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It is not customary to leave a tip with takeout

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#1
  • Tip問題-傍観しません
  • 2020/12/13 11:21

A topic about Tip in restaurants seems to have caught fire. The flame is caused by the fact that the topic owner does not know that it is not customary in the U.S. to offer Tip when ordering TO GO, but it seems that people in the restaurant industry are taking advantage of this and are spreading false information in order to get Tip. It is normal in the U.S. not to pay Tip for TO GO, but it is also a reality that about 10% of Americans voluntarily pay a dollar or so.

If you look up Tip in TO GO on Google, you will see some Tip-hungry posts that seem to be from people in the restaurant industry. I will offer a common sense explanation that is not so. This information is mainly for tourists coming to the US from other English-speaking countries.

"For cafes or takeaway restaurants that do not offer table service, you are typically not obligated to leave a tip."
( For cafes or takeaway restaurants that do not offer table service, you are not typically obligated to leave a tip. )

"Buying food or drinks over the counter doesn't incur any gratuity but you can throw a dollar in the ever-present tip jar if you feel like it."
(Buying food or drinks over the counter doesn't incur any gratuity but you can throw a dollar in the ever-present tip jar if you care. )

"Tipping is not required for fast food restaurants, take-out orders, and coffee houses."
(Fast food restaurants, take-out orders and coffee houses do not require tipping. )

"A tip is for good service (someone bringing food drink to your table, keeping on top of your requests etc.) but with takeout You're buying a product.Its similar to going to McDonalds or Wendy's."
(A tip is for good service （ someone bringing food drink to your table, keeping on top of your requests well for example ） but in takeout you are buying a product. It is similar to going to McDonald's or Wendy's. \fn1})

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#2
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2020/12/13 (Sun) 19:26
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There is a container for tips
at the counter where you order your takeout
so if you put in a little
they will remember it the next time you go
and you will get better service.

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#8
  • 笑える
  • 2020/12/14 (Mon) 07:51
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It seems that this person makes his living by desperately gathering information from Google and the Internet every day to justify himself in various topics and then debunking his opponents here. LOL, even people's values and feelings are not on Google, but I guess these people are the type of people who are not comfortable unless they have to tie their answers to one answer.

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#9
  • 倍金萬
  • 2020/12/14 (Mon) 09:25
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All the restaurants I go to for take-out are Mom-and-Pop businesses, and in these times of emergency, I give the same amount of Tip as I would if I were eating in the restaurant.

Anyway, Tip is just an expression of your feelings. There is no official way to calculate it.

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#11
  • mama
  • 2020/12/14 (Mon) 10:09
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My husband $ pays $ 5 tip for a 4.50 sandwich.
He gets along well with the waiter, but I want to tsk tsk him for paying too much.

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#12
  • 晴れ男
  • 2020/12/14 (Mon) 11:08
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> Anyway, Tip is just an expression of a person's feelings. There is no official calculation method.


I totally agree.

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#13

#11
Some people leave ， ＄ 10 TIPs because they feel bad paying by card for a single can of Coke. It's not uncommon. There are many people who pay more TIP than the cost of food and drink. It's just ＄ 5 and overpaying is kind of petty.

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#14
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2020/12/14 (Mon) 14:57
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Some people leave ， ＄ 10 TIPs because they feel bad paying by card for a single can of Coke. Not uncommon.

Not uncommon ？ you pay that much too ？

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#15
  • 紅夜叉
  • 2020/12/14 (Mon) 15:17
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I've been taking a big bath. I said, "I can put anything I want here. Uh-hoh.

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#17
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2020/12/14 (Mon) 20:04
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15 You're good at making big talk, aren't you, Showa-era Ototsutto?

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#18
  • このご時世
  • 2020/12/14 (Mon) 21:36
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It's hard to get anywhere in Corona, so I give quite a bit of take-out tip. I used to leave a small take-out tip, but now I leave the same amount as I would if I ate in the restaurant.

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#19
  • なんだけど
  • 2020/12/15 (Tue) 13:10
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That's what I thought at first too, but prices on the to-go menu have gone up everywhere, so I usually just pay $1 ， $2.

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#20
  • ？
  • 2020/12/15 (Tue) 21:55
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Topic ？.

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#21
  • 逃げたんじゃないですか
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 07:23
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↑ You're too embarrassed to come out here ？ You know who I am by my HN.

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#22
  • 倍金萬
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 08:00
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＞ Prices on to-go menus are going up at all the places

I see. Everyone I go to always has a menu posted that they serve in the restaurant, though.

