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

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Anonymous wrote:You still need to tip on carryout. If it’s too expensive to eat restaurant food then make your own meals. The workers shouldn’t have to pay the price.

Why do people keep saying this? I have never once in my life tipped on a carryout order. A tip is for the service provided when you sit down and eat a meal. What service is being provided in a takeout order? Having a pleasant cashier?

If that’s the case, then you should tip at literally every business that you ever enter. Checking out at the supermarket, tip them. Buying some paint at Home Depot, tip them for answering your questions. Sorry but this is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:You still need to tip on carryout. If it’s too expensive to eat restaurant food then make your own meals. The workers shouldn’t have to pay the price.

Why do people keep saying this? I have never once in my life tipped on a carryout order. A tip is for the service provided when you sit down and eat a meal. What service is being provided in a takeout order? Having a pleasant cashier?

If that’s the case, then you should tip at literally every business that you ever enter. Checking out at the supermarket, tip them. Buying some paint at Home Depot, tip them for answering your questions. Sorry but this is ridiculous.

Agree. Not my problem what your hourly wage happens to be. Tips are for service beyond the normal expectation

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Anonymous wrote:If you can’t afford to tip you can’t afford to eat out.

Yes, agree. We used to get takeout a few times a month, but now our takeout is a rotisserie chicken. The MC is priced out.

It's interesting that several angry posters are more upset about tipping than they are about the middle classes being priced out of dining out.

We have a decent enough income, but we are increasingly having to watch our spending and questioning the value of our consumptions in ways we didn't before, and that includes dining out, and having to pay another 20-25% tip on top of meals is a key factor in scaling back on how much we eat out.

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Not enough people in this thread ever worked in restaurant and it shows.

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Anonymous wrote:You still need to tip on carryout. If it’s too expensive to eat restaurant food then make your own meals. The workers shouldn’t have to pay the price.

The restaurant is free to institute service charges or minimum tops. Until then, you don't need to tip.

Jesus, you are dumb.

You’re also free to never brush your teeth. And to pass gas in the middle of a work meeting. And to walk in to pick up your takeout with your fat hairy gut hanging out the bottom of your “Big Johnson” t shirt.

No one is arguing that you “must” tip in the sense of a legal obligation. But if you don’t you are gross and low class.

Funny how it's not a legal requirement. The PP is strictly correct.

The expectation is to tip but it still is an awful way of structuring it. We should get away with tips completely and just have minimum wage for restaurant workers. But as a few PP pointed out, some places already mandate this, and people are still expected to tip

The expectation for carry out is a couple of bucks. The pandemic changed that for awhile, but now that dining rooms are open, I see to tip carry out order like they are dine in

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Anonymous wrote:Not enough people in this thread ever worked in restaurant and it shows.

How is working at Mod Pizza any more taxing than working as a cashier in a grocery store? Or working in a dry cleaners? Or working at the drive-thru window at McDonald's for that matter? Why should we tip for takeout at Mod, but not at the grocery store, dry cleaners, and McDonald's?

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Anonymous wrote:Not enough people in this thread ever worked in restaurant and it shows.

I worked at KFC in high school. It was miserable and there were no tips.

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This suggestion to tip at carryout is ridiculous. The prices of the meals were already increased , if the restaurants demand tips for carryout, people will be turned off and eventually restaurants will not get any business, is that what we really want to happen?

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Anonymous wrote:Not enough people in this thread ever worked in restaurant and it shows.

How is working at Mod Pizza any more taxing than working as a cashier in a grocery store? Or working in a dry cleaners? Or working at the drive-thru window at McDonald's for that matter? Why should we tip for takeout at Mod, but not at the grocery store, dry cleaners, and McDonald's?

Yeah. Quentin Tarantino already did this riff 30 years ago. Mr. Pink was a cheap f&ck then, and you are now. Seriously, have a modicum of pride and self respect. You’re this adamant about not giving an hourly worker a few dollars?

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In France I was told no tip required. Fair wages there for employees and less oscillation for employees relying on tips. Interestingly the restaurant didn’t go out of business

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Anonymous wrote:Not enough people in this thread ever worked in restaurant and it shows.

Or they did, and find all the expected (and much higher) tipping now for everything ridiculous

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I am routinely expected to tip 15% on carry out, they turn the screen to me and this is the lowest option. Unless I want to fumble with the custom tip.
I have started ordering take out via Uber eats just to avoid this issue!

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You must tip. Thank God for those workers who worked through the pandemic so the rest of us could eat take-out meals! Stop going to the restaurant if you must, but don't stiff the workers. They need their tips. They pay for food too!

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Anonymous wrote:I think most of this thread is 2-3 angry little men, pink in hue, who have little happiness in life other than shitposting on the internet. Here, they are big and brash and have the power to anger people with their hot takes, with no consequence. IRL they are ineffectual nothings. They’re Ross Perot voters. They buy their jeans at Walmart.

If you don’t tip service people well, you are either too poor to be dining out or you’re just an embarrassment to yourself. And surely to your families as well.

I tip a lot because I’m rich, and I know how hard that work is and how much that money means to the people doing it. Pretty much everyone I know does the same. I can’t imagine being friends with someone who “doesn’t tip for takeout”. So low class.

Agree. Cannot believe some people don't tip on takeout. We give at least $5 no matter what.

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Same people who don't leave a tip for the maid when they stay in a hotel. Pathetic and cheap.