Domino’s Delivery Driver Goes Viral With 816K Views After Sharing How Much She Earns In Tips
You’re lonely. You’re hungover. You’re hungry. But there’s nothing in the fridge that’s delicious and quick enough to satiate that gurgling stomach. Who are you gonna call? Your mom? No, the pizza delivery service, of course! There’s nothing more satisfying than a cheesy triangle of happiness, delivered straight to your door by the friendly delivery human.
However, a little debate has started online regarding the tips that these workers make. Should the delivery person be tipped? How much? Isn’t the delivery fee set for that in the first place? Well, Domino’s delivery driver Alison has come onto TikTok to show how much she earns in tips per day, and to say that it’s caused some commotion would be an understatement.
Make sure you upvote the story to keep the discussion going, leaving your opinions in the comments below. Without further ado, grab a slice and let’s get into it!
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A Domino’s delivery driver named Alison has gone viral on TikTok with over 860k views for sharing how much (or little) she earns in tips on a regular day
Image credits: allison_green0
As you pace around—window to door and back again—impatiently awaiting the arrival of your din-dins, how much are you thinking about the tip you’ll be giving the delivery driver going through rain, sleet, wind, and scorching heat? A little, not at all? Well, one delivery driver has caused some debate to rise up online regarding this very issue.
Alison, better known as allison_green0 on TikTok, has gone viral for sharing how much Domino’s delivery drivers tend to earn in tips on an average night. 860k views, thousands of likes, and hundreds of comments later, we end up with an interesting situation on our hands.
I think I should preface this by saying that we’ll be looking at the American tipping culture in this case, considering tips are seen as non-mandatory, or even insulting, in many parts of the world. Just because it isn’t customary to tip in your country, doesn’t mean it’s the same everywhere. Keep an open mind, and now let’s dive deeper into the details!
Tipping, although controversial, is an essential part of how restaurant workers earn a living in many North American and Canadian restaurants and chains
Many people assume that delivery drivers earn a tip from the delivery cost, but that is often not the case, as companies take that money to cover driver expenses
Image credits: Erica Fischer (not the actual photo)
In the video, Alison took us through each delivery she made that night, detailing how much they spent and how much they left in tips. By the end of the night and over the course of 11 orders, she received $13 in cash tips and $42.29 in credit card tips, not counting her reimbursement for gas. This averages to a tip of $5.03 per delivery, though many deliveries varied in terms of the actual order cost.
“It’s not terrible for a Monday, but it could be better,” she said with a smile. “But it’s not terrible!” Many people were quick to praise Alison’s demeanor and positive attitude, stating that she’ll do incredible things in life if she keeps it up; however, they were shocked by the number of people who didn’t leave her a tip.
“I don’t understand how people can be OK with not tipping,” wrote one user. However, Alison was quick to state that she is happy with her work and appreciates the tips she does receive. “My hourly is 10$ which I know isn’t the best but my tips and gas reimbursement make up for it. And my paycheck doesn’t ever look [too] bad,” she wrote. In another comment, she added, “thank you to those who are willing to [tip], I very much appreciate it.”
At the end of the night, she’d made 11 deliveries, for which she received $13 in cash tips and $42.29 in credit card tips, averaging to a tip of $5.03 per delivery
Image credits: allison_green0
That didn’t seem to reassure the viewers. Speaking to Daily Dot, she expressed her surprise at the number of people who were upset by her not getting tipped consistently. “People have this mindset that me or any driver expects tips. Now I can’t speak for others, but as for myself, I don’t expect tips from anyone,” she stated.
“I know that there are going to be people who either don’t have the extra money for the tip or people who just don’t wanna tip, and that’s fine with me. I don’t need these people’s tips, and I don’t expect them—I just do my job because it’s my job, not because I want more tips or I’m expecting so many tips,” Alison continued.
She was quick to point out the positive aspects of being a delivery driver. “I love the fact that I get to meet so many people and I get to make people happy by bringing them the food they wanted after a long day!” she exclaimed. “And it’s fun to drive around all day.”
“It’s not terrible for a Monday,” she said with a smile. Alison stated in the comments: “thank you to those who are willing to [tip], I very much appreciate it”
Image credits: ella (not the actual photo)
Let’s have a little look at the context. When you dine out at a restaurant, you tip your server. It’s an essential part of how restaurant workers earn a living in many North American restaurants. Ashlen Wilder explains that the history of tipping comes from 1850s Europe, where folks tipped their tavern workers to ensure quick and good service.
American travelers brought the custom back to the states as a way to feel aristocratic, unknowingly shifting traditions. Although there was a high level of resistance to it (William Scott even defined it as “a cancer in the breast of democracy” in 1916), tipping stuck after the abolition of slavery and the American Civil War.
Let’s take a look at the numbers. In 1966, Congress created the “tip credit,” which legally allows restaurants to pay restaurant workers a subminimum wage, accepting that tips will get them over the minimum wage threshold. Nowadays, the minimum wage for service staff starts at $7.25; however, that’s set to include tips.
In 1996, Congress froze the subminimum wage for tipped workers at $2.13 an hour, which seems to have stuck to this day. Realistically speaking, this is nowhere close to a livable wage, and workers should not be dependent on gratuities—inconsistent amounts of money—to make ends meet.
Furthermore, studies show that restaurants do not always follow tip credit laws and pay employees the amount needed to earn federal minimum wage if tips are not high enough.
Image credits: allison_green0
You can watch the full video of Alison’s day here:
@allison_green0 What I make in a night #fypシ #dominospizza #dominosdeliverydriver #whatimakeinanight ♬ original sound – its_allison
But getting back to delivery drivers—they get the delivery fee as a tip, right? Well, no, not necessarily! Very rarely does a portion of that fee get allocated to the driver. According to Chris Morran, usually the business itself takes the fee in order to cover driver expenses, such as paying for a portion of their gas, or other related expenses specific to the position itself (insurance, maintenance, etc.).
