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Hey bees, just wondering what you did when you order food and pick it up. I usually tip if its something like curb side pick up.. or if I frequent the place.. (i.e. owner and waiters know me by name...[I eat out too much]) but if I am just picking up chinese or something... I don't tip. Do you?
No I don't. I'm always kind of weirded out though because there is a tip line. If I eat in store I do tip a few bucks. I don't think you're supposed to tip?
Of course I do. It is usually added into the sales of the waitress that had to enter the order, so I always tip. I figure if they are taxed like I tip, then at least I should cover the amount of taxes they pay on the order.
No I don't tip. They did not serve me or deliver it. They prepared my food.... which is what I am paying for already.
Nope. Don't tip. I could be wrong (someone correct me if I am), but the driver gets all of the tip if he/she delivers. So why would I give someone a tip if I pick up that wouldn't get it if it was deliveverd?
If I pay with cash and have change. Sometimes I'll drop it into the tip jar.
ETA: I'm talking about pizza, chinese food, jimmy johns, etc - restaurants that offer delivery and I choose to pick up. (Not a sit-down restaurant that I order pickup. I don't know what I would do. We've never done that.)
If they bring it to my car, yeah, I'll give a little (but not a full tip). If I go in to get it, no. I also consider what work the serve does (some places, they just take your call and watch the bag of food, others have them prepping the salad, getting your sauces, etc.). I've been a server for years, and I don't expect tips on a takeout, it's just a nice little bonus when I get one.
I usually tip when I pick up but not as much as if I were to eat in the restaurant (since they are obviously spending a lot more time/work on me if I eat in). If I eat in, I always tip 15-20%. If I am picking up, I usually just round up a few dollars. I still think they have taken the time to take your order and then package it up and get it ready for you, plus the taxes on all sales. Since wait staff get such poor wages, I always think that it is nice (but not necessarily expected) to give at least a little bit for the time they took to get your food ready.
I tip because, like PP said, there are still taxes on someone's sales. I don't tip as much as I do when I eat out or have delivery, but I'll tip $2. (I tip $3 for delivery, unless it's a huge order.)
I don't. Tipping is for service and since they aren't serving me anything, I don't think it's necessary. I do always feel like a jerk when I cross off the tip line right in front of them tho.
This brings up that interesting question... who gets the tip?? I am asking this because I ordered chinese for the first time in years. I went to pick it up.. it was obvious that the owner was the one taking the calls (and the money).. and the cook/whoever was in the back.. was making and packaging. IF I were to tip.. I would sure as hell want to tip the cook or the waiter but I am sure that was not going to happen. About the tipping to pay taxes.. I just don't agree with that. The money I make is taxed.. no one covers my taxes.. why should I cover a buisness's taxes.. thats just strange to me. It is something we all have to pay and you operate your buisness accordingly. If noodles and carrots cost X amount of $, with taxes its X+T... with a profit which covers taxes and workers pay its X+T+P=what I pay.
No, I don't tip. I don't go to a fast food place, order food and leave a tip so I don't see this as any different. I only tip if I'm sitting down and someone has actually served me.
if I was in the states and picking up food, no.. might throw some change in a tip jar if I paid cash but in general, I wouldn't
tipping is not a common practice in denmark at all.. servers usually make at least $20 an hour so its not necessary.
@MrsNeutrino: Sorry, I wasn't clear on the taxes. Waitresses are taxed on a percentage of their sales. If I were to sale $100 worth of food, I would be paying taxes on $15 wether or not I made that amount. The sales of take out in most restaurants is rung up by the waitresses so therefore is included in their sales. If you tip nothing on a $20 take out, they are paying taxes like they made the $4 tip, so technically, you are costing them money by not tipping. It doesn't sound like it is that way at the Chinese place you went to, but at most places that is how it works.
@MrsNeutrino: Each place is different. If you want to tip the cooks, you can say 'please give this to the cooks' but who knows if it will happen. I've worked places where each server 'tips out' at the end of the night and gives a little to the cooks, bus boys, hostess, and sometimes bartender (grr), otehr places I get to keep it all b/c their wages are higher than mine, and some places (where I'd never work) all server tips are pooled and divided up b/w the servers or servers and help listed above. Unless you ask the server, you'll probably never know what they'll actually be taking home from your tip.
And I don't tip to cover taxes. I only get taxed on my paycheck for my wages, which is my hourly pay rate + the tips I do recieve. Other places I make min wage (depends on your state) and tips, and it's the same thing there. I'm not taxed on the sales I make, that's for the business to cover on their taxes.
@Ms. Martian: Fast food workers make more than $2.25 per hour also, so there would be another difference.
