We live in hell, that's what.

The US made it legal to pay tipped employees basically no wage (like pennies an hour). Tipping is stupid but if you don't do it the employee is basically unpaid.

I'd split the difference by just paying them based on my estimation of the time and effort they spent. The cost of the thing I bought should have no bearing. This notion that the tip should be 15/18/20% or whatever of your final bill is idiotic.

There's a history lesson filled with sexism and racism there.

I used to think this way until someone on lemmy told me it wasn't the case. Those donations are nontaxable - it goes directly to those charities.

See for yourself

The peer pressure based donation for enabling corporate tax evasion is BS. It should be disallowed because all it’s doing is letting big corps not pay their due taxes

I always tip my pizza delivery driver, but he's also the owner of the business and the guy making the pizza, and the pizza is fucking awesome.

, i respect the grind and understand life is hard out there for people just trying to get by

Exactly, if appropriate I would tip someone even if they’re adequately paid by their employer. Though I think it would make more sense if the minimum wage is raised instead. I also get why some cultures dislike tipping, so I just treat it on a case by case basis

Or get rid of tipping.

Euro version:

service was OK - round up to 30€
service was good - give 2€ extra
service was exceptional - give 5€ extra
(doesn't scale with the price of the food)

Italian version:

Pay exactly €29,75 and guard the receipt with your life, or you're in trouble.

In my experience, no one has ever pressured me for a tip. But again, that’s just me so I feel bad if you’ve experienced that

Because they took forever to add a $1 tip to the total (as they indicate by saying it takes them a while to do the math)

compensation... for doing the job he is paid to do... right.

look, if you live at the end of a long shitty dirt road, or maybe the last apartment on the top floor of a 6 story walk up - then they're going above and beyond. Hell yeah, tip more.

Tip to be nice, because times are tough and you have some extra cash.

But don't tip because someone did the bare minimum that they get paid to do anyway.

Don't tip because it's expected. Don't tip if you can't afford it.

you, by simply spending what little you have and can, are helping pay their wage already. You're doing your part. That is: don't feel guilty if you can't or don't tip.

Do feel warm and fuzzy if you can and do tip, though. it's still nice to do :)

Don't they get paid by the service that decided to be in the food delivery business?

Agreed, people got mad at me for suggesting literally the same hah ¯_ (ツ)_/¯

Edit: in their defense, I think they objected more to the idea that a delivery person should avoid anyone who doesn’t tip. I get why they’d feel that way, it’s understandable

This is mostly the same in the us. It's less common for drivers though, because you typically pay when you place the order and the driver just has you sign the paper as acknowledgement that you got the order.

This way the driver doesn't need to carry around a card machine everywhere they go, instead the slip can go right with the receipt on the hot bag, this also means the driver doesn't need to futz around with figuring out which order the tip goes to since they may have 3 or 4 orders on their run.

I delivered pizzas for a long time, there was about a six month period where we switched to square and it was horrible, people out in the country with no service meant I couldn't run their card, also since the order wasnt processed already, people would argue about the price when we got there, even though they accepted the price on the phone, trying to get a deal since we already drove all the way out.

Signing a slip of paper is the absolute fastest method for a delivery driver and there is no obligation to fill in the 'total' part, you can just put the tip value on the tip line and a line through the total, no math.

Write the number 5 on a piece of paper and that's it, faster than any machine, no hiccups with cell service, no batteries to keep charged, no greasy fingerprints on the screen. No worry about dropping it down 15 stories of stairs at a hotel, etc.