The future of tipping is very much dependent on technology, government policy, and public opinion. Mayhaps sooner than later, new policies will come to light that will once again mirror those of the European neighbors, changing tipping from a necessity to an appreciative gesture.
We wish Alison all the best in her future endeavors and hope that she’ll be getting all the tips she so well deserves! Leave us your thoughts on it all in the comments below, and I shall see you in the next one!
Many people were incredibly supportive of Alison, praising her positive attitude and expressing their disappointment with those who don’t tip
However, there were those that criticized tipping as a whole, with others not seeing the need to tip in the first place. Leave us your opinions below!
All the people that defend tipping dont understand you end up with the same service at about the same price but the cost is paid by everyone. We pay $8 per delivery here (mandatory charge) which pays for fuel and kms and the drivers wages. Tipping not expected.
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So a bunch of people are angry that she doesn’t get tips. Meaning that they think she should get more than $10/h. Wtf aren’t they angry that the employer doesn’t pay her more than $10/h??
She got a bunch of tips. Some of them really good. Like $10 here, $9 there, and then some smaller tips. Not sure where she thinks she took home less. She did say she was expecting more to go into her account the next day. She made way more that night than someone working minimum wage and not making anything extra.
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Based on my experience delivering pizza years ago and comparing tips with other drivers, I feel confident in saying on average customers subconsciously discriminate when tipping. A young, attractive, cheerful, white woman checks all the boxes to get the best tips. She probably makes more tips than most of her coworkers.
she might, but credit card tipping has changed that. I tip when I pay online and often never see the driver. I always tip at least $5.
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Tipping economy sucks. But you know she makes dirt in hourly and survives on tips. We all know this. So not tipping isn’t a formal protest & no one is an activist changing a screwed system by not tipping. They’re just screwing a person who, for whatever reasons, has to survive on the money we give them for their service. Nobody is bringing something I’ve purchased to my door for anything less than $10.00. Period. Not because I have any feelings for them or thoughts on tipping. Because the I wouldn’t let a friend drop off something borrowed without paying for their time & travel. It’s just the decent thing to do when someone waits on you, in a job or personally. Sure, there’s a service charge for most deliveries but that’s typically factored into their hourly so they make a few bucks over minimum wage. That’s the service fee I pay for the convenience & access of having things brought to my door. Rather than politicize the situation, be decent to the people doing things for you.
Rephrase, the EMPLOYER is screwing them by not paying them more. And if people hate the wages, hopes are there are mass movements to other employers who will pay better wages and then these corporate machines will shut down or they'll begin to pay people what they're worth. So no, the people ordering food don't need to be put on trial or given a guilt trip for not tipping. When you do that, you're just saying "I'm too lazy or I don't know a better way to force employers to pay livable wages. I won't sacrifice my need for pizza and stop giving Dominos (or insert other s****y company) my money because sometimes I want a pizza. So you customers tip better so I can do even less than possible to fix this situation."
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I got distracted by all the "So, now I just took my *nth* delivery..." She got, in total, $56.44 just in tips that night. I don't what mileage pay Dominos drivers get, but they do get a little bit of something for that. Then they still get an hourly rate, about $11 - $17/hr in the USA, I guess depending on the location, the experience and longevity of the employee, and other factors. She says her tips were low that night, so I'd like to know what they are like when it's a good night. I agree with how some are saying she's not shaming those that don't tip and she's not whining about anyone. Just wanting to share what she makes in tips. I'm not reading in too deep on this. I still say tipping should be an option and based on good service. I would give her a gratituity. The way some people think of tipping as this thing that should be mandatory, how about delivery drivers and servers have a set service fee shown before the customer pays the bill that is added into the bill?
In around 2008, I worked for Panago pizza (in Canada), and we recieved $1 per delivery and no hourly wage because we were "contract drivers". In a 3 hour shift, on a slow night, I would come home with at least $50. Tips were our pay. It was pretty sweet actually. There was one busy night in particular that I made over $400 in a 5 hour shift!
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Correct version - big company doesn't pay it's employees enough. I mean, what's wrong with this country where they think the one ordering should pay extra.
She didn't say how long her shift was. Seems like she made out very well if she made $10/hour + gas/mileage + $56 tips on only 11 deliveries on the slowest night of the week (Monday) even if it was a regular 8 hours (though looks unlikely because it was dark out in all the vids except the first, depending on where she lives.) I have a good buddy who delivered pizzas in college claim he averaged $200/night tips who went to school in central FL (would have been early 2000s) - don't know what his hourly + mileage was on top of that, or his hours, but he was definitely wasn't even a cute young woman!
I used to work for Domino's myself and what I learned is most people have no idea how business actually works. First of all most Domino's stores are owned by franchisees who are by no means among the super rich. Second when cost goes up for a business it has to be passed on to the customers. Nobody stays in business losing money. At one point when the company hadn't raised it's prices in over 10 years but the costs to run the stores had. It was determined that they could no longer continue to absorb the increase in cost so they raised the price and the customers through a fit and sales dropped like a rock. Then the price was dropped and a delivery charge was added instead as a way to make up some of the costs increase and people came back just as happy as can be. And yes that is where the delivery charge goes, not to the driver. I was a delivery driver for Domino's for over ten years and I'm not saying that tipping should be required but remember it is part of the driver's income .
