# ‘Cash is king.’ Oh really? Is it? Do you carry cash? Are you plastic always, all the time?

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Bumped.

Is anyone else annoyed that almost always these days, when paying for restaurant food for takeout using a CC, that the CC machines always ask you if you want to add a tip or not?

I’ve been annoyed by that for a while more. Because of this new thread, I was reminded of this old thread.

> [@Do You Tip on Take Out Orders?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-tip-on-take-out-orders/981148):
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> On orders where you call a restaurant or go online and place an order, go into the restaurant (so not the situations where you park and they bring it out to you), and they hand you a bag with your order and you leave, do you leave a tip? I am curious.

And from the several posters in that thread who say they’ll put in the loose change from that order, there are still several people who pay by cash. Those Neanderthals!

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