5 Free Tips to Increase Your Delivery Income

These are just a couple of the ideas from the ebook 'Pizza Confidential.' Hopefully you can put these to use the next time you work.

1. When you have a credit card receipt, use a highlighter to highlight the sections for tip, total and signature. Ask the customer to fill out the highlighted areas. By doing this you'll leave the customer with no excuse not to tip you. While you shouldn't ask for tips, this makes the message pretty clear without saying a word.

2. Keep some sodas in your car. They might get a bit warm, but if you're at a customer's house and you forget one it sure beats driving back to your store or purchasing one at a gas station.

3. Use those hazard flashers and park anywhere! This is especially true if you have a car topper. Park in the street, in fire lanes, handicap spots, etc. You're not going to be there long anyway. No need to look for a parking spot a block away then walk your food up. Just make a parking space. You'd be surprised what you can get by with. When at retail locations like malls, never park in the customer lot. You're conducting a legitimate business delivery and are no different than that UPS truck. Also, for malls learn to use the service entrances/fire exit hallways. You won't have to weave your way through loads of shoppers. Both these things will save you lots of time and steps, allowing you to take more deliveries.

4.  If you drink coffee, make friends with clerks at the convenience store. Take them food, maybe even learn their names. If you have your own mug, you should be able to get free coffee. Most of these places do their coffee inventory by plastic cups, not the coffee itself. If you have your own cup and have a good relationship with the clerks, free refills shouldn't be a problem. While this doesn't increase my tips, it does increase my income by saving me $5/week.

5. Hypermiling. I stumbled on this concept when I was almost done writing P.C. Basically, this involves changing your driving habits to use the minimum amount of fuel possible by turning your engine off at long lights, coasting, decelerating rather than braking, and several other techniques. Some people get 40% better MPG than the estimates buy using these techniques, and the first time I applied them all to a full tank of gas I got an increase of about 8mpg.

Read the Wikipedia entry at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypermiler to get started.

Well, that's it. 5 easy things you can do to start increasing your tips and saving you money. If you'd like to know more, you can follow this link: http://www.pizzaconfidential.com/order/index.html to order the ebook. Don't forget you'll also get an audiobook version of this ebook as a digital download; listen to it at work and get paid to learn. Nice, right?

Take care and be safe
Marion
www.pizzaconfidential.com