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

[Anonymous]

What is crazy about American society is that we have made a job (restaurant workers) into something that is paid or not paid according to principles and feelings like generosity, altruism, guilt or selfishness.

[Anonymous]

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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.

This. The service employees need to make a living wage here, and we need to make enough to pay enough when we go out to eat.

At this point, we have just stopped going out to eat. And just get take out once a month, and tip then.

No one seems to care about the people in the middle getting priced out of eating out because our salaries aren't rising as fast. Which means fewer restaurants will be able to survive.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would love to know the REAL HHI of all these people saying they “can’t afford” an extra 15-25% for a restaurant meal. BS. They just don’t want to pay it.

I have never said I can’t afford it. I sure can but I don’t want to and I am not doing it. Your nasty posts have not done anything to change my mind. If anything it confirms I was right.

Several different people have responded to you and no, you were not “right.” Oh, and I’m not a tipped employee.

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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.

Do people at Home Depot and the supermarket make “tipped minimum wage?” No, they do not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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

Neat story. We’re not in France.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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!

Which costs you way more in fees. Brilliant!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Which costs you way more in fees. Brilliant!

It’s TAKE OUT, duh. No fees!
Mostly restaurant prices or maybe $1-2 per dish more
And no need to talk to anyone

[Anonymous]

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

I don’t if it’s one night only, and not on the last day.
And, since they canceled the cleaning, one less problem to have - no cleaning no tip!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Which costs you way more in fees. Brilliant!

It’s TAKE OUT, duh. No fees!
Mostly restaurant prices or maybe $1-2 per dish more
And no need to talk to anyone

They are ordering ubereats. Which is more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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!

Which costs you way more in fees. Brilliant!

It’s TAKE OUT, duh. No fees!
Mostly restaurant prices or maybe $1-2 per dish more
And no need to talk to anyone

They are ordering ubereats. Which is more.

It’s ME. I am ordering Uber eats take out. There is such an option there

[Anonymous]

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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

Read a book sometime, cheapskate.

A minimum wage hourly worker in 1950 or 1970 or even 1990 was paid substantially more relative to COL than today’s service industry. It’s not even close.

[Anonymous]

I hope it's mostly the same cheap a$$hole who keeps saying they won't tip and you can't make me! I thought most people on DCUM made big bucks, if that's you and you still don't want to tip there's no fixing that kind of moronic nastiness. Some of you people, if you got any smarter you'd be a half-wit!

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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?

Interesting. So you tip the cashier that checks you out at WalMart? And you tip the person who hands you your sandwich at Chik-fil-A (and the one who took your order)? You tip the lifeguard at your community pool? You tip your child's daycare provider at Kindercare? You tip the parking lot attendant? And the ticket taker at the movie theatre? And more? All of the hourly workers you encounter in life you tip them 15-20%?

[Anonymous]

Tipping is a way for the restaurant owner to make more money and pay less especially to managers since they don't manage employee performance, the tipper do

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Who actually believes that your Chinese restaurant owner is actually giving carry-out tips to his staff?
Or any small restaurant owner?
I sure do not believe this for a second.

In our restaurant, whoever picks up the phone uses their own number to put in the order, and yes, they get the money because it's under their name. It's usually the bartender and yes, it's a lot of work for them to get this order ready. We are not big on carry-out and it takes a lot of time and leaving the bar to get the order ready.

At my local Chinese restaurant, it is always the owner or his son or brother that takes in take-out orders. Heck, most of the time it is the owner. I have never once phones my order and a server picked it up. Never.