Anonymous wrote:I always leave a token tip, think it’s weird not to.

How much is considered a token tip?

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Anonymous wrote:You were both rude. You are supposed to tip on takeout. The server was also rude for asking directly for a tip.

Dou you leave a tip when you pick up your coffee at Starbuck? When you eat at McDonalds?

I leave at least 10% and usually 20.

Ridiculous. McDonalds, Chick Fil A, and Starbucks are paying $15.00 to $20.00 per hour in DC and surrounding areas.

Anonymous wrote:Restaurants are all short staffed, and whatever they can do to keep workers from jumping to other restaurants, they will do. How many closed during the pandemic? How many are still short staffed? How many would you like to remain open so that you can get a tablenor take out and don't have to cook on any particular evening?

If a couple of bucks won't make a difference in your life, but will make a big difference in someone else's life, Just. Do. It.

+1 Your kindness and generosity are greatly appreciated by others.

New poster here and I haven read the previous 13 or so pages.

I worked as a hostess all through high school and took to-go orders and then boxed them up. I was rarely tipped: maybe one out of every 100 orders. I was paid $10/hour and the servers were paid $3/hour plus tips.

Last summer my 15 year old daughter worked the take-out counter at a taco place and made $9/hour. With tips she made between $16-25/hour, it was a bit nuts for a 15 year old.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure this has already been pointed out, but servers and bartenders (who are tipped employees) give the food runners, bussers, and sometimes hostesses a % of their tips based on food sales. When you don’t tip on takeout, you are taking money out of their pockets.

This. It took a long time for someone to say it.We need to fix this at my restaurant. I'm usually the one who is in the front while others are who knows where. I get caught by the to-go order crowd. At the end of the night, it's $100-$200 of sale I have to tip out to 3 people.
I don't have that money. It comes from the tip I made at the tables. At minimum, go to the bar and order, because our bartender doesn't tip anyone out. He/she is more of a service bartender.
I know it's hard to know and not customers problem, but yes, she probably had to use money from other tables. Tip enough to cover her loss.
She was extremely rude though by pointing it out. I have seen it done only 5 times in my 25 year career. All people who did that were somehow strange in other ways- just the way they think and things they say.
We went out yesterday and the tip was already entered for us at a Mexican restaurant and it was 22%. Service wasn't worth that and I don't even remember when we got good service last time.

Who wants to sit around the bar, place a new to go order and wait for it?

If you’re picking up at a place with a hostess, would you tip? How about at a place with no front of the house (like Panera)?

In addition to the screen asking for a tip (as the employee is watching to see what you do), another detested thing is when you order a pick up order online and it’s impossible to complete the transaction without entering some tip.

Most of us want to tip and don't mind.

Do you think so after reading these answers? Seems pretty split, no!

It isn’t split. Early on there was one belligerent person (the one obsessed with Charles Dickens characters) who posted a lot. But that’s it.

The most charitable thing you can say is a lot of people have been duped into tipping for this sort of thing because of screen prompts or they did it during COVID. But it’s not an actual thing and it’s out of control now and shouldn’t be normalized.

The only obsession that's clear on this thread is your obsession with money. Very OCD.

Restaurants are all short staffed, and whatever they can do to keep workers from jumping to other restaurants, they will do. How many closed during the pandemic? How many are still short staffed? How many would you like to remain open so that you can get a tablenor take out and don't have to cook on any particular evening?

If a couple of bucks won't make a difference in your life, but will make a big difference in someone else's life, Just. Do. It.

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Either an entitled waitress or one that's on the spectrum with rigid rules.

I would have responded in the same way, OP.

OP initiated the sequence of events with her cheapness and entitled attitude.

Lol. No.

Oh, yes she did! The worker wouldn't have asked for a tip, if the OP hadn't placed an order, left the establishment, and then returned just to grab her bag of food and go. A tip wasn't required, but being cheap was noted. The worker was not polite but understandably perplexed, probably overworked, and tired.

Returned just to grab my bag of food and go—— yes. That’s precisely what getting take out is.
What is perplexing about this?

It seems perplexing to you to comprehend that workers prepared the food and packaged it for you. No one can force you to tip. Posters here are pointing out why others do.

Right, but OP experienced the take-out counter person publicly demanding a tip -- that's beyond the pale.

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Anonymous wrote:I would email the restaurant and let them know. There is no need to tip on carry out.

+1

Cheap a$$ho!es that don't tip a measly $5 for takeout orders. Maybe you can't afford to eat out and need to eat at home.

Do you tip at McDonalds, Starbucks, Panera Bread, Burger King, Corner Bakery and other take out locations?

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Anonymous wrote:I always tip. 20 % even in take out. That said the employee behaved badly here. Op is right.

You are part of the problem and are actually hurting people and lining the greedy restaurant owner pockets

Who exactly is being hurt, besides you, for looking like a cheap bastard?

+ 1 million

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure this has already been pointed out, but servers and bartenders (who are tipped employees) give the food runners, bussers, and sometimes hostesses a % of their tips based on food sales. When you don’t tip on takeout, you are taking money out of their pockets.

