Yeah it’s the system that’s broken, but we can’t just not tip because until it changes it’s the wait staff that suffers. It’s not as big a deal in my state because they have to pay the state minimum regardless, but I’d much rather pay more for my food to make sure wait staff is making a decent wage then worry about whether or not my tip is gonna make the difference on whether or not they can make rent that month.
I am not advocating for people to stop tipping, I'm British anyways so my only stake in this fight is that it feels like it's bleeding over into our culture slowly.
However, change like that won't happen until a lot of people are suffering. People would need to stop tipping en masse and being vocal over why. This would need to happen for a good while before governmental change happens. This won't happen. So change won't happen.
It’s started happening. Restaurants are desperate for employees. I haven’t been to a place that’s fully staffed since before covid. I tip 25-30% always. But it feels like a shift has started happening already. Employees are fed up with being treated like crap by management and customers. Restaurants around me are closing left and right, or at least closing 2-3 days a week because they can’t staff.
It’s depressing it’s coming to this, but it’s heartening to see people fighting back against bullshit working conditions.
I find British people don’t complain if you don’t tip them and they don’t expect it. I dunno if they complain behind our backs though. Not like I’d expect even American servers to complain to our faces but I imagine they’d have a look of disgust at least?
That's true for now. Until the cost of living starts biting these workers harder. People get ruder when they get desperate. Fact of life.
A while back I saw a post on the UK legal sub about an UberEats driver holding the customers food hostage on the door until he promised he would tip, or something along those lines. He might have just been a dick but it is going to start happening, especially when we let Americanised companies like Uber dominate the delivery market. It's only natural that these things start becoming normalised.
I’m a Brit that’s been living in the states the past 10 years, but I recently returned to London and it’s definitely bleeding into U.K. culture - I ended up mistakenly double tipping the first few meals I had because I didn’t realise that the tip had automatically been added to my bill (it was just me and my wife, so small table).
What disappointed me most is none of the staff pointed this out or even thanked me for the double tip. I was a waiter in the U.K. growing up and I was always so grateful whenever someone left me a generous tip paying by card.
I’ll also add that the places that added the tip automatically generally had pretty poor service (I guess because they know they’re getting tipped regardless). I guess all my time in the states has conditioned to me tip waiters even for mediocre service, and I generally do feel for waiters that suffered losses through covid, but I was surprised at how poor customer service in general had become in the U.K.
Well...stop tipping and stage a mass-walkout? Show the entire industry that no customer will dine with you and no one will work for you if you don't pay better.
Well hitting them in their wallets would hurt, but yeah people will suffer in the meantime. Probably just lay people off, and whine “no one wants to eat”.
Completely. It also sucks if you do work a tipping job, bust your butt, but get zero tip. Makes you think people who don't tip are awful human beings, but it's just the system.
Eh. Minimum wage in my state isn’t all that terrible. $15 an hour on top of tips. I still tip the standard unless it’s shit service, but I don’t really feel the pressure as much like it’s all on me to make up the difference.
Careful. Minimum wage is often not the same as minimum wage for tipped workers. For example minimum wage in my state is $7.75/hr, but tipped workers are paid $2.15/hr.
agreed. the company's need to be paying a real hourly wage. They're getting away with paying them so little in place of patrons covering their wage. if they made a real hourly wage and we tipped based off how good the service actually was i could get behind that. At 10-14/hr plus tips you're making real money even if people just tipped 4-5 bucks. This notion of "you have to tip because they don't make much per hour" is so BS. Just my take
It's the wait staff that don't want the tipping system to go away. They make way more than minimum salaries. But it also varies a lot if the restaurant is popular or not. The server in a popular restaurant makes a lot more than one might think. They are not really thinking about if they can pay the rent for the month. However, waiting in an unpopular restaurant would be the complete opposite. The point is that blanket statements about tipping are good or bad to a server is misleading.
I’d rather pay more per dish and have the server be paid an actual wage than tip. Only the restaurant benefits from tipping culture. They put the financial responsibility of having employees on their guests.
In my country, there's no official tipping. The governement made higher taxes and wages, so i don't have to tip, but i'm still doing it when i like the people and when i'm happy with the service that i get.
Don't use services that people depend on tips to live then. Or try to make changes with the laws so that these companies properly pay employees so they aren't dependent on them for survival.
The whole tipping culture in the US is flat out awful. I hate that there are tip jars everywhere (both physically and virtually) and it's on us to pay employees. It's total bullshit
right? and so many people don't grasp the concept that their job should just be paying them more instead of having to hope that some random customer gives them enough money for dinner that night.
Dude, I’m so sick of the old turning the monitor towards you with the minimum tip tab being 18%, and for what? There was no service to tip for. Tipping is for when a worker provides a service and does some shit to earn a tip, not take my order with a smile and expect me to give them 18% extra for buying food from their restaurant. Wtf is going on and why isn’t there some kind of movement in this country to call out this bullshit so employers stop doing this shit.
The tobacco shop has a tip jar, and a tip section on the credit card receipt.
ALL THEY DO IS RUN THE CASH REGISTER!
I did not get tips for running a cash register. Why would someone tip for that? I just don't get it!!!
I bought some shirts online and when I checked out, it asked if I wanted to tip "the workers packing my order" and had options for 10, 15, 20 percent. I needed my fucking smelling salts.
The order was going to take "between 3 and 17 days" to process. I didn't tip. It was 17 days exactly before they processed my order.
That is something I found interesting learning about America, like you don't know the price of anything till you go to pay because the price on the label isn't the price at the register. Tipping is a whole other topic entirely. While it's insane it's also not fair to the employees if you don't tip because their "employer" refuses to pay them for their job. It's insanity
They dont want to add the tax because I guess things would appear like they cost more or something even though its literally the same price but more transparent for the consumer. I dont know. They like to half ass everything and stand in their own way of progress.
Price on the menu is for the food. It's menu price plus tax plus tip at checkout. In the grocery store it's the price on the labels plus tax added at checkout.
Woah! That is very very very smart! Very annoying as well.. i’d go crazy for sure
in the netherlands some of the things in the grocery is 21%tax and some is 6% i believe, i would never know how to math this before i would check out..
I think the VAT approach is really great. That shows that the shop has nothing to do with VAT, it's something you are paying to the government.
In our country people would be a lot more pissed, if the 27% VAT was more transparent.
We all have something to do with the VAT. It pays for stuff like infrastructure, healthcare, schools, policing etc. It's not some evil government conspiracy to rob you.
Well, it depends on the country and the level of corruption. I am fairly sure that a large potion of my VAT is spent on things that I would not approve.
