No, because tipping culture isn't a thing here.
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Same. They're trying, tho. Restaurants often ask me to punch in the total before paying. I consistently go for the sum that I actually ate for.
Some taxi drivers/companies do the same. I've started only using those who don't.
Until people outside the service industry have the same opportunity to get something extra, tipping culture can fuck right off. I'll gladly keep paying more for my meal if the waiters etc get decently paid.
No tipping culture where I live either, but there are a few places - especially in tourist heavy areas - where the EFTPOS machine will ask if you want to add a tip before you put your card in. Just about every place I've been the server will hit the "0%" button for you before handing the machine over if they can tell you are a local
Restaurants often ask me to punch in the total before paying.
What? That's such a slow way of doing it!! The ones who try it here just have an extra screen like the receipt yes/no screen.
If they're going to start making you do data entry that's awful.
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I never ever tip if I'm picking up the food myself. No service is being rendered.
I also pretty much never get takeout anymore because the grossness of being asked for a tip ruins the experience.
There's a donut place I go to that hands you a device/keypad thing when you pay and it has like a gazillion prompts and questions, including tip. But I found that if you order ahead and pay online, you can skip all that and just pop in and pick up your order. So that's what I always do now.
For anyone in the Chicago area, you need to try Stan's Donuts. Everything is good but specifically the yeast-raised donuts are to die for. Best Boston Cream donut I've ever had.
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You friend is insane and making the problem worse. Tell them to stop.
Even in the US, where tipping has been out of control for a long time, nobody in their right mind tips for takeout. The employee literally didn't do a damn thing other than a couple seconds of handing you a box and possibly cashing you out.
In my previous town there was a restaurant where I had to install an app to order. When ordering, the kitchen would make the meal and put it out on a counter where I had to go and pick it up myself. When ordering drinks, I had to walk over to the bar where a server left the drink out on a table for me to fetch. Basically no interaction with anyone.
The audacity when the app asked me to leave a tip. Luckily I live in Norway where leaving no tip is completely normal, because civilized employment laws exist.
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Fuck no, they're paid to prepare food. There's no service, why am I tipping? People who tip like this are the reason why we have a terrible time ordering every time we go out.
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Nope. Where I live employees' salary is included in the food prices.
Zero tips for takeout.
Canada here. For the very rare delivery order I make, I'll do 10%.
For takeout orders, 0, except from my favourite shawarma place because I like them and want them to stay around. They get 10%. Their prices are very reasonable to begin with, so much that I've thought they could charge more.
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Scotland. As much as they are trying tipping isn't. Thing here but back in the days when we payed by cash I'd usually just round it up to the next £5 or £10
As much as they are trying
Ha ha ha same here (NZ), I'm assuming gullible tourists must be keeping that misguided dream alive.
Went to Greece last year and they're trying the "Would you like to leave a tip" message on the card machine
It's your fucking civic duty to click "NO" then immediately get on Google leaving a 1-star review saying why
Fuck right off, I'll decide whether to tip or not, NEVER ask for it
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I'll tip like a buck sometimes, but only if I'm feeling like it. Certainly no obligation. USA
Yup, in the US you shouldn't tip on takeout orders
Nope.
Now we're discussing tipping for takeout? What's next tipping in drive thru? I'm so tired of the tipping culture in the US, so very tired.
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USA, I also tip 10% on takeout. I guess it's my way of helping the employees have a shot at a livable wage. I used to have a job in the industry myself, and internalized the "pay it forward" culture.
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Not for takeout. I only tip for eating-in, which I still find dumb. We should ban tips and force restaurants to pay a livable wage
$0.00
That's €0.00, for my fellow Europeans.
Take out ( like fast food)? Never
If I sit down in the restaurant, then I tip if I get good service.
No never, we're not a tipping culture.
Only exceptions are if you're taking a taxi or getting food delivered and you pay in cash, it's a dick move not to round up.
But no one uses cash any more even for that stuff, so that's kind of moot.
