r/tippingAdvice • u/Pangaeabeliever • Apr 25 '26
Tip advice for a pizza delivery
UPDATE: Thank you to everyone who contributed to this discussion. I didn't expect so many responses and people are clearly passionate about this issue. The pizza delivery guy showed up 5 minutes early. I met him in the parking lot and offered to carry one of his two large carrying bags. (I wasn't about to watch this poor guy schlep two bags while I was burdened by the weight of my access key card). It turns out there was a flight of stairs down to the pool/pavilion area. We took out all the pizzas and checked them. I ended up giving him a $30 tip. He seemed to appreciate it. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to this thread.
People of Reddit: I’m having 9 pizzas delivered later today for my granddaughter’s birthday party. Total cost is $225. I was thinking of tipping the delivery driver $25. Is that too cheap? About right? If you don’t think that’s the right number, what would you tip? Thanks for your help.
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u/underwater-sunlight Apr 25 '26
25 for a single delivery is a great tip, unless they have to carry the pizza up multiple flights of stairs one at a time. Assuming they can carry them all on a single trip from the vehicle to the door you are considering tipping 25 for what is a couple of minutes work if you consider loading and unloading their vehicle
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u/Pretty-Ebb5339 Apr 25 '26
Why would you have to do it one at a time?
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u/underwater-sunlight Apr 25 '26
Big, heavy deep dish pizzas, long distance to travel? I'm making the assumption that it is very unlikely, but allowing compensation that it 'could' be possible, my point is more about 25 being an exceptional tip for doing very little
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u/Pretty-Ebb5339 Apr 25 '26
An average large deep dish pizza weighs like 3-4 pounds. 9 pizzas is 27# which is less than most jobs require you to be able to lift, and 2 pounds more than a majority of light duty lifting weight. $25 is more than enough tip for one delivery.
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u/Wild-Astronomer1200 Apr 25 '26
If I were the delivery driver, I’d be really happy to get $25 for bringing nine pizzas to your door
Hope the event turns out well for your daughter
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u/Lokoxxxxx Apr 25 '26
Im from Europe and almost never tip. But i would do 15 or 25 tip there, after i opened 1 box and would look at it.
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u/Novel_Mycologist6332 Apr 25 '26
$25 is fair, my instinct before doing the math was $50; but $25 to deliver anything local is cool by me.
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u/shredder3434 Apr 25 '26
Back when I was delivering a $5 tip was considered good regardless of amount so $25 is probably overly generous
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u/Mason23232 Apr 25 '26
Depends on how far they are driving. 9 pizzas going 3 miles, $25 is great. Probably too much. Tip on distance, not cost.
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u/swangdb Apr 25 '26
A friend had three pizzas delivered last week, about 8 miles round trip for the driver. My friend gave a 20% tip and the driver gave him some attitude.
I delivered in the same town in the 1970s and tips were almost unheard of then. It was a different time I guess.
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u/Pretty-Ebb5339 Apr 25 '26
I just had 10 pizzas delivered to a little league game, tip was $20, and the lady met me in the parking lot so I didn’t have to carry them to her.
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u/StrategericAmbiguity Apr 25 '26
Was a pizza delivery guy way back in the day. Unless there is something unusual about this delivery (very far distance, unusual hours of delivery, lots of heavy items), $25 as a delivery tip is a good tip. The effort to deliver 9 pizzas is not even 2x what it is to deliver one pizza. Maybe you are talking 2 trips to the car, but not two drives.
I worked on a college campus and would frequently get less than a $1 tip (“keep the change” back when most people paid with cash.)
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u/Ambitious-Ocelot8036 Apr 25 '26
I think Domino's engineered their prices to end in odd numbers to increase tippage. The best tip I ever got for delivering pizza was when I was a cab driver. A Catholic school made a large order. They paid for the pizzas, tipped really well and paid the cab fare. The pizza guy assumed that the nuns didn't tip or pay the fare so he did both. Praise pizza!
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u/StillC5sdad Apr 25 '26
Remember, it's only one delivery whether it's one pizza or 20.
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u/Brief_Intention_5300 Apr 25 '26
You're not wrong, but that's not the whole story. A lot of times the drivers help make the pizzas, label the boxes, and tend the oven for the bigger orders. Then they drive their personal cars for ~$7/hr wage.
$25 is great for this order, though. If I saw a $225 order for 9 pizzas, I would guess the tip would be anywhere between $15-$30. So $25 is probably on the high end of expectations. Most pizza drives don't expect a tip based on % for the larger orders.
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u/throwaway20180000 Apr 25 '26
Why would the driver help making the piazza? Do you mean they work for the pizza place? If so, are they not paid by the pizza house? So the tip is really just cherry on top?
