How Much You Should Tip for Pizza Delivery

It’s easy to forget that pizza delivery does not need to be ‘in the same lane’ as Uber Eats. Most pizzerias are not taking their chances on app drivers—usually, these are people who are directly employed by the restaurant. Their income does not rely on bonus fees or suggested tips on an app screen, and that little bit extra you finance does ultimately get to them while pizza is just one industry that has a tipping based economy.

So, if you are minding how much to tip, think about all of it. How far, how hard, how messy of day it is. Think about what you would like to hope someone might have thought of if you were traversing potholes in a ramshackle truck, bringing hot food to a stranger’s door. Then throw in a buck. That would be the average amount.

By the way, once you have tipped your pizza delivery driver, maybe take a moment to consider hotel housekeeping too. That’s an entire other way of tipping… and it’s just as complicated.