Back in the earlier years many of us ordered pizza with no additional fees from the restaurant.
- You consistently expected to leave a tip for the driver, even though I only remember precious instances where there was a separate “delivery fee” tacked onto the total after taxes.
This all changed in the early 2000s as large pizza chains all started gathering delivery fees as a team as oil prices soared before and during the Great Recession. I stopped ordering pizzas by delivery except on special occasions as it was simply easier to option them up on our way home from work so our family could eat upon our arrival. That way you don’t even have to set aside money for a tip since they hand you the boxes of pizza over the table. However, I had no choice but to order our cannabis products via delivery for the first year that cannabis was legal in this state. The closest store was an hour away and I hated the traffic trying to get there. I would pay a small delivery fee and get our cannabis products brought to our door. But now that there are more retail locations around the state, this same cannabis dispensary’s delivery service no longer delivers to our area. Their store is 30 min away, but it has horrendous parking due to its exact location downtown. At a certain timeframe I couldn’t justify the time it would consume out of our day just to stop at a dispensary that was already slipping on the quality of its products in the first location. This cannabis dispensary lost a lot of high end clients when they rolled back much of their cannabis delivery services.