,i don’t know who gets the service charge,but i would never trust the place to give it to the driver,so a Tip is in Order.

      • Xavier Mills

         u obviously have never taken a limo or been in a prty of 8 or more at a restaurant

        • obvously

           Pretty sure he was talking about ordering pizza.  You know, the topic of the article he commented on.  I have also never seen a tip added to a pizza bill.

        • Jack J

          that’s restaurant, not pizza delivery. You must be a foreigner or something. I’ve never heard of them adding gratuity to the total, and I’ve ordered a lot of pizzas.

          • Jay B.

            A major pizza chain here in north Georgia adds a gratuity to all Delivery orders. That is in addition to the Delivery charge they add

          • Jay B.

            A major pizza chain here in north Georgia adds a gratuity to all Delivery orders. That is in addition to the Delivery charge they add

          • Jay B.

            A major pizza chain here in north Georgia adds a gratuity to all Delivery orders. That is in addition to the Delivery charge they add

          • Elmehaffey

            Sometimes you can ask them to add tip to your order BEFORE it is delivered. If so, it will show on the slip you sign.

          • Tatsuoni34

            I know the tip is added in on everything in Germany, even delivery, and they find it weird when people tip.

          • Tinkxnxkisses

            Jesus, could we seriously not get racist for once on a topic!

          • adeliveryguy

            It’s not racist; tipping practices are radically different in other countries. Besides, speaking from experience, foreigners do tip at a lower rate (if even at all), likely because of what I juat mentioned

          • Skinny petesp

            I BET. PIGGY

          • Coaster

            Jack J and adeliveryguy are totally correct. Having lived in an area 15 minutes from a major international airport, I have seen how foreign people shop. Some countries, they will haggle the price. Some, they don’t tip, or tip very little. I have witnessed foreigners checking their receipt and asking where the tip charge is.
            Just because someone isn’t American, and it gets mentioned, don’t go all overboard with racism comments. Who’s a little overly pc? Is it skinny petesp? Keep your shirt on kid, no one’s pointing at you.

        • Tommyfranklin

          Check the writing style, obviously a kid.

        • http://profile.yahoo.com/MCTKFRYMADWBYPRS44CFTT44SU Jean

          That’s different from delivery

        • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H6MFT4FPSLZLZUE4LFNZAOHBQU Me Too

           I don’t frequent restaurants that add the tip to the bill, it is offensive to me when I can’t decide based on the quality of service, how much the tip should be.

          • sarzwarz

            Maybe people like you, who seem to want to air personal vendettas on wait staff who get paid 3 bucks an hour ,should not have freedom of choice in this matter.

        • Jerry R Wood

          What a backdoor way of bragging about being a limo driver. How are you better than a pizza delivery guy? What a jerk

          • Vic

            Who would brag about being a limo driver?

          • Coonbody

            You must have a chip on your shoulder. His comment wasn’t bragging – he brought up a situational circumstance – that is all. Talk about wearing heart on sleeve.

      • http://www.facebook.com/kathryn.kerbs Kathryn Elaine Kerbs

        The “added charge” people think is the tip, is actually “delivery charge”. It goes into Pizza Hut’s pockets, not the delivery drivers. My rule of thumb…..if I can’t afford a couple bucks for a tip, I have no business ordering delivery pizza.

        • http://www.facebook.com/faraah.lambertschumacher Faraah Linn U-ilani Lambert-Sc

          You are absolutely right…the added charge is a delivery charge. Internally…the restaurant considers this as a “mileage charge”. The company will keep part of this and give a percentage of the “mileage charge” to the driver as a way of compensation for gas/wear & tear on the personal vehicle used. The percent the driver receives fluctuates throughout the year depending on current gas prices (and can vary depending on areas). This is in no way a tip for the driver–only a compensation method used by the company. The rest kept by the company is used for the increased liabilities of having a delivery service. When delivery drivers are in at-fault car accidents, not only does the driver’s personal insurance get sued–but so does the company when the driver is on-duty.

          Former General manager/Area trainer for Papa John’s Pizza International.

          • Adeliveryguy

            As a driver for papa johns, my share of the delivery fee has never changed despite even recent fluctuations in gas prices of up to $1/gal. People should also keep in mind that many places (Papa John’s included) pay $3 below minimum wage while the driver is on deliveries. So if it takes me 18 minutes to get from the store, to your house, and back, then that $0.90 from my share of the delivery fee served only to bump me back up to a minimum wage employee. This, of course, means I’m now paying either out of pocket or out of my tips for gas/vehicle upkeep (oil changes, brakes, tires, general repairs, not to mention the overall degradation that the excessive mileage does to my vehicle). And don’t for a second think that doesn’t add up. I drive around 20,000 CITY miles per year, turning and braking and accelerating all the time, which makes my 20,000 miles FAR more damaging to my vehicle than the average person’s 20,000.

          • Captain highon

            Sell drugs instead!

          • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fox-Blows/100001004781320 Fox Blows

            Another concerned Republican!

        • theConcernedAmerican

          Youre wrong. a portion of the delivery charge goes to the driver – (because most people are morons who think this substitutes for a tip and the driver needs SOME compensation with gas @ 3.50 a gallon!)
          – the rest goes to the cost to the store to establish a delivery system. Its not as simple as throwing a pizza into a car and off you go.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/C-Bryan-King/100001510821435 C Bryan King

          AMEN Sister!

      • Jroop702

        i was a delivery driver for a chicken joint in vegas, and we charged a 2.00 delivery charge and half went to me. so every delivery i went on i got a dollar of it plus tip plus my hourly pay. it reeally helped when i would have to go to certain customers that would tip ZERO to a dollar.

      • Former Pizza Girl

        At Domino’s, in the 1990s, the driver was given 60cents per delivery to off-set gas prices.  I don’t know how standard this practice is.

      • http://www.facebook.com/Jennielee8 Jennie Gibson

         I use to deliver pizzas. There is a delivery charge but we only get half of that if anything.

      • Bogus

        We have a ‘delivery charge’ added to the bill.  As far as I’m concerned, that’s your tip pizza delivery guy.  I gave it to your boss so you’ll have to ask him for it.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415977042 Lori Fugate

          You’re a jerk. Delivery charges are for the company to recoop their service for the convenience of delivery. It pays for the phone/computer systems and the delivery containers/bags that keep the food hot. $2 to $3 bucks isn’t even close to what you’re supposed to tip.

          • billmichael

            Seriously, help me out here. I usally order about thirty dollars worth of food. I always tip three to four dollars. Is that not enough? What should I be tipping? Give me a percentage or dollar figure.

          • Vic

            The article says 10-15%, but I don’t know, who’s the guy who can afford to order pizza and who’s the kid who has to deliver pizza in this situation. What I’m saying is, I’m doing okay. I’m gonna be generous to the guy that may not be yet. Maybe he’ll get the idea and pass it along when he can afford it. And on, and on….

          • mangopineapple

            I was always taught that 20% is the appropriate tip. At the very least, 15% is polite though a bit lacking. It depends on your financial situation, of course, and people shouldn’t refrain from enjoying a meal out sometimes just because they’re not wealthy. But if you’re doing alright for yourself, 20% is the right tip.

            To quickly calculate a 20% tip on any bill, move the decimal point one place over to the left and multiply that amount by two. So on a $30.00 bill, move the decimal over to the left to get $3.00. Then multiply 3 x 2 = $6.00. So your total with the tip would be $36.00. If your bill was for $32.75, you’d multiply $3.27 x 2 = $6.54. Then add the $6.54 to $32.75. Your total would be $39.29. Of course, it’s easier to round up if you have the change to spare, so you could just add $7 to 32.75 to be faster (not to mention generous).

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1080643139 Jason Petty

            never less than $3. more for bigger orders

      • Anonymous

        So Delivery service charges don’t pay for your gas? I guess I’m tipping your manager for allowing you to drive your own car… -_-

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415977042 Lori Fugate

          Where do you think 15 to 50 cents would pay for my gas. Hourly wage at the pizza place barely covers that. Tips are how we make money. Don’t even get me started on the fact that the COOKS (who bust their butts) don’t even get tipped unless the order is picked up.

          • Musikonica

            Saw your other response. Did not know you get .15 to .50 cents out of the delivery charge.
            So I guess that means YES, I am tipping your manager for allowing you to drive your own car. That’s outrageous really.
            FYI, I tip 25% minimum. That’s AFTER the apparent theft fee for delivery. So that $12 pizza that comes to $15 with delivery fee cost me $20 after tipping. That’s $5 for a $12 pizza… More than 25%, I think you’d agree?

    • Sammie

      Dannyboy is right.  The delivery/convenience/service charge, which is probably what you’re thinking of, is NOT a tip.  (I’ve never heard of a delivery place including tip in the cost, and I live in a place literally hundreds of restaurants deliver to.)  The driver in no way benefits from from that charge, which I think is pretty darn unethical, but that’s beside the point.  Assuming the delivery charge is a tip leads to spit pizza (or at least a slower delivery and a rude encounter) next time you order from that place.  

      • Stephreads

        Just ask… If the delivery charge is $2, chances are $1 goes to the driver, & $1 to the store. I asked, and they had no problem telling me who gets what.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001504818428 Jay Coventry

          Even if it’s $1 to the driver, it costs a lot more than that to get from the pizza place to your residence or office. Give the guy a break.  Oh and that $1 is TAXABLE.

          • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1080643139 Jason Petty

            not taxable. it is a reimbursement!

        • briguy

          That $1 that goes to the delivery driver is to partially reimburse them for driving their own car and buying their own gas.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Moshe-Martian/100003487679039 Moshe Martian

          $1.00 is not a tip.  It is joke.  If the pizza costs $20.00 I normally give $4.00 to $5.00, depending on the delivery person and how fast  and how courteous they are.

        • Deletedmemory

          Uhh, no. That $2 delivery fee is simply a charge that goes right back to the company.

          • Nikoelectric

             you’re sadly mistaken. know what you’re talking about before you writ about it!!!

      • http://www.facebook.com/kathryn.kerbs Kathryn Elaine Kerbs

        Bingo! I order from the same place everytime, and usually have seen the driver before. I tip well and they know it. I am very nice to people who handle my food. Another rule of thumb. I want to try and avoid eating lugies as much as possible. LOL

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415977042 Lori Fugate

          Gross, you can’t do that BTW..lawsuits and criminal charges.

          • JustaThought00

            Only if you can prove it…

      • Lisa

         Or  shaken soda syndrome:)

    • Mbainbridge1

      They add a delivery charge of which a portion sometimes goes to help with gas costs, as you know are not getting lower. Plus the drivers sustain a great deal of wear and tear on their personal vehicles which is hardly compensated for. If you receive and want decent delivery service in the future, tip your driver no less than you would tip a server in a restaurant for decent service. That’s 15-20% which a lot of people clearly don’t understand either.

      • http://twitter.com/Seola1 Mary

        If you aren’t claiming wear and tear on your vehicle plus insurance and gas as a business expense, then you need a new accountant (or get one at least).  Tax deductions for delivery vehicles can be huge. And no 15-20% isn’t “standard” – it’s been inching up by the service industry for years now. Substandard service used to be a 2-4% tip. Average service was a 5-9% tip and exceptional was 10-15%. A “lot of people” understand that tipping more than the meal costs itself is firstly redundant, secondly expensive for an average delivery or quick meal. Lastly, a good server with an average 10-15% tip can rake in far more than $8-10 an hour. When I was a server, with exceptional service and flipping rates, on the weekends I’d get around $20 an hour… at Steak and Shake, not an upscale restaurant.

        • http://www.facebook.com/tammy.b.hall.35 Tammy Barnhill Hall

          Someone delivering pizza sure as heck doesn’t have an accountant nor do they make anyways near $20 hr. What rich world are you living in? LOL

    • http://www.facebook.com/Jennielee8 Jennie Gibson

       I don’t know what pizza place does that. If you are referring to the “delivery fee” on the receipt, the drivers typically only get half of that if any.

    • J Dawg

      I worked for several different places when I was younger, none of them ever included tip in the quoted price. They may have added a delivery charge but that never went to the driver.  I look at it his way, if I go to a restaurant and I’m willing to give a waitress 20% or more to carry a couple of plates a few feet across the restaurant to my table, then the guy who drives my food across town, in whatever weather, while its still hot should deserve a lot more than 20%.  What the hell you didn’t have to leave your house.  Don’t be cheap.  The drivers remember who tips and doesn’t and they will get even with you on your next order.  And if you think they won’t you’re gravely mistaken.  You’ll need to always cook your own food if you don’t want it tampered with. They won’t come right out and tell you they spit in it, but you’ll never know what they really did.

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/C-Bryan-King/100001510821435 C Bryan King

      Yeah, I just delivered 100 pizzas in two runs to a place today. No tip added, two flat rate delivery charges, of which I receive about half, but NOT as a tip, as mileage. I put $20 in gas into my car everyday on average, not to mention the oil and tires I burn through, etc. I also make $1/hr less than minimum wage.

  • Jlentzlv

    - If I had a dollar for every moronic comment about having “free pizza” or being for someone when it isn’t, I’d be a millionaire, so don’t get upset with me if I don’t laugh at your “joke”.
    - Also, I cannot believe how many people don’t know their own phone numbers.  My favorite excuse of late about the phone numbers; “I don’t call myself.” NEWS FLASH: NOBODY calls themselves!  The whole concept of a phone number is so OTHERS can call YOU!  That’s how it’s been since phones have been in EXSISTENCE!
    - As for your address, I cannot believe you don’t know your own address or where you’re located.  I hate asking if you’re “north” or “south” of an east-west road, and you keep saying you’re “east”. No you’re not!  I’ve actually had a person when I broke it down to asking her if she “turned left or right to get to her house” when she’s traveling down that specific east-west road “away from” a specific place, and she STILL didn’t know. I’m like, “How do you even get home, ma’am?”
    - Yes that special is $10.99 (or whatever), but you seem to forget we have to add sales tax, plus if you want it delivered, that’s another $2.50. Hel-lo!

    • Guest

      Your a freaking pizza boy, get over your self. Your delevering Pizza not body organs.

      • fb87

        I guess a pizza boy is less important than someone who delivers body organs…I guess he doesn’t deserve to be treated with respect which means tipping properly.

        • Guest

          Let’s hear it for fb87!  You are absolutely right–a pizza boy or girl deserves just as much respect as someone who delivers organs.  I don’t understand where people’s rudeness comes from—I don’t care what you do–if you are out there-working hard then you deserve respect, whether you’re delivering pizzas, newspapers, body organs, blood, whatever….let’s try to be more respectful people.  P.S.  ”Your a freaking pizza boy”, really?  What kind of English is that?  Before you criticize others you should proofread your writing and learn the basic rules of grammar.  Your post should have read, “You’re a freaking pizza boy, get over yourself.  You’re delivering pizza not body organs.”  I won’t say it–but I’m thinking of  a word that rhymes with the inert gas, boron.

          • Stanley Garland

            Get real, delivering body organs is clearly more respectable and superior to a pizza delivery person. At least, paramedics have training and certifications that pizza guys do not need.  Typical American egalitarianism, everyone is not the same, some jobs and people are clearly of more value and worth to society than others.  Equality run amok. 

          • Stanley Garland

            Get real, delivering body organs is clearly more respectable and superior to a pizza delivery person. At least, paramedics have training and certifications that pizza guys do not need.  Typical American egalitarianism, everyone is not the same, some jobs and people are clearly of more value and worth to society than others.  Equality run amok. 

          • Stanley Garland

            Get real, delivering body organs is clearly more respectable and superior to a pizza delivery person. At least, paramedics have training and certifications that pizza guys do not need.  Typical American egalitarianism, everyone is not the same, some jobs and people are clearly of more value and worth to society than others.  Equality run amok. 

          • Maherjunkie

            And yet we’re all entitled to basic respect and consideration.  You can’t do that, buy Tortinos.

          • americanveteran

            “TORTINOS” really?? never heard of’em!!

          • JustaThought00

            But yet, I’m pretty sure you knew exactly what they meant, but because you need to feel better about yourself, you point out someone’s spelling errors…

          • hyhybt

            I’m not the one who complained, but I wouldn’t know what “tortinos” are either; not even that it *is* a spelling error, much less exactly what it’s supposed to be.

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            and yet respect is still earned not given.. People who demand respect have a reason they demand it.

          • pizzaface

            So how much are you supposed to tip a paramedic?

          • http://www.facebook.com/bob.chappelear.9 Bob Chappelear

            perfect

          • theConcernedAmerican

            They get automatic gratuity. It called a medical bill, and its no laughing matter when you get one.

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            in this sense it is only humor. Some organs are delivered by UPS. My heart valve came by Fed Ex. My pizza is delivered by my daughter’s 6th grade teacher who owns the pizza hut.

          • Nikoelectric

             I hope whomever reads this will be a delivery person, delivering your food next time your ignorant , lazy azz orders delivery.

          • Lito

            You are a terrible person.

          • http://www.facebook.com/keith.eisenhower Keith Eisenhower

            I’ve recovered organs and am no better than the guy that delivers my pizza. Half the problem with this country is due to “entitlement” which is complete bs. Just like fb87 said. We all deserve the same respect

          • CodeStud3

            So how much do you get paid to deliver organs?

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            No. We all deserve civility not respect. Being civil would dictate you to not try to have force people to endure an invisible cost. Respect would be you honor your product enough to add the delivery charge.

          • JustaThought00

            I could not agree more…

          • Jerome Bernstein

            well, unless you are REALLY hungry (you can’t munch on a human heart)!

          • http://www.facebook.com/ray.cosmic.9 Ray Cosmic

            Jeff Dahlmer would strongly disagree with you…

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            also Hannibal lecter

          • THOMAS WREN

            So emotional.

          • dereq

            Well if I never get an organ donation, than people who transport such things are more worthless to me than a pizza man, who I’ve used quite often. Typical American elitism, thinking you’re better than someone because you were afforded opportunities that they were denied.

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            American elitism? It is only in the US where you have people who have to beg for more pay because the law allows it. I have lived in 6 countries and Polynesia, and only in the US is waiting on table not a full time, respectable career. I left a two euro coin for a trip and the guy chased me down to give it back.

          • theConcernedAmerican

            And youre an imbecile. Do you not put that pizza into your organs? So should you not show respect to the person who handles your food? Do everyone a favor and cook your own food since the delivery guy doesnt rate high enough on your pseudo scale to merit respect.
            And it isnt paramedics that deliver organs. Stupidity run amok.

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            no

          • pizza_dude

            i deliver pizzas, and my best friend’s husband delivers organs. he isn’t certified in anything whatsoever, and i actually make more money than he does.

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            are you kidding? You ever try a cold kidney for dinner? geeesh.. at least pizza can be micro waved! Signed. Hannibal Lecter..

          • Dolbylandfill

            crapola…

          • Heyo

            boron isn’t an inert gas, you’re thinking of neon. looks like you’re the boron now. 

          • Hoogle

            Awesome.

          • Arla Halvorsen

            I lack a stable electron shell… I’m such a boron.

          • GunnyNinja

            Only a Moron would could Boron a gas.

          • dereq

            Boron is NOT an inert gas, or even a gas to begin with. Looks like someone needs to quit brushing up on stupid English grammer, and study some BASIC chemistry.

          • RKE

            You know your elemental chart but not your grammAr.

          • theConcernedAmerican

            and you need to brush up on spelling.

          • woopwoopbubba

            I prefer ACIDIC chemistry. dat shiz pHat, yo!

          • Piscesmike

            pHunny

          • Arla Halvorsen

            This comment box underlines misspelled words. There is no excuse for spelling grammar incorrectly. I don’t expect everyone to know that boron doesn’t have a full electron shell, but I DO expect everyone to know how to spell GRAMMAR, as it is an entire subject in school. Also, I LOVE it when some smart-ass makes a nit-picky comment about someone else’s post and makes a basic, 3rd grade spelling test mistake, especially when the input box provides an automatic spell check.

          • http://twitter.com/tootincommon KatMD

            Lol, you should have just stopped while you were ahead.

          • http://www.facebook.com/mitt.thetwitt Ranger Dan Parsons

            I’m very board.

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            when was that?

          • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

            hey grammar Nazi. Tipping should be shunned then the places would have to pay a wages people can live on. Tipping is no different than putting a cup out in front of you and begging for money.

        • Guest

          No, a pizza boy is not less important than anyone else, however, his attitude makes him an automatic JERK.. and I promise, his gratuity would be $0.1 if he were delivering my pizza and talked to me like that! I have a habit of tipping really well when the person that is providing the service has a good attitude and is friendly and treats me like a friend instead of an enemy! Please fb87… reread Jlentxlv’s rant and tell me, would YOU want to be served by them? I bet he pee’d on my pizza.. he seems the type! 

          • theConcernedAmerican

            you sound like someone who needs their pizza peed on.

          • 3.14159_slinger

            hey genius, it’s a safe bet that the OPer didn’t actually say those things to his dingbat customer, he was merely thinking them. that’s why he’s needing to vent to us about it.

            also, if you actually knew what some of those “good” service-sector workers were thinking while they were smiling at you and accepting your nice tip, you’d probably call the FBI on them.

          • http://twitter.com/nichobert nich obert

            Totally.
            I say terrible things ABOUT customers. Not TO them.

            That whole thing about respect works both ways, I will get your pizza there on time and deal with whatever u got going on, tip me like you’d tip a waitress at a restaurnt u like who u have to see again 5 minutes later,

          • JustaThought00

            I mean no disrespect, and I DO tip my pizza delivery guy well, however, it’s not as much as I tip my server in a resturant….reason being: I’m not getting the whole “dining out experience” with the pizza guy. If the guy delivering my pizza was seating me, taking my drink order, telling me the specials, taksing my order, delivering my food, cleaning off the table and re-setting it….well then yes, I would tip him/her the same. But when I order pizza I tip according to the total (usually 10-15%)…which I think is pretty decent, considering you only have to “deal” with me for a few seconds…

          • hyhybt

            I’m not arguing with your amount here, but the last part isn’t quite right. From the customer side, you only interact with them a few seconds. From the delivery side, dealing with you and often only you is what they’re doing from before they leave the store until they return. It just takes a different form than hovering nearby to see if you want anything else.

