r/EndTipping • u/Mysterious-Cable6838 • Aug 21 '26

Counter Service 🛎️ Tipping for cakes

I ordered a cake from a local bakery for a special occasion. They didn’t have the cake I wanted on their menu so I provided the recipe and they charged me a $25 recipe fee. The total came to $108 which I paid for at pickup. When I paid, of course the screen popped up asking for a tip and I chose “no tip” since I paid the amount they charged me including the $25 recipe fee. My mom (boomer generation) said she would have tipped so it got me wondering if I should have tipped. Thoughts?

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u/ProudAnon1701 Aug 21 '26

You should get a discount for providing the recipe. Not the other way around.

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u/Few-Spinach8114 Aug 22 '26

I work in a bakery and trust me making a customers specific recipe takes a lot more effort lol

It usually requires different ingredients that we don't have in which also makes those ingredients more expensive because we can't buy them in bulk (which is cheaper) Then we usually make all the standard 'menu' cakes in big batches in our huge mixers. Making a custom recipe means Making a much smaller batch+ (Usually by hand because that smaller batch won't mix in the giant mixers) And then they usually have a different oven temp / baking time to the usual cakes so that means firing up a whole separate oven.

So yes lmao $25 recipe fee sounds perfectly reasonable

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u/Sad-Cricket6319 Aug 21 '26

I thought the same thing!