Tipping at Chipotle or similar places

[Anonymous]

I tip about 10% - a buck or so if I am getting a meal just for me, about $5 if I'm getting an order for the whole family.

I figure that teenagers or not, they are working hard and deserve a few extra bucks. I'm surprised to find myself in the minority on this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a generous tipper for restaurants and places where tips ARE the person's income. But not at places like Chipotle. They make decent money for the experience/workload required. My niece works there and makes $10/hour.

How is $10/hr "decent" money? It might be decent for a teenager living in her parent's house.

How much do you make an hour? You're living in la la land.

Even if it's not decent money, does that mean we should consider tipping them? I feel like the service they are providing is fairly straightforward.

Can you roll a burrito as well as they do? Seriously. My shit would fall the fuck apart.

What Chipotle are you going to where it doesn't fall apart? Or, worse yet, they spin it 90 degrees and then roll it so the ingredients are stacked rather than all together.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tip about 10% - a buck or so if I am getting a meal just for me, about $5 if I'm getting an order for the whole family.

I figure that teenagers or not, they are working hard and deserve a few extra bucks. I'm surprised to find myself in the minority on this.

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I am fortunate that I don't notice that I'm a few bucks lighter at the end of the day. That's not true for many service workers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a generous tipper for restaurants and places where tips ARE the person's income. But not at places like Chipotle. They make decent money for the experience/workload required. My niece works there and makes $10/hour.

How is $10/hr "decent" money? It might be decent for a teenager living in her parent's house.

How much do you make an hour? You're living in la la land.

Even if it's not decent money, does that mean we should consider tipping them? I feel like the service they are providing is fairly straightforward.

Can you roll a burrito as well as they do? Seriously. My shit would fall the fuck apart.

What Chipotle are you going to where it doesn't fall apart? Or, worse yet, they spin it 90 degrees and then roll it so the ingredients are stacked rather than all together.

Last Chipotle I went to was College Park. Good roll. Bob Marley would've been proud.

[Anonymous]

Change or a buck if I have it

[Anonymous]

Ugh, no. The tipping culture has gotten out of hand - and this is coming from a generous tipper since I used to wait tables. My favorite coffee joint wastes everyone's time making customers sign receipts with a tip line, which is incredibly obnoxious in a drive through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ugh, no. The tipping culture has gotten out of hand - and this is coming from a generous tipper since I used to wait tables. My favorite coffee joint wastes everyone's time making customers sign receipts with a tip line, which is incredibly obnoxious in a drive through.

time to find another coffee joint

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a generous tipper for restaurants and places where tips ARE the person's income. But not at places like Chipotle. They make decent money for the experience/workload required. My niece works there and makes $10/hour.

How is $10/hr "decent" money? It might be decent for a teenager living in her parent's house.

How much do you make an hour? You're living in la la land.

For a zero skill, entry level, part time position that require no education or career training, $10.00/ hour is more than decent money. You are living in lala land if you think it is not.

NP here. Live on 10/hr in DC and get back to us. Good luck.

Entry level fast food is not a career or the type of job meant to live on. Entry level fast food is a job for teens and college students to make a few extra bucks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a generous tipper for restaurants and places where tips ARE the person's income. But not at places like Chipotle. They make decent money for the experience/workload required. My niece works there and makes $10/hour.

How is $10/hr "decent" money? It might be decent for a teenager living in her parent's house.

How much do you make an hour? You're living in la la land.

For a zero skill, entry level, part time position that require no education or career training, $10.00/ hour is more than decent money. You are living in lala land if you think it is not.

NP here. Live on 10/hr in DC and get back to us. Good luck.

Entry level fast food is not a career or the type of job meant to live on. Entry level fast food is a job for teens and college students to make a few extra bucks.

Holy crap. Do you know anything about current American economy?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm a generous tipper for restaurants and places where tips ARE the person's income. But not at places like Chipotle. They make decent money for the experience/workload required. My niece works there and makes $10/hour.

How is $10/hr "decent" money? It might be decent for a teenager living in her parent's house.

How much do you make an hour? You're living in la la land.

Yes, it is decent money for a teenager living with her parents, which is how I would describe the majority of non-management Chipotle employees I've come across. It's decent money for an entry-level job that requires no education or prior experience. The comment was made to distinguish between workers who make an actual wage, and restaurant servers who make, what, $2.50 an hour?

Of course $10/hour is not a living wage. That's a completely different argument. Me dropping 78 cents in a can that will be split among 5 or more people is not going to change anybody's circumstances.

[Anonymous]

It's the very rare occasion my order is processed correctly.

[Anonymous]

For those that do tip at Chipotle, do you also tip at McDonald's or Wendy's?

[Anonymous]

Yes, usually a dollar or two. I like chipotle and the people who work there are always really friendly.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a generous tipper for restaurants and places where tips ARE the person's income. But not at places like Chipotle. They make decent money for the experience/workload required. My niece works there and makes $10/hour.

How is $10/hr "decent" money? It might be decent for a teenager living in her parent's house.

How much do you make an hour? You're living in la la land.

For a zero skill, entry level, part time position that require no education or career training, $10.00/ hour is more than decent money. You are living in lala land if you think it is not.

NP here. Live on 10/hr in DC and get back to us. Good luck.

Is that the proper metric to determine if tipping is appropriate?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm a generous tipper for restaurants and places where tips ARE the person's income. But not at places like Chipotle. They make decent money for the experience/workload required. My niece works there and makes $10/hour.

How is $10/hr "decent" money? It might be decent for a teenager living in her parent's house.

How much do you make an hour? You're living in la la land.

For a zero skill, entry level, part time position that require no education or career training, $10.00/ hour is more than decent money. You are living in lala land if you think it is not.

NP here. Live on 10/hr in DC and get back to us. Good luck.

Entry level fast food is not a career or the type of job meant to live on. Entry level fast food is a job for teens and college students to make a few extra bucks.

Holy crap. Do you know anything about current American economy?

NP. I do. Are you familiar with the EITC?