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#23
  • 店による
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 08:10
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↑ There are a lot of restaurants that have raised their prices, either to take advantage of the delivery app or because they can't eat or drink in the restaurant due to lockdowns, which has caused sales to drop. When I pay my bill, I often think, "What ？? I'll pay, but I can understand why you wouldn't want to tip.

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#24
  • 倍金萬
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 09:28
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＞ The menu they serve in the restaurant

This is a properly printed menu.


＞ Many restaurants have raised their prices

Is the menu posted? If it is simply written on the Bill, you should not go to such a restaurant.

There is no need to give tips to such places.

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#25
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 11:12
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Our neighborhood restaurant is also on a parade of price increases.
The menus were also carefully redesigned.

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#26

Mixed fried curry rice at a Japanese restaurant in Little Tokyo was ＄ 20. By the way, Chicken Breast Katsu Curry at another restaurant was probably ＄ 10 or so.
I can't pay TIP for this price TO go. $ 20 is the price including TIP. I can pay ＄ 20 for sushi, but curry ＄ 20 is expensive.

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#27
  • ケラケラケラケラ
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 17:48
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You can't use Little Tokyo, where a bowl of ramen costs $15, as an example
Little Tokyo and Beverly Hills don't do business with poor, stingy Japanese. That's what I mean
You shouldn't go there. Monterey Park and Gardena are the only places you should go.

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#28
  • 在米10年
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 18:11
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I see that a bowl of Japanese ramen now costs over 1000 yen.
When I was a student, it was around 700 yen.

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#29
  • www
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 18:20
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The only way to deal with the stingy Japanese is to raise the price of the restaurant.

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#30
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 19:56
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I haven't had Japanese ramen for a long time.
I usually go to a Vietnamese bakery for
pho （ phở ） and bún bò huế （ and
take out and eat it in the car ）.

The restaurant here doesn't have a container for tips
so I look to see how other Vietnamese do it
no one gives tips so I do the same.

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#31
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 20:42
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＞ Since they are so pissed off and say they don't tip,
the only way to deal with the stingy Japanese is to raise the price of the restaurant.


Tipping is not money that goes into the owner's pocket, so raising the price is irrelevant. In general, a bad restaurant that steals tips from employees and tells cheap customers not to come here will be finished if they raise prices. Please keep raising the price.

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#32
  • この際
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 22:19
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So, I wish all the bad restaurants, the bad vice restaurants, the restaurants with bad waitresses, the restaurants with servers who are overtly disgusted with poor service and low tips, the restaurants that serve bad food, the restaurants that serve leftovers, the restaurants that serve stale food, the restaurants that have bugs and hair in their food, the restaurants that have poor sanitation, all of them would be gone.
Then I wouldn't have to go in by mistake and feel bad.

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#33
  • 可哀想
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 22:21
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It's not easy to find such a strange place, though. LOL The posts are too negative and scary.

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#34
  • いやいや
  • 2020/12/16 (Wed) 22:44
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If you're so concerned about it, do your research before you go. If you're complaining about a thriving business, you should question your own sensibilities. Even if the restaurant doesn't disappear, you just don't go there. You sound like a complainer who complains too much. He's too sorry as a human being to say that the restaurant should go away. LOL!

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#35
  • この際
  • 2020/12/17 (Thu) 13:43
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I don't deserve to be called this guy by you, but I'm sure he serves bad food in the food and beverage industry anyway.
Research is a waste of time, even if the place is thriving, there are servers who are not very nice. The next time I go there, most of them are gone. If you stop going, the place will go out of business. It's a store like yours.

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#36
  • とりあえず
  • 2020/12/17 (Thu) 14:08
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↑ Your bad attitude is not the reason why you are treated roughly. ？ Japanese Dr. or in a restaurant.

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#37
  • この際
  • 2020/12/17 (Thu) 18:00
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You're the one with a bad attitude. There is nothing wrong with having a bad attitude when you don't come to the reception desk to read. There are many people who treat patients in a friendly manner even if they have a bad attitude. You're a strong-willed person with a bad personality to begin with.

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#38
  • とりあえず
  • 2020/12/17 (Thu) 18:41
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＞ There are many people who treat each other pleasantly.

You can learn from them, you know.
You're strong-willed and bad-natured to begin with.

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#39
  • 残念
  • 2020/12/17 (Thu) 20:26
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Mr. This time

is obviously a customer that the store doesn't want to deal with. LOL That's why I don't like it. They don't like you because you're stingy and complain a lot, and you need to realize that soon.

