Anonymous wrote:If you are tipping 20%on takeout I hope you tip 30-40% on actual waitstaff.

As someone who waited tables in real restaurants, the idea that you would tip the same OR MORE to someone who preps your takeout order when compared to what you tip a waitress is just beyond my comprehension. Preparing take out is basically expo. Are you tipping the drive through staff as well because they take your order, make your drinks if you have any, bag the food and hand it to you? Some of y'all have never actually worked in the food industry and it shows. This same forum has repeatedly said the idea of 20% tips to a waitress feels obligatory even if the service is bad. Do you call the restaurant back for your tip if the food is cold or incorrect or tastes bad?

Why would you expect everyone here to have worked in the food industry?

These replies are making my head spin. How am I supposed to know how much difficulty goes into making a to-go order? Tipping is so ridiculous. Please just roll the tip into the cost of the meal and pay your employees a good wage, thanks.

It really doesn’t seem fair to pay 20 percent to server who keeps refilling my drink and the same to somebody boxing up my food so I’ll probably stick with 10% for takeout during non-pandemic times and about 15 until things are normal again.

Rhetorical question: why don’t we tip McDonald’s workers and cashiers? They hustle way more than the people I have seen bagging to-go orders.

I am glad someone started this thread as I have been wondering about this.

I never tipped on takeout pre-pandemic, but have mostly been doing 20% or rolling back to 10% or an arbitrary # like $5 now that the pandemic is ending and vaccines are available, or back to zero for pickup since most everyone will have had a chance to be vaccinated soon.

I do pickup my own takeout so 20% seems to me a lot and during the pandemic I honestly would not know how much to tip someone actually delivering food to my home, or for groceries.

It doesn't sound as though grocery or fast food workers get tops, but they are also low paid.

I don't know what the norm is and I suspect this thread is biased toward high tipping and/or people are BS'ing what they actually do.

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Anonymous wrote:2-3 dollars? Do you just reach into your bag/pocket and throw whatever loose change you have at them? Super cheap, particularly in a pandemic.

Does it make you feel better to shame people who might have little spare income and also deserve an occasional treat?

Maybe those people packing your order also have little spare income (particularly during a pandemic when they were out of work for months) and also deserve to be paid fairly? Are all these DCUM posters barely scraping by?

All aren’t but some are. Growing up, take out happened once a month and was a huge treat. We could not have afforded it more often and my mom would not have purchased it at all if she had to scrape up $4-5 to tip the person at the corner carry out who handed over a bag of Chinese food that probably cost less than $15 total. I think that the people packing the order probably understand that not everyone can afford to tip 20% on carry out orders.

Anonymous wrote:If you are tipping 20%on takeout I hope you tip 30-40% on actual waitstaff.

As someone who waited tables in real restaurants, the idea that you would tip the same OR MORE to someone who preps your takeout order when compared to what you tip a waitress is just beyond my comprehension. Preparing take out is basically expo. Are you tipping the drive through staff as well because they take your order, make your drinks if you have any, bag the food and hand it to you? Some of y'all have never actually worked in the food industry and it shows. This same forum has repeatedly said the idea of 20% tips to a waitress feels obligatory even if the service is bad. Do you call the restaurant back for your tip if the food is cold or incorrect or tastes bad?

This is always what I thought but I got flamed for suggesting it might be the case and that a 10% tip for takeout is okay. Glad to hear I’m not totally crazy.

Anonymous wrote:If you are tipping 20%on takeout I hope you tip 30-40% on actual waitstaff.

As someone who waited tables in real restaurants, the idea that you would tip the same OR MORE to someone who preps your takeout order when compared to what you tip a waitress is just beyond my comprehension. Preparing take out is basically expo. Are you tipping the drive through staff as well because they take your order, make your drinks if you have any, bag the food and hand it to you? Some of y'all have never actually worked in the food industry and it shows. This same forum has repeatedly said the idea of 20% tips to a waitress feels obligatory even if the service is bad. Do you call the restaurant back for your tip if the food is cold or incorrect or tastes bad?

I'm doing takeout instead of indoor or outdoor dining, so i tip on takeout like i would if I were dining in (20-25%, I have done a few 30% tips on smaller orders but can't really keep that up). It's not the restaurant's fault i won't go there because there's a damn pandemic.

Anonymous wrote:Can we back up to page 1 where a poster said they tip 45-50 dollars on grocery delivery? Wut?

I don’t see that.

For delivery? Definitely 20%. For takeout? $1/entree. Round up if there's an appetizer.

Anonymous wrote:I am shocked that people don’t tip on delivery orders. I tip a min of $10, especially since COVID. Grocery I tip $45-55. I am so grateful for their help.

I always tip on delivery but I do question a 20% tip when I pick up takeout. It seems obnoxious to ask if I want to tip 20, 15, or more 10 percent when I e driven to the restaurant to get the food. This is coming from someone who waited tables for 8 years.

Can we back up to page 1 where a poster said they tip 45-50 dollars on grocery delivery? Wut?

I’ve been tipping 15-20% during the pandemic, only because I want my neighborhood restaurants to be around when the pandemic is over. Even though I know why I do it, I don’t want to.

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Anonymous wrote:PP, I have even told my kids if they order $20-25 of pizza they need to tip $10. My son tips $10 on his $20 haircut — I give him the extra $5 since he pays for it himself.

Over tipping all the times - I have found people who do so are usually not well off but like to keep appearances
It makes them feel “rich” to give money

Nope. Neighbors don’t see how much I tip, and we are in the 1%. Incredibly fortunate and want to spread cash around. We eat takeout or delivery 2-3x week.

If you are tipping 20%on takeout I hope you tip 30-40% on actual waitstaff.

As someone who waited tables in real restaurants, the idea that you would tip the same OR MORE to someone who preps your takeout order when compared to what you tip a waitress is just beyond my comprehension. Preparing take out is basically expo. Are you tipping the drive through staff as well because they take your order, make your drinks if you have any, bag the food and hand it to you? Some of y'all have never actually worked in the food industry and it shows. This same forum has repeatedly said the idea of 20% tips to a waitress feels obligatory even if the service is bad. Do you call the restaurant back for your tip if the food is cold or incorrect or tastes bad?

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Anonymous wrote:PP, I have even told my kids if they order $20-25 of pizza they need to tip $10. My son tips $10 on his $20 haircut — I give him the extra $5 since he pays for it himself.

Over tipping all the times - I have found people who do so are usually not well off but like to keep appearances It makes them feel “rich” to give money

You can only "keep up appearances" if multiple people can see what you're doing. Who knows how much you're tipping besides the person you're tipping? We ARE well off, and we greatly appreciate people who make our lives easier, so we tip them well. It's that simple.

Anonymous wrote:We typically tip 20% in the restaurant, occasionally less if the service is really sub-par. Boxing up takeout is not the same level of effort. We rarely tip on takeout, and my standard for the delivery person is $4-5 since the restaurants we typically order from are less than a mile from our house, so it isn't again some massive hardship to drive 3 blocks to drop off a pizza.

It depends on where you live. Parking near many restaurants is non existent, and we have limited street parking at out apartment. Plus getting it to our door.