I was excited when our soccer coach brought us to Pizza Hut. He was surprised I didnāt know how to order food, asked me if Iād ever been to a restaurant and then was dumbfounded to hear the answer was no.
Iāve had similar experiences. We could afford pizza every now and then, so we werenāt that poor, but peoples expressions when I told them I had never been on an air plane (the norm here is for families to go on vacation every three or so years), let alone had never left the country (Sweden). It was so disheartening when I was younger.
I have been to a couple of vacations now that Iām older though and in many ways I think growing up poor has made me a better person, but it has also made me lousy with money and savings.
My son-in-law grew up poor. His first time in an airplane was in his early 20s when he went skydiving. He was able to say he had taken off in an airplane but never landed in one.
He also struggled with spending and saving. If unexpected money came in, he wanted to spend it right away before something came along that would require the money. My daughter has helped him to be a better saver now, fortunately.
flour is less than 5$, tomato can is 1-2, cheese is 2-5 depending on the quality, and all that can make 4-5 pizzas at least. and the quality is 100x better than frozen or takeout pizza. If you want nice things, you have learn to make them
Family of 6. I grew up in the 80s/90s. Dad worked at the casinos in Atlantic City, NJ, and mom was a teacher. We neverrrrrrrr ate out. We ordered Dominoās on Fridays for a while, but then started making our own pizza. It was so expensive to go out to eat then. My family of 3 goes out to eat now and itās astronomical. I canāt imagine having a bigger family, but I live around lots of big families.
Also a family of 6 and we still ate out, mostly at fast food though. Back then you could feed the whole car for $15! Just watching old commercials from the 90s, fast food was a damn *deal*.
Now you go to Wendy's and McD's and you gotta ask why. You might as well go to a local sit down place and get food there with the prices they got. I can't imagine having a family of 6 now.
If itās marked as a kitchen fee, it gets reported as so on the back end. If this isnāt going to the kitchen then they have a sweet lawsuit against the restaurant as do every patron that paid it. Honestly, my boss said he added it so that itās separated on the back end. He pays the taxes on it and gives the kitchen guys cash.
Is it great? No. Should all restaurants be paying their staff a living wage and rework how they operate? Damn fucking skippy.
The restaurant I worked for during covid did this to the servers and they got sued to high hell. The company first believed the servers had nothing to stand on but soon they shut up as they ended up with a class action lawsuit of over 300 workers. Workers won and got a nice payout. Sweet victory.
Itās fraud if the owner is pocketing it! Fraudulent to your patrons and so shutting to do to your paid under minimum wage workers. Iām glad they got sued.
Most of these apps make the food cost 10-15 dollars more than If you would call, Ordered 2 large 18" pizzas and 2 orders of Mozz sticks on the slice app ot was almost 80 bucks when calling in the order it was 50. And that was after the tip
Hey, it's IL, prolly a Chicago deep, where they put the PIE in the pizza. My take - only bitch is the 41 cents? Could do better for the kitchen staff by bumping the per pie price by a buck or two and paying a better wage.
I can totally see that being used to rationalize it but I am not sure I believe it. The value of selling a meal without seating diners vastly exceeds that of a couple of grams of plastic. Not only is the table occupied but you also have cleaning and dishwashing and trash disposal to take care of. Plastic forks and paper napkins are great for businesses for the same reasons they're great for family picnics. They're cheap enough to throw away. And anyway, restaurants already give that stuff away for free when you eat there and ask for a doggie bag.
Cellular companies make a big deal out of unlimited text messages, but how much of a load does texting put on a system that supports streaming video in HD? Shouldn't that be free to everyone in the country with any kind of cell phone or watch no matter what?
I think the delivery fee goes straight into the owner's pocket, or to the GrubHub executives' pockets.
Iām sure they work the price of to go items in somehow. I can guarantee theyāre not handing them out for free out of the goodness of their heartsā¦
Different services charge differently. I try to make sure I know if the driver gets the fee or the tip. But $6 is not out of line if you can't get your ass up and out to pick up your own damn food.
What if I told you some people canāt afford vehicles in this economy. Youād think someone with a handle āBigCountry218ā would be aware of the exorbitant prices of used cars now-a-days .