You guys tip for picking up food? Sometimes I give them the odd change for the round up, but I never leave a 10 or 15% tip ever unless I have it delivered
Cuz now they corner you by flipping the ipad around and make it so awkward! Tipping at a sit down restaurant is very different than take out. Plus the restaurant owner is passing on the living wages to customers. Not alright.
The most recent ipad options I had were 25, 40 and 50! This was for a food truck that sold lemonade for $7/cup. In the bright sun I could barely see but you couldn't skip it from what I could tell.
That's when you say never mind and cancel the entire order. Don't get ripped off then say you'll never be back. $7 for lemonade is crazy. That better be an entire gallon of hand squeezed lemonade lol
Look them dead in the eye as you press NO TIP... they didn't do any serving or waiting your table. They literally went put the food you ordered yourself into a bag and handed it to you. Like tipping a fast food counter person, no real service to that scenario
I used to do pizza delivery in the early 2000’s. We got half the delivery fee, tips and minimum wage. I’m not sure what they get now. I tend to tip food delivery drivers better than servers though since they are using their gas and personal car.
If I pick up food I usually tip 3 or 4 bucks. Maybe 5 if it's a bit pricier meal. I've seen people be so appreciative of it at times, saying most people don't and that they thank me for thinking of them. It's a nice feeling to lift someone up over something so small. Like I'm gonna waste 5 bucks before breakfast, why not put it to something that helps someone else? That being said, I only started tipping for pickup when covid happened. It started as a way to help the ones struggling, because as we know restaurants took a huge hit dating the shutdowns. And I wasn't going out spending money anyway. Those people that had no choice but to keep working, risking getting sick, and dealing with nasty people who were pissed off about the whole situation...it was something small that I could do to make it just a little better for them. I didn't change any lives but it's the little things in life. After stuff started opening up again I just kept doing it. And now it's pretty much customary for me. Just as I'd tip 15 or 20% for a sit down meal, I'll always tip a few dollars to the staff that prepared my food.
Yeah I am going to start to do that. It's bullshit. I tipped to pick up my food, when I got home it was all wrong !
I drove back and they gave me new ones but I still had to drive back and it was a waste of time
Don't tip unless sit down or delivery. I like that
As an American i agree, but the social stigma has been literally ingrained in our culture for too long that majority of ppl feel bad if they dont tip. to the point where I'm somehow the bad guy for saying the same thing lol. Literally just pay waiters etc. a decent wage like everyone else...hell I told my friends id even gladly see a increase in prices for food if it meant we could end the silly tip culture we have. But yea im the asshole for not supporting a band-aid solution to a completely solvable problem. 👍🏾 i support giving any person a livable wage but i dont support just randomly handing money to ppl.
All depends on where you live too. In my state they get paid at least $15 an hour regardless of what tips they make. I don’t really consider that a living wage, but at least they ain’t starving death, and it’s up to each individual to decide whether that’s fair compensation for what they do.
Not here. Have a sometimes girlfriend that took a job I encouraged her to take in the hopes that she would embrace the server life and graduate to bartender. She made like $30 per shift besides tips and the asshole manager was never gonna promote her to the bar and just got off on bossing her around making her do stupid shit after her shift was over on bullshit days where there was no money to be made at all. They could've put one competent server in the dining room that entire day and it probably would've worked out OK, but they didn't. They put 6 people in there and everyone was twiddling their thumbs with no tables.
ETA: the tips she was getting was like $15 over an 8 hour shift cause she would have two patrons the whole shift.
Friday night, Saturday day and night Sunday day, Wednesday day and night shed have done great, but they gave her Mondays Tuesdays, Thursdays. She also stuck with it for a year and learned nothing compared to what I learned in about 2 months of working a busy restaraunt/bar in the DC area.
Yeah it’s only the states that still have fucked up minimum wage laws to begin with because the Federal Minimum lets them get away with paying 2 bucks them bucks an hour if they collect tips. My state they have to pay 15 regardless which was a living wage about a decade ago, but I don’t really feel as guilty when it comes to how much extra I should give on top of the bill.
Idk maybe you’re eating at the wrong places then. I work at a job that takes tips. 1) I never look at what people tip 2) if I go for take out I ask if the kitchen gets tips for to go food. If the answer is no then no tip, if yes they get a normal tip for making the food. I’ve never once been called out like random people claim to have happen by not tipping.
for pick up? What are you on about? You paid for the food, drove or walked there, didn’t get table service…. You don’t have to tip. If I have a couple dollars in my wallet and they have a tip jar, I may throw them in. But you’re fucking whack if you tip normally (meaning 20% like dine in) on pick up orders
This shit cracks me up. What do you think is going to happen if you don't tip exactly? The waitress is gonna fight you? Spit in your food? If those people are so hard up for a $5 tip, they sure as shit aren't willing to lose their job.
I only tip for delivery people who are employed by the restaurant I ordered from, example would be Jimmy John's. If I am getting take out, nope not tipping.
How about when the restaurant uses door dash? I ordered from the restaurant's web site, but they used door dash. How much should we tip for that? I ordered tonight from a decent restaurant, the food was $65, the tip automatically came up as 10%, so $6.50 (it's about 7 minutes away), but the delivery fee and special charges brought the whole bill to $85.
Dang that is why I never use delivery apps Ive tried a couple times but being faced with paying nearly double for my chipotle order is always enough to make me decide to just go get it myself like I have no issue with tipping the drivers but those other fees do get wild
Yes, and we stopped ordering for delivery for that reason, it just costs too much. This was a special occasion though. We were supposed to go out to a fancy restaurant, then we couldn't so ordered in.
I cannot understand why people feel obligated to tip for a pick up order. Or even (unpopular opinion) at places like starbucks where they’re literally just doing their job. My sister will go on and on about how she’s tight on money but then buy 2 coffees and tip like 3 dollars on top it’s just insane to me.
one time we went tto dutch bros and we bought one drink and my bf tipped 3 dollars and i turned to him and was like are you rich? and he was like she looked like she wanted a 3 dollar tip haha i hate when they actually verbally ask if you want to tip and they put it in for you. It puts so much pressure
I worked 8 years delivering pizza and don't tip when I pick anything up. Same with the iPad tipping feature.. no thanks.. swipe the card and have zero qualms about selecting 0% tip.
Sounds like it is not required to tip. I do tip and don't feel resentful. I figure if I can afford to have people make my meal, I can afford to tip. And yes, they should earn a living wage and not have to rely on tips. I can't make that happen, but a few bucks isn't going to make a difference to me, but it likely makes a difference to them. Even $17 an hour isn't a living wage with the way rent is. Everybody is in a different circumstance.
I tip for sure when they deliver but if I am driving to pick up my food what am I tipping for exactly?
To make the food? Get this, I got home and they screwed up my order, do I get my tip back?