        • crustywalt

          If it takes more than 30 minutes to deliver my new spleen does that mean I get a discount? The points in the article are one person’s opinion. The last time I saw this many comments on a product that involves cheese was whether the Queen’s hubby was flatulent at a recent event.

        • americanveteran

          I DIDN’T REALIZE BODY ORGAN DELIVERY REQUIRED TIPS?

        • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

          Why? Delivery is a way to expand a business. Why should I pay a tip for some one’s else’s idea? I sold gym memberships with no pay in college. I did not get tips for ding my job.

          • thatguy

            A way to expand business? Someone else’s idea? that’s quite a huge leap in logic. Its just a service that they they offer… if you so against tipping then just stay at home.

          • JustaThought00

            I think I’m in love with you….

          • JustaThought00

            Because you weren’t working a “tipped” position….duh.

      • http://twitter.com/xLittlePeax Manta Raygun

        And you can’t spell, moron. So you’ve already lost all credibility.

      • Anonymous

        Yes, he may be delivering pizza (thank you George W. Bush) but apparently he knows the difference between “your” and “you’re”.  And he can probably spell “deliver” too.

        GO figure.

        • Anonymous

          You’re blaming George W. Bush for the current Obama economy?  Stop being a moron and criticize the incumbent.  You librul sheep will be the death of us.

          • Gemma

            Obama INHERITED the economy from…wait for it…… GEORGE W. BUSH

            P.S. Learn how to spell liberal.

          • DiscoHarvey

            I think the misspelling was intentional, you humorless cretin.

          • theConcernedAmerican

            and brainless. Definitely a LIBRUL

          • time_for_a_cretinous_shot

            sir, i resent your derogatory stereotyping of cretins as humorless. i’m a total cretin, and i’m hilarious.

          • theConcernedAmerican

            So 4 years later hes still inheriting? Good LORD youre stupid, you cant even recognize humor in how he spelled LIBERAL.

        • Willban2

          I have heard Dubya blamed for everything from high gas prices to students not being able to read or write, but delivering pizza? Get a grip.

        • THOMAS WREN

          Hater!

        • theConcernedAmerican

          what does Pres Bush have to do with someone earning a living? I know people who make a good living doing it.
          Ignorance abounds.

          • MILK&VODKA-4-BRKFST

            …but The Dude abides.

        • 0bungaBlows

          He HAD a job thanks to Bush. Now, 11 months later, thanks to 0bunga, he has none. But he has 10 years of unemployment benefits coming paid for by the last 47% of Americans who do contribute.

      • liz

        good god, go to school and learn how to spell.

      • guest

        Should be ” You`re a freaking…” ” You`re delivering Pizza …” Take a remedial course in English.

      • Jaburk3

        Ever wait tables, tend bar, serve the public? You proved YOUR IQ by not knowing the difference between your and you’re. Give the pizza boy a break, moron. 

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Babs-Anthony/100003177074909 Babs Anthony

        And, you are uneducated and can’t spell. It’s spelled, you’re.  (You’re is a contraction of you and are). Correct: “You’re a freaking pizza boy. You’re delivering pizza, not body organs.

        • Great_Unwashed_Mass

          1) “It’s spelled, you’re.” — misplaced comma. delete, and put [you're] in single quotes to distinguish from containing double quotes.
          2) …of you and are). — period should go inside parentheses.
          3) …not body organs. — add enclosing double quote.

          Editor’s Note: I applaud your pedantic impulses, sir. Only we pedants can roll back the tide of ignorance. However, when you do things like begin a sentence with “Correct:”, then proceed to type an incorrect sentence, you make the rest of us pedants look even more foolish than usual.

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Robert-Jamison/100002994638429 Robert Jamison

        Your/you’re, learn the difference. 

        • Bartholemewkitty2244

          one is capitalized?

          • Arla Halvorsen

            When it’s at the beginning of a sentence (fragment or otherwise… but still…) it is, genius.

      • Nikoelectric

         And you’re an idiot!

      • http://www.facebook.com/bob.chappelear.9 Bob Chappelear

        If you want the pizza, give the guy the correct phone number and address. Otherwise, get up and go pick up your pizza.

      • theConcernedAmerican

        your lack of ability to spell and lack of common courtesy says it all about you.

      • More Spleen, Anyone?

        Whenever I order pizza delivered, and the pizza guy shows up at my door with scavenged body organs, I am always at a loss for how to respectfully tip him.

        • LogCabinDemocrat

          easy—just leave the most gaping wound up. minimizes blood loss.

        • americanveteran

          giv’em a zip-loc bag to put eyeballs in..

      • can-i-have-xtra-organs-on-mine

        pizza guy here. there’s not a delivery person on the planet who wouldn’t 100% appreciate Jlentzlv’s rant. the issue here is an amazingly common inability to imagine things from another person’s perspective, even just a quick sec, in order to effectively solve a problem which is delaying a shared goal. you want your pizza, he wants to give you your pizza. and from the driver’s standpoint, it shouldn’t be a whole heck of a lot to ask for a customer to be able to point to which way is North. i mean, it’s not like we’re asking something really tricky, like which way is East or something.

      • maclovin01

        It’s you’re. Use grammar before dissing a fellow pizza guy. Also, it’s delivering.

      • http://www.facebook.com/mitt.thetwitt Ranger Dan Parsons

        The whole article is about pizza boys nimrod. That’s the point, get it? And use your freakin spellcheck once in a while.

      • Ben Kevan

        You’re not “your”. Although the original poster may be a “pizza boy”, at least he seems more educated than you.

      • http://www.facebook.com/robert.r.love.3 Robert Raymond Love

        1st they say it just pizza then they say how important it is to you door quick, pay a good tip, wear the right clothes and have your order ready when you call. News flash, I have 35 pizza places that deliver where l live. I do not tip more for more pizza. $2 for one or six. I want to pay for a pizza not you college. PS I said light sauce!!

      • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ford-Truck/100003735221640 Ford Truck

        You’re probably one of those pricks that tips my grandson 50-cents for your $25 pizza order. Just remember, the second time you order, he gives you a “sneezer pizza.”

      • JustaThought00

        You’re a freaking “GUEST” poster on this site, maybe you need to “GET OVER YOURSELF” until you can register with a “real” name. Sounds kinda stupid when you think about it, huh?

    • http://profile.yahoo.com/SX3T27LICI3SYNV2RYZV7ZMCOI LeeC

      its amazing how many people have absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever. sure. some places are difficult to give compass directions due to topography making things more difficult to lay out streets basically following the compass. however most major roads are also labeled by their general direction of travel. thus if a road is labeled north/south you would NOT answer by telling somebody YOU are north/south of that road. you would of course denote east or west. and finally its MUCH better to give compass directions over left/right. why so? because left/right means YOU need to know where the traveler currently IS… 

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3SA2PYWJWJNPZ5YHLGZMGCPWOU RichardG

        I happen to be one of those people with no sense of direction whatsoever. I can’t find anything unfamiliar. It’s kind of pathetic.That’s why I have GPS. It always amazed me that most people can’t do basic math in their head because math is something I’m good at. But I don’t begrudge them using a calculator either. Modern day tools are our friends. Get what you need to compensate your weakness.

        • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1415977042 Lori Fugate

          Not many pizza delivery people can afford GPS. Pizza Hut’s delivery charge is $2 or $3…as a driver I got .15 cents of that. We got .50 cents per delivery — delivered 10 pizzas…I got $5 bucks on top of the portion of the delivery charge Some people thought that was my tip. We get paid minimum wage and then we don’t get a tip. Some newer houses are not on GPS, sometimes for over a year.

    • Pizzadude007

       I couldnt of said it better myself , you hit the nail right on the head , i cant tell you the number of times people didnt know their own address when i delivered

    • Pizzadude007

       I couldnt of said it better myself , you hit the nail right on the head , i cant tell you the number of times people didnt know their own address when i delivered

    • Tricorvus

       Firstly I don’t know which roads in my area are east-west so asking me about north and south are going nowhere. But I give concise directions and I’ve never had that problem. :D We used to call our own homes in the 1970s and 80s, so we knew our numbers. My hubby uses that tired line about not calling his own cell so I taped the number on the back of it, for him to know it. Since he can’t be bothered to memorize it like I do. :D And I’ve driven with my mother, and yes, some cars are trained to find the way home. lol .. I have had many relatives in the delivery business, and I honestly don’t know why they have any hair left.

      • Olander1980

        well said. i would add that using N-S-E-W (Cartesian vectors, actually) is not the only good way to direct someone to you from a particular spot. it’s simply the most flexible, efficient, and portable method overall. delivery drivers have to get from A to B so many more times a day than the typical person that by and large they all tend to use this approach.

        i grew up in a pretty flat Ohio city, and generally people here do NSEW. so the three years i lived in West Virginia were very frustrating for me because given their mountainous terrain and accordingly windy roads, it wouldn’t work well for them to think in terms of compass points. therefore the simple question of “Hey I’m lost, are you north or south of Route 6?” would invariably devolve into a five minute list of the landmarks you will pass on your way to their impossibly byzantine access road. and that was AFTER the three minutes required to describe exactly what you were seeing out your car window so they could identify your current location. and if it was after dark, you just turned around and went home.

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ford-Truck/100003735221640 Ford Truck

          In western Nebraska I drove a short section of county road named “East North South Street.” Lost Yet?

      • Matthew

        In the US roads with even numbers run east to west, roads with odd numbers run north to south.

        • burnunit

          You mean like Highway 100 in Minnesota (running north south from 494 to 694)? You mean like Highway 7 or County Road 9 which cross highway 100 running east to west? Or do you mean everyone who lives on north 7th avenue one block east of 6th Avenue is as wrong as everyone who lives on 6th street one block south of 7th street? While ALL even numbered interstates are E-W and odd numbered ones are N-S, that’s just not true of every road. I wish it was but that generalization isn’t accurate

        • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ford-Truck/100003735221640 Ford Truck

          You haven’t even been out of your own neighborhood have you Matthew? In most places that have a 2nd Street (even number) it runs parallel to 1st and 3rd Streets (both odd numbers) etc. Think about what you are saying before you post! Better yet, take your medicine and go back to bed!

      • http://www.facebook.com/angela.walker.5283 Angela Walker

        This is why I always order carry-out and get it myself.

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YMMTDLPHLVJFXXDLS5JRVUGGRA The Greatest

      Dude, get a GPS …

      • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000486165237 Barry Parker

        Yeah, because they always dial right in on someone’s driveway…

      • uzbecky_Becky_and_Stan

        honestly, about 75% of the time when i can’t find a house and have to call the customer, it’s because the phone number/address pair wasn’t in our system and the person taking the order misheard the customer and typed in a wrong street name or number. in this situation, GPS wouldn’t help. but once in a while it’s something funky, like a house in the backyard of another house or whatever, and you’re just stumped. what’s REALLY frustrating about these ones is when the customer is a braindead 15yo who’s been living there his whole life and somehow it never occurred to him that it might be hard for a delivery person to find.

    • sammyjod

      You would earn a lot out here where I live. It’s a two-part subdivision with another subdivision across the street & several more in & about our somewhat small yet affluent city. Everyone has basically the same pizza night, which is almost always Fridays and then there is game-time and racing season for the guys so the dads’ all gather at different houses for different games & those with the big LCD Hi-Def TVs. I swear nobody needs a television that can cover an entire wall in a standard size living room! Why would I want to perch a 60ft screen on the wall when there is no need for something that big to watch television or even movies on? It must be a guy thing. Regardless, our pizza delivery shop makes more on delivering to our area on Friday nights than anywhere else for the rest of the week & the delivery drivers earn a decent salary for the shift when they are working our area; even with our lot sizes, they don’t have to go far down the road to hit each house in our subdivision to the neighboring one down the street and then there is the one across the street & several more inside the city limits. (trailers/manufactured homes/or modular homes are not allowed within the city limits or a mile beyond the city limits so it’s all houses with a minimum size space of 1500 sq ft (ours is a bit over 1600 plus a wet room for the hydrotherapy spa).

      Our living room doesn’t even have a television in it anymore, which I like because it allowed me to spread out & remove various pieces of furniture while making more room for the 200-gallon aquarium and these beautiful hand-thrown vases I purchased from a multi-generation master potter. I am a multi-generation potter but these pieces will be worth considerably more than mine in time as they are made by potters who are well-known across the world. I even went to visit one of the two some years back. He let me into the workshop area and even allowed me to work on one of the wheels using his clay, which is made to order as it’s a family clay & they use a magnificent red that I have never seen duplicated anywhere! All I need now are the hearth tapestry pillows for the front of the fireplace in addition to adding a couple of Asian style art scrolls for the areas on either side of the fireplace. It’s a work in progress and I still have 2 more rooms to go. ugh! And in this economy too?

    • Coonbody

      There ARE some people who were NOT born with a sense of direction. Yes – it’s true! So…don’t ask if we’re east or west of a specific road. Find another way to determine how to get there. I call it being directionaly challenged. I was born without that sense of direction. I get around town great, but don’t ask me which direction I’m going unless I’m on 65 South – then I can tell you South. K?

  • Clintbabb

    I tip a dollar, period.  If you don’t like it, then get a real job.  The delivery cost is added to the total price, so don’t whine to me about being cheap, we are all suffering with cash, and the chances are,  you are young, with no kids and I have three to support, and I’ve just ordered them overpriced pizza.  When you whine about your tip, I just sit back and think about how I paid $15.00 for a pile of dough and cheese worth $2.00, so shut up.

    • Jlentzlv

      Is this how you feel when you’re in a sit-down restaurant as well?

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7RWG6FUCO5ZM7B3Q2FZRASCLXQ bidalah

        In a sit down restaurant you are paying a waitress for an hours worth of courtesy, speed, and attention to detail.  You also know that they are being paid a sub-minimum wage as a waiter/waitress and they need the tips to live on.

        The pizza deliver guy is already making a full minimum wage at least.  And all he does is drive.  To me, getting tipped $1.00 for doing by far the easiest job in a restaurant is generous. And I say that as a guy who delivered pizzas all through graduate school.

        • liz

          lol, so did you give back the tips you got because you were ~making enough~ as a delivery guy? bet you didn’t.

        • Jason Miller

          And when you have to drive to these people houses and get tipped the $1 or get stiffed ($0) then you are now working for minimum wage and spent money on gas and put wear and tear on your car to deliver someone elses food.

        • Nikoelectric

           you’re as big of idiot as Jlen…whatever!@@bdfcea5ac1e4641ae8bd228b0618e0eb:disqus

        • hardworking mom

           Not true, because pizza delivery people receive tips, they too get less than minimum wage, use their own vehicle, and gas. I know, I delivered  when I separated from my ex-husband and needed the tips to help support my children.

        • Rpatton

          You realize that, as hinted at in the article, delivery persons risk their lives every time they make a delivery. It may sound a bit melodramatic, but as we so often hear, the amount of traffic fatalities is appalling. Delivery drivers drive something like 10 times the amount of the average driver. Besides the roads, there’s always the possibility of a mugging or something of the like. So when you whine about barely having enough money to pay for your overpriced pizza, and tip me $1, remember that I’m the one who went outside in the cold and rain and risked his life to make sure you’re fat and happy.

          Also, what hasn’t been mentioned here is that drivers often make below minimum wage while driving. In AZ, we get paid $4.65/hour (minus gas/wear&tear) while on the road. In a typical week, I’ll be “on the road” about 2/3 of my 40 hours worked.

        • Guest

          WRONG! Pizza drivers can often get payed below minimum wage! I’ve done it. $6/h plus $1 per delivery to compensate a little bit for gasoline. There’s only typically 1-4 deliveries in an hour. This is in a place where minimum wage is $10.25. Therefore if nobody tipped, the driver would make below minimum wage. Even if people only tip $1, the driver may still make below minimum wage, especially when you consider their gasoline cost.

        • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

           You are full of it.

    • Jlentzlv

      BTW we get less then a dollar of the delivery charge and my company is actually saying they’re losing money whenever a pizza is delivered.

    • Anonymous

      Oh, here we go, another clueless “entitled” parent, who likes to pass the blame (and the only buck he passes in this instance is the kind that makes everyone else responsible for HIS problems).  Wow, that’s SUPREMELY cruel.  Never had to work for tips, I gather.  If you have three kids to support, ordering them an “overpriced pizza” isn’t the pizza guy’s fault (um, did he MAKE you have kids, FORCE you to pick up the phone and call for a pizza?), and if money is that tight, you have NO business buying pizza, especially not “overpriced” pizza.  Get a conscience and learn how to open a can of soup or make a sandwich.  You know, at the supermarket (wow, you mean a place where you can buy actual FOOD?!), there are microwavable pizzas and microwavable meals that aren’t “overpriced.”  And pizza – what great food for your kids, BTW!  In case you haven’t heard, “pizza is NOT a vegetable.”  If your kids end up overweight, that’s because YOU’VE taught them pizza is “nutritious.”  Pretty lousy parenting “skills,” my dear.  But yeah, why don’t you blame it all on the pizza guy?  He’s as good a scapegoat as any, and a PERFECT excuse for why YOU just HAD to order that pizza…I’d keep my eyes open for that Pizza Mafia, as they are SURELY behind this!  Quick, call the cops before you forget what your pizza guy looked like…after all, he FORCED you to pay $15 for a “pile of dough and cheese worth $2.00.”  Not like you had a CHOICE or anything.  Oh, wait…you DID!

      Just because you’re too lazy to go to a supermarket and buy nutritious food for your kids doesn’t mean it’s the pizza guy’s fault.  He’s just doing his JOB and the PIZZA PLACE sets the price, not him.  Maybe if you’d accept responsibility for the fact that you’re too lazy to do a few minutes’ work making a nice sandwich for your kids or cooking up some nice, cheap HAMBURGER HELPER doesn’t make it the pizza guy’s (or anyone else’s) fault.

      So “shut up.”

      • Guest

        Wish there was a “Love” button for this post.  AMEN!

        • Guest

          *were a love button

          • Anonymous

            Thank you kindly!  :)  People like this are SO irritating.  The world owes them because they don’t want to behave responsibly.  His kids are eating fatty, non-nutritious food, he’s treating some poor pizza guy like garbage, and all because he’s too lazy to heat up a can of soup or make a sandwich.  It’s so much easier to complain about something that isn’t even the fault of the guy he’s taking it out on.  Epic parenting fail!

          • Amy

            Thank you for your post. If you can’t adequately tip, you should be getting a real job instead of screwing your delivery person or server.

          • Anonymous

            Amy, Thank you for your kind words…and EXACTLY as you said it!  Notice he’s quick to tell the pizza guy HE (pizza guy) needs to get a “real job,” but in order to pay for that “overpriced pizza,” oh, no, he (bad parent) is ENTITLED to it – just subsidize part of the cost with the pizza guy’s tip!  Clueless, totally clueless.

          • Amy

            Thank you for your post. If you can’t adequately tip, you should be getting a real job instead of screwing your delivery person or server.

        • fb87

          Amen x2!!!!

      • Ty

        Hate to be the one to tell you this but Obama made a statement this past week that Pizza is now counted as a vegetable in school lunches. HEY I DID NOT VOTE FOR HIM  !!!!!

        • Frr_Vegeta

          The republicans in congress are the ones who pushed and passed the bill regarding tomato sauce in pizzas counting as a vegetable.  Most democrats OPPOSED it.

        • Frr_Vegeta

          The republicans in congress are the ones who pushed and passed the bill regarding tomato sauce in pizzas counting as a vegetable.  Most democrats OPPOSED it.

          • Anonymous

            It’s always nice to see people defending damaging decisions by blaming those decisions on the other guy, just because they don’t like him…snark.

          • Perry

            Where’s your proof? a link? Qualify this lie please.

          • Jklombardi

            I think Reagan was the 1st. He had ketchup designated a vegetable in school lunches.

          • outhinkuno

            Well what is it if not a vegetable? I sure isn’t a fruit or is it? Now I am confuzzed. Please explain to me what Catsup is. Also, we have a problem with spelling it. Which is it, catsup or ketchup?

      • Guest

        It is not my fault you took a job that doesn’t pay your bills. If that is all that is available, keep looking. Unless you are mentally defective you should know going into it that a delivery job pays poorly. I am a Medical Courier. I make deliveries in all weather and to many odd addresses. I have NEVER been tipped doing my job. You whiny twits need to learn that tipping is optional. It is none of your business what your customers circumstances are, it is your job to quickly and politely deliver. If you do your job well a person may feel grateful for your efforts and reward you. You have zero right to expect, much less DEMAND a tip!

        Now you shut up!!

        • liz

          you sound incredibly angry. people are working jobs that you are too proud to take for some pathetic reason. if they didn’t work these jobs, no one would be delivering to you. and i’m sure you’d be mad about that when you are tired from working and just want a simple service. so stop perceiving other people to be less than you and grow a brain. 

        • Anonymous

          Most people don’t “choose” jobs these days.  In case you haven’t heard, we’re in a recession and the better-paying jobs have been shipped overseas, leaving many people in service-type jobs that they don’t like and which probably don’t pay well enough to support themselves and their families (not every pizza guy is a college student!).  Blaming your pizza delivery guy for not getting a “better” job or the fact that you think the pizza is too high priced is crazy.  And if you think pizza is too high priced…simple as that…don’t buy one.  If you think it’s too much to pay a tip for delivery, then go in and get it yourself.  A pizza guy isn’t asking for people’s life circumstances when they deliver pizza…and one has to figure that someone who is ordering pizza likely has enough money to pay for it PLUS a tip, or again, they would have picked it up themselves or chosen a different type of food!

