<p>I (& my fam) tip probably 30-35% for sit in and around 15-20% for to go. We rarely get take out, and if we do it’s from only one or two different places whom know us by name and are always super attentive whether phone or sit in. </p>
<p>We also don’t tip delivery, because frankly NO one delivers to our house. At school where I get delivery I tip 15% at least.</p>
<p>We order take out pizza and Chinese food and I usually tip a dollar or two. I don’t think it is common to tip at the pizza place though because there have been times when I have used a credit card and filled in the tip amount on the receipt and when the CC bill came the amount that was charged didn’t include the tip.</p>
<p>Glad to see the responses in this thread for a topic that has annoyed me lately. I have noticed this increasingly along with the “tip jars”. Usually in local small take-out/restaurants. </p>
<p>My rule of thumb is no tip on the receipt (using my credit card or cash) but throw in extra change in the tip jar. </p>
<p>Seems the # places with tip jars are increasing - I was used to seeing the tip jar mainly at the local ice cream places - that kind of thing.</p>
<p>Not only no tip on take-out, I also find the “loaded” tip jar by the cash register at any food place where you stand in line to order (like fast food) to be annoying and I don’t tip then either.</p>
<p>Default 20% tipper at sit-down and slightly higher for delivery.</p>
<p>I tip about 15% when it’s take-out from the local pub as it’s the waitresses who put the order together, package it, bag it and bring it to me. I don’t tip at the Chinese which is strictly take-out and only the owners and family work there. I throw in my change from purchase in tip jar at Dunkin Donuts. I don’t tip at pizza place which is also only take out.</p>
<p>No tip. Thought had never even crossed my min until reading this thread. Seems silly IMHO,</p>
<p>We tip. </p>
<p>Every where I go, I am tipping more than I did 5 years ago.</p>
<p>My reasoning: No one’s wages have increased since 2008. I can afford to tip more and so I do. I am feeling very fortunate to be middle class these days.</p>
<p>I think it’s sensible to tip for takeout if it appears the waitstaff has a role in filling the order–they are getting paid less than minimum wage, and are expected to survive on tips. But if they aren’t, it’s no different from the prepared food counter at the grocery store.</p>
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So tips are shared with the workers who are making at least minimum wage, or just the other waitstaff? </p>
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Excellent wording, MommaJ. So, sseamom, do you tip all workers. If you don’t, your argument is without merit. Do you think restaurant workers are the only ones with those work conditions?</p>
<p>As long as someone is making minimum wage, I see no need for tip jars (or tips, period). I’ll go one step further, and say that tip jars “for the children” or this cause or that cause annoy me, also. In my area grocery stores ask the customer if they want to donate or “round up” to help the local children’s hospital. Worthy cause? Yes. BUT one reason our health insurance premiums are so high is that we are subsidizing the ones who don’t pay at that hospital. I’m not about to give them more money. (And I always wonder if that money really goes to the particular cause. What’s to stop the store employees from taking the money?)</p>
<p>I never tip when picking up a takeout order…my husband does.</p>
<p>I tip, and I tip generously, often close to 25% when in a restaurant and about 15-20% for takeout. I go to the same restaurants over and over again, and I want them to be THRILLED to see me. For a $25 takeout order (and that would be a large order for me), tipping $5 instead of $2 or $3 makes almost no difference to me–and who knows, that day it might make a difference to the server. </p>
<p>Incidentally, I’ve noticed that tipping generously (adding in that extra $1 or two) at restaurants I go to often has paid off for me. On the rare occasions when I’ve had a problem, I’ve gotten polite and generous solutions. My husband and I have three or four times been given a special dish that the chef “wants to try out” with the request to “tell us what you think.” (The salted caramel pudding did make the menu. Wow.)</p>
<p>I see three valid reasons to tip in any situation:
<p>Some of you are suggesting a fourth justification: the worker is working hard, doesn’t earn much money, and you can afford to give him or her more. While this is nice, it doesn’t really suggest any limits on who you should tip.</p>
<p>I do know that most people who tip wait staff and hostesses have either worked in restaurants themselves or have children who have worked in restaurants. And many who have never worked the other side of the counter find tipping “silly” or “ridiculous”.</p>
<p>If it is the owner who takes my order and fills it, I do not tip. If it is waitstaff that takes and fills order, we tip 10% or higher depending on the size of the order. We don’t get delivery. Sit down restaurants, we tip 20%. Daughter works part time waiting tables at a tourist/beach location. The owners get annoyed if the tips are only 10%, but many are due to the large number of European customers.</p>
<p>ecmotherX2—during the summer I used to work at a restaurant across from Disneyland. I can’t tell you how many European tourists would leave without tipping. Almost invariably it was their first or second day in the US. I knew this because many of them would return the next day, hand me a few bucks and apologize for their ignorance.</p>
<p>Hunt #52
I tip for reasons #1. #2 & #3 - I’m not going someplace without good service. I tip once but never return. In probably three decades I’ve withheld a tip once when someone was so rude I just couldn’t in good conscience leave anything.</p>
<p>I don’t care for the whole tipping system. It feels very patronizing and I would much prefer everyone was paid a just wage for their work instead of relying on their customers for their income. Since that isn’t the case, it seems necessary to me to tip well. I don’t like the system but can’t opt out without harming people I deal with regularly. I object to the practice of businesses or employers counting on customers to pay part of the salary of their employees in addition to paying for a service.</p>
<p>adding: Yes, I was going to say it is generally easier and a much better system in Europe, though it becomes more complicated in recent years imho</p>
<p>“We tip.
Every where I go, I am tipping more than I did 5 years ago.
My reasoning: No one’s wages have increased since 2008. I can afford to tip more and so I do.”</p>
<p>I don’t tip everywhere, for every business that has a tip jar (because that’s just too much, everyone has a tip jar nowadays), but I do tip higher than I did before the economy crashed. I feel lucky to still have a job, and I figure that’s one of my contributions to directly help people out (without having Uncle Sam getting a cut of it). I have noticed that drivers in particular are very grateful for a larger than normal tip.</p>
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I don’t think anybody here has said they don’t tip wait staff. The issue, really, is whether to tip people who are non wait staff. I tip the coat check person, but I don’t tip the hostess who takes me to my table. Takeout is a bit of a murky situation.</p>
<p>If I pick up the food at the bar counter, I’ll put a buck or two in the jar as a recognition that somebody worked to make my order happen, but, IMO, it would never merit a full tip.</p>
<p>It doesn’t seem that murky to me if it is a restaurant where someone would tip for a sit down meal and tips are considered to be part of the workers’ income. If everyone gets take-out and doesn’t tip, some workers are going to be disadvantaged.</p>
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<p>ditto. These days I would rather put my money in a tip jar than give to some established charities. It bothers me to even say that… because it does sound really patronizing and I really hate living in this sort of society.</p>