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I used to deliver pizza and there was this real old guy who would go on streaks of ordering a small pizza, or small box of chicken for 3-4 days in a row and then not order for a few weeks.
Well, what he ordered almost always came out to be $9.99 and he probably 80% of the time handed me a $10 bill and would state "Keep the change!"
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Were you getting paid by the hour to deliver pizza? Say........ minimum wage?
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I have managed several Dominos Pizza stores, and there were always "good" customers and "bad" ones ..... My favorite was this cute girl who answered the door in some of the skimpiest lingerie imaginable ..... and always gave a $10 tip .... even if her order wasn't that much. Double the pleasure.  Ah ...... I sometimes miss those days ..... drunk girls ordering pizzas at 1 am ........ hotel parties ....... I once deliverad a pizza to 4 really good looking, half naked girls who were watching pornos ....... that was interesting ....  lol Anyway ... I always got good tips because I always gave good service .... and if we had a situation where our service was not up to our standards, we made it right, and did so in a friendly manner.
Micah 6:8; He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
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Were you getting paid by the hour to deliver pizza? Say........ minimum wage?
Sorry, minimum wage isn't enough to run your car for 50 minutes out of every hour and put that kind of mileage on it... driving in the rain and the snow and the crap.. Nope, ain't worth it.
I used to clip all of the coupons my pizza place had in the newspapers, a bunch of them... the way it worked was we started with a "bank" in the bag, we delivered all night, kept all of our money... then at the end of the night we'd take all of our tickets and pay for them out of the money we had, using whatever coupons we had been given.. and we kept what was left over as our tip.. so if somebody ordered something for which we had a coupon and they didn't use one.. then I would and pocket the extra couple bucks... I was a poor, poor college student. 
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I delivered pizza's when I was in college. I also worked at a furniture company. I went to school full time, got a BA in business admin., and was one class short of a minor in econ.
Trust me, delivering pizza's brought in the cash. It was nothing for me to have $200 in cash in the glove box of my vehicle. Every weekend. Plus the hourly "wage"........working nights?
I'd do it again.
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Yup, I did a 3 year tour of delivering pizzas. I never had anything "exciting" happen though, as I delivered in Hilliard for Papa John's and Pizza Hut. I definitely got paid more than minimum wage and kept all my tips at the end of the night. It was definitely nice to take home a pocket full of cash after each night I worked. The only downside was the miles on my car.
It's easy money, there's no doubt about that.
As for the topic at hand, I'm one of those that rarely stiffs the server. I've never had BAD service. Sure, there were some nights where it wasn't top notch and their tip suffered, but I can't think of one time where I rounded up to the next whole dollar. I generally always leave something.
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Unless the server does something tremendously rude, crude, offensive, I don't think its OK to leave anything under 15%.
How do I fit into this scenario then? Just last week was one of the few times I left no tip at all.
Was our waiter rude, crude, or offensive? The answer is no. Was there anyone else in the restaurant? The answer is once again, no. We came in about an hour before the dinner rush.
Right away, the waiter came and took our orders. We got our drinks immediately. 30 minutes passed by without a sight of our waiter and we had empty drinks. Finally he refills our drinks and a few more people trickle in and he takes their orders as well. Next thing we know, the table next to us is getting their food and we are still waiting 45 minutes later. The waiter has only came to us twice at this point, at the beginning, and the second time just dropping off our drinks without saying a word.
Finally, we were able to flag him down an hour later...yes that means 1:45 minutes after our initial order and only the 3rd time we talked to him.
He claimed the cooks lost our order, HOWEVER, only visiting a table three times in 1:45 hours is completely unacceptable. It's not like we came in at a busy time AT ALL.
The manager wasn't in at the time but we got a phone call the next day (not sure how he got my phone number, can they cross reference it with the credit card somehow?) asking us to come back sometime for a comp meal.
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I'm surprised you were even still sitting there after an hour... Lost the order is possible, though hard to imagine if its the only order they have, and this is something they should have realized after 20 minutes, not after an hour plus.. At which point, I, as the waiter, would have brought you a free round of drinks and a heartfelt apology.... sounds like the waiter failed, as did the kitchen... also sounds like one of the few scenarios I can imagine where no tip was probably the right thing to do.... but I'll give you this little hint, a very very small tip is better than no tip. If somebody leaves you no tip, thinking back to my waiter days, there is always a chance to they forgot or one person thought the other person was going to take care of it... Leaving them fifty cents is a sign that, "Hey, there is no mistake, this is all it's worth"... 
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After a hours wait, I would have been back there cooking my own meal in the kitchen 
I AM ALWAYS RIGHT... except when I am wrong.
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DC~Have to agree with your very very small tip tip. I've done this once before. It was the one and only time I've given a bad tip. However, the girl deserved it. DREADFUL service all night to our table. Her other tables got their refills etc in a very timely manner, we did not. And we were a 10 person table of chatty Italians. There's no way she didn't know we needed drinks etc. And we were all very nice to her when she did actually do something for us. My family was going to leave no tip, I tossed a dollar on the table and said, if we leave no tip, she'll just think we forgot to tip her. On our way out, we did stop and speak with a manager about her poor service. The manager is a long time friend of the family. We were the wrong people to ignore.  We still go the same place, and she was still a server there for quite a while after. She just learned never to ignore a table, even when it's busy. I've had her a few times as a server since and left her rather generous tips.
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Something I have noticed at like Carrabbas and Outback and a few other chains now, is that servers have tables, not sections.
They may have 5 tables, but they are all in different sections of the restaurant, which I find makes it difficult to keep track of your server should you need them. Rather than being right nearby that you can inform them you need a refill on your drink, your looking all over the restaurant for them.
When I worked in restaurants, all our tables were next to each other so we were never really far from our customers, should they need something.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
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I've noticed that too. If I can't find my server, I just flag one down that's walking by. If that one doesn't, say, get my refill, they will normally let my server know that we need refills.
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