Do I tip the Tesco delivery man?

beveragelady

Not sure if this is the place to ask this, but here it is.
The nice chap from Tesco just dropped off my grub for the week. He was under pressure, really rushing, so the issue didn't arise, but I was wondering if I should tip. It already costs a few quid to get things delivered, and adding another couple of quid might push the balance back in favour of doing my shopping myself. What's the etiquette?
Should I tip, and how much?

snubbleste

No.

foggy_lad

beveragelady wrote: »

Not sure if this is the place to ask this, but here it is.
The nice chap from Tesco just dropped off my grub for the week. He was under pressure, really rushing, so the issue didn't arise, but I was wondering if I should tip. It already costs a few quid to get things delivered, and adding another couple of quid might push the balance back in favour of doing my shopping myself. What's the etiquette?
Should I tip, and how much?

No way. Do you tip your postman or the people who empty your bins? do you tip the people in your local shop or the teachers Nurses etc who you might come into contact with? they are all already paid for doing their job.

Tipping is just American nonsense to supplement the wages of very low paid service sector workers who will be on far less than our minimum wage. It is a way of making people pay for delivery of food to your table at a restaurant/diner.

Toast4532

I have never once tipped a Tesco delivery driver and I rarely tip take away drivers.

As it happens, I am expecting a Tesco delivery this evening and won't be tipping the driver, so I hope he isn't expecting any tips!

TheDriver

i hate tipping, we pay enough for everything. Americans rely on it for wages, our staff don't.
I particularly hate restaurants that add a service charge for groups, like you have a captive audience buying same food as seperate tables except probably a lot more, don't you pay your staff to do their job i.e. wait on the tables.... rant over

SCOOP 64

Only time i tip at xmas ,postman ,binmen, milkman.

Marsden

foggy_lad wrote: »

No way. Do you tip your postman?

You DON'T tip your postman :mad:. Seriously though I hate the whole tipping thing, I'm not mean but it feels condescending to hand someone a euro, "get yourself a nice lollipop sir". I had wondered the same about the Tesco delivery lad as I was planning to start doing me shopping online. I was told in Latvia, the folks working in some bars were forced to share their tips with the owner, greedy git.

Stella Virgo

if it makes you feel good ,do it. karma and all that ****e.......

vicwatson

http://www.tipthepizzaguy.com/ :pac::pac:

brokenarms

YES. dont be a tight ass.

mathepac

No because Every Little Helps.

wmpdd3

Even if you did offer to tip them, they cant accept it. Against company policy.

gowley

wmpdd3 wrote: »

Even if you did offer to tip them, they cant accept it. Against company policy.

i think selling horsemeat as beef is also against company policy but that didnt stop them

LordSutch

No.

keithclancy

Do what you like.

donegal_man

TheDriver wrote: »

i hate tipping, we pay enough for everything. Americans rely on it for wages, our staff don't.
I particularly hate restaurants that add a service charge for groups, like you have a captive audience buying same food as seperate tables except probably a lot more, don't you pay your staff to do their job i.e. wait on the tables.... rant over

I always refuse to pay the service charge in restaurants as from personal experience in my long lost youth it never got passed on to the staff and was just added to the takings. If I leave a tip I want to know it gets to the people I'm leaving it for.

brokenarms

donegal_man wrote: »

I always refuse to pay the service charge in restaurants as from personal experience in my long lost youth it never got passed on to the staff and was just added to the takings. If I leave a tip I want to know it gets to the people I'm leaving it for.

You can be sure , If ya tip the Tesco man. It won't be going into the till back at bace.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

brokenarms wrote: »

You can be sure , If ya tip the Tesco man. It won't be going into the till back at bace.

And why would it? It would be a tip for him - not for Tesco!

Anyway back on topic - no I wouldn't tip a Tesco delivery man.

handlemaster

why would you tip him ? As other posters have stated its an american custom. Would you dress in a berka as thats what they do in the middle east ?

Mimikyu

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beveragelady

Right. Looks like the majority have spoken. I shall not tip the Tesco man.
Thanks everyone!

brokenarms

So you would tip a pizza man who simply takes a pizza to the door, yet a man who carries all your shopping to the fridge door deserve none.

What a bunch you are.

ironclaw

The one thing I'd say in favour of tipping is that someone will remember you. I know plenty of guys (Now in their 30's) who used drive for the major take away / pizza joints. They can still tell me which estates, right down to the house number, that gave a tip. Didn't have to be huge but it meant a lot. So if they went out with more than one order, you can guess who got their food first.

beveragelady

brokenarms wrote: »

So you would tip a pizza man who simply takes a pizza to the door, yet a man who carries all your shopping to the fridge door deserve none.

What a bunch you are.

To the fridge door? I meet him down at the gate and lug the shopping to the fridge myself! Looks like I'm not getting my money's worth!

foggy_lad

beveragelady wrote: »

To the fridge door? I meet him down at the gate and lug the shopping to the fridge myself! Looks like I'm not getting my money's worth!