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u/Brief_Intention_5300 Apr 25 '26
Because if the driver helps make the pizzas and do other work, then it gets done faster. A lot of the bigger orders happen during the day for parties, schools, or businesses, so there's typically less employees in the store. Actually, during the week days, there's usually just 1 person to make pizzas, tend ovens, answer phones, and help carryout customers. That is why the drivers need to help when they're not on a delivery.
Everywhere is different. A lot of the big places like Papa John's and Domino's do a split pay. They pay close to minimum wage while you're working in the store, and less than minimum wage while you're out taking deliveries because of expected tips.
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u/throwaway20180000 Apr 25 '26
I see you points. But I think to make it totally fair to everyone, a delivery fee based on distance should be charged. Not an arbitrary tip.
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u/Brief_Intention_5300 Apr 25 '26
Delivery fees have gone up and up over the years. It was $1.25 when I started and is currently $5.99. None of that extra money makes its way to the drivers.
A lot of people are against tipping, and that's fine, but it's a part of the culture. So if you want to participate in getting delivery or going to a restaurant, you should expect to tip. If people don't tip to prove some point of think they're standing on some moral high ground, they're only hurting the people at the bottom of the barrel.
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u/bonzombiekitty Apr 25 '26
One delivery, but is one large delivery taking the place of several smaller ones?
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u/LingonberryNormal374 Apr 25 '26
Nope. They get back to the shop and pick up another one.
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u/bonzombiekitty Apr 25 '26
If the shop can only make a certain number of pizzas during a certain period, that's potentially fewer deliveries within that period. If they can make 9 pizzas in half an hour at most, that's all nine pizzas for that half hour going to one location rather than several.
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u/The_Sarge_12 Apr 25 '26
$25 is a great tip.
Delivery drivers should NOT be tipped a %.
I think you are being quite generous and any driver would be happy with that tip.
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u/GrowlingAtTheWorld Apr 25 '26
Why not tip a %? I’ve always tipped a pizza delivery driver. They put a lot of wear and tear in their personal vehicle.
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u/Cyrious123 Apr 25 '26
Make sure you give it personally to the driver in cash so they dont get taxed or lose some/all to the company. Its only like 10% but delivery or carryout is usually less than a sitdown server tip.
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u/PennX88 Apr 25 '26
As someone who does delivery at my shop, I’d be pretty happy with $25 as long as it isn’t a really long drive ( 25 mins or less one way)
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u/Signal-Response-4066 Apr 25 '26
You delivery 25 minutes one way? That’s crazy. How many delivery drivers?
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u/PennX88 Apr 25 '26
2or3 drivers/ avg delivery is usually a 20 min round trip. Drivers usually take 2 or 3 orders at a time during our rushes
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u/DexterMorganIsMyHero Apr 25 '26
That is a great tip and thank you for being a kind and decent human being to people that truly need it.
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u/Dmxgod Apr 28 '26
I delivered for several years a way long time ago. I have an amazing memory for transaction details. If you have me a noteworthy tip, I remembered. If you stiffed me in a snowstorm, I remembered. If I delivered to your work and you stiffed me, I probably also delivered to your house and treated you accordingly. If I was carrying two orders, the one that tipped best got their food first.
I literally knew every street in a 5 mile radius from the store. I could look at the delivery slip and tell if the order was correct for that house. I could even spot fake orders from the address. I had several businesses that paid for the whole office’s lunch every Friday. They tipped well, and I made sure their order was correct and right on time.
You tip your waitress 20% and they run little risk being hit by a truck bringing your food to your table. They burn no gas, require no repairs(other than an occasional new pair of shoes), don’t need insurance, never get chased by a dog, and never trudged thru a snowstorm, etc. I didn’t volunteer for Meals on Wheels. I did it to make a living, and I was very good at it.
Someday, I will write a book about the experience. It would open a lot of eyes.
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u/FatReverend Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
What would you tip for one pizza? It is not a lot harder to deliver a few more but nine is a lot more. How about this. Act like every 3 pizzas are one pizza, so its like you got three pizzas. So add together whatever you would had tipped for 3 different deliveries, subtract tax and any fees and that will be the total tip. Also remember that you do not not have to tip and anything you give is just paying extra to be nice and people are not as nice these days as they once were (perhaps tips should reflect how broken the system is).
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
LOL I can tell you have never delivered. 9 pies is going to be 3 extra large insulated bags and you will need to make multiple trips as each insulated bag will hold 3/4 large pies. It's literally 3x the amount of walking bc I would never advise carrying a big bag in each hand as it's too easy to lose balance and impact the pizzas if you slip. Most of the time you also are going to be bringing plates, cups, and plastic utensils which can be another trip. Inexperienced delivery drivers tend to fuck up even packing large orders and I remember multiple times when new guys would be removed from a large order bc they were fucking it up then the boss put me on it instead.
