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It doesn't cost the driver a percentage to deliver you food. It's a fixed cost. How far do you live from the store? What is a reasonable rate to assume as a cost per mile? My work (an engineering company) pays us about 42 cents/mile when we have to use our own car. Therefore with $1.50 for a delivery charge the driver is losing money if the round trip distance is more than 3.5 miles. Think about that before you decide that $3 is too much.
I don't want to be rude or anything but if all you are giving a driver is a buck fifty (plus delivery charges), they'd prefer that you just pick it up yourself.
/By the way, $3 is 27.9%, not 35%. The driver does not get the sales tax.
//My last delivery job was great, about 80% of the customers tipped at least $5 and they didn't complain about delivery charges ($2.50). The thing that sucked was that the store was pretty new and the runs averaged 10 miles round trip.
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