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Do you tip for take out that you pick-up yourself?
Wookie hit it on the head. If you're getting takeout from a fairly nice restaurant where a server or bartender is putting together your order--and thus spending valuable time away from their sit-down customers--you will be loathed if you don't tip.
10% is sufficient (though no one would complain if it were more). If your miserly claws can't part with that, fine, but just know that you are being referred to in the most unsavory of terms as you leave that restaurant. And if you leave a zero tip before your order is put together and that bartender/server sees it...well, let's just say you're a more adventurous eater than me.
What are some good hot wintertime alcoholic drinks?
Hot cider with spiced rum, caramel syrup, and a cinnamon stick.
Coffee with Bailey's, Frangelico, and Kahlua. A splash of Grand Marnier if you please.
On the Road Again: Zingerman's
Some friends and I ate there a couple months ago and had a fantastic meal. Raw oysters, a cheese tray, macaroni and cheese, corn dogs, hanger steak, brisket, watermelon lemonade (which was one of the best non-alcoholic beverages I've had to date)--we feasted!
Service was impeccable, too.
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What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Back in the mid 90's, a friend and I wrote to Keebler, asking them why they discontinued their delicious Pizzaria chips. We begged for a Pizzaria reinstatement on the snack aisle, but to no avail.
Do you tip for take out that you pick-up yourself?
Wookie hit it on the head. If you're getting takeout from a fairly nice restaurant where a server or bartender is putting together your order--and thus spending valuable time away from their sit-down customers--you will be loathed if you don't tip.
10% is sufficient (though no one would complain if it were more). If your miserly claws can't part with that, fine, but just know that you are being referred to in the most unsavory of terms as you leave that restaurant. And if you leave a zero tip before your order is put together and that bartender/server sees it...well, let's just say you're a more adventurous eater than me.
What are some good hot wintertime alcoholic drinks?
Hot cider with spiced rum, caramel syrup, and a cinnamon stick.
Coffee with Bailey's, Frangelico, and Kahlua. A splash of Grand Marnier if you please.
On the Road Again: Zingerman's
Some friends and I ate there a couple months ago and had a fantastic meal. Raw oysters, a cheese tray, macaroni and cheese, corn dogs, hanger steak, brisket, watermelon lemonade (which was one of the best non-alcoholic beverages I've had to date)--we feasted!
Service was impeccable, too.
Question of the Day: What weird things did you like as a child?
Peanut butter and mustard on pumpernickel bread. I notice that this peanut butter + atypical condiment thing is a common theme.
Are Carry Out Tips Optional?
I am a bartender at a fairly nice restaurant. In many restaurants, we bartenders are the ones on whom takeout responsibility falls. On takeout orders, a 10% tip is nice, but after being stiffed so many times on them, I'm happy with just about anything.
See, you know those neat bags filled with your food and dressings and everything? Those don't just magically appear behind the bar. We put them together, and doing so is a royal and time-consuming pain in the ass. If you order $180 worth of steaks, appetizers, and salads, with 10 different condiment requests, then leave the tip line on your credit card receipt blank, I will seriously pray that you break your leg on the way out.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Oh, man, I thought I had blocked out my Gatorade Gum cravings!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I miss bbq munchos, planters cheeseballs (there is another brand available now in a large container that are good but...) and morton raspberry filled powdered donuts. Oh, those were the days.
Are Carry Out Tips Optional?
I look at it like fast food... You don't tip people at McDonalds or Burger King. If you are generally not waiting on me, and I'm picking up my own food. You don't get a tip... If you hook me up with extra rolls, larger portion of Gumbo, etc, and TELL ME you hooked me up... You'll get a tip... Why is the food service the only industry we deem tip worthy anyway... Dont get me wrong... When I go out to eat. I tip 20% plus if I get good service from a single person... But if I have one person take my order, one bring it, another refilling drinks, and nobody seems to be on the same page... be lucky if you get 15%
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
does anyone else remember "Milkshake" candy bars. Tasted like a chocolate malt.Also a Japanese hard candy in a round red tin. We used to call it umeboshi candy.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I think it was Keebler used to make these fudge sandwich cookies in a box. They were like a coco flavor with a fudge creme center. the were just called fudge sandwich cookies. Haven't been able to find them since the early nineties. The were great.Also miss the cheez balls in a can.
Do you tip for take out that you pick-up yourself?
Absolutely not. And at a buffet, $2 per person. Unless the plates pile up and the drinks go un-filled, in which case I leave one penny, just to make a point.
Do you tip for take out that you pick-up yourself?
I'll only tip for take out if I've asked for something special. Standard, no. I tip pretty well for delivery. I sometimes question whether it's enough, but I've noticed that my food usually comes pretty fast, as opposed to some of my co-workers, so I'm assuming the delivery guys like me.
I never quite know what to do with buffet service. Table service tipping seems too much since the buffet guys are just whisking away plates, not taking or delivering orders, and even at that, at least at the places I go with buffet (Indian mainly) the waiters often seem, I don't know, brusk. Anyhow, I tip 15% for buffet, which isn't quite as much as the 20% I do for regular table service, which I still think is too much, but what are ya gonna do?
Do you tip for take out that you pick-up yourself?
i have never heard of tipping for take-out. i have seen people put money in a tip jar, but that's about it. so no you don't have to feel bad.
Do you tip for take out that you pick-up yourself?