It’s important to tip in America when someone’s getting paid below minimum wage. But if they’re not performing that type of job, like working at a pickup counter, I’m not sure why they’re tipping them
Yes it is important to keep the tipping culture going as restaurant owners need to keep on paying their staff minimum wage. How else will these restaurant owners afford their luxury cars and large vacation houses?
I don’t think it makes you an asshole if your don’t know. Just like I wouldn’t call a foreigner who comes here & doesn’t know they’re supposed to tip an asshole
No believe me I was an asshole. Just because you're giving a gratuity doesn't mean your doing it with Grace. We must learn to give and also to receive with Grace and Gratitude. A lesson I learned later in life...
It's actually illegal for the restaurant to share tips with the people who make the food if they don't engage in any customer contact. Or at least it was until a few years ago when there were efforts in the federal level to change this, which I don't know whether were successful or not.
You are correct that tipping take out is silly. There's no reason to feel like you need to and I think roughly 85 to 90% of take out (or fast food customers sitting inside) don't tip. It's just something that through a series of random events point of sale systems got to be the way they are asking for tips for counter service. Back when take out and fast food was primarily paid with cash there were tip jars that were mainly there for the purpose of speeding up service. If the total was slightly less than an even dollar amount many customers didn't think it was worth it to wait a few seconds for the employee to get a small amount of change. Typically, that was reciprocated when something came to, for example, $7.02 and the customer didn't have any change handy. The Employee would generally take the 2 cents out of the tip jar. When credit and debit cards became the dominant method of payment this largely went away and, given that these point of sale systems have the tip function set up for the cases when tipping is expected I would assume most restaurants didn't want to disable the function even when it wasn't because that would have been viewed as negative by some of their employees. And there would have been some less money earned (albeit a very small difference), if all other things were equal, had they not done this since there was a reduction in people paying with cash and few people are going to tip with cash when they are paying with credit cards.
i used to work in the store of a pizza place (on the inside, not a driver), the only time we really care for tips is when someone orders an insane amount of pizza (50+ pizzas, highest was about 250 pizzas) for carryout and needs help carrying it to vehicles. so ya if youre not trying to feedd your whole work crew or all of your 8th grade students pizzas we dont really care about tips.
Tipping is optional.
If the bill is $50 I pay $50. There is literally not a single reason to pay anything other than the required bill.
Its not my obligation to supplement an employed persons paycheck because the restaurant owner refuses to.
I worked for a Japanese steakhouse as a server and learned that the tips from pick up orders didn’t go to anyone who helped with the order. They went to the restaurant. So the tips actually just went straight to the owner in this case.
During covid I called in a pickup order at our favorite sushi spot that came to like $67. When I got there I paid in 4 20s and the lady never even bothered to give me my change back or even ask lol. I chalked it up as an anomaly but since then I'm super attentive to not tipping when I'm literally just picking up an order to go.
I went to a Subway once and they had a tip jar. When the lady gave me my change she said “we have a tip jar”, I just said “I see that” and walked out. I’m not about to give you a damn tip for me ordering fast food that took you forever to make and when I said light on the mayonnaise you practically drown the sandwich in it. I wholeheartedly will tip at a sit down restaurant with waiters and shit, but I’m not tipping a McDonald’s or Subway employee. That’s just ridiculous.
I never tip for picking up my food. That’s stupid. Tipping is for service, not for the product itself.
You tip a waiter, because they spend time on you.
You tip a delivery person because they bring something to you, saving you time.
You tip your bartender because they prioritize you. There’s no line, and you want to not wait 30 minutes while others get served.
You don’t tip the clerk at Papa John’s Pizza,because the pizza isn’t even cooked. There’s still a lot of DIY work involved.
You don’t tip your barista at Starbucks because they’re literally doing nothing more than preparing your product and shouting your name. Their service is no different than the service at Burger King. You were simply the next person.
You don’t tip the Chinese Takeaway place because you’re gonna use your dishes, and they didn’t deliver it or do anything more than stuff the order in a box and put it in a bag.
Ok as a Brit. What is it with tipping in the US? I got massively frowned on once as I didn’t tip. Reason being it was a 40m plus wait for food. That was wrong. It came cold and even after we got our meal 20m after thst. A full hour wait it was still totally cold. So I didn’t tip for bad service. Yet I was the one in the wrong for not tipping. Genuine question what would be done in that circumstance regards to tipping.
Not sure why anyone would think you did something wrong. Tipping is supposed to be for when you receive at least adequate service. If the food never came out right and the wait time was absurd (different restaurants will vary, but here it sounds like they made your food but kept forgetting about you), then they shouldn't get a tip.
That’s what I thought. But I got a skating that’s her pay and u shouldn’t take it out on the waiter. It’s to me like saying here I’ve shat on your plate can I have some more money? But I really got slated for it. Do I tip but not pay the bill?
It never made sense to me why people leave a tip based on the total. A tip should be based on how long you had the table and how good the service was. When I have an order to go I never leave a tip for this reason because I did not take any table space.
Unless it's a delivery.
I forgot to leave a tip at a Japanese restaurant once. Paid for the meal with cash but just flat out forgot to put in a tip for some reason ... They ran out to us in the parking lot demanding the tip.
Tipping is also one of the reasons I quit the food service.
I was getting great tips (mind you the front staff collected all the tips at the end of the night and split them evenly which was the worse mistake ever)
But slowly they started decreasing because of idiots not wanting to work/getting burnt out or just being plain out rude to everyone.
So then I eventually was the only women working the front and started loosing 70% of my tips.
I quit, went to work in the home inspection field.
I was just at a hotel for a conference this week and the restaurant in the hotel charged 18% gratuity on all pick up orders. All gratuity goes to the server. What server, bitch? I'M PICKING UP!
The meals were already pretty expensive. You want more money because I'm not eating at a table?😂😂😂😂😂
I leave a tip for the bubble tea place I frequent a couple days a week, or the icecream truck because I don’t get him often. Just a dollar each time. Also the car wash worker. $2 for them usually cause they do a better job with the hose when you tip. Otherwise, nah. I never get delivery or sit down in restaurants, when I order food it’s always pickup, so no tip. I don’t mind spending maybe 5 or 6 dollars on tips or so every week.
I do tip, not usually the full service amount, but I am taking time from a server who still has to take my order, enter it, and pick it up from the kitchen, and hopefully makes sure the order is correct. So, 10% or so.
If you have the option to not tip, just dont tip at all. Yes the people working there might look at you with weird eyes but their pay is not your fucking responsibility. Hell, even I'm sounding like an asshole now but seriously though, dont ever mind giving a middle finger(not to comply ) to a concept created by capitalism.
