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[Exile20]

I will not voice my opinions on tips for dinning in cause it is such a sour spot but how about curbside pickup?

I do tip but I only do it cause I think I have to and don't want to deal with the ideal I am offending anyone for just bringing me a bag of food.

Well?

 

[Sai-kun]

What? Like someone waits outside with your food when you go pick it up?

I'm confuse.

 

[andycapps]

No. You're paying for the food, they hand it to you.

 

[Sub_Level]

Had a curbside at my restaurant.

No, no need to tip.

What? Like someone waits outside with your food when you go pick it up?

I'm confuse.

They don't wait outside, usually they keep the food warm inside, but yes you have the general gist.

 

[lunchtoast]

I don't know why you'd tip for carryout. You are driving to the location to pick up the food and they hand it to you.

 

[Exile20]

Well they bring it to your car.

 

[Edwardo]

Nah you don't tip for that.

 

[Jito]

No, why tip at all? They get paid already and you're there to pick it up yourself.

 

[BFIB]

I usually just give them a few bucks for bringing my food out to my fatass.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

For those that do tip for curbside pickup, do you also tip for regular carry out orders?

I never do curbside pickup, so I'm not sure what I'd do in that situation. I don't tip when I do a regular carry out, but that tip line on the receipt always haunts me, like I'm some enormous douche for not throwing a buck or two on there.

 

[VicDaMoan03]

I tip for curbside pickup. In alot of ways their job is equal or harder than waiters. They place your order over the phone. They greet you at your car for your name and order. Run inside and package your order. Bring it out and unpack your order to show you its correct and then re-package. Take your credit card inside to run it. and finallly bring it back to you to sign.

I tip 15 - 20%.

 

[EloquentM]

No

 

[maxcriden]

I tip for curbside pickup. In alot of ways their job is equal or harder than waiters. They place your order over the phone. They greet you at your car for your name and order. Run inside and package your order. Bring it out and unpack your order to show you its correct and then re-package. Take your credit card inside to run it. and finallly bring it back to you to sign.

I tip 15 - 20%.

Same. Although I tip more like 10-15% because I don't feel I'm getting the time or level of service I would want from a waiter.

 

[Freedom = $1.05]

usually, if you have to ask yourself if you should tip then you should probably tip.

 

[Az]

I tip for curbside pickup. In alot of ways their job is equal or harder than waiters. They place your order over the phone. They greet you at your car for your name and order. Run inside and package your order. Bring it out and unpack your order to show you its correct and then re-package. Take your credit card inside to run it. and finallly bring it back to you to sign.

I tip 15 - 20%.

You are making it seem much harder than it actually is.

Also, no I don't tip for curbside and I tend to tip well regularly.

 

[BashNasty]

Yes, you should tip a bit for curbside pickup, particularly if it's a large order. The person bringing it to you likely had to package it all up and make sure the order was correctly made, that deserves a tip.

 

[Sobriquet]

I do. You can do whatever you want.

 

[EloquentM]

Yes, you should tip a bit for curbside pickup, particularly if it's a large order. The person bringing it to you likely had to package it all up and make sure the order was correctly made, that deserves a tip.

Why does that deserve a tip? All CS jobs I've done have more require much more than checking food, running a credit card, and packaging up the product. Hell at most CS jobs those three things are par for the course and no one ever gets tipped for those. You can make a case for waitresses and waiters because their pay is typically cut in favor of a tipping system, but curbside, nah.

 

[VicDaMoan03]

You are making it seem much harder than it actually is.

Also, no I don't tip for curbside and I tend to tip well regularly.

How so? Admittedly I don’t use curbside a lot but this is the process the staff uses when I do pickup at Applebees. They are constantly running back and forth from my car to the restaurant.

 

[Sai-kun]

Had a curbside at my restaurant.

No, no need to tip.



They don't wait outside, usually they keep the food warm inside, but yes you have the general gist.

So it's like carry out...but instead of walking the extra 10 feet into the restaurant, they come out to you.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

I was giving a dollar to a homeless man today. But how many percent should I have tipped him??

 

[Sub_Level]

Servers assigned to curbside duty still get paid like three bucks an hour I believe lol

So it's like carry out...but instead of walking the extra 10 feet into the restaurant, they come out to you.

Yeah. They don't mind if you walk in yourself either. At Chili's for example there are designated parking spots.

 

[GavinGT]

Curbside pickup is such a silly concept.

 

[StMeph]

I tip smaller for curbside, about 10%. Also tip similarly for take-out if I'm a regular at the place.

 

[EloquentM]

Servers assigned to curbside duty still get paid like three bucks an hour I believe lol



Yeah. They don't mind if you walk in yourself either. At Chili's for example there are designated parking spots.

If this is truly the case then tipping is a must. Completely hate the system though and the forced necessity of it. Tips should be earned not just given and honestly there are so many other customer service jobs that deserve tipping incentives over food service.

 

[DietRob]

Are we supposed to tip at Sonic when they rollerblade out my Hot Dog?

I feel like rollerblading out a meal would be more grounds for tipping than some dude just standing on a curb.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Gaf, how much should you tip a stripper? She smiled at me and said I was cute. Pls hurry, dont want her to think im slow.

 

[Sean]

No, never. It's the equivalent of tipping the McDonald's drive through - they also take your order, package your food, and handle the transaction.

In many cases with curbside pickup (Chili's for example) you can pay online, so they're not even handling the payment part, they're simply handing you a bag of food. I don't see how that deserves a tip.

 

[SillyEskimo]

Absolutely not

 

[Exile20]

Are we supposed to tip at Sonic when they rollerblade out my Hot Dog?

I feel like rollerblading out a meal would be more grounds for tipping than some dude just standing on a curb.

