What is the rule with Take Out tipping? I really don't know. I know many people don't tip, but is that the right thing to do? I just tip my usual 20% because someone has to box the stuff up, right?
Maybe I'm a hard ass but I don't really see why you should tip take out (in terms of a pizza restaurant, chinese, etc.). It's more reasonable from an Outback curbside for example but still. Do you tip the guy at the McDonald's drive through window?
Yeah, I dont tip for take out either. If I have to drive and stand in line to get it, I'm not tipping. There's this local pizza place I go to that still puts a tip section on the receipt even if I'm picking up, but I just ignore it. I usually tip 20% if I'm served though. .
I usually leave about 20%, but if it's really bad.... We were at Pizza Hut once. Took 40 minutes for plain pizza, the waitress kept messing up my kids' drinks. We are the only people there so it's not like they were busy. The last shot was when that snotty little bitch brought my check and asked me to sign it, and gave me a fucking pencil! I left her a tip, 1 cent. Put it right on top of signed check so she'd know it was on purpose.
I either go 20% or triple the tax on the meal and round up. I'm a quick math kinda guy and like to round out my checks to whole numbers whenever possible.
Nothing short of 20%... I tip bartenders well and sometimes if I'm in a rinky dink spot @ 6am after work I'll hook the wait person up..bill would be $22 and i'll leave a 20 spot... I honestly believe in Karma... So I'm making sure I don't get some fuked up black cloud shit..lol
I am almost always at 20% plus what ever change to round off to the next highest $ amount. $21 bill with 20% would be $25.20, would round up to $26, ends up around 24%. Smaller bills will sometimes just leave a flat $5, so like yesterday on $16.50 bill left $5 which comes out to a bit above 30%. If you stay around the 20% mark you can't really go wrong, no need to go crazy unless you are well off and want to throw bills around. I can say I have not often gotten bad service, nothing in recent memory, so can't say what I do in the situation since it would go on a case by case how much is left. Another thing, if someone else grabs the bill I will leave the tip and then the waiter will do well, a $40 bill the other day got a $20 tip.
It's weird. When I traveled around USA end of last year I was told so many different things and ended up around the 20 % mark. People in LA told me 15 % was normal, then when I got to Colorado I was told 20 % minimum. Or a dollar per beer. People who have worked in the industry there have told me you should still tip 10 % if the service is pretty poor because of all the people they have to pay out. One day I'll get the hang of tipping. I did find though that I generally tried to make the totals whole numbers with credit card tips.
My biggest tip, percentage wise, is always on Christmas morning. Our traditional breakfast for years has been, once we're done opening presents, I go to the local dinner for fried egg sammiches--taylor ham or bacon, cheese, etc. I feel so sorry for those waitresses, they are all in their 40s or 50s, slaving away on Christmas morning so even though it's take out, I usually give them a 30% or more tip. It's not a lot of money, but I appreciate the effort. _
Apparently it depends if your hair cutter also is the owner of the shop. I've been told you are not supposed to tip the owner hair cutter, just hair cutters that merely work there. _
So I figured out yesterday how I pretty much always tip. I round the check up to the next 10 dollar amount, I divide by 10 then double it. Yesterday at the Biergarten our bill was $66 and change. I rounded up to $70, divided to $7 and doubled it for a $14 tip. _
