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Tip pizza man?

  • 28-01-2017 12:27AM
    #1
    nup72
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8 ✭


    I looked around and couldnt find anything recent on this...

    Now that almost all fast food delivery add on this delivery charge, wether it be 1 euro or 3.50 onto you meal.

    Should I still be tipping? Dose everyone else as I used to think it was mandatory (usually 2 bob) since they have to use their own petrol.

    Wouldn't mind it too much if I knew they there getting the add on delivery charge also, but it feels like they getting totally scammed and feels as if it's the customers fault for not imburseing them.


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  • #2
    Faith
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 30,662 Mod ✭✭✭✭Faith


    Mod note: Moved from The Cooking Club. I have no idea where it's best suited to, so AH seems like the best idea.


  • #3
    Fred Swanson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,730 ✭✭✭✭Fred Swanson


    This post has been deleted.


  • #4
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Not up to the customer to subsidise them.


  • #5
    bear1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,900 ✭✭✭✭bear1


    If it's pissing rain or in general crap weather I'll tip them.
    The delivery charge doesn't go to the delivery driver.


  • #6
    C. Montgomery Gurns
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭C. Montgomery Gurns


    Honest question- why is nearly every Dominos driver Pakistani or Bangladeshi (my guess)? Be it my local one or ordering in at friends all around Dublin I've never come across an Irish one in at least 15 years.

    Before someone chimes in with "the job is beneath Irish dole hounds" that may be true in a lot of cases but there's plenty of Irish lads delivering for chippers and Mizzonis and the like (most chippers have a 2 or 2.50 delivery charge, I'm guessing the driver keeps this, he's effectively self employed and it's up to him whether he declares his income, not the chipper). Are Dominos pay conditions chronic and nobody Irish will work for them or what's the story? (I might be wrong but I think I recall reading somewhere that the minimum wage doesn't always apply to food delivery people)


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  • #7
    Drumpot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,306 ✭✭✭✭Drumpot


    I usually tip €2 on top of delivery charge if it's not expensive and they are friendly...

    A friend of mine used to deliver for apache and it didn't sound like fun... it's nice to be nice. If you don't tip that's fine, it's just a preference of mine...


  • #8
    jamesbere
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,022 ✭✭✭jamesbere


    If I have some change on me I'll tip.


  • #9
    colly10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,041 ✭✭✭colly10


    I used to always tip. I rarely do anymore. I always pay by card now and rarely have cash on me


  • #10
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,437 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    Faith wrote: »
    Mod note: Moved from The Cooking Club. I have no idea where it's best suited to, so AH seems like the best idea.

    That's just typical "I've no idea what to do with this thread , but sure I'll liv it into AH and see what happens ".

    I suppose you'll want a tip for delivering it here too.


  • #11
    DrGreenthumb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 720 ✭✭✭DrGreenthumb


    C. Montgomery Gurns wrote: »
    Honest question- why is nearly every Dominos driver Pakistani or Bangladeshi (my guess)? Be it my local one or ordering in at friends all around Dublin I've never come across an Irish one in at least 15 years.


    domino's delivery drivers are employed by dominos and are on the books,

    the dude that delivers your curry is getting cash in hand and is most likely on the scratcher too


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  • #12
    C. Montgomery Gurns
    Closed Accounts Posts: 163 ✭✭C. Montgomery Gurns


    DrGreenthumb wrote: »
    domino's delivery drivers are employed by dominos and are on the books,

    the dude that delivers your curry is getting cash in hand and is most likely on the scratcher too

    I've always wondered what happens when the night eventually comes when they drop off food to the post office clerk who gives them their 188 weekly :pac:


  • #13
    9or10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭9or10


    Nah, just answer the door in the buff. That's tip enough - never had any complaints anyways.


  • #14
    qo2cj1dsne8y4k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,646 ✭✭✭✭qo2cj1dsne8y4k


    We ordered dominos last night, paid with card when I ordered and when it arrived I thought I had change but I had absolutely nothing. I felt really really bad not tipping him. Guess who'll probably be last getting their pizza in future? :(


  • #15
    fleet_admiral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,750 ✭✭✭fleet_admiral


    I'm friends with my local Chinese takeaway driver, I still wouldn't tip him though.