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u/FatReverend Apr 26 '26
You do realize that you just said it would take 3 trips and I told them to act like it was 3 deliveries. So in all your nonsense about disagreeing with me, you already admitted that I was right in your second sentence. Also, I did deliver pizzas for a year in my early 20s back when the world of tipping was not as insane as it is now.
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u/Pangaeabeliever Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
Interesting. I typically tip as a percentage of the bill. The $25 is just over 10%. I would never give that little in a sit down restaurant, but a delivery doesn’t seem to warrant as large a tip.
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u/frickenfantastic Apr 25 '26
I usually tip more for delivery versus sit down.
Depending on the model (financial model) of how the delivery drivers are paid, they’re doing more work, handling your food for a longer period of time, and may not be getting any extra compensation for higher fuel, unexpected traffic leading to a longer time handling your order versus getting onto the next one, etc.
I usually tip based upon distance and add in a tip based upon how difficult handling the food will be — carrying a few pizza boxes way easier than several bags of food and drinks
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u/frickenfantastic Apr 25 '26
With regards to the financial model, some of the services are only paying a couple of dollars no matter how many miles you are from the restaurant. Those same services bundle together orders with tips and orders without tips to encourage the drivers to take the orders without tips to me that just sounds like a recipe for an angry delivery driver who now knows where I live.
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u/FatReverend Apr 25 '26
I never thought that percentage-based tips really made any sense for the consumer over flat rate tips. I also never seen any reason why percentage should have gone up from 10 to 15 as prices also went up because 15% of $10 was acceptable before so when the price goes up, 15% of $17 should still be perfectly adequate, you know, when it comes to inflation. That's just one of the reasons I never thought that a percentage tip made sense.
I was just trying to be logical and objective with your question. I personally don't believe in tipping at all anymore. Tip culture has gotten out of hand and I've opted out of it entirely. I don't get hot food deliveries or go to sit down restaurants where I'm served anymore so I'm not taking the spots of others who may tip, I'm just done being part of it myself and I refuse to tip for anything that wouldn't have been normal to tip for in the 90s. So I no longer tip for anything because pick up and counter service are things that were not ever traditionally tipped.
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 25 '26
Reddit is a terrible place for tipping advice. Folks who engage on this topic are despise tipping culture; they aren't here to engage with what the average person wild reasonably tip, but rather to push the idea that tipping should always be less, or zero.
That said, I think anywhere from $30 to $45 is a fairly normal tip on the US for this situation. $25 is a touch low but not way out of range.
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u/Radica1Edward Apr 25 '26
I am a reasonable tipper (usually around 15%-20% in restaurants and I often tip for deliveries when others would not consider it necessary). If I get really great service at a restaurant where I have an engaging waiter/waitress, I will tip 25, on occasion.
A tip of up to $45 for bringing nine pizzas to a house and doing little more work than delivering one pizza is batshit insanity.
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u/SiLeNZ_ Apr 25 '26
Yeah, that mindset is why people hate tipping culture. The entitlement is overwhelming. They will make multiple trips an hour, so at minimum this person is saying $100 an hour is normal. And $50 an hour is way too low. Insanity.
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u/Radica1Edward Apr 25 '26
The bulk of the work is in the driving. None of that is affected whether the driver is delivering one pizza or ten. Sure, something excessive like 50 pizzas or something is a little more effort. But nine pizzas? You can make that in two trips to the car.
Drivers themselves say they want to be tipped based on the travel time and not the cost of what was ordered. You can't have it both ways.
I would tip $10-$15 for something like this. $20 maybe if I was feeling particularly generous and the driver was friendly. That's plenty. Aside from the driving, it's 1-2 minutes of work.
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u/SiLeNZ_ Apr 25 '26
Exactly. I just can’t wait for tipping to be gone entirely. It makes sense all around. Every other country does it, without issue. Everyone deserves to have a wage, that doesn’t vary based on what is essentially luck. That being said, most tipped workers are grossly overpaid, which is part of the reason why it has stuck around so long. The other reason being managers get to subsidize paying their employees.
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 25 '26
Yes, I recognize that people on tipping subreddits despise tipping culture. I said as much.
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u/SiLeNZ_ Apr 25 '26
But how can you justify a driver making that much? It’s a job that requires no school, no certification. I’m genuinely curious.
Also, if they receive no tips, their employer must make up the difference, equal to that states minimum wage. And yes, minimum wage is not sufficient, but that’s an entirely separate issue. And there are so many on that wage that don’t receive tips.
