how much do you tip the guys that delivers food?

who_ru · 23-01-2011 09:35PM #1

ordered a takeaway tonite, cost 10 euro, tipped 2 euro. am i a tight git?

Deus Ex Machina · 23-01-2011 09:36PM

Is English your first language?

deathrider · 23-01-2011 09:37PM

Tip? What is this tip you speak off?

rednik · 23-01-2011 09:38PM

Normally give him a few chips and maybe a chicken ball.

admiralofthefleet · 23-01-2011 09:38PM

nothing at all. they get a wage and free food, the greedy bastards

meemeep · 23-01-2011 09:38PM

I had the amazing experience on Friday night of having a tip refused - twice:) Pizza and chinese - separately. Usually try tip one or two euro - first time pizza guy said - no too much! (I'd miscounted and tipped him before he'd finished given me the change). Second guy refused totally. will use both places again! Decent folk

strobe · 23-01-2011 09:38PM

I tend to do the same as I do when tipping anyone. Just tip to the nearest fiver. If the bill comes to 34 then they get a one euro tip. If it come to 31 then lucky them they get 4 euro. Luck of the draw for them. They get wages in anyway so I don't feel particularly inclined to tip anyone unless they go above and beyond what their job is.

Einhard · 23-01-2011 09:38PM

Eh, don't eat yellow snow is about the only tip they'll get out of me. I hate this bloody tipping lark. He gets the minimum wage. The woman serving me in Centra gets the minimum wage. What the fook is so exceptional about delivering food to my house that makes him deserving of a tip, and not her?

Badgermonkey · 23-01-2011 09:38PM

You tipped 20%, Issue?

Krusader · 23-01-2011 09:40PM

meemeep wrote: »

I had the amazing experience on Friday night of having a tip refused - twice:) Pizza and chinese - separately. Usually try tip one or two euro - first time pizza guy said - no too much! (I'd miscounted and tipped him before he'd finished given me the change). Second guy refused totally. will use both places again! Decent folk

They probably spitted on your chips

Einhard · 23-01-2011 09:40PM

meemeep wrote: »

I had the amazing experience on Friday night of having a tip refused - twice:) Pizza and chinese - separately. Usually try tip one or two euro - first time pizza guy said - no too much! (I'd miscounted and tipped him before he'd finished given me the change). Second guy refused totally. will use both places again! Decent folk

Two take aways in the one night?! Fat baxtard!!

R0ot · 23-01-2011 09:40PM

Depends if I like the driver, if they take too long, if they are funny and of course their odour is pleasant. :pac:

So around €2 to €4 depending.

Oranage2 · 23-01-2011 09:41PM

For a tip i usually tell them how to fill out an extra income tax form!

mikemac · 23-01-2011 09:42PM

You pay delivery fee, that's for the driver. It's maybe €1.50 or €2, it differs

And nobody is fooled by pizzas with "free delivery" and "carry out discounts" :rolleyes:
The delivery price isn't free, it's worked into the price

Koloman · 23-01-2011 09:43PM

Normally no tip but during the recent snow I made an exception.

don ramo · 23-01-2011 09:46PM

i only tend to tip when i collect from the chinese, and normally its only the excess change they give me 80c or something,

ireland isnt like the US you get paid a decent wage, and what little tips some get dont really affect there standard of living very much, wheras in the US it would, some doormen in 5 star hotels can get tips of $50,000 a year, but they gets paid somthing like $10,000 a year off the hotel, cause they know how much they gets in tips, same goes for waitresses over there, sh1t pay great tips,

RichieC · 23-01-2011 09:47PM

Depends, if the order is say 13 quid I'll say keep the change from 15, only when it's hassely waiting for change do I tip, they fumble slowly through their money on purpose, the gits! :mad:

Lumen · 23-01-2011 09:48PM

I don't tip food delivery people. I don't tip furniture delivery people. I don't tip the postman.

stevejr · 23-01-2011 09:48PM

What pisses me off is the way they stand there on the doorstep fiddling for the €1 and €2 in your change, obviously hoping that you'll get impatient and round it off the nearest €5.....:(

RMD · 23-01-2011 09:49PM

I never see the point of tipping someone unless they did some sort of exceptional job. I work in retail, do I get a tip from a customer for finding what they want in their size or if I go to the effort of ordering something in for them? No, I don't. So why should I tip a person working in a cafe or a delivery driver for doing their job. It makes no sense to me.

df1985 · 23-01-2011 09:49PM

1 to 2 euro each time.

CabanasBoy · 23-01-2011 09:49PM

Oranage2 wrote: »

For a tip i usually tell them how to fill out an extra income tax form!

Yeah, and ask to see their tax clearance cert as well, and their car insurance cert covering the use of vehicle for "hire and reward".

J. Marston · 23-01-2011 09:52PM

€2 at the most. Feck all if I've been waiting ages.

KeithM89_old · 23-01-2011 09:55PM

I think Dwight Schrute says it best....

Why tip someone for a job I’m capable of doing myself? I can deliver food. I can drive a taxi. I can, and do, cut my own hair. I did however, tip my urologist, because I am unable to pulverize my own kidney stones.

gizmo · 23-01-2011 10:25PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-qV9wVGb38

23-01-2011 10:30PM

I always give a euro tip.

From my experience they do not get minimum wage. They get the delivery fees, so on a slow night they might only get a tenner but they have to be available all night regardless.

Johro · 23-01-2011 10:31PM

Crosáidí wrote: »

They probably spitted on your chips

They probably shatted on your spelling:D

TPD · 23-01-2011 10:31PM

I'd tip whatever's left from a multiple of 5 if I'm happy with the service.

jociro.123 · 23-01-2011 10:35PM

yeah would agree E2 or E3 is plenty.

WilburWild · 23-01-2011 10:41PM

who_ru wrote: »

ordered a takeaway tonite, cost 10 euro, tipped 2 euro. am i a tight git?

I've become very tight since the levy came in a few years ago. Now the only place I tip is in a restaurant if there is no service charge. I know it's not their fault but it just made me change my attitude to money. Where once I was very frivolous with money, now I'm a big saver. :cool:

LeBash · 23-01-2011 10:41PM

I always throw the delivery guy from the local 3-4 Euro, and as he said, thats why I always get the hot dinner.

how much do you tip the guys that delivers food?

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