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Wellness Wednesday for February 5, 2025

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US residents, I want to check if I'm stingy. What's your current baseline tip percent (pre-tax) for:

  1. Take-out, via online order
  2. Take-out, via self-service kiosk
  3. Take-out, via human cashier (no other services besides taking order/payment and calling you when it's ready)
  4. Dine-in, via self-service kiosk
  5. Dine-in, via human cashier (no other services besides taking order/payment and calling you when it's ready)
  6. Dine-in, waiter for your table
  7. Delivery

My current policy is:

  1. 0%
  2. 0%
  3. 0%
  4. 0%
  5. varies 0-15% based on my mood (always 0% if the default tip option is >=20% out of spite)
  6. 20%
  7. 20%
  1. 0
  2. 0
  3. 0
  4. 0
  5. 0
  6. 10-20% depending on the bill - usually with the increase of the bill the percentage goes down. I also don't live in US so.
  7. Flat rate - 2-3-5 euros.

1-5 there are exceptions if the girl is uber hot.

1-2. 0% 3. 1$ 4-5. 0% 6. 20% 7. 5$

I don't think delivery should be a percentage. If I order from some place expensive or some place cheap, it is the drive where they make the effort, not the price of the food. I also come down to the car and they don't have to park and find me, which is in other locations worth another buck or two.

If a waiter or delivery I give something

What do you consider like a donut shop where someone assembles your order?

What does assembly mean here?

Take-out, via human cashier (only service is taking order/payment and putting pre-made pieces of food into a box)

^yep precisely

Ill typically throw in a courtesy $1 on takeout or when there's a human cashier involved.

1-5 0

Special case: Generally $1 per drink, for coffee or alcohol, regardless of drinking it in or out of the location

6 20-25% for places I like, which is most places I go

7 $5-10

(1–5) 0 %

(6) 15–20 %, rounded up to the next integer (maybe a little higher if the waitress is hot; I guess it could go lower for bad service, but I've never gotten bad service, since I almost never go to full-service restaurants)

(7) 15–20 %, rounded up to the next integer (I guess—I never order delivery; I guess it could go lower for bad service)

  1. 0
  2. 0
  3. 0
  4. 0
  5. 0
  6. 15% baseline, good service gets 20% (more if it's really good) and bad service gets 10% ($.02 if it's legendarily bad, which has only ever happened twice).
  7. Same except I've never had to go below 10% for delivery

Basically anything where I'm just purchasing food and there's no service gets no tip. This idea of adding tips at the cash register for a plain transaction is absurd.

I'd say you're quite generous. As a baseline, I'm 0% for 1-5, and 15% for 6 & 7. I'll push it up to 20% sometimes if I'm feeling generous for some reason.

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