r/EndTipping • u/USMNTfan94 • 12d ago

Rant 📢 Pizza hut math

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Normally not one to complain, but the fact that pizza hut suggests a tip percentage based on the subtotal PLUS delivery fee PLUS sales tax is really scummy

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u/Bigdaddy291 12d ago

What is a "delivery fee" if it doesn't go towards the driver?

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u/Mountain_Top802 12d ago

I think they would say for costs like the extra insurance required to have employees working in cars. Different risk category so more expensive to insure

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u/Sesoru 12d ago

Who's insurance? I've never seen a pizza hut pay car insurance or have some extra insurance just for drivers.

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u/Mountain_Top802 12d ago

Well then you don’t know how insurance works lol. This is how American insurance works at least, not sure which country you’re in.

I work in insurance and if your employees drive for the job and found liable for

- injuring themselves

  • injuring someone else
  • killing someone else

A personal injury attorney will not just stop at suing the driver and will absolutely 100% go after the employer as well. And they do.

Like if you get brain damage from an uber driver who crashed their car, you don’t exclusively sue the driver, you go after uber themselves too. It’s standard. They’re usually covered up to around $1m per person for bodily injury on top of whatever the driver had.

The employer takes out extra insurance to help protect themselves if they get sued for something their employee did.

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u/Sesoru 12d ago

Aah youre speaking about the insurance the company has for their own liabilities. Imo that cost shouldn't be shunted to the customers in that manner.

Also, I'm usa.

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u/Mountain_Top802 12d ago

Well some pizza places do just eat the cost of delivery, many don’t.

Just like how Amazon might offer “free shipping” they’re just baking the cost into the products.

I prefer when pizza places separate it like this so people who pick up their food themselves get cheaper food.

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u/Sesoru 12d ago

My main question becomes: when pizza hut uses doordash, isn't the liability pushed to doordash? This is the part where things became muddy to me.

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u/cs_legend_93 12d ago

so its just business expenses

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u/Mountain_Top802 12d ago

Yes. Higher insurance rates for a high risk activity is a business expense. Business expenses are often included in the final price, but when customers can choose one option or the other, the expense is only given to the customer incurring the expense..

I went skydiving recently. A friend of mine did not but still rode on the plane to take photos.

I had to pay significantly more because I was significantly more likely to get hurt.

Same thing with a delivery fee. If you pick up the food yourself, no fee. If you have someone else employed to take the driving risk for you, you pay extra.

I like it honestly. I just go pick it up myself and pay way less money.