I tip a few dollars for carryout but I believe it should be optional and not expected as some restaurant employees seem to. Every situation is different. Having worked in many of these positions I have a hard time justifying 10% on carryout while $2-3 for a delivered pizza is the norm. Somebody takes 30 min of drive time on their car, braves the elements and neighborhood and delivers to my door deserves more than somebody who hands me my bag of carryout. For carryout In many restaurants it is the bartender or hostess. Yes they do work and ensure your order is correct. Fact is, half the time my order isn't correct and often if the bartender is busy then a manager or other employee puts your order together and the bartender somehow is still the one who recieves my tip. Also, the argument that servers are paid sub minimum wage doesn't really apply here as bartenders, hostesses and everyone else is paid a higher rate and they are usually the ones putting your order together. Also, these underpaid bartenders are also tipped $1-$2 for each beer and glass of wine I order. If I get my drink from the server at the table than many places obligate the server to tip the bartender a percentage of sales. If you are working in a restaurant and complaining about not making sufficient carryout tips it really shouldn't make or break you unless you can't make any tips of walk in customers as well.
Again, I believe a few bucks is often appropriate amd even more under certain circumstances but advocating 10% is simply an employee feeling entitled.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I loved lemon coolers too, and also pecan sandies. I also miss rice honeys cereal - they also had a really cool cowboy bee mascot on the package and in the commercials.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
OK, Marathon Bars were the bomb, especially frozen. Does anyone remember a chocolate bar called Chocolite. It was alll chocolate, but had a lot of air bubbles on the inside. How about actual Gatorade Gum? I do remember the bacon chips, they were small bacon shaped crisps. Does anybody remember Doritos Sour Cream and Onion?
Are Carry Out Tips Optional?
No tipping on take-outs/carry-outs.
Just like in fast food restaurants the food is wrapped, bagged, boxed. No tipping here.
If they bring it to my car, yes I tip for the legwork.
If it's a huge order like for 10+ people, then yes I tip too.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
What about Celeste's Pizza with the big pepperoni's not the little one's. Haha
Are Carry Out Tips Optional?
I rarely tip on carryout, just because I don't see the reason for it. However, my lunch place, a tiny Mexican place, gets $1 or more every day on my $3 order. My lunch is already so cheap, I can afford the extra dollar, and I've noticed the tip jar is rarely full. Plus, I've noticed that since I started regularly tipping $1 or more, they often don't charge my to go drink or my dessert.
Are Carry Out Tips Optional?
I tip on take-out. Usually about 10% but it varies depending on how helpful the person I deal with was. At some places they collect condiments, plastic utensils, plates and the like for me. Or extra napkins, cup of ice and so on.
At my local Chinese delivery/carry out we've been regular customers since their second week in business starting about 6 years ago and knew the owner when she waited tables at another restaurant in town. We always tip when we pick up the food and tip very well when they deliver because they always make sure we have what we need (and know what we need based on where we're having the food delivered without having to ask anymore).
I figure that perhaps its not strictly required to tip on carry out...but these are people who are working jobs for which they legally get paid (at least in Virginia) something on the order of $2.35 an hour plus tips. The society/community I'm a part of has decided that its OK to allow them to be paid at that rate. If I add a few extra dollars here and there its not going to hurt me any overall and might help them a bit overall. I would probably feel it less necessary to tip if they were making a decent hourly wage and were not dependent upon tips for their income. (I have no patience for "they should just get a different job" arguments....perhaps its true that they should but life is rarely so simple.)
If you don't tip on carry out, I don't think you should feel badly about that necessarily, but I do think its worth thinking about.
Are Carry Out Tips Optional?
How about when the to go person asks you if you would like to leave a tip? And all you ordered was one item that is less than $6? I was offended. How rude!! I worked in restaurants in college; waiting tables and getting to go orders. It is nice getting cash for putting together an order but I never asked!!!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
MALLOMARS ARE STILL AVAILABLE! Man, it doesn't take much to make me happy.
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Banquet frozen cream pies. They used to cost about 25 cents and were really good to eat half frozen. Anybody remember those?
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
God I loved Fizzies as a kid! Cola and Root Beer Mmmmm. Also a powdered drink mix called 'Funny Face' Goofy Grape and Freckle Face Strawberry was my fav's. I used to and still love Necco wafers (not a candy kids gravitated too). Space Dust / Pop Rocks were good esp. if you chanced the urban myth on a dare and swallowed a whole pack to see if your stomach would explode. LOL! My all time fav though in the toxic waste I ingested as a kid has to be a cereal from the late 60s called 'Kaboom' kind of like Honey Comb's but dyed with fluorescent colors and caked in sugar. When you added milk all the dye leached out into this colorfull swirl. No wonder I was able to walk on the ceiling during the first few hours of class. LOL! Great site btw!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
You can go to fizzies.com and order any flavor you like! My favorite is cherry or grape. By the case for $12 or 15 - I can't remember. But what I miss the most are those giant Charms lollipops - I was proposed to with a handful of Charms Cherry because I was always seen with one stuck in my mouth! I was in the Army and they were at the ice cream store on base and one day an officer said I should at least take the sucker out of my mouth with I salute!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
I LOVED ninja turtle pudding pies!!! and gadorade gum, jello pudding pops, Mcdonalds FRIED apple pies, Bonkers candy, Ecto cooler, grasshopper cookies, ... i wish i could remember more!!!
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Rice Kringles cereal
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Shake-a pudding
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Let's see here, KFC's barbeque chicken, Hollywood candy bars, Mounds candy bars,and Cherry Cooler cookies.
Lex in CA
What childhood food do you wish they still made?
Beemans chewing gum - this is still made, you can buy it at Economy Candy on the Lower East Side of NYC
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Back in the mid 90's, a friend and I wrote to Keebler, asking them why they discontinued their delicious Pizzaria chips. We begged for a Pizzaria reinstatement on the snack aisle, but to no avail.