He is supposed to bring it in and help empty the baskets onto your kitchen counter.

gowley

foggy_lad wrote: »

He is supposed to bring it in and help empty the baskets onto your kitchen counter.

and then help you put them away and then cook the dinner.

foggy_lad

gowley wrote: »

and then help you put them away and then cook the dinner.

I wouldn't trust them to cook but I do have windows they could be cleaning:D

brokenarms

If there are a mountain of steps they can arrange to meet you at the bottom of your steps.

Your shopping will be sent to the fridge door or somewhere handy in the kitchen for ya ,as long as the driver considers it to be safe to do so.
He can refuse if you have a dog or your house looks dangerous in anyway. That includes being rotton smelly, dirty and not fit for a person to be in.
Fantastic service tbh. They do get tips, mainly at christmas from regular customers who they have built up a friendship with.

My mate is a driver. The tales he has told me......

ironclaw

brokenarms wrote: »

My mate is a driver. The tales he has told me......

Well you've gone and said it! Do tell :pac:

2Mad2BeMad

only person i tip is the person who delievers my chinese :P

always give um an extra euro or two, know them for years since they opened the place

they give me an extra bag of chips or drinks for free so it was worth my wild tipping them, person who owns the place does the delieveries :P I call him "Sauce"


i wouldnt tip a tesco man
mainly because their not aloud accept it, against their company policy, they could possible be sacked for taking a tip off you which would kinda go against your good nature to want to tip someone for delievering you somthing.

i dont tip the postman unless its christmas, but i know him since i was a kid, a real owlfella so i always invite him in for a cuppa before his long day starts haha best part is i get my post nearly 40 minutes before he actually starts work haha

id never tip in a resturaunt , they get paid quite well actually most people who work in resturaunts ( of good quality ) are on good-great wages so they dont need a tip for bringing my food from the counter to the table, of course unless its christmas or some other special occasion

CIARAN_BOYLE

foggy_lad wrote: »

He is supposed to bring it in and help empty the baskets onto your kitchen counter.

If he did that I'd consider tipping, much more usual is for him to empty baskets onto my porch floor.

Been a while since I bothered getting a delivery to be honest.

pleasant Co.

foggy_lad wrote: »

He is supposed to bring it in and help empty the baskets onto your kitchen counter.

No, it's delivery to your door AFAIK.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

pleasant Co. wrote: »

No, it's delivery to your door AFAIK.

Correct. From Tesco -The driver will bring the shopping to your door, where you will be asked to sign a delivery note.

snubbleste

This was already answered in post#2...what are the other ~32 posts about?

woodstock1708

For those of you who do delivery from Tesco - do you tip the driver, and if so, how much?

I think they work pretty hard and can't be making all that much hourly, so I'd like to give a little something extra.

Thanks in advance for your advice.

Paulw

Nope, I have never tipped the delivery driver. They are paid by Tesco already.

gerrykin22

fair play to you for thinking about the poor delivery drivers
out in all weathers. a fiver should be enough.
if you have the same driver on a regular basis you could
be more generous at christmas time.

i hope you tip your poor postie.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Many people, if not most, work hard. Their wage as driver/delivery is no more nor no less than a lot of workers. I would only tip him on occasions like Christmas. Do you tip the milkman, postman, cashier in the hardware store, the couriors making deliveries, doctor's receptionists....
I honestly don't see the need to tip someone regularly for doing a job they are paid to do just because you come face to face with them.

ComputerKing

Never tip them have 2 different drivers who would be regular who we'd know by name but still don't tip them. They're paid directly by Tesco so there's no need.

Tzardine

Would you tip the staff member who served you on a till ??

Drivers should not be tipped in this case. They are paid by the employer by the hour for doing a job. I would be surprised if there was not a policy in place forbidding them from accepting tips.

December2012

It's different than tipping take away deliverers in my view - I always tip those drivers a few quid because it means I'll get my food quicker next time.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

December2012 wrote: »

It's different than tipping take away deliverers in my view - I always tip those drivers a few quid because it means I'll get my food quicker next time.

I think that is either a poor reflection on the work ethos of an individual/company or you are deluding yourself that a tip gets you better service next to me - if everybody tipped them it would be self cancelling surely! Do you tip the guy back at base who rushed the order through or is the speed of the delivery only achieved by the guy on the road?
Exceptional service or to mark service throughout the year warrants a tip.

December2012

Well I always do get good service from my delivery driver. Plus I know their wages are set to reflect this, unlike the tesco / furniture delivery guys.

dudara

Merged with older thread on same topic.

dudara

goz83

Musa Uptight Nun wrote: »

I think that is either a poor reflection on the work ethos of an individual/company or you are deluding yourself that a tip gets you better service next to me - if everybody tipped them it would be self cancelling surely! Do you tip the guy back at base who rushed the order through or is the speed of the delivery only achieved by the guy on the road?
Exceptional service or to mark service throughout the year warrants a tip.

OK. Sorry for the long response here. It's not all aimed at the quoted post either.

I would disagree with the above post for a number of reasons and as someone who was both a delivery drive and occasional worker in a big chain pizza delivery place in Dublin. But I can only speak from my own experience here.