There’s a difference between working for a big company and a family joint. I delivered both pizza and Chinese. 20 or so years ago and even now, the average pay hourly is about $5. May be around $7 now. It doesn’t include gas, wear and tear on your vehicle or any tickets and accidents that could occur from constant driving. Most family owned places only charge $1-2 for deliveries, if anything at all. Bad weather is always more deliveries and more attitudes from customers. I’ve delivered in blizzards, with 10 deliveries in my car, sliding off the road from poor conditions; just to be berated by taking so long and not receiving tips. One night, getting stuck in the snow and having to end the night short and paying for a tow. It’s not as easy as people believe it to be and often not worth it financially.
When I tip I do consider the total but also the distance. My wife was a delivery driver and what she got in cash tips was held onto so she could put gas into the car for the next shift. Then there's the maintenance and general wear and tear on the car. Part of the bigger picture I consider when tipping.
Dominos is lousy food. The pizza has few toppings and is overpriced. She'd make better tips waiting tables in a nice restaurant. I have always tipped delivery drivers well except one occasion where the driver was obviously under the influence of alcohol and drove into my lawn.
The whole concept of tipping is crazy to me. Why does it even exist, workers should be payed more by their employers instead of the customers. Crazy
I always tip delivery drivers $10, no matter what. I was a waitress and delivery driver for years. Unfortunately when someone doesn't believe in tipping, it doesn't tell the restaurant that they should pay their people more, it punishes the server or driver. They need that money to live.
The whole thing comes down to plain GREED. The drivers/waiters want a tip because the restaurant owner is too greedy to pay them a living wage. Tipping should be banned, because it's getting so that service people expect a tip and give crappy service if the customer doesn't tip. These people have a job to do. They need to do it, and not expect everyone to supplement their income because their boss doesn't pay them enough. I don't mind tipping, but the percentages are going up to the point, where I hardly eat out any more, and when I order food, I go and get it. I don't want to be shamed for not tipping, so I won't be. Tips used to be 10%, then went up to 15%. Now they're 20%! Next thing you know you'll be expected to pay double! It's getting stupid and I think it should stop. I repeat - this is becoming pure greed by everyone but the customer.
I feel resturaunts should be responsible for paying their own employees like any other business. Tips are given to those who give exceptional customer service.. I avoid places that make you tip a percentage of your bill. It i not my responsibility to pay your employees wages. Multi million dollar companies that pay minimum wage or even way less because they put the responsibility of paying their employees wages back on their customers. Smh.... shame on you. With that being said. I tip when I feel someone has went above and beyond or has earned it in the level of customer service they have provided. Not everyone deserves a tip. As long as Domino's is in the spot light let's talk about why iwhen I go get my own pitza I cant pay without being asked for a tip by the darn card machine. Bottom line, Domino's should pay theirl own employees for their hard work. Tips should not ever be expected to pay wages.. Thats my tip for yah.
The interesting thing for me would be how much she would earn in total, with and without tips, and how much that would be as an hourly wage. The tipping system in the US is super weird to me anyways... and it seems unpractical.
When I delivered pizzas 10 years ago, I made about $2,000 total a month. About $400 a month of that came from my actual paycheck and the rest tips. This is not factoring out all the gas I spent
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The delivery fee was said to cover the delivery driver costs. So we're paying for the reimbursement of gas. Note dominos is a franchise.
I have a rule today. I never leave less than $10. I was very fortunate, as a truck driver, my pay was not affected by the pandemic. But many people were hit very hard.
People who argue tip more have the money to do so. Sooo tip and STFU about those who don't. Back of the house rarely get tips but no one is complaining for us. Furthermore the company makes millions to billions and we're over complaining that about how people who order disgusting pizza don't tip. #MeanwhileInAmerica
Is my math wrong? 40 hour week at $10 hr $400 plus average $40 a nite in tips $200 total $600 a week....not bad to me
Remember though they are filling up their car every other day and it cuts into that significantly
Load More Replies... Ok, I'm speaking from the perspective of someone that lives up north. Our minimum wage is $13.90 an hour and a service persons minimum wage is $6.90 AND the employer has to prove that at the end of the week, the employees pay, hourly wage plus tips, equal at least $13.90 per hour or the employer has to make it up. That way even service workers are making at least the $13.90 minimum wage. That's the only fair way to play it. That way, everyone gets at least $13.90 an hour. That's not really a living wage but it's a lot better than what some states are offering.
It is not the customers job to tip! Period! If you're a delivery driver and you really want tips, get a different job if you can or stop complaining. Where I'm from we only tip if the person providing the service goes out of their way (goes the extra mile) to do so. If businesses don't want to pay their delivery driver a reasonable wage, then why should the customer pay it?
I think delivery fees charged by the restaurants cut into the driver's tips. Folks assume the driver is getting this. Not sure why these aren't given to the drivers. Most of the time they're using their own vehicle or bike. I will pick up my orders bcse of this. I'm not trying to pay $30 for a $20 order after delivery fees and tips.
The delivery charge helps pay for the packaging. Packaging is expensive and not part of the food cost.
I did the math. If she makes $45/night and works 31 days a month, she only males $1260/month. This is ridiculous.
DID YOU KNOW that in Nova Scotia many Asian restaurants keep a MINIMUM of 50% of the delivery drivers' or Waitstaffs' tips? My gentle probing showed that typical wonderful 20-24 year olds, often students, are simply "happy to get a paycheck". Further gentle questions revealed that the manager keeps the tips because the "tip are fo good food not fo who bring good food to customer". One expensive restaurant allowed the waitress to earn up to 25% of the tips by upselling additional food to original orders depending upon the mood of the manager. Please, discreetly ask your server if they get the tips. Asian food delivery drivers usually get a maximum of 50% of the tip if on credit card. Go ahead and start asking or maybe tip kn cash discretely for excellent service.
