{"id":844,"date":"2015-12-29T13:24:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2015-12-29T13:24:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T18:24:37","slug":"delivery-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/?p=844","title":{"rendered":"Delivery Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to do a quick blog post about pizza delivery fees. As some of you know, I used to do pizza delivery for Domino&#8217;s back in college. Fun times. Lots of stories.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, pizza drivers are making less today than what I made when I did it due to delivery fees that pizza and other delivery places put onto the price of the order.<\/p>\n<p>The summer I delivered pizza, it used to be $15.75 for the 555 deal from Domino&#8217;s. People would usually be nice and give the full $20 for tip; so we&#8217;d get $4.75 tip. I come into work one day, first order is a 555, go to the dude&#8217;s house and notice that it&#8217;s now $16.75&#8230; I thought he might have ordered an extra topping or something&#8230; Nope, it was the new $1 delivery fee. All of a sudden I was getting less money with the 555&#8217;s. Not only that, a lot of people stopped tipping as much since they were under the false assumption that the extra $1 went to the driver when it did not. It went to corporate profits.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Huffington Post - How Your Pizza Delivery Guy Is Getting Stiffed This Super Bowl\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/01\/30\/pizza-delivery-charge_n_4694554.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post did a good article on it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So just to set the record straight: a delivery fee DOES NOT go to the driver. Please tip these guys. It&#8217;s hard for them. It&#8217;s their wear and tear on their cars. They live off minimum wage and tips and whatever minuscule money they get per run (when I did it it was 85 cents a run).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to do a quick blog post about pizza delivery fees. As some of you know, I used to do pizza delivery for Domino&#8217;s back in college. Fun times. Lots of stories. Anyway, pizza drivers are making less today than what I made when I did it due to delivery fees that pizza and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,8,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debunking","category-money","category-personal","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":845,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions\/845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.longlivethemonkey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}