how much tip for the food delivery guy?
- Thread starter cerevro
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Another "tipping" thread. I love it.
Query: How much do you tip the outcall driver and the phonegirl?
Query: How much do you tip the outcall driver and the phonegirl?
Amazing that I'll tip a waiter who walks from the kitchen to my table $5-$25 depending on cost of meal. But the delivery guy usually gets $3-$5 for driving several miles depending on the size of the order. That seems bakwards.
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burt-oh-my!
Dude, don't even THINK about trying to inject rationality and fairness into the tipping debate...
Waiters should not be tipped, period. Unfortunately, it's part of our culture, and so we're forced to.
How about the guy who spends 4 years at university to be able to do your taxes for you? Seems like more effort than walking to the kitchen and back. But you don't tip your accountant.
Or the guy who sits in the cockpit for 8 hours to ensure your flight goes by safely. You don't tip him.
Why do we tip only the unskilled labourers? Is is sympathy because they can't get better jobs?
It's correct, and it's surprising me that these guys earn tips at all. I tip them because I know their pay sucks anyway, coz I'm a compassionate guy, but it doesn't seem right to me.
On the other hand I am a strong supporter of wait staff in restaurants earning their tips.
Two key differences here:
1. Delivery guys are subject to minimum wage laws and, more importantly,
2. Delivery guys are not part of the sales process
Restaurant staff earn tips because they are very much like commissioned sales people, there to make sure you are happy with the transaction, up sell you as much as possible, and earn a percentage of the sale. The delivery guy has nothing to do with your order--if anything the phone operator should get a percentage.
Consider this: If you have a problem with your food order at a restaurant you take it up with your waiter, and your waiter tries to make you happy (if they're good). If you have a problem with your pizza order, you do not take it up with the delivery guy--you call the phone operator, and THEY try to make you happy. Clearly it's the phone operator who is in the sales and customer management role and is the equivalent of your waiter.
In all my years of ordering food I don't think I have *ever* had food delivered by a girl, and certainly not by an amazingly gorgeous and built girl.
Come to think of it, I don't even think I've seen that scenario unfold in porn. Hmmmm.
