Gary Ponderosa

It’s averaged out across a pay period, and in my twenty plus years in the service industry I’ve never heard of a server making less than minimum wage. They’re generally the highest-paid employees on a per hour basis.

The group of people who benefit the most from tipping are the servers.

Stick to topics you actually know something about.

What part of that do you think applies to this discussion?

Do you think it’s illegal to tip on a Togo order?

This take is insane. You must be a mod at r/antiwork

If all the staff does is pack up takeout orders, they can legally be paid $2.13 an hour.

Do you really think the food just springs into existence without having to be cooked or prepped?

No they won’t. USCG does not bill for search and rescue operations. US taxpayers will foot the bill for this.

I cannot speak for other sovereign entities that were involved, as I’m not familiar with their laws.

Did you submit a handwritten ticket,pay with cash, and order without ever looking at the menu? Did you do so without taking up any time of an employee or occupying any space in their establishment for any amount of time? Did you ask them to just give you all of the raw ingredients in a Togo container without actually cooking anything?

Of course not, so you used everything you just whined about getting a discount for.

Yes they can.

I agree comrade. Fuck anyone who tries to turn a profit.

Edit: and I never brought up grammar. I brought up you trying to use a phrase you clearly don’t understand.

You’re quoting British prices to an American topic, you clearly don’t understand how any part of the wholesaler process works, you don’t know that it’s en masse, not on mass, and you don’t seem to understand that the container isn’t the only cost associated with takeout orders.

A dollar fee seems like a small price to pay to not have to deal with you as a customer.

You’re wrong.

I have never seen that style of container for takeout in my life and I spent two decades in the service industry. That’s not common in America.

Still, for arguments sake that works out to about £.05 per box. Of course, that’s if you go to the wholesaler to pick it up. If you’re running a restaurant, you probably get it delivered with the rest of your dried goods. You pay for that, just like you pay for the cutlery and the napkins and the sauce packets and the bag it all goes in.

A buck really isn’t unreasonable here. I’ve worked at spots where the takeout container was $0.30 each, and that’s without figuring in the delivery/fuel surcharge.

It’s a charge for the container your takeout food went into. They’re a significant expense, especially if it’s any type of sustainable packaging. This is not new. It has been a thing since at least the early 2000s.