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    Default Tipping for takeout.

    How many people tip at sub shops, pizza places, chineses places, etc for takeout ? I never use to, but I have gotten to the point that I will normally leave a small tip if I pay by debit or credit card, and there is a place for a tip . I thought more people did, but the other day I picked up a pizza from Pizza Hut and tipped the girl $1. As I was leaving I heard her yell to a co-worker Hey I got a dollar. I did not know if she was happy she got something or if she was making fun of my small tip.

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    I don't tip for takeout, no.

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    Unless they are rude to me or otherwise impolite in some way, I always leave a tip. It takes the service person just as much effort to package things to go as it does for them to sersve me and clean up my mess at a restaurant. Either way, I got food and didn't have to cook it so that deserves a tip in itself!

    there was a similar thread not too long ago:

    http://www.stripperweb.com/forum/sho...hlight=tipping

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    I believe in tipping karma. I liked one of the little tips from queer eye for the straight guy, "dollar a bag, dollar a drink, 15-20% on everything else.

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    I do mostly for delivery drivers- they usually make less than everyone else, so tips are expected.

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    If it was delivered, 20% like being served.

    If I'm picking it up, usually nothing - unless I've got a special order or they are nice, then whatever I feel appropriate. Like if they out of their way to get me extra chopsticks, then I'll show my appreciation.



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    Wait, you want me to pay extra because I chose to save money by using my petrol to go down to the shops and pick it up myself?

    I would've just had it delivered then.


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    Quote Originally Posted by lilithmorrigan View Post
    Wait, you want me to pay extra because I chose to save money by using my petrol to go down to the shops and pick it up myself?

    I would've just had it delivered then.

    Wouldn't you then have a delivery fee plus the cost of food?

    Some people pick up food because it's convenient. Others try to save a penny by not having it delivered and probably don't tip for someone taking care to make sure the order is correct, right temp, and packaged properly.

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    Want to know how the delivery person feels, check out my recent thread.

    I usually don't tip for takeout. I only do it if I'm in a great mood, like on Wednesday at Pizza Hut when I had a good money day and gave the cashier a $2 tip for carryout.

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    Quote Originally Posted by short skirts View Post
    Wouldn't you then have a delivery fee plus the cost of food?

    Some people pick up food because it's convenient. Others try to save a penny by not having it delivered and probably don't tip for someone taking care to make sure the order is correct, right temp, and packaged properly.
    That was my point. Why would I tip someone there when I can pay the same thing I'd probably tip as a delivery fee and not waste my own petrol?


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    I wouldn't normally tip for takeout because you are not sitting in the restaurant getting their service or having it delivered for convenience. I have though, like when I went to IHOP to get grilled cheese and fries and the lady charged me for the kids meal. I only gave her two bucks, but it was a four dollar meal. I try and remember that some places they live on tips and spent the time taking your order and packaging it.

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    You know, I get kind of annoyed when they have a big 'ol tip jar right smack in the middle of the counter... and the people at the sub shops look like 90 yr old crack heads even if they're 25, or it's some stoner teenager. Hell no I don't tip at sandwhich shops, they do get paid minimum wage or more, at least at the ones around here.

    However, if it is at an actual resturant, like someplace I'd like to sit down and eat, not typical fast food, then usually a buck or 2.
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    yeah, i usually tip, a LITTle bit, for takeout. not as much as for delivery. then I am extra-kind. however, the tip-jar i saw in the fucking 7-11 today??? oh HELL no. what the heck kind of service is that/??? that's tip-whoring. no way.

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    Yeah at subway or the coffee shop I dont normally tip. They get paid an hourly wage. At a real restaurant where a waiter took time to take my order and package it, I do tip. Not a lot, since waiting on me did not take as much time as it would of if I had dined there, but like 2-3 dollars. They rely on tips to make thier living.

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    Ugh I hate how they seem to place tip jars everywhere these days! Tips belong to those who earn most of their money that way. Although I do admit to working at a minimum wage job where we had tip jars; we had to sing when we got them though, so we deserved it for the humiliation

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    ^^^ Agreed, it's nauseating. How do we do away with tipping completely? As one who has worked for many years solely for tips, I am ready for a tip-free society. Let the customer pay the employer, and let the employer pay the staff, and cut out the "optional" bullshit. No more $2.13 an hour. Can it be done?