This. It took a long time for someone to say it.We need to fix this at my restaurant. I'm usually the one who is in the front while others are who knows where. I get caught by the to-go order crowd. At the end of the night, it's $100-$200 of sale I have to tip out to 3 people.
I don't have that money. It comes from the tip I made at the tables. At minimum, go to the bar and order, because our bartender doesn't tip anyone out. He/she is more of a service bartender.
I know it's hard to know and not customers problem, but yes, she probably had to use money from other tables. Tip enough to cover her loss.
She was extremely rude though by pointing it out. I have seen it done only 5 times in my 25 year career. All people who did that were somehow strange in other ways- just the way they think and things they say.
We went out yesterday and the tip was already entered for us at a Mexican restaurant and it was 22%. Service wasn't worth that and I don't even remember when we got good service last time.

Who wants to sit around the bar, place a new to go order and wait for it?

If you’re picking up at a place with a hostess, would you tip? How about at a place with no front of the house (like Panera)?

In addition to the screen asking for a tip (as the employee is watching to see what you do), another detested thing is when you order a pick up order online and it’s impossible to complete the transaction without entering some tip.

Most of us want to tip and don't mind.

Do you think so after reading these answers? Seems pretty split, no!

It isn’t split. Early on there was one belligerent person (the one obsessed with Charles Dickens characters) who posted a lot. But that’s it.

The most charitable thing you can say is a lot of people have been duped into tipping for this sort of thing because of screen prompts or they did it during COVID. But it’s not an actual thing and it’s out of control now and shouldn’t be normalized.

You are indeed a cheapskate. Probably a New Yorker related to Trump.

I recently went to Enchant. I stood in line for a while to order hot chocolate for my kids. Overpriced hot chocolate at that (like $8 for what was clearly just a packet of Swiss Miss). There were also boozy drinks served in the line, so a lot of customers were likely tipsy and cold and not paying attention. The guy serving drinks was very chatty and friendly, seemed to have a system going to keep the line moving. I get up to the front and he’s telling me how cute my kids are, he has kids the same ages, etc. Asking if they had fun.

He takes my card and swipes it, turns the screen toward me quickly and goes “just hit okay right there.” I had a long line of people behind me and two kids bouncing around waiting for their (again, already incredibly overpriced hot chocolate). So I hit okay without really looking. Right as I hit the button I realize there are tip box options and it was pre-set to 25%! I mean really? Who in their right mind would tip 25% for hot cocoa poured out of a giant jug? I didn’t feel like making a fuss so I just took the drinks and moved along.

But it turned me off of ever going back there. It was so crowded, the food options were awful and overpriced. My family spent so much money and this felt like a sly money grab. I bet the people ordering the $24 light up drinks didn’t even notice the automatic tip, so I bet it was a cash cow.

Tipping culture is getting insane.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m sure this has already been pointed out, but servers and bartenders (who are tipped employees) give the food runners, bussers, and sometimes hostesses a % of their tips based on food sales. When you don’t tip on takeout, you are taking money out of their pockets.

This. It took a long time for someone to say it.We need to fix this at my restaurant. I'm usually the one who is in the front while others are who knows where. I get caught by the to-go order crowd. At the end of the night, it's $100-$200 of sale I have to tip out to 3 people.
I don't have that money. It comes from the tip I made at the tables. At minimum, go to the bar and order, because our bartender doesn't tip anyone out. He/she is more of a service bartender.
I know it's hard to know and not customers problem, but yes, she probably had to use money from other tables. Tip enough to cover her loss.
She was extremely rude though by pointing it out. I have seen it done only 5 times in my 25 year career. All people who did that were somehow strange in other ways- just the way they think and things they say.
We went out yesterday and the tip was already entered for us at a Mexican restaurant and it was 22%. Service wasn't worth that and I don't even remember when we got good service last time.

Who wants to sit around the bar, place a new to go order and wait for it?

If you’re picking up at a place with a hostess, would you tip? How about at a place with no front of the house (like Panera)?

In addition to the screen asking for a tip (as the employee is watching to see what you do), another detested thing is when you order a pick up order online and it’s impossible to complete the transaction without entering some tip.

Most of us want to tip and don't mind.

Do you think so after reading these answers? Seems pretty split, no!

It isn’t split. Early on there was one belligerent person (the one obsessed with Charles Dickens characters) who posted a lot. But that’s it.

The most charitable thing you can say is a lot of people have been duped into tipping for this sort of thing because of screen prompts or they did it during COVID. But it’s not an actual thing and it’s out of control now and shouldn’t be normalized.

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Anonymous wrote:I have drawn a hard line on what I will and will not tip for.

Take out is a no. Starbucks is a no. Any counter service is a no. Any professional service provided by the business owner is a no.

I will tip restaurant servers, bartenders, my barber, taxi/Lyft, food DELIVERY.

Your “hard line” is arbitrary and stupid.

Oh well, that’s my hard line as well.

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It's a movement for 2023

Great. That must mean you support a living wage.

A high school student working as a hostess in a local restaurant or coffee shop or sandwich shop doesn’t need a living wage.

Anonymous wrote:I live in the NYC area where minimum wage is 15 dollars an hour. I do not tip for takeout, and that was not a thing when I was growing up (I’m in my thirties.) tipping is out of control. I tip for services where I am waited on- like sit down meals at restaurants, haircuts, curbside check in at the airport, etc.

I also tip for delivery. But getting my to go? Or a 7 dollar latte? Please. Take your virtue signaling elsewhere.