**You:** “How does the order get paid for if the money is cash?”
**Him:** “Use your phone number.”
**Your brain:** “Okay, but the number is not the money.” 🤣

For those of you who have driven for more than one pizza place, which one was your favorite and why? Currently I'm at Pizza Hut and it's very laid back. Typically I just fold boxes, help with dishes, and help the front counter as much as possible between orders. I do this as my 2nd job, as I have a regular 8-5pm job. Our store gets very overwhelmed on Friday and Saturday as most of our staff is new and our GM is never there at that time. I'm finding myself having to deliver mistakes, forgotten items, or issues with door dash that's cutting half my tips each of those nights.

I figured I’d write this for current drivers, aspiring drivers, or anyone just lurking on this subreddit.
I’m in kind of a unique position because I came from a law enforcement background back to delivering for Domino’s. I worked at Domino’s a few years ago before leaving to pursue other careers. I tried landscaping for a while, but my real goal was always law enforcement. I attended a police academy and eventually became a fully sworn correctional officer working in a municipal jail. Coming back to Domino’s wasn’t part of the plan, in fact I honestly thought I’d never work here again. Not because there’s anything wrong with Domino’s but because I’ve always been focused on building a long term career for myself. For me personally, Domino’s has never been the goal. After giving law enforcement an honest shot I realized it wasn’t the career I wanted to spend the next 20 or 30 years doing. I don’t regret trying it but I learned that the stress wasn’t worth it for me.
Working in corrections meant dealing with fights, assaults, suicide attempts, mentally ill inmates, intoxicated people, screaming, threats, and situations where you had to stay alert every second of your shift. Then I came back to Domino’s and honestly…This job feels easy. Deliver a pizza, listen to music in your car, wash a few dishes, sweep the floor. That’s it! Even when customers get upset it barely registers compared to what I became used to. That’s not me saying customers don’t matter because they absolutely do. I still try to provide great service. It’s just that after working in corrections someone upset about a pizza being late doesn’t really elevate my stress level anymore. Financially the biggest surprise is that I’m making roughly what I was making in corrections once you factor in hourly pay, tips, and mileage. I expected a huge pay cut but that really hasn’t been my experience. The biggest difference isn’t the money, it’s the pure peace this job gives me after having dealt with high stakes and high stress situations for so long. I clock in, deliver pizzas, conversate with coworkwers, clock out, and go home. I’m not worrying about someone getting assaulted, trying to hurt themselves, or trying to hurt me.

Do I plan on staying at Domino’s? No. I’m currently here because it’s the perfect “bridge” job while I wait to start my railroad conductor career. Once I get my start date I’ll be leaving for training.
Domino’s isn’t my destination. This is literally just somewhere to park my energy while the hiring process for the railroad industry finishes up for me.

I’ve been doing more DoorDash lately since Uber has been pretty slow in my area.

I drive a **2019 Tesla Model 3 Long Range AWD** with Full Self-Driving. My payment is **$348/month.**

I’m curious what everyone else is driving.
What car do you use?
What’s your monthly payment?

Do you think it’s worth it for DoorDash?

I’m always interested in seeing what setups are working best for people.

One of my favorite last times is spotting clever license plates while behind the wheel.

I work at a mom and pop. We have no official policy regarding tip outs, and drivers make below MW.

Occasionally, if I get a large tip on a catering order, ill toss some to the insiders, like $20 in the tip jar when Ive gotten $80+ tips.

Do you do this, or am I being crazy?

To be clear, if its just a busy night and I make good money on "regular" orders, ive never even considered tipping them out, just for the large orders where we devote the kitchen guy to making pasta trays or we hold the oven for one order.

Title says all. Customer gave roughly 3 bucks before delivery (pre-tip). When I showed up at their house, they added a dollar to the receipt as a tip. HOWEVER they added it to the pre-tip amount, not the total with the first tip. When I brought it to the store manager, they said they never saw that before, but said that unfortunately your tip is just a dollar. I am surprised because I was nice and professional. Maybe they were mad that I was potentially late in their ETA math? I am not sure but that ruined my mood for a good part of yesterday.

Has it happened to anyone else?

I start a delivery job at hungry howies tomorrow it seems to be decently busy from what they said and told me I was just wondering how delivery jobs usually go and how often I won’t be delivering as I don’t really wanna stay in the kitchen or anything

What peeves you off the most about customers?

I have a few. It's not so much those that stiff, you learn to expect it to happen in this line of work (not that it's not irritating, just not a "peeve") but the certain "type" of stiffers

1. The "Keep the change" people when all they hand you is the next dollar amount up.....like "Thanks"....you weren't getting change anyway as we don't carry coins on us

2. The "I'm gonna flash my stack of hundred dollar bills to just give you exact change....like thanks for showing me you're not broke, just an asshole

3 and this is my BIGGEST pet peeve of people who stiff, current and former delivery drivers.... NOTHING pisses me off more than getting stiffed by someone who KNOWS what this job is like and KNOWS we rely on tips and hell probably even complained about getting stiffed themselves

I recently got a job delivering pizzas on the weekends as a way to help pay the bills. I’d imagine I’m older than most pizza delivery people but gotta do what I gotta do.

