Sorry, I disagree. I’ve been in hospitality my entire life, and I refuse to tip fora pick up order. Waitstaff, bartenders, delivery, they get good tips. To the point that I get called spendthrift.
However, the better part of a thousand dollar order is another animal all together. If have tipped
Then you know how long a 25 to 50 meal order would take to box and bag. It it were one or two meals, no problem. Make it a tremendous order and you enter new territory. A food runner usually is paid a very low wage and is “tipped out” by getting a percentage of each servers total tips. Usually a hostess does the cashing out, and they are paid a higher wage than a server. Usually minimum or better. To have a server take the time to box and bag a $700+ order certainly does keep them from serving two or three seated tables. The loss may be $10 or more.