Many full service restaurants including the clubs at TV have the bartenders take to go orders. Others have dedicated take out stations, while some pull servers from table duty.
Normally I tip 10 to 15% except if the bar or restaurant is very busy and the servers are doing "extra duty". Then I tip more. Take out service requires less of a servers time than an in house meal and the gratuity can reflect that.
I went to a Cracker Barrel quite a bit before moving to TV and the servers took to go orders. The cashier pulled me aside one day after I tipped the server and told me how appreciative they were that I tipped them as almost no one did. This was in a tourist/vacation area elsewhere in Florida so we can't just fault TV.
I personally think the way server compensation is done is wrong in that big ticket restaurants generate
much more money than "family" lower ticket restaurants where the servers work harder for less. I wish standard service was included in the meal and tipping was for really extra effort. Google Noodles restaurants for an example of a true no tip business.
Everyone has a well founded opinion of what is the right or wrong time to do regarding gratuities of any sort. What they do doesn't mean they are extra generous or cheap or mean spirited. It is simply the way the are. Low tippers may give much more to charities and vice versa. Some of the posts are starting to get a bit over the top.
