{"id":5328,"date":"2009-04-09T11:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T15:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5328"},"modified":"2009-04-09T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T15:07:43","slug":"zero-is-a-percent-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=5328","title":{"rendered":"Zero is a Percent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/03\/27\/AR2009032701572.html\">A follower of<\/a> my online food chat wants to know how much of a thank-you he should leave when he orders carryout from a restaurant. \"I find myself somewhat perplexed about whether I should include a tip when I pay for the meal(s). I realize that the usual 20 percent for table service is not necessary, but what is appropriate for this situation?\"<\/p>\n<p>I responded that I typically tip 10 percent of the bill for takeout, because even when you're not eating in, someone has to handle your request. After the live discussion, another reader pointed out that that \"someone\" is frequently the bartender, who has to \"take your order, pack it up, ring you up, make change, get you extra bread or utensils\" -- all tasks that take away from customers at the bar and in the dining room and that merit a monetary reward. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The other day, The Mrs., a friend and I were talking about this, and we all agreed that the proper amount to tip for takeout is zero percent. <\/p>\n<p>So I guess we're going to hell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A follower of my online food chat wants to know how much of a thank-you he should leave when he orders carryout from a restaurant. \"I find myself somewhat perplexed about whether I should include a tip when I pay for the meal(s). I realize that the usual 20 percent for table service is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}