Does anybody actually 'tip' on phone/take out orders? We've had credit cards around for decades, yet it seems that more and more often, when picking up a to-go or phoned in order for Pizza, a burrito or a #12 with egg roll, when I pay with the card, a printed receipt is handed to me to sign, with an open space for the tip and total. Sure, this is and has been common place when being served in a restaurant, but all of the sudden, when I run in to grab the bag of grub I've ordered in advance, I'm put in the awkward position of having to cross out the tip section and write in the total. Does the staff actually expect that I'll be adding some percentage to my final amount as a gratuity for, uh... for making the food and putting it into a bag?
They must. And it must be working, because this is happening frequently, so there's obviously a trend behind it.