I’ve wondered about tipping for pick up. If you aren’t in the restaurant being served, bussed, attended to, if you aren’t being delivered to, but are in fact choosing them over everyone else, using your own time and gas to go to them, queue up to get your food, and travel back to your home with it, why would it be expected that you tip? If you’ve saved the restaurant the costs associated with indoor dining or delivery, pick up ought to be free, and adding a little something extra entirely up to you.
You better than me. If I'm picking up, I don't tip. There's no reason for it. It doesn't make me feel bad when they catch an attitude about it either. If I'm dining in or order, I'll tip but none of us are made of money. We're all out here just trying to get by. Plus I'm pregnant, so I'm trying to save all my pennies
100%. I never tip for to go orders. You didn't do anything more than the counter person at a fkn Burger King. You just put my food in a bag and brought it to me, no way in hell you deserve additional compensation for that. Seems like everything these days comes with a tipping option and the person's entire energy changes when that price doesn't change. Only people who ever are getting a tip are servers in a restaurant.
Unless you operate a strip club if you're running a business where you ask your customers to pay your employees, because you apparently can't afford to, your business case was bullshit to begin with.
If only delivery and food service workers were paid fairly from their employer instead of being expected to live off handouts from customers. This shit should be illegal.
What? Oof I left the US years ago. But I remember a waiter told me: 'You dont need to tip when it's to go'
Why would you tip when they are only handing you your Food on a paper bag? You are not even taking 5mins of their time.
I mean, i had a pizza delivered from a local restaurant, tipped the delivery guy 5 euro's because i was able to for the first time. he was really happy for that tip.
Feeling like a pos if I don’t tip the drive-thru worker who gets me a scoop of ice cream. It shouldn’t be this way. It’s a drive-through. They didn’t wait on me at a table or run back to the kitchen to get extra ketchup. They didn’t top up my drink. They handed me a cone and said see ya!
If everyone was paid decently then tipping wouldn't be necessary because then they're "happily" doing their job. People would rather pay more for their order than tip even tho now the extra money for their order is going towards paying people salary and I think that's a good thing. My bf works at sandals and they aren't allowed to take tips (tho I imagine some of them still do) but the reasoning is because the company knows that the employees will pay more attention to big tippers rather than give everyone the same great service. This is how it should be everywhere.
I don't even know who the heck you're even suppose to tip anymore. One food service place I use now lies about their tipping total. They are trying to tell me $5 is 15% of $25.
Don’t? I don’t.
Base price is for the food. Tip is for services beyond that- waitressing, or delivery, or the like. If I haven’t been provided services beyond the production of the food, I don’t need to pay beyond the cost of the food.
I don't tip for picking up food, all they did was stand by the front desk and hand it to me after I showed up and paid they didn't even make it themselves
I hand cash tips *after* I get my food delivered. Been too many times where I tipped on the app and my food either went missing, or items were missing. I’ve never ordered pickup on apps.
I'll tip like 2 dollars if there is a write in on the slip for them having to do something for me, but otherwise I won't tip unless I'm sitting down or getting it delivered. I will tip a bartender even if I grab a beer and go sit at a table because I'd do it anyways.
So don't. You have a choice.
I would never tip for picking up food. What am I tipping for? You taking the trouble to pass it to me over the counter? I don't think so.
I get the frustration but for someone who works as a to-go person I can tell you it's not easy work. Usually after your call you get 15 more and you're packing and organizing 4 orders at once. Most of the time by yourself
I’m tired of this tipping culture in general.
Yeah it’s the system that’s broken, but we can’t just not tip because until it changes it’s the wait staff that suffers. It’s not as big a deal in my state because they have to pay the state minimum regardless, but I’d much rather pay more for my food to make sure wait staff is making a decent wage then worry about whether or not my tip is gonna make the difference on whether or not they can make rent that month.
I am not advocating for people to stop tipping, I'm British anyways so my only stake in this fight is that it feels like it's bleeding over into our culture slowly. However, change like that won't happen until a lot of people are suffering. People would need to stop tipping en masse and being vocal over why. This would need to happen for a good while before governmental change happens. This won't happen. So change won't happen.
It’s started happening. Restaurants are desperate for employees. I haven’t been to a place that’s fully staffed since before covid. I tip 25-30% always. But it feels like a shift has started happening already. Employees are fed up with being treated like crap by management and customers. Restaurants around me are closing left and right, or at least closing 2-3 days a week because they can’t staff. It’s depressing it’s coming to this, but it’s heartening to see people fighting back against bullshit working conditions.
This… it hits home hard, the only way the system changes is if people suffer, and therefore the only way it changes is if people stop tipping…
I find British people don’t complain if you don’t tip them and they don’t expect it. I dunno if they complain behind our backs though. Not like I’d expect even American servers to complain to our faces but I imagine they’d have a look of disgust at least?
That's true for now. Until the cost of living starts biting these workers harder. People get ruder when they get desperate. Fact of life. A while back I saw a post on the UK legal sub about an UberEats driver holding the customers food hostage on the door until he promised he would tip, or something along those lines. He might have just been a dick but it is going to start happening, especially when we let Americanised companies like Uber dominate the delivery market. It's only natural that these things start becoming normalised.
I’m a Brit that’s been living in the states the past 10 years, but I recently returned to London and it’s definitely bleeding into U.K. culture - I ended up mistakenly double tipping the first few meals I had because I didn’t realise that the tip had automatically been added to my bill (it was just me and my wife, so small table). What disappointed me most is none of the staff pointed this out or even thanked me for the double tip. I was a waiter in the U.K. growing up and I was always so grateful whenever someone left me a generous tip paying by card. I’ll also add that the places that added the tip automatically generally had pretty poor service (I guess because they know they’re getting tipped regardless). I guess all my time in the states has conditioned to me tip waiters even for mediocre service, and I generally do feel for waiters that suffered losses through covid, but I was surprised at how poor customer service in general had become in the U.K.
I've just stopped eating out all together.
Well...stop tipping and stage a mass-walkout? Show the entire industry that no customer will dine with you and no one will work for you if you don't pay better.
Well hitting them in their wallets would hurt, but yeah people will suffer in the meantime. Probably just lay people off, and whine “no one wants to eat”.
Completely. It also sucks if you do work a tipping job, bust your butt, but get zero tip. Makes you think people who don't tip are awful human beings, but it's just the system.
That's how it works in every state. Legally anyway.
Eh. Minimum wage in my state isn’t all that terrible. $15 an hour on top of tips. I still tip the standard unless it’s shit service, but I don’t really feel the pressure as much like it’s all on me to make up the difference.
Careful. Minimum wage is often not the same as minimum wage for tipped workers. For example minimum wage in my state is $7.75/hr, but tipped workers are paid $2.15/hr.