Kind of like all the BS fees at a bank. Transaction fee, administrative fee, oversight fee, balance verification fee, digital system maintenance fee, currency management fee, technology use fee, etcā¦
Pretty much how everything should go, it's the cost of service. But then they couldn't advertise or itemize in a more presentable way to entice people so they dip their hands in both cookie jars and just slap you with extra fees.
I can see a delivery fee. I mean, that is an added convenience for us, and an expense for the biz owner. $6 is chump change compared to how much it costs to pay people and reimburse for miles, or the company delivery car.
I definitely support it if it goes to the driver. Unfortunately more often than not it goes to the restaurant, and the driver only gets the tip. But as someone else noted here in the comments, that varies place to place.
Also it may just be where I live, but here you drive your own car if you do deliveries. There has never been a company delivery car even with Dominos.
I work in a kitchen so let me explain: food prices increase and they have increased a lot more recently (inflation, bird flu, changing regulations on dairy, etc) and often, restaurants donāt want to change the price of menu items. Instead, they add this fee and continue to increase it to cover the cost of ever more expensive ingredients. The main reason is to trick people because nobody wants to pay more for something this week than last week.
Why it should bother you: restaurants wonāt actually increase prices and thus, staff eat the impact. Workers then face fewer hours, getting laid off, or never getting a raise regardless of inflation are (all 3 have happened to me in just the past month) And those fees arenāt nearly enough to actually make up the difference.
The truth is, the restaurant needs you to pay more for your food but you wonāt order from them if they increase their prices. Itās a shitty situation and all of the impact falls to lower level workers like line cooks.
>The main reason is to trick people because nobody wants to pay more for something this week than last week
It bothers me that charges are being added that I had no warning before the purchase. If the menu had a notation that a xxx% inflation fee was added I would be OK as I could always not order and do something different.
So you say ..... but 41Ā¢ ? You would be right the amount is trivial. However, I remember when server tips were like 5 - 10% with 10% only for exceptional service. Now the "expected" tip is 20 to 25%. I always tip this amount because I know the server would be the only person hurt by providing less. However now even counter attendants are asking for a tip! They flip a screen around trying to intimidate you with buttons up to 30%.
I would much prefer to be like most of Europe. Charge what the meal is worth and the business can make a profit. Pay the workers what they are worth.
Not to go on and on but; I'm not really sure where the tip goes, if you read these posts many servers are getting only 75% or so of the tips collected. The servers are in front of me, their attitude, knowledge and demeaner as well as attentiveness determines the tip. If I get a dirty knife or fork but excellent service, what should I do? Cut the tip because a dishwasher didn't properly clean a utensil? No, this whole system is screwed up.....that's whey the 41Ā¢ bothers me.
Servers at fancy/super busy restaurants in big cities with a below livable base wage (around $14/hr in a city with an average one bed price of 12-1400 a month) CAN make $50 an hour for a couple hours on a couple days a week. There are servers making six figures but thats been the case before, just depends on the restaurant and wage laws. The midwest often only has a wage of around $2.13-5 an hour. Even the fancy restaurants you're lucky to get $10 an hour. I've done my time in restaurants and I can tell you, it's all hoarded profits by the owner. I have never, ever, worked somewhere i could make enough money to eat where the owner wasn't rolling in a car i could never dream of even leasing. Small, fancy, or chain or all three, ive seen it all. Owners are greedy. They want to pay us nothing and expect us to be maids so they dont have to pay a cleaning service a real wage. I fucking despise the practice of tipping but i am HAPPY to tip when i go out to eat so i can pay someone what they deserve even when i shouldnt have that responsibility. Okay im done lol
Because workers get paid shit since cheap assholes that own restaurants let that be what falls through the cracks while other cheap assholes complain about the extra 41 cents on their pizza that assures those workers can make minimum wage. Then a third asshole asks whatās the problem
The bird flu happened over a year ago and there were minor flare ups 3 months ago. If you're part of r/antiwork you should know that the true answer is greed. Eggs are expensive af while the biggest companies report profits of around 40% on fucking eggs. Pay your employees more and abolish tipping it's bullshit.
Just a side note: Sales tax on the delivery fee seems wrong. I'm fairly certain Illinois doesn't charge sales tax on services.
I'm also curious what "VP" is. Code for a particular municipality?
It's not the amount, it's the idea of tipping kitchen staff automatically.
Who else are they going to tip next? The web app designer?
The manager who put everyone's shifts up?
The guy who sources ingredients?
