I usualy tip delivery guy 2-3 bucks. Maybe less if I am paying for delivery, maybe a little more if I making him deliver in miserable weather
Note that it is extremely rare that any delivery charge gets to the delivery person (who usually also pays for their own gas). After baristas, they were the group I most changed my mind about after reading
Keep the Change.
In addition to getting really screwed pay-wise, it was clear that you get a real benefit from being a regular good tipper on delivery.
Again, according to
Keep the Change,
you should always tip on the full value of the service, regardless of Groupons, gift certificates, etc.
Massages fall into that same area as haircuts where I feel reluctant to tip for the same thing that I'm paying upfront for in the first place. I don't tip my mechanic; he's not providing an additional service beyond the one I'm buying.
meara, I've only been to one massage place that was so "medical" they didn't accept tips, and it was posted all over the place. Since then, I ask if I'm not sure, and the answer has always been, yeah, tip.
Speaking of tip, do you tip the guy who takes your car at the dealership? It never occurred to me until I saw the guy in front of me tip the porter. Is that normal? And if so, how much?
Speaking of tip, do you tip the guy who takes your car at the dealership?
No idea, but I remember that valets (similar to repeated food delivery) was another category where a tip upfront made a big difference to where your car was put and how quickly it was delivered upon retrieval.
Do you tip waiters?
I think that's different, since servers are paid a reduced wage based on the presumption that that people will tip 15%.
Do you tip waiters?
Yes, but there the basic thing I'm paying upfront for is the food.
Again, according to Keep the Change, you should always tip on the full value of the service, regardless of Groupons, gift certificates, etc.
Oh sure--and I normally would (have at my waxer, etc). In this case, though, because it was already paid for, I didn't have the chance to see if, say, they had a tip line on the charge receipt.