Tip Amount Options

[DoubleJ]

Ok, so I just got my Papa Johns delivery, and I am looking over the receipt, when I come across something interesting. They charge you for them to deliver the pizza. Now I have no problem tipping people, but my question is this:

Should you HAVE to tip the driver if they are already giving him/her the delivery charge?

[T00000]

It's just really interesting, because a lot of Americans have taken the whole tipping situation and ran with it. It's no secret that America has the best customer service in the world because of tipping. But I guarantee you that 90% of all servers you ask would prefer to get paid hourly, even if it's less than what they're making now. Why? Because getting paid in tips sucks.

Some customers think a tip is extra, and you only deserve one if you go above and beyond for their fat ass eating their 4000 calorie dinner.

Some customers think that, just because they're in control of your tip, you have to do whatever they want for the whole hour. I had one guy at my table harass me and ask me for my number, threatening to not give me a tip if I didn't give it to him. I didn't, and he didn't tip me (on an $80 bill, by the way, so I missed out on $16 because of that chauvinistic pig). You get people asking you to check the scores of games, you get people asking you to watch their babies and to not leave the table while they go to the restroom, you get people asking you to cut their bread and put butter on it for them... all these things while you're busy, and trying to work on your other tables too. And if don't do any of these things in a satisfactory way, there goes your tip!

Some customers are rude, demanding, and genuinely affect your ability to wait on your other tables because they want all your attention. Then you get a shitty tip from all your tables.

Of course, even though I'm not waiting tables right now, that's what I did for the past two years and I'll tell you this much...
If you're getting bad service, you're probably in a cheap restaurant where waitresses just don't give a f*ck... or your server can tell you will be a bad tipper. All the typical stereotypes aside, waiters can tell if you are a bad tipper just by your attitude.


Anyways, most people earn money by putting in hours and going to work. If a server went to work for six hours, but unfortunately only had one table, and their well-done steak took a long time to come out (so it SURELY must be the bad service, right???) and the idiot table tips the server $8 on an $80 bill... the server just made $8 working 6 hours. But I guess the server deserves that, right, for not having a better job?