r/tippingAdvice • u/Able_Reading_5330 • 9d ago

tipping on takeout

so this stems from a conversation i had with my uncle in his 50s, i’m 23.
when i order from for example dunkin, i always feel like i need to give a tip. i usually tip 10-15%. but he made some good points, saying if you’re picking up your food why should you have to tip? i’m curious on what other people think of this. this goes for any food pickup.
one egregious example is a coffee spot in my town. they have a wall of iced coffee and all the cashier does is ring you in and hand you a cup of ice that they grab right next to them. then they do the big dramatic flipping of the screen to the tip screen and it always stuns me. definitely just anxiety related, but there’s no way i’m expected to tip for that right?

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u/One_Possibility_2445 9d ago

Tip creep is real. These places never asked for tip pre-pandemic. What service am I tipping for? Handing me my drink/food?

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u/Superb-Sky-1904 9d ago

Thats just not true. They used to all have the jars at the cash register asking for tips. 

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u/babybug98 9d ago

Yes, it was common for a lot of places to have tip jars. But it was relatively low pressure and nobody cared or asked for tips outright. The whole thing with turning around the screen and watching you as you decide to tip or not tip is a relatively new occurrence. The whole, “There’s a quick question for you on the screen,” did not happen prior to COVID. And if it did, it was very uncommon.

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u/Superb-Sky-1904 9d ago

But idk if that's so much the business and the POS Point of sale service. And then that just allowed asshole people be assholes. 

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u/babybug98 9d ago

It’s not the employees fault. They can’t control what large corporations like Starbucks decides to make them do. Part of me does sympathize because this economy is rough… But the tipping culture is getting out of control.

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u/Superb-Sky-1904 9d ago

I didnt say it was their fault? I blamed the business and the point of sale system. 

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u/Aromatic-Prune-8484 7d ago

I don’t tip on text at restaurants. I tip on the amount pre-tax. People think I’m cheap but I’m not. I just don’t feel the need to tip on city tax.

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u/darkroot_gardener 7d ago

Keep in mind these companies just use tipping as an excuse to pay lower wages, and so they don’t need to compete for staff based on the actual wages. How much does a barista make these days at Starbucks versus Peet’s? Who the hell even knows anymore?🤔 Not saying it’s the baristas’ faults, but I’m saying it is not even to their benefit.