Hotel room service gratuity question?

Question

It's typical these days, when ordering room service at a hotel, that a gratuity of 18%-20% is automatically applied to the bill.

Can someone in the hotel industry answer a question for me? Does the person delivering the meal to the person's hotel room receive this gratuity? Or should I give the delivery person a separate tip?

If the person who delivers the food DOESN'T receive this gratuity, who does?

Answer 1

I do work in a hotel, (at a Hilton) and the server who delivers your order will get the entire gratuity, it is not split between 'back of house' staff or the cooks, who are on an hourly salary much bigger than the ird servers.

Answer 2

The person who comes to give you the food , I think you should give a tip.....

Answer 3

They DO recieve a part of it.  It is usually split up amongst the room service staff and the cooks and other back-side employees.  There is no need for a separate tip, and anyone that tells you different is just looking for a tip.

Answer 4

just give the person who brings your food the tip

Answer 5

I'm not in the industry, but room service will send you a receipt.  Check the receipt and see if the tip was automatically added to the bill.

Or call the front desk before room service gets there and ask them to give you their suggestions on tipping.  Or ask the delivery person.

My guess would be that if the person who delivers gets the tip, but if they wouldn't, then maybe all the deliverers are pooling the tips that night.  

Most importantly, Were you in the hotel room with someone you should not be?  Then pay the delivery person some big "shut up money".  Tehetehe