Tipping take out

[Aggie_Ama]

I saw someone say they tip the carhops at Sonic and I used to as well. Then in high school I worked for $7 an hour at a hardware store, good pay for the late '90s. Came to find out the people working at Sonic made $6.50 plus tips and sometimes brought home over $15/hour. Now I don't tip, guess it is bitterness that I had the wrong high school job!

[Tuckervill]

I don't tip at Sonic, either. I know they make what other fast food workers at other restaurants make, and I don't tip them, either. I figure if they want folks to tip at Sonic, they'll lower their prices! Sonic is one of the most expensive FF places ever!

I worked at Wendy's as a teenager. We weren't ALLOWED to accept tips. My suppositions is Sonic *allowed* them to accept tips, and that translated over the years to "expecting" tips. I could be wrong.

Karen

[Deanna]

I think a lot of fast food places aren't allowed to accept tips, which explains the high turnover rate. I always tip at any restaurant that is allowed to accept them.

The servers are providing me a service, even if it's just making sure my order is ready quickly, accurately and packaged well enough to make the trip home. I don't tip as much as I would for table service, but generally 10% for takeout (I pick up) and 15% for basic table service, 20% for good service and delivery.

If I plan to frequent a restaurant regularly (it's nearby and the food is good), I tend to think of tipping as an investment and it's usually paid off in excellent, over-the-top service the more I go there. My mom is a notorious bad tipper, and she wonders why she gets all the inexperienced servers who make mistakes. I try to tell her good service is worth paying extra for and she might get more experienced staff or better service if she didn't nitpick the tip down.

I am not now, nor have I ever been a waitress, so this isn't a biased posting.

[KSH]

I don't tip at Sonic, either. I know they make what other fast food workers at other restaurants make, and I don't tip them, either. Karen

I don't tip at Sonic. I'm not giving someone $1 or more for simply walking out and handing me a bag of food.

When I waited tables, I would work on a table for 30 mintues to an hour, and make $2 - $8 as a tip. I had to WORK for that money. Not just walk out once to the table. And I wasn't getting paid minimum wage.