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<blockquote data-quote="Mycanid" data-source="post: 3300706" data-attributes="member: 40370">I must admit that I have always felt extremely sorry for waiters and waitresses, and generally tip them 15-20%, unless the service is just from an &quot;I don't care - how dare you disturb me here at work - #E%^%$$ freakazoid....&quot; angle. [Yes ... I have come across that from time to time - how they keep their jobs I will never know. They probably don't.&nbsp; :\ ]The delivery guys though ... well, since I live WAY off the beaten track I don't order pizza too often. But sometimes when I will go and visit a friend we will order one. I have a friend in nearby Chico who I visit every 6 weeks or so who just got married and we pretty regularly order the same pizza from the same place. These guys have always been on time, and the service has been normal - sometimes even friendly (in a genuine way too). In such cases when I am paying I usually tip 15%, always rounding up.When I lived in Syracuse (19 years ago!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> ) I used to order pizza a lot more ... I kept to the same tipping standard. And like Roderigo earlier pointed out, if a place gets to know that you regularly tip they WILL deliver to you earlier and faster. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> We were gamers, and we would order just before midnight - usually on Friday evenings - so the place was used to us. &quot;You those guys down on Ellis Street?&quot; &quot;Yeah.&quot; &quot;Same old same old?&quot; &quot;Yeah&quot; &quot;'Kay ... be there in 15 minutes.&quot;Makes me giggle to think about it.Perhaps there is a little bit of guilt too in my tipping the deliverers, now that I think about it, for some of the stunts we used to pull on the poor guys. Hmm....&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mycanid, post: 3300706, member: 40370"] I must admit that I have always felt extremely sorry for waiters and waitresses, and generally tip them 15-20%, unless the service is just from an "I don't care - how dare you disturb me here at work - #E%^%$$ freakazoid...." angle. [Yes ... I have come across that from time to time - how they keep their jobs I will never know. They probably don't. :\ ] The delivery guys though ... well, since I live WAY off the beaten track I don't order pizza too often. But sometimes when I will go and visit a friend we will order one. I have a friend in nearby Chico who I visit every 6 weeks or so who just got married and we pretty regularly order the same pizza from the same place. These guys have always been on time, and the service has been normal - sometimes even friendly (in a genuine way too). In such cases when I am paying I usually tip 15%, always rounding up. When I lived in Syracuse (19 years ago! :confused: ) I used to order pizza a lot more ... I kept to the same tipping standard. And like Roderigo earlier pointed out, if a place gets to know that you regularly tip they WILL deliver to you earlier and faster. ;) We were gamers, and we would order just before midnight - usually on Friday evenings - so the place was used to us. "You those guys down on Ellis Street?" "Yeah." "Same old same old?" "Yeah" "'Kay ... be there in 15 minutes." Makes me giggle to think about it. Perhaps there is a little bit of guilt too in my tipping the deliverers, now that I think about it, for some of the stunts we used to pull on the poor guys. Hmm.... :D [/QUOTE]

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