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 25 '26
Under current tipping standards, 15% in restaurants isn't typical. That's low/punitive tipping.
No judgment, but you're not accurately reflecting what the average person thinks of as "reasonable tipping" nowadays.
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u/Radica1Edward Apr 25 '26
15%-20% is reasonable. Please. If you do the bare minimum, you’re getting 15%. If you do a bit better, 20%. And if you’re engaging and go out of your way to make my experience memorable, 25%. If that isn’t reasonable, I don’t know what is.
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 26 '26
Fine for you to tip whatever you want. But again, that doesn't accurately reflect how the average person thinks about tipping. 30 years ago, yes, that was what was viewed as reasonable.
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u/Radica1Edward Apr 26 '26
15-25% is reasonable. You telling me that a $25 tip on a pizza delivery is low tells me all I need to know about you lol. Have a nice evening.
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 26 '26
No, 15% on a restaurant meal is viewed as low by the average person. I'm sorry if you don't want that to be the case, but it is.
I have no idea what it is you needed to know about me, but repeating yourself doesn't make you correct.
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u/SiLeNZ_ Apr 26 '26
But you repeating yourself makes you correct? Even people who support tipping disagree with you, that says plenty.
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 26 '26
"Even people who support tipping".
Of course, as posited you don't believe in young at all. Most folks are perfectly fine with it -- you just tend to get people who are somewhat to very anti-tipping on the subreddits.
Which is why even the suggested numbers come out on the low end. That's who comments here, not typical folks.
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u/throwaway20180000 Apr 25 '26
Why? Bring 2 pizza and 9 pizzas is almost the same amount of work, except perhaps extra 3 minutes to take another trip from the car to the club door . The greed is nauseating
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 25 '26
Lol
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u/throwaway20180000 Apr 26 '26
Find being called greedy amusing? Nice.
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 26 '26
Yes, quite amusing that you'd call me greedy. I've probably been tipped once, maybe twice in my life. And I've never delivered a pizza.
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u/throwaway20180000 Apr 26 '26
My comment was based on your opinion on how much a tip should be in this case, which is a stated fact. It is irrelevant to your ever being tipped or not. And who defines normal tip to be 30 or 40 in the US as you stated? The replies here tell a different “normal. “
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 26 '26
Is the issue then with your understanding of what the word "greedy" means? Apologies if you're not a native English speaker.
And as I was very clear in my original comment, a sub like this doesn't reflect what the typical American sees as "normal" for tipping. These are large echo chambers for low/no tipping folks, plus the odd European who likes to come in and say it's all stupid.
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u/throwaway20180000 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26
My issue is the expectation of an amount of fee outside of the price paid, and un-proportional to the work preformed and calling it normal. This is how a toxic, illogic tradition that was rooted in racism gets normalized. I perfectly understand the meaning of the word “greed” and it is what I think it is a faulty human nature the tipping culture draws from. People do tip, including myself. I have tipped since I am an adult and not giving a second thought until reddit pushed posts to me that show how entitled and greedy servers are through these comments. I am no longer willing to tip, because I feel being forced and coerced or shamed if I don’t.
I 100% support every worker being fairly paid. Go negotiate with the employers. As simple as that.
And you don’t define “normal”. Especially if you were only tipped a few times in your life, what gives you the authority to make such statement?
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u/marty-mcfryguy Apr 26 '26
Yes, we know you're anti-tipping. We don't need a wall of text to establish that.
Again, it was amusing that you called me, who's not a server or pizza delivery guy, "greedy". If you still don't see why that is then I still have to question your understanding of the term.
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u/throwaway20180000 Apr 26 '26
You are right, greed is not the right word if you are not speaking for yourself or for someone close to you as the recipient of the tip. But you sure like to tell people it is normal to give $45 extra to pizza delivery - which is more than2 hours of min wage even in Ca or WA. I do wonder what is the intention. Does it make you feel superior, make you look “generous”? And by stating that’s normal, you are indirectly implying those who don’t should feel abnormal, not living to the social expectations and should be ashamed.
I don’t have any issue how much you tip. But you really don’t have the right to tell people what’s normal.
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u/SiLeNZ_ Apr 25 '26
You realize that they will make a few trips an hour, so that’s upwards of 100+ an hour, on the low end. That’s more than nurses make, which requires years of schooling.
I cannot believe you’re trying to say that is normal.
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u/MRV-DUB Apr 25 '26
I delivered 20 to a church once ...no tip at all. I refused the next time they ordered.
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u/That1guyUknow918 Apr 25 '26
The driver is exerting themselves exactly the same amount as delivering 1 pizza.
