I normally don't tip on take-out that I pick up at the restaurant. I'd say a dollar in the tip jar at most, if you're feeling generous. The people who work the counter at a restaurant are paid minimum wage (sometimes more) and there is very little work required in packaging take-out, as opposed to the delivery driver who has to pay for his own gas and brave all kinds of weather to get the food to your home.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
Updated On: 8/22/11 at 01:47 PM