Where I worked, the floor staff worked on order by number, so there was no rushing through of any orders ahead of another. They were also paid much better than the delivery drivers, so there was no need to be tipping them, or share tips, like some places insist. The delivery drivers used their own vehicles and paid their own fuel, insurance and maintenance costs. They were paid minimum wage, but when you take vehicle expenses into account, they were paid less than half minimum wage. So, taking that into account, i'll give you a view from the drivers side.

I was paid to deliver food to your property and take payment if not prepaid. There was NO DELIVERY CHARGE from the chain at the time. I was not paid to call your phone from my phone when you didn't hear the door bell. I was not paid to wait 10 minutes because you decided to look for your missing purse AFTER you took the pizza into your kitchen. I was not paid to fend off your rat dog/ ankle biter while you counted out €14.90 in coppers from your hemp bag. I was not paid to swallow my own vomit from the stench of your house, or to wade dangerously through your hazardous front garden.

I was a friendly delivery man and always smiled when you opened the front door and gave you a hot pizza. If you were the person who tipped me and treated me with respect, I delivered your pizza as quickly as possibly along my delivery route. If I had 4 houses to call to in one estate and you never tipped and always waited for your 5 cent back from change of a €50 note you never declared, then HELL YEAH, you were left waiting for your pizza.

I would have never went out of my way to deliver to a "non-tipper" last, or anything. But I would have always went to the tippers in the same area first. And why not? They were paying for it.

I remember there was one man who lived less than a thirty second walk from the pizza shop, but always ordered to his door. This was almost daily and he regularly complained that the drivers always took over 30 mins to deliver his pizza. Answer: He always kept the drivers waiting while he opened the door, took the pizza in and closed the door, taking anywhere up to around 5 minutes before returning with €10 to pay for his €8.90 order. Most people would just hand you the tenner (without the waiting) but this guy waited for every cent back. If you didn't have 10 cent (often the case) he would expect you to call back in with it, within a few minutes. He had zero consideration and every new driver quickly learned to leave this customer for the last delivery. Of course, this guy was an extreme example, but it's just something to think about when your delivery driver delivers all your food quickly, hot and courteously. I tip an average of €2. It's not much, but can go a long way to making the job worthwhile for the driver.

Couriers, Tesco Drivers and the likes are covered by the company. They drive the company vehicle and have no personal costs in the job that I am aware of, so it's not necessary to tip them. I also don't agree with tipping the postman/ milkman at Christmas. They are getting paid year round for a service and I just don't see why anyone would tip them at Christmas if they don't see fit to tip them any other time. It's not like they deliver you less Junk Mail at Christmas! That's just my view on it.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Sorry but that is all an issue between the pizzaa delivery driver and his employer. It is not up to the customer to cover your costs by tipping. In that case charge a delivery fee. Or more appropriately negotiate a decent wage from your employer.

But at least you confirmed the need not to tip Tesco deliveries!


So, basically, nobody should be tipped except you when you deliver a pizza? That's almost comical. A delivery or a service is just that, regardless of the commodity.

whupdedo

I don't tip the post man, because I know him personally and he's a farmer with over a hundred acres of land and 30 or 40 cows and no wife or kids,he should give the job to some1 more deserving of it, i wouldn't tip the tesco man either

goz83

I suppose the main point I was making, regarding your own post was about the expected service level from a take-away delivery driver. The driver will almost always deliver more quickly to a customer who tips. That customer is paying for better service and so will generally receive it. Granted, this "speedier" service is not offered by any fast food restaurant I ordered from, but it's just one of those unwritten rules.

For me, the amount never mattered much. 50 cent, or €2.......to be honest, for me it was more about easy of change, as I would be rushing and would rather not have to remove my riding gloves to delve into a change purse, but I wouldn't have ever presumed to take a tip unless the customer just handed me a note and said to keep the change.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

whupdedo wrote: »

I don't tip the post man, because I know him personally and he's a farmer with over a hundred acres of land and 30 or 40 cows and no wife or kids,he should give the job to some1 more deserving of it, i wouldn't tip the tesco man either

Why? Does the Tesco man own a block of apartments and is a successful software developer?

Only kidding!

I wouldn't tip the Tesco man every week either.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

goz83 wrote: »

I suppose the main point I was making, regarding your own post was about the expected service level from a take-away delivery driver. The driver will almost always deliver more quickly to a customer who tips. That customer is paying for better service and so will generally receive it. Granted, this "speedier" service is not offered by any fast food restaurant I ordered from, but it's just one of those unwritten rules.

For me, the amount never mattered much. 50 cent, or €2.......to be honest, for me it was more about easy of change, as I would be rushing and would rather not have to remove my riding gloves to delve into a change purse, but I wouldn't have ever presumed to take a tip unless the customer just handed me a note and said to keep the change.

But that's the very point made. Treating customers differently because they do not give you a discretionary tip is churlish, immoral, unprofessional and a cynical way to do a job you are being paid for. As said, if your pay does not cover the work then talk to your employer. Penalising a customer for not tipping is deplorable.

December2012

And if the boss decides that in order to cover the raise to the driver to rise the prices, then the customer pays.

So you can pay more then, and get the same service as everybody else.

Or you can pay more now, and get a better service than non tippers.