How much do you tip the delivery guy? [Moved from Manhattan board]

[sardinefan]

A percentage of the meal's cost or one flat rate? Curious...

[invinotheresverde]

OP, there are so, so, so, so many threads about this topic. A five second board search will provide you with more answers than you were probably looking for. :)

[Karl S]

The US custom is 10% for the delivery person as a tip, rounded up to the nearest dollar, with additional if the delivery person has to negotiate nasty weather, stairs, or significant traffic - the latter two are typical in Manhattan, so prevailing tip rates tend to be justly higher there for those reasons.

[al b. darned]

None...because I don't do delivery. If I'm too lazy to cook and decide to order out I figure the least I can do is send DW go get it. (Just kidding. Actually one or the other of will go fetch it.)

[harrison]

covered fairly recently here:
http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/582463

I'm pretty much a flat $5 - if it's a lot to carry, $10 it it's a lot to carry

[jpmcd]

I always knew it as 50 cents per bag -- In my neighborhood, they don't carry the bags, they push them in a giant cart