Do you

CarFar · December 2010

Leave a tip when you pick up food to go ?

hannikan · December 2010

Not unless they go above and beyond. I always appreciated tips when I worked in a bakery/sandwich shop.

Mrs.BoomBoom · December 2010

No, but DH does. I know I really should, they do a lot of work to get a to-go order ready, but when I used to work the front, I only got tipped once. Also, here in CA, I have problems with tipping as a general rule because wait staff is making such a high base wage already. I worked restaurants in Illinois where waitstaff only made like $3 an hour base wage and had to rely on their tips for the rest.

Passanie · December 2010

Not normally (I think "the rules" say you don't have to, right?) though I did just leave a small tip in Calistoga when I got a dessert to go at a fancy restaurant.

Passanie · December 2010

Mrs.BoomBoom:
Also, here in CA, I have problems with tipping as a general rule because wait staff is making such a high base wage already. I worked restaurants in Illinois where waitstaff only made like $3 an hour base wage and had to rely on their tips for the rest.

What are the laws in CA regarding that sort of thing? I remember my cousin waiting tables and making $2 something an hour in New York (that was about 15 years ago so I'm sure minimum wage was still in the $4 range). Is that not legal here?

StumpyG · December 2010

I almost always do.

torylynn1 · December 2010

I do if it's something with more care put into it-Like Mr. Pickle's sandwich shop, or Thai food.

Also, Passanie-In CA Servers get full min wage + tips.

hannikan · December 2010

torylynn1:
I do if it's something with more care put into it-Like Mr. Pickle's sandwich shop, or Thai food.

Also, Passanie-In CA Servers get full min wage + tips.

Yeah, but pick up/take out workers usually make above minimum wage so tips are not as necessary. It was pretty rare that I got them when I worked in the bakery/sandwich shop. Usually it was men trying to flirt, honestly or just loose change people didn't want to carry.

maryh01 · December 2010

torylynn1:

I do if it's something with more care put into it-Like Mr. Pickle's sandwich shop, or Thai food.

Also, Passanie-In CA Servers get full min wage + tips.

This is true and they also get taxed on a certain amount of tips even if they don't make that much. Even the employees at Starbucks get taxed on tips...yes...even if they don't earn them!

Mrs.BoomBoom · December 2010

maryh01:
torylynn1:

I do if it's something with more care put into it-Like Mr. Pickle's sandwich shop, or Thai food.

Also, Passanie-In CA Servers get full min wage + tips.

This is true and they also get taxed on a certain amount of tips even if they don't make that much. Even the employees at Starbucks get taxed on tips...yes...even if they don't earn them!

They only get taxed on 8% but I find it hard to believe that the starbucks employee gets taxed on their tips because there really are no receipts for the individual.

debdebdol · December 2010

Nope.

maryh01 · December 2010

Mrs.BoomBoom:
maryh01:
torylynn1:

I do if it's something with more care put into it-Like Mr. Pickle's sandwich shop, or Thai food.

Also, Passanie-In CA Servers get full min wage + tips.

This is true and they also get taxed on a certain amount of tips even if they don't make that much. Even the employees at Starbucks get taxed on tips...yes...even if they don't earn them!

They only get taxed on 8% but I find it hard to believe that the starbucks employee gets taxed on their tips because there really are no receipts for the individual.

I used to work at Starbucks in college...we got taxed on a certain amount per hour. I can't remember what it was now.

MrsAWZ · December 2010

Nope. I've really never thought of that before. I don't even really leave tips in tip jars very much, unless it's something like Starbucks around this time of year.

hannikan · December 2010

maryh01:
Mrs.BoomBoom:
maryh01:
torylynn1:

I do if it's something with more care put into it-Like Mr. Pickle's sandwich shop, or Thai food.

Also, Passanie-In CA Servers get full min wage + tips.

This is true and they also get taxed on a certain amount of tips even if they don't make that much. Even the employees at Starbucks get taxed on tips...yes...even if they don't earn them!

They only get taxed on 8% but I find it hard to believe that the starbucks employee gets taxed on their tips because there really are no receipts for the individual.

I used to work at Starbucks in college...we got taxed on a certain amount per hour. I can't remember what it was now.

Yep, that's pretty standard in food service where you could get tips. In other retail positions, you are not allowed to accept tips (I had ppl offer tips when I worked at the bookstore) because you do not get taxed on them because it is not expected you would get tips in those positions.

andrea3122 · December 2010

Not usually. I usually pay with a credit card but if I pay with cash and they have a tip jar, I'll drop something in.

dani2480 · December 2010

maryh01:
This is true and they also get taxed on a certain amount of tips even if they don't make that much. Even the employees at Starbucks get taxed on tips...yes...even if they don't earn them!

