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streamofthesky posted...

MICHALECOLE posted...

streamofthesky posted...

You tip for service when sitting down and being served, or when getting delivery. You don't tip for pick up, all that person does is take your money and hand you the bag with your food in it.

MICHALECOLE posted...

Most places when you tip for pickup youre tipping the Togo person. They dont expect as much as a normal table, but something would be nice.

Do you tip a fast food cashier?
If not, please explain why you tip the To Go person, but not the McDonald's cashier, and how their jobs are so fundamentally different.

One is fast food and one is a restaurant. At the fast food place, the cashier has the opportunity to make more than minimum wage. In a restaurant, your Togo person is trying to work their way up to being a server, and they are making minimum wage (or in a lot of states less than minimum wage)

I've never heard this. Citation? I thought only servers got the $2.13/hr or whatever base pay.
Even if it is true, the sever hourly wage is supposed to be bumped to actual min. wage if the tips don't bring him/her there anyway.

And I don't recall ever seeing a dedicated "To Go Person," seems like it's always a waiter or even someone from the kitchen that just goes to the booth as needed to hand out pick up orders.
I don't eat out much, take out or dine in, so I don't have a ton of experiences to reference, though.

Citation: Ive always worked in restaurants. You start as a busser if youre a boy or a host if youre a girl (or a gay boy), then you go to togo, then server, then bartender.

And youre right, if they dont make enough to get to minimum wage theyre bumped up to minimum wage, but if you give them two dollars for getting all your shit together and making sure its right and being personable, they can make more than minimum wage.

Obviously things are different depending on the place, but at the seven restaurants I have worked at, this is how it goes.

A lot of times if a restaurant is open for lunch, the bartender will be your Togo person. That means theyre taking tables in the lounge, making drinks for the entire place, serving the bar, and getting your Togos ready. They deserve your tip more than your average Togo person because theyre doing much more work, and a lot of time for nothing because people feel they dont need to tip on pickups.

Now I work in the kitchen, and if you are the one in a thousand guy that tips the kitchen anything anytime? Youre a god among men.