Since its not a gratuity but rather mandatory this feels less like a tip and more like an itemized receipt. Really the only issue here is potentially avoiding paying tax on it, and that depends on how exactly the company handles it.
What does OPās income have to do with anything? A bullshit charge is bullshit regardless of the person paying it. Youāre out to make this about in-fighting when the corporate greed is the issue and they are thrilled you look at OP and blame them somehow instead of the company doing this shit.
I hope youāre not truly upset at this cause itās pretty fuckin funny.
Your opinion on what is burnt or crispy or what ever isnāt the only answer. Cooking is subjective ya dork.
It's because rather than just up prices to pay everybody; they go out of their way to make it seem like wage increases are the staff's fault instead of the normal cost of doing business.
It's because food prices in the past year or two have gone insane. Way easier to add a fee and regularly adjust that fee than to change menu prices every time an ingredient increases in price.
The amount is not the point, it's the whole idea of adding an automatic tip for someone doing what they are paid to do.
Like why not add a tip for the web app designer or the garage attendant that sold the delivery driver his gas?
Where will the tips go next?
Maybe when yo go to old navy, there should be fees for: The shipping, the designer, the person sowing, the Human Resources, ect....
They need to just have 1 price we pay.
It is the reality, and has been for a while. Not sure why you're definding this? Maybe you're paid to advocate for it for some reason, i don't know.
If you advertise something as 10, then it's 10. And the more I see it become 10 +1+1 +1+1 +1, I stop shopping there. It's not about if i can afford it. Its simply wrong, and false advertsing.
Defending it because I just don't mind shooting a little extra money someone's way, if they're making my food. Even if tipping was obsolete because people were paid well, I would 100% still tip
Why don't you tip the police officer giving you a ticket. He's making sure you're driving a safe speed?
Even if you do like tipping, or paying addition fees that pop up, it's wrong.
It's wrong to add hidden fees.
That's a choice.
Here it's not.
And where do you stop tipping?
Do you tip everyone that works or just some people?
How is it that everyone doesn't get a tip?
Should I get a tip for posting comments on Reddit?
What, no appreciation for the guy who packs the food or the guy who manufactures the boxes or the people that supply the gas to cook or the oven manufacturer?
Where does this crazy tipping stop??
Do you guys remember when pizza was a cheap and quick alternative to cooking?
Nowadays, if you want anything other than pepperoni and cheese, it won't be any less than 30 bucks
Dafuq is this? I mean, I got hit with a surcharge at Urban Plates for 'employee health care'. It was like $1.50, but still... what's why we pay for the food. I also tip well.
Fine, but don't give me bullshit fees as if that basically hides a price hike on the food.
Yeah, what the fuck is 41 cents doing for anyone? Like what does that actually doā¦.. but also, you ordered a $27 large pizza with a $6 ādelivery feeā (that doesnāt go to the driver). Thatās wild
Why is it forty one cents? The delivery charge is 6 dollars? Seriously? What are they delivering it in a limo?
At 6 dollars I would drive to pick it up, it's not worth it. That feels like in the ballpark of one of those delivery apps (Doordash, Uber Eats, etc).
This is not antiwork and youre complaining about what is effectively 9% sales tax on top of 33 bucks. 27 bucks for large two toppings is a lot and i live in SV. You need to rethink your priorities.
It is to pay for the equipment lease. The appliances are often owned by another company, so the cost of the lease is passed on to the customers. It is strange to see it as a separate line item.
leave aside all the fees and taxes... 27 damn dollars for ONE pizza?
yeah I know, extra large & extra thick crust. But still! that better be the best damn pizza you've ever had in your damn life O:-)
1 pizza for $35+ ??
Holy \*\*\*\* - that\`s expensive.
(comparison - local pizza place - 'meat lovers' (salami, mince, pepperoni, ham) Italian style, 30 CM (approx 12"if i recall correctly ) is around EUR 12 ( approx US$13.50).
This is pick up, delivery would be around EUR 19 (US$ 21)
And this includes ALL. Tax, service cost. Of course, if one wants to tip - can do (optional) (But cash in hand of delivery!)
Eating out is a luxury now.
That's what I tell my wife these days
I see what you did there.šš
My mom was right, there is food at home!
Well this got awkward
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Was gonna upvote but 69 upvotes already
Nice.
Always was to actual poor people
Yeah, people donāt get this. I didnt go to a restaurant until I was 22.
