How Much Do You Tip the Pizza Delivery Person?

Very important!! - The delivery fee usually does NOT got to the driver. It is a hidden price increase to the store So, please don't think the driver is getting an automatic tip because there is a delivery fee.

I always tip whatever I can (frankly its based on how much cash I have at the time as I rarely carry actual cash around); at the very least, $3.00 minimum but around $10.00 maximum for an order. They don't have delivery fees here that I can tell, but I've been told I tip way too much when I give them $5.00 or $7.00 by more than one person. I don't think so, because if I can do it I will - I always think that if I were that person, how much I'd like to get that extra two or three bucks.

I always do pick up. I'm too cheap to pay delivery fee and a tip, and there are always better specials available for walk-in/pick up customers.

At least 20% of the bill.

I work with a gal that delivers pizza as a 2nd job - so the chains here do NOT give that delivery fee to the drivers (Dominos, Papa Johns, Pizza Hut, etc) - I think it's BS and just gives more to the store.

However, I remember a gal who was a friend of one of my kid's saying that they DO remember who tips well - and those folks are on top of the delivery lists!

I usually tip about 5 bucks as well.

Our normal order is 2 large pizzas and we tip $5 which is about 20%. If we order more (like a group party, daughters sleepovers, etc, houseful of teens, guys here doing work to help us out, etc), we tip accordingly about $5 for every 2-3 pizza's ordered.

I usually just tell them to keep the change. So if my pizza is $15.37 they get a $4.63 tip. My minimum is $3.00.

Always $5. Sometimes I order a large pizza for the kids and it's $12. I tip $5. Sometimes I get dinner for everyone and it's 3 large pizza's for $30, still I tip $5. My thing is it costs them gas to get to me. They don't have a choice in how much I order or what my order is, so I tip them for the 5 minute drive from the pizza place to my house and a little to cover gas.

If and when our pizza company adds in a mandatory delivery fee and I know it goes to the driver, I usually add in another $2...when it doesn't go to the driver, I add in $5, just the same as you.

I only do $2. The delivery fee is $3.5 so I figure they are getting $5 and that seems fair.

Edit to add....I know the delivery fee goes to the drivers for the pizza place I use, back in the day I used to work at a blockbuster next to this pizza place and got to know employees there and of course we talked.

The driver usually doesn't get the delivery fee, so a tip is very appropriate. The pizza place where my daughter works (she's not a driver) pays the drivers a flat $5 per hour and NOTHING for milage or gas. With the price of gas these days I wonder how these people get by. Not too well, I guess, since the job turnover is really high.

The delivery fee does not go to the driver. It usually says that on the menu you are calling from or the website you are using to order from.
I usually tip what ever I can.

$20-25 in pizza and we give a $3 tip

We don't order that often, but when we do, it's usually just a couple dollars.

It depends on what you are ordering. If you ordered a small pizza and it costs $15, I would think $5 is about right, even on the high side. If you ordered $50 worth of pizza, I would tip more than $5. I would say a safe estimate is 15-25% of your order total.

I look at it like a percentage of the bill, just as I do when I am out to eat at a restaurant - but I usually tip 25% or more at restaurants, and pizza folks are not doing the same amount of work that waiters/waitresses are.

If the weather is crappy when they deliver, I tip extra then too.

I am not sure whether the driver actually gets the delivery fee, or if that goes to the company itself. I honestly doubt it does go to the driver. Anyone else know?

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