It's a double edged sword. The pay is very good for an entry level job, but the downside is it essentially makes your vehicle worthless as you will put on hundreds of thousands of miles and the car will stink. If you're going to do it, your better off buying a cheap junker to drive around in.
Pirate700
This.
When balanced out against the crazy amount of stop and go driving and miles you're putting on your car it's not a very good deal.
A few years ago I worked on and off as delivery driver for Papa Johns and Pizza Hut for a couple years. At both I got min wage+tips+$1 per run (though from my understanding they don't have to pay you min wage since you're making tips). It basically worked out at the time because I was a waste of life/loser/alcoholic/pothead and had liquor/weed money every night.
Things I learned:
1) You will NOT get 40 hours a week. You might get 20ish until you've been there a while. You might be on the schedule for for more but when it's slow the new guys are the first sent home.
2) Ghetto black people and rich black people don't hardly tip (if at all). IDK why about the rich ones. All black people in between vary as much as anybody else. Late at night probably %50+ your runs will be to the ghetto (of course you have to take into account where your store is located). There seemed to be a rumor in the ghetto that we received like $4 per run so a tip wasn't necessary (was asked about it several times).
3) Girls make 2-3x more tips than guys. Don't argue with this and just accept it.
4) Drunk/high people tip the best usually.
5) You will be invited in by ugly/old women. Do NOT go in.
6) People staying at motels usually tip pretty good.
7) Remember the people that tip well and bring their pizzas first. People that don't tip or tip like $1 get their pizzas dead last.
Here's the tipping chart:
no tip = slap in the face. You get your pizzas dead last and hopefully ice cold.
$1 = I don't hate you but I really don't like you
$2 = meh
$3 = average tip
$4 = good tip
$5+ = great tip. I will always bring your pizzas first.
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