Do you tip when getting take-out from a nice restaurant?

[VirtualLarry]

I've heard that it's recommended, but all the staff has to do is pick up your food from the kitchen and package it. In fact, I don't know if the chef packages it or not. So that means that all they have to do is run the food out to you, and ring you up.

So do you? Or don't you?

 

[lupi]

how about we all just make fun of the OP for bringing up this topic yet again.

 

[halik]

No, unless you tip the person making the food as well as the waiter.

 

[Exterous]

I have never tipped for take out - nor would I tip the person who got it for me unless their trip to get my food involved a bear, ice skates, mayonnaise and a hammer

I have considered leaving a tip in the tip jar of two local places that make really really good food for what I would consider really cheap

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

No.

 

[jpeyton]

No.

 

[IronWing]

If the service is prompt and courteous and the order correct, I tip. If the staff start a new thread concerning this topic after the multiple pissing matches this topic has spawned in the past on ATOT, then no, I don't tip.

 

[Anubis]

how about we all just make fun of the OP for bringing up this topic yet again.

this

OP is dumb

 

[yh125d]

I might drop a couple bucks in a tip jar if there is one, but otherwise no

 

[VirtualLarry]

this

OP is dumb

Sorry, I actually thought of the topic before I logged on to AT again tonight. Though I should have just posted it in the other thread. Can a Mod merge these threads, or close this one?

 

[shortylickens]

This is just more ammo for my petition to make a master tipping thread.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2054373

 

[bmaverick]

Working at Subway, I get tipped once in a while. Usually the extra change to round up to the next dollar. Some people just hate change in their pocket.

I do not tip at BK, McDee's, Jackinbox, or whatever else. That is just dumb. There is no plates or drinks to replenish.

Now, I do tip the young girl at the Chinese take out because she it hot.

 

[zerocool84]

Do you tip at McDonald's, Home Depot, Burger King???

 

[QTPie]

No tip for take-out.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

I usually tip a couple of bucks, but not the usual 15-20% I tip when dining in.

 

[cheezy321]

Do you tip at McDonald's, Home Depot, Burger King???

lol. So now food and home improvement supplies are lumped into the same category?

EDIT: to answer the OP, NO

 

[zerocool84]

lol. So now food and home improvement supplies are lumped into the same category?

They all provide customer service and serve you.

 

[cheezy321]

They all provide customer service and serve you.

So a tech support phone line can be lumped into that category? How about an online customer service chat?

Your categorization is far too broad.

 

[zerocool84]

So a tech support phone line can be lumped into that category? How about an online customer service chat?

Your categorization is far too broad.

Exactly

 

[BoomerD]

Tip for take-out?

Hell no.

 

[Zee]

i dont give a shit how good the restaurant is. if you are not pouring me a drink or saving me from putting on my pants, you are not getting a tip

 

[HardcoreRobot]

nope

 

[rudder]

Should we tip at a Sonic restaurant?

 

[KMc]

-1

 

[BW86]

nope