OT: What do you usually tip the pizza guy?

What about Jimmy John's?  Am I being cheap when I'm only tipping one dollar?  I find it crazy to tip 40% on a $5 sandwich.

It depends.  I usually ask him/her how much their student loans from Michigan State University are...and then tip a small % of that.

My tip would be this:  "Since you got your undergraduate degree at Michigan State, see if you can get a nice GMAT or GRE score in the books and get your next degree at the University of Michigan."

-says the guy with a degree from neither but with a ridiculous GMAT and a Masters from a decent school in Chicago.

Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did, however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.

Thankfully I don't have to deal with delivery fees in NYC. I'm usually around the 15-20% mark for delivery but if i got something small i wouldn't tip under $2. A pizza is around 12-15 so I'd generally tip around $3 for about a 5 block or less walk. I also use seamless web to order thus pay by cc so I don't have to worry about change or rounding.

depending on rounding/ amount of food delivered. I guess if I had like $200 worth of food, I would go to $10.

Not 20% though.

Why do servers get paid by they amount of your bill?  Does a large pizza cost more to deliver than a small?  Do people who work at dinners give you worse service than at an upscale place, I bet not usually.  When did it become normal to tip at a buffet when you are serving yourself?  Thanks for cleaning up your place after I leave.  Isn't that part of what they have to do as business owners?  Why don't you tip nurses?  I say a sponge bath is a much better service than bringing a hamburger. 

I tip in beer.

i had a few different delivery jobs back in the day in college and, in general, it came out to be about 10% at the end of the shift.  of course, delivering primarily to students didn't help.  that said, you learned to hustle in an effort to deliver more pizzas, hence more $.

$3-$5. Depending on distance of delivery and weather circumstances.

Big Sausage Pizza?

for Tiffany's Pizza in Monroe. On a Friday night we would have 15-17 deliverers. Of course this was when the business was booming. Now the $5 pizza has punished small mom and pop places like this. I would never deliver now. Here's how we got paid.

1996-1998

 

1.) Hourly rate $6.00 8 hours a night average, about 38-43 hours a week

2.) Dollar per delivery from the company ($2 delivery charge, split down the middle), 20-40 deliveries a night

3.) Tips. Average of $60 bucks weekday, $100 bucks on a weekend

 

All in all pretty decent money. Gas was still $1.00 a gallon. The most deliveries I had in one day was 63. The most tips I made in one day was $410 in tips. That was on a 55 delivery day.

At least 20% or $3 in your case. You tip a waitress 15% to 20% and they only travel 50ft. These pizza guys make nothing. If an extra $1.50 will set you back then go pick it up.

Give enough so they don't spit in your food the next time.

If you've got a decent job and can afford it, I'd give him minimum $3 every time. Figure they can use the money more than I do. But I also never tip less than 20% at restaurants, regardless of how good the service was.

20% is always my standard. I'm sure they see no part of the delivery fee that's tacked on.

I typically want sparty alum off my porch as quick as possible so i tip well enough to shut them up and get them on their way.

I pay $5 over what my order should cost. If there is no delivery charge its a $5 dollar tip. if delivery is 3 bucks the tip is only 2.

I have only not tipped delivery once in my life......when I ordered Indian food delivered to my house and it took 2.5 hours instead of 45 minutes.

Wow. You learn something everyday on MGOBLOG and today I learned I'm a shitty tipper. Listening to everyone else's tip values and principles makes me feel bad especially pertaining to pizza delivery. Hell, if my order was $18.86, I would give him a $20 and tell him to have a nice day. Didn't understand how that pizza delivery thing worked so i appreciate being informed. I have always tipped decent at restaurants because I have food service work experience and know what banking on tips is all about. But that's why I go pick up my pizzas, hit the curb side pickup, or actually cook a meal for myself.

First, I say, "Please remove your Ohio State Alumni Association hat."  Then I tip him 20%.  Then I say, "Go Blue."

To $20. Are you kidding me??? We are Michigan grads !!!! We can afford this. Tip heavy. Go blue.

who was a driver a couple years ago, $4 is the minimum for a decent tip, regardless of bill, because gas is so expensive and they have to pay it themselves. $5 is a good tip. I'd just drive if two dollars were all I could afford. Don't think it's fair for the trouble IMO.

I'd say you start with a floor of three dollars and adjust it from there.  If it takes forever I'll drop it to 2 dollars (unless they tell me upfront they just got slammed with orders and it will take awhile).  For a family order five dollars.  For big groups, more.  Between wear and tear on the guy's car and his gas, he's already out likely a dollar the minute he sets foot on your porch.  So one dollar to cover that and then something for his time.  Bonus thrown in for the cases where its a blizzard outside and I'm ordering solely because I don't want to drive my rear end to the grocery.  

My trick is to order some carry out pizzas during January and tip well.  That gets me a good rep and then when the Super Bowl comes mine arrive during half time.  Other peoples pies won't.   

Edit:

The other thing to consider is what percentage of the route you are.  For example if you call in during the dinner rush and 50 minutes later your pie arrives (and you can see 10 other warmer bags in the driver's car) it means the wait was due to them consolidating a number of the orders.  Thus I feel compelled to only pay some of the guy's total gas costs for this run, etc.  

When I call in at 2 pm and 15 minutes later I'm holding a pizza, odds are I was the sole guy on that driver's run.  So I up my tip.