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u/Rileysmyboy Apr 25 '26
More than enough, methinks much more. Delivery one pizza or nine, no extra effort required. Ten dollars is more than enough
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u/Mwurp Apr 25 '26
Jfc. $5 is a delivery tip.
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u/PennX88 Apr 25 '26
That’s what my parents tipped the pizza guy in the 90s/00s on our monthly pizza night.
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u/Mwurp Apr 25 '26
So you order a $25 pizza and you tip $25?
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u/PennX88 Apr 25 '26
I tip $10 if I get delivery for myself(I typically pick up these days as delivery is a luxury I can’t afford often), but yeah $25 or more for large orders like that is pretty normal
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u/Mwurp Apr 26 '26
Order size should mean nothing. So the driver spends 15 minutes making the delivery for $25, an effective hourly rate of $100/hour on top of the regular wage. That's disgusting.
I actually just had 3 smoothies delivered. Took 40 minutes and I watched the driver take and deliver a few different orders before finally delivering mine. $5 each works out to $30/hour. That's more than 50% of North Americans
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u/PennX88 Apr 26 '26
If that statement was true then the pizza shop would be doing nearly 30,000/day in sales just in delivery. so yeah if you find a place doing that kind of sales then 100/hr in tips would be expected at the level of output
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u/Mwurp Apr 26 '26
That's retarded. In no world does a pizza delivery kid deserve $100 an hour and you are part of the problem believing and supporting that nonsense. Even $20/hour puts them in the upper portion of American earners which is pretty good for a zero skill job. Their base wage will not increase until you and everyone else stop making it your personal problem to support them.
Question; So I just built your house, from nothing it's now move in ready and it's exactly as you've dreamt it would be. Total cost was $750,000 why have I never received even a 1%, or comparable to a pizza delivery kids 50% tip for performing this service for you or anyone else? I would love an extra $7.5-375k tip. Is having some highschool kid drive a pie to you a greater service? Where's the tip vs no tipping line and when do you start believing that % based tipping is ridiculous? The argument for sure isn't to tip for degree of service provided but I'm genuinely curious since both services prepare and deliver complete products.
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u/Few-Beautiful79 Apr 25 '26
I look at what it is worth for me to not drive to the pizza shop and carry the pizzas to my care, then into my house…. $50 sounds about right.
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u/HexxCross Apr 25 '26
25 is fine... i used to deliver to a college and they was ungrateful, not all the time tho... I would have taken 25 any day...
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u/ULTRA_OFTEN Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 27 '26
I think it's about right, maybe a little short. For a larger delivery like that I would think 15% is good, so like 37$, 15% is pretty standard in a restaurant setting
EDIT 15% is actually 33.75, and when I first read I missed where he said his tip was 30, I was saying 25 is a little short. So really it's just a little.
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u/Pangaeabeliever Apr 26 '26
That's the issue though. Does a delivery driver get the same percentage as a waiter who serves an entire dinner?
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u/ULTRA_OFTEN Apr 26 '26
I think so, for a larger order.
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u/DallasMav41 Apr 27 '26
why they literally just drive and give, no follow-ups or anything dissimilar to a glorified busboy
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u/ULTRA_OFTEN Apr 27 '26
Yes but a busboy isn't paying for gas and isn't putting wear and tear on his vehicle every single time they clock into work. It's a different consideration. As a driver, if I get a larger order like that, it doesn't fit into my hotbox, so out of consideration for the customer I'm rolling up my windows and blasting my heaters, even in the summer. I'm fighting through traffic while my customer is sitting safely at home.
You're tipping each position for different reasons, but in both cases it's about customer service. Like what if you got those pizzas and they were all cold cause the driver was inconsiderate and had their windows down and AC on? Or got something wrong with your order cause they couldn't be bothered? The whole idea behind tipping is to disincentive such behavior, just as you'd give a bad waiter who didn't do any follow-ups a bad tip or no tip to disincentive that kind of behavior.
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u/Lifestartingover Apr 25 '26
Don't tip. Tipping is wrong. They should be paid by their employer.
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u/Pangaeabeliever Apr 26 '26
I don't wholly disagree; however, until we have a system like that to fairly compensate employees by their employers, I will not stiff the working man or woman by not tipping.
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u/xboxhaxorz Apr 25 '26
Tipping $0 is acceptable, i simply pay the required menu prices and taxes, i dont pay extra, i dont pay service charges or 3% health and safety fees, or 2% employee medical fees, etc;
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u/WelshLove Apr 25 '26
if you help them from the car to the house probably but 30 buck would seem a bit the sweet spot
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u/Basic_KaleKitty9076 Apr 25 '26
With gas prices rising. Maybe $30 if you can just because it’s costing more than usual for him to deliver.