People who think continuing to tip automatically is the lesser evil aren't really thinking about it much. Companies will cut costs where they can. So long as customer habits are to tip, companies will keep salaries low. What needs to happen is a change in customer habits that make tipping culture obselete, so companies have to face they can't count on tips and need to pay their service workers themselves.
I cannot afford to tip so I get in the car and drive a mile to the pizza place and pick it up myself, delivery has been a horrible experience, cold food, wrong drinks, some don't come at all or stuff wasn't included in the meal. I'm about to start living in my car so then I can just park or go through the drive through. I believe we should raise the minimum wage to $15.00 - $20.00 an hour, and do away with tipping, people can't live on $7.00 an hour and tips. We can also start making our own pizza and burgers till you make them so good that you won't want commercial made food.
I tip my Domino's Driver... food is always hot and its been the same young lady for about a year now. I tip between $5-$7 for a small pizza and a drink for me and my Son. And if it's bad weather outside, I tip $10 because I don't drive and I appreciate the service... I live far away so when if I decide to use a delivery service, I try my best to tip the driver...
I once delivered from 10 am to 11 pm took almost 30 deliveries and only made $24
I work at dominos as an assistant manager the drivers make 12.50 an hour plus tips and mileage. The delivery fee goes towards paying their salary and mileage. They easily make more then anyone else in the store other then the gm. I make 17 an hour they normally make twenty plus even on a bad night. My full time closers come in at 5pm and leave at 1200-100 having made 100-300 in tips and mileage. Which is more then I make all day same hours. Then they expect sympathy when the inside crew gets nothing for making all of it and gets screamed at when they make mistakes.
One thing that I want to let people know. Most delivery services that have delivery charges, do NOT give it to the driver. The owner gets the majority of it. I've done delivery for many years and what most people think is that the money is going to the driver. Let me give you an example. I've worked with a $4.99 delivery charge and we got $1.60 for gas mileage. I don't think that many people realize where that money is going.
Domino's doesn't do their delivery drivers any favors. I love that that will give the customer $3 off the NEXT order if you pick up your own food. Which to me says, tip three dollars on your next delivery if you are following the companies logic. I think asking for me to tip you a percentage of a takeout order is a bit much, but I always tip. I worked for tips and they can make or break you. But Domino's ad campaign could be detrimental to their delivery drivers and in store staff.
A quick calculation puts that at $ 1200 a month in tips. I know that is not much in the US, but it is about minimum wage for waiters here in Italy. Dies she not get paid any wage, just fuel reimbursement? (Monthly pay calculation based on 5 days/evenings like this a week)
I never understand weird tip amounts, like $5.33. Either tip $5 or $6, unless you're just rounding up.
The machines come back with 15%, 18%, 20% and custom for deliveries in my area. Those totals maybe a result of that maths or, as you said, rounding to the nearest dollar.
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I admire this woman. The main problem with Domino's is that their "delivery fee" is way too high. Its $8.99 where i live. Add to that 10% sales tax plus a tip for the driver, an order that started at $20 quickly becomes $35-$40.
As a former delivery driver myself, tips were never expected. I delivered to someone with a 30-40 dollar order. They handed me a was of cash, and I realized they'd given me $60. I got back out of my car, and told them about the mistake. They told me to keep it for being honest. On the flip side, I delivered.a.$240 order to a church. No tip at all. My manager was more upset by that then I was. Point is, forcing people who work one of the most dangerous jobs no one else wants to do, deserves min wage + tips.
Ok but instead of a white, young, cutesy girl put a black middle age ugly fella... Not the same outcome right? So who gives a f*ck how much tips she makes?The whole thing is completely unfair. From the tipping culture to white privilege
I had a young female customer who made blatant advances to get out of paying. She stood there, and was like "what I would t do for a pizza." I just looked at the price and said "paying me this much would be a good start." Jailbait over pizza? No thanks.
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I like to tip but the cost of food and drink has gone up so much that I'm close to not being able to eat at a place where it's normal to tip.
i always tip, grocery delivery or food. usually between 10-15% but i literally have a 10 yard walk from car to my gate. if i had stairs, or like with groceries, if it was heavy items such as water or 20lb animal food bags, i always hand them a few extra bucks. another way to look at it is $5 for the 10-15 min between stops could add up - 4 - 6 stops per hour, maybe an additional $20/hour wage just in tips. but use of their own vehicle is a bit different, wear n tear and gas, that adds up.
She got more money in her first tip than a friend has had income in 10 years who is disabled because there is no support and the partner is having to struggle with work just because of health matter to so they live off one wage. They have tried finding a job but no one wants to employ them because of their health.
Does she get paid a wage as well? Non US here, and delivery drivers get at least minimum wage here plus their tips (tends to be around 10% rather than 20)
So when everyone goes out to eat, you tip right? All drivers do is drive right? waitresses walk it out to you. Drivers drive to the restaurant deal with the drama there, that clearly you don't want to do and then drive with their gas, their time, the traffic, insurance, wear and tear on tires..etc to make a small amount of money and still do their very best to make everyone happy. All that isn't worth a tip?
Not counting what she earned for mileage pay and her hourly pay. That's not bad money.
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Those delivery charges are 100% profit for the company. Not a dime goes to the driver. They get on average 1 dollar or so per delivery or so many cents a mile plus tips. Delivery charges are a scam. It is pure profit for nothing
So when everyone goes out to eat, you tip right? All drivers do is drive right? waitresses walk it out to you. Drivers drive to the restaurant deal with the drama there, that clearly you don't want to do and then drive with their gas, their time, the traffic, insurance, wear and tear on tires..etc to make a small amount of money and still do their very best to make everyone happy. All that isn't worth a tip?
