Introduction
Welcome. You’ve just found the premier source for pizza delivery tips and advice on the interwebs. This site is pretty new and I’m still working out the bugs, but over the next couple weeks I’ll have what amounts to a 30k word book uploaded.
Why am I sharing this information? Because I want to. I wrote this a year ago and it’s been sitting on my hard drive ever since. Might as well put it out there for everyone.
Sit back, grab a beer, and enjoy.
Why Pizza Delivery?
Everyone’s reasons for choosing pizza delivery vary, but most will tell you it’s for one reason: the money’s pretty damn good, especially considering the job requirements. The money is especially good considering the low stress levels (compared to other jobs), the freedom of being on the road and away from the boss, and the required job skills (none). This last bit, the low entry requirements, results in a wide variety of people getting into the business: I’ve worked with laid off factory workers, retired professionals, students, heroin addicts, a soccer mom, slackers, and more. This works to your advantage: some people just aren’t that good at this job. They drive too slowly (very dangerous), they’re half blind, they do their grocery shopping or make social calls on deliveries.
You, however, will soon be outperforming them all. When you start walking out with far more than your coworkers, don’t make a big deal out of it. In fact, if you’re asked how much you made, or how you did, just say you did all right. No reason to make people envious. Make like Teddy Roosevelt: speak softly and carry a big stick.
Besides profit, pizza delivery offers great flexibility. The nature of the pizza delivery business is such that employees come and go. Good ones are hard to find and even harder to keep. Yet, at the same time, no store is dependent on one employee. You are expendable and replaceable. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to do this job, but it does take some experience and skill to do it well. So, for the competent and experienced employee who can’t live with just one week of vacation per year, this is a dream job.
If your job performance is top notch and your relationship with your manager is good, you can usually make arrangements for leaves of absence. Or, if you plan to take a few months off, you can give your manager plenty of notice that you’re leaving and you may come back, but make sure you make up some kind of document in writing that you did a good job and have your manager sign it.This is like an insurance policy against management turnover. It lets a future manager know you weren’t a total pizza delivery failure and should guarantee that your job will still be there if you want or need it.