          You can’t blame people for the type of job they have, not unless you ask them about their circumstances and find out WHY…like maybe they couldn’t find anything better, which is happening to a lot of perfectly smart, able people these days.  And I give that pizza guy credit…as crappy as that job is, he’s WORKING for a living, which is what a lot of people who lean Republican will TELL you is what they want, but then when they talk about that kind of person, they claim that person is “lazy” and wants a “handout.”  He’s WORKING.  If we were in any other country, he would get a stipend to allow him to SURVIVE, not get crapped on as if he were taking a handout.

          So “shut up.”

        • Alfafa

          I could say something along the lines that I’m a Mechcanical Engineer and I feel that position has more prestige and value to society than a Medical Courier and that you are just using a fancy word for delivery driver, therefore you should just be paid $20,000 a year because I think your job isn’t all that hard either.  But I’m not a selfish jackass so I don’t actually believe those thoughts and I tip my pizza guy 15-20 percent.  

        • Leeleealbaugh

          You probably get paid a lot to do this and are provided with a company car. Pizza delivery persons make less than minimum wage and basically after gas and upkeep on their cars they are paying for the pleasure of bringing you their food so you only have to get off your glutinous butt and walk to the door. You can come off a couple of bucks with your well paying job for this service so YOU shut up!

        • hardworking mom

           Wow, you are a jerk. No doubt you get paid at least minimum wage and don’t use your own vehicle. Delivery people are expected to receive tips, how did you graduate from elementary school without getting an inkling of etiquette. Did you grow up with a a parent to positively influence you or just the rebel who hates people?

        • hardworking mom

           Wow, you are a jerk. No doubt you get paid at least minimum wage and don’t use your own vehicle. Delivery people are expected to receive tips, how did you graduate from elementary school without getting an inkling of etiquette. Did you grow up with a a parent to positively influence you or just the rebel who hates people?

          • ac69ification

            Yes they do use their own cars. I work In a pizza shop, and every driver uses his own car. As a matter of fact, even the “big chain” shops here, make their drivers use their own cars.

      • bradyharden

        I bet you unknowingly eat a lot of other people’s saliva . . . . .

        • Brady Harden

          Ack! Replied to the wrong person. Sorry about that..

    • Slim Solid

      Sir, you are only displaying rudeness, cluelessness, and / or a low-class upbringing. If you were from a middle-class or wealthy family, perhaps your parent(s) would have taught you to be kind to the hired help! If you would like to appear classy or even appear to be a financially viable man, pick up your pizza at the store. You can probably get it home faster, and spare yourself the embarrassment of not tipping generously. If you are intelligent, educated, or a businessman, you’ll find a better hustle than than taking advantage of the poor!

      • Meh.

        LOL @ “find a better hustle”.  Thanks for that.

    • Allen

      If you ever had a pizza delivery job, or similar, you would know better.  Most deliverers have to drive their own cars, and aren’t paid enough to keep up with the extra upkeep that using their own car entails.  The delivery person should get 10-15%–same as your waitress.

      • guest

        WOAH WOAH WOAH slow down. You should tip your server at a restaurant 18-20% thank you very much. I take your order, bring your drinks, clean up after you, cater to your every whim during your entire meal and even entertain your kids. Don’t you dare make it sound okay to tip your server 10%. Save that for the pizza guys.

        • robotbee

          As someone who has done both, I say both drivers and servers deserve 20%. Servers have you for longer, but they don’t have to drive (both ways), find addresses, slog through mud and snow, battle dogs and ferrets (seriously), or pay for their own gas.

        • hardworking mom

           um, waitress when you spend 30 minutes driving to someone’s home and delivering their food with your own vehicle, own gas, own upkeep, own insurance, then you can rant, but till then you have no business.

        • hardworking mom

           um, waitress when you spend 30 minutes driving to someone’s home and delivering their food with your own vehicle, own gas, own upkeep, own insurance, then you can rant, but till then you have no business.

        • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

           Who pay $2,000 a year in maintenance for their vehicle and $4.00/ gallon in gas to get to your house, which could be in the next county, on a mountain, a darkened road with room for only one vehicle, a planned robbery, or any of a thousand obstacles a piss ant little server would NEVER have to go through. Get real you freaking dopes. Not one of you has a right to opine on this issue AT ALL unless you have done it, end of story.

      • Tricorvus

         here’s the deal. When I was 10 in 1974, my dad told me “Pizza delivery guys don’t get paid all of minimum wage, like the guys where I work, do. Tip, tip fairly. That’s HIS car, and HE pays the gas. Now is that fair? Pay him for his work.” And a lot more good advice. Don’t order in a driving rain. Don’t order when there’s 3 feet of snow. Don’t expect it to be faster than what you’d cook if you were cooking. Be dressed to answer the door. Don’t go off and start something that you know will be interrupted by the delivery. Have the proper price in one hand and the tip in the other. Let him know you’re grateful. I’m sorry, was I raised by the last polite man on the planet?

    • Amccue13

      Im a single mother working a second job as a delivery driver, dont think for one second you are better than the person that you paid to bring something to your door. 

      • robotbee

        beautifully said, amccue13.

    • Madjack09

      Then pick it up from now on you cheap prick.

    • Meh.

      D-bag.

    • The Wizard

      Most of the time, the delivery guys are using their car with their gas and their auto expenses. The pizza shop doesn’t help them at all with these costs. Both my sons delivered pizza while going to school and many time haven’t made a dime because of cheap pr*cks like you. If you can’t afford the pizza and the tip, get a Chef Boyardee.

    • http://dukeofurl.myopenid.com/ Anthony

      Yeah, because “real” jobs are so plentiful these days…  The person delivering your pizza probably has a masters degree too. Oh, did you know that the delivery fee goes to the shop, not the delivery person?  They’re paid hourly.

    • Amy

      It is a real job.

    • Amy

      It is a real job.

    • Vitales23

      Dude, I’m a Pizza Hut delivery driver. If u can’t be decent enough to tip a few buck that I drove in MY car to get to you, then come pick it up yourself!

    • Vitales23

      And if you are suffering with cash, maybe you need a real job, or need to go to your local grocery store and get a DiGiorno. I’m not gonna be screwed out of my gas, my time or my car mileage because of a CHEAPSKATE like you.

    • Anonymous

      Why don’t you get a real job, since you can’t afford to feed your kids anything better than pizza?

    • fb87

      Wow-that is really rude. It’s really easy to just go get a “real job” isn’t it? I would check your pizza carefully the next time you order. Do unto others…??

      • Highmpgs

        People that will add “extra” to the food they are delivering are actually committing a crime. Hope you get caught and spend time in jail you losers.

        • delivery driver

          no witnesses no crime

    • Wellcareny

      Then don’t order out learn to cook.  

    • BBrother

      How about stop ordering out then…seriously? If you’re that strapped for cash, why are you paying for something that you and your family could make together for pennies less?  I may work in a restaurant but I don’t necessarily eat there everyday…I enjoy the comfort of making food at home with ingredients I choose and the social interaction I need.

    • Insomniac

      It’s probably not a good idea to say stuff like that to someone who handles your food. I know, I used to work in a pizza place. We kept track of who tipped and who didn’t, and treated them accordingly. I’m pretty sure your pizzas are getting “extra toppings” if you only tip a buck.

      • Highmpgs

        People that will add “extra” to the food they are delivering are
        actually committing a crime. Hope you get caught and spend time in jail
        you losers.

    • liz

      if you can’t shell out a few extra bucks to tip, then you really shouldn’t be paying for that overpriced dough and cheese. i live on a budget too, so when i splurge for pizza, yeah, i’ll allow for the tip. the delivery guys/girls aren’t exactly rolling in dough, either. so grow up.

    • Jafd15

      You are a piece of crap, if you are struggling with money, why don’t you make dinner for your family.  Or buy $2 of dough and cheese and make your own pizza, oh wait you are probably a lazy piece of crap.

      With your lack of tipping I would wonder how much spit you’ve eaten off your delivered pizza.  

    • Leeleealbaugh

      Hard working members of society should not be punished for your inability to use condoms or birth control. Now future generations will have to deal with three more individuals with the same idiotic fundamentals you are teaching them. I hope they grow up to deliver pizza.

    • tchuzi

      @clint, Cheap, not really, selfish and arrogant sounds a bit closer to the mark. Rather than snivel about the excessive price of delivery pizza take that $2.00 and show your kids how a real pizza is made. Quit subsidizing mediocrity and dead beat lifestyles—you get what you pay for.

    • Laughingboy52

      Don’t whine to you about being cheap? Heh. You are the very definition of cheap, and your post was nothing but a soft pathetic whine. Don’t want pay for overpriced food, learn cook.

    • Laughingboy52

      Don’t whine to you about being cheap? Heh. You are the very definition of cheap, and your post was nothing but a soft pathetic whine. Don’t want pay for overpriced food, learn cook.

      • hardworking mom

         You are right, he did say he is “cheap”. If only he could be boycotted from every delivery request he makes!

      • hardworking mom

         You are right, he did say he is “cheap”. If only he could be boycotted from every delivery request he makes!

      • hardworking mom

         You are right, he did say he is “cheap”. If only he could be boycotted from every delivery request he makes!

      • hardworking mom

         You are right, he did say he is “cheap”. If only he could be boycotted from every delivery request he makes!

      • hardworking mom

         You are right, he did say he is “cheap”. If only he could be boycotted from every delivery request he makes!

    • Nikoelectic

       Man o man I feel sorry for your kids and wife (if she hasn’t wised up and is still with your ignorant asz).  You are a poor excuse for a human being and I hope a delivery person delivering your next meal to your lazy asz reads this before they drop off your food!

    • hardworking mom

       Your obviously an ignorant overweight lazy jerk with too much fat between your ears, who expects life catered to him. I supported my 5 children through pizza delivery until I found a better job after leaving my ex-husband. I used my own car, my own gas,  insurance, etc. Thank heavens you weren’t on my route. I’ve delivered to convalescent
      homes and orphanages, the only two scenarios that a small tip or lack thereof would be forgiven. Get off your high horse, it’s the dough you chose to eat and have it brought to your doorstep. It’s not the drivers job to cook the meal or set the prices. So get some class and don’t instill your values (cheapness) in the three kids your raising.

    • driver in the South

      I’ve been delivering for 2 years now.  First: it IS a real job.  For me, it is a 2nd job so I can feed MY kids.   Second: the delivery cost is added to the pizza, but that cost goes to the company NOT THE DRIVER… If you don’t tip, you’re either cheap or stupid.  (I would use the word ignorant, but ignorance can be fixed).   Third: If you can’t afford $2 tip for a $15 pizza, you have no business ordering takeout.  There are plenty of pizza recipes online and you can save yourself some money.   Lastly, it is obvious you have no kids as you have no idea how much it would cost to commercially create a (delivery) pizza.  The dough doesn’t cost to much (15-50 cents)  The sauce adds another 30-50 cents.. the cheese (quality stuff is expensive) adds at least a dollar.  other toppings will range between 1-3dollars..  Next you have to pay for the equipment to make the pizza (another dollar per pizza).. Utilities add cost.. “shrinkage”.. theft.. fraud (people complain all the time just to get discounts or free food)… and you haven’t even added insurance or labor costs.  then to top it all off, taxes..   All told that $15 pizza BEFORE delivery probably costs $8-9 to get ready just to leave the store.   Lastly.. they did get one thing right on the list.  I WONT do anything toput my job at risk, but if the insulated bag happens to “accidently” open with the air conditioning blowing on your pizza as I deliver your pizza LAST …. well…. sometimes ya just have to  believe in Karma.

    • PizzaHutGuy

       4.50 cents an hour, no the service charge does not go to the driver, Yes I have a real job where not only do I deliver your pizza, but I also prepare the dough the night before it’s cooked, wash the dishes that it’s cooked in, and cut the pizza before folding the box it comes in.  Yes, I have a wife and son and rent and groceries to buy, and the only thing you got right is you sit back.  If the pizza is so overpriced then open your own pizza joint and sell the pile of dough and cheese that you can make for 2.00… Not to mention most pizza are delivered at night, and I have to try and count mailboxes while I drive down a crowded street with your kind neighbors honking their horns at me because I’m having to drive slowly cause the only mailbox with the numbers on it is the first house. 

    • Colin D Keesee

      If paying a gratuity is such a hardship, perhaps you should get a real job (since you make it sound so easy) so you can stop acting like a tight fisted white trash brood mare. Also consider refraining from pumping out more children than you can afford to support. How many more baby daddies does your community need?

    • Brady Harden

      I bet you unknowingly eat a lot of other people’s saliva . . . . . Mmmm Mmmm Spit!

  • Clintbabb

    I tip a dollar, period.  If you don’t like it, then get a real job.  The delivery cost is added to the total price, so don’t whine to me about being cheap, we are all suffering with cash, and the chances are,  you are young, with no kids and I have three to support, and I’ve just ordered them overpriced pizza.  When you whine about your tip, I just sit back and think about how I paid $15.00 for a pile of dough and cheese worth $2.00, so shut up.

  • Allen

    I worked for a pizza delivery restaurant myself, and can back up the following:  (1)  Sometimes we have a few calls at once, and sometimes, no one else is available to take the calls; (2) All “anchovy” calls, and most “everything” calls were verified; 3-7 need I say more; (8) If you know someone is coming, don’t you dress properly?  And I sure hope that none of you were trying to get quick nuggie between the call and delivery! (9) The delivery person is paid just slightly more than mininum wage, and usually is driving their own car–please keep that in mind! (10) I see that some had to save to live where they do, and then continue to live beyond their means–please don’t forget that you too probably had to “work” for a living and to get where you are! (11) Wish I had thought of that! (12) And then you try to get a discount, and you don’t tip–shame on you! (13) Wow!  So people who request delivery–be kind to our delivery person–he or she is often either a college person, new to the job market, or working a 2nd job–and especially be patient on Friday nights, Super Bowl Sunday, and the night before Thanksgiving!

    • Prized pizza possession

      Actually most places pay less than minimum now, matter of fact most are going to that model if not already there. Pizza Hut and Domino’s pay $4-5/hr now.

    • robotbee

      I used to drive, and I have definitely interrupted some sex.

    • hardworking mom

       It’s a misconception that drivers get minimum wage, I didn’t. The owner/manager sets the rate. Since it’s employment based on tipping, the owner/manager can set the rate as the same for waitresses. In Connecticut, where I live it’s $5.69, our minimum wage is $8.25. If you earn more than $30. month in tips, then an employer can and does pay $5.69 hour.

    • hardworking mom

       It’s a misconception that drivers get minimum wage, I didn’t. The owner/manager sets the rate. Since it’s employment based on tipping, the owner/manager can set the rate as the same for waitresses. In Connecticut, where I live it’s $5.69, our minimum wage is $8.25. If you earn more than $30. month in tips, then an employer can and does pay $5.69 hour.

  • Kor Rok

    I always tip the delivery guy $6.00, no matter what the order costs. And I usually order from 2 different places, it depends what type of pizza or dinner I’m in the mood for. Both places know me by my phone number on their caller ID and usually know what I order too. When we had that freak snow storm in October and electricity was out for just about everyone, my pizza place was open, but wasn’t able to run credit cards, and I had no cash on hand, he let me have the pizza and told me to pay him when I could. Now that’s a good place to do business with. And I have never met the owner either, but they know I’m a decent tipper and use them at least 2-3 times a month.

    • robotbee

      You are a beautiful person, Kor Rok. 

      And yes, your pizza place WILL remember you. With discounts, quick service, free “mess-up” pizzas from time to time. 

      Why would anyone WANT to be unpleasant to their delivery driver? 

      • texastea2

        What everybody isn’t “beautiful” just this guy because he waste so much money on bread and tomato sauce. The only reason anybody is unpleasant to the delivery guy is because they are in an unpleasant mood. Nothing personal. Get over it. I thought this story was stupid and it is but it has been fun listening to yahoos cry about pizza You gotta love this messed up country.

        • JustaThought00

          So explain to me how it’s “ok” to take out your bad mood on anyone else? And yes, there is a difference between being rude (unpleasant), and just being “non-talkative”. If you can’t be nice, or at least pretend to be a decent human being for the all of 35 seconds of interaction it takes to talk to the guy delivering your pizza, then maybe you should turn off your phone, turn off your computer, and lock youself inside your house until you can learn to play nice again.

    • delivery driver

      Courtesy pays off sometimes doesn’t it?

      • texastea2

        That would be correctly stated (money pays!) Oh I tip six dollar.If a pizza cost 17 bucks and you tip the guy who drove it 6 blocks along with 8 other pizzas in you neighborhood 35% all I can say is WTF is wrong with you people.
        It ought to be where the Employer pays the guy or gal (by the way). In America however the Employers put the burden on the customer. STUPID

    • delivery driver

      Courtesy pays off sometimes doesn’t it?

  • Amy

    For those who deliver pizzas…. would you care if a girl answers the door and is half naked? What if she’s hot? I’ve wondered that….

    • Rich

      Those were the BEST deliveries.Rich

    • Vitales23

      Hell no, I would not care!

    • delivery driver

      Wonder no more Amy, YOU would get the tip.

  • faceinthecrowd

    It’s a known fact that middle class and poorer people tip better. We know some people need the tip and a lot of us worked in restaurants, and tips help. The rich only thing of you as  a slave and couldn’t connect to the middle class world. I worked tables, and had a tidy little “hat check & coat check job” in a few restaurants.

  • Tctbaby

    heh, maybe it’s just a product of where I live, but for some reason *stereotypical comment coming* black people are the worst tippers, followed by college kids living in the dorms.

    P.S. I don’t expect 5 or 10 dollars when I deliver to you, but 3-4 is always nice. Anything under 2 bucks and you’re pretty much wasting that driver’s time. The delivery shop I worked at paid $1.50 per delivery to the driver and paid us $4 an hour. On a slow night I might take 2 deliveries over 4 hours and my busiest I took 40 ($60) over a 12 hour shift and used slightly more than half a tank of gas ($30). Meaning on my busiest night working I made $7 an hour from the company. Help a guy out =p

  • Guest

    With that type of attitude you wonder why you only get a buck for a tip. I am the customer, I am the one spending the $$$, I am the one who decides if I order from you again or go with someone else who understands how to treat it’s customers. I can’t believe you want to make rules for ordering a Pizza, I am not that hungry.

  • Guest

    With that type of attitude you wonder why you only get a buck for a tip. I am the customer, I am the one spending the $$$, I am the one who decides if I order from you again or go with someone else who understands how to treat it’s customers. I can’t believe you want to make rules for ordering a Pizza, I am not that hungry.

    • robotbee

      I think you misunderstand who has the power in the relationship, silly Guest! 

      If you want your pizza to always be the last one delivered, to never be offered coupons or discounts, then go ahead and be snotty to your driver. Trust me, they DO remember you.

      And you should know that delivery drivers from different places DO talk to each other. If you are bad enough, your driver will courtesy call all of the other pizza and delivery places in town and warn them about you. It’s true. There IS a black list.

      Also, you meant “its” not “it’s” in the phrase, “who understands how to treat it’s customers.”

      But it is obvious from your comment that you are not smart.

    • hardworking mom

       Newsflash: The driver doesn’t care if you order from another restaurant, if you don’t tip, they actually prefer it.

    • hardworking mom

       Newsflash: The driver doesn’t care if you order from another restaurant, if you don’t tip, they actually prefer it.

    • hardworking mom

       Newsflash: The driver doesn’t care if you order from another restaurant, if you don’t tip, they actually prefer it.

  • Guest

    With that type of attitude you wonder why you only get a buck for a tip. I am the customer, I am the one spending the $$$, I am the one who decides if I order from you again or go with someone else who understands how to treat it’s customers. I can’t believe you want to make rules for ordering a Pizza, I am not that hungry.

  • Guest

    With that type of attitude you wonder why you only get a buck for a tip. I am the customer, I am the one spending the $$$, I am the one who decides if I order from you again or go with someone else who understands how to treat it’s customers. I can’t believe you want to make rules for ordering a Pizza, I am not that hungry.

  • Jhart6060

    To the person who only tips a dollar. If times are that tough for you make something at home. People who don’t account for the tip need to stay at home and stop ordering pizza. Ive never delved pizza but if I can only afford the pizza it self I don’t order pizza. You have to be stupid to keep not tipping and still ordering from the same place. They make your pizza in a place were you cant see it and can bake anything into it anything. You never want to piss off a place like that. Who knows whats in your pizza. Ive never messed with anyone’s food but if you tip a dollar you derisive a body fluid pizza.      

  • Budalla

    Ok, I have a copy of this, almost word for word, from 5 years ago.  And a clip from a newspaper that’s almost 10 years old.  It would be nice that, if the author is going to claim credit for it, she can at least acknowledge she’s  referencing an earlier article.  That is, unless, she wrote the older article and RD is just republishing it to fill space and save money.  LOL!

    I delivered pizza back then (for 5 years) and collected and clipped articles on the business.

    • Anonymous

      Actually, it’s referenced to Reader’s Digest.

  • God

    Such a sad day we live in , when a simple article gets everyone to click 14 pages of advertisements to completely read the entire story.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100003406477172 Mae Wilborn

    #6 They tell you on the phone how much your order is. There is no excuse not to have the money ready when they get there. You’ve got at least 20 minutes plus to get your money together.

  • jctejada

    I will never understand the concept of tipping… And from what I’ve heard tipping is mostly used in the United States, not the rest of the world. But what’s the point of tipping a barber after he just charged me $15 for a haircut or a pizza delivery guy for bringing me a box of pizza. The explanation I get from my friends is that you tip for good service but I’m already paying for that service (good service will bring me back instead of going some where else) so why throw money away by tipping, especially during a bad economy. I guess its the customers fault that the pizza/restaurant owner underpays his employees, especially in restaurants where you pay $60 a plate… If you are part of the 1% then I can understand tipping since you have money to burn but when you live pay check to pay check like most Americans tipping is a waste of money and bad for your personal economy. 

