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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I never heard that you are supposed to tip on takeout until Covid, and there was all that hoopla about restaurants risking their lives for us (never mind other essential workers like me didn’t make extra for going in). I figured it was temporary but this myth has persisted past covid. [/quote]

Yes! This is where it started for me.

As I wasn't actually able to sit down to eat, I was happy to tip in the way I would have had that been an option.

Now, it apprently has become the cultural expectation instead of going back to the way it was.
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Nope, my sister worked in a restaurant as a hostess 20 years ago and she told me that you are supposed to tip a bit on takeout. [/quote]

I worked as a hostess in two spots 20 - 23 years ago and although someone did tip occasionally on take out it was considered a “wow! I got a tip!” thing not an every order occurrence. And those handling take out were employees making the full hourly wage not the waitresses. [/quote]

I tip a tiny bit on takeout; but not like I would if I sat down. I was a server in many places and we never handled takeout.  The cooks and managers did and they got paid a decent hourly wage, just as much as anyone working anywhere else. In fact most of them were the owner or owner,s family. If you tip them you might as well tip every single person from the grocery store cashier to the 7-11 clerk. It’s an absurd custom to begin with and really needs to stop. People need to charge and pay the correct amount and not add this ridiculous social tax. I suspect that the ever present tip line on the register paper is the work of credit card processors; who collect a percentage of that tip.[/quote]

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