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.

So how would you explain away the 1.99p in delivery charges?
If you collect a pizza it's free.
So who get the 1-99p?
Are the deliver people paid a min wage, not sure how it works

I don't get deliveries very often so can afford to be a bit generous at times - once a guy came on his bicycle, it was freezing cold and some sleet falling so I gave him £5 - he was young and foreign and started to cry in gratitude

I don't tip those people either, they are in regular employment, not the gig economy.

@JamesBondOO7 If we collect a pizza it's 'free' less our petrol & car wear and tear. If they deliver it those costs are theirs, plus business use insurance of course, and a bit of profit no doubt, because they're a business not a charity.

The delivery charge is not equivalent to a tip.

Of course you shouldn't tip - you've already paid the £1.99 delivery charge. Only tip if you actually want to, don't get sucked into the whole guilt trip tipping. You do you, who cares what anyone else thinks or does

You want your son to go to door cos you feel embarrassed... and rightly so - so stingy and mean when you're happy to splash £85 on pizza?!! Is this a reverse and you're a delivery driver to try and highlight how mean some people are??

Eugh
Stay classy

I’ve worked at dominos and it really does mean a lot to the drivers to receive tips. The pay is even advertised as ‘min wage p/h + tips’ It certainly doesn’t go unnoticed which addresses don’t tip either and some get good/bad reputations as a result. Not uncommon for a nice house to order £100+ worth of pizza then not tip.

Domino's delivery drivers earn more than me! They earn £10 per hour here. I have a professional job (Cornwall)

I do tip other delivery drivers though for local takeaways 😊

Ps.. A Ben & Jerrys tub from Dominos is a massive 8ml less than a standard liquid pint, and is almost 5 adults portions of ice cream, so ordering 4 might be overkill 🤷🏻‍♀️

Minimum wage? Many earning that work a lot harder

this^^

So what happens to "houses that don't go unnoticed"?

YANBU.
Never understand the tipping culture in the UK (obvs different in the US for example)
We have a minimum wage.
Loads of us have minimum wage jobs.
Why are some deemed " more worthy" than others?
We all work as hard as each other
Seems so fucking patronising as well, like a pat on the head or a crumb thrown at you for doing "a good job, well done!" which you should be doing anyway.

You failed to son that I mentioned that our son orders more takeways in a month that we do in a year and he never tips. He does not tip as he feels like me that the employer should pay a decent wage and if the delivery person is not happy get another job.

When we had a mortgage we worked up to 50 hours a week in OT where we got time nd half or double on Sundays. Why should we supplement the employers of delivery drivers

When we eat out we only tip if its a good service and its often about 10%
but a delivery driver, we don't tip Tesco, Waitrose drivers nor Argos drivers etc so why the pizza guy?

Buy ice cream from the shop. No one needs that much ice cream. Spend the savings on a tip.

but a delivery driver, we don't tip Tesco, Waitrose drivers nor Argos drivers etc so why the pizza guy?
Exactly my point too, why some but not others?
There's no sense to it.

True, good post, made me feel better.
A bit like a trip to my hair cut man - I used to tip a pound they gave me funny looks it is eaier now the cut is 19 quid so I say keep the change.

If I was paying cash and the bill was 84 and I gave 85 I'd find it easier to say keep the change but we are paying onlie plus deliver of 2 quid

Buy ice cream from the shop. No one needs that much ice cream.
Says who, are you the Ice Cream Police?! 😂
Spend the savings on a tip
🙄😁

Always tip for takeaways, usually a couple of quid.

I've never tipped a delivery driver...I didn't know it was a thing!!

WTF. No you don't. You're spending £85 on a dominoes order and are ordering chicken wings. They are known for pizza. If you don't want pizza go somewhere else or you're being ripped off.

Many thanks, appreciate it.

But their ice cream has that certain taste and we save some for the next day.

But we have got all the drinks/etc at home.

This 85 quid-ish inc deliver I only do 2/3 year our don does it 6/8 times a year

For the record we don't throw our money away as we ralrely eat out etc

Thanks again

Four adults and 2 toddlers do not need 4 tubs of Ben and Jerry's after also eating 2 large pizzas loads of chicken wings and garlic bread.

Just trying to think of an easy way to solve the tip dilemma.