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I did pizza deliveries back in my youth. Got 2-4 dollars plus tips for every trip. The 2-4 dollars essentially covered vehicle costs and the tips were what I ma
by yibg 6y ago
I did pizza deliveries back in my youth. Got 2-4 dollars plus tips for every trip. The 2-4 dollars essentially covered vehicle costs and the tips were what I made.
Thing is when I did we kind of optimized for the trip costs / payout. Deliveries only happened (for free) for orders over a certain value. During peak times (around dinner) we’d also batch orders. I’d often go out with 3 or 4 deliveries at a time and come back in about an hour with $30 or so just in tips. The 3 hours or so of dinner rush basically paid for the rest of the day.
- flatiron 6y agoFor me the best was corporate offices. One order was an entire conference room of people ordering on the company dime with an auto 20% tip. Some times I would get close to $100 for a trip in the late 90s for 30 minutes to unload and load a car. Delivering flowers was also $10 a delivery. I would take off school on “flower holidays” and crush it at nursing homes and stuff. My parents were supportive of my hussle.
- yibg 6y agoNew Year’s Eve as well. Happy drunk people tip really really well. Also not sure they always knew how much they were tipping, but hey I was a broke 16 year old, I’ll take whatever is handed to me. I remember a couple of New Years eves I walked away from the night with a few hundred bucks. That was a lot of money for me at that age.