That's technically true... However, you don't HAVE to pay taxes on tips you didn't actually earn.

All you have to do is keep a log of your tip earnings (and/or hang on to the receipts your employer gives you at the end of the night) . It can be as simple as writing down how much you made in tips on a calendar or in a little notebook every day. Then, when you do your taxes, you can adjust the amount to reflect your actual tip earnings, and not the pre-determined rate that shows up on your W-2.

Here's some more info on this, from the IRS:

http://www.irs.gov/publications/p531/ar02.html

Love in Stereo · December 2010

I'm so glad you asked this because I've been mulling it over the past two months. SoSometimes I do and sometimes I don't. Right now, because of the hours I'm working, I eat almost exclusively takeout and I see some of the same tAkeout workers every day. I sort of have ongoing interactions with them I tip. However I generally don't tip if it's just picking something up from a restaurant. Baristas and similar food workers I do tip. I guess I feel like just bagging up food doesn't usually warrant a tip (well maybe a buck or two) unless they are serving me a drink while I wait. I do try and tip in cash, though, so they get it right away and don't have to report it if they don't want to.

angelabbf · December 2010

I don't unless someone has really done an extra special job - or if my order was really complex.

tonic · December 2010

No, I don't tip for take out. I thought tips were more for the actual service you get when you eating in a restaurant (ie. filling up your water glass, etc). But when I get take out, I have to drive there to get it and and carry it out. They put it in a box and rang me up.. not sure why that deserves a tip.

rachie17 · December 2010

I use to work at a restaurant in high school as the 'to-go person' and it sucked. Most of the time when I was not getting orders I had to help out in the kitchen by running orders out to tables, filling water and tea at tables, and other odds and ends. The people with this job, the 'runners', were all tipped out by the servers at the end of the night but I was not. The duties in my actual job description were very easy. The cooks do everything, I just had to put the order in the computer then put it in a bag when it came out. But the tips I made doing to-gos were not even close to what the runners were making in a night and I was doing their job on top of mine so tips were always greatly appreciated.

When we signed out on the computer at the end of the night we had to put in how much we made in tips for the day, generally everybody only claimed the ones on a credit card because the rest could not be tracked and it would be tax free. In CA everybody makes minimum wage + tips, I know in other states their base pay is lower and they have to make up for it in tips but not here.

hannikan · December 2010

rachie17:
In CA everybody makes minimum wage + tips, I know in other states their base pay is lower and they have to make up for it in tips but not here.

In non-self service restaurants, everyone makes minimum wage + tips (hostess, server, busboys) but in a lot of non-restaurant food places where no one is expected to make tips (and therefore wouldn't get a share like hostesses and busboys who are supposed to get a share of servers' tips) the base pay is generally higher than minimum wage, more like working non-commission retail. It may not be much higher than minimum wage but higher nonetheless. This would include cafes, bakeries, etc... Fast food places it varies by company, some pay minimum wage, some pay higher. Pizza delivery guys fall into the tip earners who make minimum wage but the people who work inside all day make a little bit higher wage because they don't get tips.

rachie17 · December 2010

hannikan:
rachie17:
In CA everybody makes minimum wage + tips, I know in other states their base pay is lower and they have to make up for it in tips but not here.
In non-self service restaurants, everyone makes minimum wage + tips (hostess, server, busboys) but in a lot of non-restaurant food places where no one is expected to make tips (and therefore wouldn't get a share like hostesses and busboys who are supposed to get a share of servers' tips) the base pay is generally higher than minimum wage, more like working non-commission retail. It may not be much higher than minimum wage but higher nonetheless. This would include cafes, bakeries, etc... Fast food places it varies by company, some pay minimum wage, some pay higher. Pizza delivery guys fall into the tip earners who make minimum wage but the people who work inside all day make a little bit higher wage because they don't get tips.

Yes that's true in some cases, where I worked everybody was at minimum wage. But what I was meaning was that we make AT LEAST minimum wage unlike in other states where they make $2-5 an hour and then tips as somebody had talked about earlier in the post. I should have been a bit clearer

hannikan · December 2010

Ah yes, at least minimum wage for sure. Big Smile

MadameD517 · December 2010

Almost always, definitely at places that I go to regularly.

MadameD517 · December 2010

And I know the taxation varies from place to place but at H's pub he gets taxed on 70% of his tips. Super sucks!

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