Anyone here tip for a takeout order that you call in and is ready when you arrive? What are your guidelines for deciding to do it and for how much?

I think if it's a place you frequent a lot tipping is semi standard.

Also may depend on how big the order is.

10% for me unless it's only like $12 or something then I would go with $15, basically a $3 minimum I guess. Assuming it's an actual restaurant the people at the host desk put those together and typically don't make much in tips from coat check, etc.

I'm always torn on takeout tipping because the fact is all the people processing that order are supposedly making a living wage and not like $2.13 plus tips like servers.

If it is my local owner-run pizza place with just a regular-sized order, I'll leave a buck or two. Maybe.

If I am getting $90 worth of Chinese, I am really hard-pressed to quantify a tip. All these people are not in tipped positions.


I usually tip anywhere from 15-30% ftr too.

Yeah personally I don't think it's an obligation like tipping servers, just an option. You could probably make a good argument that if everyone tipped on takeout the restaurants would just lower the wages of front of house people accordingly.

Once again you don't understand the words on the screen. Let me try again:

You are at table 1. Table 2 ordered before you. Your food is both up at the same time. You stated you want him to make TWO trips if you are table 2 and ordered first. Now you are at table 1, but if he makes TWO trips he has WASTED YOUR TIME because it takes an extra 30 seconds for him to make TWO trips instead of ONE.

And +1 for the IMMORAL label on SPRINGS who tips EXTRA when she gets served OUT OF TURN.

PS LOL at calling people here "DUMMY"

some guy just gave me a 5$ cash tip on a delivery of 20$. But he was confused while signing the credit card and also wrote in a 5$ tip on the credit card recipt should i take the extra 5$ on the receipt?

you don't have to tip for a takeout order. People who make counter make the most per hour. but if you do just put it in the tip jar on counter or write it in on the credit card

Chinese owners keep takeout tips for themselves. i work in a chinese restuarant

How mad do you all think Springs gets when she's at a busy McDonald's and they have separate lines for the cashiers and another line moves faster than hers and someone else gets UNFAIRLY served BEFORE her?

Or when the person BEHIND her in line gets their food FIRST because they ordered something that was ready and Springs is still waiting for her double order of large fries?

How long do you think she spends walking up and down the checkout line at Walmart, looking for the shortest line/fastest cashier so she can get out of there faster?

Lol, yeah, ok.

Yeah, giving a 30% tip bc my 2 and 3 year old made a mess with rice and chips makes me self absorbed ignorant doofus. Get real.

Lol, have u ever seen a 2 year old try and eat rice? You think I just sir there and let them throw food around? How a person with kids thinks they won't make a mess is nuts.

It isn't the making of the mess(but making the mess is also easily avoidable). It is the leaving of the mess.


And you sound mad.

This happens to me pretty regularly at my restaurant, probably once per shift, because of the % of foreigners we get who aren't familiar with how to leave a tip. We're supposed to register the tip as trying to interpret the guests' intention to the best of our ability. It's more probably that the guy was just trying to leave you $5. It's the correct thing both ethically and legally to just take the $5.

I'd probably get written up at my restaurant if I tried to take the double tip and the person ended up calling to complain. A second time and I'd probably be fired. I will admit, though, that if the customer was a dick, I'm much more inclined to take the double tip, because I have pretty high plausible deniability.

DD,

You're like the preeminent server on this forum. What are you thoughts/takes on under-the-table garbage parents?

Electric,

Yes, very easy to have a 2-3yo eat rice without making a big mess.

Oh good, we're about to rehash the whole "It's impossible for people who don't own a kid to understand parenting".

She already gets preferential treatment cause of the scooter she rides

Not that difficult to quickly clean up food that your little kids spill under the table. Only slightly more difficult than keeping your kids from dropping crap all over in the first place.
In the event they do make a giant mess, leaving it there is a douchebag move, regardless of the size tip you leave.
And do you think the person who has to clean that **** up is the one getting the majority of the tip?

I have explained myself already. I told you already ***HE DID NOT WASTE MY TIME SINCE IT WASN'T **********MY TURN YET YOU STUPID IDIOT*********. I should get mine when MY TURN COMES UP YOU STUPID ****TARD IDIOT!

The server should make 2 trips even if that means I wait, because it's NOT MY ****ING TURN YET DUMMY! I am not supposed to get it quicker than table 2. Do you understand that or what?

I AM VERY WILLING TO WAIT MY TURN. THAT IS SOMETHING YOU STUPIDLY QUITE DON'T ****ING UNDERSTAND, DO YOU STUPID IDIOT?? So when it is my turn that my turn doesn't get dissed, understand??

WHY would you tip for take-out at ALL since it's the SAME(or even less work) ****ING JOB as McDonald's, huh? Handing you a bag and ringing you up somehow is more different than McDonald's, then WHY should the McDonald's cashier not get to earn a tip, huh? Make TIPPING *****FAIR********! I don't tip for any take-out orders. Especially if you call in the order, you aren't even there to receive service. Ringing you up, giving you change or your credit card receipt with handing you a bag is certainly the same thing as a grocery store even and they don't make tips. WHY not be *FAIR* when you tip? I am. I make sure I don't tip for a take-out order.

McDonald's cashiers do a lot more for their customers like make shakes, make iced coffees, fill my cup with special sauce(for the big mac), fill my cup with tartar sauce, for hotcakes and sausage they get a fork in one box, a knife in another box, a couple of butters and syrups(which at for example Applebee's, they have an ALL-IN-ONE Cuttlery set including salt n pepper packets even(napking fork knife). The Applebee's bartender for a to-go order did MUCH LESS WORK or THE SAME AMOUNT OF WORK than the McDonald's cashier I GUARANTEE you that. If we can't tip McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, etc. WHY is it **FAIR** to tip for the SAME TYPE OF SERVICE to someone else, huh? What they make per hour is IRRELEVANT since the service is exactly the same or even service even than McDonald's.

Because she made me have faster service so WHY would I NOT REWARD that even if that is wrong to the other customers? I mean it's only fair.

Not if I don't have that server again. Only if I did and even though, that server may remember the good tip and make me first anyways, so honestly that usually isn't the way it works. It's usually if you tip poorly that they will remember that you didn't tip well and treat you like crap.

Springs,
huh?