How much do you tip on takeout orders?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pp here: just used those as examples...


Dear pp: please list your go-to restaurants.

I don't really do take-out. But I get delivery from Deli Italiano and Oriental Gourmet sometimes. Once in a blue moon I'll do Pie-Tanza.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't tip for carryout. Why would you do that?

Exactly. I tip for the service when I eat in. I don't think that swiping my credit card and handing me a bag of food constitutes service.

+1

[Anonymous]

I tip a few dollars (5-10% up to $5), especially if it is well done - everything right, polite, put together, ready to go when promised. I have worked in several capacities of food service, you are taking someone's time and they aren't usually paid well.

[Anonymous]

Our take-out usually totals around $40 or and I tip $5 each time. Someone goes to the trouble of putting everything into containers and they should be compensated for that.

[Anonymous]

I don't tip on takeout. Yes on delivery.

[Anonymous]

If you're ordering takeout from a regular restaurant like CPK, Olive Garden, etc., then either a server or a bartender has to order your food and pack it up in the kitchen. It's a pain and time-consuming and takes them away from their dine-in customers, potentially reducing their tips there. Also, it is included in their sales and the IRS assumes at least a 10% tip on all sales made by a server or bartender, so your server is taxed accordingly. Therefore, if you tip nothing, your takeout order cost that person money.

I tip between 10-20% on takeout orders, depending on who is getting them for me. If it's a server or bartender, 20%. If it is a more casual place with a tip jar at the counter, I will put some small bills in or add a 10% tip to the credit card slip if it is an option there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Delivery 10%

Pickup $1 to the place I go to on a regular basis for lunch. (so that is about 10%.... but only because <$1 seem silly)

It is hit or miss after that.

This.

[Anonymous]

If my order is $40+ and its a place I like and frequent I will give $5 because it makes them remember me and ensures they don't screw up next time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yikes. Did any of you ever work in a restaurant?

When I was a hostess who also handled take-out /pick-up orders, I was routinely given a few bucks. (And this was in the 80s!)

Yes for many years. Why would you tip on takeout? At the restaurants where I worked, the servers would always pass a small % of their tips to the hostess, and also a % to the busboys and bartenders.

[Anonymous]

If it is one of my favorite, regular restaurants, I tip $2-3. If it is a random place, usually I don't tip, unless I order a lot, as in $50+, and sometimes I need help taking it to my car, then I give the guy at least $5.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're ordering takeout from a regular restaurant like CPK, Olive Garden, etc., then either a server or a bartender has to order your food and pack it up in the kitchen. It's a pain and time-consuming and takes them away from their dine-in customers, potentially reducing their tips there. Also, it is included in their sales and the IRS assumes at least a 10% tip on all sales made by a server or bartender, so your server is taxed accordingly. Therefore, if you tip nothing, your takeout order cost that person money.

I tip between 10-20% on takeout orders, depending on who is getting them for me. If it's a server or bartender, 20%. If it is a more casual place with a tip jar at the counter, I will put some small bills in or add a 10% tip to the credit card slip if it is an option there.

Exactly right. An employee has to pack up your food, which is less work than waiting on a table but still work. I tip 10% on carryout.

I also think of it as: don't be a cheap bastard. It's a couple bucks for me but can add up for the employee over the course of a shift.

[Anonymous]

Do you tip the grocery store cashier who puts your food in a bag?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Op here: I feel bad about not leaving any tip. My husband always tells me not to. I usually order from restaurants like CPK, Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, Friday's etc.

Tipping is for servers who earn $2.35 an hour. The people who fix your food earn more than minimum wage.

Also, you need to improve your roster of go-to restaurants. Those places you listed are all disgusting.

PP, first you tried to come across as rooting for the underdog, champion for the people making less money, yet in the next statement, you are berating the p(pp) for her choice of chain restaurants. I think you are as much of a jerk as her husband who does not tip.

[Anonymous]

I don't tip for take-out either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you tip the grocery store cashier who puts your food in a bag?

I don't tip on carryout either, but this is a bad analogy as most supermarket cashiers belong to a union and engage in collective bargaining.

Then again, most restaurant employees make a fair wage. It's only the servers that make $2 an hour and change.