    • Bill Cameron

      If you worked for tips you’d have a different outlook.

    • Bill Cameron

      If you worked for tips you’d have a different outlook.

    • Anonymous

      Bully for you if you live in another country.  Tipping here in the US is that way because of that Republican BS of “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps.”  It is LEGAL for restaurants and other businesses to pay employees LESS than minimum wage if their job includes tips.  So your anger should be at the law and the cheap crap business owners, not the employees, who don’t have a choice.  Tipping is an EXPECTED part of their salary, and if you’re too cheap to pay it, first, you have no business ordering food for delivery and second, you have no business eating in a restaurant.  No, it is NOT fair that the money you pay must also force you to pay more still, but when you go to a restaurant or order for delivery, that is understood BEFORE you step foot in the door here in the US.  If you have a problem with tipping, instead of shorting someone because you live paycheck to paycheck (like the person you’re shorting DEFINITELY does), go to the business owners and tell THEM off for not paying a fair living wage, without which these people NEED tips from you.  THAT’S the reason you have to pay for tips in the US, because employers are always trying to pocket the largest share for themselves, whether or not they actually deserve it.

      And again, if you’re living “paycheck to paycheck like most Americans,” frankly, you’re NOT ordering pizza…you’re cooking at home, buying a cheap $1.99 frozen pizza from the local grocery store…where you don’t have to pay ANYONE a tip.  Last I heard, your microwave will not pee on your food if you’re too cheap to give it a tip.

      Saying you live “paycheck to paycheck” and that gives you an excuse for not paying a tip is rude…if you can’t afford to pay the tip, DON’T USE THE SERVICE.  When I can’t afford to tip, I cook at home or go to the restaurant in PERSON and get a take-out order.  Nobody is my unpaid slave, nobody is employed to serve me for free.  I am not an “entitled” moron who believes the world owes me.  And as poor as I’ve ever been, I’ve ALWAYS paid my way.  Whether that was counting out a 20% or more tip from change when I was a college student or including an extra dollar on my 20% or more tip because I knew it would make someone’s day and that dollar wouldn’t kill me, I didn’t expect them to work for free.  And when someone takes me out and they’re a cheap non-tipper, I leave the tip.

      For the record, I myself have never had to work for tips.  But I appreciate EVERY harried server and delivery person.  Even when I placed an order at a store for a NON-food item and they didn’t have it ready when I showed up to pick it up (they didn’t have it ready because they were afraid it was a bogus order), I spent extra money to properly tip the delivery guy they sent to my job with the item the following day, despite the fact that the delivery wasn’t my choice.  Because it wasn’t the delivery guy’s choice, either, and he was NOT my slave or manservant.

    • Highmpgs

      And if you live check to check then you SHOULD not be buying pizza or fast food. It is less expensive and better for you to make your own food.

    • delivery driver

      I see you understand the 1% class warfare BS well enough

    • delivery driver

      I see you understand the 1% class warfare BS well enough

  • Guest9933475

    #10 could not be more correct.  As a former delivery guy I promise you the best tips are from the ones who know what you are going through.  Personally, if I place a delivery order and it’s around $20, i will typically give them $30 for the bill and tip.  Even though it’s not mentioned, you must not forget about your server at a sit down restaurant.

  • Anonymous

    8 minutes raw to out the door if the pizza maker is fast
    20 minutes is a busy and/or inefficient place

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rich-Swingle/689249570 Rich Swingle

      maybe if your running a crappy conveyor oven or have the temperature up over 600 degrees. a good, properly made, slow cooked pizza should takea bout 12 minutes, plus a couple minutes for the shell and topping (to presumably be hand made).

  • WAStateGuest

    We tip according to gas prices.

  • bubbycasey

    Re tipping: A few years agoi I had to tell a neighbor who had more money than God that he should tip pizza delivery people. The guy was a dweeb who had inherited a business from his father, then sold it for big bucks. Never had to really work in his life.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=906330 Jasmine Marrero-Pratt

    After I had my first child we ordered out a lot because I was exhausted and didn’t want to cook.  One time we ordered pizza and while we were waiting for it our baby daughter exploded out of her diaper, and onto her clothes, onto my husband who was holding her at the ti,e

  • Tburba3

    If you want to be able to sit at home and have your food brought to your door step because you are to lazy to get in your car and drive then you should be willing to tip. Is an extra 3 or 4 bucks going to break you if so ordering pizza should not be a priority. In college I worked on the inside of a pizza place and was amazed how bad the tips drivers recived. It is a real job because you are using the service it would not be a job if there was no demand fo drivers. People are so quick to look down on people who work in servise jobs, these are the same people who use the serices daily. Mean people and bad tippers suck…..

  • Tburba3

    If you want to be able to sit at home and have your food brought to your door step because you are to lazy to get in your car and drive then you should be willing to tip. Is an extra 3 or 4 bucks going to break you if so ordering pizza should not be a priority. In college I worked on the inside of a pizza place and was amazed how bad the tips drivers recived. It is a real job because you are using the service it would not be a job if there was no demand fo drivers. People are so quick to look down on people who work in servise jobs, these are the same people who use the serices daily. Mean people and bad tippers suck…..

  • Joscar90019

    I agree that you should tip the delivery person but I don’t think it should be based on a set percentage. I usually tip $3 to $5 and if I was ordering a bunch of pizza for a party would cap it at $10. Other than the extra boxes that have to be carried it doesn’t take that much more time or effort to delivery 20 pizzas as it does to deliver 2. Why should one driver get $3 and the other $30? Restaurant table service is different.
    I once had a pizza place add a 20% service charge for an order for 25 pizzas. I refused to pay it saying I would tip the driver $10. He said the service charge was to cover his expenses for making the order and I pointed out that the price of the pizza is supposed to cover that AND that the other pizza places we dealt with gave us a discount of 10 to 15% when we placed an order that large. He called me cheap and I told him we would never order from him again.

  • FLGuest

    As someone who delivered pizzas when I was in my early 20s, I can say that most of this is crap.  It’s a stupid pizza delivery job, not a career!  Oh and hundreds of dollars worth of pizza?  Tip 15 percent if you want, it’s nice.  But it’s hardly more effort to deliver one pizza than it is 15.  I once got 15% on a $300 bill!  Was truly amazed and happy but wouldn’t have known what I was missing if I had been given a $10.  Really though $3 should be a minimum no matter what you order.

    • Anonymous

      If I order a $10 pizza and then am charged a $2 delivery fee, I’m not tipping $3. You’re lucky to get 1

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PJ5WURLEASAV3YVL3KXIMWTVSM Zenkai

         you’re a cheap POS

      • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PJ5WURLEASAV3YVL3KXIMWTVSM Zenkai

         you’re a cheap POS

      • hardworking mom

         Very brave posting your name, now everyone knows “Gretchen Dekok” is a non tipper! Good job and the best to you being a cheapskate who has no business ordering food and having it delivered.

      • hardworking mom

         Very brave posting your name, now everyone knows “Gretchen Dekok” is a non tipper! Good job and the best to you being a cheapskate who has no business ordering food and having it delivered.

      • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

         This is why we can’t make enough money to buy our own health care.

  • Doug

    I have a PROBLEM with tipping. I expect good service and I expect your boss to pay you a fair wage. I don’t get a tip for doing my profession why should you, if you live off tips get a better paying job. 

    • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PJ5WURLEASAV3YVL3KXIMWTVSM Zenkai

       If you can’t afford to tip, don’t eat out

    • delivery driver

      Better inspect the next pizza you get VERY closely you cheap prick.

    • hardworking mom

       And maybe in the meantime, you can learn etiquette and favor everyone in the mean time, order a delivery.

  • Doug

    I have a PROBLEM with tipping. I expect good service and I expect your boss to pay you a fair wage. I don’t get a tip for doing my profession why should you, if you live off tips get a better paying job. 

  • Dave

    Why wont they tell us these 13 things?  No great secrets here.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PJ5WURLEASAV3YVL3KXIMWTVSM Zenkai

    Working at a pizza delivery guy while in college I can tell you that number 10 is so true, the nicer the neighborhood usually the cheaper the tips, it’s rather sad.  As a driver you get paid minimum wage and at the time a dollar a run when I worked but gas was 1.15 back then.  We use our own cars so really your tips cover our expenses on our car.   Most of the other stuff is kind of BS I don’t really care if you’re wearing a shirt or not all I care is that you are fast with the cash so I can get to my next delivery, the faster we can get to our next customers the better chance at not losing a tip and the better chance at getting back to make more money.

  • Anonymous

    If you’re living in another country, lucky you, as people are usually able to make it elsewhere sans tips.  Here in the US, it’s all a part of that BS Republican “pull yourself up by your own bootstraps” mentality that says YOU do the work, and if you can’t afford to survive on that salary, it’s up to YOU to get another job.  Therefore, tipping here is ESSENTIAL to many jobs.  Some places will PURPOSELY and LAWFULLY underpay employees, because the law actually states they may do so if the job includes tips.  We all live paycheck to paycheck, but that’s not a reason to tell someone they don’t deserve a tip.  And that being the case, don’t order a pizza, don’t eat in a restaurant, etc.

  • pizzadude

     Most of these are kind of dumb.  I was a pizza delivery guy in college for two years.

    1.  Turn on your house lights at night!  That is my biggest complaint.
    2.  If it snowed 2 feet the day before, please shovel your drive/walkway or I might “accidentally” drop your pizza walking in the snow.
    3.  You know how we have your number and address saved on the computer?  Well there is a spot for comments too.  If you never tip, it will say right under your name “bad tipper”.  You will always be the last person delivered to on a route.  And the last pizza picked up and taken by a driver when there is a stack ready to go.  Oh wait I gotta get gas sometime soon, might as well do it before the bad tipper.
    4.  If you order from Papa Johns and don’t like the pepper things in the box, ask them to not include Pepperoncinis, you will save $0.25 on every pizza.  Same with the extra sauce.
    5.  No pizza guy will ever ask you for a coupon at the door.  The daily/weekly specials are given to anybody that asks for them, or knows about them.  The coupons we do need are the buy one, get one free you got from groupon, or purchased coupon book, etc.
    6.  This article is misleading on time it takes to cook (says 20 min) a pizza.  I have handed a person a freshly made pizza 14 minutes after it was ordered.  1 min to toss dough, 1 min for toppings, 8 min cooking, 4 minutes to deliver.

  • pizzadude

    Forgot a couple important ones:

    7.  Deep dish, handtossed, and original are made with dough, flour, and muscle power when you order the pizza.  Thin crust is mass produced in a factory somewhere by squirting out dough, cutting into a circle, freezing it, shipping it across the country, then letting it dethaw before topping.  You decide which one you prefer.
    8.  Extra or heavy sauce usually isn’t considered an extra topping so you can get it free. (unless they sell the sauce in little cups on the side)
    9.  Delivery guys don’t get paid for gas generally.  It is usually something like $0.50 a pizza or $1.00.  So even if the driver gets 3 pizzas on one short route he is probably losing money if nobody tips.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EINSANWEILPJZN7QY7252XFQ34 Frank

    When i used to deliver received 0.75 cents a delivery for gas. And YES YES YES we do remember your address & house if your a bad tipper. I may make an extra pit stop or 2 before i get to your house because we know weather its there in 10 min or an hour its the same bad tip. If your an awesome tipper the WHOLE place knows who you are, will make your pizza good & fight over who will take your pizza to you.

  • Laurenleigh83

    And don’t forget, if you don’t tip, we do tell the other drivers. If you don’t think we deserve tips then get off your lazy a$$ and pick up your pizza yourself. Thanks, a pizza girl :)

  • Germinvermin

    Why do pizza delivery drivers seem like the most self-centered I-deserve-everything buttholes on the planet? You aren’t the CEO of a major corporation, you CHOSE to deliver pizza. Tips aren’t deserved, they’re earned. Messing up a customer’s order because they don’t tip is poor customer service and deserves to have you walked out the door and fired. Good grief. People don’t understand the concept of customer service anymore and they think it’s the tipper’s job to pay their paycheck simply for *doing their job.*

    • hardworking mom

       Seriously.

    • hardworking mom

       Seriously.

    • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

       I really dislike Republicans. It is your boys the corporations that expect you to pay their employees’ wages. What part of that business model do you not understand? Self – centered? What if someone came into your office tomorrow and told you you were going to get half of what you had been getting for years? Would you suck it up like we did or whine about it like you are now? If I paid $1.50 in gas to get to your house, the store gives me $.70 for gas, I make $4.00 an hour, and you stiff me, what does that add up to? YOU RIPPING ME OFF!!!!

  • Tomando

    If you pay to get it delivered, You should not have to tip. You are paying for the service.

    • Anonymous

      That delivery fee doesn’t actually go to the driver.  I thought this was common knowledge at this point…

    • Anonymous

      That delivery fee doesn’t actually go to the driver.  I thought this was common knowledge at this point…

    • hardworking mom

      It’s amazing how ignorant people are, including you.

    • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

       False, you are paying stock holder’s corporate coffers, imbecile.

  • http://www.facebook.com/premiere.final Premiere Final

    I tend to order pizza when I’m not in my home, usually not in my home city, so there’s a reason I may not know the address and directions of the place I’m staying, which I got to via public transportation or cab. That’s why the pizza boy should know the map of the city -he actually lives in- better than his customers, who may not.

    Also, pizza boy replier here is a freakin’ whiner. If you have the skills to get a better job, then get one, or deal with the First World Pizza Boy problems.

  • http://www.facebook.com/premiere.final Premiere Final

    I tend to order pizza when I’m not in my home, usually not in my home city, so there’s a reason I may not know the address and directions of the place I’m staying, which I got to via public transportation or cab. That’s why the pizza boy should know the map of the city -he actually lives in- better than his customers, who may not.

    Also, pizza boy replier here is a freakin’ whiner. If you have the skills to get a better job, then get one, or deal with the First World Pizza Boy problems.

  • http://www.facebook.com/premiere.final Premiere Final

    I tend to order pizza when I’m not in my home, usually not in my home city, so there’s a reason I may not know the address and directions of the place I’m staying, which I got to via public transportation or cab. That’s why the pizza boy should know the map of the city -he actually lives in- better than his customers, who may not.

    Also, pizza boy replier here is a freakin’ whiner. If you have the skills to get a better job, then get one, or deal with the First World Pizza Boy problems.

  • Meandlia

    (Oh, and my tip is usually about $3 per pizza, regardless of price of pizza, if it’s on sale for $5 per pizza or $15 per pizza – and then I round it up (the total) – so if I get 3 pizza’s and it’s $9, I give him a $10 on the pizza and then add in gas money because we’re 2 miles out from the delivery area, so that varies depending on the gas prices in our area, could be an extra $5 or an extra $8)

  • Meandlia

    hmmm… I had posted another comment, but I don’t see it… weird.  It was before the one in parenthesis… dang it!

  • Highwayhero

    Uh…. middle or lower CLASS people???? I hope you meant to say INCOME. I’ve seen lots of people with $$ up the ying-yang, but no class whatsoever……

    • Meandlia

      You can say that again… class has nothing to do with status, color, or income.  Character is something you can’t buy or earn – and if you don’t have it, you probably aren’t going to “get it”… haha.  :)    Double like on this one!

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1067044255 Frank Lynch

      A large percentage of those that have little or any moral judgement. Money seems to degrade any morals.

  • Maherjunkie

    You’ve been out of the game my friend.  We who work for the big three get sub-minimum wages when we are outside the store, which is most of the time if we are lucky.

  • Maherjunkie

    You’ve been out of the game my friend.  We who work for the big three get sub-minimum wages when we are outside the store, which is most of the time if we are lucky.

  • Amurrell

    I tip $2-4 for the delivery. More if the store doesn’t charge a stupid fee. Which I never understood the purpose of if the driver does t get the money. I do not do a percentage because a delivery is delivery….volume does not affect it. IMO. But I will add that this whole attitude of I am entitled to a tip pisses me off and makes me WANT to NOT tip you at all. Tips are optional…..gratitude for a job well done. I do not have to tip you id i dont feel you earned it. If you cant live with that well then i think you should find a job that is paycheck based and not tip or comission based. Do a good job and the $ will follow (most of the time), wallow in what your not getting and I promise you the next person will fell your “attitude” and your $ will go down.

    • what next

      of course if the employer is paying a fair wage then the  price of the pizza goes up to compensate for that– so tipping lets me as the consumer  reward a person for a job well done–tipping for food service is part of our culture– gotta change that form the top– not by stiffing the worker bees….

    • driver in the South

      large orders are a pain.  If someone orders 4 pizzas, breadsticks, wings, 2 liters, plus extras, it’s a hassle.   True, once it gets in the car it doesn’t cost any more to get it to the customers driveway, but then we have to balance all that while the customer fiddles with the credit card receipt.  Also, we realize tips are optional, thats why we don’t cuss customers out for stiffing us… we just remember who the stiffers are and share it with our coworkers.    Always remember the old story that TIP comes from “To Insure Promptness”.  (I’ve heard various explanations, but in this case it literally is the case)   Poor tippers tend to have their pizzas delivered less than promptly when we can.  I only have 2 customers who I will go out of my way to make sure their pizza is late (because both of them left me standing in the rain late at night and then stiffed me–yes, I originally gave them excellent service)… but there are quite a few customers that I will route my deliveries to ensure that others get delivered first (and I can show my boss “logically” why I chose the route I did)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001504818428 Jay Coventry

    I don’t think so. Gas i.s double the price it should be, and drivers have to pay for their own, not to mention expensive tires, brake repairs, etc. due to the use of their cars on the job, Tip at least 20% or pick it up yourself. If you can’t afford valet service, don’t order it!

  • hannah

    I don’t understand why people need to tip, I don’t get tips in my job. You are paying a company to deliver you food, that company then has the responsibility to pay the staff. I’m from the uk so I don’t really get it. When I lived in the states my American friend told me off for not tipping a taxi driver who arrived 20 mins late and made me miss my train. Why should I pay more for bad service, a service which is neither free or cheap?

    • Anonymous

       Your friend was an idiot.  The guy deserved no tip. 

  • Guest

    Delivery men from 3 states were asked for these things. Why? Having lived in one, NY, for over 40 years and now 10 in PA, these 13 things could have been summed up in one universal fact: Tip well, especially in bad weather. Delivery men (and women) DO remember and you will get your food fast. And hot. 

  • Sweendog67

    This isn’t a list of things your pizza delivery goy WON’T tell you, it’s common scenes… That being said, I’m gonna answer that door naked if I want too… I’m the average joe who gives you a 20% plus tip so enjoy my man boobs and have a good laugh with your buddies back at the shop afterward. DO NOT try to slide my cheese back on…. Your just gonna make a return trip wit no tip this time. i WILL NEVER answer the door while talking on the phone and if your customer chooses to do so—-Turn around and walk away , tell them you’ll be back when they have more time… I chucked my cell phone years ago and if your in my car your battery comes out, not just off… I need to protect myself…   The main thing you forgot to mention is that you can save $5 by just picking up the pizza yourself….

  • Crand2003

    The current epidemic of obesity is clear indication that no one should be eating pizza,  all pizza places should be shut down and if you want a meal then walk over and get that fish, spinach and bown rice.  

    • Yetizod

       I hate you.  Seriously.  People like you just take the fun out of everything.

  • http://www.facebook.com/acperrin Chris Perrin

    I would add that there IS a difference between a “Delivery Fee” and a “TIP”.   Only part of the “Delivery Fee” goes to the driver for gas, brakes, oil changes, etc. while the rest goes to the company for driver insurance.  Unless the delivery fee is outragous you really should tip.

  • APOCrunch

    I delivered pizza for a major chain for 3 years. Yes, we had a delivery charge of $1.50. This does NOT go to the driver! All of the delivery charges go into the regular profit pool. Drivers are reimbursed for mileage, but it’s not even close to cover gas and maintenance charges (I think we were around 18-19 cents per mile). Delivery drivers also usually make *less* than minimum wage on an hourly basis, and rely on their tips to live on.

  • Ibjamen

    RE # 23 … if the person across the street tips you to deliver, that’s the easiest tip you got all day, so you should be thrilled that he didn’t get off his rear end to pick up the pizza himself.

    • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

       That one was stupid, unless they figure it is so close that they don’t have to tip, which happens.

  • Ibjamen

    RE #20 … It’s no secret that delivery people drive their own cars. Why is that something they wouldn’t want to tell you? My ordering pizza has nothing to do with a delivery person wrecking his/her car and having to now drive a rental. 

    • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

       Yes, it actually does if it was your run.

  • Ibjamen

    RE #20 … It’s no secret that delivery people drive their own cars. Why is that something they wouldn’t want to tell you? My ordering pizza has nothing to do with a delivery person wrecking his/her car and having to now drive a rental. 

  • Ibjamen

    RE #20 … It’s no secret that delivery people drive their own cars. Why is that something they wouldn’t want to tell you? My ordering pizza has nothing to do with a delivery person wrecking his/her car and having to now drive a rental. 

  • Ibjamen

    RE #18 … I completely understand that you are not coming to my door to have a conversation, and I would never delay a delivery person like that.  But by saying “I will try to be as nice to you as possible, but if you complain that I’m late, or if you have a problem with your order, I won’t be so nice”, are you saying that if you screw up an order, the customer just has to shut up and tip well anyway, or you’ll be rude?

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/2CAXDRC4GSMHI55MFPQBDTN3LQ Ronald

    Do one of these for servers in restaurants. People seem to think that they make minimum wage and don’t need a tip, but my girlfriend is a server and she makes $2.13 an hour and that is just for tax purposes. 9 times out of 10 she doesn’t even get a check. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/kaitlinbledsoe Kaitlin Bledsoe

      I think they have before? I just hope that maybe all these rude people commenting would tip a server the correct amount; and then learn that that same amount should be put towards delivery drivers too.

