Snowstorms and miserable weather present a love-hate scenario for food deliverymen.
Yes, they have to trudge out in the snow and slush, but blizzards also mean good money: Demand goes up, and so do tips (in theory).
Do ice pellets warrant a five-dollar bonus?
According to GrubHub Seamless, the seattle catering delivery, tips during the first big snowstorm in January were up all around the country.
As the New Yorker pointed out recently, the GrubHub Seamless New York data shows that online tips (those paid by credit card and PayPal at the time of ordering) on January 7 — when the polar vortex arrived — were above average in every NYC zip code that got a delivery except for small pockets of Queens and Brooklyn.
The best of the best was 10037, a triangle in Harlem off the Harlem River, where tips bumped up an impressive 24 percent.