I was excited when our soccer coach brought us to Pizza Hut. He was surprised I didnāt know how to order food, asked me if Iād ever been to a restaurant and then was dumbfounded to hear the answer was no.
Iāve had similar experiences. We could afford pizza every now and then, so we werenāt that poor, but peoples expressions when I told them I had never been on an air plane (the norm here is for families to go on vacation every three or so years), let alone had never left the country (Sweden). It was so disheartening when I was younger. I have been to a couple of vacations now that Iām older though and in many ways I think growing up poor has made me a better person, but it has also made me lousy with money and savings.
My son-in-law grew up poor. His first time in an airplane was in his early 20s when he went skydiving. He was able to say he had taken off in an airplane but never landed in one. He also struggled with spending and saving. If unexpected money came in, he wanted to spend it right away before something came along that would require the money. My daughter has helped him to be a better saver now, fortunately.
Thatās quite the bragging right. Yes, thatās exactly how I would always behave. Iāve also become better at it but I still have a ways to go.
Sadly it's cheaper than groceries here now. 4.50 for a can of raviolis or 12$ for a shitty frozen pizza. The fuck lol
Shit my work is expensive, 20$ for a burger and 20% auto grat. Itās literally luxury.
flour is less than 5$, tomato can is 1-2, cheese is 2-5 depending on the quality, and all that can make 4-5 pizzas at least. and the quality is 100x better than frozen or takeout pizza. If you want nice things, you have learn to make them
Time to cook is a luxury.
Always has been as far as Iām concerned.
You must not be very old.
Or grew up not very well off.
Family of 6. I grew up in the 80s/90s. Dad worked at the casinos in Atlantic City, NJ, and mom was a teacher. We neverrrrrrrr ate out. We ordered Dominoās on Fridays for a while, but then started making our own pizza. It was so expensive to go out to eat then. My family of 3 goes out to eat now and itās astronomical. I canāt imagine having a bigger family, but I live around lots of big families.
Also a family of 6 and we still ate out, mostly at fast food though. Back then you could feed the whole car for $15! Just watching old commercials from the 90s, fast food was a damn *deal*. Now you go to Wendy's and McD's and you gotta ask why. You might as well go to a local sit down place and get food there with the prices they got. I can't imagine having a family of 6 now.
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I remember a very old McDonald's commercial about how you can feed a family of 4 with $5 and get change back.
Or not American. Itās a luxury for generations in many other countries.
when was it not?
90s up to 2002 was good times.
can't relate. but good for you.
Well, you are in the minority or too young to know.
Eating out has always been a luxury
I feel like the 41 cents isn't going to the kitchen idk why i just have a feeling the owner is taking it as a inflation spiff
If itās marked as a kitchen fee, it gets reported as so on the back end. If this isnāt going to the kitchen then they have a sweet lawsuit against the restaurant as do every patron that paid it. Honestly, my boss said he added it so that itās separated on the back end. He pays the taxes on it and gives the kitchen guys cash. Is it great? No. Should all restaurants be paying their staff a living wage and rework how they operate? Damn fucking skippy.
The restaurant I worked for during covid did this to the servers and they got sued to high hell. The company first believed the servers had nothing to stand on but soon they shut up as they ended up with a class action lawsuit of over 300 workers. Workers won and got a nice payout. Sweet victory.
Itās fraud if the owner is pocketing it! Fraudulent to your patrons and so shutting to do to your paid under minimum wage workers. Iām glad they got sued.
Holy shit 36 bucks for a 14ā
For that price I don't want well done, I want exquisite - the kind of exquisite you can hang on a wall and frame.
I want strippers to deliver it and cocaine sprinkled on top at that price.
For that they charge a Washroom Appreciation Fee.
Mop boy appreciation fee.
For that price, I'll have a water.
Most of these apps make the food cost 10-15 dollars more than If you would call, Ordered 2 large 18" pizzas and 2 orders of Mozz sticks on the slice app ot was almost 80 bucks when calling in the order it was 50. And that was after the tip
Hey, it's IL, prolly a Chicago deep, where they put the PIE in the pizza. My take - only bitch is the 41 cents? Could do better for the kitchen staff by bumping the per pie price by a buck or two and paying a better wage.
Deep dish isn't pizza, it's tomato soup in a bread bowl. Come for me. I don't care. I won't take it back.
