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What’s the average tip for a delivery driver in the US?
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this post was submitted on 10 Aug 2023
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"The US" is a broad spectrum. I would tip a lot more in Los Angeles, California where a shit hole house costs $1.2 million and gas is $6/gallon than I would in Anderson Missouri where a really nice house is $95,000 and gas is $2/gallon.
Most delivery drivers pay for their own gas and make minimum "tip" wage, which is lower than the regular minimum wage. They also have to pay for maintenance and repairs for their vehicle, which is more than it would be if they were just driving to work and back. When I delivered, I averaged about 60,000 miles a year. That's a lot of gas and maintenance.
When you tip a server in restaurant, you're tipping them to walk the food out about 30 feet to your table. When you tip a delivery driver, you're tipping them to drive your food X number of miles to you in their own vehicle, at their own expense.
I think you should tip more for a delivery than for service at a restaurant, but the beautiful part of tipping is that it's up to you.
I usually tip $10 for a small delivery. If I'm ordering for multiple people, I try to get everyone to chip in $4-$5 each for the tip.
As someone whos has been a driver and manager at multiple places over multiple years, I have NEVER seen anyone make less than minimum wage BEFORE tips.
We had split pay too, if i worked a manager shift it was $8 an hour and delivery was $5.25 IIRC
I would never order from anywhere that does that
Store I delivered at, all the drivers made below minimum before tips. Minimum in store, 1/2 that on the road. Plus a pittance in mileage that never actually covered it
I've been managing pizza delivery for almost 35 years. It's common practice, at least in my area.
That is sad, and you guys should be ashamed of taking advantage of people.
Since you're parsing it out, keep in mind that a Pizza Hut delivery driver in Missouri makes $16.64/hr while one in Los Angeles makes $18.64/hr. But I live in West Los Angeles and tip about 18% because it's a bitch to get through traffic to my street, especially at dinnertime, and there's no parking. I tip the same percent for weekly groceries from Yummy.com even though the total is much higher so the tip is about $50 because they're picking out the items, bagging, driving several miles and lugging several bags to my door. If I had to do it all myself I'd damn well tip myself that much!
I find it hard to believe they make that much. We pay our driver's $6/hour. We wouldn't be able to get drivers if everyone else was paying almost 3X as much.
You guys are all just taking advantage of people then
Wtf are you talking about? We have a profit margin of about 2%. It's not like we have unlimited money to throw around. It's sad how little people actually know about running a business, but act like they have all the answers.
We paid our guys non tip wages and got along fine.
If you can't be in business without taking advantage of people then you don't deserve to be in business.
https://g.co/kgs/7B2Cjn
There is a link to pizza delivery showing a minimum pay of $12