So a bit ago I only tipped the person who delivered two bags of lunch to our work a few dollars (maybe like 5 or something) - I was basing it off of what I'd give a pizza delivery guy or something. The person I went down with was surprised and said he always tips like at least 10%-15% of the meal. I said "for delivery??" He said yes. I said that makes no sense - you give a percentage tip for when someone waits on you - not when someone delivers to you. For delivery, I just tack on some extra money depending on how much the person had to carry, etc. But it's not a percentage of the meal...
The rest of the office seemed split - specifically, my boss agreed with me, the receptionist agreed with the other guy.
And besides just generally making sense, another argument I made was that according to the "percentage," the pizza guy gets shafted while your couple bags of this food gets way more money. Makes no sense.
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You tip in a restaurant or at the barbershop based on the cost of the thing and the performance of the person. There's a big difference between good and bad service. With delivery, they just have one task: drop off the stuff. Having done that, I tip based on how difficult it was or something like that. The cost of what's in that bag didn't change the way the delivery guy threw it into the back of his three-tone Honda. The usual rules of tipping generously for when the person goes out of their way still apply. But it's still not based on the cost of the thing.
But the real question is what do you tip on the free pizza coupon that we got when we moved in?
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