Do I need to pay a tip when I want to get food "to go"?

Question

Whenever I get food to go at this one restaurant, there is a place for a tip on the receipt and I was wondering if I should pay a tip.

Answer 1

no, there is no service involved from the waitperson, nor are you taking up table space, or creating dirty dishes.

Answer 2

I have been a hostess at 3 different restaurants, and for the record, I loved the job. I didn't get payed that much and reallly appreciated the tip on to go orders, and there were sooo many of them a day during lunch time especially. I never went about asking for a tip or even mentioning it twice in that way, I am studying hospitality/customer service in college and am really into that, and lemme tell ya, the way they are going about getting a tip is all wrong and certainly very rude, thats awful, they know better : ( A tip is something you give out of your own feelings that you want to show appreciation. It is very appreciated to tip a hostess, in this situation I would say not to. In the future though I hope you don't hold back if someone has excellent timing and customizes your order and if you go there everyday and make really good money that would be very appropiate. I have to say I only got annoyed with no tipping once and never said a word cause que sera sera, ya know. The situation was that I was working at a very high end restaurant and had a huge amount of to go orders at the busy peak of lunchtime, and there was someone who would order a bunch of meals and it was a very high pais corporate office and they would ask for extras and additions and expected it to be ready right away with No mistakes ever and never once tipped or even thought to and were loaded, it kinda sucked, but gotta roll with the punches.

Answer 3

As a former restaurant worker, I always tip whether it is for delivery, take-out, or dining room service. Tipped restaurant employees are taxed on 8 to 10% of their sales. That means even if no one tips, the government assumes that the employee takes home a certain amount of cash. Some jobs even require employees to claim a certain percentage or they are allocated at the end of the year. If people stopped tipping, the minimum-wage making employee will be taxed on that money they are not receiving, besides the fact that bad Karma will be spread.
If you received attentive service from the employee, why not give a 15% tip? Remember, the person is bagging your food, not cooking it, so if it is not ready it may not be his or her fault. By the way- the stuff that goes on in the movie "Waiting" is not true of most restaurants. I have never seen an employee mess with a customer's food or beverage. Trash talking, yes, but nothing gross.

Answer 4

Why not tip for a meal that you did not shop for, prep,
cook or think much about at all?
The person who put your order together could have been a server who HAD to take time away from their customers in the dining room!!
It is a luxury to afford to get food from a restaurant, so why not tip accordingly? Especially if you get food from the same place repeatedly.

Answer 5

I say give a few dollars. Those people still took your order by phone, entered it into the computer system. When the food was done, they placed it in the containers, packed it up and rang out your order.

They do just as much work as a server does. Once you call, the order doesn't bring itself to the kitchen. It does not put itself in those nice little to-go containers. It does not put itself in a nice little bag for you and your money just doesn't fly into the register. A person makes it all happen.

Answer 6

Tipping is for service. You can tip if you feel you received exceptional service. For example if they offered you free drinks if you had to wait. If they remembered utensils, napkins, etc..If the server is a regular who always takes care of you.

I don't leave a tip if they don't have the food ready, if they ignore me standing at the desk or if they don't have the food bagged properly. I don't like walking out with a styrofoam box.

Answer 7

No, when you get food to go you do not pay a tip. You didn't get any waitress service. It is nice though if you pay with all bills to let them keep the change - or if you are charging it - to round it off.

Answer 8

Yes. My daughter worked in a restaurant where they did a lot of to-go-orders and the worker responsible for assembling these orders were suppose to count tips as part of their salary.

Answer 9

All the receipts say it. They don't switch out receipts for to go orders aside from the regular ones.

Answer 10

Not if you are living in Australia. The yanks normally do that because their wages a re alot lower and the waitresses always makes more money on tips.

Answer 11

If the food is ready when I arrive and I don't need to wait, I do tip. I also tip at the "carside " places where you call ahead to order and they bring it out to the car.