Yesterday was a red letter day for pizza/pasta sandwich deliveries. My wife and I, me working 8 hours, her working about 4 hours, made, all told just about 400 dollars exactly, including tips, driver reimbursement per delivery, and salary. This was over two shifts. This doesn't subtract out car and gas expenses. Often a really good day would be in the mid to low 300's, but yesterday there were a few extra medium size orders with 20 dollar tips thrown in and things just kept going from there. I've had better days but only because there was some immense 200 dollar tip thrown in (this happens maybe once or twice a year), so this was the first time cracking 400 without benefit of a monster tip that threw the numbers out of whack.
This got me to thinking that in our neighborhood with an average household income of about 90k a year, there must be countless households where 400 dollars income per working day is routine. I shudder to think what we could do savings-wise with 90 k income a year. Anyway, a good day all around, and ironically the heavy rain we had didn't really impact the day that much, as dinner orders were pretty routine in terms of volume, and none of the best tips had anything to do with special orders related to weather.
