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

[lilmaniac2 5,000+ posts]

the food prep and answering the phone is what they get paid the $2 an hour for

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

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.

But you do realize if you are paid, on an after-tip basis $10/hr you would be expected to compete with others making $10/hr. If you increase your real wage based on this tip revenue, you are looking at a whole new class of competitive labor, and thus, risking losing your job due to competition with higher skilled labor.

 

[CRXBMPN 5,000+ posts]

I know I just felt like arguing the point. I am ignorant about wages these folks make at their respective jobs so I'm trying to put it in perspective.

Like the movie "Waiting" where the guy gets a $1.xx tip on like a $60 order, he runs out the door and throws the $ in the hicks face saying "you obviously need this more than I do" //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/redface.gif.62fdbfe1a101588a808c4cff71bcb942.gif

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

I know I just felt like arguing the point. I am ignorant about wages these folks make at their respective jobs so I'm trying to put it in perspective.Like the movie "Waiting" where the guy gets a $1.xx tip on like a $60 order, he runs out the door and throws the $ in the hicks face saying "you obviously need this more than I do" //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/redface.gif.62fdbfe1a101588a808c4cff71bcb942.gif

If that movie were reenacted, I'd have the fellow arrested for assualt. Or beat him to the ground with a tire iron...depending if I were drunk or sober.

 

[SweetNess 10+ year member]

I would NEVER tip someone that do do's to prep my food.

//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif It's the same as drinking piss and just as good I promise

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

That's because they all break the law by not filing their taxes with tips included.

Even if they were legit, I do not honestly believe they are raking in the dough they say they do...there is too much unskilled labor competition.

 

[CRXBMPN 5,000+ posts]

If that movie were reenacted, I'd have the fellow arrested for assualt. Or beat him to the ground with a tire iron...depending if I were drunk or sober.

its pretty amusing, in the end he gets a $70 tip from his buddy and its deja vu all over again //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif or maybe its irony i dont know, all i know is that i've never worked in the restaraunt industry so I cant really defend it like others have. And whats so illegal about walking up to a guy while he is leaving and telling him he forgot his change? //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

Look at you. Trying to save the world one poor person at a time.

Not really. I don't care that much about them. I just didn't like Flips irrelevant question.

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

So you want to tell me that because you somehow got paid that, that this is the norm? If your restraunt has a hostess/money handler then yes, your scenario plays. However many places people go for take out the waitresses themselves ring up the bills. If they are waitresses then they don't get paid the same since they are supplemented by tips. I takes these all on a case by case basis and if I know someone is just a cashier/hostess then I am inclined to not leave a tip. I try to tip actual waitresses when I can though.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

i always tip..

 

[audioarsonal 10+ year member]

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.

I think the customer can tell if its the waiter thats makin the service bad or not.If there having a bad day and take it to work then they deserve a bad tip.Its got alot to do with attiude and most have one.There are some people that are scum though and won't leave a tip even if i was good service.To the I say eat a dick!

 

[njaykaplan 10+ year member]

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.

From what i saw in the short amount of time i worked in the nightclub, it wasnt an honest number. I'm talking about a nightclub that could fit over 300 people at a time. When someone placed a drink order- 10 dollars for a mixed, or 5 for a beer, they would pick it up from the service bar who wouldnt ring it up, and both the drink price and tip (Normally another 5, 10, or 20) would go into the servers pocket. I did not agree with how everyone made their money here, even though the tips were wayyyy more than the restaurant i manage, which i was doing both in a 16 hour day.. I feel i am an honest person, and would prefer to do smaller sidejobs to make the money i need than work at that nightclub from 9-10pm until 7am

 

[Flipx99 5,000+ posts]

Not really. I don't care that much about them. I just didn't like Flips irrelevant question..

It was actually relevant.

So you want to tell me that because you somehow got paid that, that this is the norm? If your restraunt has a hostess/money handler then yes, your scenario plays. However many places people go for take out the waitresses themselves ring up the bills. If they are waitresses then they don't get paid the same since they are supplemented by tips. I takes these all on a case by case basis and if I know someone is just a cashier/hostess then I am inclined to not leave a tip. I try to tip actual waitresses when I can though.

Based on my recollection of the occupation of my peers in high school, yes.

But many, including myself, believe the service provided by the waitress is different whether the order is to go versus sitting down and eating. In effect, you are making a donation to the waitress based on a job title and not because of the quality of the service rendered.