Wrong perspective. Turn it around and put it on the employer not the customer
Load More Replies... Refusing to tip does not constitute a fight against the system, it screws the person who needs to put gas in their car to bring their food to you. Yes tipping is out of hand. The delivery charge does Not go to driver, it pays for insurance for the restaurant. It's always the people with expensive homes/cars/jewelry who tip zero. I worked at a pizza place for several years as a cook and we could tell by the cost of the order and where it was going whether the driver would get tipped. Going to a run down trailer park? Decent tip because they know what it's like to work in service. Delivering to a McMansion? Rounded up to the nearest dollar on credit card or handed exact change. Exception there is delivering to local celebrities, the Packer's manager and players often gave between 20-100$ depending on time of year. I tip 30% but it's based on service, if i don't have the money to tip i don't order. And that is how it should be, it's a luxury service and not a need.
Sometimes it is a need for some. Lots of older folk or disabled people who may rely on the services for groceries but be unable to tip (or tip a lot). Lots of people always forget the people that can't leave the house nor the ones who don't get help much.
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I'm curious what her hourly is. As an app driver, we get paid about enough to cover expenses of driving by GrubHub/DoorDash and the like. Domino's drivers are employees though, so I'd think they make at least minimum wage, unlike app drivers. For app drivers, we're contract workers, meaning the customer is actually the employer, the app is just the middle man. So when customers refuse to "tip" they are actually requesting we work entirely for free, since we will make Zero profit. For us, the customer is our employer, and their "tip" is basically the entirety of our actual pay. It's not actually a tip, it's actually a contract offer: what the customer is offering a contracted driver in exchange for a service. Which is why no-tip orders often don't get accepted by drivers. Why would you drive fifteen miles round trip plus take the time to pick up and deliver for $2.25 basepay? It'll probably take a half hour total at least. Between gas prices, maintenance, insurance you'd lose $.
No where does it state that we are hiring app drivers for delivery.
Load More Replies... Wish I could reply to the comments from TikTok that are in the article. Here are my responses, you can try to figure out who I'm replying to: 1) Domino's is franchised, so each location (or small group of locations) is a small business with its own company name. They pay a licensing fee to Domino's to use their name. 2) Drivers usually do way more than just deliver the pizza. As soon as you walk back in the store, there's *something* that needs to be done. Some drivers are lazy and don't do much, but some are hustlers and help with everything. 3) Domino's is only expensive if you don't use the deals. Stick to the deals and it's pretty cheap for pizza. It's really hard to find a decent 2-topping medium pizza for less than $7.4) For pizza delivery, tipping per item makes sense to me too. Though that generally makes very little difference compared to tipping by price. I'd say $1-2/item, minimum $3. 5) I once delivered 20+ pizzas to a church youth event at midnight for no tip. Edit: what part of this offended people?
Im in the UK. If its bad weather or a public holiday I'll tip because they're working through rubbish conditions but I don't normally tip drivers. This is because I have paid a service fee for the ordering process and a separate fee to have it delivered. They have not gone above and beyond their job role. I have not received anything extra so what am I tipping for. When I order the pizza it is significantly more than the cost of ingredients because I am paying for them to cook it and bring it to me so why do I now pay extra for "service" as well as delivery.
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What a convoluted argument to justify the unjustifiable. That's why Europe has much better labor laws.
Load More Replies... All the people that defend tipping dont understand you end up with the same service at about the same price but the cost is paid by everyone. We pay $8 per delivery here (mandatory charge) which pays for fuel and kms and the drivers wages. Tipping not expected.
Load More Replies... So a bunch of people are angry that she doesn’t get tips. Meaning that they think she should get more than $10/h. Wtf aren’t they angry that the employer doesn’t pay her more than $10/h??
She got a bunch of tips. Some of them really good. Like $10 here, $9 there, and then some smaller tips. Not sure where she thinks she took home less. She did say she was expecting more to go into her account the next day. She made way more that night than someone working minimum wage and not making anything extra.
Load More Replies... Based on my experience delivering pizza years ago and comparing tips with other drivers, I feel confident in saying on average customers subconsciously discriminate when tipping. A young, attractive, cheerful, white woman checks all the boxes to get the best tips. She probably makes more tips than most of her coworkers.
she might, but credit card tipping has changed that. I tip when I pay online and often never see the driver. I always tip at least $5.
Load More Replies... Tipping economy sucks. But you know she makes dirt in hourly and survives on tips. We all know this. So not tipping isn’t a formal protest & no one is an activist changing a screwed system by not tipping. They’re just screwing a person who, for whatever reasons, has to survive on the money we give them for their service. Nobody is bringing something I’ve purchased to my door for anything less than $10.00. Period. Not because I have any feelings for them or thoughts on tipping. Because the I wouldn’t let a friend drop off something borrowed without paying for their time & travel. It’s just the decent thing to do when someone waits on you, in a job or personally. Sure, there’s a service charge for most deliveries but that’s typically factored into their hourly so they make a few bucks over minimum wage. That’s the service fee I pay for the convenience & access of having things brought to my door. Rather than politicize the situation, be decent to the people doing things for you.
Rephrase, the EMPLOYER is screwing them by not paying them more. And if people hate the wages, hopes are there are mass movements to other employers who will pay better wages and then these corporate machines will shut down or they'll begin to pay people what they're worth. So no, the people ordering food don't need to be put on trial or given a guilt trip for not tipping. When you do that, you're just saying "I'm too lazy or I don't know a better way to force employers to pay livable wages. I won't sacrifice my need for pizza and stop giving Dominos (or insert other s****y company) my money because sometimes I want a pizza. So you customers tip better so I can do even less than possible to fix this situation."
