Do you just eat it or send it back?

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Originally Posted by AGDee

Maybe it's the places I go to for take-out, but I've never seen a server involved at all. I'm presuming the cook puts the food in the take-out container and the cashier usually goes and gets it when I go to the cash register to pick it up so I'm missing where the server is involved. There is no bar service and no busser involved. Then again, the only take-out I usually get is Chinese or pizza. The place I go to for Chinese has the same old guy (pretty sure it's the owner) at the cash register and they don't have in-restaurant dining at all, so there are no servers. When I used UNOs curbside to go, I did tip, cuz they were bringing it out to my car and I assumed it was a server doing that. If I have pizza delivered, I definitely tip.

Another question.. since you have to "tip out" the bar, what if the patron doesn't get a drink? Does the bar still get a cut of your sales? Or do they just get a cut of the bar sales? Just curious.

To go places like that, no I don't think it's necessary to tip. But let's say Zorba's for instance... even if I pick up my order at the window I still tip. If you were picking up carry out for my restaurant (I think you know which one) or Red Robin or wherever, it is still a server- or at least manager- who is putting the order together. (ie: preparing salads, pouring soup, preparing desserts, bagging up food)

And yes even if the table doesn't get drinks from the bar, most restaurants still go by total sales, not just drink sales. The pros and cons of working in a non-corporate restaurant are that you don't have to tip a certain percentage. So if you don't use the bartender alot or you didn't have a lot of tables for the busser, you control how much you give.

Originally Posted by OOhsoflyDELTA#9

Ummm no. We all have occupational hazards. I guess thats one. A "tip" is for service. Me picking up a to go box is not my idea of service. Oh well....

Occupational hazards? Like I said before, that to go box didn't just magically put itself together and carry itself out to you.

And whoever asked if you tip the Wendy's guy... is he making $2something an hour?