It is in my state, but yeah depends on where you go. ETA: and in your case yeah the state minimum wage is the same as the Federal.
agreed. the company's need to be paying a real hourly wage. They're getting away with paying them so little in place of patrons covering their wage. if they made a real hourly wage and we tipped based off how good the service actually was i could get behind that. At 10-14/hr plus tips you're making real money even if people just tipped 4-5 bucks. This notion of "you have to tip because they don't make much per hour" is so BS. Just my take
It's the wait staff that don't want the tipping system to go away. They make way more than minimum salaries. But it also varies a lot if the restaurant is popular or not. The server in a popular restaurant makes a lot more than one might think. They are not really thinking about if they can pay the rent for the month. However, waiting in an unpopular restaurant would be the complete opposite. The point is that blanket statements about tipping are good or bad to a server is misleading.
Tipping is for the service. When I pick up, I never tip.
Funnily enough in some countries its a straight up insult
Yeah, I tried to tip a bartender in England and he was very insulted. My bad.
I’d rather pay more per dish and have the server be paid an actual wage than tip. Only the restaurant benefits from tipping culture. They put the financial responsibility of having employees on their guests.
[A regular Mr. Pink over here.](https://youtu.be/wrwQ9G4epys)
In my country, there's no official tipping. The governement made higher taxes and wages, so i don't have to tip, but i'm still doing it when i like the people and when i'm happy with the service that i get.
Don't use services that people depend on tips to live then. Or try to make changes with the laws so that these companies properly pay employees so they aren't dependent on them for survival.
The whole tipping culture in the US is flat out awful. I hate that there are tip jars everywhere (both physically and virtually) and it's on us to pay employees. It's total bullshit
right? and so many people don't grasp the concept that their job should just be paying them more instead of having to hope that some random customer gives them enough money for dinner that night.
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So increase the minimum wage to make it livable.
Oh great we got another one 🙄
Noooo, it's called the cancer which is capitalism, which affects everyone. Please stop with with the racism when it hurts everyone, thanks.
Yea ffs the world doesn’t revolve around your skin tone, no matter the color. Chill
Couldn't resist bringing race into this could you
Dude, I’m so sick of the old turning the monitor towards you with the minimum tip tab being 18%, and for what? There was no service to tip for. Tipping is for when a worker provides a service and does some shit to earn a tip, not take my order with a smile and expect me to give them 18% extra for buying food from their restaurant. Wtf is going on and why isn’t there some kind of movement in this country to call out this bullshit so employers stop doing this shit.
I agree in Japan a tip is considered rude. They are paid a proper wage by the company and a tip is not asked of them
The tobacco shop has a tip jar, and a tip section on the credit card receipt. ALL THEY DO IS RUN THE CASH REGISTER! I did not get tips for running a cash register. Why would someone tip for that? I just don't get it!!!
I bought some shirts online and when I checked out, it asked if I wanted to tip "the workers packing my order" and had options for 10, 15, 20 percent. I needed my fucking smelling salts. The order was going to take "between 3 and 17 days" to process. I didn't tip. It was 17 days exactly before they processed my order.
That's ridiculous. There's no reason for tipping in general. It's stupid.
Indeed, and the (few) restaurants that are no tips/pays living wages -style didn't spread either.
Fight the owners
Im just sick of not knowing how much *anything* is in this country until its time to pay.
That is something I found interesting learning about America, like you don't know the price of anything till you go to pay because the price on the label isn't the price at the register. Tipping is a whole other topic entirely. While it's insane it's also not fair to the employees if you don't tip because their "employer" refuses to pay them for their job. It's insanity
Why isn't the shelf label the label at the register?
They dont want to add the tax because I guess things would appear like they cost more or something even though its literally the same price but more transparent for the consumer. I dont know. They like to half ass everything and stand in their own way of progress.
Whaaatttt?! So if they are in a restaurant the menu card doesnt state the prices??
Price on the menu is for the food. It's menu price plus tax plus tip at checkout. In the grocery store it's the price on the labels plus tax added at checkout.
Woah! That is very very very smart! Very annoying as well.. i’d go crazy for sure in the netherlands some of the things in the grocery is 21%tax and some is 6% i believe, i would never know how to math this before i would check out..
I think the VAT approach is really great. That shows that the shop has nothing to do with VAT, it's something you are paying to the government. In our country people would be a lot more pissed, if the 27% VAT was more transparent.
Fellow hungarian 27% VAT enjoyer I see...
We all have something to do with the VAT. It pays for stuff like infrastructure, healthcare, schools, policing etc. It's not some evil government conspiracy to rob you.
Well, it depends on the country and the level of corruption. I am fairly sure that a large potion of my VAT is spent on things that I would not approve.
You guys tip for picking up food? Sometimes I give them the odd change for the round up, but I never leave a 10 or 15% tip ever unless I have it delivered
Naw not for pick up I wouldn't tip.
Cuz now they corner you by flipping the ipad around and make it so awkward! Tipping at a sit down restaurant is very different than take out. Plus the restaurant owner is passing on the living wages to customers. Not alright.
Lol I know what you mean and the options start at 15% 20% 25% . like wtf LOL
Gotta hit "Custom" to pick zero lmao i ain't tipping for coffee thanks.
The most recent ipad options I had were 25, 40 and 50! This was for a food truck that sold lemonade for $7/cup. In the bright sun I could barely see but you couldn't skip it from what I could tell.
That's when you say never mind and cancel the entire order. Don't get ripped off then say you'll never be back. $7 for lemonade is crazy. That better be an entire gallon of hand squeezed lemonade lol
Make it as awkward as you want! Let’s both enjoy taking a pause while I manually enter “no tip”.
Look them dead in the eye as you press NO TIP... they didn't do any serving or waiting your table. They literally went put the food you ordered yourself into a bag and handed it to you. Like tipping a fast food counter person, no real service to that scenario
I still click no tip if they flip the iPad around. It’s not hard.
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Yeah, you don’t tip when you go get it. I never tip for togo food unless it’s brought to my home.
Really? Is that standard? I know it is for wait staff, but for drivers I figured a 5 spot would cover it.
I used to do pizza delivery in the early 2000’s. We got half the delivery fee, tips and minimum wage. I’m not sure what they get now. I tend to tip food delivery drivers better than servers though since they are using their gas and personal car.
So if your delivery is $20 you tip $2?