Load More Replies... I got distracted by all the "So, now I just took my *nth* delivery..." She got, in total, $56.44 just in tips that night. I don't what mileage pay Dominos drivers get, but they do get a little bit of something for that. Then they still get an hourly rate, about $11 - $17/hr in the USA, I guess depending on the location, the experience and longevity of the employee, and other factors. She says her tips were low that night, so I'd like to know what they are like when it's a good night. I agree with how some are saying she's not shaming those that don't tip and she's not whining about anyone. Just wanting to share what she makes in tips. I'm not reading in too deep on this. I still say tipping should be an option and based on good service. I would give her a gratituity. The way some people think of tipping as this thing that should be mandatory, how about delivery drivers and servers have a set service fee shown before the customer pays the bill that is added into the bill?
In around 2008, I worked for Panago pizza (in Canada), and we recieved $1 per delivery and no hourly wage because we were "contract drivers". In a 3 hour shift, on a slow night, I would come home with at least $50. Tips were our pay. It was pretty sweet actually. There was one busy night in particular that I made over $400 in a 5 hour shift!
Load More Replies... Correct version - big company doesn't pay it's employees enough. I mean, what's wrong with this country where they think the one ordering should pay extra.
She didn't say how long her shift was. Seems like she made out very well if she made $10/hour + gas/mileage + $56 tips on only 11 deliveries on the slowest night of the week (Monday) even if it was a regular 8 hours (though looks unlikely because it was dark out in all the vids except the first, depending on where she lives.) I have a good buddy who delivered pizzas in college claim he averaged $200/night tips who went to school in central FL (would have been early 2000s) - don't know what his hourly + mileage was on top of that, or his hours, but he was definitely wasn't even a cute young woman!
I used to work for Domino's myself and what I learned is most people have no idea how business actually works. First of all most Domino's stores are owned by franchisees who are by no means among the super rich. Second when cost goes up for a business it has to be passed on to the customers. Nobody stays in business losing money. At one point when the company hadn't raised it's prices in over 10 years but the costs to run the stores had. It was determined that they could no longer continue to absorb the increase in cost so they raised the price and the customers through a fit and sales dropped like a rock. Then the price was dropped and a delivery charge was added instead as a way to make up some of the costs increase and people came back just as happy as can be. And yes that is where the delivery charge goes, not to the driver. I was a delivery driver for Domino's for over ten years and I'm not saying that tipping should be required but remember it is part of the driver's income .
There’s a difference between working for a big company and a family joint. I delivered both pizza and Chinese. 20 or so years ago and even now, the average pay hourly is about $5. May be around $7 now. It doesn’t include gas, wear and tear on your vehicle or any tickets and accidents that could occur from constant driving. Most family owned places only charge $1-2 for deliveries, if anything at all. Bad weather is always more deliveries and more attitudes from customers. I’ve delivered in blizzards, with 10 deliveries in my car, sliding off the road from poor conditions; just to be berated by taking so long and not receiving tips. One night, getting stuck in the snow and having to end the night short and paying for a tow. It’s not as easy as people believe it to be and often not worth it financially.
When I tip I do consider the total but also the distance. My wife was a delivery driver and what she got in cash tips was held onto so she could put gas into the car for the next shift. Then there's the maintenance and general wear and tear on the car. Part of the bigger picture I consider when tipping.
Dominos is lousy food. The pizza has few toppings and is overpriced. She'd make better tips waiting tables in a nice restaurant. I have always tipped delivery drivers well except one occasion where the driver was obviously under the influence of alcohol and drove into my lawn.
The whole concept of tipping is crazy to me. Why does it even exist, workers should be payed more by their employers instead of the customers. Crazy
I always tip delivery drivers $10, no matter what. I was a waitress and delivery driver for years. Unfortunately when someone doesn't believe in tipping, it doesn't tell the restaurant that they should pay their people more, it punishes the server or driver. They need that money to live.
The whole thing comes down to plain GREED. The drivers/waiters want a tip because the restaurant owner is too greedy to pay them a living wage. Tipping should be banned, because it's getting so that service people expect a tip and give crappy service if the customer doesn't tip. These people have a job to do. They need to do it, and not expect everyone to supplement their income because their boss doesn't pay them enough. I don't mind tipping, but the percentages are going up to the point, where I hardly eat out any more, and when I order food, I go and get it. I don't want to be shamed for not tipping, so I won't be. Tips used to be 10%, then went up to 15%. Now they're 20%! Next thing you know you'll be expected to pay double! It's getting stupid and I think it should stop. I repeat - this is becoming pure greed by everyone but the customer.
I feel resturaunts should be responsible for paying their own employees like any other business. Tips are given to those who give exceptional customer service.. I avoid places that make you tip a percentage of your bill. It i not my responsibility to pay your employees wages. Multi million dollar companies that pay minimum wage or even way less because they put the responsibility of paying their employees wages back on their customers. Smh.... shame on you. With that being said. I tip when I feel someone has went above and beyond or has earned it in the level of customer service they have provided. Not everyone deserves a tip. As long as Domino's is in the spot light let's talk about why iwhen I go get my own pitza I cant pay without being asked for a tip by the darn card machine. Bottom line, Domino's should pay theirl own employees for their hard work. Tips should not ever be expected to pay wages.. Thats my tip for yah.
The interesting thing for me would be how much she would earn in total, with and without tips, and how much that would be as an hourly wage. The tipping system in the US is super weird to me anyways... and it seems unpractical.
When I delivered pizzas 10 years ago, I made about $2,000 total a month. About $400 a month of that came from my actual paycheck and the rest tips. This is not factoring out all the gas I spent
Load More Replies... The delivery fee was said to cover the delivery driver costs. So we're paying for the reimbursement of gas. Note dominos is a franchise.
I have a rule today. I never leave less than $10. I was very fortunate, as a truck driver, my pay was not affected by the pandemic. But many people were hit very hard.
