<p>We stopped getting delivery since the drivers always gave themselves tips on the credit card slip, even though we had already tipped them nicely in cash. Domino’s was the worst for this, but our local shops did it too. </p>
<p>We were typically tipping in the 20% range, and never less than $5, unless the service was extraordinarily bad.</p>
<p>I digress. What should be the right tip when you order to go and pick up at the restaurant? How do you handle when there are two people working on the order?</p>
<p>^I wasn’t even aware we were supposed to tip for that. I purposefully go to pick up food when I am short on cash and can’t afford a tip. Maybe that’s wrong.</p>
<p>We do $5 for deliveries to the house. The price of the food has nothing to do with it in my mind. I feel the same way about restaurants and tip according to quality and quantity of service, not how much we paid for it. And I make no apologies about it. </p>
<p>I never cheap out, and I know how hard restaurant work is, to be sure. And I don’t believe in ‘punishing’ front line staff with low tips because of a crappy business running behind them. </p>
<p>But I also don’t like taking advice from the restaurant industry on how much they think I should be paying their employees directly. Give me a break. A tip is supposed to be discretionary.</p>
<p>*We stopped getting delivery since the drivers always gave themselves tips on the credit card slip, even though we had already tipped them nicely in cash. Domino’s was the worst for this, but our local shops did it too.
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<p>Wow!</p>
<p>My parents taught us to write in “Cash tip” or “tip left on table” on the tip line if we tipped in cash, but paid the rest with credit card.</p>
<p>^^ Sometimes I sit on the car and order to go from the curb side. The server then brings the food to the car. I feel uncomfortable if I don’t give something especially when they are HS students.</p>
<p>We dont really order, but whenever we do itt’s a 12.99 pizza, and my mom usually pays 5 dollars for the tip.</p>
<p>“My parents taught us to write in “Cash tip” or “tip left on table” on the tip line if we tipped in cash, but paid the rest with credit card.”</p>
<p>I give cash tip too. Could you explain why it’s necessary to write?
I only record cash tip when I need re-embursement from my company, especially when I travel overseas. I some countries, they don’t have the tip line on the credit card bill. You have to tell the server ahead if you want to tip before they charge to the credit card.</p>
<p>I don’t think you have to tip if you’re picking up take-out from a restaurant yourself. At least I never have. Hope I’m not the only one, but if I am, I’ll start tipping.
Where I live, most deliveries are done by bicycle, within a 10 block radius, so I tip depending on size of my order and/or weather conditions.</p>
<p>DS was a pizzadelivery guy. Around here (we are in CA) they get minimum wage which is eight dollars an hour but they pay food their own gas. I tip at least five dollars because that is what it would cost me in gas. I do not tip a percentage of the food cost.</p>
<p>^^ This is the first hit I got from google:
[tips</a> for to go order? - Not About Food - Chowhound](<a href=“http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/383687]tips”>http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/383687)</p>
<p>In NYC, during lunch time if we did delivery we usually tipped 10%, but min $5. In the city it’s easier to make multiple deliveries in one building.</p>
<p>When I worked in the City (6 months ago), I used to do take out almost everyday, and I have never seen anyone tipped. Even out in the suburb, if I did pick up I didn’t tip.</p>
<p>“I give cash tip too. Could you explain why it’s necessary to write?”</p>
<p>Personally, I write if I am at a restaurant where I have to take the check up to a counter, because otherwise they will ask, “do you want to leave a tip on the card?” and I think that’s obnoxious. Sometimes I might write so the waitress knows that there was a tip there in case someone swipes it, but usually I don’t bother.</p>
<p>“I tip at least five dollars because that is what it would cost me in gas.” You must drive pretty far for your pizza!</p>
<p>I don’t think most people have the wherewithal to throw around 50% tips for deliveries and waiters–I sure don’t. (I also think there’s a certain amount of ego and self-congratulation involved in throwing huge tips at people–the Lady Bountiful effect, I guess you could call it.) If one’s concern is the theoretical financial situation of the person who serves you, then why not tip the cashier who rings you up at Target? Or the guy who fetches your size 11 Chuck Taylors from the backroom of the shoe store? They don’t make much either, and probably have families to support, Christmas presents to buy, etc. I just don’t follow the logic of tipping based on perceived need. As for those pizza guys–food delivery is unskilled labor, that’s why any high school kid can do it, and speaking English is never a requirement. It shouldn’t be any surprise, and is totally appropriate, that it pays less than the more skilled position of waiter.</p>
<p>^^^Even if someone didn’t speak English, he/she still deserves to earn a minimum wage. If it’s all about ego, there are easier ways of doing it than to tip delivery people. I think it’s debatable on what takes more skill - bringing food from the kitchen to a table vs delivering food to different locations.</p>
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<p>Complete agree. I give 10-15%. My haircut costs $7 and I give them $1. They are always very gracious when I give them the tip.</p>
<p>50% is way over the top and showing off.</p>
<p>If someone is generous it doesn’t mean he is showing off, most likely he is just a nice person.</p>
<p>I just tip more when I can afford it to reward good service. I have great, great respect for people who show up to work willing to do more than the bare minimum to not get fired, and they are not always in the majority in the kinds of jobs in which tipping is the norm. It has nothing to do with showing off, for me it’s just a matter of respect and gratitude. I don’t think anyone should ever feel obligated to tip more than the standard 15 or so %, but when I can afford to and the server has left a really positive impression on me, I like to give more than the bare minimum as that’s what they’ve given me.</p>
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<p>If somebody gave me a 50% tip, I would feel really awkward. I would feel like that person is looking down on me and feels sorry for me.</p>
<p>To me this topic is more complicated than choosing candidates to vote tomorrow.</p>
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<p>Should you tip the hotel housekeeper? (Some hotels have gratitute envelops)
How much should be the tip for the tour guide?..</p>