Used to deliver for them, can confirm all the above. Some other stuff:
Yes there’s less of each individual topping when you order a bunch of different toppings, but I promise you that you don’t want a normal amount of each topping on your supreme pizza. The center would still be raw, probably even if you put it through twice.
The 50% weeks are mostly a scam. It’s usually cheaper to use the other good coupons (e.g. mix and match) than to take 50% off normal menu price
Unless you’ve got a big/otherwise pain in the ass to deliver order, a $10 order is just as much work to deliver as a $60 order. I personally tip based off distance rather than total because of it, and most my coworkers also preferred this method.
Brooklyn pizzas are just normal pizzas using dough 2 sizes smaller (for example an XL brooklyn is just a medium dough stretched thin). In general if you’re looking to maximize food per dollar, normal hand tossed is what you want
For the love of God don’t buy soda from the store if there’s a gas station or something that’s not out of the way. It’ll be half the price at most.
The dishes probably aren’t being cleaned properly. If you’re lucky your local store has 1, maybe 2 closers who actually give a shit and try to do it right. I imagine that’s pretty standard in food service though.
If you order delivery 2 minutes before close, you’re braver than I. I had a hard policy of don’t fuck with peoples food but not everyone does, and you sure as fuck aren’t getting it on time.
I drove delivery for years. The thing about the soda is so true that if I forgot your soda, I would just drive to the nearest convenience store, and grab whatever you wanted, eating the cost since you probably tipped me more than that soda costs. The faster I get to my next order the better off I am. Takes way too long to go back to the store for the “free” sodas.
does the first also apply to toppings that are already small (e.g other cheese options)?
e.g if you had a 2 topping pizza, and it was some cheese(e.g asiago) and a topping of choice, would the toppings still be minimized despite one of the ingredients barely taking up space
Can’t remember for sure, but I believe they didn’t start reducing til 3+ toppings. Dont remember if cheese was treated special or not, I was rarely the one making the pizzas. General rule of thumb, the total amount of toppings is going to be relatively the same past 3 toppings.
After enough people kept asking me how much to tip because I was working/worked as a delivery driver I created the following
Consider how much you don’t want to go get it yourself. Put an actual dollar amount on that. If it’s just a buck or two, bite the bullet and just go get it. Otherwise, tip that amount.
I think a lot of people $10 don’t want to go get their own food when they’re considering delivery.
Does delivery not cost extra over there? Here we have a delivery fee, that’s your “how much is laziness worth to you” charge, and tips aren’t expected anywhere.
Good. We shouldn’t start that shit what’s going on in the US. That’s why I never tip, unless it’s a really, really, exceptionally good service when they went out of their way to handle me.
Ignoring the fact that ordering online or with an app asks you to tip before the service actually happens, I don’t even know what exceptionally good delivery service would look like. I’m paying someone to drop food off next to my door within a certain time frame, there’s no way they can do it any better and a million ways to do it worse. Tipping deliveries is nuts. Thankfully I recently moved out of the suburbs and now have dozens of restaurants in walking distance, so I never use Doordash or whatever any more anyway.
I meant tipping in general.
Of course with delivery, there is no room for anything exceptional. Therefore it’s exactly zero tip every time from me, they are doing their job. But fortunately tipping here is not expected, that’s what their salaries are for.
There is. The driver doesn’t see a dime of it, unless you count the legal minimums for mileage they give you. We also got paid half rate when out on an order
At the Pizza Hut I worked at (which I know is not standard, even among pizza huts) the driver is making minimum wage the entire time, and no mileage. We also got ~50% of the delivery fee.
I used to live literally 3 or 4 blocks from a domino’s, and would always tip at least 20% for delivery (probably usually more, cause I’m tipping at least $5 on $20). Could I physically walk there?.. yes. Was it worth it to not walk… also yes.
But I guess most of the appeal of delivered pizza for me is, “I utterly don’t give a shit about anything. Please feed me with almost zero of my input, or I’ll actually just go to bed so that I’m not hungry anymore”
Delivery is the definition of, “how much would I pay to not go get food AND not cook right now, but still be able to stuff my face”. A fiver for a hand-delivered pizza, doesn’t seem that off the mark from what I’m indulging in
Well, my dominos is like a mile away, so that’s like 10 min of my time. So that’s worth like $5 tops, and delivery is about that much anyway.
So are you saying I just shouldn’t order delivery since I’m not likely to tip more than $1-2? I’d much rather give $2-3 to a tip jar and pick it up myself if that’s going to be better for everyone.
I worked at Domino’s for 6 months and was the closer who actually gave a shit about dishes, 5 nights a week. They fired me for mixing up what day I was scheduled, once. I was easily the best driver/closer at the time, LMAO.
If we actually took an order 2 minutes before close, it was always the fastest delivery of the night. Those orders literally never tipped me more than $1.50. Even the people who apologized for doing it.
Not sure what the chicken thing is about, we didn’t do it whatever way he was saying.
