What's with carry out places expecting tips? They aren't providing a service except to shove my order at me, and grab my money.
Am I arcane? or is this the new way to do business?

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Just give them a quarter, if they know serving at all they'll get it. If not, then they'll just think you're a lame tipper.

I hate forced gratuity. It's almost an insult to me since I pay a tip every time I eat out.

I tip the delivery guy, but for take out I wouldn't pay.

Just decline. Don't feel bad. Tips are optional

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I dont tip for carry out.. like you said.. no service.

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Depending on the quality of the restaurant and the person who "organized" my order, I might give them 10%. One local Mexican restaurant here has made it a mandatory 10% for all to go orders - it's a disturbing trend.

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1.Mandatory makes it a Taxable event.
2.Let the Restaurant owner pay their employees,out of their own profits.
3."Enforced" tipping equals taking your custom elsewhere.

Howeveah, Exceptional Service deserves outrageous gratuities.

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Waffle House charges a mandatory tip to all orders to go. I believe it is 10% - I don't eat there too often, so I don't recall the exact percentage.

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There was a story on the news a few months back concerning a restaurant in the Northeast. Couple didn't leave a tip because they felt the service was abysmal. Turns out the establishment and/or town had a mandatory tip in effect, manager called the cops, couple in question were taken into custody and charged.

When I was growing up, I was told the standard rule was at least 10%. Now I'm hearing from various places that 10% doesn't cut it any more, that you're supposed to tip anywhere from 15% to 20% as standard, even more for what you would consider excellent service.

Heck, why don't they just cut to the chase and start charging double for the meal, so everybody gets a cut of the action.

I remember a scene from the old TV show "Adam 12", where they're just finishing a meal in a diner with an obnoxious waitress. Kent McCord leaves a dime on the table, the waitress picks it up with disgust, and calls after them -

Waitress - "You call this a TIP?"

Kent McCord - "No ma'am, I call that a hint."

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Tips = To Insure Prompt Service

How can carryout be anything except fast ?

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Link to story please?

I'm just not buying this story could be true, as written.

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There a number of quasi-fast food restaurants around me (barbecue, fish and ships etc) where you order and pay before getting the food or really any service at all. If you pay by credit card, there's a tip line on the receipt. I absolutely refuse to tip anything in those circumstances since it seems absurd to tip before anything has yet happened. If they want something like that, they should have a cover charge to get in the restaurant.

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I wouldn't tip anyone for a carryout.

MS Fowler, how are you seeing this attempt at getting tips for carryout, is it forced on you on the bill, or what?

One place I go to does have a tip jar at the carryout desk (seperate area than the sit-down section) and if they are especialy cheerful and I get the order promptly (or the cashier is cute), I might put a buck in the tip jar, but I don't feel obligated to do that at all. Often times these are college kids working their way through school, or at least earning some extra spending money, and I don't mind helping them out.

Gilly

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I watched it on TV, on one of the alphabet soup news channels - CNN, MSNBC, or FOX - don't remember which, sometime late last year.

Could be there's more to the story than meets the eye, but when all they gave it was a scant 20 or 30 seconds as a filler or "man bites dog" piece....

Seems to me they indicated it wasn't just restaurant policy, but actually a local ordinance, requiring a mandatory tip. When the couple objected and refused to pay based on the service, and then attempted to leave the premises without paying said tip, was when the manager called the local gendarme and they were busted for violating a town ordinance. They actually used the term "taken into custody".

Could be the couple were just obnoxious a-holes that wouldn't have left a tip to begin with, or simply tried to scam their way out of paying altogether by raising a fuss and claiming the service and food was terrible, and when the manager didn't buy the BS and they tried skipping out, they got nailed. And when the media picks it up as a human interest piece, they put their own spin on it as the town and manager being a bunch of pricks and forcing people to pay for poor service.

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I'd never tip at a carry out place. It drives me nuts that all these tip jars have popped up everywhere.

Here is my tip for your jar, get a better job.

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Its a "tip" line on the CC stub. In some restaurants, the carry out shares with the sit down dining, so a "tip" on the stub is understandable. However, this was a carry out ONLY, and besides, they got the order wrong. I ordered Cream of Crab soup, but found when I got home, they put Maryland Crab Soup in the container. Now, there is nothing wrong with good Maryland Crab Soup, but its not the same a Cream of Crab. However, a call to the restaurant, and they credited the soup back to my account.
The crab cakes were true "Maryland" Crab cakes; about 95% lump crab meat with just enough filler to hold it together. Yum!
Through bitter experience, my wife and I have learned not to trust anyone above the Mason Dixon line regarding "Maryland" Crab cakes, and we're pretty suspicious of anyone more than 20 or so miles from the Chesapeake Bay. If they don't know what "Old Bay" is, we don't even order.

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