A Delivery of Suck

[Aethian]

Geez Aethian, I can forgive the comments where you don't hear them, all employees complain about perceived sucky areas and/or customers. But to call your home trailer trash to your face? Lack of class, all around.

wasn't to my face, it was overheard from behind the wall deprecating the kitchen and the till

[bainsidhe]

Still, you don't do that where customers might hear you, it's still pretty crappy. Plus I don't understand the trailer trash comment if they weren't delivering there.

Not sure if this store could mark comments on an address, but you'd think somebody would mark that your address was a decent tipping customer. Delivery drivers I knew would mark your address with hearts and stars if they could. We took care of our tipping customers.

[Aethian]

That's how I had always good delivery before and then it was a semester change...and good bye good delivery.

[Sapphire Silk]

I myself would have NOT tipped the driver.

again a BIG NO-NO for the driver. sorry again speaking as a driver, I will never TRY AND INTENTIONALLY SCAM OR CHEAT A CUSTOMER with this method for a bigger tip. I usually carry a "secret" stash of bills on my person for that rare occasion.

That's what I did, when I did delivery . . . I kept my bank and my tips separate (mostly because I didn't want my manager to know how good my tips; it wasn't unusual for me to go home with $75-100 cash in tip money--I was a hustler). And yeah, that's a no no. But having worked a job where I needed the tips to make a decent income, I'm reluctant to stiff a delivery driver, waitress, or barman on a tip unless they really piss me off. Which rarely happens; I almost always get excellent service.

There is a pizza place around here that states they have a five mile radius for delivery. I'm within that radius but apparently I'm outside of it...now.

I tip well and the old crew knew that. But then they got a new crew in and I would try to order and be told they don't go that far, do I would cancel my order. <snip>

When my order came in he was surprised to hear drivers call out to cancel it. When he asked why he was told that, that park doesn't tip and routinely tries to stiff them. He said that sounded wrong and that he had delivered to me several times before he graduated and that I always tipped well. The others played the whole, trailer park trash, card and refused to make my order.
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Reason why I refuse to enter that place anymore? I went in once for breadsticks and when they took my name it brought up my address and someone mentioned not going out to that trash trailer park. I think he missed on the ticket where it said "IN" not "OUT". But that's okay the cool guy was only seasonal help.

The pizza place I worked for was the only place in town that would deliver outside the city limits. So a couple of really nice bedroom communities in the country ordered from us all the time. Most of them tipped well, too, because they knew we were the only game in town.

Problem was, it racked up the mileage costs the owner had to pay the drivers (we got 90 cents over minimum wage plus tips plus 7 cents per mile, remember this was 1988). Plus those were still the days of 30 minutes or less. And we did have quite a few folks with stop watches. We ended up giving away a lot of product because of that. Add to that, the owner did little to make his place stand above and beyond Dominoes (even tho our pies tasted just like theirs, and were competitively priced). So even though we were busy, he was losing money hand over fist. He lasted a couple of years before he went out of business.

We did have areas we didn't like to delivery to, but we never refused a delivery. The "bad" part of town where all the drugs got sold ordered a lot from us (I think the guy who owned Dominoes refused to deliver there), but they were terrible tippers. Always wanted exact change. One of the local drug lords ordered from us all the time; I delivered there a lot. He'd always pull a wad of $100's from his wallet, always wanted exact change, and never ever tipped, not even once. I laughed when I saw on the news he'd finally been busted. I mean really, when you live in a small house with a cast iron fence and a limo in the front drive that's located in the worst part of town, what do you expect people to think you do for a living?

The biggest reason we didn't like going to that part of town was robberies. A couple of our drivers, and a couple of Dominoes drivers got robbed in that part of town doing deliveries. So anytime we delivered there, we sent a cook to "ride shotgun" (which left the store short staffed), especially if the driver was female. I was glad of it, too: having a shot gun saved me from a robbery that was about to happen; the thugs backed off when the cook (who was a big muscular guy) got out of my car.