  • Anonymous

    1)Tough, the customer is always right.3)It should be free if you DROP it.
    5)You are a public accommodation, feel like getting sued? You exaggerate the danger.
    6)People don’t like strangers in their home, especially if wet.
    7)It’s not a date, you are there to trade a pizza for some money.
    11)You should be fired in you do that, unprofessional POS.
    12)It’s your job to be on time and to handle any issues in a courteous manner, if you’re rude you should be fired.13)You should make it clear what the latest delivery time is if it’s earlier than the closing time.
    23)What’s it to you? More geographic discrimination? You’ll get a tip. What about old or disabled people? Jerk.

  • Randy

    you know the majority of people who say to me “boy you got here fast” stiff me or give me 1 dollar as my tip. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4W5SUTCVW6W3TYB6SICSSUSBKU Mike Brunner

    I’ve already ordered pizza that cost around $12 and gave the delivery guy a $20 from Papa John’s and he had the nerve to ask if I wanted any change back. This has happened way more than once, and when I say yeah, keep $2 for your tip, I get a ugly look like I am horrible. Needless to say, after 3-4 times, I now order from Pizza Hut. I understand that the drivers don’t make a ton of money but that is not the customer’s fault, in fact the owners push for customers to give tips so they can get away with paying their employees less. The thing that bothered me about this was the comment made about ppl not wanting their kids to drive in bad weather but have no problem expecting other ppl’s kids to do it. When I call to order a pizza in bad weather I don’t ask how old the driver is that will be delivering it, it is not my responsibility to judge if they should be driving or not, I don’t know them or their age. If the weather is bad and their parents don’t want them driving, they should stay home. Look, when ppl order a pizza, they are paying a good amount of money for it and don’t need an attitude from drivers, many who ARE adults, because we didn’t tell you to take that crap job, we aren’t the one paying you crap money, and we don’t need your crap attitude. Want better money, get a better job.

    • BeatifulLoveEmpress

      Something like this has happened to me a couple of times where I only had a small order…..searched for a smaller bill before the delivery guy showed up.{including asking neighbors if they could break it} I only had an 50 PLUS $3 in tip money for him and the delivery guy had the nerves of steel to ask if I wanted change? I am sorry I am not about to pay anyone a large tip for a small order under $12 especially when
      1.the pizza place is only an 4 minute drive to get to my house.
      2.I just had to pay an automatic delivery fee.

  • Nationwide67

    If you are rude on the phone, live at the very edge of the delivery and don’t tip, you better hope your driver isn’t the punk rock kid withthe 300,000 mile pick up. Because he will spit on your pizza. It’s disgusting and even criminal and I would fire him instantly if I knew about it. But I didn”t hear about it till years later. And it happended numerous times to you. So he must’ve really not liked you. Sorry.

  • Pizza Lover

    I tip well, better than most, but the tip decreases dramatically if I can hear your car stereo when you pull up in from of my place. It disappears almost completely if you leave it shaking my windows when you get out of your car and walk to my door.. Oh one more thing, it is always nice to open the door and have the person on the other side greet you with a smile and hello instead of barking out the amount owed. Just saying, I’m not looking to be your friend but if you make me feel like I’m annoying you by paying you to do your job I’ll take my business some place were they appreciate being employed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Jackson/100000752141373 James Jackson

    When I was in college, I delivered pizza. My oldest daughter also delivered pizza while she was in college. Some of these remarks from “the pizza guy” seem too demanding. For instance, it’s legal and accepted social practice that a man can go bare-chested in a number of situations, one of which has got to be IN HIS OWN HOME. The “pizza guy” also mentioned that it’s a pizza, not his life’s work. Right. It’s a pizza. Don’t expect the customer to be more emotionally invested in the pizza than the “pizza guy” is. Also, I find it totally unacceptable for the “pizza guy” to remark that if he drops the pizza box, he shakes it to try to get the cheese back into place. When I was delivering, that was unacceptable behavior. No one wants to pay for a dropped pizza and shouldn’t be expected to, and frankly, it’s egregiously bad service for “pizza guy” to think it’s OK to just shake the box to make it all better. The driver should take it back, phone the customer to explain the situation, and deliver a fresh, undropped pizza. That should go without saying. As I kept reading, I discovered I don’t like this “pizza guy,” whoever he is. And I used to be a “pizza guy.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_3SA2PYWJWJNPZ5YHLGZMGCPWOU RichardG

    What a bunch of whiny brats. Have exact change, keep your mouth shut, don’t call too late, don’t live too close, don’t live too far, don’t order too much, don’t order too little, pay attention to what I drive, how much it cost’s me to drive it, how hard I work, how many hours I work, don’t talk too me, feel sorry for me when the weather is bad,  and oh yeah give me free money or else I’ll sabotage your food. How about a list of what customers would like their pizza delivery person to know. 1. A tip is a tip and not an obligation. 2. Many people, myself included, only call for delivery when they’re stuck  out of town somewhere and don’t know the city. It’s the delivery drivers job to know the streets better than the customer’s, Get a GPS. 3. I don’t care what you’re driving or who’s paying for the gas, and I shouldn’t have to. I called for a pizza, not your life story. 4. If you drop my pizza you better drive back and get me another one. If if looks like you shook all the toppings back onto it I’m not paying for it and I’m calling your boss. 5. I’m glad I read this article because next time I’m going to open my soda in your direction before I pay you just in case you are the type of jerk to shake it up. 6. If it’s a single woman you’re delivering to, keep in mind that she would be a moron to let a stranger into her house even if it’s the worst rain storm in history. 7. Use your manners. Say “thank you, I appreciate your business, have a good night” etc. After all, as many here have pointed out, I could have bought a tombstone for a third of the price and none of the attitude. 8. You delivered the pizza, you know how much it costs. Please learn how to do simple math or have a calculator with you. If the bill is $22.50 and you get two twenties, don’t be asking if I want change. I’m not cheap but I’m not tipping you $17.50. And stop fumbling around your change bag like you can’t find the right amount, hoping this will get me to say, ah just keep it. After all time is money and you have more deliveries to make so make it snappy. 9. Whether I order $15.00 worth of food or $1500 worth of food, it still doesn’t give you the right to dictate how much I should tip you. 10. If you get annoyed by people trying to treat you like a human being and engage you in a little small talk, you have no business being  in a customer service job. 11. Customers can spot an attitude a mile away and they don’t like it. 12. You can’t afford to be choosy. 13. It doesn’t matter if I live across the street or 10 miles away, if your store offers delivery then do your job and deliver. Don’t tell me to get off my rear end. I might have a reason why I can’t leave where I’m at and it’s none of your business. 14. If you advertise that you take delivery calls up to a certain time and I call 5 minutes before that time and that bothers you, take it up with your boss. 15. If your boss isn’t paying you enough to cover your gas and earn a decent wage, don’t take it out on your customers, they work hard too. Take it up with your boss. 16. No one is under any obligation to tip you anything, period end of story.  If you give them great service you’ll most likely get a tip. If you show up and act like your annoyed and in a hurry, even if you are, you can’t expect, much less demand a big gratuity.

    • BeautifulLoveEmpress

      CLAP CLAP I agree with almost everything you said. I am pretty sure that I am not the only one that appreciated your comment. You gave it to them straight where some others were where skating around the REAL issues.

      • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

         You are living in a deram world.

  • Anonymous

    Always remember, the pizza delivery guy knows where you live.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_BFSVZC7AMFJ4LTOFPSWM5CE6GE Joe

    Number 24 is BS. I worked in the pizza industry for several years and never got tired of it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1275578005 Noah Rosenthal

    Why won’t the pizza guy tell me this stuff? It seems like he’d be a lot happier if he did.

    Also, about knowing the price: I pretty much can never hear the guy on the other end of the line when I call because it’s so loud in pizza places. So, pizza guy, here’s something your customer WILL tell you: Unless I ordered online, I need you to tell me how much it cost if you would like me to pay you.

  • D Ben

    Item 23 doesn’t make sense.  If the delivery is nearby. it’s a short trip to pick up the SAME tip as would be received for a *long* trip–less gas used, so more net tip “profit”.  Normally, the tip isn’t determined by the length of the delivery trip.

  • jyladvik

    Who would be tacky enough to tip with a few coins, anyway…. people use dollar bills, its more classy.

  • RJQ

    HEY PEOPLE, A 1.50 DELIVERY FEE IS NOT A TIP- TIP ACCORDINGLY OR GO PICK UP YOUR FOOD. IF YOU ARE A REPEAT NON-TIPPER YOU WILL DEF PAY. 

  • RJQ

    HEY PEOPLE, A 1.50 DELIVERY FEE IS NOT A TIP- TIP ACCORDINGLY OR GO PICK UP YOUR FOOD. IF YOU ARE A REPEAT NON-TIPPER YOU WILL DEF PAY. 

  • RJQ

    HEY PEOPLE, A 1.50 DELIVERY FEE IS NOT A TIP- TIP ACCORDINGLY OR GO PICK UP YOUR FOOD. IF YOU ARE A REPEAT NON-TIPPER YOU WILL DEF PAY. 

  • Former Pizza Girl

    I worked in (chain and not-so chainy) pizzerias for YEARS all through high school and college.  My boss never knew this, but I would always hang up on ridiculous people who’d call during blizzards :-).  Once there was a foot of snow and it was still coming down… The first thing I’d say was “Hello this is Domino’s.  Minimum delivery time is over 2 hours, how can I help you?”  and people were shocked.  “I thought it would be like 30 min!”

    There was also a big crowd of people who would call smugly “Yes, it’s been 32 minutes and my pizza isn’t here yet”…  “So?”…  “So, I guess it’s free?”… “(a) That wasn’t Domino’s. (b) I think you’re referencing the 1980′s”

    The one thing I don’t agree with is that you owe 10-15% on hundreds of dollars of pizza, but you definitely owe a higher tip than the $2 you’d get for delivering one pizza, but if someone spends $400 on pizza and gives you $15, you are still making out like a delivery bandit.  In no way does a delivery guy deserve a $60 tip ever.  I actually believe in catering tipping to the industry, and pizza guy tipping should be relatable to exertion on the pizza guy… Needs to spend an extra 5 min loading and unloading his car, and make multiple trips back and forth… Increased workload by 5 = increased tip by x 5.

    And as the other poster noted, some places DEFINITELY add on gratuity (ahem, Papa John’s!)… Every Papa John’s phone rep has told me the same thing: The delivery fee is split between the store (why the store needs the delivery surcharge, idk) and the driver.  When I ask the driver, they will always hem and haw.  I understand in some cases, delivery surcharges offset the price of gas, but drivers shouldn’t lie, also.  I usually tip just slightly less for Papa John’s.

  • Thomas Wentzel

    I have worked for two national pizza chains and two local shops. It only take between 8 and ten minutes to go from raw dough to boxed pizza. Not 20. Ever.

  • Asdf

    yeah right….i let you in out of the rain then you lock the door and i get raped

  • ohiomark

    Personally, I think if someone wants a pizza delivered, the store should give him a service charge that is 100% passed on to the driver that adequately compensates the driver for his time, his gas, and the use of his car.  If that works out to $10 per order, so be it.  Tipping is for the birds; the business owner needs to pass on the full cost of delivering his pizza to the customer, so the delivery guy can earn a fair return, and not have to rely on the inconsistant gratitude of his customers.

  • Anonymous

    #16: This simply isn’t true in this economy, nor in a city. In the suburbs, perhaps. But not in a large city.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/BZLLA32K4PZDHBM6AJ7FSLDZEE Nick

     Sounds like a lot of pissing and moaning to me. “Oh boo hoo, us pizza guys have it so hard.”

  • Starsforshooting

    I am so tired of reading these “13 things so and so won’t tell you”. While some aspects are interesting, what about “13 things the customer deserves/expects”. What about some of the most basic items a customer should get? After all, let’s not forget, the customer basically ensures your job. (Of course, this does not give the customer a right to be a complete douche)

  • http://www.facebook.com/RobHruska Rob Hruska

    It doesn’t take 20 minutes. When I worked at Dominos, it was 7 1/2 minutes in the oven.

  • Gianetti

    I’ve worked in several pizzerias as inside help, a driver, manager and as an owner. I also buy pizza frequently. Some of the things in the article are worth mentioning and some are just dumb.

    Let’s start with the comment that some parents don’t want their teens driving under certain conditions. As a customer I can tell you that I have no idea how old the delivery person is going to be. Don’t want your kid driving when the weather isn’t ideal? Don’t let him become a delivery driver.

    As a delivery driver I don’t really care all that much if you’re on the phone when you answer the door. As long as you can conduct our transaction efficiently I’m fine with it.

  • Gianetti

    As a driver I’m not going to shake your soda next time I deliver to you if you don’t tip. I’m not stupid enough to think you won’t know and call my manager to complain when your drenched in cola.

  • Marshy466

    I will never tip because they make money I barely make more and i am in a higher tax bracket so in reality we probably end up making the same at the end of the year…. They do not deserve a tip just because they work in the food industry. I don’t get a tip for helping out construction workers all day and i bet my job is 10x harder beings im dealing with “Construction Workers”

    • Anonymous

      Hope you make more than the driver!

    • Anonymous

      Hope you make more than the driver!

    • Anonymous

      Hope you make more than the driver!

    • Anonymous

      If you can’t aford tip go get it!! 

  • pete’s pizza

    #23   i used to love walking across the street every monday and friday to deliver. i’d get a five dollar tip every time for no work.

  • pete’s pizza

    #23   i used to love walking across the street every monday and friday to deliver. i’d get a five dollar tip every time for no work.

  • pete’s pizza

    #23   i used to love walking across the street every monday and friday to deliver. i’d get a five dollar tip every time for no work.

  • pete’s pizza

    #23   i used to love walking across the street every monday and friday to deliver. i’d get a five dollar tip every time for no work.

  • Riona

    That extra $2.00 service charge? Does not go to the driver. That goes to the extra insurance a pizza place has to carry, even though every driver has his / her own insurance as well. Another amazing fact : Most delivery drivers live off tips.

    And a tip that my husband feels is important (South Dakota Pizza Delivery Driver) : “No, I cannot take a credit card at the door.”

  • https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/4819_104517701045_8099921_n.jpg ARGUE CAT

    LOL so true about remembering people who don’t tip.   They were always the last house we would deliver to on runs.

  • Jonathan8p

    hey pizza delivery fags: 
    GET A REAL JOB!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_46PI6LYATESF3XQ4OWZ6MN566Q Bill

    #24, being “over pizza”

    Then that pizzeria must have made a crappy pie.  I worked in the pizza industry through the mid 1980s. I delivered the stuff, then made it, then managed the store. I ate it nearly every day and I didn’t change my opinion about it after I graduated and moved away from that college town. Thirty years later I STILL make a great pie.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ed.carricarte Ed Carricarte

    A MINIMUM OF A $5 TIP.  THE DRIVER HAS GAS EXPENSE PLUS WEAR AND TEAR ON CAR.  THERE IS ALSO THE DANGER OF BEING ROB.  I’VE NEVER HAD A TIP ON THE BILL.

  • Emilytaylor 0922

    there are much harder jobs than delivering pizza lol. 

  • Emilytaylor 0922

    there are much harder jobs than delivering pizza lol. 

  • Lisa

    My son’s have delivered pizza, they make far less than minimum wage, use their own cars, and gas. They count on those tips. There is nothing worse then taking a delivery to an out of the way address and not have been compensated with a tip. If you frequently neglect your driver, be wary when you open that soda they just delivered.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=734287380 Josh Chumbley

    This is stupid article. Is there someone in their mom’s basement coming up with this nonsense? 

  • Evocnn

    This “article” is beyond crap, and has somersaulted into the realm of nauseating.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nathan-Phoenix/100001009669803 Nathan Phoenix

    Do most people really tip 10-15% on pizza delivery?  I generally tip $3-4 (usually $3 plus rounding up to the next dollar) because I think that’s pretty reasonable for the service.  I’m not in a particularly dense metro area and the place I usually order from is less than a mile away.  However, I tend to tip that same amount regardless of whether I order $15 of food or $50.  I often throw in a couple more bucks if the weather is nasty, though.  

    • http://www.facebook.com/kaitlinbledsoe Kaitlin Bledsoe

      Yet, it’s a ‘convenience’ to you for them to deliver your pizza. You’re a jerk.

  • Mwoodring2

    So if I have a legitimate complaint, I shouldn’t complain because you might not be nice.  If that’s the case, then I might not order from you again.

  • Mwoodring2

    So if I have a legitimate complaint, I shouldn’t complain because you might not be nice.  If that’s the case, then I might not order from you again.

  • Mwoodring2

    So if I have a legitimate complaint, I shouldn’t complain because you might not be nice.  If that’s the case, then I might not order from you again.

  • Mwoodring2

    So if I have a legitimate complaint, I shouldn’t complain because you might not be nice.  If that’s the case, then I might not order from you again.

  • Pizzamaker Turned Lawyer

    #9 – Tip should be 20%!!!

  • Zurg_ling90_2

    Boo hoo :(

  • Eric P

    #19 is BS – a few management people may work that long, but the teenagers who are delivering your pizza aren’t allowed to work that long.

  • Me

    Where I work there is a 1.50 charge for deliver. Or even as high as 3.50 if you live outside the city. I however do receive 0.75 of this. Each time for starting my car. I however do not get this 0.75 till payday. Is this considered tip included?

    • http://twitter.com/raleighlynn Lynn Norton

      I order my pizza online. Yes, there is a delivery charge, but I tip 20% over and above the entire amount. Cash. I get great service!

    • http://twitter.com/raleighlynn Lynn Norton

      I order my pizza online. Yes, there is a delivery charge, but I tip 20% over and above the entire amount. Cash. I get great service!

    • http://twitter.com/raleighlynn Lynn Norton

      I order my pizza online. Yes, there is a delivery charge, but I tip 20% over and above the entire amount. Cash. I get great service!

  • Crotch

    #11 – - Some people don’t tip, get over it. If you’re shaking someone’s soda bottle because you’re disgruntled, then get a new job. You obviously suck at yours.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000486165237 Barry Parker

      Tell me again after you’ve had that job and dealt with those people. Otherwise, you have no idea what you are talking about.

  • BeautifulLoveEmpress

    I USUALLY DON’T CLICK THROUGH THESE RIDICULOUS LIST PAGE BY PAGE.  A lot of the “things” were either ridiculous or common knowledge.
    I found the comments to be more interesting than the article itself. I am a lover of reading and tried to read every comment even the ignorant ones. I have a LOT to say!
    Its unbelievable how ENTITLED some of these pizza delivery thugs think that they are. A tip is a tip it = optional. A tip is like a possible when playing a game of spades. Sometimes you will win a book with that possible sometimes it will be cut by a spade. I have worked in the public in several different fields. Including a job where I had to rely on tips. I am not against tipping but I feel that it is up to the customer to decide what to tip you. Just like we do not know whats going on in your lives you do not know what’s going on in ours. There may be a very good reason that you did not get a tip. Maybe you all should learn what gets you that bigger tip.
     Instead  you use empty threats like:
     ”we know where you live”<—- O yeah and the police will know where you live and soon everyone else will when you are transported to JAIL!
    "we put bad tipper beside your names in the computer system" <—WHATS THE POINT? IF YOU KNOW NOT THE REASON THE PERSON GAVE THAT PERSON A SMALL TIP.
    "we will give you a body fluid pizza" <—I hope you like the AZZ cutting that is coming to you or possible hospitalization! Don't think for on minute you will get away with it, one day you will get someone else payback for something you did not do THIS TIME AROUND! 
    " we will shake up your soda"<—I will come up to your job with the soaked hair, skin and clothing and REPORT you in front of your low paying co workers so they can see why they did not get the
    tip they deserve in the near future.
     "we will take a gas stop before we bring your pizza"  " we will come to your house last" <—Yeah come to my house last so you will NOT get a tip for sure and get reported to the D.M. Then I will get FREE GIFT CERTIFICATE BOOKS{worth $5o} from him to keep my business.
     Some of you are even ignorant to believe that by telling other delivery joints about low tipping customers will really stop them from doing their proper jobs to that person.
    They are NOT on your side They are you competitor. You wonder why you don't have enough regular customers? They will even tell us about your schemes.

    I hope you think twice about sabotaging someones order it will land you in jail. Then you will really whine and complain about your low funds when you can't make bail. Just remember there will be hair or bodily fluid you will not be able to hide well and you will be the cause of a LAWSUIT. If you get away with it guess what???
     KARMA KARMA KARMA!
    Will hit you hard! Remember you order food and drinks also. It will come back on you in a different way. Hopefully not on your kids or family. You may have just spit or p*ssed in someones pizza but when you drive away feeling good about that filth you might drive right into a car accident or a drive by shooting. Did you ever stop to think about why you get tipped so little?
    Customers know and have instincts.{I have saw this time after time}
    We know who the sneaky,ungrateful,undeserving, money hungry and evil ppl are. The average hard worker that is trying to take care of their family and keep their heads above water. That will anticipate my needs (of my order),be polite and treat me as they would want to be treated. Those are the service ppl that I will gladly overtip!

    Your employer is supposed to pay your salary NOT me. Be grateful I deiced to give you something after I just had to pay an delivery fee to get an overdamn priced pizza and tiny chicken wings. The way I see it the owners come out on top it is them that price the pizza, pay you low wages and charge delivery fees{they only split half with you} which in turn puts more money in their pocket and less in yours.

    One of the real problems is that the drivers went in believing they would make a load of money from tips simply by bringing a pizza and found a different story. Most of them NEVER tipped anyone before they worked in the service industry.