  • #16
    blindpilot
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭blindpilot


    If I pay with cash, usually I will give a tip. If I pay by card I don't bother.


  • #17
    Oasis1974
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭Oasis1974


    If your a regularly user then I would tip. Unless you fancy an extra topping from the delivery person.


  • #18
    ikeano29
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭ikeano29


    DrGreenthumb wrote: »
    domino's delivery drivers are employed by dominos and are on the books,

    the dude that delivers your curry is getting cash in hand and is most likely on the scratcher too

    As far as I know dominos drivers are treated like contract workers, 3euro per drop and no hourly rate is the situation there now and they must pay there own tax on what they earn andalso most drivers in chippers and Indians and other smaller pizza places are part time(x and o's). There was a big crackdown on it a few years ago and it got fairly strict


  • #19
    gramar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,045 ✭✭✭✭gramar


    Here's a tip. Dominos pizza is manky. Save yourself the tipping conundrum and don't order it.


  • #20
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    DrGreenthumb wrote: »
    domino's delivery drivers are employed by dominos and are on the books,

    the dude that delivers your curry is getting cash in hand and is most likely on the scratcher too

    Yes, and No.

    They are on the books, but as contractors. They are not employees and get paid 3.70 per delivery. That is along with a 40c payment to upgrade their ordinary car insurance so they can do deliveries.

    There is not a lot in it for them, tips make it up. If they get a single delivery on a run, they could end up driving a couple of miles for 3.70.


  • #21
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    Drivers leave the shop with a few deliveries at a time. Maybe 4 or 5. If you are a regular customer and you don't tip, you will be the last to get your food. If your known as a tipper, you'll have your food first, piping hot.


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  • #22
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    pablo128 wrote: »
    Drivers leave the shop with a few deliveries at a time. Maybe 4 or 5. If you are a regular customer and you don't tip, you will be the last to get your food. If your known as a tipper, you'll have your food first, piping hot.

    Rubbish. Not in Dominoes anyway.

    Depending on the branch and the manager and the workload, they regularly leave with one (a single), or if its far, they get two (a double)


  • #23
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    No.
    No.
    No.


  • #24
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    ScouseMouse wrote: »
    Depending on the branch and the manager and the workload.

    They regularly leave with one (a single), or if its far, they get two (a double)

    I'm just going by general chipper/pizza places, not necessarily the bigger well known chains. I used to accompany my mate doing deliveries and that was the general practice at the time.


  • #25
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    snubbleste wrote: »
    No.
    No.
    No.


    Yes
    Yes
    Yes


  • #26
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    ScouseMouse wrote: »
    Rubbish. Not in Dominoes anyway.

    How do you know it's rubbish if you are only going by Domino's?:rolleyes:


  • #27
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    ScouseMouse wrote: »
    Yes
    Yes
    Yes
    Whoy?
    Don't they get minimum wage? Do you also tip the postman, the checkout person, the bank clerk, the dentist, the newsagent?


  • #28
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    pablo128 wrote: »
    How do you know it's rubbish if you are only going by Domino's?:rolleyes:

    Because I was looking at this very issue in Dominoes last night.


  • #29
    pablo128
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,219 ✭✭✭pablo128


    ScouseMouse wrote: »
    Because I was looking at this very issue in Dominoes last night.

    I am telling you from direct experience. I'm not telling you because 'I was in a chipper last night'.


  • #30
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Whoy?
    Don't they get minimum wage? Do you also tip the postman, the checkout person, the bank clerk, the dentist, the newsagent?

    They are employed as contractors. Not employees.


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  • #31
    ScouseMouse
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,070 ✭✭✭ScouseMouse


    pablo128 wrote: »
    I am telling you from direct experience. I'm not telling you because 'I was in a chipper last night'.

    As recent as last night?


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