Here are the rules for doing this acceptably:

I’m diabetic (the pancreas-is-fucked-up kind, not the I-weigh-500-pounds-and-never-exercise kind). I’m not sure whether to weep or to go full on Jezebel and say EXAMINE YOUR PRIVILEGE!!!1!!1!

If I was sitting around figuring out how to pay rent on my part time delivery driver salary and someone tipped me $25 for delivering a pizza, I’d much rather have that happen than no work or sitting around reading my phone in the restaurant making pretty close to nothing.

Same, when I was a kid we used to get Chinese food every Friday and one week a major snowstorm fell on the day, like feet, not even inches, and it was still coming down hard. Three sons screaming they want their Chinese food for about 15 minutes was all it took, she folded like a house of cards. She called Jade…

This discussion is unfolding in a remarkably similar manner to the one you usually see about tipping in general

You can take the boy out of Chinatown but not the Chinatown out of the boy.

I’ve never seen someone describe their race or ethnicity as “persistent,” so I’ll star this for that alone.

My answer is the same as when you’re eating at a place and go over closing time or a shift change, or when your kid throws an entire meal on the ground, or when you order something ludicrously complicated with a ton of extras:

Being that I am persistently Asian and once a poor college student in upstate NY, I worked as a delivery guy. My personal experience is that Rain/Sleet is worse than a full on snowstorm and that I didn’t mind delivering during a snowstorm, either driving or biking. That being said, I do appreciate a good tip…

I’m a takeout KING and I ran into this situation all winter long in Boston last year and the solution I learned is: go to the grocery store and just buy a shitload of Oreos.

When I lived in Philly, we once ordered Chinese food in a snowstorm and the guy came on his bicycle. We felt bad, so we offered him some hot chocolate, but he declined. As a thank you, I gave him the biggest tip I’ve ever given to a delivery guy.

I delivered chicken wings in a small city on the Hudson in Upstate NY. During a particularly icy night, I was made to deliver despite poor road conditions. On one run, I was stopped and preparing to make a left hand turn across traffic, with my signal on. Some asshat in a rented Dodge Charger barely touched her brakes…

I delivered pizza in Ohio. I didn’t give a shit so much when it would blizzard. Business was brisk, and as long as the orders kept coming, the car would stay warm and defrosted and often we’d have the roads to ourselves, like a pizza delivery road rally. I only hated it when either the deliveree was too much of a lazy…

I delivered in Ithaca, NY as an undergrad and drove through some menacing weather in those days. I needed money and didn’t care much about delivering in bad weather but found that the tipping (especially from college students) was not really any better or worse during a storm. I would be ashamed not to tip extra…

I delivered pizzas throughout high school in upstate New York so I know all about this. I don’t mind going out for a delivery because I’m not super nervous about driving in the snow just from doing it every year, BUT if you do order:

It’s kind of a dick move, so if you do make sure to tip the poor bastard who shows up very well.

No delivery experience, but IMO it’s ok as long as roads are good enough such that you COULD drive if you wanted to. If you wouldn’t drive under any non life-threatening circumstances, don’t make someone else do it for you.

I’m guilty, ordered a pizza when temps hit -35c last year and the place isn’t far.

I suspect the answer is different for each individual delivery person.

When is Triangle Man going to get in a fight with Adequate Man where Triangle Man wins?