Seeing 15-20% price increases at my favorite restaurants , not tipping will just carry out

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Food prices increases everywhere. HelloFresh now charging an extra $7 per shipment.

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Anonymous wrote:WHAT?! If you take-out from a place you normally eat-in, the same person is taking time away from tables (with tipping customers) to wrap up your food. TIP THEM.
It's a pandemic. Be as generous as you possibly can, especially if you have not lost employment, enjoyed flexible work from home options, and your retirement remains intact.

It's not going to end this pandemic is the new norm for restaurants, do you still tip the travel agent to make sure they get paid the same as 40 years ago?

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Anonymous wrote:I just picked up from a deli and they ran out of pickles , chips and dessert and certain breads I am like WTF is this

Too funny. What did you end up getting? Mayo on two slices of white bread? Did you tip 20%??

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Ive also noticed tipping a lot or a little on take out has no relation on service , like timeless, order is correct or fresh

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Anonymous wrote:Pre pandemic 10% tip on take out. The restaurants and their employees are currently struggling. Bump it up to 20% now, especially if you're doing take out when you would be indoor dining in non pandemic times

This is what we do, hence our dropping our takeout ordering substantially over the last few months. I’m taking the “if you can’t afford it; cook”. The good thing is we aren’t stiffing a tip-dependent employee. The “bad” thing —for the restaurant industry and the community - is that we have completely re-oriented our view of restaurant food. It’s now for us the way it was when I was a kid - a rare treat. This has grown to include even fast casual.

Same here. Only get takeout/delivery once a week. Happy to tip each time.

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I do worry what all fo this means for the restaurant industry in DC, though. Like we might be headed back to the way it was 20 years ago when there just were not that many decent places to eat in the city, and most of the best food was in neighborhoods that were harder to get to and not necessarily at sit-down restaurants. Part of what has driven the improvement in the restaurant scene in DC is a massive influx of people who go out to eat 4-5 nights a week. If lots of those people start cooking at home and only eating out as a treat, no way can we sustain the number of restaurants we currently have going (even after Covid closures). And if we lose a significant portion of those, there will be other economic ripple effects.

I've long wished rents were lower in DC so that we could support more mid-priced dining options, and that's never been more true than now. If rents in DC were lower, we could have more mid-level places where these additional costs would not be felt quite so painfully.

I’m the Pp above who noted that I realized my new “eating out is rare” wasn’t good for the community. I remember when D.C restaurants were pretty meh and I’m concerned that it could go that way again.

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Anonymous wrote:As people age they forget food prices rise. My mother still thinks prices should be like in the 1970s. As the cost of ingredients increase, menu prices will as well.

That’s just a tiny part of the issue. A bigger part, especially for restaurants that rely heavily on takeout, is the fees that are associated with delivery services, particularly during the last 2 years or so, as takeout has increasingly become a larger part of their business. This is true even for restaurants that used to provide their own food delivery. So these restaurants have had to increase prices across the board because of the huge impact of the delivery services on their bottom line.

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Anonymous wrote:Food prices increases everywhere. HelloFresh now charging an extra $7 per shipment.

That’s what you get for not picking it up yourself.

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Price going north, portion size going south

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You realized that the people working in restaurants, whose income is heavily dependent on tips, are also are facing higher food prices right? And unless you are in a low paying job, inflation is harder on them than you.

Food prices are going up, so restaurant prices have to go up.

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Who actually believes that your Chinese restaurant owner is actually giving carry-out tips to his staff?
Or any small restaurant owner?
I sure do not believe this for a second.

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Anonymous wrote:You really need to tip on takeout too. Don’t be cheap.

Uhhh. No.

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Anonymous wrote:Who are all these people that tip on carry out?

You call and order Chinese they run your card at pickup.
You don’t tip. Same for any other carry out. That’s part of business.

You only tip for table service or delivery.

A fool is quickly parted from their money.

We tip $5 in cash on every takeout and have done this for decades.

If you are tipping the same amount you were decades ago, you're being stingy and cheap. If you were tipping $5 in 1990, that's $10.67 today. Catch up.

By that logic, people will pay 100% or more for a tip. A species increase the tip increase while the percentage stays constant.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t be surprised when your favorite restaurants are gone.

Or have terrible service because they can’t hire anyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Who actually believes that your Chinese restaurant owner is actually giving carry-out tips to his staff?
Or any small restaurant owner?
I sure do not believe this for a second.

In our restaurant, whoever picks up the phone uses their own number to put in the order, and yes, they get the money because it's under their name. It's usually the bartender and yes, it's a lot of work for them to get this order ready. We are not big on carry-out and it takes a lot of time and leaving the bar to get the order ready.

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Some of you talk about raises and bonuses here. This is not the case for restaurant workers. We don't get extra 10 cents an hour because of change in CPI. I know my DH does and has for a long time.