Delivery guy dialog(ue)

[Kumquatqueen]

A pizza guy rings your doorbell. What does he say when handing the boxes over, and when accepting a tip?

It's NYC in 2008, so he's not going to be saying 'mate' or 'bossman'. Is 'sir' plausible? Also, being 2008, would the payment be online or cash - I'm guessing usually cash? And you tip delivery guys, right? How much? Though I can gloss over that with just pulling out a bill from a wallet (or would billfold be a better word?) I'm assuming a pizza guy in New York would be on a moped or motorbike rather than in a car, but let me know if that's implausible.

 

[PhoenixRyzing]

I've lived in NYC since 1985 and ordered plenty of pizzas. "Buddy" or "boss" are much more likely than sir. Payment is more likely cash, and some places were still even bringing portable credit card machines, but I think online was starting to be a thing, just not very big yet. Wallet, not billfold. Yes, you tip. Varies a lot, depending on personal generosity. If a pizza was maybe $12 or so back then I'd have given $15 and said keep the change.

 

[NotWise]

Don't know about NYC, but here there might not be much said at all. He would be ethnic and speak Spanish but little or no English.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

It depends on how I'm dressed. Could be anything from sir to miss to , um, uh, <pause> here's your pizza...

I usually tip$3 - $5 per pie.

 

[TheLobster]

A pizza guy rings your doorbell. What does he say when handing the boxes over, and when accepting a tip?

The fact that literally none of you answered with the obvious:

“Holy shit! Ma’am, you.. you are..”

and

“You’re kidding? Your pussy is the best tip I could ask for!”

makes me very, very disappointed in this community…

 

[PhoenixRyzing]

Don't know about NYC, but here there might not be much said at all. He would be ethnic and speak Spanish but little or no English.

More like that now in NYC, but 17 years ago, there were still a fair number of Italian-American guys delivering, otherwise probably black or puerto rican. Either way, boss/buddy, or maybe "man" track for the place & time.

 

[MetaBob]

For years now, certainly since C*vid, whenever I've ordered food for delivery, I'm almost always required to pay in advance using a credit card (or equivalent). If the delivery is arranged via an app (Doord*sh, Gr*bhub, *ber Eats), the app allows you the ability to tip. So the dropoff is exactly that -- no cash changes hands and very little is said.

Less than 5 years ago I actually took a hand at being a bike delivery guy -- basically the app was paying me to ride my bike, which I wanted to do anyway. The app allowed the customer to tip and I was always tipped well (small sample size), but the tip wasn't made until after the delivery. I was attracted to that particular delivery service (P*stmates, since acquired by *ber Eats) because there was a bicycle in its corporate logo, but no one I delivered to had ever received delivery by bicycle before, which was always unusual enough to spark a brief conversation.

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

It’s unlikely he would say anything, in my experience. Many of the delivery folks in big cities are going to, especially whenever I’ve order led in NYC are folks with limited English and they usually just stand there waiting for me to sign if I even have to do that.

Haven’t paid cash for delivery in years.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Man, buddy, got it.

And @ShelbyDawn57 and @TheLobster were on the right lines - though it's a man who will be answering the door, wearing not much. (His English friends argued that he's the only one who knows how much to tip, and surely NYC is like London in that any delivery driver won't care about anything, if the cash isn't pulled from the skimpy underwear.)

 

[Britva415]

"Buddy" or "boss" are much more likely than sir

Unless the delivery “boy” is an immigrant. Honorifics are important in some overseas cultures. Even if not here, such people bring that with them.

And immigrant delivery people probably outnumber citizens in NYC.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

I tip about 20% usually a bit more.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

I tip about 20% usually a bit more.

So someone ordering say 3 large pizzas and a few sides, say 40 dollars in Manhattan in 2008, might be reasonably but not bizarrely generous in tipping ten bucks?

 

[SinclairGroupLLP]

$10 is probably in the high range - that's a 25% tip, which is generous. If they guy is rich, that's probably fine. If it's a college kid, he'd probably tip a buck or two. 10% is pretty common, which would be $4.

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

$10 is probably in the high range - that's a 25% tip, which is generous. If they guy is rich, that's probably fine. If it's a college kid, he'd probably tip a buck or two. 10% is pretty common, which would be $4.

Agree.

If it was me, I'd also tip based on the amount of items being carried by the deliverer. On say a $20 pizza, I'd tip $2 to $3. But if the delivery guy was bringing a $10 pizza box, a $8 box of chicken wings, plus a $2 2L bottle of soda with it, I'd throw in a few more dollars for their troubles.

 

[PhoenixRyzing]

Unless the delivery “boy” is an immigrant. Honorifics are important in some overseas cultures. Even if not here, such people bring that with them.

And immigrant delivery people probably outnumber citizens in NYC.

Remember, the question is about 2008, things have changed a lot here since then.

 

[PhoenixRyzing]

So someone ordering say 3 large pizzas and a few sides, say 40 dollars in Manhattan in 2008, might be reasonably but not bizarrely generous in tipping ten bucks?

Definitely. A large tip, but not crazy.

 

[NotWise]

Definitely. A large tip, but not crazy.

And if a ten is what he's got, then use it.

 

[Britva415]

Remember, the question is about 2008, things have changed a lot here since then.

Not in regards to this. NYC had many many many immigrants then, too.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

The fact that literally none of you answered with the obvious:

“Holy shit! Ma’am, you.. you are..”

and

“You’re kidding? Your pussy is the best tip I could ask for!”

makes me very, very disappointed in this community…

As someone who is writing an anthology on her phone about a pizza delivery girl, I came in here looking for this exact response and left disappointed. This is Literotica, and I'm with Lobster.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

And if a ten is what he's got, then use it.

Will do. Especially as it's not his money - it belongs to the one who got him in this situation.

I'll get someone to Yank-pick the protagonist's dialog and thoughts in due course, but it occurred to me I didn't know how delivery interactions go/went. I always need to ask locals what to tip (and get caught out by bargains not being bargains once you add sales tax and tip... had a massage recently with my cousin, and I swear I undid all the masseuse's good work when I went 'how much??' at the end...)

 

[Kelliezgirl]

So someone ordering say 3 large pizzas and a few sides, say 40 dollars in Manhattan in 2008, might be reasonably but not bizarrely generous in tipping ten bucks?

If it rang up to $41.50 or something I suspect handing them $50 and telling them to keep the change would be normal.
So not quite 20% in that case, but cahs tipping always seems to be a matter of rounding.

 

[PhoenixRyzing]

Not in regards to this. NYC had many many many immigrants then, too.

It also varied a lot by neighborhood and borough. I'm basing this on my own experience in Brooklyn and parts of Manhattan. At least in the areas where I lived, specifically pizza delivery guys were still often Italian-American, and many were also native-born black and hispanic folks (e.g. 2nd generation Puerto Ricans vs. say new Mexican immigrants.) I definitely noticed a shift over the last 20 years or so, where not just delivery folks, but the folks cooking the pizza, changed, as mom-and-pop Italian pizza operations taught their craft to newcomers. And I'll agree that by 2008 it had changed vs. the 90s, but still not like today.