I use to deliver for Papa Johns in a college town, the tips were horrible but when you got 1.14 per pizza order you dropped off and dropped off 10 orders at a time to the dorms it really didnt matter that much. The house deliveries i made were decent tips unless it was to the hood and then id make them come out to my car and get the pizzas through the window. Fuckers never tipped.
When you make multiple deliveries, you do better. The company I work for loves to send singles. It's so obsessed with singles they try to push for them even when it's unreasonable. One time we were short on drivers, and the higher ups got on the store manager about singles. So she decided against reason and logic we're going to do singles for the rest of the night. A driver called her up and said he was going to quit if we're doing singles.
I understand how great it would be if you hired enough people and scheduled enough people and they all showed up on time and business was as anticipated. When you've got 10 deliveries and 2 drivers, there ain't nothing good about singles. Then there was this sheboon that couldn't understand an on the way delivery is just as good as two deliveries next to each other. A stop and drop at the beginning of a highway someone has to go way down to get to delivery number 2 is actually an excellent combination. The locations are far apart, but there's almost no extra driving involved. The store manager doesn't seem to comprehend waiting 5 minutes to prevent someone from having to go 15 minutes away twice is definitely worth doing. It hurts the first delivery, but not having to go to that area again (assuming another delivery doesn't pop up there) is a huge gain in time saved. If dinner time is just picking up, I wouldn't assume there won't be another one in that area.
yeah, when i worked there the 'routing' system would auto the routes and it was pretty good, you'd go in like a circle most times or just a straight line up and back, the farthest first then work your way back depending on when the pizza was made. then again back then we had the pizza warming bags that plugged in to the cars port. I had a doggle that allowed me to plug in 4 bags to take 16 pizza or more and kept them warmer on the long trips. Made great money but only because we had 3 college campuses we delivered too, it wasnt a good night unless you walked with 250 in tips a great night like freshmen week or the finals week when you could pull 350 to 500 a night depending on the amount of drivers that showed up for work.
To some extent you are selling your car piece-by-piece to the company. I don't consider mileage as making money. If you drive a truck or other expensive gas guzzler, you're probably losing money and mileage isn't enough. Drivers take home 100-160 on Thursday-Sunday if they work a substantial shift. On Mon-Wed they usually make 60-100. This includes the mileage. As a manager I used to get full pay when driving, but they have since reduced it. I found out that they pay drivers more or less depending on how much they get in tips. In the more ghetto areas, the drivers make more in hourly pay, and they also have areas they don't go to at night. I got to work at 2 other stores for 3 days after a hurricane.
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