do you tip on a take out order at a restaraunt?

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I have a tip for everyone working at Wal-Mart that wants to improve their quality of life:
Stop failing at life and get a better job!

Not everyone is skilled labor. Wal-Mart is a god-send for employing unskilled labor and keeping them off the welfare rolls.

 

[njaykaplan 10+ year member]

$150 tip bah, I got a $500 tip a few weeks ago... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

I was talking about for food, But as far as a pissing contest goes I received a honda i could use for competition //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif (92 Accord, but still a car that is reliable, cheap to repair, and has a 12 cu ft trunk)

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Many waitresses who package your take out order don't make as much of a base pay as the cashier of a store, because their income is traditionally supplemented by tips. For this I call apples and oranges to your skewed outlook on this question. Plus I know you are a tight *** and will find any desperate avenue to justify this //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

The cashier at at take out counters makes similar amount to those cashiering at a store...I have paychecks to prove this.

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I think the pissing contest was another thread, I believe faulkon started it

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

The sad thing is people expect a tip even if they provide bad service.Yes your wage is tip dependant but tips are given as a form of payment for services rendered.If you give bad service you get a bad tip.I perfer to give a penny just to let them know the shitty service I got!

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

I gave a dollar tip on a 25 dollar dinner yesterday. service was pitiful

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

so whats going on in here?

 

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

Then you shouldn't have paid.

bah food was good, it was a new server who did try, just screwed up 6-7 times on a 3 person table

 

[njaykaplan 10+ year member]

The sad thing is people expect a tip even if they provide bad service.Yes your wage is tip dependant but tips are given as a form of payment for services rendered.If you give bad service you get a bad tip.I perfer to give a penny just to let them know the shitty service I got!

Eh, dumb people expect a tip if they didnt do everything they could to satisfy a customer. If we're competely backed up, on delivery, and it takes me an hour to get a person their food- i'm happy to receive a dollar or 2.. even more if they tip me 5 or 10 because they know it wasn't my fault why it took so long.. but i don't expect a thing. I'm not exactly the normal restaurant person though- i've worked at this place long enough to care too much, moreso than the owners of the place.

Reply to chad though: If a server didnt have the common sense to train enough, which isnt always done by the boss, then he deserved nothing.. When i started working at the night club, which was a very fast paced place, they had me watch people and learn the normal proceduces until i'm comfortable and confident enough to work.. I basically trained myself from watching others, and asking questions on things that i knew would help me out.. I had nobody walk me through it though, which shouldnt be necessary unless someone doesnt learn quickly enough, in which case restaurant work is a bad plan.

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Well, the way it works is minimum wage would be higher if you werent expected to receive tips. Certain jobs, tips are normal. Theres a night club i used to work at, and still would if the owner wasnt a complete scumbag, but the waiters there would make thurs-sunday a good 300-500 a night plus i believe 2.50 an hour. They make incredibly money, but that is solely from tips. Jobs like that, tips are the whole purpose of working there.. Same as where i work, as the people i work for would rather fire me and lose business than give me a raise.. I live off of tips completely, i get my check once a month because of how little it helps. I used to end up saving them for a few months until i could buy something nice, then they got mad when i would cash 6 months worth of paychecks..

With the vast sums of money these servers tend to make, I am often surprised by the number of them who receive public assistance. I am also surprised at the level of homogeneous service one recieves at many resturants. Conceptually, there would these tips would cause job gentrification, as better severs would beat out the unskilled ones over these excessive wages compared to other unskilled labor. Ie, the skills of a server are less than that of other jobs that pay 3-500 per night.

The BLS certainly does not agree with this $3-500 per night figure.

 

[SweetNess 10+ year member]

Cheap bastards! they do do things they prep your food, take your order over the phone, make sure you got eveything and usually take out to your car. Im not saying tip 20% but throw them a couple bucks. They don't make that much hourly I did this for Chili's many moons ago. They deserve it.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

you sound like you are or have been in the food service industry and have had your hemorhoid flare up over getting stiffed on tips //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif

You sure read that one wrong. I have never worked in food services. I explained my reasoning before. I am a decent human being.