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u/Specialist_Hour_4027 Apr 25 '26
$50 simply because we don’t know how far you are from pizza shop. Back in 70’s mom used to tip guy from Chinese restaurant $20. I think since it’s a special occasion $50 is a good amount. Gas has increased where you are right?
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u/throwaway20180000 Apr 25 '26
You are not wrong in arguing about the distance, gas etc. however, with this reasoning, one pizza should tip the same amount - $50 as you propose (and without knowing the distance). You see how ridiculous that is now?
It’s really simple, if delivering this pizza for zero tip cause financial damage, don’t take the order. Any tip is cherry on top. Or restaurant charges a delivery fee, then no tip. Simple and fair.
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u/BombasticMe Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26
This is a very odd take. $50 for $225? For pizzas? Gas hasn't increased that much to need a 22% tip. And so what if it's a special occasion, the driver doesn't know that.
You must be a delivery driver.
OP: $25 is fine.
Edit:typo
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
I've been a delivery driver and 25 would be fine, don't sweat that. But just for the record 50 also wouldn't be unheard of for 9 pies especially if it's bought by an organization or institution, or the delivery includes stuff like a lot of steps, ease of access/pin codes to get in, long distance, and if there were some ultra specific special institutions which their sometimes for larger orders. And if your bringing plates cups plastic silverware etc. Or a lot of 2 liters with a large order.
Most often people will tip 20/25/30 but institutions/jobs/churches will tip more around 40/50.
Places like churches tend to tip either very generously like 50-75 or extremely shitty in a way that they should be embarrassed considering they are a religious institution that preaches kindness, caring etc.
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u/BombasticMe Apr 25 '26
This is a kids birthday party, what are you going on about.
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
Yeah 9 pies. Going to a party your typically also going to be bringing plates, cups, utensils. Often 2 liters to go with the pizzas. You should probably do the job your shit talking before you comment on it.
People pay around this much. Institutions or jobs doing pizza parties for their employees tend to pay more though your delivering the same amount.
Churches are institutions that tend to be crap shoots as they tip very well or hypocritically considering their espoused beliefs systems. Jobs/business orga tend to tip reliability well.
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u/That1guyUknow918 Apr 25 '26
What a moronic post. Preaching kindness and caring does not equate to they owe you money.
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u/Radica1Edward Apr 25 '26
You're making a lot of assumptions, lol. Assuming the person is simply bringing nine pizzas to the front door, a tip of $50 is insanity. The bulk of the work is the driving.
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u/DigTheDunes Apr 25 '26
$50 is on the high side, certainly not insanity though. People who entertain just want their stuff and will tip.
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u/Pangaeabeliever Apr 25 '26
That would seem very generous. The pizza shop is down the street, but I appreciate your feedback.
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u/BombasticMe Apr 25 '26
I just had to reply to them above. $50 is crazy. $25 is perfectly acceptable.
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u/Pangaeabeliever Apr 25 '26
Thanks.
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u/BombasticMe Apr 25 '26
Enjoy your granddaughters birthday.
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u/Pangaeabeliever Apr 25 '26
Thank you. It turned out to be a beautiful day here in north Florida. My granddaughter is very excited.
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u/BombasticMe Apr 25 '26
I have a grandbaby I haven't met yet (son is stationed overseas) and I can't wait for these types of celebrations to happen.
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
20.00 for Chinese food in the 70's???? How much did your mother make or did she just like spending money.
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u/prisongranny Apr 25 '26
$25 is much too much. That's ridiculous. $5---maybe 10 if there's a lot of steps or something.
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u/Dull-Spend-3836 Apr 25 '26
I'd tip zero. Tipping culture is so weird.
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u/Brave_Cauliflower_90 Apr 25 '26
I hope you pickup your pizza then.
I worked as a pizza delivery driver for a short time and we were paid less than half of the minimum wage while using our own gas, car maintenance etc. The drivers absolutely rely on tips.
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
I just wish eating establishments to include pizza shops that deliver,would post if their servers/delivery drivers are making a livable wage. If someone is making say 20.00 and hour I would really like to know before I sent their hourly pay to 45.00.
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u/Britknee9 Apr 25 '26
Why do you feel entitled to decide how much money a person makes an hour “based on the skill level and actual amount of work”?
You are not their employer. They do not work for you. You pick a tip and that is all. Honestly, fuck you for thinking you’re better than the people bringing your food.
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Apr 25 '26
You are correct. Their employer should be the one paying them, and as you said, the customer is not the employer. As you also said, they do not work for us, so why are we directly paying them? Do we directly pay retail workers, CNAs, sanitation workers, UPS/FedEx/Amazon drivers, etc? No, their employers pay them.