What are tips? I ain't in the "freedom" land so don't know,
Extra money to the employee. It's supposed to be optional and a mark of good service, and typically was only wait staff/bartenders (for food service; there are other tipped jobs), but the hourly wage for said staff ended up becoming a fraction of the main wage and tips basically became required (in my day, $2.13/hour (though if, for example, we literally had no one come in, the company would make it up to the actual (non-tipped) minimum wage) versus I think around $7.15 an hour or something (it may have been less at the time). When I was a kid (1980s), we were always taught about 10-15% of the amount of the bill. These days, it's often cited as 20-25%. In some states, the server wage is still really, really low (a quick search shows Oklahoma (state) is still at $2.13 with non-tipped minimum wage at $7.25/hr).
Add to that that many of the wait/bar staff are also having to pay idiotically-high US health insurance plus the actual cost of healthcare and their employers may or may not have any contributions to the plan. Then more if they want silly things like vision and dental insurance. The whole thing is a trainwreck and one of the reasons I no longer live in the US.
This just made me not want to visit US ever. And especially not live in it.
Thanks for the eye opener.
If you did visit, you would also tip a taxi driver if you used a taxi, hotel staff if they take your bags to the room (edit: and, increasingly, the cleaning staff, but there's no set expectation on that yet), etc., etc. I just covered the food/beverage side, heh.
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No, they did nothing but their job.
For pickup? No tip. There's no service provided. You are paying the listed price for the goods (food) you are receiving.
Delivery? 20% with a cap of $5
At a bar? 20% with a cap of $10
Sit down restaurant? 20% with a cap of $20
There’s no service provided.
And furthermore, takeout workers are not defined as a tipped position legally and therefore their employer should be paying them an actual wage, not "waiter's wage," which is federally $2.13/hr. ("Should" and "is" obviously not always being the same thing.)
I am always wary of touch screens and other gizmoes popping up everywhere begging for tips in non-tipped counter situations. It is possible, indeed likely, that the tips are not going to the employees anyway and are just being pocketed by the management.
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German here, I don't have to give anything.
If I am enlighted by service, or the food was really nice I tend to give 10/15%. Mind I am poor and expensive meals are like 45€, so giving 50€ for a good service and evening seems fine to me :)
Hate to break your bubble, but no man is poor who eats takeout for 45€. Thats 4x the price of an expensive meal in Hungary. We are talking about countries with similar grocery prices.
Don't mind the pop :)
The poor was more refering to my ability to give a tip and the range i can do it with. (And I would say poor, changes from country to country?)
Expensive dine outs like this are rare (sadly) The regular meal out in my region is between 8-15 € Home cooking is far cheaper
How is the range in your area in Hungary
My last grocery shop without expensive stuff for ½-1 week was 45 € which was ruff 😢
I tip 20% or $5 on takeout orders, whatever is larger (provided nothing goes terribly wrong). I have the means, and I remember how much I fucking hated working in retail. I depend on these people to feed me and I appreciate that they're willing to do it (especially with how poorly they get treated at times). If I can make someone's day better then it's worth it to me.
That being said, I hate tip culture and wish that the laws in my country around tipping would change. This is getting off topic now (since I think that the people doing takeout orders aren't subject to this), but it's absurd that we let restraunts pay $3.50 an hour if someone is making the rest of the minimum wage in tips. If I tip someone, I want it to be because I really appreciate what they did. I don't want to be paying their wages, they should be receiving a livable wage no matter what. I know that refusing to tip won't change that, so I just go along with it.
20% / $5 on true "takeout"? When you drive/walk there, go to the counter, wait, and leave with food?
I love the generosity and understand the point for appreciating workers, but that still sounds too generous for getting zero "service" and only getting food.
I don't take out much but when i order home delivery i don't normally tip but if i don't have change and nor do they i tell them to keep the change .
Japan: no. Tipping culture can DIAF. ~ Us citizen (who spent a couple years as a tipped employee) living in Japan for the last nearly-10.
Aussie here. What's a tip? /s
Absolutely not, I only tip waitors / waitresses or delivery people.
No. Sometimes I tip 3% if there’s an easy option and I paid credit. But usually 0% for takout
I don't, unless something extraordinary happened.
They aren't $3/hr servers.
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