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Take out . . . and tipping?
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If you order take out from a restaurant, are you supposed to tip? Or is that only if you're eating "in house"?
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I tip for service, not for the cooks to cook and box me a meal. The manager is the one who usually puts it in the box anyways.
Do you tip the Chinese food people if you pick up Chinese food, or the pizza people for cooking you a pizza?(different if they deliver it to you)
It really depends. Is there a lot of prep work involved in getting the food? Is it a huge order? Do you eat there a lot and they know your name? If the answer is no, I usually wouldn't.
I tip when I go pick up food from my Thai place because they know me and adjust the order to suit my tastes. That and the cashier is hot. If they were saying "no substitutions" all the time and the cashier looked like Mikhail Gorbachev, I wouldn't.
When I worked at a pizza place takeout counter tips were appreciated but never expected. We didn't put out a tip cup or anything like that. Regulars who got to know us would typically throw us a buck and tourists often told us to keep the change. But never anything like always 10% or anything like a waitress.
I don't think you're under any social obligation whatsoever. I would only even consider it if I was a dine-in regular as well.
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As a rule, most places I doubt I'd leave a tip.
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If I'm a regular
If I have to wait more than 2 minutes to have someone come to the register to check me out. Or if someone in front of me is getting their order processed and I have to wait (I'm looking at you friendly's) then I don't tip. If it's good food, and they know me, and I get in and out within a good period of time, bam, tip.
Wait. WHAT? If you happened to get there and someone is in line in front of you that's somehow the restaurants fault and you're going to stiff them? That's some serious silly goosery.
I tip 5 - 10% on takeout.
Your food is being packaged and assembled thoughtfully (bagged, utensils, napkins, etc...) and you're being waited on in a way.
As well, a lot of servers and bartenders have to tip out based on a portion of their food sales. So if you come in, get takeout, then stiff them on a tip, you've just taken money out of their pocket.
Friendly's is the biggest shitup of that.
That said, I don't tip at a place that is a "take-out" place where their only business is take out orders. I figure it's all part of the price.
Even very nice places pay their wait staff absolute shit. However, I had a roommate who was a lovely young girl who served tables at a wine bar for established gentlemen, and would often make a couple of hundred bucks a day and would be several business cards richer by the end of the week.
What I have more of a problem with are places that operate half way between fast food and a normal food. You go in and get a table, they take your order, bring you your food, some cups, a pitcher of water, and then go do something else. From there you're on your own. I still tip the usual 20%, but sometimes I get confused. It's mostly in Koreatown or when I go out for pho with friends and the food is so inexpensive, but still.
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There's an obligation. Trust me. We curse your name when you don't tip on takeout.
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You probably did, in the brown sauce on your next order.
You have lived a very sheltered life. Also, restaurant staff hate you. You should try working in one. :P
EDIT: And no employee who values his job is going to berate you for not tipping. That's a fast track to the unemployment line. Let me reiterate, go work in a restaurant.
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This.
I actually just asked a couple of friends, and they never heard of tipping take out either.
Weird. Now I feel like an asshole for not tipping.
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How old are you and your friends?
Spoken like a true server. Do you tip the pharmacist at your local drug store? What about the florist when you go to pick up flowers? Or the baker when you go to pick up your kid's birthday cake from the grocery store?
You're fucking kidding yourself if you think tipping on take out is expected. Stop trying to make your job sound more important than it really is. You do manual labor for a living, you don't like it or think the pay sucks, do something about it besides whine. The waiter at a restaurant at least provides me with value added service, servers? Get the fuck out.
20-30. My parents haven't even heard of it either.
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Ah, another person who's never worked at a restaurant before.
Besides the fact that I've put your order together after receiving it from the kitchen (boxing, bagging, utensils, napkins, etc...) I've had to take time away from my immediate customers to deal with you. Often causing my in house service to suffer. Generally, you love to call at the busiest times (middle of a rush) instead of thinking ahead and doing it a proper time. You also rarely know what you want before you get on the phone and often times don't even have the menu with you. I've had people actually ask me to read off entire menus to them before.
Trust me, tips for take out are deserved, so take the Mr. White attitude elsewhere, it never was cool.
Well, honestly, you're out of the loop then. It's been standard for as long as I can remember (mid-30s).
Well, as far as I can tell, the only thing that having worked or working in a restaurant gives you is a massive sense of entitlement.
You should get over it, seriously. It is the customer who determines who/what deserves a tip. Not the restaurant worker.
Places like Chili's and Applebee's that have take out to go have a person in the back standing there taking call in orders and watching the cameras or windows and taking the orders out to the cars who gets paid minimum wage (usually) to do that job. They do not need a tip. If you have a bartender or waitstaff doing the boxing and taking out the food then they are having to stop what they're doing and take care of you. These people should be tipped. Just know how the place operates where you are getting your food.
This should not turn into a general tipping thread, but until you've actually worked as a waiter or a bartender, you really don't have much authority or say as to what is deserving of a tip or not.
The world would be a much nicer place if everyone was conscripted into one year of restaurant work. My mother always told me, "If you don't have enough money to tip, you don't have enough money to eat out."
Anyway, I'm not going to respond to anything else unless it has directly to do with the OPs question. I'm not about to get into a flamewar with the uninformed.
Just so you know, there are many states (Oregon and California to name two) where waiters/bartenders get paid minimum wage.
I mean like, if I have extra change that they give back I'll put it in their "lol tips plz
It's almost like tipping at Mcdonalds. They prepare your food, they box it, they put straws and ketchup and shit in the bag, and they probably deal with a lot of shit just like the take out guys. Are you saying we should tip them too? I'm honestly curious.
Edit: didn't see the posts before mine. Never mind.
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