If I don’t tip, will they spit on my food?
 

That’s really the only reason I tip when I order to go food. Now if my food is already bagged and all I have to do is pay, I won’t tip. Am I the only one paranoid about food tampering?

The thing I have come to understand is you better respect your food server and cooks. You better believe that they will do something nasty to your meal if you are a prick. LOL! Beware!

I never tip for carryout. And no you're not the only one worried about that kind of thing. One of the reasons I don't eat out often is due to that kind of thing. The other is that I can make most of the dishes better at home so why go out to eat?

Nah...a food service worker would never do that.:)

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I usually tip a few bucks for carry out. I tip 20-25% when I eat in a restaurant and have decent to good service. When I pick something up, I'll probably round up in the $2.50-4.00 range. If I go get takeout for myself and the missus, and it's $25-35, I'll probably round up like from $25.26 to $28 or from $25.87 to $29.

You can get well packed orders and crappily packed orders. Get home and you're missing something. Get home and they've included plasticware, napkins, grated cheese and crushed peppers, etc... most of which I have no need for, but that's fine. The other day I went to a place to get BBQ. I went inside, but got it to go. The two young people that were working inside where so friendly and pleasant to be around and conscientious about my order, I think I tipped them closer to $5, and would have loved to have sent a note to the manager to tell them how fantastic the two employees were.

I was a bartender for almost 5 years. I had folks that didn't tip, or didn't tip well. I even had a regular or two that didn't tip. I never did anything to anyone's drink. I worked in a fast food place when I was in HS. Once in the couple of years that I worked there did I do anything to anyone's food. Some kid came up at 5 'til closing and demanded something that wasn't made. We offered all sorts of inducements to get something similar, but he was a dick. So he ended up with 15-20 times as much spice on his chicken as usual. I had to open a packet of spice for only 10 nuggets, when there was something like 150-200 nuggets in a full batch, so the kid's nuggets had a whole package of spice. In the grand scheme of things, extra, EXTRA spicy is not that big a deal. I know that there are people in the service industry that will do crappy stuff, but I don't think that's universal. And I would not expect it on togo stuff.

Even tho there's no table service, I tip a few dollars for carryout- some of that goes to kitchen staff. They need to make it worth their time to show up for work.

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Chefs are some of the unhappiest, rude, and just unpleasant people in the food industry. But they probably would not know who's food they're cooking. And usually the wait staff is very nice. I would not expect they'd put the two together and spit in your food. But if they do, you'd better believe they would absolutely serve you up a load of trash.

Having said that, I pretty much only interact with the wait staff when ordering food to go. And it's always a pleasant experience. And I always tip. 20% is my normal tip, even on To Go orders. Sometimes it's more. Our orders can be several hundred dollars, because usually I get food for my crew on duty. I won't get food just for myself.

A young Asian guy delivered my Dominos pizza and I gave him $10. I always like to see these young people working their way through uni.

Haha, it turns out he's a multi millionaire who owns a whole lot of Dominos stores and sometimes does deliveries to stay VERY much in touch with what's going on.

No. Mostly they don't even have time to ponder effing with your food/drink. However, throw a tip in. Let's not be cheap. If you can't afford a tip, you can't afford to eat out.

Similar to throwing a fiver or ten at the chambermaid in the hotel - mrs/Dr mjohnson has made it clear that, as she's done that job in her past, a few bucks to us might be nothing but to them is a big deal to many.

I tip for carry out. My town is small and food service is limited so it is easy to become known.

I always tip for carry out. We call it "to go" here.

This past week one order was $23 and I gave him $30. Then another order just under $5 and I gave her $10.

I don't do that much carry out so when I do I like to take care of those who take care of me.

I've worked for tips before - many different times. Getting a big tip really stays with you as you get older.

Pay it forward....

At a small take-out only pizza and beer chain on the edge of MSU campus, I gave a guy a great tip:

Don’t go to work tomorrow.

The pizza I got was burnt, misshapen and generally a disaster in a box.

I had called in and ordered a pizza on my day off. Which, as noted above, was a shameful mess.

I happened to be the boss of the place at the time and had heard rumors of poor product from a youth who just got transferred to my store. Because there were certain ‘restrictions’ and ‘guidelines’ from HQ about the hiring/firing of certain members of the youth community, I got stuck with this guy and came up with a plan, which I have described above.

When I was a junior in high school, I worked at Italian restaurant washing dishes and cooking food. I never did anything but I’ll never forget one time, it was so hot, I was sweating bullets and a few drops landed on the pizza, as I was cutting it.

I cooked professionally in high school and college, French restaurants, but I have to imagine all are the same, kitchen has no idea whose food is whose. That and no one cares who's a jerk or not or doesn't tip. Jerks and non-tippers are the smallest fish to fry and not worth thinking about let alone the trouble of doing something stupid to their food.

I tip everywhere I can. Always enjoy tipping $10 on a $20 meal but only if the $10 was warranted which many times it is. I have found being nice to your server gets you great service. $10 is nothing to us but a real treat to a young kid. And a real reward, i definitely leave little notes on the printout what they did to earn it.

Times be changing



I heard if you don't tip on your doordash/ect. They won't even pick up your food

I used to eat at a place called One Red Dog. I was in love with Jackie, one of the waitresses, so I used to tip Jackie even if she wasn't the waitress for my table that evening. Ha, must have pissed off my own waitress.

The kind of places I go, the kitchen staff are professional and take a lot of pride in what they are producing. The idea of them spitting on someone's food is so far-fetched as to not even be in realm of possibility, IMO. It would also be a career ending and maybe even a criminal matter if they were caught. I don't see other restaurant or kitchen staff standing by and tolerating that kind of behavior either.

I've always been a decent tipper, (20%), but never for that reason. I've been known to throw an exceptional tip, like 50%, on a check if there were extenuating circumstances.

How can they spit on your food if you're tipping after the meal?

In my youth I waited tables.
Older ladies do not tip well.
Groups of kids tip poorly.
African Americans are the worst. Run you ragged and very rarely tip at all.
White men tip the best.