    Lets get on the robbery every time you do something to someones food and drink just because they did not give a tip the last time you came to their home only{KARMA} increases your chances of getting robbed or shot. Just like you remember us we remember you. So when something happens because it will IF you always doing evil{because you are surrounding yourself and universe with evil} that un suspecting customer that you just baked in mucus in their pizza or rubbed you p*** across it will most likely be the one that saves you.
    Then how will you feel about them then?
    Mossst importantly how would you feel about your self?

    • DolanDukc

      TL;DR

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000486165237 Barry Parker

      Hey jackoff, ever use your personal car to drive over 100 miles each day? Ever looked for an unmarked mailbox in the gushing rain or stood around in the freezing cold waiting for some jerk like you to find his money? I doubt it. That’s why it’s a tipping job. Tires, oil, repairs cost a lot of money, but hey, i’m sure you considered that.

      Btw, no one ever actually messes with your food. We’re not as rude as you.

  • Kathie O

    #23 wow, if they don’t want my business I can happily take it elsewhere.

  • Kathie O

    #19 If the shop is open, it’s open. I don’t care if I call 5 minutes before closing time. If the owner had wanted service to stop at 5 to midnight then they would have made that the closing time. You’re paid to be there. Do your job! 

    • http://www.facebook.com/kaitlinbledsoe Kaitlin Bledsoe

      Seriously Kathie O? Obviously you have never worked in a restaurant before. Ever. So all of a sudden, because you work in a retail store, or an office, doesn’t mean that someone who works in a restaurant doesn’t get to leave at ‘closing’ time too?

      For the record- if you call 5 minutes before closing time, our kitchen would be closed for you. What a jerk.

  • Kathie O

    #19 If the shop is open, it’s open. I don’t care if I call 5 minutes before closing time. If the owner had wanted service to stop at 5 to midnight then they would have made that the closing time. You’re paid to be there. Do your job! 

  • Kathie O

    #19 If the shop is open, it’s open. I don’t care if I call 5 minutes before closing time. If the owner had wanted service to stop at 5 to midnight then they would have made that the closing time. You’re paid to be there. Do your job! 

  • Kathie O

    #16 I don’t like my kids driving in bad weather. I don’t let them take jobs as delivery drivers either. I’m not responsible for you. If you have a delivery driver job, don’t complain that you have to drive in bad weather. Just get another job.

  • Skycloud58

    Yeah , True and somtimes my wife and I argued over Toppings , but, before we called

  • Garden Goddess

    What pizza co. deliveries a $5.00 pizza?  does that include the tip?

  • JackDesert

    Personal addenum to #23: IF you are actually unable to go far due to injuries or wheel chair or such, then I don’t mind doing a quick on foot delivery across the street.  But that goes with ‘special customers’

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_H6MFT4FPSLZLZUE4LFNZAOHBQU Me Too

    #4 – It does not take 20 minutes from raw dough to finished pizza.  Years ago I worked two different places, 3 minutes at most to make the pie if dough isn’t stretched yet and about 8 minutes to cook at most, and another 15 seconds to box it up, maybe 20 seconds more if they want drinks or a side order too.

    #19 is false.  Delivery people don’t expect to get off the clock at the half-hour of closing,  closing for a delivery business is only the time that no more orders are taken.  This is expected to happen EVERY day, drivers get off when the last order at closing is delivered, that is the way it works and always will be.

    #21 is mostly false.  Everyone thinks or claims they are easy to get along with but the truth is people with good social skills are those that gravitate towards and spend a lot of time every day talking with other people at work, not alone driving around.

    #23 is definitely false.  Across the street delivery is every delivery person’s ideal.  You’re back for another run in a couple minutes and make a tip for 1/20th the work.

  • NP

    Every one of these “13+…” features is nothing more than a list of petty complaints. I’ve yet to get any insight from the “secrets” that have been revealed. Instead, all I’ve learned is that people in jobs they don’t want to be in have a lot to complain about.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Jennielee8 Jennie Gibson

    You left out a VERY important tip. If you order a pizza a night please turn on your porch light. First of all, it’s hard to see your numbers and fumbling for a flash light is annoying. Secondly, I’m a woman who use to deliver pizzas at night. I would NEVER walk up to a dark house. I’d always call and tell them to turn their porch light on or I wasn’t coming up to the door.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Jennielee8 Jennie Gibson

    Also, just because you see a delivery fee on the receipt does not mean I’m getting that money so TIP. They use to charge 1.50 delivery fee when I delivered pizza, I got half of that. I got paid minimum wage plus .75 to deliver a pizza. The wear and tear on your car and the gas you have to spend eats up all your paycheck. Half the time I was living on tips. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIGKGKCWY3JJSYYUX3BVW7W4OM Anonymous

    Hey Pizza Delivery People – here’s one thing your customer won’t tell
    YOU: Appearances matter and perception is everything.  The nicer
    you look and act when you show up at the door, the more likely you are
    to get
    a better tip.  If you show up chewing gum like a cow chewing its cud,
    or your shirt is dirty and/or ripped and/or half-tucked-in, or you’re
    unshaven,
    or smelling like the last shower you took was a week ago, or (this one’s
    my favorite) acting like
    you would MUCH rather be somewhere else,
    don’t be getting all bent when you get that $1 tip. Rather, think about
    what YOU might have done to merit that treatment. Remember, WE’RE the
    ones giving your employer money to give you a job. Pizzerias are
    a-dime-a-dozen. One bad experience, and we’ll be more than happy to go elsewhere.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000486165237 Barry Parker

      Hey, that’s fair and glad you’d still give a dollar but here’s the thing, most people don’t tip at all. Plus, they do many of the things listed making it harder for a driver to earn money.

  • Rotory7

    BOOHOO I deliver furniture everyday. You know stuff that is actually heavy and maybe 10% of people tip. And like the article said it is usually lower to middle class people who understand that it is 100 degrees outside and atleast offer us a cold beverage.

  • Abc

    as a delivery driver i would much rather make a short delivery across the street than drive five miles for the same tip. anyone who says they hate short runs is a complete moron. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Jennings/595165026 Fred Jennings

    my balls are the size of oranges

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Fred-Jennings/595165026 Fred Jennings

    the pizza guy fails to mention, that if you fail to tip, your next pizza will be pissed on

  • PJ

    The tip suggestion should be 10-15%, or $5 whichever is GREATER.  Also, if it’s crap weather, tip more.  They’ll appreciate it and considering the risk they take to bring you the food you didn’t want to go get yourself, it’s fair.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dianeandellen Ellen Dowling

    Think about it. You don’t want to cook or go out what a service. Also they are usually using their own car. What more do you want. I am from Jersey we know pizza and service. I always give a five for an averge bill around 16.00 Ole Jersey girl

  • http://www.facebook.com/dianeandellen Ellen Dowling

    How can anyone give a delivery guy less than Five Bucks

  • no name

    Number 16 is wrong.  You have to be at least 18 to be a delivery driver.  There isn’t going to be some 16 or 17 year old legally driving pizzas around for work. 

  • Aoiurhfgui

    10 to 15 %   ????  How is that like a regular retaurant?

  • Dtf96

    Oh pleez

  • Jthoen

    I worked in a convenience store that also had a deli and pizza.  Making a pizza from start to finish doesn’t take 20 minutes.  The reason you are quoted 20 minutes or a half hour is because we’re busy and flooded with orders.  The pizza oven cooks the pizza in about 8 minutes. 

    Also, be sure to tip generously.  If the person is a jerk tip accordingly.  Most people (waitresses, waiters, pizza delivery drivers, etc.) live on their tips.  They normally do not even get minimum wage because they are expected to make it up in tips.  If you’re nice to your server or driver, they will go out of their way to help you.

  • Bob

    #9 – tips should be a flat rate for a trip. It doesn’t take any more work or effort for a delivery guy to bring a single $10 pizza or a $50 stack of pizzas.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000486165237 Barry Parker

      Uh, yeah it does. Delivery drivers usually make those orders too and have to load and carry all that extra crap. Usually its to a ballfield or some other place where it’s not even remotely convenient to park and carry them.

  • Guest

    #26 – most pizza places will bill your credit card when you place the order so you only have to give the delivery guy the tip.

  • Guest

    #26 – most pizza places will bill your credit card when you place the order so you only have to give the delivery guy the tip.

  • alex_us01

    I have a better solution. Just don’t order pizza. Go healthier than that. And let the pizza guys find better jobs, too…

  • alex_us01

    I have a better solution. Just don’t order pizza. Go healthier than that. And let the pizza guys find better jobs, too…

  • Tahmina_11

    I love pizza, I like prawn pizza yummy 

  • Tahmina_11

    I love pizza, I like prawn pizza yummy 

  • Tahmina_11

    I love pizza, I like prawn pizza yummy 

  • Kethlas

    #28:  Some delivery guys are actually girls.  Please stop looking at me like I’m a piece of meat or a  sideshow novelty.

  • Murphys1aw

    I’m a delivery boy and I COMPLETELY disagree with #23. If someone is willing to tip me for taking a delivery a block away, thats awesome. No one likes to pay for gas.

  • Murphys1aw

    I’m a delivery boy and I COMPLETELY disagree with #23. If someone is willing to tip me for taking a delivery a block away, thats awesome. No one likes to pay for gas.

  • Murphys1aw

    I’m a delivery boy and I COMPLETELY disagree with #23. If someone is willing to tip me for taking a delivery a block away, thats awesome. No one likes to pay for gas.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/4UNVCXPQVHKMGX6SW63DMM6A6Y Imprimere

    23.  Is just plain stupid. Why would someone care about a close delivery? I used to deliver pizzas and I never complained about saving some of my gas and making a faster delivery. Some people can’t get away because of kids or ailments. Don’t be so judgemental and just appreciate that it’s not the delivery and the very boundary of your zone – few drivers want those on a busy night either.

  • J Dawg

    I had a guy once come to the door wearing a bathrobe which was open in the front.  He was at full mast, not sure pizza was all he wanted that night.  He continued to make gay comments while he pretended to look for the money.  He ended up giving me a good tip, but it wasn’t the tip he wanted to give me.

  • CT Guest

    26. You ordered the pizza.
    You know how much it costs. Please have your money (and tip) ready when you answer the door. Really? I know how much it costs? Unless the person taking my call has told me what the total is, I have no idea how much it costs.  And from the hundred or so delivery calls I’ve placed, I think I’ve been told what my total was 3-5 times without my asking; I’ve had the call ended before I can ask what the total is more often than not.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000486165237 Barry Parker

      They do tell you. Everywhere. It’s policy unless its a local dive.

  • Tricorvus

    #12 made me giggle. I have an obvious, decorative, lit doorbell right next to the door. I have had to tell the boys to use it. The local that I patronize regularly, know this. But they do get things wrong. And that’s where that phone call comes in handy. I had once, where I waited for an hour, and called and the delivery girl said she’d stood on my porch and rang the bell, waited and drove off. I said my doorbell never rang. They heated it back up and she went out again. I got a call from her cell, saying she was on my porch and not answering my door. I looked out my door and my porch is empty. I said the door is open I’m standing here. You are not here. She read the address to me and somebody didn’t make the 8 in my address right. It read 3 instead. I told her my proper address and the pizza was free, for something not my fault. As it wasn’t hers, either, I tipped her $10. 

  • Fin

    Half of these make me think who the f**k do you guys thing you are. You don’t deserve any insult but don’t forget whose paying your wages

    i.e. If you are open till 02:00am and i order at 01:55 then tough. Moan to your boss, close at 01:30. If your open your open. You are the one working 12 hour days, do something about it don’t moan to me

    • http://www.facebook.com/kurtis.caldwell.3 Kurtis Caldwell

      or better yet you could order earlier, see the problem with people like you think they can avoid the line and get their food faster, when infact your wrong because now everyones doing that, that in turns generates a line, if you sir didnt want to weight in line I suggest you cook yourself or just keep ordering at 1:55 and when you call around 3 in the morning wondering where the food is and no one answers remember we did close and go home.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000486165237 Barry Parker

      First off, he didn’t say you ordered 5 minutes from close, though that is irritating, he said don’t b!tc# when you get told we’re closed. Second, all these things are valid complaints. It cost drivers their money when they have to wait around for people who don’t know what they want, don’t have their money ready, don’t answer the door, don’t answer the phone, etc. How about we set up something similar with your job? I tell you what, we’ll deduct from your pay every time someone slows you down by chitchatting about their weekend or takes all day to get you something. How about you stop wanting a service if you can respect those that do it for you? Sound fair?

  • http://twitter.com/RandyGarner43 Randy Garner

     Like the poster earlier said, drivers have ALWAYS gotten a mileage fee for every delivery since delivery’s inception. The delivery charge is only about eight years old. The two have nothing to do with each other. You might as well say that what they charge you for extra cheese goes towards the tip, because both are equally false. We make FOUR DOLLARS AN HOUR! Stop trying to make excuses for not doing what decent people have been doing for hundreds of years, paying you a fair price for the work that was completed, otherwise you are just trying to get over. No one ever got rich doing this. Not even you know who. He had investors, all we have is a car and bills to pay.

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  • Kerinafaith

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    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Drew-Marzilli/100001219072193 Drew Marzilli

      WTF???????

  • http://www.facebook.com/ianhorwood Ian J. Horwood

    I used to work at a pizza shop and all these snarky little complaints from delivery drivers are just dumb. Bottom line is people need be thankful to have a job and people are buying pizza from your store. Customers are the reason we all have jobs, God forbid they annoy you.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000486165237 Barry Parker

      I doubt you worked at one long or delivered since you think it’s that way.

      You think not giving the right phone number or not having numbers on your mailbox or house is a dumb complaint? If you’re a delivery driver and your money depends on how many deliverys you can take, crap like that can cost a lot. So can waiting at the door or having to go back out because someone jumped in the shower so they didn’t answer wasting an hour of your time.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004363472633 Wade Bullard

    Delivery charge is never a tip.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004363472633 Wade Bullard

    #11 A warm 2 liter on soda can bounce off the tile floor like a basketball. Tipping is not a city in China.

  • Bobby Therrien

    Utah great State for adding 18% to your bill if your only one person, Manditory in MOAB they can give crap service cold food because the order taker is a dumbo and you still get F–ked with a smile

  • http://www.facebook.com/charles.grape Charles Grape

    This is awesome. Thank you Readers Digest.  

  • http://www.facebook.com/charles.grape Charles Grape

    Also, the delivery fee is not a tip. About 50%-75% goes to the driver for gas compensation and the rest goes to the store. This money is suppose to pay for insurance on the driver’s vehicle during deliveries since their not cover unless they have commercial insurance which can be very expensive. Of the four places I delivered for, only one actually did that. The rest kept the money and provided no insurance of any kind. Keep in mind, drivers make gas compensation on top of an hourly wage which is typically lower than minimum wage. Without tips, most delivery drivers would not make enough to cover the wear and tear caused to their vehicle from eccessive driving.

  • Cam

    #23, not that I’ve done this as I generally live several miles from most restaurants,  but if I want to pay to a have a pizza delivered that I could pick up myself, shouldn’t that be my own problem? Especially if I’m paying the delivery charge and tipping. I’d be pretty happy to get tipped to walk across the street and drop something off.

  • Shawn

    #18 I’m a delivery driver. I’ve delivered pizzas in tornado warning type weather in which I could barely see the road in front of me and I’ve had people complain about their pizzas being 15-20 mins late during this weather. It’s amazing how ridiculous some people have become, no concern for the livelihood of fellow human being.

  • youareingrates

    All of these are ridiculous.

  • Delevery Guy

    I’m a pi zz a guy and i got stiffed twice today on credit card orders. There is a place on the recipt to add a tip. The place i work advertises free deliveries on orders $10+ Just remember to write in a few bucks on the line that says TIP. Or else the delivery guy is gonna walk off very negative and thinking extwmly impolite things about you. Who knows what could happen to your food next time if you’re lucky enough to make the list…

    • Anonymous

      wtf is wrong with you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/whissell1 Mike Whissell

    if there is a $1.00 delivery charge then it most likely goes to the restaurant and not the driver. drivers really appreciate tips because it helps pay for gas and car repairs.

  • Anonymous

    10-15%?? wtf, that makes no sense! First of all… he didn’t make the pizza and second THAT MAKES NO SENCE giving him tip on how much the food is worth!!. Now giving him a tip depending on the distance he travel sounds more reasonable, not if I’m a “big pizza spender” or not

  • Chris D.

    This article is pretty old and few will probably see this comment but it needs to be here.

    First $1.00 IS 10% on a $10 pizza, just saying you don’t get tipped on the total bill, just the food, If my bill is $13 because of that $3 delivery charge you still get tipped on the $10. Now that is off my chest.

    You are working in the service industry, you are providing a service. Tipping is a good thing, you make less than minimum wage, and all that jazz. I agree with that, HOWEVER a tip is not automatically deserved just because you get paid below minimum and I don’t HAVE to tip you unless I feel you provided me good service. Tips are EARNED, not given. If my pizza is cold on arrival, or my soda shaken, or anything of that nature then you have not earned your tip.

    I base tips on my first few experiences. So on my first two to three orders you will probably get around 10-15% if my food is on time, made correctly, and hot (Or at least as warm as can be depending on how far I live/weather/etc.). But if the first time I order from you I get a cold, destroyed pizza with the wrong toppings you won’t get a tip. If you then put me down as a bad tipper and continue to give me poor service you will continue to get bad tips. If however you realize what happened and next time my pizza is right you will get a good tip.

    What to take away from this all? Earn your tips, you are in customer service. If you provide good service you will get good tips. Will there be people who never tip? Of course, but it is balanced by those who overtip. Don’t give the guy who doesn’t tip bad service, just don’t go above and beyond for him.

    Also the point about wearing a shirt/pants is extremely sexist and judgmental. If you are a guy delivering and a hot super model was topless you wouldn’t complain so don’t judge the overweight guy who is topless. You being judgmental is probably a reason why you get bad tips, people can pick up on your attitude.

  • Morgan

    Around here dealing with this traffic, pizza delivery is high stress. We tip a minimum of 20% on those rare occasions we order it. It’s a crappy job that I wouldn’t want, and I think that’s bottom line fair compensation.

  • http://www.facebook.com/evilwillhunting Mike Brannon

    It does NOT take 20 minutes to cook a pizza. My first job was at Little Caesars and the oven cooked a pizza within three minutes on a conveyor belt.

  • Brady Harden

    It always amuses me to see the number of people who will knowingly piss off someone who is alone and unsupervised with their food. Do you really think that delivery people have the memory of a carp or something? I delivered pizza in college and the things I saw done to the food of people who don’t tip is enough to turn my stomach. I know that I personally couldn’t be paid to eat food that was delivered to the home of someone who refuses to tip the driver.

  • Hernia

    Something I’m surprised has not been brought up in reference to the delivery charge is Insurance. Any establishment that delivers their product has to have additional
    insurance. As well as does any driver using their personal vehicle must have additional auto insurance. In most cases this will put the driver on a high risk plan.When I last delivered pizza gas was averaging 2.50/gallon. I would get 1.50 per delivery of the 2.50 delivery charge. The store would use their dollar for their insurance premium as well as other minor things like heat bags and special tickets and whatever they need for deliveries they wouldn’t otherwise need. My 1.50 was to cover my fuel costs, as well as Oil changes, brakes, tires, tuneups and all vehicle maintance that I would have to get 3 times as much as the casual driver. I would get an oil change every month. If you do the math and factor in the amount of personal use you put on your vehicle, the 1.50/delivery I got pretty much all went to maintaining my vehicle and added insurance. So you see the delivery charge is not meant to be additional profit. Understandably a lot of people get this confused. I hope this helps some of you to understand. Keep in mind, the saying above about they always remember the non-tippers is true. Even if you only call there once a year, they know you. I also do understand that tip can and should be based on quality of service, however, I would recommend not using that service anymore rather than continuing to stiff the delivery guy. Remember that guy is ALONE with YOUR pizza, in his car, most likely at night for a considerable amount of time.

  • david

    One thing I didn’t see mentioned. If your house gets a reputation for being a bad tipper, your pizzas WILL BE late. Not just late, but drivers will go out of their way to make your pizza late and cold. We don’t care if you remain a loyal customer, in fact we would prefer you order from someone else.

  • Garret

    Oh, and another thing people should know. We usually had only 2-3 people in-store, specifically there to answer phones and make pizzas at most–that means your driver is also, on a fairly regular basis, the same person that takes your call or makes your food. So just keep in mind you might be dealing with the same person at every level of service. Also, the 10-15% rule on tipping isn’t necessary. I always thought a solid tip should be 2 dollars for the first pizza, one dollar for every one after that. I think most people agree

  • Wow

    All this over Pizza?

  • roger rabbit

    This is America. If you aren’t happy with your job get another one but don’t expect me to bend over backwards because you deliver pizza and usually from a chain where the dough was frozen when you put it in the oven. You’re not doing me a favor, you’re not a gourmet company or a chef. You are a pizze delivery guy. In fact if you were so smart, rich good looking or whatever, you’d be the one sitting at home and someone else would be doing the delivery. You don’t see chicks delivery pizza do ya? Why? Because unlike you, they got someone taking care of them.

    • http://www.facebook.com/annathule Annathule

      I’m a “chick”. And I spent many years delivering pizza. And I’ve had someone to “take care of me” since I was 18, (for 35 years.) Extra money is always a nice thing to have, in fact, I’ve usually done it as a second job. It’s fun! (Until they give you a penny as a tip and get smart-a$$ed about it…)

      Now that we need it, I’m too crippled to actually do it. Wouldn’t ya know… / Now we get it delivered to us!! :D Chinese delivery guys deliver their food better tho, hands down.

  • jrogersp

    I am still waiting to see the 13 things they wont tell us!

