{"id":9030,"date":"2025-11-10T04:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/?p=9030"},"modified":"2025-11-16T09:45:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T17:45:48","slug":"sneaky-pizza-delivery-fees-are-here-to-stay-and-its-your-fault-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id9030-sneaky-pizza-delivery-fees-are-here-to-stay-and-its-your-fault-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Outrageous Pizza Delivery Fees Are Here to Stay (and It&#8217;s Your Fault)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pizza-delivery.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-33355\" src=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pizza-delivery.png\" alt=\"pizza delivery fees\" width=\"395\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pizza-delivery.png 711w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pizza-delivery-282x300.png 282w, https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/pizza-delivery-47x50.png 47w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 395px) 100vw, 395px\" \/><\/a>I love sleight of hand tricks.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, a coworker of mine named Fred will stop by my office and regale me with some truly amazing acts of prestidigitation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m always left in awe every time he seemingly pulls a coin out of thin air \u2013 or makes one vanish \u2013 despite the fact that I know ahead of time he&#8217;s going to pull a fast one on me. It doesn&#8217;t matter how hard I concentrate on those coins; I always succumb to Fred&#8217;s subtly masterful acts of misdirection.<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the art of deception can be very advantageous to those who&#8217;ve mastered it.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, magician David Copperfield reportedly <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/life\/people\/2006-04-26-copperfield-robbery_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">used his sleight-of-hand talents<\/a> to deceive a mugger into thinking he had empty pockets \u2013 even though they actually held his wallet, passport and cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the pizza companies are honing their sleight of hand skills too. Take delivery fees, for example.<\/p>\n<p>My experience has been that most pizza joints rarely mention their delivery fees when quoting their prices over the phone. That&#8217;s pretty sneaky if you ask me. Usually, the conversation ends up sounding something like this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Okay, sir, you ordered two Pizza Planet pepperoni specials for delivery. That&#8217;ll be $30.17.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hold on; the ad says those pizzas are $11 each. I know taxes are high here, but they&#8217;re not <strong><em>that<\/em><\/strong> high.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, sir, that total includes a $5 delivery charge.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Whoa! <em><strong>Five<\/strong><\/em> dollars? Say, your last name wouldn&#8217;t happen to be Copperfield, would it?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No, sir. Why do you ask?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is that you, Fred? Why on earth are you moonlighting at Pizza Planet?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Who&#8217;s Fred, sir?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh, never mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Okay, the part of the conversation where I talk about Fred is a stretch, but you get my drift.<\/p>\n<p>Delivery charges are illusory in other ways. Ironically, they don&#8217;t always go directly to the driver. Instead, most \u2013 if not all \u2013 of that money is typically used to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pizzamarketplace.com\/articles\/fee-delivery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">boost the bottom line<\/a> by offsetting business expenses like the cost of ingredients and employee wages.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the major pizza chains began dabbling with delivery fees in select areas shortly after the turn of this century. Back then, Pizza Hut&#8217;s delivery charges were typically 50 cents, while Papa John&#8217;s and Domino&#8217;s hovered around a buck.<\/p>\n<p>However, those fees have increased dramatically since then \u2013 especially when compared to <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id602-18-scary-things-you-didnt-know-about-inflation-and-hyperinflation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the inflation rate<\/a> over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Where I live, Papa John&#8217;s was levying a $5.50 fee for delivery in 2025, while my neighborhood Domino&#8217;s was charging $6 to bring their pies to the door. Meanwhile, the local Pizza Hut is now imposing a $7 fee for all deliveries \u2013 that&#8217;s 14 times more than they were charging back in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>Out of curiosity, I surveyed two other local pizzerias to see what they were charging for delivery in 2025. Round Table tacks on an additional $5, and an independent joint down the street charges $6.<\/p>\n<p>If you ask me, the most likely reason why pizza delivery fees continue to outpace inflation is that they provide a subtle way of <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id2119-looking-for-inflation-its-hiding-in-smaller-package-sizes-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">disguising price increases<\/a>. That monetary legerdemain allows pizzerias to painlessly raise prices while continuing to advertise pies at seemingly bargain rates.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, in case you&#8217;re wondering, those pizza delivery charges only became permanent and more widespread once it was apparent to the major pizza chains that they <a href=\"https:\/\/lenpenzo.com\/blog\/id1041-8-stupid-fees-consumers-hate-to-pay-but-often-do-anyway-2.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wouldn&#8217;t result in an appreciable loss of customers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, with all the hocus pocus going on, it&#8217;s uncertain exactly <strong><em>how<\/em><\/strong> many people realized that they were even being charged a delivery fee in the first place. But that really doesn&#8217;t matter now. We&#8217;ve got nobody to blame but ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, because we didn&#8217;t balk when we had the chance, pizza delivery charges are almost certainly here to stay.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, they&#8217;re so firmly entrenched in the market now, I suspect even David Copperfield couldn&#8217;t make them disappear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">Photo Credit: DiGiorno<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love sleight of hand tricks. Occasionally, a coworker of mine named Fred will stop by my office and regale me with some truly amazing acts of prestidigitation. I&#8217;m always left in awe every time he seemingly pulls a coin out of thin air \u2013 or makes one vanish \u2013 despite the fact that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","pmpro_default_level":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[455,465,467],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9030","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"category-ripoffs","9":"category-shopping","10":"pmpro-has-access","11":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.8 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Outrageous Pizza Delivery Fees Are Here to Stay (and It&#039;s Your Fault)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The major pizza chains began dabbling with modest delivery fees shortly after the turn of this century. 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