When I used to work in a restaurant, My job was a cashier, but I would prepare the to-go orders, make their drinks, get their sauces (ketchup, BBQ, etc.), make their salads, and ring up the customer. My co-workers and I who did this rarely got tipped. If we did, we would usually split it up with whoever helped put it together. A tip was never expected. We got paid minimum wage (or more) - unlike a waiter who works for tips. So I guess that's something to keep in mind...
@MrsNeutrino: I totally agree on the tax thing, it's not our responsibility as consumers to pay anyone's taxes. Besides, tips are considered income so if we're being fair and honest and the person receiving the tip reports it then they are paying tax on that as well!
Note: I was a waitress for a long time and I was not taxed on my sales. I entered the amount of my tips every night when I cashed out and that is what I was taxed on. So, I think it must vary restaurant to restaurant or state to state (I worked at two national chain restaurants that both operated like that).
It depends. I certainly don’t think that tipping for carry out is necessary but I normally give a little something as long as the person helping me is friendly. We get Chilis to go every once in a while and I always tip them. The waitstaff is very friendly and accomidating so they get an extra buck or two ontop of my bill. They’re not doing anything extra like bringing the food to my car but they’re nice, which I appreciate. On the other hand, I don’t tip at one of our local pizza places. Picking up food at this establishment is a nightmare but the pizza is awesome so I deal with it. I have never and will never tip these waitresses since they’re always snippy and they seem put out that they have to go to the kitchen to grab a to-go order. Being bitchy is never rewarded.
@tksjewelry: In Canada the minimum wage for liquor servers (bartenders) is $8.90/hour, in Ontario minimum wage for everyone else (waiter/waitresses) is $10.25. So no, I don't see why I would need to tip on that when I pick up.
@Ms. Martian: Wooh! That alot, so I can see that being a huge difference between Canada and the states. So, is it still customary to tip 20% when you go out if they are making that much?
@tksjewelry: wait, this doesn't make any sense to me. You are saying that if a waiter rings up to go orders for a living.. that for ever 100$ the restaurant sells, the waiter who rings it up gets taxed like they made 15$? so If 1 waiter was working all day and rang up 10,000$ in revenue for the restaurant.. that they, the waiter, is being taxed like they made $1,500?
---As far as I know (and I also worked in the food industry).. we just declare how much we make in tips and are taxed on that amount. However, its not like it mattered when I was working at a cafe because I got full refunds because I was making so little as a highschool student.
I don't if I'm picking up pizza, or something has a business model around take out. But if I'm doing take out from a restaurant/bar, then I will tip something. At those places the waitress/bartender still has to take time to enter in my order and ignore their tipping customers for a few minutes.
I don't tip for carry-out / take-out. The people didn't take the time to serve me nor did they provide me the convinience of driving the food to my doorstep. They simply did the bare minimum of their job (prepare food and ring up the order). Why do they derserve a tip for that?
@MrsNeutrino: That's how it worked when I was a server - I was taxed on my (crazy low) hourly wage and the tips I claimed - not the sales.
@tksjewelry: Yup! We always tip a minimum of 15% because it's expected. I have never worked in a restaurant but I know friends who have and they have made decent money waitressing.
@Ms. Martian: I would still be waiting tables if we got paid that kind of money. I was lucky and worked at some great places and it was a bad night not to make 25% of sales and sales were good, so if you add a really good min wage onto that, wow, that really would have been a good living.
Yup I sure do! I was a waitress for many year and it sucked, so I always feel solidarity with people serving me food. The restaurants I frequent take very good care of me.
@tksjewelry: A few of my friends in university paid for all of their tuition working at restaurants. There is also no tax on what you sell in food (like you mentioned above) because the only tax an employee pays is on their income.
@KatyElle: thats the thing, I have many places that I frequent and I tip like if I ate in. There is one sushi place that always has kiddie chopsticks in the box for my daughter and knows me by my voice. There is no way I would walk out of there and not tip. But for places that are sort of a one time thing.. or once in a blue moon type thing. Tip?
Here's a handy map for those who are interested in what your state requires for paying servers. I live in boarder cities of 2 states...one requires standard min wage + tips, the other is 4.some+tips. Guess where it's harder to land a server job, haha. This isn't to say that some buinesses don't pay a higher rate, but this is their required min.
@MrsNeutrino: I always tip, pretty much anywhere I go. I've just always done it. A few extra bucks doesn't make a huge dent to me, but for the person who got stuck doing takeout that night it makes a difference.
I used to work at a pizza place where I was only in charge of pick up orders. I worked there for about a year and I only got tipped once!! And really if we got tips we were instructed to decline. So no, I don't tip for pick up orders.
Generally the people doing take-out aren't making waitress wages, they're making minimum wage ($7ish dollars). I've worked as a waitress and as a hostess/to-go person, and as a waitress I made $2.15 + tips. I don't tip to-go people because they aren't making $2.15. They're making $7ish, and whatever extra they get tipped is just that..extra.
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