    • http://www.facebook.com/annathule Annathule

      I thought it was just me!! Or rather my computer… Maybe it’s a social experiment to see how many ppl they can rope into discussing a plain page w/ nothing written on it! HAHAHA!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YMMTDLPHLVJFXXDLS5JRVUGGRA The Greatest

    “Most parents don’t like
    their teenage boys driving around at night in downpours or blizzards.
    Yet these same people have no qualms about having other teenage kids
    deliver their pizza in these conditions.” Wow great point! I wonder how most parents would feel about their own kids getting shot in Afghanistan or stitching Nike shoes in a Chinese sweatshop?

    • http://www.facebook.com/annathule Annathule

      I’ve delivered pizza in downpours and blizzards and even when no one else would, in a half inch thick ice storm, but I had a Tracker and ice cleats on my feet, so I made out that night!

      As for my sonS getting shot at in Afghanistan I am as proud of them as any parents could ever be of their kidS. BOTH boys have spent time in Iraq and Afghanistan and one even spent time in Kuwait. And that’s a HELLSITE different than being a Chinese, or whatever country, and be willing to sew those shoes for pennies. How many folks in America would have taken those pennies not but a couple years ago? But no one has a factory here.

      Besides, why don’t those shoe sewers get some freaking commonsense and go on strike until they get better wages? How did we go from slaves’ wages (and no, I don’t mean blacks, I mean coal miners, longshoreman, etc) in the 1900′s and 1920′s when there was not unemployment or already formed unions that had big bank acct’s to pay their people until a deal was struck, whatever? How did our folks do it?? Then they can do it too, they meekly accept this by their own choice. Oh and before someone says anything about ppl getting shot and killed, try reading some history and learn just how many folks died here – esp the coal miners in some town, where they spent days shooting each other back and forth, like Carnegie or someone like that basically owned them, and then go back and read it again to see how many INNOCENT ppl died, like at the River Rough plant w/ Ford and they massacred almost an entire field of ppl just doing some kind of town picnic or something. Children included. If we’ve got the guts, it’s their own fault they live like they do.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1124261097 Blaine Garver

    A Tip is not because you showed up…it’s for good service, which includes good manners and a cheerful presentation on YOUR part, PizzaBoy :-)

  • vfibsux

    Some of these are just whiny, get over yourselves. If it weren’t for people ordering pizzas you wouldn’t have a job at all. YOU remember that. Oh, and next time make sure you have a freaking pen when you knock on my door and want me to sign the receipt. Touche.

    • flyboy

      Why don’t you NOT order a pizza then? You can starve to death for all I care you idiot! These are real world experiences here, not made up. And yes, while in high school, I was a pizza delivery boy.

  • billmichael

    If the pizza boy is really nice and cute, is it against the law to offer him an extra special gratuity?

    • flyboy

      Why don’t you try it and find out? Weirdo.

  • Luke

    Charge a reasonable price for your pizza and you will get a reasonable tip – tack on a bunch of extra delivery fees and the only tip you will get is to charge less for your pizza.

    • JustADude

      The person delivering your pizza doesn’t set the prices or add the delivery fee. And they don’t receive the delivery fee either.

  • flyboy

    You’ve got to love #5:

    “In some neighborhoods, a kid getting out of a car with a pizza in his hands is like screaming, ‘Rob me! I have cash!’”

    Liberal Democrat race pimps are all over that policy (and a valid policy at that). Any pizza delivery company that refuses to deliver pizzas in certain neighborhoods of the likes of, say Obama’s very own Chicago for starters, will be labeled RACIST and the NAACP and Jesse Jackboot will be shaking that company down faster than Rosie O’Donnell can down a Papa John’s large supreme.

    Now as a pizza delivery boy when in high school, there is one scenario that is missed here (in my experience anyway): the middle-aged couple who offered sex in exchange for not paying for the pizza. Seriously.

  • Jeana Garoulis

    I almost never comment on an article, but really? Yes, tipping, answering the door in a timely way, having payment ready are really important. The rest sounds like a big cry-baby. You want to really be treated badly? Try being an R.N. Not only do you have to take the verbal and often physical abuse, you still have to save their life.

  • http://www.facebook.com/annathule Annathule

    Pizza Hut has plainly told me, flat out and by a manager that is an distant cousin, that the drivers see ZERO of that delivery charge, but that yes, they get paid partially for their gas. Wear and tear on the car? I’ve yet to meet a single owner or chain that gave a rip about your car! And I’ve delivered pizza for 3 different places. The most recent – Domino’s – gave me 15 cents per mile and I got to keep my tips. The ones I loved were the $19.99 pizzas, they’d hand me a $20 and say “”keep the change”. Really??? Oh how gracious of you!! Now I can buy some groceries and pay for my meds, oh thank you *kissing their hands* thank you! Yeah, right. Don’t think that didn’t happen more often than I’ve EVER like to think a human could do. You can call me racist til your heads fall off, I don’t care anymore, (you libtards have killed any meaning of that word to me) but it was never EVER a white person nor a Hispanic person that did that to me. You can infer what you please.

    But then, one night we had one HECK of an ice storm – lemme tell you, I made BOO COO money THAT night!!! It was only me and one guy from another pizza chain were willing to be out that night. And I LOVED cash, the IRS was told about moooost of it…On a credit card, it just went to the gov’t in total in taxes, therefore they could stick that part of my cash they didn’t need to know about. Those charge cards were lost tips. The same thing applies even now.

    My delivery folks get 2 bucks, same as I was always pleased to see and yeah, that was back when gas hovered near 4 bucks the last time and I was in a town w/ no other close gas stations that had a casino in it – captive customers, higher gas. It’s amazing how MOST of the pizza guys appreciate it, some look at it like it was a bug, but so what, my pizza is prolly barely warm anyway. It’s amazing how the Chinese delivery guys always are quite pleased w/ the amount and my food is so hot I have to let it cool! Service, service, service.

    • Isosceles Topeka

      wah wah wah… someone get baby their pacifier.

    • JustADude

      You had me until the silly “libtard” comment. You sound like the typical childish right-winger. And I’ve had white and black tell me to “keep the change” on a tip that amounted to a couple pennies…no hispanics I remember at the moment though.

  • expizzaguy

    Wow, people are pretty animated on this topic! As a former delivery driver I have some tips and stories to share. As a driver you are representing the company you work for, so behave professionally: 1. Be courteous, no matter what the tip or expected tip is (you might get a pleasant surprise). 2. Route your deliveries in the order that will get you back to the store the quickest. This will get you more deliveries per shift in high volume stores, and let’s face it – the job’s not worth doing in anything but high vol. stores. 3. Ok this is questionable, but I was originally trained to RUN as much as possible. I would still do this were I delivering today even though I know it will be called unsafe. If the customer sees some hustle they’re likely to tip better, plus VOLUME – you make your money on volume. Shave time off your deliveries everywhere you can except behind the wheel. (Of course I also drove like a maniac – but I am older now and cannot recommend this.) 4. Do everything you can to help the in-store crew get orders out: help on make, cut, phones – wherever you can. Don’t stand in the back flappin’ jaws with the other lazy drivers. If your store has good service, business may improve, and once again we come to VOLUME. (With enough volume you can withstand a certain amount of bad or non tips.) Also, if you perform better than other drivers your manager may be willing to “stack” you with more deliveries now & then in appreciation. (Don’t get discouraged when management doesn’t help you – try to get a positive vibe going among the whole crew to improve service & get that store so busy they can’t help but stack drivers.) 5. Never spit on or do anything else to intentionally lower the value of the product you’re delivering. That’s just stupid, and I can’t believe it has been endorsed by other drivers commenting here. Look, I advocate “playing for you”, but I fail to see how you will reap any reward by trying to get revenge on a non-tipper. All the things I am advising at least have the potential to get you more money – spitting on food will never do that. Forget about revenge – it costs you more than the person you get revenge on, in the form of you having bad character and low morals. You will feel better (eventually – no one said life would be easy) if you learn to stay positive in the face of adversity. 6. Don’t show up in a car that’s nicer than most of your customers have. I drove $500 beaters until they died, then I’d just get another one. Usually I’d get at least a few years out of each one. If you’re a college student just trying to raise beer money, and it’s obvious, your tips may suffer. 7. And here’s one I never consciously used, but it worked well for a friend of mine: If you’re very charismatic, engage each customer with your charm – actually if this is you, then you already know what to do – use it – he made fabulous tips. Now, some personal experiences: I have gotten tips on deliveries I’ve been told by other drivers “never tip” (more than once). I got backed up by my manager once when I had already turned my back with the customer’s money in my hand, and discovered it wasn’t enough – because my manager knew I was honest – and the customer paid. After that I made sure to always count the money while they were still looking – which is obviously what I should have been doing anyway. And that brings me to another situation: I delivered a 150-200 dollar order to a party, counted the money in front of the guy, discovering what appeared to be a $50 tip, and held the bills fanned out for him to see and remove the excess if he wanted to. (All big bills – easy to count in a few seconds.) No reaction, so I pocketed it and headed back to the store. Later that night he showed up at the store asking about the extra $50, so I gave it back to him. He was so happy and relieved that he gave me back $10, and we kept a valuable customer. Yeah, I could have kept the $50 and been ahead $40, but that customer might never have ordered from us again. As it was, he was totally confident that he was dealing with honest people. In a world where it seems everyone wants to take advantage, a reputation for honesty is a valuable thing.

  • rookgaroo

    I’m unable to go out for pizza any time I want and have it delivered most times. I’m on good terms with the drivers, a good tipper (the drivers have said that, not just me), and I usually get outstanding service. As far as #3 (Accidents happen) is concerned, though, while I understand that even a normal drive can skew the toppings on a pizza, if it’s irreversibly mangled, I don’t expect it to be delivered. I won’t get nasty if the driver doesn’t, (I’m not afraid to go “toe-to-toe” when I’m right, either), but I won’t accept a pizza that looks like the delivery person brought it over on a pogo stick. That was the only problem I had with this list.

    In fact, I’d even add another gripe. If I had to deliver pizza to all kinds of people in all kinds of weather, the last thing I’d want to see in the “special instructions” box on online orders is some frivolous crap like a request for a drawing on the box, or for the driver to sing a song. That seems to be a popular fad among Reddit fratboys.

  • katieorourke

    read this article b/c it was titled 13+ things the delivery driver won’t tell you…..all I’m reading are things he can’t wait to tell you.

  • e3orbelow

    This is ridiculous. Suck it up pizza boy.

  • thebigjimmyD

    My only problem with this list is the fact that RD had to show an ad between each slide. Increasing ad impressions may slightly increase revenue but you shouldn’t do it at the expense of user experience. No users = no ad impressions = no wonder you’re going out of business.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1549934733 Aimee Ryan Magee

    The guy/girl is there to deliver my pizza, not carry on a conversation with me, so as long as they get the money for the pizza and their tip, I’ll keep my phone conversation going, thank you very much. I’m one of those people who has their money and coupons ready and waiting by the door, so I can just hand it over and take my pizza, and the delivery person can get on with the next delivery.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1549934733 Aimee Ryan Magee

    It’s usually NOT the delivery person’s fault if there’s something wrong with my order, unless it’s a really small operation in which the delivery guy is also the guy who takes the order. I don’t complain to the delivery guy; I call and talk to the manager.

  • Guest

    I worked in the business for many years and dealt and agree with everything in the article. The thing that probably irritated me the most was people wanting to give me a $50 or $100 bill when common sense said we didnt carry that kind of money. Im glad Im out of the business!

  • http://www.facebook.com/Oldies5161 Charlie Goad

    I tried to correct a couple of mistakes in my post and the original with the mistakes is still here. Boooooooooooo!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jimmy.davis.144181 Jimmy Davis

    Why they talk about getting robbed in the black hood

  • b diddy

    I started delivering pizzas the day after I got my license. All that he says here is true but my worst example was when someone ordered to the other side of town in a snowstorm. The street is not plowed, the path not shoveled, etc. I got there in a reasonable time (30-35 mins) The guy starts chatting me up about how I should do good on tips because of the weather. He thanked me profusely for coming out in the storm. He said people would tip a little better out of pity. Then he tipped me one dollar on a 43 dollar order. For the next 6 years if he ordered he was always the last stop on my run no matter where I had to go. I’d double back just to make sure he waited as long as possible. Remember TIPS = To Insure Prompt Service

  • mcphoto

    I’d read more of these if you didn’t have to refresh EVERY DANG PAGE – it’s a slideshow – and this ain’t the 90′s on AOL. One page, with a slideshow, OK? Sheesh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/alystayr.dinwoddie Alystayr A. Dinwoddie

    I make my own thin crust pizza. It’s ready when I want it. I’m never disappointed with the service. I always get what I want for toppings. Plus I don’t have to worry that it’s been dropped, shaken, spit upon, etc. Best of all I don’t have to tip a snot nosed delivery person.

  • David Grant

    I’ll ALWAYS shake the soda bottle for the non-tippers. Frack ‘em!

  • Daniel B

    Number 23 is silly. Deliveries right across the street are every driver’s dream runs.

  • papa11

    I give a senior citizen tip which is whatever spare change happens to be in my pocket, if any.

  • dino

    What a whiner. There’s a reason it’s called “work.” Hate to break this to you, but the “real world” is far more cruel. Suck it up.
    As for #23: you should have that pizza crammed up your lazy arse.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Suke-Madiq/100003363974702 Suke Madiq

    4. Patience, please!

    It takes about 20 minutes to go from raw dough to fully baked pizza.”

    ——————————–

    It takes Domino’s only 6 minutes

    • flyboy

      And that’s why Domino’s tastes like cardboard.

      • hyhybt

        Since they changed a few years ago, they’re not bad at all. I don’t eat there mainly because I don’t much like their cheese.

  • Elise

    Sorry, but the “I’m just a kid/you wouldn’t want your kid traveling in bad weather” line irks me. You’re just a kid, but you’re employed by a business that provides the service regardless of weather. If you don’t want to drive, don’t do it. That said, I do think it’s kind to tip better than you normally would if the weather is bad/dangerous. :-)

  • James

    if your at the bottom of the stack working your way up your going to deal with a lot of $hit

  • LongJohnDave

    13 things your pizza orderer won’t tell you:

    1) It’s not rocket science, you make a freaking pizza, the least you can do is get it right

    2) When I carry out my pizza, i’m not going to leave you a tip for doing something a trained monkey could do.

    3) Take 10 seconds to read the order I placed and make sure you gave me everything i paid for and don’t make me do your quality check for you

    4) If you give me crappy food i am going to call your store at the busiest time I can and complain until your manager has to give me some sort of freebie and i still won’t come back to your shop

    5) No, i don’t want your craptastic desserts with my order

    6) Your previous delivery order did not want my pizza and i did not want his, you keep the order and i’ll keep your tip

    7) I like my coke cold and my pizza at least warm, not the other way around

    8) When you drop my pizza and leave it all over the inside of the box, just go get me a new one and i’ll actually pay for the order and cover the tip if you explain what happened and let me know you did your best instead of hoping to lie to me

    9) When i see your old beater driving through the neighborhood at 70 mph I dread the day you are going to hit one of the kids that live on the block, you will ruin your life and the childs

    10) Thank you for the random garbage you tape to the outside of the pizza box, i love having additional trash to deal with!

    11) I paid for two toppings, why do you insist on putting half the amount of toppings on the pizza for each one?

    12) I order online, wtf do you only post your deals in the carryout store window?

    13) I’m sorry that you are the only worker in the store and you can’t manage all of your customers but here’s some advice for you. Your management sucks, i won’t order there any more and you should go to another pizza joint around the corner that actually gives a crap.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004181493189 Miguel Angel Contreras

    What’s wrong with not having a shirt when the pizza is delivered? Our homes are our own castles. If a Pizza Store don’t like people answering the door without a shirt on, then don’t sell pizzas.

  • Greg

    I’ve never understood why people think it’s okay to be rude, unkind or just downright mean to the person you are asking to bring you food that is safe to eat, whether it be in a restaurant or delivered to your home. They are providing you a service and the better you treat them, the better service you’ll receive. Smarten up, people and respect your fellow human beings!

  • HisShadowX

    Wow this Pizza boy seems entitled I am guessing he gets no or low tips for bad service. A tip is a gift and is not to be expected and when you have terrible service and wish to harm my property than let my cams get you arrested.

  • Joretur

    Just remember though, when your store charges a delivery fee, I take that right out of your tip. Sorry, I have the price of the pizza itself and the tip…delivery fee comes from one of those two…and it isn’t the price of the pizza. Also, a tip isn’t mandatory, so quit acting like it is. I tip, and I tip well for the service provide, also having worked the food industry, but quit acting like its mandatory that the customers give you something extra, it isn’t. If the service sucked, no tip. Delivery fee? Reduced tip.

    • http://www.facebook.com/rmalek1 Rick Malek

      A tip is not mandatory but neither is good service. If I know you don’t tip, you get an ice cold pizza. I’ll even roll the windows down and take it out of the box to get extra cold for ya. I hope you enjoy. :-)

    • http://www.realfakefriends.com/ whatever

      If you can’t afford the tip, you can’t afford the pizza. If you don’t like the delivery charge you could always get off your fat lazy arse and go pick it up yourself.

  • slaveraidr

    When I was a driver I had a list of the good tippers and bad tippers. Guess who got their food first? I would even deliver a good tipper’s food before the bad tipper’s food even if the good tipper had been waiting half as long.
    Now I make sure to tip my delivery person good and I always get my food fast. Amazing how that works.

  • Coaster

    That ‘get off your phone’ one should be applied to all retailers. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen some jerk in line at the store and not know what’s going on because he’s too engrossed in his text/call/video to pay attention to the cashier. Unfortunately, they aren’t allowed to refuse service to someone just because they’re exceedingly rude. (ask a manager – the dollar rules. If they are paying for it, then they can be as rude as they like to the cashiers)

  • bill08701

    I don’t order out much, simply if you add the 15-20% tip it makes the cost of the food prohibitive, but when I do I always insure the kid (and it is usually a kid) gets a good tip…I worked as a waiter and other tip related jobs so I understand the need for a fair tip…but I’ve also noticed that some these guys are driving much nicer cars then me..lol

  • My 2¢

    I will tip when the driver/waiter has gone above and beyond. To me the tip must be deserved, I wil not give away free handouts for slow or shotty service. I feel that paying full price for mediocre service is all Im obliged and willing to pay. If my pizza takes longer than an hour to be delivered I usually wont tip. Likewise, if Im in a resturaunt and my server is lacking, I will not leave a tip. I also wont return to that establishment for several months at least, just in case Im recognized ad subjected to even worse service.

    • bob

      You’re a horrible person.

    • K Go

      Anyone that doesn’t leave a tip, regardless of service is a prick. I hope your food gets spit in.

      • Morgan Powys

        why tip for horrible service?

  • kskid

    #14. Don’t call back five minutes later to change your order, the pizza is already in the oven!

  • bob

    #28 – chances are your pizza being late has nothing to do with me so don’t think it’s alright not to tip for that reason. I make minimum wage, with no benefits, pay my own gas, and get maybe .50 for actually delivering the pizza. I’m not a server, my journey doesn’t involve a 50 foot walk to your table.

    #29 – we remember bad tippers and we have your address. Once a guy who lived in my neighborhood decided not to tip me. Later that night I got nice new lawn furniture.

  • http://www.facebook.com/topher.Kline Scott Kline

    never really had a problem and the drivers are always nice…. they don’t mind bringing it to the back yard where I am shooting a model in my hot tub for my photography portfolio…

    • Morgan Powys

      sure you are

  • Ash

    It’d be great if this was posted as a list, instead of a slideshow that glitches every time I get past slide #6… I understand that pageviews are a big deal for websites, but I’ve now tried to look at this on my cell phone, my work computer, and my personal laptop. It’s glitched repeatedly on all three. I was looking for a quick giggle before getting back to work, and instead got a hassle. Disappointing.

  • ex-driver Madison, WI

    I did delivery as a 2nd job and was paid $3.50/hr to use my $4/ gallon gas in my personal vehicle. When not on the road, I was performing in-store labor at the same less-than-minimum rate. To friends who have asked how much is appropriate to tip pizza guy I say it takes 3 bucks per delivery to make the job worth showing up for. If you are ok with giving your large-breasted, short skirt wearing server at Hooters or wherever 15% or more for walking your plate out from the kitchen while her car sits in the parking lot, why would this debate even be out there? The service received is the delivery. I’ve driven to a customer’s home just to find that the dude is passed out drunk on the couch and can”t hear me knockin’ on their door with a yummy bar-time pizza that will never be eaten or paid for, not to mention I paid for the transportation. One guy went to buy beer after ordering and I had to wait for him to return. On the flip-side, I have received a couple of $10 tips, but it really needs to average out to at least 3 bucks or more per delivery (seriously folks). I will also deliver to some very stange and unconventional locations. So what’s it worth to you to have this service available? Apparently some believe they are entitled to something for nothing. Most folks are fairly well educated about the process, but some of these posts are just pretty nasty comments from pretty nasty people! Drivers are individuals just the same as the Hooters girls. And yes, I do know my best customers! They rock!

  • http://www.facebook.com/rani.shao Rani Shao

    I have no clue as to why this page keeps messing up but it is annoying. I click “next” on the photos and when it gets to #4 it just goes white and does not load a picture or caption. Please fix this issue.

  • very insightful

    Don’t call from across the street? that seems like it would be an easy tip for all the effort of finding a crosswalk. If people got “off [their] lazy butt(s)” there would be no need for a delivery driver. Most of these tips were insightful but this one seems petty, especially if you consider there might be extenuating circumstances like a family with small/sick kids who can’t be left unattended….

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Rick-Jenkins/100002084143201 Rick Jenkins

    If you don’t like working for a pizza delivery place, then go get another minimum wage job like waiting tables.

  • rivers

    Whining is the sport of the age. A job is called a job because it’s a job! And you do it for a little while, while you try and better yourself so you can get a better job. Sorry, the plight of the pizza delivery guy is very low on my list.

