Pickup orders from restaurants. Do you leave a tip??

Shockwave

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Lets say you call in a pickup order to Applebees. When you go in, you only pick up the food. You dont sit down and have a drink or anything, just in and out. Do you still tip??
 

monk3y

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Nope. Haven't ever tipped for a pickup, can't think of who would get the tip so don't think there's a point.
 

ThaGrandCow

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Isn't that the whole reason for picking up instead of delivery? So you don't have to leave a tip?
 

BCYL

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What about the chefs and the people who packaged the food? Don't you have to leave a tip for them?
 

Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: BCYL
What about the chefs and the people who packaged the food? Don't you have to leave a tip for them?

You saved them some money because that's fewer dishes that the dishwasher had to wash. It evens out.

No, I don't leave a tip when I pick up.
 

Imported

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When I was a host at Denny's, there was the occasional tip from people doing pick-up orders.. it seemed to be mostly military personel leaving tips though.
 

AlienCraft

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If they put all the extras in there with out asking, and it's ready to go when I get there or shortly thereafter, you bet.
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Shockwave

Thats not a valid repost. If you check the date

04/08/2003

Its expired by this time. Dont you know? ATOT threads have a 1 month expiration date. Thus, that thread is about 2.5 weeks past expired, and as such a new one would need to be created.

no i didnt know that because you just pulled it out of you ass. :)
 

Shockwave

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Originally posted by: TheEvil1
Originally posted by: Shockwave

Thats not a valid repost. If you check the date

04/08/2003

Its expired by this time. Dont you know? ATOT threads have a 1 month expiration date. Thus, that thread is about 2.5 weeks past expired, and as such a new one would need to be created.

no i didnt know that because you just pulled it out of you ass. :)

*heh*
Well....perhaps...But better then pulling it out of your ass I suppose :D
 

Anubis

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Originally posted by: Shockwave
Originally posted by: TheEvil1
Originally posted by: Shockwave

Thats not a valid repost. If you check the date

04/08/2003

Its expired by this time. Dont you know? ATOT threads have a 1 month expiration date. Thus, that thread is about 2.5 weeks past expired, and as such a new one would need to be created.

no i didnt know that because you just pulled it out of you ass. :)

*heh*
Well....perhaps...But better then pulling it out of your ass I suppose :D

touché
 

DeeKnow

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going way off topic here (how bad can that be in a forum called off-topic, for gods sake ...!) but I have a deep distaste for this whole tipping culture

I have never understood how America - the land of equality - has spawned and sustains this inhuman practice ... people who apparently have salaried jobs have to stick their hands out to every idiot who walks in and depend on their goodness/habit/current mood/weather to determine what they get paid ??? what's worse is it does not even apparently depend on the service quality any more. you almost have to give them 15%. if its that standard why not stick it on the price list ? that way no one is begging for a hand-out and the customer knows what he is paying when he walks in

and don't give me trash about how it is supposed to drive better service and all that crap. There's no logic for why you tip the cabbie but not the bus driver, who in my opinion works a lot harder and gets no thanks at all. Why give a dollar to the doorman for holding the door ? He's entirely useless to me. I've got hands and I open doors just as well. How many people tip the postman for walking thru the rain to bring you your junk mail ????

 

ROTC1983

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Originally posted by: DeeKnow
going way off topic here (how bad can that be in a forum called off-topic, for gods sake ...!) but I have a deep distaste for this whole tipping culture

I have never understood how America - the land of equality - has spawned and sustains this inhuman practice ... people who apparently have salaried jobs have to stick their hands out to every idiot who walks in and depend on their goodness/habit/current mood/weather to determine what they get paid ??? what's worse is it does not even apparently depend on the service quality any more. you almost have to give them 15%. if its that standard why not stick it on the price list ? that way no one is begging for a hand-out and the customer knows what he is paying when he walks in

and don't give me trash about how it is supposed to drive better service and all that crap. There's no logic for why you tip the cabbie but not the bus driver, who in my opinion works a lot harder and gets no thanks at all. Why give a dollar to the doorman for holding the door ? He's entirely useless to me. I've got hands and I open doors just as well. How many people tip the postman for walking thru the rain to bring you your junk mail ????

Yeah, you do have a point there. How would you solve it though since it is part of our society as of right now?
 
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Originally posted by: DeeKnow
going way off topic here (how bad can that be in a forum called off-topic, for gods sake ...!) but I have a deep distaste for this whole tipping culture

I have never understood how America - the land of equality - has spawned and sustains this inhuman practice ... people who apparently have salaried jobs have to stick their hands out to every idiot who walks in and depend on their goodness/habit/current mood/weather to determine what they get paid ??? what's worse is it does not even apparently depend on the service quality any more. you almost have to give them 15%. if its that standard why not stick it on the price list ? that way no one is begging for a hand-out and the customer knows what he is paying when he walks in

and don't give me trash about how it is supposed to drive better service and all that crap. There's no logic for why you tip the cabbie but not the bus driver, who in my opinion works a lot harder and gets no thanks at all. Why give a dollar to the doorman for holding the door ? He's entirely useless to me. I've got hands and I open doors just as well. How many people tip the postman for walking thru the rain to bring you your junk mail ????

Salaried jobs? They make like $2.30 an hour because their primary source of income is wages from tips. No one is forcing anyone to pay 15% of the tip - if you want to, that's fine. GO to restaurant X or Bar X on a frequent occassion. Tip nothing or little. See how they treat you like crap, then tell us how service quality isn't affected. If you go once in a blue moon or have different waiters each time then yes, you won't notice the difference, but if you had the same guy/girl you would.
 

DeeKnow

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hey don't complain to me about what they make .... you've got the logic backwards my friend. They get paid that low because the restaurants know they will pick up tips ... its 'factored' in. the restaurants happily pass on their cost to the customers and we pick it up cause otherwise the poor service staff won't make any money....!

it's simple supply and demand. we stop leaving tips, people wont work for 2.30 an hour because it simply doesn't make sense to - then they will have to raise wages to an 'economic' level until they can get the people they want.

and dont tell me why it cannot be done. visit Switzerland. no tips. at all ! not in hotels, not in cabs. they include a service charge in the price. every 14.99 dish includes a 7% service charge. that way I know what I will pay before i order, and no - the service does not suck. On the othert hand, I see happy people who do not feel demeaned by having to hold theirhands out to every customer every day.

 

lisaknola

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Speaking from the bartender perspective, I always tip for to go orders. Simply because I know the server/bartender pays taxes based on their sales not just their tips. :)
 

TheCorm

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Tipping has become something where it is considered compulsory...I think it should be something where you give a tip if you are happy with the service....this seems logical...and you should give what you feel.

Nowadays in many restaurants (although this seems more prevalent in the us than in the uk and elsewhere) you feel obliged to give a certain % automatically on top of the bill.

Perhaps every single service should now carry a tip!!, you tip your mechanic, tip your postman, tip shopkeepers...etc etc....

On the topic at hand...I would say that doesn't warrant a tip really.