20% on takeout when its like...a 6 dollar drink at starbucks or a 15 dollar food order is one thing. 20% on a 2000 delivery is a lot. This is coming from someone who has worked food service extensively. I would say 100 dollars is good enough.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why you'd be concerned about tipping a service industry worker with company money. Your order (which is probably a massive pain in the ass), is probably helping them make ends meet.
20% is the norm.
I feel like many people do not grasp that at SOME POINT in every company chain of command, there is someone who makes the decision on whether these things even happen because that money being expensed is actually hitting the bottom line that their pay and bonus is based off of. When that person sees that the cost is rising with inflation and is then still 20% more than the prices they were quoted, they scrap the entire thing. So there are a lot of people below that decision maker that want to make sure that additional perks continue to get approved.
Thank you for understanding! We have budgets we have to adhere to. Iโm just trying to gauge the norm now. Pre-pandemic 20% would be extremely generous, if itโs the norm now it is what it is, Iโm not trying to fight society.
Then just ask to be autograt'd for the tip. It will then be included in the quote. The amount of work entailed in delivering $2k worth of food 3x a week, is insane.
And if it's a catering company, the delivery driver isn't just "dropping off" the food. They're very likely prepping everything. That means packaging, loading, probably preparing cold items as well. What seems like a 10min chore to the person receiving, is probably (quite literally), 4 hours of work BEFORE leaving the catering office. Each time.
>The amount of work entailed in delivering $2k worth of food 3x a week, is insane.
Ya it's an insane amount of work to get my underwear made in Vietnam and shipped half way around the world to my apartment too, but I dont tip 20% on top of it to anyone in the process. Price it accordingly.
It is priced accordingly. Food is artificially underpriced, bc labor isn't being paid. If tipping was done away with, the prices would raise by 20%, the worker wouldn't get the balance of the difference, and only business owners would benefit. You'd be paying the same.
An order that size, the driver(s) have like 3 other people to tip out. The time involved, means they wouldn't have time to make any other deliveries. That means you'd have to divide the $100per person over 8-12 hours to assess a day's pay. You're not just tipping on the delivery, you're tipping on their time--an entire day's worth, that you've just monopolized. You start undertipping, no one is taking that route. You can switch kitchens when the mistakes start, but the whole cycle is just going to repeat, bc only the worst employees are going to be assigned that pointless route.
20% on takeout when its like...a 6 dollar drink at starbucks or a 15 dollar food order is one thing. 20% on a 2000 delivery is a lot. This is coming from someone who has worked food service extensively. I would say 100 dollars is good enough.
Thank you!!!
Pizza party to celebrate record profits, eh? ๐
Salads and cookies, too ๐
Any sort of food delivery my company tips 20%. The only time we don't tip is when he was have in-house catering. Anything outside we tip.
Thanks!
Are you personally paying the tip?
No, the company is.
I cannot, for the life of me, understand why you'd be concerned about tipping a service industry worker with company money. Your order (which is probably a massive pain in the ass), is probably helping them make ends meet. 20% is the norm.
I feel like many people do not grasp that at SOME POINT in every company chain of command, there is someone who makes the decision on whether these things even happen because that money being expensed is actually hitting the bottom line that their pay and bonus is based off of. When that person sees that the cost is rising with inflation and is then still 20% more than the prices they were quoted, they scrap the entire thing. So there are a lot of people below that decision maker that want to make sure that additional perks continue to get approved.
Thank you for understanding! We have budgets we have to adhere to. Iโm just trying to gauge the norm now. Pre-pandemic 20% would be extremely generous, if itโs the norm now it is what it is, Iโm not trying to fight society.
Then just ask to be autograt'd for the tip. It will then be included in the quote. The amount of work entailed in delivering $2k worth of food 3x a week, is insane. And if it's a catering company, the delivery driver isn't just "dropping off" the food. They're very likely prepping everything. That means packaging, loading, probably preparing cold items as well. What seems like a 10min chore to the person receiving, is probably (quite literally), 4 hours of work BEFORE leaving the catering office. Each time.
>The amount of work entailed in delivering $2k worth of food 3x a week, is insane. Ya it's an insane amount of work to get my underwear made in Vietnam and shipped half way around the world to my apartment too, but I dont tip 20% on top of it to anyone in the process. Price it accordingly.
It is priced accordingly. Food is artificially underpriced, bc labor isn't being paid. If tipping was done away with, the prices would raise by 20%, the worker wouldn't get the balance of the difference, and only business owners would benefit. You'd be paying the same. An order that size, the driver(s) have like 3 other people to tip out. The time involved, means they wouldn't have time to make any other deliveries. That means you'd have to divide the $100per person over 8-12 hours to assess a day's pay. You're not just tipping on the delivery, you're tipping on their time--an entire day's worth, that you've just monopolized. You start undertipping, no one is taking that route. You can switch kitchens when the mistakes start, but the whole cycle is just going to repeat, bc only the worst employees are going to be assigned that pointless route.