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Tips and Delivery Fees

By Pete

I’ve noticed a disturbing trend, and I don’t know how to make it stop.

It seems that a disproportionate number of restaurants are starting to charge rather large fees for delivery. I ordered a pizza last night and there was a $2.00 delivery fee on $10.00 worth of pizza.

Now, this isn’t such a bad deal, really, except when you realize that you’re then going to have to turn around and tip the driver, too.

There should be some sort of universal rule that delivery fees come directly out of the tip. If you were going to tip $2.00 and the delivery fee is $1.50, the driver now gets fifty cents. This is especially annoying on pizza where you KNOW the overhead of delivery is already built into the price of the pizza itself.

If there were a way to express this new rule to the drivers without having to worry that your next order would have something horrible done to it, I’d be all over it.

Full post as published by PeteHoliday.com on December 24, 2008 (boomark / email).