Should I tip the pizza delivery person?

[JamesBondOO7]

Tomorrow I'm ordering pizza from Dominos
I usually leave to our children but I'm doing this
I will be ordering approx 85 quids worth of food for
6 of us inc 2 toddlers. As we are paying online
and IMO the bill is lager than the usal 50-sh after discounts - I will feel bad not tipping the man/woman

A quid is not right but then I'm thinking why should I as I', pay 2 quid (1-99) in delivery and the employer should be paying a proper wage

It will be easier not to tip as paying online but I don't want the delivery person
giving me faces etc though that would make it easier for me later ie not giving a tip

What do you think but I'm almost a 100% cert I won't

(on the odd occasion we eat out we tip 10% but it does hurt.

Did you ever think that maybe you SHOULD be tipping those other people you mentioned? If you cannot afford to tip then dont eat out. Youre not even arguing that they should be tipped if they deserve it, you’re purely saying they shouldnt be tipped

Regardless, as this convo has derailed, OP never mentioned that they are hard pressed for money. They merely said they refuse to tip since they don’t consider delivering a difficult job

OP has given no indication that they’re hard pressed for money. They merely said that they don’t believe delivery is a difficult job and that they’d much rather spend that money on themselves. I don’t blame anyone that’s low income for not tipping but OP has stated numerous times they have the ability to tip and they just choose not to.

Why should I have mentioned I was "hard pressed" for money when I'm spending that kind of money on pizza?

My posts are clear and nowhere does it mention that I could not afford the tip but it is the priciple.

OP you’ve had loads of people telling you that tipping a delivery driver is not expected but makes a difference to those people (I think the general thought process that they are either kids on a first job or ‘losers’ who can’t do any better doesn’t help) because…it does?

Dominos never recompensed the scratches on my car when I worked there from having to have the magnetic sign on my roof (or we didn’t get paid premium mileage). I retrained during that period and now have a great job, I always tip the driver because I know how hard and humiliating those days were some days, nothing worse than driving to a really rural million pound house in the arse end of nowhere and having “Thanks!” and a door slammed in your face as soon as you handed over their food, especially if it took 45 mins to find and you lost 5 easy local jobs in the meantime.

I can understand not tipping when you can’t afford it, but being able to afford it and choosing not to because you don’t consider it a real job is elitist. When you have the ability to do something good and choose not to it says a lot about you as a person. Thats always been my point.

Consider the principle of being good to others. Your ideals are twisted here.

The wage is usually at least £9.50. Where I live, each delivery would usually be about a mile each way and rarely more than three miles. The £1.50 per delivery would cover fuel for that and wear and tear.

Which part of not tipping as a principle do you find hard to grasp?
Which part of my choice not tipping do you find unclear?

As others have stated, why should I pay on behalf of their employee

final point, do these driver share their tips with those working just as hard if not harder sweating their b's off in the kitchen that are on the same rate as they are?

Sincerely, thank you for entrenching my stance not to pay the pizza guy this time or ever, a big thank you.

A) its a shit principle
B) its your choice but it does not make you look good at all- were you expecting everyone here to praise you with absolutely no pushback?
C) not tipping does nothing to increase their wage and is a net loss to the worker
D) they don’t have to share their tips with kitchen staff since the tip is for delivery
E) as numerous other delivery drivers have mentioned, they always tip driver since they know how difficult the job is and is clearly something you’ve never had to experience
F) Don’t pretend like you ever tip the driver since you’ve laid out numerous examples of not tipping so that threat means absolutely nothing to me and makes you look extremely petty

well thanks for laying out for all of this feed to see just how shallow of a person you are. Well done

Thank you, you've made my day.

I’d be more than happy to do it again anytime, message me directly next time so you don’t have to waste your time :)

You need me not the other way around so I will let you follow me.
Sincerely, you've made my day.

I’ll pass, I’ll see you next time you decide to ask the forum if its okay to kick a puppy that keeps pissing on your lawn. Enjoy yourself.

I'll leave that to you as I will stick with tipping the pizza guy or not as the outcome now is.

Free tip. You must try harder.

Well you made the news anyway, op @JamesBondOO7

www.newsweek.com/debate-rages-customer-refuses-tip-pizza-delivery-driver-ninety-five-dollars-order-1745604?amp=1

@DontTrustThisPoster

Incredible that is a second one - the first one was a few weeks ago in the daily mail - my inlaws have named their after me.

Appreciated

Ds is 18 so gets min wage did 18 year olds which is £6.83 as a Dominos delivery driver, several of their drivers are under 21 and get the same. £1.30 is for trips that can be up to 5 miles each way. They get £1.70 when they deliver to a village 6.5 miles each way

You’re on a roll mate 🤣

Tenner if you can make it a hat trick by Halloween! Lol

considering you’re too pussy to answer the door yourself and choose to let your son do your dirty work, I could cate less what you think.

I always find it odd that people tip the delivery driver. It's absolutely a "pity tip".

Do people tip the petrol station assistant when they fill up? Or Tesco's shop assistant. What about the bus driver or the postman? Maybe I should have tipped the pall bearers at the funeral i went to last week, or the lifeguard at the swimming pool.

We have a national minimum wage in the U.K. and there are over 1 million job vacancies across the U.K.

They don't, but it's a "thing" on MN... and people don't want to feel like they're being mean, so they do.

"Domino's has been contacted for comment."

"Newsweek was not able to verify the details of the case."

Well, of course. How are you going to verify a case when it's just a thread you stole from an open anonymous forum?

FWIW, @JamesBondOO7 , I'm a generous tipper in restaurants, but I don't usually tip a delivery driver either. It's not a very long journey, and they don't do anything special other than their jobs. I tip servers in restaurants because they interact with me and my dining companion(s) and make sure we get food we're not allergic to etc - there's an element of personal service there.

I don't tip Amazon couriers, but if they follow the delivery instructions, I rate them a thumbs up in the app. And whilst I don't tip Tesco drivers (in that case, mainly because I don't think they're allowed to accept tips), if they are lovely, I send good feedback to their store.

Sometimes a much better tip is a compliment to someone's manager.

Surely the most desirable outcome is that everyone is paid a decent wage, and so tipping becomes obsolete.

The issue is, that some jobs will never provide a living wage, because they’re not designed to. Pizza delivery drivers are almost always students or people supplementing another job.

But ultimately - everyone should be paid a fair wage for a job decently done. And that should be the end of it.

Then - if people want to tip, they can. But nobody should be obliged, or - in the case of this thread - guilted into it.

I don’t want - nor expect - to be tipped for doing my job, and I find the notion of throwing some poorly-paid minion a couple of dollars to do their ‘lowly’ job (because it is only the jobs we as a society seem to be lowly), to be so cringey.

There is something incredibly patronising and classist about the practice.

I think they are franchises so what they pay may vary but my local Domino's pays all delivery drivers the same wage. I have young adult children myself and that's something they always watch out for when applying for jobs. Not all companies take advantage of the fact that they can pay 18 year olds less than 25 year olds.