# Are you tipping at fast food places?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-tipping-at-fast-food-places/972077
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [September 23, 2022, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-tipping-at-fast-food-places/972077 "2022-09-23T12:19:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2022, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-tipping-at-fast-food-places/972077/61 "2022-09-25T21:33:27Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#):
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> You have an arbitrary view on what constitutes “normal” but that is tipping in nutshell.
I agree that it is arbitrary, and yet it does seem that food truck workers are working harder and under worse conditions than plain fast food.
A better reason, more self-interested, is that the food trucks are very convenient to me and I hope they continue showing up to my condo complex. I frequent them and tip well in the hopes that it will entice them to come back. The fast food places I frequent don’t require such enticement.
And as a purely practical matter, In-n-Out doesn’t have any means of tipping at the drive thru. I could probably find some workaround, but they certainly aren’t encouraging tipping.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-tipping-at-fast-food-places/972077/62 "2022-09-26T16:00:14Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#):
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> I fail to see how one is more deserving of a tip than the other. Noise and heat are just as likely inside any busy hot food establishment. You have an arbitrary view on what constitutes “normal” but that is tipping in nutshell.
> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> Tip pooling is increasingly common and often the stated objective is to share with back of the restaurant staff.
Servers in a full service restaurant are normally paid below minimum wage, according to state laws because they are receiving a large portion of their wage in the form of tips.
Cooks, clean-up staff, etc. are required to be paid the minimum wage.
That’s the difference.
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### Author:  [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-tipping-at-fast-food-places/972077/63 "2022-09-26T16:09:03Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#):
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> Tip pooling is increasingly common and often the stated objective is to share with back of the restaurant staff.
I haven’t seen that in reference to “tip pooling” although I’ve seen restaurants that have tried to eliminate tips altogether and raise prices ( sometimes called “service included”) say that they have done that to be able to increase back of the house wages.
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### Author:  [@BlinkingDuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlinkingDuck)
#### Post date: [October 27, 2022, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-tipping-at-fast-food-places/972077/64 "2022-10-27T20:07:50Z")
As Steve Martin said in “My Blue Heaven”…
I tip everybody.
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