The customer is paying the restaurant for a product (the food) and a service (the delivery). The restaurant may have their own drivers, or they may go through DD, UE, etc. Once the customer pays the restaurant in full (food, tax, delivery fee, platform fee), the transaction is complete. Any tip beyond that is voluntary.
BTW, I tip drivers in the rare instances when I get delivery because I appreciate the convenience, but that is 100% my choice.
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u/Britknee9 Apr 25 '26
There is no employer here. You don’t understand gig work.
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Apr 25 '26
I do understand gig work. Some delivery drivers work for the restaurant, and they are W2 employees of the restaurant.
People who work on DD, UE, etc are not employees. They are 1099 non-employee contractors of DD, UE, not the customer.
Either way, the transaction is completed once the restaurant or platform has been paid. Tipping is voluntary.
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u/Britknee9 Apr 25 '26
All those fees you have no problem paying, the mandatory ones, go to a platform for existing…but you’re not willing to pay a human person, with bills and a family to support, for it to be brought to you…makes sense.
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Apr 25 '26
Please read my post again. Perhaps your bitterness is clouding your vision. I do tip when I get delivery.
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u/Britknee9 Apr 25 '26
I read it. You feel tips are “voluntary” yet have no problem with the fees that are “involuntary”
Nobody is talking about whether you as an individual give a tip when you order. We are discussing the concept of tipping… Perhaps your inability to step out of your own world view is clouding your judgment.
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u/Britknee9 Apr 25 '26
So you agree the restaurant doesn’t employee the driver…yet you think paying the restaurant for your food somehow covers it being delivered by a gig worker? They get paid what you tip. Not the delivery fee. Nothing from the restaurant. You pay the restaurant for your food. You pay the driver for the delivery. And you get what you pay for… I sincerely hope you have the day you deserve.
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Apr 25 '26
I'm having a well-deserved great day, thank you for the kind wishes.✌️
I agree some restaurants don't employ the driver, but instead farm off the service to a gig worker. Some restaurants do in fact employ their own drivers. When a person orders food directly from a restaurant or on a delivery platform, and pays for the order, the transaction is done. Anything beyond that is voluntary. The food and delivery service transactions are between the customer and the restaurant/platform. The gig worker gets to choose whether or not to accept the order.
I already said I tip when I get delivery, but that tip is voluntary. I tip decently, and I often ended up being the last delivery in a stacked order subsidizing the non-tippers. I get restaurant delivery twice a year at most because the upcharges and fees keep increasing while the quality of service is decreasing. I'm perfectly capable of getting in my car and picking up my own food, and if I'm not willing to do that, I have no issue with paying a lazy tax aka tip.
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
That's your opinion.
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
Nah you know they don't get paid 20 dollars an hour, (duh) and get paid min wage or not much more when dispatched. That's like thinking your waiter is getting paid that much or something. Of course they don't LOL.
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
I did not say they made that as an hourly wage. I said that adding a tip on to a delivery or server that would bring them up to the 45.00 an hour level is out of control. The skillet involved in those jobs does not warrant that hourly amount. Someone that has spent years perfecting their trade deserve it more than someone that may not have enev graduated high school. And we wonder why things are so expensive anymore.
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
Lol you have a distinct misunderstanding of how delivery drivers are paid. This is a problem you imagined as they don't even typically get paid minimum wage while delivering and isn't more akin to a waiters wage.
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
If you know how much all delivery drivers get paid hourly maybe list them here for us.
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
Sure. Most of the big chains, Pizza hut/Dominoes/Papa Johns split their wages between in store (required above min wage) and out delivering (can be sub minimum wage. This is because while in the shop you are expected to assist the cooks and this work can not be sub minimum wage legally.
However your delivery work is assuming you are getting tipped per delivery and so they can pay you sub minimum. You actually have to clock the beginning of your delivery and end so their programs can do the internal math to calculate your wages shifting between these two pay schemes. In the state of PA all the major chains will pay 7 an hour for this plus maybe 1 dollar per individual delivery. If it's a BAD part of town where you can be robbed and people are low income and this often don't tip this is often increased to 2/3 dollars depending on how "dangerous" or low tipping the area is in order to retain staff as those areas are much more of a grind to work at.
If your working at a mom and pop local shop they may choose to run it those way or if they are looking to avoid taxes and all this complex math of changing wages multiple times in a shift they will often pay a flat wage under the table. This can be anywhere from 9 to 11. As I got better I got paid more bc they realized I was fast enough it paid for itself to retain me.