People who argue tip more have the money to do so. Sooo tip and STFU about those who don't. Back of the house rarely get tips but no one is complaining for us. Furthermore the company makes millions to billions and we're over complaining that about how people who order disgusting pizza don't tip. #MeanwhileInAmerica
Is my math wrong? 40 hour week at $10 hr $400 plus average $40 a nite in tips $200 total $600 a week....not bad to me
Remember though they are filling up their car every other day and it cuts into that significantly
Load More Replies... Ok, I'm speaking from the perspective of someone that lives up north. Our minimum wage is $13.90 an hour and a service persons minimum wage is $6.90 AND the employer has to prove that at the end of the week, the employees pay, hourly wage plus tips, equal at least $13.90 per hour or the employer has to make it up. That way even service workers are making at least the $13.90 minimum wage. That's the only fair way to play it. That way, everyone gets at least $13.90 an hour. That's not really a living wage but it's a lot better than what some states are offering.
It is not the customers job to tip! Period! If you're a delivery driver and you really want tips, get a different job if you can or stop complaining. Where I'm from we only tip if the person providing the service goes out of their way (goes the extra mile) to do so. If businesses don't want to pay their delivery driver a reasonable wage, then why should the customer pay it?
I think delivery fees charged by the restaurants cut into the driver's tips. Folks assume the driver is getting this. Not sure why these aren't given to the drivers. Most of the time they're using their own vehicle or bike. I will pick up my orders bcse of this. I'm not trying to pay $30 for a $20 order after delivery fees and tips.
The delivery charge helps pay for the packaging. Packaging is expensive and not part of the food cost.
I did the math. If she makes $45/night and works 31 days a month, she only males $1260/month. This is ridiculous.
DID YOU KNOW that in Nova Scotia many Asian restaurants keep a MINIMUM of 50% of the delivery drivers' or Waitstaffs' tips? My gentle probing showed that typical wonderful 20-24 year olds, often students, are simply "happy to get a paycheck". Further gentle questions revealed that the manager keeps the tips because the "tip are fo good food not fo who bring good food to customer". One expensive restaurant allowed the waitress to earn up to 25% of the tips by upselling additional food to original orders depending upon the mood of the manager. Please, discreetly ask your server if they get the tips. Asian food delivery drivers usually get a maximum of 50% of the tip if on credit card. Go ahead and start asking or maybe tip kn cash discretely for excellent service.
People who think continuing to tip automatically is the lesser evil aren't really thinking about it much. Companies will cut costs where they can. So long as customer habits are to tip, companies will keep salaries low. What needs to happen is a change in customer habits that make tipping culture obselete, so companies have to face they can't count on tips and need to pay their service workers themselves.
I cannot afford to tip so I get in the car and drive a mile to the pizza place and pick it up myself, delivery has been a horrible experience, cold food, wrong drinks, some don't come at all or stuff wasn't included in the meal. I'm about to start living in my car so then I can just park or go through the drive through. I believe we should raise the minimum wage to $15.00 - $20.00 an hour, and do away with tipping, people can't live on $7.00 an hour and tips. We can also start making our own pizza and burgers till you make them so good that you won't want commercial made food.
I tip my Domino's Driver... food is always hot and its been the same young lady for about a year now. I tip between $5-$7 for a small pizza and a drink for me and my Son. And if it's bad weather outside, I tip $10 because I don't drive and I appreciate the service... I live far away so when if I decide to use a delivery service, I try my best to tip the driver...
I once delivered from 10 am to 11 pm took almost 30 deliveries and only made $24
I work at dominos as an assistant manager the drivers make 12.50 an hour plus tips and mileage. The delivery fee goes towards paying their salary and mileage. They easily make more then anyone else in the store other then the gm. I make 17 an hour they normally make twenty plus even on a bad night. My full time closers come in at 5pm and leave at 1200-100 having made 100-300 in tips and mileage. Which is more then I make all day same hours. Then they expect sympathy when the inside crew gets nothing for making all of it and gets screamed at when they make mistakes.
One thing that I want to let people know. Most delivery services that have delivery charges, do NOT give it to the driver. The owner gets the majority of it. I've done delivery for many years and what most people think is that the money is going to the driver. Let me give you an example. I've worked with a $4.99 delivery charge and we got $1.60 for gas mileage. I don't think that many people realize where that money is going.
Domino's doesn't do their delivery drivers any favors. I love that that will give the customer $3 off the NEXT order if you pick up your own food. Which to me says, tip three dollars on your next delivery if you are following the companies logic. I think asking for me to tip you a percentage of a takeout order is a bit much, but I always tip. I worked for tips and they can make or break you. But Domino's ad campaign could be detrimental to their delivery drivers and in store staff.
A quick calculation puts that at $ 1200 a month in tips. I know that is not much in the US, but it is about minimum wage for waiters here in Italy. Dies she not get paid any wage, just fuel reimbursement? (Monthly pay calculation based on 5 days/evenings like this a week)
I never understand weird tip amounts, like $5.33. Either tip $5 or $6, unless you're just rounding up.
The machines come back with 15%, 18%, 20% and custom for deliveries in my area. Those totals maybe a result of that maths or, as you said, rounding to the nearest dollar.
Load More Replies... I admire this woman. The main problem with Domino's is that their "delivery fee" is way too high. Its $8.99 where i live. Add to that 10% sales tax plus a tip for the driver, an order that started at $20 quickly becomes $35-$40.
As a former delivery driver myself, tips were never expected. I delivered to someone with a 30-40 dollar order. They handed me a was of cash, and I realized they'd given me $60. I got back out of my car, and told them about the mistake. They told me to keep it for being honest. On the flip side, I delivered.a.$240 order to a church. No tip at all. My manager was more upset by that then I was. Point is, forcing people who work one of the most dangerous jobs no one else wants to do, deserves min wage + tips.
