(OT) Pizza delivery questions

[Destil]

All the Pizza places around here take checks. They don't take debit cards though, at least not at your door. What do they do, carry around card readers with them?

Oddly, while I was in Sacremento when I ordered from a local pizza hut the dilevery guy made a rubbing of my card on the recept, though I called the number it in on the phone beforehand.

1) Usualy I pay with cash. Sometimes with Debit. Most often at school I'll put it on my meal plan, though.

2) Always tip from a dilevery place. Never once tipped the guy from the school pizza place, and I've never seen anyone else do so, either.

 

[Voneth]

Depended on where I lived.

When I was in a college town, Dominos took checks. Where I live now, they won't take checks, but they will take debit card if you warn them over the phone first so they can take down your debit number (this does bring up an idenity theft issue though.)

Tipping?
Not before I became a college pizza delivery driver.
Now that those days are behind me, I do tip, except when times are finacially bad for me, like right now.

 

[KnowTheToe]

All this talk of pizza is making me hungary

 

[Larry Fitz]

Pizza delivery people work 30 hours a week because that's when people want pizzas delivered in large enough numbers to make it economically feasible to employ pizza delivery people. Even at $15/hr, that $450 /week before taxes and car expenses, it's certainly at the lower end of the income level for the US. I tip, and I don't eat Domino's. Corporate Pizza? Yuck... I've known my local pizza guys for over 20 years.... yes they will take a check from me, but I usually pay cash anyway... and the pizza is so much better than Domino's... Of course for truly great pizza one must go to a Pizza Nexi, like Chicago, Brooklyn, or New Haven Connecticut...

 

[med stud]

I don't follow? Why would they usually have the same wage?

Almost everyone here has the same wage

The exception to this is lawyers, engineers, physicians and economists. Otherwise, almost all professionals get about 12-15 $ an hour (US-dollars).

So if a pizza- delivery guy with a wage of maybe 9-12 $ an hour delivers a pizza to a teacher with 12 $ an hour it would feel weird to tip him, at least as an organized thing.

 

[Darklance]

Wow. Didn't know that.

Doesn't that lead to people being lazy? I mean...why try hard and be a company office worker when you could simply be a...garbage man and earn the same wage? And there wouldn't really be much incentive to get promotions....

 

[AGGEMAM]

Wow. Didn't know that.

Doesn't that lead to people being lazy? I mean...why try hard and be a company office worker when you could simply be a...garbage man and earn the same wage? And there wouldn't really be much incentive to get promotions....

Apparantly not, Scandinavian countries has some the worlds highest GNPs, productivity per capita, and job satisfaction rates.

 

[jester47]

I dont order from dominoes mainly because most other places are better. If you live in Seattle and are in delivery range, I would recommend Michaels Pizza or Picoras for delivery. The Northlake Tavern has awesome pizza (sort of an Ohio style, half way between a chicago and new york) but they dont deliver.

I tip with a beer. You have no idea how much faster that makes your pizza show up next time.


Aaron.

 

[DDK]

Oddly, while I was in Sacremento when I ordered from a local pizza hut the dilevery guy made a rubbing of my card on the recept, though I called the number it in on the phone beforehand.

I would be watching my credit card bill very closely if I were you...

 

[Welrain]

Hi

1) I would never dream of using anything but cash to pay for a delivery..thats the whole point of it. Scrapping together your loose change and all.

2) I dunno what all these other Brits are on about..different culture...pfft. I tip. The size of which varies on the performance of the delivery person...(insert innuedo here!)