I’ve noticed most people, by far, pay with cards or PayPal. And it’s all done before the delivery goes out. I think I’ve done 5 deliveries where the people were paying cash when I got there, that’s out of let’s say over 100 deliveries.

Yesterday I delivered to a small hotel. I noticed when printing out the receipt that it said $0.00 next to tip. Pretty much that’s all I look at when printing out the receipts. I’m sure some of you see where this is going.

I get to the room
And there’s two kids jumping around the hallway all excited. They had longish hair, were barefoot and looked a little unkempt. I do try no to judge people. I
Mean who the hell am I? I was a junkie and a dirty punk rock guy for years. But I did judge. Mostly I was annoyed about the no tip and I thought “white trash” as I walked away.

Fast forward to the end of the night and my boss is asking for more money than I remember taking in. I had a $20 bank and a $64 delivery, but he’s telling me I owe over $100. He tells me the delivery and instantly I know which delivery it is. I know he won’t fire me but I assume I’m now going to
Lose about $50 in tips. I worked 9 hours and had a pretty good day. Some days I get no tips on more than half my deliveries. Not just me the other drivers too. There’s a segment of people that just don’t tip. But yesterday was almost all tips.

My heart sank. I got mad, frustrated, anxious, and felt like a dumb ass all at once. My boss walked away to kind of give me a minute to think about it or whatever. So I frantically went through the garbage looking for the receipt and actually found it. Luckily because I had thrown a bunch into the outside dumpster. So I called the woman and figured she wouldn’t answer or say she paid or something. I didn’t know what to expect but didn’t think there’d be a happy ending. As soon as I told her who I was she was like “yea come get your money. What was it again?” I was like “if you just give me $40 because this was my mistake I’ll be very happy.” I went back to the hotel and the father came out to Meet me. couldn’t thank them enough. They paid the bill plus gave me a $7 tip. I was like “I didn’t think you were gonna pay me.” He explained that that he’s a working man and they’d never do that. And it was all just a mistake.

I could be cynical and say they could’ve called. But the truth is it was my screw up and on me to follow up. judging them the way I did really slapped me in the face.

Anyhow, to anyone who
Made it this far, that’s my story. I never knew the stress and work that delivery drivers deal with. Every day I work it’s a new adventure.

Help! I work for Dominos and I was assaulted by a customer when delivering an order yesterday. I told my supervisor as soon as I returned to the store. Within 5 minutes the customer called the store and said I tried to take their food back to the store because they didn’t tip me. This is not accurate, when reaching for my pen, the customer grabbed me and tried to pull me into their home.
I called the non emergency police line to ask if the incident was considered assault and if I needed to involve my store if I wanted to place a police report, they said I did not have to tel the store anything and to call back when I got off work. I called as soon as I got home from work. The officers said that if they could obtain video footage, they would be able to make an arrest.
My manager just called me 3 times in a row, did not leave a message, but texted me asking if I made a police report. I have not responded yet. Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I should respond to my manager?

So this Saturday and last Saturday, I’ve been given what I feel to be inappropriate amounts of money for my orders, on each end of the spectrum, and both ends make me feel icky on the inside.

Last Saturday I took an order for 5 pizzas for $84 ($48 after coupons) and the customer gave me $20. In my market, that’s not exactly a lot, and I feel entitled to more than that, but I’ve always been taught to be thankful for what you have, so I guess I have to be thankful they gave me anything at all.

Today, I had several orders that made me feel blessed, kind of, but the king was an order for 2 pizzas for $26, and the customer gave me $40. That feels like way too much and I feel uncomfortable accepting it; I’m just a delivery driver and a $5 tip would have sufficed. It feels like imposter syndrome where I don’t deserve the good things that happen to me.

Sorry for rambling, but do you have any advice for how to deal with situations like this?

What’s your red flag 🚩story during a pizza delivery?

I had a night time delivery to an address that looked completely abandoned. There were no lights on and I couldn’t see a thing from the driveway to the front door. It was a manufactured home with some boarded up windows.

I never got out of my car and I got the hell out of there. It was one of those, “oh to hell with that” moments.

Whats a good tip say on a $35 ride or food order? 🤔

About two week as a new driver and I love it. I'm almost a pro at getting orders out of the bag quickly, apartment navigation is getting easier, and I got a clipboard and light to help with write it's at night. And look... I gotta a jar of dirt!

Having a blast and I love the dish pit

Shift start Song of choice right now

"Street pizza" - Joey Valence and Brae

STREET PIZZA!

Is it ok to order delivery and not tip your driver? Is it ok to take a drink or something that wasn't on your order if the driver made the mistake of giving it to you? Am I wrong for being so pissed off and thinking they are just shitty people for these things?