Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:44     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why do many restaurants simply hand a takeout container to diners and expect them to pack their own doggie bags when they need to take home excess food? If they expect full tip, shouldn’t they be providing full service? Making the customer do this work is appallingly poor customer service. Shouldn’t this result in a lowering of the tip? Yesterday they made me pack up an extra 3 plates we had. I reduced their tip from 20% to 18% because it peeved me. I’m expected to do my job to completion, why shouldn’t wait staff?


Frankly, i prefer to do it myself. I don't want them to do it back in the kitchen where I can't see.


This. They take it back in the kitchen and then scoop things up with their hands and put it in there. I can do that myself without getting their germs.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:42     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly I think taking your leftovers home is tacky. I still do it sometimes, but from a food safety perspective I don’t think restaurants can officially condone it. After food has been out of temperature control for that long, you might personally decide to refrigerate and reheat it but a restaurant can’t do that. So maybe they can’t take it back to the kitchen and then give it back to you?

When really nice restaurants have given me something to take home it’s never temperature controlled.


What restaurant gives you a temperature controlled takeaway box?

And how many people do you know who got sick or died eating tacky restaurant leftovers?


No the point is they give you something that’s NOT temperature controlled. Like I think at Rose’s luxury they gave us dry pasta.


After eating your meal, instead of leftovers… the restaurant gave you… dry pasta? What are you talking about?
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:41     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:18% tip is far above and beyond, 3% more than the customary tip.


Regardless how much you tip, there's no amount that will telepathically communicate what your concern was with the service. You need to talk to the server or the manager.


The "customary tip" in 2023 is 20%.


I tip customary, not "customary".
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:39     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, did you ask the server to pack it up for you?


Not only would I prefer to pack it up myself, I'd be concerned that someone back in the kitchen might add something not preferred if they felt irritated or disrespected.


Why aren't you concerned that they might add something not preferred the first time you ordered it?
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:29     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly I think taking your leftovers home is tacky. I still do it sometimes, but from a food safety perspective I don’t think restaurants can officially condone it. After food has been out of temperature control for that long, you might personally decide to refrigerate and reheat it but a restaurant can’t do that. So maybe they can’t take it back to the kitchen and then give it back to you?

When really nice restaurants have given me something to take home it’s never temperature controlled.


What restaurant gives you a temperature controlled takeaway box?

And how many people do you know who got sick or died eating tacky restaurant leftovers?


No the point is they give you something that’s NOT temperature controlled. Like I think at Rose’s luxury they gave us dry pasta.


So.... they gave you the raw ingredients to make the same dinner you just ate?

Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:20     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Just don't pack leftovers
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:16     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly I think taking your leftovers home is tacky. I still do it sometimes, but from a food safety perspective I don’t think restaurants can officially condone it. After food has been out of temperature control for that long, you might personally decide to refrigerate and reheat it but a restaurant can’t do that. So maybe they can’t take it back to the kitchen and then give it back to you?

When really nice restaurants have given me something to take home it’s never temperature controlled.


What restaurant gives you a temperature controlled takeaway box?

And how many people do you know who got sick or died eating tacky restaurant leftovers?


This is DCUM. Someone was probably permanently disabled after eating reheated leftovers.


That’s not really the point, the point is that the restaurant has to follow the rules.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:16     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly I think taking your leftovers home is tacky. I still do it sometimes, but from a food safety perspective I don’t think restaurants can officially condone it. After food has been out of temperature control for that long, you might personally decide to refrigerate and reheat it but a restaurant can’t do that. So maybe they can’t take it back to the kitchen and then give it back to you?

When really nice restaurants have given me something to take home it’s never temperature controlled.


What restaurant gives you a temperature controlled takeaway box?

And how many people do you know who got sick or died eating tacky restaurant leftovers?


No the point is they give you something that’s NOT temperature controlled. Like I think at Rose’s luxury they gave us dry pasta.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:15     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:OP, did you ask the server to pack it up for you?


Not only would I prefer to pack it up myself, I'd be concerned that someone back in the kitchen might add something not preferred if they felt irritated or disrespected.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:13     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:18% tip is far above and beyond, 3% more than the customary tip.


Regardless how much you tip, there's no amount that will telepathically communicate what your concern was with the service. You need to talk to the server or the manager.


The "customary tip" in 2023 is 20%.



+1 and I give 25% to especially hardworking, attentive servers.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:11     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Enough people have already touched my food. Happy to wrap up leftovers myself. It lets me control what and how much I take, etc.

This is such a non-issue. What is your problem? If you need some type of assistance, you can ask for the help.



Because it is the waiter’s work. Dining at restaurants can be in very tight spaces, which can make it difficult to do in smaller areas, especially if there are other people next to you. Then the food might splash, which gets on your clothes. It should taken to an area where there’s more space and can be appropriately poured/scraped/whatever so that splashing is reduced. Regardless, this is the wait staff’s job, so why do the make customers do it these days?


The restaurant determines what is the wait staff’s job, not you. You are not the employer. If you don’t like this practice, go to another restaurant, but many, many, many restaurants do this these days.


I’m not their employer yet I’m supposed to pay their salary? What kind of insane mental gymnastics is that? Fine, don’t finish the job. I won’t finish laying your full compensation either.


You logic is stupid, because how the hell would anyone know what the ‘policy’ is for leftover until the end of the meal? There’s no way you wouldn’t know not to go to a place that made customers do this until you actually finished the meal.


+1

This is why I hardly tip theseadays
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:11     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
We are not allowed to box up food for you. Per health department.

Signed,
Waitress
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:11     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honestly I think taking your leftovers home is tacky. I still do it sometimes, but from a food safety perspective I don’t think restaurants can officially condone it. After food has been out of temperature control for that long, you might personally decide to refrigerate and reheat it but a restaurant can’t do that. So maybe they can’t take it back to the kitchen and then give it back to you?

When really nice restaurants have given me something to take home it’s never temperature controlled.


What restaurant gives you a temperature controlled takeaway box?

And how many people do you know who got sick or died eating tacky restaurant leftovers?


This is DCUM. Someone was probably permanently disabled after eating reheated leftovers.
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 21:01     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:Honestly I think taking your leftovers home is tacky. I still do it sometimes, but from a food safety perspective I don’t think restaurants can officially condone it. After food has been out of temperature control for that long, you might personally decide to refrigerate and reheat it but a restaurant can’t do that. So maybe they can’t take it back to the kitchen and then give it back to you?

When really nice restaurants have given me something to take home it’s never temperature controlled.


What restaurant gives you a temperature controlled takeaway box?

And how many people do you know who got sick or died eating tacky restaurant leftovers?
Anonymous
Post 08/27/2023 20:41     Subject: Reduce tip when wait staff throw the take away container and bag at you at end of meal?
Anonymous wrote:Enough people have already touched my food. Happy to wrap up leftovers myself. It lets me control what and how much I take, etc.

This is such a non-issue. What is your problem? If you need some type of assistance, you can ask for the help.


I agree. I have no desire to send my food back to the kitchen and wonder what happened to it before it returned. Plus, we have had food thrown out by mistake more than once during the days the waiter would take it back to the kitchen to wrap. I also thin it’s easier to just ask for a container than explain what yo do want wrapped up.