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    Yek, they do in other countries. I'm taking French and they apparently put the tip in the bill. I think it's a great idea, considering how cheap people can be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yekhefah View Post
    ^^^ Agreed, it's nauseating. How do we do away with tipping completely? As one who has worked for many years solely for tips, I am ready for a tip-free society. Let the customer pay the employer, and let the employer pay the staff, and cut out the "optional" bullshit. No more $2.13 an hour. Can it be done?
    Doing away with it completely?? No way, fuck that. It's one of the things I love about our culture.

    As far as takeout - I tip at Olive Garden when I have to go to the bar to get it or when they bring it out to your car at Applebee's. I don't tip if I pick it up at hostess stand.

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    If your recieving a service at a restaurant, ie sit down and eat, then by all means tip, but, if your just getting me a cup of coffee at Dunkin Donuts I refuse to put money in the tip jar.

    Atleast some places like dunkin Donuts have put a Children's hospital/Jimmy Fund collection jar instead, which I have no problem leaving the change in.

    Alittle off topic, but, what i can't stand is if the bill comes to say 25 dollars, and i pay with a 50, i hate it when the wait staff asks "Do you want change?", hell yes i want my change back, you'll get a tip, but, its up to me to decide how much, to me that is just rude to ask for a tip like that.

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    Delivery yes, pick up no. Most fast food places don't have tipping and don't allow tipping. I don't remember why.

    G - I would find that annoying if I thought that they were implying that they wanted a 100% tip - but I think most of the time it is either reflex, because they haven't looked and noticed what you've given them in reference to the bill, or it's inside the little folder. I mean, they are waiters - they aren't magic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by G-Real View Post
    Alittle off topic, but, what i can't stand is if the bill comes to say 25 dollars, and i pay with a 50, i hate it when the wait staff asks "Do you want change?", hell yes i want my change back, you'll get a tip, but, its up to me to decide how much, to me that is just rude to ask for a tip like that.
    They're trying to save time. Restaurants get hectic and there's no point wasting time doing the math and counting out change if they can just stick the money in their pocket and keep working. Most people don't want change.

    I can see how that could be rude though. When I was slinging hash I used to say something like, "I'll be right back with your change." Gives the customer the opportunity to say, "Never mind, keep it," and most did.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jenny View Post
    Delivery yes, pick up no. Most fast food places don't have tipping and don't allow tipping. I don't remember why.
    Because they are paid min. wage. (In AZ) if you make more than $30/month from tips you can be considered a tipped worker, and get paid $2.13/hour. Or they don't have a way to divy up the money. Sure, the person at the counter is right at the tip jar, but a lot more than their typing in your order went into making it.

    Another tip rant:
    I used to work at a coffee shop where the owner would take any tips that we made. She said that the more money the shop made, the more she'd be able to pay us. Yeah, true, but the customers are giving ME the money because they liked what I did for them! The place was totally running under the table and sometimes I'd get paid $6/hr and other weeks I'd get paid $13/hr.



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    Quote Originally Posted by hardkandee View Post
    Another tip rant:
    I used to work at a coffee shop where the owner would take any tips that we made. She said that the more money the shop made, the more she'd be able to pay us. Yeah, true, but the customers are giving ME the money because they liked what I did for them! The place was totally running under the table and sometimes I'd get paid $6/hr and other weeks I'd get paid $13/hr.
    Oh, no! That was why! Because at one point fast food places had "tip jars" but the tip was going to the establishment, not the server. Although it sounds like she was, at least indirectly, sharing them out, it's still illegal.
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    Default Re: Tipping for takeout.

    I don't like seeing tip jars at places like Subway either. Fast food places never used to have tip jars, and within the last 5 years or so, lots of fast food places started thinking they're entitled to tips too. I don't tip at fast food places, but if I get a to-go order from a place like IHOP or Perkins, I'll tip, but not as much as I would tip if I were eating at the restaurant. I'll usually tip $1 or $2 since they're taking time out to put my order together, but it doesn't take as long as if they were serving me if I was eating there. If I get a to-go order, it's almost always small and uncomplicated.






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    Jenny: When i go out with to like a diner and its just a paper slip, and I give you cash, come back with the change, otherwise I would tell you up front not to bother to return with the change. I just find it a lack of tact.

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