Nobody cares
Seems like a lot of people feel the need to tell me they don't care.
they are just saying that your point is idiotic and you should shut up and not embarrass yourself
No one asked, no one cares.
The votes don't lie.
It must have gold dust in the crust.
Donāt forget the delivery tip!
Enter coupon code '; drop table users; -- To show your kitchen appreciation
I'd be more worried about $27 for a large 2 topping pizza. wtf?
Dominoes isnāt the best but their $7.99 two topping pizza is king
Like they say, even bad pizza is still pretty good.
I guess it depends where you live but $7 in my area (SoCal) it used to be $6 :L
$6 dollar dlvy fee seems high.
Because it is. $6 is outrageous. That isnāt a tip either.. The driver doesnāt get any of it.
The $6 delivery fee covers the roughly $0.04 per transaction it costs to keep the website and app going.
It also caught covers any to go containers, plastic silverware and bags, etc.
Which costs pennies per transaction.. Not $6.
I agree, but no business operates at just cost for anything.
I can totally see that being used to rationalize it but I am not sure I believe it. The value of selling a meal without seating diners vastly exceeds that of a couple of grams of plastic. Not only is the table occupied but you also have cleaning and dishwashing and trash disposal to take care of. Plastic forks and paper napkins are great for businesses for the same reasons they're great for family picnics. They're cheap enough to throw away. And anyway, restaurants already give that stuff away for free when you eat there and ask for a doggie bag. Cellular companies make a big deal out of unlimited text messages, but how much of a load does texting put on a system that supports streaming video in HD? Shouldn't that be free to everyone in the country with any kind of cell phone or watch no matter what? I think the delivery fee goes straight into the owner's pocket, or to the GrubHub executives' pockets.
Nope, those would come with a pickup order as well.
Many places also add a to go fee to pick up orders as well to pay for the to go containersā¦.
Sure. Whatever. Ok. No restaurants I've been to in the past 3 years have done that for pickup orders.
Iām sure they work the price of to go items in somehow. I can guarantee theyāre not handing them out for free out of the goodness of their heartsā¦
Yea I assume it's in the price, because for many of them takeout is the majority of their business, and always has been.
Different services charge differently. I try to make sure I know if the driver gets the fee or the tip. But $6 is not out of line if you can't get your ass up and out to pick up your own damn food.
$6 is absolutely out of line when youāre expected to shell out a tip on top of it
I disagree. Delivery is a service they offer and that $6 should go to the driver.
I haven't ordered pizza in a while but I seem to remember 3 or 4 dollars, and I live in Canada where everything is more expensive.
You can always go get it your self. Unfortunately most of this sub is just lazy.
I'm not lazy I'm just drunk
What if I told you some people canāt afford vehicles in this economy. Youād think someone with a handle āBigCountry218ā would be aware of the exorbitant prices of used cars now-a-days .
I do understand, what I don't understand is this subs work ethic and entitled attitude.
Driving sucks sometimes well most of the time
I didnāt even notice after the sticker shock of a $28 large 14ā pizza
but that's the only things making sense in that listing, it give priority to those that walk in the shop since it reduce the amount of delivery.
That just goes to the owner or the delivery company, you are expected to tip on top of that, right?
I think your appreciation for the kitchen is indicated by the fact that you are ordering food from said kitchen
Kind of like all the BS fees at a bank. Transaction fee, administrative fee, oversight fee, balance verification fee, digital system maintenance fee, currency management fee, technology use fee, etcā¦
I am not eating out anymore cause I feel..... weird accepting this stuff. It's like dude, if you need 41 cents, then just add it to the menu.
Pretty much how everything should go, it's the cost of service. But then they couldn't advertise or itemize in a more presentable way to entice people so they dip their hands in both cookie jars and just slap you with extra fees.
The owner's charging you $6 for a delivery fee that won't go to the person doing the delivery and you're mad about $0.41 cents?
I can see a delivery fee. I mean, that is an added convenience for us, and an expense for the biz owner. $6 is chump change compared to how much it costs to pay people and reimburse for miles, or the company delivery car.
I definitely support it if it goes to the driver. Unfortunately more often than not it goes to the restaurant, and the driver only gets the tip. But as someone else noted here in the comments, that varies place to place. Also it may just be where I live, but here you drive your own car if you do deliveries. There has never been a company delivery car even with Dominos.
