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A kind word and a buck every so often. | |||
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Irksome Whirling Dervish |
I throw in a buck for takeout or online orders picked up. Only reason is that I frequent the same places that I like, I see these people all the time and it generates goodwill towards them and in turn, they toss in extras without a charge. I don't expect anything from them but when they put my order near the top, add something on the house as a repeat customer, I toss something their way. | |||
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| A teetotaling beer aficionado  |
We are evolving into a society that wants to be paid extra if a person must deal directly with the public. Bull crap on that. I don't tip fast food people unless they do something extraordinary like handling a very large order or otherwise putting extra effort into the transaction. I can count on one hand how many times that's come up. When I was still working, I would go through the McDonalds drive through almost daily in the AM to get a cup of coffee. Nothing else, just a cup of jo and for the longest time, the same young lady took my order (over the intecom) and took my money. Christmas time I would give her a saw buck but didn't consider that a tip... just a thank you for being civil to me all year. And yes, I worked in food service for a bit. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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The career choices of other people are not my problem. The day will never come that I tip someone for taking my money and handing me a bag. You want a tip? Sure, here's one- don't breathe underwater. You'll get water in your lungs. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Agree completely. I have worked in the service industry although not recently. Pay the help more. I particularly hate the heavy handed techniques to get a tip. | |||
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Membership has its privileges |
If I am carrying out, No. Niech Zyje P-220 Steve | |||
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Ammoholic |
A buck or two, my wife way over tips for take out because she was a server in college and understands it ain't easy. The one place we get food from on the weekends calls me Mr. Aileen because she don't know my name but sure as heck remembers my wife and she practically runs to get our food when we come in. The way to guarantee zero tip is places like Jersey Mikes that have a pop-up on the payment screen to select 10%, 15%. 20%, or other. I am not going usually going to tip at a fast food restaurant, but I sure as hell won't if you are going to expect it. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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McDonald's Rule - if I get the same service as I get at McDonald's, no tip. Same as Para's rule, but I give it a name. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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Exactly. These are the people who definitely earn tips -- they remember you, and they make an obvious effort to be helpful. There's no sense not "giving back" a little. God bless America. | |||
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Decent sample size. Either I’m not an old fogey, or 85% of you are just as old and fogey as me. This particular place I went today is called Teryaki Madness. Chicken, rice, and a fountain drink costs about $12. They ring you up, hand you a cup, and call your name when the food is ready. I’m a pretty good ripper at full service restaurants. I can’t remember the last time I didn’t leave at least 20%. I suppose it’s good to have a way to tip in the payment system, since most of us use credit cards. If I had called in a large pickup order I would have tipped. But just ring me up and call my name? Nah. _________________________ You do NOT have the right to never be offended. | |||
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| That rug really tied the room together.  |
I go to Jersey Mikes subs a few times a month. The machine ask if I would like to add a tip. Umm, no. I don't tip at McDonald's. I don't tip at Subway. And I don't tip at Jersey Mikes. The store is identical to Subway. They make the sandwich, ask what I want on it, and then hand it to me at the counter. They don't do anything special, don't walk the food to the table, don't bring me a drink, or clean up after me. I cant find a single reason to tip for a made to order sandwich, prepared in front of you, that is already $2-3 more expensive than the competition. A 7 inch sub there runs about $9, while a 12 inch sub at Publix is $6.99. Same quality. ______________________________________________________ Often times a very small man can cast a very large shadow | |||
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| It's not you, it's me.  |
Yeah, that’s me. I guilt myself into doing it as well.  I also overtip good bartenders because I was one for a long time. | |||
