I was originally thinking about delivery (isn’t it basically the same effort to deliver 1 or 2 pizzas?). Shouldn’t delivery tipping be based on distance/effort rather than cost of food?
The same goes for restaurants, of course. If I go with a friend and we have the same meal but I have three glasses of wine, and she has three cokes, I am expected to tip more, but the server’s effort is the same for each of us.
Was it always like this or did it change with time?
Note: I’m only trying to understand this aspect of Us tipping culture. I know that tipping isn’t the norm everywhere.
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I’ve generally try to go by both.
But it’s harder to quantify effort, so you start with an easy to get number, and adjust from there. Effort can have a lot of invisible parts to it as well as far as a customer goes.
And yeah, for simple stuff like you mentioned where it’s just handing over a counter, or short deliveries, I’ll work closer to a flat rate than one based on price. Because yeah, 2 medium one topping pizzas on a deal costs a lot less than 2 large specialties with a fairly minor coupon, but it delivers exactly the same.
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