My thought is no. I can understand being expected to tip when dining at a restaurant and having a waiter or waitress deliver to you your meal, or when it’s delivered to your address. It doesn’t make sense, to me, at least, to tip when picking up your orders.
The kitchen often gets a very small percentage of the tips, one place I worked it was an even split which while absolutely fair did mean wait staff were getting lower tips there than elsewhere, where I am now we get a percentage of the sales tipped out to the back of house and front of house gets the tip tips. Honestly a pretty solid way to run things. No one is gonna hold it against you if you don’t, where dine in we will and we’ll remember it if you come back, takeout is more of a gray area since you’re taking up less time and effort, so I’d go with tip but tip less than you would dining in
Should I tip for pick up orders?
My thought is no. I can understand being expected to tip when dining at a restaurant and having a waiter or waitress deliver to you your meal, or when it’s delivered to your address. It doesn’t make sense, to me, at least, to tip when picking up your orders.
The kitchen often gets a very small percentage of the tips, one place I worked it was an even split which while absolutely fair did mean wait staff were getting lower tips there than elsewhere, where I am now we get a percentage of the sales tipped out to the back of house and front of house gets the tip tips. Honestly a pretty solid way to run things. No one is gonna hold it against you if you don’t, where dine in we will and we’ll remember it if you come back, takeout is more of a gray area since you’re taking up less time and effort, so I’d go with tip but tip less than you would dining in