I know this has been discussed everywhere, but curious on the local BCS thoughts.
For service in a restaurant I'm normally a 20-25% tipper.

I'm curious on peoples thoughts for tipping when going through a drive-thru, fast food joint, etc. In the days where we are now paying $15-20 for a basic sandwich, we have the option usually defaulted to 20% tip unless you find the small sad face button of 0% or the 5% and so on.

If they have a good attitude or somewhere local I frequent with reasonable prices I'll throw in a buck or two because I appreciate the product. But someone that just hands me a greasy bag through a window asking to fill out "a question or two" after scanning my card makes it sometimes feel like I'm waterboarding a kitten when I hit that 0% button.
What are Y'alls thoughts on this one? Waterboard the kitten or bump it up to an even $25 for a formerly "$5" sandwich?

In before someone bad at math tells us that tipping is just the restaurant owner forcing the customer to pay their staff so they don't have to.

Ok, snarkiness aside the above is correct. I tip roughly 20% for table service. I do tip about 10% for places like Freebird where they're walking me down the line and making the order custom. Drive through and carry out gets 0%.

I'll do 15-20% if getting a takeout lunch. It's not very much extra on top of a Jersey Mike's sub, or whatever.

I'll never tip a fast food type place

If I'm not ordering sitting down and someone is not waiting on me .. I'm not leaving a tip

The practice of tip based off percentages is stupidest thing imaginable . I'm not tipping more because I ordered a more expensive plate or your food is overpriced.

But depending on the servers attitude / friendliness / service ect I'll tip anywhere from what Would equate to about 0-15% of the bill.

In my honest opinion a 20% tip unless you're at a high high end restaurant is laughable.

How about a place like C&Js? They walk you through the serving line and hand you your plate/to-go box at the end of the line. Limited service beyond that if you choose to eat at a table. I usually just add a dollar to the credit card receipt since there's a line there.

Hammerheadjim said:

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Only tip on wait service, haircut, and special delivery. I have a rule of 10% minimum for meh or bad service, 20% for good service. 25% for excellent service. Tipping is a response to being happy with a service, not a requirement for service.

Fast Food, by its nature, deserves no tip. In my opinion, asking me to tip you at a counter for taking my order and handing it to me is ridiculous. A tip is to offset a lower wage and direct wait service, not just for the hell of it.

I don't expect a tip for dodging your bad driving or calming your bad attitude. I am always happy to help.

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I have a rule of 10% minimum for meh or bad service,"

Bad service for me is zero tip. Why tip if the service is bad?

I don't tip if I have to wait in a line, pick out my food, take it to a table, and then go get my plastic dinnerware, drinks and refills.

At a nice sit down restaurant with great service, I normally tip 3x the tax,

DWren said:

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I'll never tip a fast food type place

If I'm not ordering sitting down and someone is not waiting on me .. I'm not leaving a tip

The practice of tip based off percentages is stupidest thing imaginable . I'm not tipping more because I ordered a more expensive plate or your food is overpriced.

But depending on the servers attitude / friendliness / service ect I'll tip anywhere from what Would equate to about 0-15% of the bill.

In my honest opinion a 20% tip unless you're at a high high end restaurant is laughable.

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I get where you're coming from, but typically more $$$ on the bill means more people they had to serve.

What about on an online order? I sometimes wonder if my food is handled as well if I don't tip for say Walk-Ons pickup order.

I also tip based on service. My youngest son likes to tip if the service is good, and he usually has cash from grandmom so I let him do that. I also like for him to hand it to the server and say thank you.

At Sonic, I order online and will either round up or tip a dollar. It's just drinks 99% of the time.

MiMi said:

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MyNameIsJeff said:

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How about a place like C&Js? They walk you through the serving line and hand you your plate/to-go box at the end of the line. Limited service beyond that if you choose to eat at a table. I usually just add a dollar to the credit card receipt since there's a line there.

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Nope. I'm certain that the person handing me my food at the end of the line is not earning an hourly tipped wage ($2.13/hr in Texas), so I don't feel it's necessary to add a tip.

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When it comes to food, this is my stance.

Online/takeout orders are often handled by a server making tip wage so I usually tip.

althormoon said:

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My rule is that I tip 20% if I'm sitting down and someone is waiting on me, bringing me my food, refilling drinks, etc.

I do not tip for placing my order at a cashier and picking my food up myself at a window when they call my order number. I do not tip in the Layne's drive thru (or virtually any drive thru)

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^ this

I tip at sit down restaurants, and at a bar.

Outside of that, not so much.

I've waited tables in this town, and college kids didn't tip when I was a college kid waiting tables.

Here's what gets me. I understand that most places now days add up the tips for the day and then divide equally among all the wait staff. In other words, my tip to waiter X for a great job is not necessarily received by her/him. Is that really true?

Aggieland Proud said:

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Here's what gets me. I understand that most places now days add up the tips for the day and then divide equally among all the wait staff. In other words, my tip to waiter X for a great job is not necessarily received by her/him. Is that really true?

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It depends on how each restaurant operates, I had an assistant manager at a Subway tell me that she doesn't participate in the tip-share and when the restaurant is busy, the non-managers make more than she does, Her facial expressions and tone of voice showed me that she didn't like that and I suspect that she makes pennies more an hour than the other workers and a lot more responsibilities,

People tip at Subway?

maroon barchetta said:

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People tip at Subway?

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Yep, part of the credit card payment system just yesterday. The ones that you have to scroll through menus, select other, then drill down to the 0% will begin missing out on repeat business. I'll haggle for a car, not a sandwich.

Anyone out there who is working at Shipley's, subway, etc? I would say freebirds, but I stopped going there when they went to fake cheese and got rid of their grill . (I really miss freebirds)
Anyway, what are your thoughts & experiences. I want to support our local Aggies, but you'll be running into the same thing in a few years if not already and we all dislike being nickel and dimed to death.

Went to Schlotzsky's yesterday… pops up tip screen after you run your card.. no spot for no tip… cashier said push the Red x at the bottom of the keypad if you don't want to tip… ughhhh….enough!