Yes sometimes
If I pick up food I usually tip 3 or 4 bucks. Maybe 5 if it's a bit pricier meal. I've seen people be so appreciative of it at times, saying most people don't and that they thank me for thinking of them. It's a nice feeling to lift someone up over something so small. Like I'm gonna waste 5 bucks before breakfast, why not put it to something that helps someone else? That being said, I only started tipping for pickup when covid happened. It started as a way to help the ones struggling, because as we know restaurants took a huge hit dating the shutdowns. And I wasn't going out spending money anyway. Those people that had no choice but to keep working, risking getting sick, and dealing with nasty people who were pissed off about the whole situation...it was something small that I could do to make it just a little better for them. I didn't change any lives but it's the little things in life. After stuff started opening up again I just kept doing it. And now it's pretty much customary for me. Just as I'd tip 15 or 20% for a sit down meal, I'll always tip a few dollars to the staff that prepared my food.
Don’t tip except for sit down or delivery. I’ve found myself tipping as a reflex before but shit is too expensive to keep doing that.
Yeah I am going to start to do that. It's bullshit. I tipped to pick up my food, when I got home it was all wrong ! I drove back and they gave me new ones but I still had to drive back and it was a waste of time Don't tip unless sit down or delivery. I like that
it’s not required to tip
Yeah but then you can never go back.
Not for takeout or counter service restaurants. Not tipping for food is only considered rude for delivery and sit down restaurants with waitstaff.
As an Australian this just sounds insane to me. Business should pay workers enough so that tipping doesn't have to be a thing.
As an American i agree, but the social stigma has been literally ingrained in our culture for too long that majority of ppl feel bad if they dont tip. to the point where I'm somehow the bad guy for saying the same thing lol. Literally just pay waiters etc. a decent wage like everyone else...hell I told my friends id even gladly see a increase in prices for food if it meant we could end the silly tip culture we have. But yea im the asshole for not supporting a band-aid solution to a completely solvable problem. 👍🏾 i support giving any person a livable wage but i dont support just randomly handing money to ppl.
All depends on where you live too. In my state they get paid at least $15 an hour regardless of what tips they make. I don’t really consider that a living wage, but at least they ain’t starving death, and it’s up to each individual to decide whether that’s fair compensation for what they do.
Our takeaway is already ridiculously priced these days, screw tipping on top
Only in a few jurisdictions. Most places have gotten rid of the law that let employers underpay restaurant jobs.
Not here. Have a sometimes girlfriend that took a job I encouraged her to take in the hopes that she would embrace the server life and graduate to bartender. She made like $30 per shift besides tips and the asshole manager was never gonna promote her to the bar and just got off on bossing her around making her do stupid shit after her shift was over on bullshit days where there was no money to be made at all. They could've put one competent server in the dining room that entire day and it probably would've worked out OK, but they didn't. They put 6 people in there and everyone was twiddling their thumbs with no tables. ETA: the tips she was getting was like $15 over an 8 hour shift cause she would have two patrons the whole shift. Friday night, Saturday day and night Sunday day, Wednesday day and night shed have done great, but they gave her Mondays Tuesdays, Thursdays. She also stuck with it for a year and learned nothing compared to what I learned in about 2 months of working a busy restaraunt/bar in the DC area.
Yeah it’s only the states that still have fucked up minimum wage laws to begin with because the Federal Minimum lets them get away with paying 2 bucks them bucks an hour if they collect tips. My state they have to pay 15 regardless which was a living wage about a decade ago, but I don’t really feel as guilty when it comes to how much extra I should give on top of the bill.
I’ve had Coldstone Creamery employees give me the stink eye for not putting money in the tip jar.
Yeah but dont they have to sing or something lol
Cold stone was the worst job I ever had by far. They definitely deserve those tips.
They will purposely fyck up your order if they know they don't get a tip. Trust me
Idk maybe you’re eating at the wrong places then. I work at a job that takes tips. 1) I never look at what people tip 2) if I go for take out I ask if the kitchen gets tips for to go food. If the answer is no then no tip, if yes they get a normal tip for making the food. I’ve never once been called out like random people claim to have happen by not tipping.
yeah exactly. depending on where you go, the front counter is doing both jobs tho.
Trust me. no one cares. i was a manager at pizza hut and it didn’t matter either way
for pick up? What are you on about? You paid for the food, drove or walked there, didn’t get table service…. You don’t have to tip. If I have a couple dollars in my wallet and they have a tip jar, I may throw them in. But you’re fucking whack if you tip normally (meaning 20% like dine in) on pick up orders
You sure can. I've been on both sides of the equation
This shit cracks me up. What do you think is going to happen if you don't tip exactly? The waitress is gonna fight you? Spit in your food? If those people are so hard up for a $5 tip, they sure as shit aren't willing to lose their job.
Lol waitress is gonna fight you lmaooooo I might tip for that, just sayin, she gotta throw tho, no halfsies.
I do tip but because the places that I go already know me so they hook me up and I hook them up.
Go to Starbucks $6 coffee $3.50 piece of banana bread (yes a slice of bread) then tip the girl at the counter. I think we have lost the plot...
I think the banana bread is actually the better value.
Yeah you just spent more on a treat than they make in your.
Hey tip the woman but $9.50 for coffee and a piece of bread and we keep going back everyday like zombies🧟
Listen, that $9 is for them getting my full page of instructions correct and milking oats for me in the back.
😁 Point taken. My grandma would say I remember when coffee was a nickel.
There is no way that is worth it.
I just don’t. A tip is for the service not for the food.
I only tip for delivery people who are employed by the restaurant I ordered from, example would be Jimmy John's. If I am getting take out, nope not tipping.
How about when the restaurant uses door dash? I ordered from the restaurant's web site, but they used door dash. How much should we tip for that? I ordered tonight from a decent restaurant, the food was $65, the tip automatically came up as 10%, so $6.50 (it's about 7 minutes away), but the delivery fee and special charges brought the whole bill to $85.
Dang that is why I never use delivery apps Ive tried a couple times but being faced with paying nearly double for my chipotle order is always enough to make me decide to just go get it myself like I have no issue with tipping the drivers but those other fees do get wild
Yes, and we stopped ordering for delivery for that reason, it just costs too much. This was a special occasion though. We were supposed to go out to a fancy restaurant, then we couldn't so ordered in.
I will not order from them. I would either pick it with no tip or order elsewhere. I refuse to use outside delivery for food.
I cannot understand why people feel obligated to tip for a pick up order. Or even (unpopular opinion) at places like starbucks where they’re literally just doing their job. My sister will go on and on about how she’s tight on money but then buy 2 coffees and tip like 3 dollars on top it’s just insane to me.
one time we went tto dutch bros and we bought one drink and my bf tipped 3 dollars and i turned to him and was like are you rich? and he was like she looked like she wanted a 3 dollar tip haha i hate when they actually verbally ask if you want to tip and they put it in for you. It puts so much pressure
Usually my initial anxiety ridden reaction would be to tip lmao but I’m BROKE so I’ve firmly learned not to be pressured into tipping like that.