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#40
  • 真実
  • 2020/12/18 (Fri) 10:45
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I feel sorry for you guys who think like that, or are bad feeling servers. I learned a lot, because the bad restaurants don't have many customers, so for the sake of saving local restaurants, I feel sorry for you and tell you, there are still many problems if you don't get customers. I also hear bad rumors.
Even if you leave them alone, they will go out of business sooner or later. It's fine if you don't want to be taken seriously by such a store. A proper restaurant has courtesy.

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#41
  • キッショ
  • 2020/12/18 (Fri) 10:59
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↑ You're a wet, wet mess, you know that? Stores will go out of business even if you don't go there, and stores that don't go out of business won't go out of business.

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#42
  • アフォ
  • 2020/12/18 (Fri) 14:11
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↑ I think you are right. No matter how good a store is, there are people who give it a bad review, and on the contrary, there are stores that only have good rumors ？ w

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#43
  • ここにも病んでる人が
  • 2020/12/18 (Fri) 14:17
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I feel so sorry for you that I went there, but I'm sure they are annoyed by guests like you. He is so distorted that it's scary.

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#44
  • 疑問
  • 2020/12/19 (Sat) 09:07
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I felt sorry for him and told him that he still has many problems with no customers. I hear bad rumors.
Even if you leave them alone, they will go out of business sooner or later. It's fine if you don't want to be taken seriously by such a store. A proper store is polite and respectful.

↑ I wonder what kind of courtesy people who say such rude things have. LOL!

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#45
  • Sho
  • 2020/12/21 (Mon) 10:40
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In my case, I decide how much Tip to pay based on whether the store is popular or not.

I don't know if there is no culture of paying Tip or not, but with some stores going out of business due to the Corona disaster, I try to pay as much Tip as possible because I don't want the stores I frequent to go out of business as much as possible.

You may think I am too good-natured, but I personally believe that Tip is a service charge that is based on feelings.
（ This is just my personal opinion. ）

I bow down to the stores that are still open even in this Corona disaster.
Even if they are doing it to survive, I feel there is a big difference between being closed and not being able to use the restaurant and being able to use it just for take-out.

I pay a 20% Tip on my favorite stores, even ToGo, as a way to support the stores. Of course I am also in a very difficult financial situation, but I want to help the stores I want to help by giving Tip to the extent I can, and I want to help them by using them as much as I can, even though it is within my ability to do so.

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#46
  • 経営者
  • 2020/12/21 (Mon) 14:41
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> I pay a 20% Tip on ToGo to my favorite stores as a way to support the stores. Of course I am also in a very difficult financial situation, but I want to help the stores I want to help by giving Tip to the extent I can, and by using them as much as I can, even though it is within my ability to help.

Tip is for employees to take. If management gets their hands on it, they will be prosecuted. If you want to support the store, please donate directly to the management.

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#47
  • ケチ臭い経営者
  • 2020/12/21 (Mon) 15:13
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↑ It's better for the store in a roundabout way ？

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#48
  • ボケ
  • 2020/12/25 (Fri) 10:38
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A person from the basement level, who only thinks about getting EDD while working on a useless and unfriendly server, would not know a proper restaurant or courtesy.

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#49
  • 可哀想
  • 2020/12/25 (Fri) 11:36
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↑ Poor vision

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#50
  • あらら
  • 2020/12/25 (Fri) 11:44
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↑ desperate laughter because it's a good point.

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#51
  • 可哀想
  • 2020/12/25 (Fri) 11:45
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↑ Growing up poor from the ground up.

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#52
  • レス早っ!!
  • 2020/12/25 (Fri) 12:38
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↑ You seem to know a lot about poverty lol
I hope life gets easier in time.

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#53

I'm thankful that a reasonably busy restaurant has an hour and a half for tips, so I can pay for my meal.

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#54
  • レストラン応援団
  • 2021/01/20 (Wed) 13:40
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If this situation continues for years, the restaurant business will be miserable. Let's contribute to your recommendations ！.

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#56
  • ケチ
  • 2021/01/20 (Wed) 22:23
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Cook it yourself.

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#57
  • 偽ミニマリスト
  • 2021/01/21 (Thu) 08:05
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that.

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#58
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2021/01/21 (Thu) 08:27
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It's hard for people who aren't good cooks.

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#59
  • 昭和のおとっつぁん
  • 2021/01/21 (Thu) 08:32
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In some stores, there are quite a few cars lined up waiting for their orders.
Even for take-out, there is a clear distinction between busy and idle stores.

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