I never had a problem going to the trailer parks, though the tipping was hit or miss.

[HappyFun Ball]

Yeah, I've been asked if I wanted a tip, that one is easy to answer, I just say "Oh yes, please".. It's when they ask how much I want is what gets me.. I'm tempted to say "All of it", but I don't.

[Setsunaela]

Back before I moved we ordered regularly from one particular chinese food place. It was a long shot the first time as I knew no one who ordered from there, my grandma claimed it was "too small to trust"... >.>
It was the owner, a lovely (she was soo pretty) Chinese woman who took the orders, two men in the kitchen, and one man delivering. At first we only ordered delivery but then I realized it was right up the street, so we'd phone in orders and I'd go pick them up, or I'd call in an order before I left work and pick it up on the way home.
We usually got the same thing, two lunch specials apiece, one for lunch and one for dinner. I'd always get the same thing and so would hubby. We always tipped very well, even when I went in to pick up I'd put a small tip on the CC slip. After the first three orders (where they learned how we tipped and whatnot) we always ended up with a mysterious extra food item, like a large main dish like combination lo mein, or house fried rice, or a large general tso's or orange chicken, or a large sugar donut, or free soda (always diet ^_^ ). I even called and told them, the first time, because I thought it was a mistake! (A large general tso's chicken that time)
Even when I came in for pick-up, she would offer me a free can soda for myself and one to take home to Hubby, or if I only ordered one thing she'd say "No husband today? He working?" It was wonderful. I recommended them to my friends all of the time, and I noticed a longer wait on deliveries after a while, and they hired a new girl to take orders and help deliver, too! She was so sad when we told her it was our last order because we were moving

[Sapphire Silk]

After the first three orders (where they learned how we tipped and whatnot) we always ended up with a mysterious extra food item, like a large main dish like combination lo mein, or house fried rice, or a large general tso's or orange chicken, or a large sugar donut, or free soda (always diet ^_^ ). I even called and told them, the first time, because I thought it was a mistake! (A large general tso's chicken that time)

The Chinese place I go to is like this. The woman who runs it started giving me free drinks for no other reason than I'm a pretty regular customer (once a week, usually).

[ralerin]

I don't order delivery but the Thai place Best Friend and I frequent love us because we always tip well. The owner will give us a bunch of fortune cookies.

[Moosenogger]

I tend to normally tip over 20% whenever possible. (Like when I go out to dinner and have a $20 meal, I'll normally tip $5-$6, depending on the service.) That's why the delivery driver's comment pissed me off so much - I wasn't screwing her out of anything, and she was too stupid to realize it.

[Sarlon]

my friend andI found a REALLY good sushi place here in town.

its kinda pricey, but the food is WORTH it. We sit at the sushi bar and watch the Master Chef prepare the sushi and some prep work and eat a boat load of suhsi ($50 for 26 pieces in total).

First time we went it was for my friends birthday, and the poor guy didn't understand much or any english, bu he certainly understood our smiling faces, thumbs up, words of wonderfulness, and heart felt smiles. I felt bad that I didn't have any cash to give in the tip jar (i almost never have cash and didn't know what to expect) but i asked the waitress to take some of the tip from the credit card slip to give to him.

that was in november, fast forward to christmas time and my friend and I go again as a special treat, this time I DO have cash on me, and we order the same thing. Same guy from last time, and remebered us ^^ even managed to ask how we were doing.

We order the same thing again since we enjoyed it so much, and get to watch him make a few other platters ahead of ours, then watch him make something interesting with bananas, some sort of sweet sauce and a cucumber. I commented to my friend that that looked interesting, an next thing I know he presents us with two small saucers with that exact item on it, saying "compliment of chef"

$10 tip for him and a generous tip for our waitress. god I wish I could go back more.

[BeeMused]

*drool* Good sushi places tend to be pricey, but really fresh fish and all the other ingredients are expensive. I have a small sushi take away just round the corner, expensive, yeah, but sooooo good. And now I'm going to get me some, and it's your fault, Sarlon!