    How about ten thing your air traffic controller, your NICU surgeon, your local fireman, your nuclear reactor engineer, your embalmer, your SWAT team commander won’t tell you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=572934545 Francisco Valdez

    they forgot to mention a few important ones.. I worked in pizza for a decade (Even ending up owning my own restaurant). Cheapo customers will throw at the pizza drivers face “your boss is charging me delivery fee so take it up with him for no tip” OK the delivery fee covers the cost of the place having to replace the driver while they are gone. Drivers do more than deliver, when they are at the store they are cleaning, making pizzas, prepping etc. Oh then theres the customers “you get part of the delivery fee right”. Yes they do but just a small amount to ensure the gas is paid at least since theres tons of cheapos.. The tips go into repairing the cars as well. Everyone knows who doesnt tip, and everyone will fight not to deliver to your place “omg its mr jones, no you take it”. There will actually be fights amongst drivers not to deliver to you. If theres more than one delivery, usually drivers will plan yours last (non tipper). So over all you will get bad service if you dont tip.

    • http://www.realfakefriends.com/ whatever

      Bingo. I delivered pizzas during college. Normally you will take the logical route based on your multiple deliveries, but you will make exceptions for know good (going fist) or bad (going last) tippers. Why is your pizza “late”? Because you are a known bad tipper and therefore the lowest priority. Additionally, while I would never mess with someone’s food, I know there are those who will and they won’t be doing it to known decent tippers.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Alishaneder.D.Rychder George T Coggins

    would be nice if it wasnt blank

  • billrowland

    My brother delivers pizzas for a big chain and he avoids black neighborhoods like the plague because:
    He has been robbed 3 times. He also told me that they refuse to tip, try to use expired coupons, claim the order isn’t right, get a discount for no reason, call and complain about the driver and the pizza to try to get a free pizza. Then they have the nerve to complain when a pizza joint refuses to deliver to da hood.

  • thatguy

    How do you distract 100 people from discussing the original issue at hand. Make an entirely trivial spelling error. Then sit back and enjoy the show… its like some people see pointing out a spelling/ grammatical errors as some sort of personal victory.

  • Derry Iglehart

    Yes most of these are common sense, but how about treating people as you’d like to be treated! Honestly if i delivered a pizza to a guy that was in his under wear i’d puke on the other hand id it’s a hot babe, to hell with the next delivery!

  • pizzadriver

    The one they forgot…PLEASE don’t try to train your dog to sit before opening the storm/screen door…while I wait in the cold/rain/heat…with other deliveries in the car…you know we’re coming…maybe let the dog out or put him in another room for the short time that you have to open the door…and love when they turn the box sideways to get thru the door so the dog doesn’t get out…lol… I also learned that most of the time when looking for an address, it will be the one without the light on and no visible address on house or mailbox…and I love when they turn the light on to answer the door and then flip it off as you try to make your way back in pitch darkness…some people just don’t think…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Chuck-Schick/100002008824265 Chuck Schick

    get on google maps and map out my fu*king address pizza boy….

  • EngageGrayMatter

    Ever hear of putting a GPS unit in the delivery car? The up front cost is mitigated by the long term savings in lost time looking for an address, added expanse of wasted gas, and generally happy customers who come back (no matter how dense they may be to begin with). If they are buying pizza, they are making it possible for you to earn money. Pretty cool concept. When the order is phoned in, if a physical address isn’t given, then no freaking pizza. Hello, McFly??? And yes I know, from time to time GPS has to have maps updated. But generally, for most areas it is sufficient.

  • Jack M Off

    pizza is the most over-priced item in the world, suckers buy tons of it

  • JustADude

    A few years ago, I had to deliver pizza in Hurricane Katrina. We were about 150 miles inland, but it was still a hurricane with 80-85 mph sustained winds gusting to near 100 mph. I was delivering to neighborhoods with big trees lying on houses and cars. My truck felt like it was going to blow off the road at any minute as I took SEVEN delivery orders going in all different directions. The 2nd to last one I delivered was to a motel where the guy proceeded to lecture me about how RIDICULOUS it was that it took so long to get his pizza. The only reason I didn’t just completely go off on the douchebag was because his little daughter walked up behind him, and I didn’t want to show up her dad in front of her. Little girl probably saved my job, seriously. I didn’t even get the last order delivered because fallen trees were blocking the only road to get there. Anyway, this is just one example of the kinds of customers that pizza guys and girls encounter fairly regularly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jerry.kadavi Jerry Kadavi

    On number 8…UNLESS you are a HOT woman. I was a pizza driver in the ’80′s & I would have LOVED that!!! (Cue the bad porno music) ;)

    • KnightTime

      I had one come to the door in nothing but a towel once… I’ll leave the rest to your imagination.

      • XYofIight

        I imagine you got Chlamydia. Am I right? Did you get Chlamydia because you’re a nasty slag magnet?

  • http://www.facebook.com/paul.e.b2 Paul Edward B

    I like #10, because it is so true. I also hope a lot of those rich snobs who think the pizza guy is a useless slacker, get more surprises in their pie.

  • dgt

    ….the across-the-street deliveries are the best ones….most people who are too lazy to walk across the street, actually tip pretty well for the convenience….

  • Jennifer

    If you drop my pizza, you owe me a new one.

  • Jennifer

    and tipping 10 to 15%? Come on! That’s what you tip in a restaurant when the server comes to the table repeatedly. If you want tips, work at a restaurant.

  • Disenchanted

    This article is a waste of time. It is the first thing I have read from Reader’s Digest in over a decade. It is obvious why the company is not doing well.

  • Algiz26

    Add to the list: 1- Turn your porch light on at night, especially when it’s icy outside. 2- Don’t hide in another room and send your 5 year old out with exact change to stiff me. 3- BE HOME! Don’t order when you’re still at work thinking we’ll both arrive at your house at the same time. 4- Fix your doorbell or else stop getting mad when I knock loudly. 5- Have some type of control over your dog. 6- I didn’t go home and hang out for a half an hour while delivering your pizza so if it’s late it was obviously unavoidable(extremely busy,funeral procession,cops,full ovens,trains,unavoidable construction work,bad traffic, I’ve even had a parade appear out of nowhere before, etc) so go in your bathroom,look in the mirror, and say all that crap to that guy.

  • Pizza Pro

    I agree with almost all of these. Except Pizza store employees don’t work 12-14 hour shifts, they are all part time 5 hour shift employees except the manager. Also if you live 2 minutes away and want to pay the delivery charge (which I get a portion of) and give me a tip, even if its only a buck, then go ahead, in fact I encourage it. Time is money in pizza delivery but so is quantity of deliveries, the more qucik short deliveries the better

  • http://www.facebook.com/MegTheGem Lizzie Gowers

    #24 Applies to the children of former pizza delivery people. I literally cut my teeth on pizza crust and when I was a tween, my mom started working pizza again. To this day, 18 years later, I still don’t care for pizza. Especially taco pizza. That was the pizza my mom liked best and thus, brought home nearly every night.

  • delivery driver

    “10-15%” is a joke. Normal orders range from 15-25 dollars and $2 is not enough for me to want to drive 10 minutes one way to your house and wait at the door for 5 minutes.

    • USKensington

      If the pizza place doesn’t want to offer deliveries, that’s their business, but if they do, then why should we care what the driver “wants?”

  • char

    very annoying to have to click a page to get the next “thing,”

  • Informed

    You may have ordered a veggie pizza, but I won’t tell you that the cheese has animal rennet from a slaughtered calf though we sell it as a veggie pizza. Cos, I just don’t care, I’m just a delivery boy

  • JASON

    The pizza guy is out at WORK while you all sit here and pick apart each others comments about them. Don’t you all have anything better to do? SMDH.

  • BenTheGuy

    You missed the obvious one…

    Don’t wait till I get to your door to look for money. You know how much the pizza is, get the money together before I show up.

    Wanna know why your pizza is late? Because the previous customer waited till I got to the door before looking for their $15 in change. That 10 minute delay is why your pizza is late, not because I’m a jerk who likes delivering cold pizza.

    • UJake

      Read #26

  • http://profiles.google.com/thinksink Jeff H

    Shake my soda on the next order? It’ll be my last order ever from your crumby pizza joint.

  • Greg Sanchez

    I love delivering pizza! It is a really fun job and I’ve had an incredible number of good experiences. The part about the lower/middle class folks tipping better can be very true. I also give better tips myself, now that I have been doing this for a few months.

  • Jonathan777

    If your pizza is going to make me fat, then you pay the price of seeing my gut without my shirt on. Don’t sell us poison if you do not want to see the results.

  • Sagamore

    Worked in a pizza joint, delivering to dorms while in college. The school was on a hill, and we had to park in lots, not in front of the dorm, so you had to walk, and this was before the fancy warmer bags. Delivered a pizza in zero degree weather, snow, wind, the works. Guy called to complain it was cold. My boss was VERY apologetic, then mad a raw pizza, tapes a matchbook to the inside of the box, and wrote “It’s a friggin blizzard! You want a hot pizza in this weather, here is the kit. Make it yourself.”

  • Becca

    So if you screw up my order and I say something to you then YOU’RE not going to be happy? Uhhhhh, ok. I don’t care how pissed you are . . . you are going to drive back and bring me the CORRECT order. What a stupid comment. Talk about feeling entitlted. I guess you expect a tip too for your crappy service too??

  • http://www.facebook.com/holly.pursell.92 Holly Pursell

    Im al little lost with the “im just a kid”… it sounds as if there saying WE shouldnt be having teenage boys with parents who worry about them delivering pizza after dark… its dinner time… its gonna be dark… are we supposed to be considerate and ask “is your driver an adult…? I dont think I want to order a pizza tonight if its going to put a inexperienced teenager out on the streets” (shouldnt that be the parents job to keep their kids out of jobs that put them in perceived danger)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=670593431 Allan Marsh

    Most of these are true. The one exception to showing up at the door with a shirt on is if you’re a hot chick. The rules can be bent in this situation. And if you tip a waiter 15-20% to bring the food to your table, why not the one who brings the food to your house?

  • Irving

    #18 negates everything else. I don’t need a zit farmer giving me lectures about “I don’t want to be civil. I want to be a New York bowel movement”.

  • http://twitter.com/nichobert nich obert

    20 minutes? We get pizzas made and cooked in 8 minutes.

    And $5 or 20%- whichever is highest- is a good rule of thumb for most orders – I do as much work as a waitress, and I put miles on my car, and I have to buy gas.

  • http://twitter.com/nichobert nich obert

    Also: I DO NOTKNOW YOUR DOG, So don’t act like I’m an idiot for not knowing his “bark is worse than his bite” – on the flip side, why do you always think I’m scared of the dog? I’m usually not, like 85% of the time.

    It’s HILARIOUS how many people have the exact same lines about their dogs. Or how many people talk to their dogs I stead of to you. Bizarre

  • David Hesson

    This is the best news ever! I’m glad I now know that if you drop the box, you may shake the cheese back on top of the pizza.

    WGAF.

  • texastea2

    I guess I will make sure I have on no shirt and talking on the phone. A very brief list of thing the “buyer” wont tell the pizza guy but I will starts and ends with shut up here is your money give me a pizza and if you want to cry about my etiquette then might I suggest you find a DIFFERENT job. Peace pizza guy

  • mark putnam

    I worked at mac donalds for 2 years and when customers were rude and yelled at us we would take notice of the person and remember him and on the next visit we would either spit on his burger or pull products from the trash like nuggets , coked meat that fell to the floor or buns chesse etc and serve it to customers that were rude in the past. so next time u go mac Donalds be humble because it only takes a second to hold back your order and spit on it i did it many times to rude mean customers they deserve it

  • michaelmousedisqus

    If the employer is too stingy to pay their employees wages [enough to live on] why would the employee expect the public to pay their wages. Get a job where the boss or industry stands up for their employees and pays their fair share by paying their employees a decent salary. The boss shouldn’t expect the customers to chip in to increase his profits. The price of food wouldn’t go up for the customers[they are already paying an increased payment for the food, it just that the boss would be paying his employees instead of you. [They aren't our employees!] What cheap skates! and then they want to make you feel guilty because of their cheapness. Only in America…

  • FANBOY…

    I’ve never had a hot babe deliver my pizza.
    I’m just sayin’.

  • XYofIight

    It’s so cute when the help gets all uppity.

  • ricklite

    Several really dumb items on this list. Like the one about don’t get it delivered if you live across the street. Why not? Pizza places will still add the delivery charge. If someone wants to pay for that, great for the pizza place, and the driver. As a former driver, I loved those close deliveries. Drivers would fight for them.

    • mark

      Yea, the deliver would only take a minute or two and they could get back to another one…Potentially being able to deliver a second before another driver could get one done.

  • blahhh

    i work at a major pizza place my average tip is 2-3 dollars i use my gas money my oil change money and my tire money to work at a job that pays 4.25 when im on the road, im not begging for a tip but itd be greatly apperciated and yes i remember EVERY house that does not tip and the people i remember are not the people who stiff me every once and a while its the people who stiff me every time and you know what i hope they enjoy every bite ;)

  • hyhybt

    #1 is why online ordering is so great. If only indecisive people (or those who don’t know what specials are on) would use it.

    I only did pizza delivery for three weeks, but what stuck in my mind most was that some people refuse to understand why we need their address in order to deliver!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bubbawubba-Gump/100001811300035 Bubbawubba Gump

    A shirt? Some pants? You sound needy!

  • http://twitter.com/surfgrl460 Ashley poulsen

    18. Keep it short and sweet.- Every delivery person that has come to my door has never really been friendly. Just says how much and hands off the food.

  • Bubba

    apparently Pizza Hut Does not accept Checks so that Check statement isnt true i just tried to order a pizza with a check because I get Money By Monday! They only took my cc…also when i customer is starving there Just thinking bout the food and eating that guys hand that’s holding your pizza! But still no excuse to be rude!

    • hyhybt

      If you’re really starving, you shouldn’t be wasting money on delivery food. Go buy something cheap and fix it up yourself.
      Setting that aside as hyperbole, though: are you really claiming it’s rude to expect customers to pay, and to have a form of payment available that the business takes? It’s not like they keep their policies secret. If you want to pay by check, it’s on you to find out whether they accept checks before placing the order. Especially when, outside of grocery stores and the like or monthly bills, taking checks is the exception these days rather than the norm.

  • duhhhh

    Can’t you just list them on ONE page? F-slides.

  • Eye

    I’ve had a pizza delivery guy take a Jell-O shot

  • protonman7

    If I wanted to put my pants on, I would go out to eat.

  • DaBUU

    Be rude to me, I’ll remember and I will mess with your food next time. But be nice with a decent tip, and I’ll fly to your house first next time. I’ve delivered pizza before.

  • Oogabooga

    When it comes to tips it all depends on service if you think your going to get a tip because you dropped a pizza off at my front door than think again because that’s your job that’s what you signed up for buddy, you don’t see me getting a tip for good customer service at my front desk job

  • mikel68

    wow, what a bunch or whining. if you don’t like delivery jobs quit. Like you say it’s a pizza not a life commitment.

  • PizzaPaul

    Why would it matter if they deliver pizza across the street? If they get tipped just the same, wouldn’t it be better since they have the opportunity to deliver more pizzas?

    • hyhybt

      A couple of possibilities, at least.

      First, being profitable does not make something unannoying. You wouldn’t generally see it in delivery, but for example, in fast food, it’s mildly irritating to see how much food people buy and throw away; I for one would rather they bought only what they were going to ear even though that would have made my sales numbers look worse.
      More seriously, doctors make lots more money from a smoker than from a non-smoker, but most would, nonetheless, prefer their patients quit.
      Second, the short distance may be used as an excuse not to tip.

  • George6112

    Having owned my own pizzerias for the past 30 years I’ve seen it all. Yes, we do NOT deliver to certain areas of town and we don’t argue about it… we just say, sorry it’s out of our delivery area or we’ll hear how racist we are and keep us on the phone for 30 minutes. We just don’t go there and they know why.
    We have been putting customers into our database for years and know quite a bit about their pizza eating habits. If they don’t tip we’ll still deliver but it might take a while to get it there as they are on our list of things to do after our regular customers have been served.
    Service charges are meant to reimburse the restaurant for the time we pay the driver to be gone. Average time on a delivery is about 8 minutes there, 2 minutes at the door, and 8 minutes back with 2 minutes to and from the car… 20 minutes… 1/3 of an hour $3 of the $9 per hour I pay him. I can either charge and extra $3 per order, increase the price of the pizza by $3 and give you a $3 discount on your 2nd pizza, or hire a company to deliver for me and let you deal with drivers who add their own tips and delivery charges to your order. Personally, I add $3 to the price of your pizza. That 12-inch pepperoni pizza costs me $1.75 in ingredients, $1.25 in labor, and $1.75 in overhead… and $3 in delivery fees.

    • flyboy

      I get so sick and tired of hearing about the “racist” line every time statistical criminal FACTS are put up on the board. Facts are race-free.

      • hyhybt

        The motivation for selecting certain facts to bring up, the presentation of those facts, and the intended implications certainly can be, though. (Whether they are in this case I neither know nor care enough to dig through this thread on the site itself to find out.)

  • IMO

    This article is dumb. Please delete it.

  • Fed Up With Mandatory Tipping

    Tips used to be something you gave someone when they did an exceptional job. Now we are expected to pay the tip because it’s part of the person’s wages. Uh, excuse me, but your job should pay your wages. I pay my bill for what I bought, and then, if I feel you did an exceptional job, I will tip you accordingly. If you don’t make enough money without relying on tips, then go get another job that actually pays you enough. It’s my my duty to pay your wages AND the price of my food.

  • Fed Up With Mandatory Tipping

    A tip is supposed to be “Here, you did an extra great job, here is a little something extra for you!” Not: “Oh, you did your job like you are supposed to. Here is some extra money because I have to give it to you or you will spit in my food.”

  • conk

    Weird title for the article. 13+ Things………..when actually there are 28 things. Technically correct, but it would still be if there was 1,000,000 things. Our you could have said 1+ Things……..then again, I could have not wasted so much time typing this stupid note.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1440022623 Todd Randall

    I used to be a pizza delivery guy. The reimbursement is usually rather small. I’ve never seen a tip included in the bill. When a delivery charge was added to the bill, I usually got the whole thing.

  • dingdong2000

    I think tips are incredibly stupid. Why place the burden of your employer not paying you what you’re worth on to the public? Just raise the f***ing price already and call it a day.

    • nbptresident

      The problem with that is that removing the incentive for decent service will make the generally lousy service even worse.

      • flyboy

        Thank you! Morons like dingdong 9what a fitting screen name) aren’t bright enough to comprehend that concept.

  • russ

    23 – false, i love delivering across the street. they still tip, and you are back at the store ready for the next tip within minutes. please order if you are across the street, we’d love the business.

  • WadeCollins

    Here’s tip #29 from a sometimes customer. STFU. Whomever wrote this nonsense sounds like a sniveling left wing POS. You want to go toe to toe, I don’t think so.

  • billyzeke

    I deliver p/t for Macks pizza here in South philly ! A deivery charge is NOT a TIP! Some places DO not give all the deliver charge to drivers only a % of it! They deliver to areas that DO NOT tip at all not a dime! Drivers are highest rate of robberies and killings in USA! When you order a pizza remember this fact YOUR not the only order going up on the board there is 10-20 orders ahead of you pickup and delivery! Know what you want on your pizza before ordering and if your calling a busy pizzeria on a busy night expect the 1 hr time to get your pizza ! Now if pizza is cold or sloppy then do not tip at all. Call place and complain they will either send you another pizza straight away allowing you to keep the damaged or cold one and no charge! BUT do not do it constently as one i heard did and owner gave that order him self to driver out of oven into thermal bag in 30 seconds out the door delivered in 5 minutes beech got caught calling to comaplin it was cold! Owner mike got on phone told her to go F herself and never call again for fraud complaints. I ordered a pick up other day small white pizza for wife a itailain hoagie for me pizza was RED< Called them immediately complained and got credit for FREE one next time wife was too hungry to wait 20 mins for another one! I never delivered a cold pizza ever only a warm one once years ago had 5 at once the last one was over 3 miles from shop customer instantly opened box and placed back of his hand on pie and loudly said it's not cold it's warm but not cold it's just warm!.
    I shrugged and said sorry but i will take it back but it might be another hour to get you next one! HE said ok and gave pizza back to have another sent out !

    PSTTTT he got same pie reaheted and driver only got that order straight to him!

    I lost the tip customer is happy and business keeps customer! IF you want pizza delivered in 30 mins call a small pizzeria that is restricted area and only has Pizza on menu one size pizza large thats it ! This is what we do at macks in philly i can deliver 3 within an hours time that are far apart !

    But most are in same area within a mile from shop ! so i make them all in 30 minutes. Each pizza ordered is amde fresh so it takes 20 mins to prepare and cook. Sorry folks their is no fast cook ovens around or dough that cooks in 5 minutes or cheese or sauce! Ovens are set at 450 highest any higher will not cook pies right and will not taste right !

  • Pizza Kenobi

    28: Also I will take bong rips in place of a tip.

    29: Sometimes I arrange my friend to fake an order, then I just give it to them.

    30: I will take booby flashing in place of a tip.

  • Cory Williams

    Interesting, I WISH I could work 12 – 14 hour shifts, and delivering pizza in a rental car is illegal… I still LOVE pizza, could eat it every day.

  • alfredo_tomato

    #10 is so true. When I was a cabbie, the rich riders tipped little, if at all. The poor and working class tipped well. Businessmen from the GM building were tightwads.

    Catholic Priests tipped well, protestant ministers gave sermons instead of tips. One minister even talked in tongues.

    Hookers tipped well. Gangsters tipped well. Cops used cabs to pick up payoffs at brothels and drug dealers. Using their own car is a no no.. They tipped well. One cop chain smoked one joint after another.