Specialty chicken may have been different depending on the franchise. At mine, the opening driver would prepare a tub of it by literally cutting the boneless chicken in half.
And yeah, being seemingly the only person in the store who gives a rats ass about food safety suuuucks. The amount of times I ended up redoing the entirety of the night before’s dishes because the closer didn’t give a fuck was insane. I never did that shit to help the company, I just was never going to be the reason people got sick.
Used to deliver for them, can confirm all the above. Some other stuff:
I’ve never fucked with people’s food; but I also never fuck with people who fuck with my food… cause I’m not dumb like that lol
I would suggest avoiding the clam chowder tonight
I drove delivery for years. The thing about the soda is so true that if I forgot your soda, I would just drive to the nearest convenience store, and grab whatever you wanted, eating the cost since you probably tipped me more than that soda costs. The faster I get to my next order the better off I am. Takes way too long to go back to the store for the “free” sodas.
does the first also apply to toppings that are already small (e.g other cheese options)?
e.g if you had a 2 topping pizza, and it was some cheese(e.g asiago) and a topping of choice, would the toppings still be minimized despite one of the ingredients barely taking up space
Can’t remember for sure, but I believe they didn’t start reducing til 3+ toppings. Dont remember if cheese was treated special or not, I was rarely the one making the pizzas. General rule of thumb, the total amount of toppings is going to be relatively the same past 3 toppings.
After enough people kept asking me how much to tip because I was working/worked as a delivery driver I created the following
Consider how much you don’t want to go get it yourself. Put an actual dollar amount on that. If it’s just a buck or two, bite the bullet and just go get it. Otherwise, tip that amount.
I think a lot of people $10 don’t want to go get their own food when they’re considering delivery.
Does delivery not cost extra over there? Here we have a delivery fee, that’s your “how much is laziness worth to you” charge, and tips aren’t expected anywhere.
Good. We shouldn’t start that shit what’s going on in the US. That’s why I never tip, unless it’s a really, really, exceptionally good service when they went out of their way to handle me.
Ignoring the fact that ordering online or with an app asks you to tip before the service actually happens, I don’t even know what exceptionally good delivery service would look like. I’m paying someone to drop food off next to my door within a certain time frame, there’s no way they can do it any better and a million ways to do it worse. Tipping deliveries is nuts. Thankfully I recently moved out of the suburbs and now have dozens of restaurants in walking distance, so I never use Doordash or whatever any more anyway.
I meant tipping in general. Of course with delivery, there is no room for anything exceptional. Therefore it’s exactly zero tip every time from me, they are doing their job. But fortunately tipping here is not expected, that’s what their salaries are for.
Not tipping delivery sucks.
There is. The driver doesn’t see a dime of it, unless you count the legal minimums for mileage they give you. We also got paid half rate when out on an order
Depends on the chain, for sure.
At the Pizza Hut I worked at (which I know is not standard, even among pizza huts) the driver is making minimum wage the entire time, and no mileage. We also got ~50% of the delivery fee.
Yeah “how much is laziness worth to you” is just a way of ensuring there’s never a mutually good deal.
But no delivery is traditionally tipped here, it’s why I always pick up. If I want food with no effort, I’ve got no effort food at home.
I used to live literally 3 or 4 blocks from a domino’s, and would always tip at least 20% for delivery (probably usually more, cause I’m tipping at least $5 on $20). Could I physically walk there?.. yes. Was it worth it to not walk… also yes.
But I guess most of the appeal of delivered pizza for me is, “I utterly don’t give a shit about anything. Please feed me with almost zero of my input, or I’ll actually just go to bed so that I’m not hungry anymore”
Delivery is the definition of, “how much would I pay to not go get food AND not cook right now, but still be able to stuff my face”. A fiver for a hand-delivered pizza, doesn’t seem that off the mark from what I’m indulging in
Well, my dominos is like a mile away, so that’s like 10 min of my time. So that’s worth like $5 tops, and delivery is about that much anyway.
So are you saying I just shouldn’t order delivery since I’m not likely to tip more than $1-2? I’d much rather give $2-3 to a tip jar and pick it up myself if that’s going to be better for everyone.
Hadn’t ever thought/heard of that one, that’s a good one.
I worked at Domino’s for 6 months and was the closer who actually gave a shit about dishes, 5 nights a week. They fired me for mixing up what day I was scheduled, once. I was easily the best driver/closer at the time, LMAO.
If we actually took an order 2 minutes before close, it was always the fastest delivery of the night. Those orders literally never tipped me more than $1.50. Even the people who apologized for doing it.
Not sure what the chicken thing is about, we didn’t do it whatever way he was saying.
Specialty chicken may have been different depending on the franchise. At mine, the opening driver would prepare a tub of it by literally cutting the boneless chicken in half.
And yeah, being seemingly the only person in the store who gives a rats ass about food safety suuuucks. The amount of times I ended up redoing the entirety of the night before’s dishes because the closer didn’t give a fuck was insane. I never did that shit to help the company, I just was never going to be the reason people got sick.