Chastised for not tipping on a to go order

[Anonymous]

#endtipping

It's a movement for 2023

[Anonymous]

Tip or don’t tip, I don’t care. But stop acting like you’re doing something super virtuous by giving a few dollars to the host/cashier/whatever. Get over yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always tip. 20 % even in take out. That said the employee behaved badly here. Op is right.

You are part of the problem and are actually hurting people and lining the greedy restaurant owner pockets

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip on takeout unless I am trying to help a local struggling restaurant. Tips are for service. Take out doesn’t require any service.

Just curious how you think the food is prepared? Put into containers? Handed to you? It's not automatically done by robots.

People who are paid a full wage. Do you tip the person who gets your online order at Walgreens ready for pick up? Do you tip the photo guy who prints your pictures? Do you tip the driver at Dulles who drives the people mover? No robots there, either.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure this has already been pointed out, but servers and bartenders (who are tipped employees) give the food runners, bussers, and sometimes hostesses a % of their tips based on food sales. When you don’t tip on takeout, you are taking money out of their pockets.

This. It took a long time for someone to say it.We need to fix this at my restaurant. I'm usually the one who is in the front while others are who knows where. I get caught by the to-go order crowd. At the end of the night, it's $100-$200 of sale I have to tip out to 3 people.
I don't have that money. It comes from the tip I made at the tables. At minimum, go to the bar and order, because our bartender doesn't tip anyone out. He/she is more of a service bartender.
I know it's hard to know and not customers problem, but yes, she probably had to use money from other tables. Tip enough to cover her loss.
She was extremely rude though by pointing it out. I have seen it done only 5 times in my 25 year career. All people who did that were somehow strange in other ways- just the way they think and things they say.
We went out yesterday and the tip was already entered for us at a Mexican restaurant and it was 22%. Service wasn't worth that and I don't even remember when we got good service last time.

Who wants to sit around the bar, place a new to go order and wait for it?

If you’re picking up at a place with a hostess, would you tip? How about at a place with no front of the house (like Panera)?

In addition to the screen asking for a tip (as the employee is watching to see what you do), another detested thing is when you order a pick up order online and it’s impossible to complete the transaction without entering some tip.

Most of us want to tip and don't mind.

Do you think so after reading these answers? Seems pretty split, no!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always tip. 20 % even in take out. That said the employee behaved badly here. Op is right.

You are part of the problem and are actually hurting people and lining the greedy restaurant owner pockets

Who exactly is being hurt, besides you, for looking like a cheap bastard?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t tip on takeout unless I am trying to help a local struggling restaurant. Tips are for service. Take out doesn’t require any service.

Just curious how you think the food is prepared? Put into containers? Handed to you? It's not automatically done by robots.

People who are paid a full wage. Do you tip the person who gets your online order at Walgreens ready for pick up? Do you tip the photo guy who prints your pictures? Do you tip the driver at Dulles who drives the people mover? No robots there, either.

Exactly. One of my kids loved the subs at a Jersey Mike's near us. I hate the place. Every time we went the restaurant was dirty and there are no clean tables even though this franchise is never busy. They hire "bros" who provide terrible service. The entire restaurant is routinely filthy. They added the option to tip when you pay and are rude and aggressive about it. Right. You stand at the counter ignoring customers and get the order wrong even as the person is directing you as to what they want on their sandwich and make customers wait to pay when you disappear in the back. I had horrible service where I was ignored in an empty, dirty restaurant and you're going to harangue me about leaving a tip. Disgusting. Haven't gone back in years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure this has already been pointed out, but servers and bartenders (who are tipped employees) give the food runners, bussers, and sometimes hostesses a % of their tips based on food sales. When you don’t tip on takeout, you are taking money out of their pockets.

This. It took a long time for someone to say it.We need to fix this at my restaurant. I'm usually the one who is in the front while others are who knows where. I get caught by the to-go order crowd. At the end of the night, it's $100-$200 of sale I have to tip out to 3 people.
I don't have that money. It comes from the tip I made at the tables. At minimum, go to the bar and order, because our bartender doesn't tip anyone out. He/she is more of a service bartender.
I know it's hard to know and not customers problem, but yes, she probably had to use money from other tables. Tip enough to cover her loss.
She was extremely rude though by pointing it out. I have seen it done only 5 times in my 25 year career. All people who did that were somehow strange in other ways- just the way they think and things they say.
We went out yesterday and the tip was already entered for us at a Mexican restaurant and it was 22%. Service wasn't worth that and I don't even remember when we got good service last time.

Who wants to sit around the bar, place a new to go order and wait for it?

If you’re picking up at a place with a hostess, would you tip? How about at a place with no front of the house (like Panera)?

In addition to the screen asking for a tip (as the employee is watching to see what you do), another detested thing is when you order a pick up order online and it’s impossible to complete the transaction without entering some tip.

Most of us want to tip and don't mind.

Do you think so after reading these answers? Seems pretty split, no!

I do mind particularly at places where they aren't actually servers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:#endtipping

It's a movement for 2023

Great. That must mean you support a living wage.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn’t tip for takeout, particularly in DC with the recent tipped wage legislation. Tipping is for when you get a personal service, like a hair cut, waiter, or home delivery. I may give a buck now and then for coffee if its a place I go a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I always tip. 20 % even in take out. That said the employee behaved badly here. Op is right.

You are part of the problem and are actually hurting people and lining the greedy restaurant owner pockets

Who exactly is being hurt, besides you, for looking like a cheap bastard?

+1 I'm beginning to understand an "attitude" that thankfully is not prevalent among my family members, friends, and work colleagues.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tip or don’t tip, I don’t care. But stop acting like you’re doing something super virtuous by giving a few dollars to the host/cashier/whatever. Get over yourself.

I think if the people who don't tip stopped making these threads you'd never here from the tippers again.

[Anonymous]

So if I get a bottle of water and a pastry to go, or a cup of tea and a pastry to go at a coffee shop, do I tip? I don't think I should. If it's a total of $10 let's say, or less, what do you tip? and why? You literally HANDED me hot water and my pastry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:#endtipping

It's a movement for 2023

Great. That must mean you support a living wage.

NP

Yes I do. And they already pay those who are preparing your to go order a living wage. So by your logic, I don’t need to tip them. Which I don’t.

[Anonymous]

I live in the NYC area where minimum wage is 15 dollars an hour. I do not tip for takeout, and that was not a thing when I was growing up (I’m in my thirties.) tipping is out of control. I tip for services where I am waited on- like sit down meals at restaurants, haircuts, curbside check in at the airport, etc.