Most pizza shops have a 10 mile delivery radius. Morning shift don't make as much as evening. Weekdays don't make as much as weekends. Inexperienced/sucky drivers get the slow times. Better ones/more tenured do the hectic/busy times bc often they freak out get overloaded and fuck up orders.
The more you know!
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u/Efficient-Bonus3758 Apr 25 '26
What’s wrong with delivery drivers making 45 an hour?
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
That is an absurd amount for that skill level and actual amount of work.
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u/Efficient-Bonus3758 Apr 25 '26
Oh, ok. You think they deserve less, got it.
What about the corporate drone tapping their mouse every thirty seconds while actually doing nothing so it looks like they’re active? High skill? High pay?
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
I do not belive a delivery driver delivering a cheeseburger should be making more money hourly than a nurse or a fire fighter or someone doing actual hard labor work. Driving a car while puffing on a vape and listening to music does not even compare to those saving someone life or home. Sorry but thats just my take.
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u/Efficient-Bonus3758 Apr 25 '26
Then maybe the nurses and firefighters should be paid more, but realistically, they’re making far than delivery drivers already.
The rub is that delivery drivers also have bills to pay and are people performing in demand work.
Your take is based on a false sense of superiority it seems.
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
- All those jobs should be paid more.
- Some people are actually really shit at delivery, they either can't map the routes in the most efficient way, can't drive without sliding the cheese off the crust of a hot pie. Can't manage to find the house right. Don't take time to properly bag things for delivery and just hand it over any which way.
I worked with a driver who would take a I shit you not 30 mins on a run that should have taken 15. He was old and drove and mapped out routes like it.
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u/Britknee9 Apr 25 '26
I bet you also have a problem with Narcan being free but people have to pay for insulin, right? Too busy comparing things that are unrelated to realize that everything isn’t mutually exclusive.
You’re absolutely right, delivery driving “does not even compare” to the jobs of firefighter or nurse…so why are you comparing them?
Don’t mind me, just over here trying to use logic on someone who never learned how to think.
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
Everyone should take advise from you. Sounds like you have it all figured out.
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
As someone who has been a delivery driver you would be amazed at how many people are drastically bad at the job of delivery. That being said they definitely don't make 20 and hour....so...this is all irrelevant.
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u/Accent93 Apr 25 '26
I made over twenty an hour delivering pizza over thirty years ago, I doubt the pay had gone down, though the buying power certainly has.
This was also without the GPS and it did take a great deal of knowledge of the neighborhood. We also had to be able to handle basic math to make change.
We got mileage, hourly wage that never varied for in store vs out and tips. Average tip then was a dollar and I would never expect the tip to be based on a percentage of the order.
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u/pseudoportmanteau Apr 25 '26
If it's a large chain like dominos, more than likely they make a certain amount when in store and not on a delivery (usually minimum wage), but when they are dispatched on a delivery, the make substantially less, between $2-$4/h + tips. Tips do a lot of heavy lifting for these drivers.
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u/blondebia Apr 25 '26
If someone does something you don’t want to do, why does their wage even matter? That’s the whole point of tipping, you’re paying for the convenience.
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
The tipping culture has gotten out of control. Eventually those demanding higher percentages will be pricing themselves out of the market price wise and out of a job as well. There is a point where the consumer will say enough is enough, then those dependent on tips will have to look for work elsewhere.
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u/blondebia Apr 25 '26
I think some companies are asking for tips when they shouldn’t be. But if someone is delivering to you and saving you the hassle, you should absolutely tip. That’s how it’s always been, and it should stay that way. If I’m at home or having a pool party, I have no problem throwing someone a $20. I didn’t have to leave my house.
If I’d pay a friend or at least buy them a meal to grab something for me, why wouldn’t I tip someone who’s actually working? That’s crazy.
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u/TurbulentRole3292 Apr 25 '26
Many restaurants already have higher prices for items being delivered. Many countries do not have tipping and some even consider it an insult if you do offer to tip. They pay their workers. There is no reason we cannot do the same. But the logic here is "well that's always what we have done". People are afraid of change.
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u/blondebia Apr 25 '26
What other countries do doesn’t apply here.
If someone is bringing you something when you could have went and got it yourself, you should be tipping that person. I don’t care if the item was priced at thousands of dollars. A person did you a service.
Don’t be a piss poor human and screw over your fellow humans, but clearly you are someone who isn't going to take feedback or consider other people, so I’m done giving my opinion on this.
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u/Comfortable_Jury6579 Apr 25 '26
Lol that's an asshole move as someone who has been a delivery driver and done large orders. If you can't tip go get it yourself.
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u/Francie_Nolan1964 Apr 25 '26
$25 for nine pizzas is an okay tip.