The problem with that is there are people who would do the work at the rate currently paid.

Free market forces at work…large employee pool small amount of jobs.

Tough luck.

Fix my sandwich and I’ll give you the posted price.

If he doesn’t like the nature of tips then he should get another job, period.

I typically tip well but that’s irrelevant. If I decide you gets nothing then you gets nothing. I don’t care about you or your “living” in this specific scenerio.

As a matter of fact, you should tip me for the honor and pleasure of serving me. I’m the fucking man.

Another tipping ritual I’ve never understood is tipping your hairdresser/barber. You are PAYING for their services, why tip for something like that? Do you tip painters for painting your house? Or the people who mow your lawn?

And one last thing: any talk about tipping has to refer back to the first scene in Reservoir Dogs; tipping is for the birds, man.

By charging a mandatory delivery fee (that doesn’t get kicked back into the drivers), the pizza chain is pretty much taking away any incentive for customers to give ANY driver a tip, even if he rescues your cat from a tree in the act of delivery.

Unless the restaurant has and maintains its own delivery vehicles (most don’t, my brother uses his own Ford Ranger), they really have little justification for a ‘delivery charge’. The chain could simply raise prices across the board if the cost of food or delivery supplies were higher. And who’s to say that menu prices didn’t already take that into consideration before the rise in gas prices?

But, like Kirk, I’m too paranoid to let people handle my food and me not take care of them, even a little.

And, RHH–most delivery guys earn a standard wage, and the tips are just extra. Bartenders/Servers make $2/hr, and the tips are their main source of income.

i used to bartend. i know the game on working on tips. but when you show up late with a lukewarm pizza, don’t beg for a tip. in fact, just don’t beg.