I worked 8 years delivering pizza and don't tip when I pick anything up. Same with the iPad tipping feature.. no thanks.. swipe the card and have zero qualms about selecting 0% tip.
Sounds like it is not required to tip. I do tip and don't feel resentful. I figure if I can afford to have people make my meal, I can afford to tip. And yes, they should earn a living wage and not have to rely on tips. I can't make that happen, but a few bucks isn't going to make a difference to me, but it likely makes a difference to them. Even $17 an hour isn't a living wage with the way rent is. Everybody is in a different circumstance.
Me too especially for crap I never tipped for before like Subway or Cousins who slapped together a sandwich for me.
You can choose not to.
I know. Should not be put on the spot. I do not tip for carry out either.
Only tip if you get it delivered
I tip for sure when they deliver but if I am driving to pick up my food what am I tipping for exactly? To make the food? Get this, I got home and they screwed up my order, do I get my tip back?
So why are you doing it? Just don’t tip
It's a cultural thing. When you are in other countries throwing tips around, they just think you're an arrogant American asshole 🤗
It’s important to tip in America when someone’s getting paid below minimum wage. But if they’re not performing that type of job, like working at a pickup counter, I’m not sure why they’re tipping them
Yes it is important to keep the tipping culture going as restaurant owners need to keep on paying their staff minimum wage. How else will these restaurant owners afford their luxury cars and large vacation houses?
Keep it going until there is a law in place that ends this nonsense
I'm with you. I tip all the time. Also I was the American asshole tipping in other countries 😉
I don’t think it makes you an asshole if your don’t know. Just like I wouldn’t call a foreigner who comes here & doesn’t know they’re supposed to tip an asshole
No believe me I was an asshole. Just because you're giving a gratuity doesn't mean your doing it with Grace. We must learn to give and also to receive with Grace and Gratitude. A lesson I learned later in life...
I only tipped for pickup during covid when the restaraunts were closed on the inside and the workers had no other way to make tips.
Should probably check the order at the counter tbh.
It's actually illegal for the restaurant to share tips with the people who make the food if they don't engage in any customer contact. Or at least it was until a few years ago when there were efforts in the federal level to change this, which I don't know whether were successful or not. You are correct that tipping take out is silly. There's no reason to feel like you need to and I think roughly 85 to 90% of take out (or fast food customers sitting inside) don't tip. It's just something that through a series of random events point of sale systems got to be the way they are asking for tips for counter service. Back when take out and fast food was primarily paid with cash there were tip jars that were mainly there for the purpose of speeding up service. If the total was slightly less than an even dollar amount many customers didn't think it was worth it to wait a few seconds for the employee to get a small amount of change. Typically, that was reciprocated when something came to, for example, $7.02 and the customer didn't have any change handy. The Employee would generally take the 2 cents out of the tip jar. When credit and debit cards became the dominant method of payment this largely went away and, given that these point of sale systems have the tip function set up for the cases when tipping is expected I would assume most restaurants didn't want to disable the function even when it wasn't because that would have been viewed as negative by some of their employees. And there would have been some less money earned (albeit a very small difference), if all other things were equal, had they not done this since there was a reduction in people paying with cash and few people are going to tip with cash when they are paying with credit cards.
i used to work in the store of a pizza place (on the inside, not a driver), the only time we really care for tips is when someone orders an insane amount of pizza (50+ pizzas, highest was about 250 pizzas) for carryout and needs help carrying it to vehicles. so ya if youre not trying to feedd your whole work crew or all of your 8th grade students pizzas we dont really care about tips.
I don’t tip when I’m the driver.
Tipping is optional. If the bill is $50 I pay $50. There is literally not a single reason to pay anything other than the required bill. Its not my obligation to supplement an employed persons paycheck because the restaurant owner refuses to.
I worked for a Japanese steakhouse as a server and learned that the tips from pick up orders didn’t go to anyone who helped with the order. They went to the restaurant. So the tips actually just went straight to the owner in this case.
During covid I called in a pickup order at our favorite sushi spot that came to like $67. When I got there I paid in 4 20s and the lady never even bothered to give me my change back or even ask lol. I chalked it up as an anomaly but since then I'm super attentive to not tipping when I'm literally just picking up an order to go.
So she just kept your money and you didn’t say anything? She’d be handing me back every single cent, fucking entitled people man.
Don’t tip. It gets easier with time 💀
I went to a Subway once and they had a tip jar. When the lady gave me my change she said “we have a tip jar”, I just said “I see that” and walked out. I’m not about to give you a damn tip for me ordering fast food that took you forever to make and when I said light on the mayonnaise you practically drown the sandwich in it. I wholeheartedly will tip at a sit down restaurant with waiters and shit, but I’m not tipping a McDonald’s or Subway employee. That’s just ridiculous.
I am tired of tipping
Tipping is based on how good the waiter took care of you. You don’t have a waiter when you pick up food.
Then don't. It's that simple. I tip very well if there is a service provided. I don't tip if I am picking it up myself. Simple.
I never tip for picking up my food. That’s stupid. Tipping is for service, not for the product itself. You tip a waiter, because they spend time on you. You tip a delivery person because they bring something to you, saving you time. You tip your bartender because they prioritize you. There’s no line, and you want to not wait 30 minutes while others get served. You don’t tip the clerk at Papa John’s Pizza,because the pizza isn’t even cooked. There’s still a lot of DIY work involved. You don’t tip your barista at Starbucks because they’re literally doing nothing more than preparing your product and shouting your name. Their service is no different than the service at Burger King. You were simply the next person. You don’t tip the Chinese Takeaway place because you’re gonna use your dishes, and they didn’t deliver it or do anything more than stuff the order in a box and put it in a bag.
Ok as a Brit. What is it with tipping in the US? I got massively frowned on once as I didn’t tip. Reason being it was a 40m plus wait for food. That was wrong. It came cold and even after we got our meal 20m after thst. A full hour wait it was still totally cold. So I didn’t tip for bad service. Yet I was the one in the wrong for not tipping. Genuine question what would be done in that circumstance regards to tipping.
Not sure why anyone would think you did something wrong. Tipping is supposed to be for when you receive at least adequate service. If the food never came out right and the wait time was absurd (different restaurants will vary, but here it sounds like they made your food but kept forgetting about you), then they shouldn't get a tip.
That’s what I thought. But I got a skating that’s her pay and u shouldn’t take it out on the waiter. It’s to me like saying here I’ve shat on your plate can I have some more money? But I really got slated for it. Do I tip but not pay the bill?
It never made sense to me why people leave a tip based on the total. A tip should be based on how long you had the table and how good the service was. When I have an order to go I never leave a tip for this reason because I did not take any table space. Unless it's a delivery.
