Do you tip when picking up takeout?

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Originally Posted by burgundy

*WARNING JAPAN REFERENCE*

In Japan, the idea of buying used women's panties from a vending machine does exist. I for one like this attitude because it frees used panties connaisseurs from rifling through the clothes hampers of their mothers and sisters.

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Vending machines are so 1980s. These days everybody has a panty-using machine at home, just insert underwear and it secretes vaginal fluids. You can even get different scents - strawberry, vanilla, skank, etc.

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Originally Posted by Gohron

It doesn't work like that at all. You can eliminate the tipping system and start paying servers $8/hr+ but then you can kiss good service good-bye when nearly every restaurant/chain in the country cuts its budget.

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I don't want to eliminate tipping altogether, I want to eliminate mandatory tipping and employers paying less than minimum wage. If I get truly great service I leave a huge tip; if I get average or poor service I feel no obligation to leave any tip at all. I do anyway because it's the expectation and I don't want to be considered a cheap fuck or get my food spit in next time I eat there.

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Originally Posted by StriderKyo

Vending machines are so 1980s. These days everybody has a panty-using machine at home, just insert underwear and it secretes vaginal fluids. You can even get different scents - strawberry, vanilla, skank, etc.

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I went with skank.

do they have bubblegum? thats my favorite.

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Originally Posted by Rated RKO

do they have bubblegum? thats my favorite.

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Yes, but only wasabi-shrimp flavour gum.

During law school, I went the take-out route a lot, so I developed a little rule for myself. I never tipped on the first two visits. If I saw that they got my orders correct and the food was always well-packaged, I tipped on every successive visit. If the order was off or if the food was all over the place when I opened the box, I didn't tip at all.

It's always irking when you're starving and looking forward to a nice meal, but open up the take-out box to find that your order was fucked up, or the food is just thrown in there and slammed to one side. Some places are great about correct orders, so you just check your food real quick and get on out of there. Those places I end up tipping. Other places just don't give a damn, and you have to wait around for them to fix your order. Those places get nothing.

I've had a few buddies who were delivery drivers and thus got to hear all about how cheap people are. Based on that, I tip drivers very well. I refuse to order from places that charge you for delivery though. I used to assume that the extra buck or so went to the driver in order to make up for cheap fucks. Apparently that is not the case.

It is not the case at all. Tipping your delivery driver is necessary. Its cheaper to give him a few bucks than it is to replace your mailbox, or get new windshield wipers for your car.

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Originally Posted by bbobb

Tipping is rude, in any way shape or form. Restaurants, taxis, barbers, everywhere, it's seen as an insult to tip here. They see it as you giving them money for just doing their job, or more for doing it well. The common thought here is you're paid to do your job, and you do it to the best of your ability, not to earn a tip.

If you tried to tip someone here they would not accept it.

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That kind of sounds awesome.

I'd love to not have to think about tip when paying a bill.

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Originally Posted by Josh

It is not the case at all.

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I know it's not. What makes it worse for the drivers is that I know people who won't tip at all if there is a delivery charge. Yes, they are cheap bastards, but they unknowingly believe that the driver is already taken care of.