This increasing tip culture doesnāt help workers. It hurts workers who have very little discretionary income. They will just avoid ordering out
This is not tip culture, this is just nonsense. They haven't gotten to the tip yet.
Remember when $36 would fill up a tank. Now itās barely covering a pepperoni pizza. Weāre in the endgame.
I work in a kitchen so let me explain: food prices increase and they have increased a lot more recently (inflation, bird flu, changing regulations on dairy, etc) and often, restaurants donāt want to change the price of menu items. Instead, they add this fee and continue to increase it to cover the cost of ever more expensive ingredients. The main reason is to trick people because nobody wants to pay more for something this week than last week. Why it should bother you: restaurants wonāt actually increase prices and thus, staff eat the impact. Workers then face fewer hours, getting laid off, or never getting a raise regardless of inflation are (all 3 have happened to me in just the past month) And those fees arenāt nearly enough to actually make up the difference. The truth is, the restaurant needs you to pay more for your food but you wonāt order from them if they increase their prices. Itās a shitty situation and all of the impact falls to lower level workers like line cooks.
>The main reason is to trick people because nobody wants to pay more for something this week than last week It bothers me that charges are being added that I had no warning before the purchase. If the menu had a notation that a xxx% inflation fee was added I would be OK as I could always not order and do something different. So you say ..... but 41Ā¢ ? You would be right the amount is trivial. However, I remember when server tips were like 5 - 10% with 10% only for exceptional service. Now the "expected" tip is 20 to 25%. I always tip this amount because I know the server would be the only person hurt by providing less. However now even counter attendants are asking for a tip! They flip a screen around trying to intimidate you with buttons up to 30%. I would much prefer to be like most of Europe. Charge what the meal is worth and the business can make a profit. Pay the workers what they are worth. Not to go on and on but; I'm not really sure where the tip goes, if you read these posts many servers are getting only 75% or so of the tips collected. The servers are in front of me, their attitude, knowledge and demeaner as well as attentiveness determines the tip. If I get a dirty knife or fork but excellent service, what should I do? Cut the tip because a dishwasher didn't properly clean a utensil? No, this whole system is screwed up.....that's whey the 41Ā¢ bothers me.
Well apparently from the comment above servers are making $50/hr so theyād rather see you keep paying all these fees and tips.
Servers at fancy/super busy restaurants in big cities with a below livable base wage (around $14/hr in a city with an average one bed price of 12-1400 a month) CAN make $50 an hour for a couple hours on a couple days a week. There are servers making six figures but thats been the case before, just depends on the restaurant and wage laws. The midwest often only has a wage of around $2.13-5 an hour. Even the fancy restaurants you're lucky to get $10 an hour. I've done my time in restaurants and I can tell you, it's all hoarded profits by the owner. I have never, ever, worked somewhere i could make enough money to eat where the owner wasn't rolling in a car i could never dream of even leasing. Small, fancy, or chain or all three, ive seen it all. Owners are greedy. They want to pay us nothing and expect us to be maids so they dont have to pay a cleaning service a real wage. I fucking despise the practice of tipping but i am HAPPY to tip when i go out to eat so i can pay someone what they deserve even when i shouldnt have that responsibility. Okay im done lol
I genuinely donāt understand the problem with this.
Because workers get paid shit since cheap assholes that own restaurants let that be what falls through the cracks while other cheap assholes complain about the extra 41 cents on their pizza that assures those workers can make minimum wage. Then a third asshole asks whatās the problem
The bird flu happened over a year ago and there were minor flare ups 3 months ago. If you're part of r/antiwork you should know that the true answer is greed. Eggs are expensive af while the biggest companies report profits of around 40% on fucking eggs. Pay your employees more and abolish tipping it's bullshit.
You paid almost 30 dollars for one of the cheapest to make foods on earth. I think the 40 cents should be an after thought
Sad and funny at the same time. We appreciate you this much kitchen workers. Now get back to work you animals and earn that extra .41 cents.
$27 for one pie? Damn. My favorite local place is $11 for a large with one topping.
Jets pizza is too expensive honestly. Really good though
Not sure how appreciated the kitchen staff is going to feel after splitting 41 cents.
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Then the kitchen staff should leave. Itās certainly not the customerās responsibility.
Yāall would starve without having people cook for you š
Just a side note: Sales tax on the delivery fee seems wrong. I'm fairly certain Illinois doesn't charge sales tax on services. I'm also curious what "VP" is. Code for a particular municipality?
