The owner taking their tips is punishing the driver. It's not my responsibility to insulate the driver from that. I am paying a surcharge for delivery. That's reasonable. If the driver doesn't get the cut of that he feels he deserves, he can work somewhere else.

> The pizza delivery driver doesn't get any of that delivery charge.

When I worked delivery, back in the mid-Triassic period (or early 1990s, whatever), I got $1/delivery (which was better than mileage reimbursement would have been) even though we didn't charge for delivery, and similar practices seemed to be common at other places providing similar services. If the now dominant practice of adding service charges for delivery has been accompanied by eliminating delivery pay to the people providing the service, well, that sucks for drivers, in the same way that it would suck if a restaurant put a "service included" charge on the bill and but paid its service staff the same base (below-minimum-wage) pay that is typical in tipped positions.

OTOH, if that dishonest practice factors into my decisions at all, it would factor into my decision not to frequent the business in question, rather than a decision to subsidize the bad practice by paying both an in-the-bill charge for the service and a tip for the service.

>The pizza delivery driver doesn't get any of that delivery charge.

Yes they do, in the form of being paid for mileage (at least I did when I was a delivery driver).

Then they should really not charge me. In these cases, I just stop going to that business because not tipping will increase the chance of bad service. Personally I would like to see an end with all tipping, especially since there is an implicit threat associated with it (such as not tipping can get you spit in your food, which I consider a form of assault and battery).