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If a server is ringing you up, your check total counts toward their shift revenue and they are taxed on it. I don't know if the % has changed since I was doing it, but the IRS assumes you receive 8% of your shift revenue as tips and that tax is figured by the restaurant and withheld from your hourly paycheck. It would have to be a prety busy place for it to really make a difference, but $1000 in revenue means the server is assumed to have made at least $80 in tips and is taxed on that plus their base pay. It got to the point at a place I once worked, where we weren't allowed to ring up our own meals, that we'd have to ask a manager to ring it up, because they weren't counted as tipped employees. Our co-workers didn't want to do it because, even though we got a 50% discount, the 50% we paid counted to the shift revenue of whomever rang us up. Do a double shift on a Saturday and you can get shafted. | |||
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Happily Retired |
I never tip if someone just rings up my takeout. Tip for doing what, exactly? .....never marry a woman who is mean to your waitress. | |||
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Bingo. Be nice to the people who work with your food. Especially if it's a place you frequent. There's a pizza shop in town we hit for lunch on Fridays. The young lady working there during most of our visits knows us, and is very pleasant. She knows our patterns and the varieties we like. Yes, I'll drop a couple of bucks in the jar for that pleasantness. God bless America. | |||
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Alea iacta est |
Question is, are you Steve Buscemi or Harvey Keitel? https://youtu.be/Z-qV9wVGb38 The “lol” thread | |||
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| Bunch of savages in this town  |
I received a gift card for an eatery I never frequent. One morning, I used their drive-thru to order a breakfast sammich. When I pulled up to the window, they had a tip jar on the ledge. I thought that was in extremely poor taste, but you can’t tip with a gift card anyways. ----------------- I apologize now... | |||
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As someone mentioned above, I believe it's a "guilt" thing. I go to Smoothie King a lot of times after I work out. There's a tip jar on the counter or if you pay by CC, the screen on the CC reader comes up with TIP? Sorry...these folks are making minimum wage AT LEAST and they chose to work there. I drove my ass to your store and walked in to buy your product. So what did you do for me, Mr. or Miss employee, that was above and beyond for which you were hired?? Now...someplace like Sonic where the person BRINGS my food to my car? Yeah...I'll throw them a buck. But I can count on one hand the times I've eaten at Sonic. My local pizza place around the corner that I order carry out? Yeah...I'll throw a buck in the jar if I have cash because they're not a chain restaurant and trying to compete with the "big guys". I guess pretty soon there will be a tip jar at the self check-out in Walmart.  p.s. OP...you shoulda had a choice from "Sometimes/Maybe"... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| You're going to feel a little pressure... |
I usually tip for take out sandwiches at Capriotti's sandwich shop. I throw a buck in the jar, for a few reasons. They run their asses off for you. The sandwiches are great. The person seeing the tip go in the jar yells out "Beer money, guys!" and they reply "Thank you!" Also, the guys making the sandwich get to choose your bread and I swear my sandwich is 2" longer, with a tip. Bruce "The designer of the gun had clearly not been instructed to beat about the bush. 'Make it evil,' he'd been told. 'Make it totally clear that this gun has a right end and a wrong end. Make it totally clear to anyone standing at the wrong end that things are going badly for them. If that means sticking all sort of spikes and prongs and blackened bits all over it then so be it. This is not a gun for hanging over the fireplace or sticking in the umbrella stand, it is a gun for going out and making people miserable with." -Douglas Adams “It is just as difficult and dangerous to try to free a people that wants to remain servile as it is to try to enslave a people that wants to remain free." -Niccolo Machiavelli The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. -Mencken | |||
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I always pay cash, never a c.c., If I have change in my pocket they ( the cashier ) get .75 cents or less for pushing the buttons and giving me food. when I think about it , is $7.50 an hour more then they choose make Safety, Situational Awareness and proficiency. Neck Ties, Hats and ammo brass, Never ,ever touch'em w/o asking first | |||
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From a business perspective, I always thought it a missed opportunity if the system doesn't have a tip provision. I don't tip at fast food or chain restaurants, but I do at the mom and pop places. At my favorite dive to get a burrito, they seem surprised when I hand them a buck. “People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.” –Chuck Palahnuik Be harder to kill: https://preparefit.ck.page | |||
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