A sonic opened close to me recently so I decided to go since I never went before. I drove into the slot thingy, ordered and a girl came out and gave me my food. I paid for it but didn't tip, it was so awkward after I paid. I felt like a douche the whole day just because of that.

After that I never went to Sonic again. I hate how not tipping makes me feel less than a person.

I actually over tip at restaurants, I do not want to sit down and think about how much to tip, use a calculator or whatever so I just round up. So I end up over tipping constantly. When I got married my wife makes sure I tip the exact 15% amount and nothing more.

No, never. It's the equivalent of tipping the McDonald's drive through - they also take your order, package your food, and handle the transaction.

In many cases with curbside pickup (Chili's for example) you can pay online, so they're not even handling the payment part, they're simply handing you a bag of food. I don't see how that deserves a tip.

At my chillis you go inside to pay or pick up the food. But at Applebees you need to gave them your car color and model so they can bring it out to you. When you order online you have no choice.

 

[Nillansan]

Fuck no.

 

[Sub_Level]

Are we supposed to tip at Sonic when they rollerblade out my Hot Dog?

I feel like rollerblading out a meal would be more grounds for tipping than some dude just standing on a curb.

The person at Sonic rollerblading your food to you makes $7.25 an hour.

The person at curbside does comparable work to the person at Sonic, taking (what are sometimes huge) orders and packaging them, and makes less than $3 an hour.

That being said, the restaurant has to pick up the slack when the server assigned to curbside reports their tips. But it still sucks for them because their server buddies on the floor are making like $15 an hour.

 

[DietRob]

A sonic opened close to me recently so I decided to go since I never went before. I drove into the slot thingy, ordered and a girl came out and gave me my food. I paid for it but didn't tip, it was so awkward after I paid. I felt like a douche the whole day just because of that.

After that I never went to Sonic again. I hate how not tipping makes me feel less than a person.

I actually over tip at restaurants, I do not want to sit down and think about how much to tip, use a calculator or whatever so I just round up. So I end up over tipping constantly. When I got married my wife makes sure I tip the exact 15% amount and nothing more.

I usually give them a dollar. I'm not sure that I'm supposed to or need to but I feel like I would want to get a dollar or two for having to rollerskate while holding a tray.

It's the opposite with my wife and I. I always have my phone out and calculate exactly 15% or 20% if the service was great. Then every single time after I've already written the amount my wife scoffs then pulls a few dollars out of her purse and adds it to what I've put down.

I don't mind the idea of tipping at all. It just gets confusing sometimes on who to tip and who I shouldn't. I even tried to tip my garbage guy at christmas. I taped a $10 gas card to my garbage can lid on the pickup just before christmas. It stayed on the lid for 2 weeks until I finally removed it and used it myself.

 

[TheContact]

I don't know why you'd tip for carryout. You are driving to the location to pick up the food and they hand it to you.

There's a service involved just like when a waiter puts your food together. I always tip a dollar or two to to-go people

 

[breakfuss]

Hell no.

 

[DietRob]

The person at Sonic rollerblading your food to you makes $7.25 an hour.

That is still a piss poor wage.

The person at curbside does comparable work to the person at Sonic, taking (what are sometimes huge) orders and packaging them, and makes less than $3 an hour.

That being said, the restaurant has to pick up the slack when the server assigned to curbside reports their tips. But it still sucks for them because their server buddies on the floor are making like $15 an hour.

I assume they don't stick the same guy/girl on curbside for the entire night. I could be wrong but I figure just whoever has the availability or wants to take a smoke break is the one that heads out to the curb.

 

[Vandiger]

Might as well start tipping fast food places too.

 

[Freaky Fred]

I thought you were asking if you should tip your garbage man

 

[webkatt]

Nope, One should never tip.

 

[Alaskanbullworm]

The one time I did it I tipped, but it wasn't as much as I tip when I sit down in a restaurant

 

[breakfuss]

Yes, you should tip a bit for curbside pickup, particularly if it's a large order. The person bringing it to you likely had to package it all up and make sure the order was correctly made, that deserves a tip.

lololwat.. why does that deserve a tip?! I learned to avoid these tipping threads on GAF but now this curbside twist has pulled me back in!! Heck, half the time I actually go inside to get the food since a lot of places don't actually have an actual "curbside" or window.

And, no, I've never tipped at Sonic either ...though I mostly order shakes and slushes. Call me Scrooge.

 

[DietRob]

Scrooge.

 

[teruterubozu]

Ultimately it's up to you.

 

[Sub_Level]

On an all new ABC Family episode of Tip Warz, Stephanie wants to be tipped for her curbside work but customer John isn't having any of it.

 

[E92 M3]

I've never tipped. They're just bringing a bag to a car.

 

[DUFFMCWALIN]

Soon I'll be tipping people I walk by on the sidewalk for not punching me.

 

[SneakyStephan]

You drive there
You do the dishes, you don't get served

SURE (lol)

tipping in general is just a sad form of charity that you do out of pity because the people serving don't get paid enough, but who are you tipping here?

 

[djplaeskool]

I don't tip on carry-out orders.
Hope I'm not an enemy of the state.

 

[yodandy]

I don't tip for any sort of pickup.

I mean is there ANY way I can just buy food for the price listed on the menu + tax from a restaurant anymore?

Delivery: 20% tip or a few bucks + delivery fee
Dine In: 20% tip at least
Carryout: I am driving there, you are not waiting on me, you are making the food, and putting it into bags for me. I mean I guess if the total is $9.73 or something I sometimes just drop some change in the tip jar, but I am always baffled by people still expecting a large tip for carryout.

 

[mackattk]

I don't. If I was expected to tip I would go inside to pick it up.