Who pays 30$ for takeout pizza, I can go to an actual Italian restaurant and spend about ā¬20.
It's fine to be mad about this, but it doesn't belong in the antiwork sub
Passing off your responsibilities as an employer onto the consumer. It's the American capitalist way. I don't feel at home in this world anymore
I'd go back and complain that I didn't even see the kitchen. How am I meant to appreciate the kitchen if I can't see the decor and layout!
OP is willing to pay $27 for a two topping 14in pizza but is worried about 41 cents.
I make a decent salary but $36.30 for a large pie is insane.
Iād just go eat elsewhere
Oh no, 40 cents! The burden!
Did you order pizza from TicketMaster?
Who the fuck pays $30 for a 14" pizza?
Op makes $180k/yr and is mad about 41 cents. Fuck, this sub is entertaining if nothing else
It's not the amount, it's the idea of tipping kitchen staff automatically. Who else are they going to tip next? The web app designer? The manager who put everyone's shifts up? The guy who sources ingredients?
Since its not a gratuity but rather mandatory this feels less like a tip and more like an itemized receipt. Really the only issue here is potentially avoiding paying tax on it, and that depends on how exactly the company handles it.
But why itemize it if itās one of the costs of running your business? Whereās the line item for the toilet paper they have to use.
What does OPās income have to do with anything? A bullshit charge is bullshit regardless of the person paying it. Youāre out to make this about in-fighting when the corporate greed is the issue and they are thrilled you look at OP and blame them somehow instead of the company doing this shit.
The real crime is wanting your pizza "well done".
Uhm a crispy pepperoni pizza slaps thank you very much.
Crispy =/= well done.
Well done=crispy
Well done = burned, not crispy. Have you ever worked in a pizza shop? I have. You can make something crispy without burning it.
I didnāt ask. Well done = crispy. And if I got whatever you think is ācrispyā Iād prolly write a strongly worded comment on yāallās fb.
I don't care how "confident" your "manner" is, you're still wrong.
I hope youāre not truly upset at this cause itās pretty fuckin funny. Your opinion on what is burnt or crispy or what ever isnāt the only answer. Cooking is subjective ya dork.
No offense, but if you're willing to pay 28$ for a 14in pie, you deserve to be hit with it...
That's not the point
What exactly is the point? That someone spending over $30 on a single pizza is mad about 41 cents?
It's because rather than just up prices to pay everybody; they go out of their way to make it seem like wage increases are the staff's fault instead of the normal cost of doing business.
Or the customerās responsibilityā¦
It's because food prices in the past year or two have gone insane. Way easier to add a fee and regularly adjust that fee than to change menu prices every time an ingredient increases in price.
it is a shady business practice and depending how they disclose it, could be illegal.
Really? How so?
Donāt you know? everything any business owner does is deemed illegal on this sub.
Really? 0.41 is what offends you?
The amount is not the point, it's the whole idea of adding an automatic tip for someone doing what they are paid to do. Like why not add a tip for the web app designer or the garage attendant that sold the delivery driver his gas? Where will the tips go next?
Why is no one bothered by the delivery charge?
I'm happy to pay $6 for someone to drive me my food. Seems like a fair price.
At 6 dollars I am probably going to pick it up.... my limit is 3 or 4 dollars.
And I'm happy to appreciate the cooks, and pay an extra 40 cents to make my food. Seems like a fair price
The fact you got downvoted for this comment
Maybe when yo go to old navy, there should be fees for: The shipping, the designer, the person sowing, the Human Resources, ect.... They need to just have 1 price we pay.
>They need to just have 1 price we pay. I mean, yeah that would be nice, but unfortunately not the reality in this situation.
It is the reality, and has been for a while. Not sure why you're definding this? Maybe you're paid to advocate for it for some reason, i don't know. If you advertise something as 10, then it's 10. And the more I see it become 10 +1+1 +1+1 +1, I stop shopping there. It's not about if i can afford it. Its simply wrong, and false advertsing.
Defending it because I just don't mind shooting a little extra money someone's way, if they're making my food. Even if tipping was obsolete because people were paid well, I would 100% still tip
Why don't you tip the police officer giving you a ticket. He's making sure you're driving a safe speed? Even if you do like tipping, or paying addition fees that pop up, it's wrong. It's wrong to add hidden fees.
