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  • So what can save you when you're hungry, in no mood to go out or cook dinner at home?

  • Right?

  • Head over to mom's?

  • It's free.

  • No way.

  • Actually, I meant to say food delivery.

  • Yeah, you dial the number.

  • You know by heart, place your order.

  • Wait a while and your country food.

  • Easiest pride.

  • Ice as bit.

  • But have you ever tried to look at the situation from a delivery employees point of view?

  • One.

  • They can't wait for you to open the door forever.

  • Best thing they can do is to knock on your door two or three times and maybe call once or twice on your phone.

  • After that, they have all the right still leave.

  • Their delivery schedule is jam to like their job title claims.

  • People do just that deliver.

  • They don't have the authority to give you a discount or anything, and you do have to pay for extra dips, so there's no use asking delivery employees for free ones.

  • Three.

  • You've probably noticed that when the weather's terrible, lots of restaurants don't accept delivery orders and offer you a pickup order instead.

  • The secret behind this behavior is simple.

  • Most delivery people are young, which makes them less experience behind the wheel.

  • It's dangerous for them to drive in heavy rain, blizzards or when the roads are covered with eyes.

  • Four tips should be 10 to 15% of your order.

  • Let's say you've ordered a lot of pizza for a party.

  • It means that is probably the only order during the delivery person whole trip, which is very time consuming.

  • And if the tips are a dollar or so, it's really upsetting.

  • Five.

  • But if you're a good repeat tipper, be sure that somewhere out there there is a line of delivery employees fighting for you.

  • Yep, right at this very moment.

  • Six.

  • If a certain restaurant tells you they don't deliver to your neighborhood, it's not some wicked plot against you.

  • The problem is, it will take too long to drive to your place, and all the food will get cold.

  • Do you really want a microwave?

  • Your freshly baked pizza?

  • Seven.

  • Food delivery employees won't be happy if you open the door and keep talking on your phone.

  • They know for sure that your conversation's bound to slow down the whole exchange process and delay other deliveries.

  • It's good manners to put your phone down before greeting the delivery person.

  • If you order pizza trying to choose the toppings before you call pizza restaurants tend to be super busy, especially on the weekend.

  • Operators get exasperated when customers waste their time.

  • The same goes for paying for your food.

  • You know what you've ordered.

  • You know how much it costs.

  • The money and tips have to be at the ready when you're opening the door.

  • 10.

  • Food delivery people are hard to surprise because they regularly see all kinds of weird orders.

  • If you think they'll judge you for your pizza topping choice, well, they won't.

  • 11 pizza joints also get lots of bizarre requests, and one of the most common is to draw something inside the box for some inexplicable reason.

  • In most cases, it has to be a dino.

  • If delivery employees don't have too many orders, they usually fulfill such weirdo requests.

  • 12.

  • Some customers called food delivery service is an order for, but what they need isn't a hot dinner.

  • One pizza delivery guy told a story when a man ordered a pizza just because he needed someone to help him haul his sofa upstairs and calling in food delivery seem less expensive than ordering specialized service is.

  • Uh huh.

  • 13.

  • Your pizza place might have a pizza tracker.

  • You know the thing that tells you when your pizza is being prepared, when it's being baked and so on.

  • Many customers believe that such trackers run automatically connected with some kind of countdown timer.

  • In reality, each stage is updated manually, and sometimes employees overestimate.

  • The length of particular stage is to make things look more smoothly on their end.

  • 14 Food delivery employees sometimes make an impression that they would gladly chat with you at your door.

  • But unless you're a loyal customer, they actually don't have time for that.

  • They're friendly and nice, but there are always other deliveries on their mom.

  • 15 Food delivery service is no when Children prank call them.

  • Kids don't usually mask their voices well enough.

  • And, well, the smartest of them blocked their phone numbers.

  • Most don't and can be tracked down.

  • 16.

  • Most delivery people work a lot 12 to 14 hours a day.

  • All they want at the end of their work day is to go home.

  • That's why you shouldn't order food at the closing time and then get upset when you can't have your food.

  • 17.

  • Food delivery employees remember repeat customers who never tip.

  • Of course, they would do nothing that could put their work a risk.

  • But hold back on a tip and your delivery will take longer than it otherwise would.

  • 18.

  • Another thing delivery employees don't like is credit card tippers.

  • Yes, it's super convenient for customers.

  • No need to search for some loose change.

  • Unfortunately, it's also a direct one way ticket to the end of the delivery.

  • Long 19.

  • Try to be patient after you've ordered pizza.

  • It takes at least 20 minutes to turn raw dough into a fully baked A life, then a delivery person.

  • Also need some time to bring it to your house.

  • 20 Most delivery employees use their own cars to bring it to the personal transport.

  • The often need to use a rental car to do their job on the bright side, and we are.

  • Their employers usually pay them for gas and maintenance.

  • 21 delivery people claimed that the best tips usually come from middle and low income households, where people know what food delivery employees go through.

  • The richer the neighborhood, the smaller the tips.

  • Do you agree with this point of view?

  • Tell me about it in the comments below 22.

  • Some people work as restaurant delivery employees as a second job.

  • Flexible hours make it a convenient way to get some extra cash.

  • 23.

  • While your pizza is on its way to you, an accident might or might not happen.

  • You never know if it does, and the delivery person drops the box, though sometimes just shake it to make the cheese slide back in place.

  • Of course, if your pizza isn't badly damaged, if the pi falls out of the box, though no one will ever serve a ticket.

  • The delivery person will go back and get a fresh one for you.

  • 24.

  • You shouldn't order food delivery if you live just across the road from the restaurant.

  • It does seem to be convenient for a food delivery person to drop it off, but in reality this small detour will mess up the whole delivery process.

  • Because an employee will have to walk your order over to you.

  • Consider pickup, which is also cheaper.

  • 25 delivery people won't ever mention it but they prefer you have your shirt on when you open the door to pick up food.

  • Yeah, 26 evening and late night shifts are the busiest, but make most of the food delivery employees working hours.

  • 27 delivery people like it when you treat them.

  • Kindly pay who does it.

  • If you see it's pouring outside and the delivery employees is so through, don't leave them standing behind the closed door while you're getting the money.

  • 28 Food delivery employees know a trigger to to make you tip them more generously.

  • For example, if a customer has a dog, a delivery person can complement the animal or play with it for a while.

  • If they deliver pizza toe a hardworking college student, they can ask about their exam and so on.

  • It's called personalized service so rare elsewhere these days, so it tends to stand out 29.

  • Most pizza delivery employees would need pizza, even if it was the on lee.

  • Food on Earth staff usually get free or discounted food from the restaurant they work for.

  • That's why employees end up eating the same food for weeks and months until they can't see it anymore.

  • I don't know.

  • Is there such a thing as too much pizza?

  • Really?

  • Let me know your thoughts in the comments.

  • Hey, if you learn something new today, then try some different toppings on your next pizza.

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