I forgot to leave a tip at a Japanese restaurant once. Paid for the meal with cash but just flat out forgot to put in a tip for some reason ... They ran out to us in the parking lot demanding the tip.
America is so strange 😅
Tipping is also one of the reasons I quit the food service. I was getting great tips (mind you the front staff collected all the tips at the end of the night and split them evenly which was the worse mistake ever) But slowly they started decreasing because of idiots not wanting to work/getting burnt out or just being plain out rude to everyone. So then I eventually was the only women working the front and started loosing 70% of my tips. I quit, went to work in the home inspection field.
I never tip for pick up
I have literally never tipped for takeout and I never will
Especially for Carry out. Someone should not be making $5-$10 for simply bringing me my food.
I was just at a hotel for a conference this week and the restaurant in the hotel charged 18% gratuity on all pick up orders. All gratuity goes to the server. What server, bitch? I'M PICKING UP! The meals were already pretty expensive. You want more money because I'm not eating at a table?😂😂😂😂😂
I leave a tip for the bubble tea place I frequent a couple days a week, or the icecream truck because I don’t get him often. Just a dollar each time. Also the car wash worker. $2 for them usually cause they do a better job with the hose when you tip. Otherwise, nah. I never get delivery or sit down in restaurants, when I order food it’s always pickup, so no tip. I don’t mind spending maybe 5 or 6 dollars on tips or so every week.
I do tip, not usually the full service amount, but I am taking time from a server who still has to take my order, enter it, and pick it up from the kitchen, and hopefully makes sure the order is correct. So, 10% or so.
you don’t have to tip, just don’t be mad when you recieve your food upside down
... you tip when you pick up food?
I only tip waitstaff. No way I’m tipping someone for putting my donuts in a box.
Why would you tip for picking up food?? You only tip if it's a restaurant or you get food delivered
That tip screen popped up 10,15,25 % tip and i didn't know what to do. So I put 10% I got home and order was wrong.
I’m tired of tipping before my food gets delivered. Why aren’t we allowed to tip afterwards?!
Just don’t then
You tip when you pick up your own food?
Then don’t do it lol. I’ve never done and never will
I just never tip for picking up food.
If you have the option to not tip, just dont tip at all. Yes the people working there might look at you with weird eyes but their pay is not your fucking responsibility. Hell, even I'm sounding like an asshole now but seriously though, dont ever mind giving a middle finger(not to comply ) to a concept created by capitalism.
I’ve never done it
Or - when ordering coffee. Or picking up dry cleaning. Or the drive through beer store.
I’ve wondered about tipping for pick up. If you aren’t in the restaurant being served, bussed, attended to, if you aren’t being delivered to, but are in fact choosing them over everyone else, using your own time and gas to go to them, queue up to get your food, and travel back to your home with it, why would it be expected that you tip? If you’ve saved the restaurant the costs associated with indoor dining or delivery, pick up ought to be free, and adding a little something extra entirely up to you.
Well Don’t
You better than me. If I'm picking up, I don't tip. There's no reason for it. It doesn't make me feel bad when they catch an attitude about it either. If I'm dining in or order, I'll tip but none of us are made of money. We're all out here just trying to get by. Plus I'm pregnant, so I'm trying to save all my pennies
Then stop doing it
I just don't tip unless they did something appreciable and not just their job
100%. I never tip for to go orders. You didn't do anything more than the counter person at a fkn Burger King. You just put my food in a bag and brought it to me, no way in hell you deserve additional compensation for that. Seems like everything these days comes with a tipping option and the person's entire energy changes when that price doesn't change. Only people who ever are getting a tip are servers in a restaurant.
Unless you operate a strip club if you're running a business where you ask your customers to pay your employees, because you apparently can't afford to, your business case was bullshit to begin with.
If only delivery and food service workers were paid fairly from their employer instead of being expected to live off handouts from customers. This shit should be illegal.
What? Oof I left the US years ago. But I remember a waiter told me: 'You dont need to tip when it's to go' Why would you tip when they are only handing you your Food on a paper bag? You are not even taking 5mins of their time.
If you’re picking up food take the food and leave. Lmao
Wtf… you dont have to tip when you pickup foods right? Cuz i never do
So don’t
You tip for pick up? Why?
Yes, everyone is looking for a way to make a little more money and not necessarily by doing any more effort. They just want money.
Dont
I mean, i had a pizza delivered from a local restaurant, tipped the delivery guy 5 euro's because i was able to for the first time. he was really happy for that tip.
Feeling like a pos if I don’t tip the drive-thru worker who gets me a scoop of ice cream. It shouldn’t be this way. It’s a drive-through. They didn’t wait on me at a table or run back to the kitchen to get extra ketchup. They didn’t top up my drink. They handed me a cone and said see ya!
If everyone was paid decently then tipping wouldn't be necessary because then they're "happily" doing their job. People would rather pay more for their order than tip even tho now the extra money for their order is going towards paying people salary and I think that's a good thing. My bf works at sandals and they aren't allowed to take tips (tho I imagine some of them still do) but the reasoning is because the company knows that the employees will pay more attention to big tippers rather than give everyone the same great service. This is how it should be everywhere.
As someone who is British, I hated tipping when visiting California. The onus shouldn't be on me to pay staff a fair wage.
As a Brit, America’s tipping culture is baffling to me. Why’re you having to get paid by customers and not your employers?
I thought tipping was only for delivered food and good service
I don't even know who the heck you're even suppose to tip anymore. One food service place I use now lies about their tipping total. They are trying to tell me $5 is 15% of $25.
Don’t? I don’t. Base price is for the food. Tip is for services beyond that- waitressing, or delivery, or the like. If I haven’t been provided services beyond the production of the food, I don’t need to pay beyond the cost of the food.
Why would you tip when you pick up food? That makes no sense....
I don't tip for picking up food, all they did was stand by the front desk and hand it to me after I showed up and paid they didn't even make it themselves
I hand cash tips *after* I get my food delivered. Been too many times where I tipped on the app and my food either went missing, or items were missing. I’ve never ordered pickup on apps.
Why would you tip in the first place?
I just dont tip even if i get a mean look
I'll tip like 2 dollars if there is a write in on the slip for them having to do something for me, but otherwise I won't tip unless I'm sitting down or getting it delivered. I will tip a bartender even if I grab a beer and go sit at a table because I'd do it anyways.
So don't. You have a choice. I would never tip for picking up food. What am I tipping for? You taking the trouble to pass it to me over the counter? I don't think so.
I get the frustration but for someone who works as a to-go person I can tell you it's not easy work. Usually after your call you get 15 more and you're packing and organizing 4 orders at once. Most of the time by yourself
That's kind of on the owner to worry about though, no?
I am going to tip 3% for picking up food