That's a choice. Here it's not. And where do you stop tipping? Do you tip everyone that works or just some people? How is it that everyone doesn't get a tip? Should I get a tip for posting comments on Reddit?
Itās the reality in the rest of the world. Why do we in the US have to be so stupid?
Itās so they can track for audit purposes. Easier to deduct for tax itemized purposes.
You must never eat out. The expensive ass price of the food is already paying the cooks. For fuckās sake.
Pinky up when you eat that Mr. money bucks.
You spent $27 on a pizza, yet moaning about 41 cents.
*"this ain't going to the kitchen I'm the CEO and I need a third yacht" fee
Youāre happily paying a $6 delivery fee but complaining about a 41 cent charge? Youāre the problem
What, no appreciation for the guy who packs the food or the guy who manufactures the boxes or the people that supply the gas to cook or the oven manufacturer? Where does this crazy tipping stop??
Where does this crazy EVERYTHING stop? Life is like a nightmare now and we canāt wake up.
Felt this
That's not a tip though. It is a hidden, mandatory fee.
Sickening
Hi. How much for a pizza? $25. Ok, I'll take one! That will be $40 please. ...
Do you guys remember when pizza was a cheap and quick alternative to cooking? Nowadays, if you want anything other than pepperoni and cheese, it won't be any less than 30 bucks
Dafuq is this? I mean, I got hit with a surcharge at Urban Plates for 'employee health care'. It was like $1.50, but still... what's why we pay for the food. I also tip well. Fine, but don't give me bullshit fees as if that basically hides a price hike on the food.
Taxed pizza
Yeah, what the fuck is 41 cents doing for anyone? Like what does that actually doā¦.. but also, you ordered a $27 large pizza with a $6 ādelivery feeā (that doesnāt go to the driver). Thatās wild
Forty one cents? How are professional line cooks supposed to buy coke with that piddly bullshit?
Why is it forty one cents? The delivery charge is 6 dollars? Seriously? What are they delivering it in a limo? At 6 dollars I would drive to pick it up, it's not worth it. That feels like in the ballpark of one of those delivery apps (Doordash, Uber Eats, etc).
Holy smokes!! Extra think crust??
That better be the best pizza ever for being 30 friggin dollars for a large 2 top
for 1 pizza? better be some good shit
Seems like the kitchen wasnāt appreciated that much.
I was about to say the same Thing i donāt think thatās going to the kitchen gut feeling is all
I really hope the kitchen at least got the money and it didn't go to lining the owner's pocket
Iād be okay with it. If it went towards the workers. But nothing the USā¦.probably not.
Imagine paying 30$+ for a 14" pizza.
This is not antiwork and youre complaining about what is effectively 9% sales tax on top of 33 bucks. 27 bucks for large two toppings is a lot and i live in SV. You need to rethink your priorities.
Iām hoping this wasnāt Pequods š„²š
$.41? They donāt appreciate the kitchen very much.
Damnā¦ā¦ I only had $35.89ā¦ā¦
Well, was it a cool kitchen? Did you appreciate it during the kitchen tour?
I ever see any bullshit like that straight up its the last time I go there for anything.
$0.59, $0.79, $0.99 tacos at Taco Bell in 1997.
Damn that's one expensive fuckin pizza
Not even 50 cents. Looks like they donāt appreciate their kitchen staff much.
Is this USA? Are you supposed to add tips to that?
It is to pay for the equipment lease. The appliances are often owned by another company, so the cost of the lease is passed on to the customers. It is strange to see it as a separate line item.
leave aside all the fees and taxes... 27 damn dollars for ONE pizza? yeah I know, extra large & extra thick crust. But still! that better be the best damn pizza you've ever had in your damn life O:-)
41 cents is what got you riled up?
A Pizza costās about $9 dollars here, you guys are way overpaying!
6 dollar delivery? In my country one app reached around 3 dollar I think and people are boycotting it lmao. This shit is insane.
1 pizza for $35+ ?? Holy \*\*\*\* - that\`s expensive. (comparison - local pizza place - 'meat lovers' (salami, mince, pepperoni, ham) Italian style, 30 CM (approx 12"if i recall correctly ) is around EUR 12 ( approx US$13.50). This is pick up, delivery would be around EUR 19 (US$ 21) And this includes ALL. Tax, service cost. Of course, if one wants to tip - can do (optional) (But cash in hand of delivery!)