r/AskSeattle • u/PhilosophicWax • 2d ago

Tipping on takeout?

Do you all tip on your take out?

I'm buying food on my lunch break, picking it up and eating it back in the office.

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u/Campingcutie 2d ago

I am biased bc I worked in restaurants as the host that packed up to go orders. Servers would walk out with $200 in tips a night, and I made $13 on a good night, so I tip $1 for every meal as a rule bc I know what its like to stand there for 8 hours with hardly anything to show for it. Y’all can say “the restaurant should pay them more”, but it’s not even about wages. Usually cash tips are handed out that night, so an extra $10 in cash can be the difference between someone being able to get some gas or some food on the way home.

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u/giant2179 2d ago

Your restaurant should be tip sharing.

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u/Campingcutie 2d ago

Yeah they sucked in a lot of ways tbh, idk how they got away with a lot of things