What to tip?
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These days we're getting a lot of stuff delivered, or picking up at our local place for take-out.
So what do you tip?
- Go to restaurant and pick up
- Delivery of food
My thought is that for delivery the amount of tip should be constant, regardless of the cost of food. The effort by the delivery person is the same, if I buy $10 or $60 for delivery.
What about if I go to pick up the food? Should I still go with 20%?
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I tip delivery guys 20 now.
The Instacart girl got closer to 50. I added the percentage to the bill which was $28 and gave her another $20 in cash. But she was working just for me for a good hour and she was a
milfyoung mom. The delivery guys have a new house they go to every 10-15 minutes. -
Also these folks are delivering a couple hundred worth of groceries. If I just got a dinner delivered I’d tip 10, 20 if I was feeling really generous.
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'Bout 20 for takeout, 35 or so for Instacart or equivalent.
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I really hope you're not a repeat customer anywhere. If so, chances are high you've eaten some pissauce.
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In my mind the concepts of gratuity and charity are quite distinct.
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How much I tip a worker is based on how hard the person whom I'm tipping worked, as well as how friendly he or she was to me.
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I don’t tip based on the amount for delivery. It doesn’t matter if I ordered a single sandwich or 2 pizzas, it’s the same trip for the driver.
For pickup, it depends on where I am picking up from. If it’s a a Chipotle (son is addicted), then it’s 20% (though I dislike this upward creep of tip amounts, 15% used to be the standard). If it’s the Mexican place near my work, I’ll typically order an $8 lunch and give a $12 tip.
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You tip $20 for a delivery? Wow. That sounds excessive to me.
Nobody here tips a delivery guy, except maybe rounding to the next whole number. And that's a good thing. Just pay people a decent salary and stop the tipping BS. It's rather condescending if you think about it.
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@Klaus said in What to tip?:
You tip $20 for a delivery? Wow. That sounds excessive to me.
Nobody here tips a delivery guy, except maybe rounding to the next whole number. And that's a good thing. Just pay people a decent salary and stop the tipping BS. It's rather condescending if you think about it.
You've never had that job, so you should stop bullshitting about what you don't understand.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in What to tip?:
@Klaus said in What to tip?:
You tip $20 for a delivery? Wow. That sounds excessive to me.
Nobody here tips a delivery guy, except maybe rounding to the next whole number. And that's a good thing. Just pay people a decent salary and stop the tipping BS. It's rather condescending if you think about it.
You've never had that job, so you should stop bullshitting about what you don't understand.
Well, you are misinformed. I understand the matter quite well, and I did my share of work in such kinds of jobs.
Ask 10 delivery guys here whether they'd swap their current terms with the American tipping model, and you'd get 11 resounding "Hell no!".
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@Klaus said in What to tip?:
@Aqua-Letifer said in What to tip?:
@Klaus said in What to tip?:
You tip $20 for a delivery? Wow. That sounds excessive to me.
Nobody here tips a delivery guy, except maybe rounding to the next whole number. And that's a good thing. Just pay people a decent salary and stop the tipping BS. It's rather condescending if you think about it.
You've never had that job, so you should stop bullshitting about what you don't understand.
Well, you are misinformed. I understand the matter quite well, and I did my share of work in such kinds of jobs.
Ask 10 delivery guys here whether they'd swap their current terms with the American tipping model, and you'd get 11 resounding "Hell no!".
You did those jobs in Germany. And the people you'd ask never worked here.
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My brother-in-law worked for 40 years as a Pizza Delivery Driver and lived a solid middle class life off of tips in Cincinnati...
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@Aqua-Letifer said in What to tip?:
You did those jobs in Germany. And the people you'd ask never worked here.
True, just as you probably never worked over here.
You can say a lot in favor of American economic strength, average GDPs and whatnot. But according to basically any reasonable measure you can think of, a delivery guy is way better off here, with a stable and somewhat decent income, a contract that can only be terminated for good reasons, and a health insurance that will pay a 500.000 Euro medical procedure without him or her paying a single cent.
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Yeah, the health insurance and benefits thing is definitely better over there. But guaranteed you make more here.
Please love yourself.