Ok but instead of a white, young, cutesy girl put a black middle age ugly fella... Not the same outcome right? So who gives a f*ck how much tips she makes?The whole thing is completely unfair. From the tipping culture to white privilege
I had a young female customer who made blatant advances to get out of paying. She stood there, and was like "what I would t do for a pizza." I just looked at the price and said "paying me this much would be a good start." Jailbait over pizza? No thanks.
Load More Replies... I like to tip but the cost of food and drink has gone up so much that I'm close to not being able to eat at a place where it's normal to tip.
i always tip, grocery delivery or food. usually between 10-15% but i literally have a 10 yard walk from car to my gate. if i had stairs, or like with groceries, if it was heavy items such as water or 20lb animal food bags, i always hand them a few extra bucks. another way to look at it is $5 for the 10-15 min between stops could add up - 4 - 6 stops per hour, maybe an additional $20/hour wage just in tips. but use of their own vehicle is a bit different, wear n tear and gas, that adds up.
She got more money in her first tip than a friend has had income in 10 years who is disabled because there is no support and the partner is having to struggle with work just because of health matter to so they live off one wage. They have tried finding a job but no one wants to employ them because of their health.
Does she get paid a wage as well? Non US here, and delivery drivers get at least minimum wage here plus their tips (tends to be around 10% rather than 20)
So when everyone goes out to eat, you tip right? All drivers do is drive right? waitresses walk it out to you. Drivers drive to the restaurant deal with the drama there, that clearly you don't want to do and then drive with their gas, their time, the traffic, insurance, wear and tear on tires..etc to make a small amount of money and still do their very best to make everyone happy. All that isn't worth a tip?
Not counting what she earned for mileage pay and her hourly pay. That's not bad money.
Load More Replies... Those delivery charges are 100% profit for the company. Not a dime goes to the driver. They get on average 1 dollar or so per delivery or so many cents a mile plus tips. Delivery charges are a scam. It is pure profit for nothing
So when everyone goes out to eat, you tip right? All drivers do is drive right? waitresses walk it out to you. Drivers drive to the restaurant deal with the drama there, that clearly you don't want to do and then drive with their gas, their time, the traffic, insurance, wear and tear on tires..etc to make a small amount of money and still do their very best to make everyone happy. All that isn't worth a tip?
Wrong perspective. Turn it around and put it on the employer not the customer
Load More Replies... Refusing to tip does not constitute a fight against the system, it screws the person who needs to put gas in their car to bring their food to you. Yes tipping is out of hand. The delivery charge does Not go to driver, it pays for insurance for the restaurant. It's always the people with expensive homes/cars/jewelry who tip zero. I worked at a pizza place for several years as a cook and we could tell by the cost of the order and where it was going whether the driver would get tipped. Going to a run down trailer park? Decent tip because they know what it's like to work in service. Delivering to a McMansion? Rounded up to the nearest dollar on credit card or handed exact change. Exception there is delivering to local celebrities, the Packer's manager and players often gave between 20-100$ depending on time of year. I tip 30% but it's based on service, if i don't have the money to tip i don't order. And that is how it should be, it's a luxury service and not a need.
Sometimes it is a need for some. Lots of older folk or disabled people who may rely on the services for groceries but be unable to tip (or tip a lot). Lots of people always forget the people that can't leave the house nor the ones who don't get help much.
Load More Replies... I'm curious what her hourly is. As an app driver, we get paid about enough to cover expenses of driving by GrubHub/DoorDash and the like. Domino's drivers are employees though, so I'd think they make at least minimum wage, unlike app drivers. For app drivers, we're contract workers, meaning the customer is actually the employer, the app is just the middle man. So when customers refuse to "tip" they are actually requesting we work entirely for free, since we will make Zero profit. For us, the customer is our employer, and their "tip" is basically the entirety of our actual pay. It's not actually a tip, it's actually a contract offer: what the customer is offering a contracted driver in exchange for a service. Which is why no-tip orders often don't get accepted by drivers. Why would you drive fifteen miles round trip plus take the time to pick up and deliver for $2.25 basepay? It'll probably take a half hour total at least. Between gas prices, maintenance, insurance you'd lose $.
No where does it state that we are hiring app drivers for delivery.
Load More Replies... Wish I could reply to the comments from TikTok that are in the article. Here are my responses, you can try to figure out who I'm replying to: 1) Domino's is franchised, so each location (or small group of locations) is a small business with its own company name. They pay a licensing fee to Domino's to use their name. 2) Drivers usually do way more than just deliver the pizza. As soon as you walk back in the store, there's *something* that needs to be done. Some drivers are lazy and don't do much, but some are hustlers and help with everything. 3) Domino's is only expensive if you don't use the deals. Stick to the deals and it's pretty cheap for pizza. It's really hard to find a decent 2-topping medium pizza for less than $7.4) For pizza delivery, tipping per item makes sense to me too. Though that generally makes very little difference compared to tipping by price. I'd say $1-2/item, minimum $3. 5) I once delivered 20+ pizzas to a church youth event at midnight for no tip. Edit: what part of this offended people?
Im in the UK. If its bad weather or a public holiday I'll tip because they're working through rubbish conditions but I don't normally tip drivers. This is because I have paid a service fee for the ordering process and a separate fee to have it delivered. They have not gone above and beyond their job role. I have not received anything extra so what am I tipping for. When I order the pizza it is significantly more than the cost of ingredients because I am paying for them to cook it and bring it to me so why do I now pay extra for "service" as well as delivery.
Load More Replies... What a convoluted argument to justify the unjustifiable. That's why Europe has much better labor laws.
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