Online tipping for takeout

[Anonymous]

Is this new? I've been out of the country for a while and just back. Last few times I've placed an order for pickup from places (pizza, generally fast food type not sit down restaurants) they have automatically added tips. If you don't want to tip, you have to actually zero it out.

I just find this kind of odd. What am I tipping for? You haven't done anything yet, and this is essentially your business...takeout food. So why are customers tipping now?

[Anonymous]

It was easy to add to the apps and the checkout process so it’s everywhere now. I zero it out on everything. General shopping, including picking up food, is not a tipping type of service.

[Anonymous]

Some people (I am not one of them) always tipped a few bucks on takeout. The practice is not new.

The increased presence of this on apps and websites seems to be a holdover from Covid but also the way the tech seems to be headed (see a million threads on these screens at cash registers).

I usually zero it out. If it's a place where I'm a regular and/or I really appreciate the attention paid to the order or what have you, I'll add a couple of bucks.

[Anonymous]

I feel obligated to tip something because I don't want my food to be messed with.

My brother works in food service and I've heard stories. There are so many sneaky ways they mess with customers and they all know where the camera blind spots are in the kitchen.

[Anonymous]

$0.

Do your jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel obligated to tip something because I don't want my food to be messed with.

My brother works in food service and I've heard stories. There are so many sneaky ways they mess with customers and they all know where the camera blind spots are in the kitchen.

same

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel obligated to tip something because I don't want my food to be messed with.

My brother works in food service and I've heard stories. There are so many sneaky ways they mess with customers and they all know where the camera blind spots are in the kitchen.

The guys in the kitchen don't see that on the tickets--they see the orders, not what people are paying and whether or not they tip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some people (I am not one of them) always tipped a few bucks on takeout. The practice is not new.

The increased presence of this on apps and websites seems to be a holdover from Covid but also the way the tech seems to be headed (see a million threads on these screens at cash registers).

I usually zero it out. If it's a place where I'm a regular and/or I really appreciate the attention paid to the order or what have you, I'll add a couple of bucks.

THrowing a few bucks in a tip jar is not new, but automatically adding it to every online order is. That was the original question

[Anonymous]

It started with the pandemic and the increase in delivery orders. Even though you are picking up, someone has to prepare the order for takeout. I usually don’t tip as much as a delivery but always tip $5 since we usually order for a family of four.

[Anonymous]

I don’t tip. That’s their job

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

True but it's getting harder for restaurants to retain workers. If we want to keep these places open, it helps to tip the workers who make it possible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

True but it's getting harder for restaurants to retain workers. If we want to keep these places open, it helps to tip the workers who make it possible.

Then they should pay them. Why should we subsidize the salary rather than the owner of the business? That's ludicrous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip. That’s their job

True but it's getting harder for restaurants to retain workers. If we want to keep these places open, it helps to tip the workers who make it possible.

Then let them close. Business owners/corporations can pay the workers, not expect the customers to subsidize the wages they're too cheap to pay. Come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It started with the pandemic and the increase in delivery orders. Even though you are picking up, someone has to prepare the order for takeout. I usually don’t tip as much as a delivery but always tip $5 since we usually order for a family of four.

That is literally what those places are there for. They aren't sit down restaurants, there are no servers. Of course they have to prepare the food, that's why they exist. Nobody is dining in most of the places, or it's less than half their business. packing it for takeout is barely any different. Fast food like Cava, Big Buns, Moby Dick, various pizza places--you're not going there to dine there. When you do, it's in the same containers half the time.

[Anonymous]

ok.....would you tip a barista for an espresso? cappuccino? just a cup of joe?