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Tipping on Takeout

Do you tip on carryout


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I rarely eat out at all. When I do, I tip generously for good service and at the average rate for less than good service. If I receive poor service, I don't go back. Besides, I like to cook because I like to eat. And I like to eat because I like to cook. Works out well. I have to edit to add that I don't eat fast food, and I do tip for carry out sometimes - depends on exactly what the food costs, i.e., I usually only order carryout from places I know and return to them because of the quality, which deserves a tip in my view.
 
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I guess it's not bad if it's raining (which it almost always is), you can stay in the car, but something about it bugs me, I want to do it myself and you're legally not allowed to.

What bugs me about it is while I'm getting all nostalgic I hand the guy a $10 and say "Fill 'er up and keep the change!" and then he busts out laughing.
 
I rarely eat out at all. When I do, I tip generously for good service and at the average rate for less than good service. If I receive poor service, I don't go back. Besides, I like to cook because I like to eat. And I like to eat because I like to cook. Works out well. I have to edit to add that I don't eat fast food, and I do tip for carry out sometimes - depends on exactly what the food costs, i.e., I usually only order carryout from places I know and return to them because of the quality, which deserves a tip in my view.

In our area, one of our local Chinese restaurants is strictly a husband/wife team. Period. Their children play in a room in the back. They have a couple of tables for those who want to eat there, but it is predominantly carry-out. They have a giant glass jar on the counter if anyone wants to tip, and I always do, because both the food and the service are excellent. And the nice thing is that they actually remember their long-time customers when they call for carry-out, and they ask me how are you doing, and don't you want the Egg Rolls today? What's not to like? :thumbs:
 
Because servers are generally not paid a wage consistent with the work. Their tips are factored into the amount that they are paid. Really what it comes down to is that people who have problem tipping shouldn't patronize full-service restaurants. There are plenty of fast food and more upscale counter restaurants available. Full service restaurant servers are not paid the same wages...and they have to claim 8% tip on sales whether they receive 15% or nothing. When you don't tip.....the money comes out of their pocket. So you aren't only being cheap...you are kinda being rude.

But we're not talking about servers, we're talking about other people who are making a full wage and tips are not built into their pay structure. Why should we tip them?
 
In our area, one of our local Chinese restaurants is strictly a husband/wife team. Period. Their children play in a room in the back. They have a couple of tables for those who want to eat there, but it is predominantly carry-out. They have a giant glass jar on the counter if anyone wants to tip, and I always do, because both the food and the service are excellent. And the nice thing is that they actually remember their long-time customers when they call for carry-out, and they ask me how are you doing, and don't you want the Egg Rolls today? What's not to like? :thumbs:

It's not a buffet. I hate Chinese joints that aren't buffets. Just give me a fork, point me to the General Tso chicken, and then...

 
That is true to a certain extent. Servers, by law, are supposed to claim ALL of their tips, however, the Government generally will not allocate if the server claims about 8% of sales. However, you cannot rationalize your failure to tip on the notion that another patron gave the server 20%. Your failure to tip is still requiring the server to pay taxes on what the government assumes that you tipped out of their other tips. That's just the bottom line fact.

So, we should stand with workers who are abused by some individual patrons and stiffed, and treat it as "bottom line fact"... which was not my point in my last post, but we'll run with it... but should look the other way when they commit tax evasion on a larger scale than that which they were mistreated. Got it.

While I have never been a server myself, I was in the restaurant business and was married to a server for many years (and our income depended a great deal on tips), and I've spent more than my fair share of time around servers both professionally and socially. When they get together socially, and this topic comes up, they will brag to high Heaven how much they skate by with in unreported/untaxed tipped income. So, the complaint that they have pay taxes on stiffed meals rings hollow.

Yes, I have heard many make the same specific complaint... "I have to pay taxes on that."... almost like some pre-programmed response to illicit sympathy, and of course in those settings all the heads nod up and down in agreement, but strangely enough I never heard anybody complain that they got tipped too much on the next several meals, nor did I hear any remorse that they kept tipped income unreported whenever they could.

No, I don't disagree that this in and of itself is not a valid justification for an individual to not tip, but like I said, when taken as a whole, the complaint is simply hollow.
 
i read the thread. It's not about baggers at the supermarket

No, but the discussion you walked into the middle of was.
 
In our area, one of our local Chinese restaurants is strictly a husband/wife team. Period. Their children play in a room in the back. They have a couple of tables for those who want to eat there, but it is predominantly carry-out. They have a giant glass jar on the counter if anyone wants to tip, and I always do, because both the food and the service are excellent. And the nice thing is that they actually remember their long-time customers when they call for carry-out, and they ask me how are you doing, and don't you want the Egg Rolls today? What's not to like? :thumbs:
Good service and good food deserve a reward in my mind. Food is a big deal to me. I take care in growing it and buying it. I take care in its preparation. I appreciate those who do the same for me and others. Like you, I think they deserve an extra something.
 
I have a problem with someone expecting me to pay a gratuity for poor service because the government decided to tax it as income. If you have a problem with leaving the matter of tipping up to each customer, work for a business that pays minimum wage. That way you are guaranteed an amount for each hour worked and can be fairly taxed on it like everyone else.

I'm fairly sick and tired of a-hole servers acting like they are doing me a great favor by bringing my food from the kitchen to my table. If restaurants didn't do that they would lose customers to competitors who do, or to take out and delivery places. If you want a tip, show me a good reason to give you more of my hard-earned wages beyond the already expensive part of paying for the food.

P.S. I've worked as a waiter in my youth, and I made sure my customers were pleased by my service. I rarely got stiffed on a tip.

my comment had nothing...ZERO to do with poor service expecting a tip.
 
But we're not talking about servers, we're talking about other people who are making a full wage and tips are not built into their pay structure. Why should we tip them?

Because in most full service restaurants, togo orders are handled by servers. It may look like the hostess is handling it but 99 times out of 100 it is a server.
 
Time is money

Baggers are paid at least minimum wage, and the IRS does not assume they earned 8% of the food they bag in tips.

Point of information...When I was a kid grocery baggers were NOT paid minimum wage. Their entire pay for bagging groceries came from tips. It was a job for school kids, like a paper route, or a lemonade stand. Problem was, people started tipping like crap so kids stopped applying for the jobs. Now baggers are typically stock clerks doing double duty, so yeah they get paid a wage.

Moving on ...;)
 
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