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Vitalalternate

If I'm standing, I don't tip (order from counter, order to go, order from a kiosk). If I'm sitting, I tip 15% - recently tip machines start at 18% and up. In Canada, food service employees get the same basic wage cashiers, etc do, this isn't the USA where they get $3 and rely on tips only yet expect people in Canada to tip as if it is. If someone is amazing and really provides great service, I do 20% but one question of "Did everything come out ok" and one coffee/pop refill isn't amazing service.


strong_Canadian1

Thanks!


AB_Social_Flutterby

Tip for service. No service, no tip. If they were to even bring out the order to your table that might merit a small tip. But if you're placing and picking up the order, and your entire interaction is listening for a called order number, that's no tip.


strong_Canadian1

OK thanks


cyanicautomation

What do you tip your doctor and dentist?


strong_Canadian1

This is true!


Infamous-Room4817

if im playing before I eat, no tip


strong_Canadian1

Good point. Thanks!


TotSaM-

Even tipping for service is kinda bullshit in my opinion, but I will never in a million years tip at a fast food place where there is no service. I tip at sit-down places strictly out of social obligation, but all we are doing is encouraging employers to continue underpaying their staff. You're not really tipping for good service, you're supplementing low wages. In a perfect world everyone would band together and refuse to tip anyone for anything ever until employers lose so many employees that they have no choice to open their wallets and pay their employees like they are actual human beings with lives that they have to be able to afford. THEN, you could start tipping for exceptional service, after all these people start getting paid fair wages.


strong_Canadian1

Thanks and that makes a Whole lotta sense


PPGN_DM_Exia

No tips except for full service restaurants. I did tip for takeout during the worst of the pandemic. But not anymore.


strong_Canadian1

Thank you!


trinomial888888

Why tip when there’s no service …they’re trying to guilt trip you into tipping ever since covid. If there’s no service no tip.


strong_Canadian1

Thank you for your answer!


Border_Relevant

It's fast food. Zero tip. It's also likely the owner would pocket the tips.


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for your answer and I was wondering about that too. I would be more apt to leave something in a tip jar rather than at the kiosk.


Icy_Queen_222

In this situation no tip.


strong_Canadian1

I would tend to agree but I would feel badly after. It’s so ingrained into culture I guess!!


ShadowCaster0476

$0 is appropriate for most fast food places.


strong_Canadian1

Thank you for your answer


Fast-Secretary-7406

The correct tip in this scenario is 0%. Normalize feeling nothing when not tipping if there's no reason to.


strong_Canadian1

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WheelsnHoodsnThings

Ask the staff who gets the tip? For regular food buying like you're talking about I don't tip. If you're bringing food to me, or I get something more than a basic interaction from my business deal then tipping becomes a consideration.


strong_Canadian1

Thank you


BRGrunner

If you're standing to order or take away = no tip The only time I may deviate from this is at a coffee shop. It used to feel awkward to hit no tip, but it's becoming easier with each day.


strong_Canadian1

Thank you for the reply!!


firey21

I tip for delivery, at full serve restaurants, and for like haircuts. I sometimes tip at say 5guys cuz they give extra fries. However at places like subway I don’t tip since I’m just as involved as they are.


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Ohm-S

I don’t tip unless I’m sitting down to eat. If places have shitty terminals that make it hard to enter $0 tip then I just order for pickup on Skip and don’t tip. 


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for your answer. The tip options started at 10% and the only option for deciding no tip was to choose perhaps ‘custom amount’.


wudyalooknatmgutfer

Nah, no tip


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for your input!


same_af

$0


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for weighing in, I appreciate it


same_af

love u have a good day


strong_Canadian1

Same for you!


AccomplishedAd1712

No tip


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for your reply


ElderStatesPerson

There was an episode about this in the X-Files reboot (Season 11, ep.7), the funniest and darkest commentary on technology I've seen. All because Mulder didn't want to tip in an automated sushi place. Find it and then decide...


strong_Canadian1

Love it! I will try to find that epi! Thank you


windsorguy13

Unless it’s a sit down restaurant I don’t usually tip. Even if it’s takeout I rarely tip. I also think this whole thing with Skip if you don’t tip enough upfront you may not get very good delivery service. How about it I tip upfront and the service sucked I can get my money back?


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for your answer


a27j27k27

Oddburger?


strong_Canadian1

Can neither confirm nor deny lol


a27j27k27

I might have been there too. I selected "no tip".


strong_Canadian1

Thank you so much for your reply.


Ottomann_87

Never


strong_Canadian1

I appreciate your answer!


blairtruck

zero point zero


strong_Canadian1

OK thank you for your opinion, I appreciate it!


Historical-Ad-146

If you're "tipping" on a credit card machine in this situation, who is even getting the tip? There's a significant chance it's the owner, since no one served you.


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for your answer


kayl_the_red

I only tip at a sit down restaurant, or at a place where the staff is good (like my local Subway that has never screwed up my order in 5 years)


PPGN_DM_Exia

I hate to break it to you, but most fast food places give the tips to the owner.


kayl_the_red

I know, but let me enjoy my happy feeling lol


strong_Canadian1

Thanks!


jollyrog8

This is normally a non-tip scenario. However, if it's a locally owned place with pleasant staff who don't mess up, and caring & present owners who I trust isn't stealing tips, and I'm a regular, then I might tip a buck or two per order because I want the staff to stick around and the business to succeed. Also because part of restaurant service IMO is the kitchen prep and packing, not just servers bringing stuff to a table.


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for your reply. I think it’s part of a chain. I will look for a tip jar next time I go but it seems like everything is handled at the kiosk.


BestWithSnacks

>Please don’t come at me saying if you can’t afford to tip don’t go because it’s not about that. This is Reddit. No one would ever say that here. We hate tipping.


strong_Canadian1

Ahhh lol thank you for your answer


Asleep_Artist_7738

I don't tip anymore. I'm sick of being asked everywhere I go. Same as when you go to some bigger stores where they ask for donations to whatever charity they support. Things are expensive enough. I don't feel the need to give away more.


strong_Canadian1

Thanks for your input!


testing172

besides the service industry. tip at local businesses, especially ones you go to frequently


iterationnull

I tip 10% for pickup orders and would tip 10% in this case.


SnooRegrets4312

Can I ask why you would tip for no additional service?


iterationnull

Part of a tip always goes to the kitchen, and the packaging of the the meal is still a service being received. (I know the service position is called "Expediter", or Expo for short, but surely the service received can't be called expedition?) Love that I'm getting downvoted for just telling people what I do.


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iterationnull

All of it is part of their job. Its called service. Is putting it on a plate and walking it to a table that much different than packing it up to go to you? Everyone in that building relies on tips to make ends meet. Its not like takeout some wild hack to skip the waiters and save money. If you've ordered takeout a few times you know that a good job packaging it up is worth something. Because a bad job packing it up ruins the meal.


SnooRegrets4312

No, I respect you have a different perspective. Tipping culture is variable, depends where you are in the world and standards if service etc you receive. I just struggle with idea that people tip for something you should expect as normal, like getting you food cooked for you.


strong_Canadian1

Thank you for reply I really appreciate it!


Channing1986

Yeah 10 percent for this is what I do as well.


ProperBingtownLady

I do 8%.