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Online tip rate

Data as of — 711 restaurants, 1,043 tipped orders — 11.9% of 8,791 orders. Recomputed every night.

The national reading

Online tip rate

15.0%

median tip ÷ subtotal

This reading has not moved from 15.0% at the precision Kwick365 publishes (364 days through October 13, 2026). The underlying median varies by less than the last published digit.

Online tip rate, daily through October 13, 2026, over a 365-day window. Days with too little data to publish are left out.

no change vs a week earlierno change vs a year earlier

711 restaurants, 1,043 tipped orders — 11.9% of 8,791 orders

Median tip ÷ subtotal over orders that tipped; incidence = share of orders with a tip.

How many orders tipped at all

The rate above is the median tip of the orders that tipped. This is the other half of it: the share of online orders that carried a tip at all — 11.9% on October 13, 2026.

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Share of online orders that included a tip, daily over the last 365 days. 364 published observations, from October 14, 2025 at 14.5% to October 13, 2026 at 11.9%. Sample: 711 restaurants and 8,791 orders on that day.

This series is not continuous. It is drawn as 2 separate lines with 1 gap between them, and no line is drawn across a gap. The longest gap is 1 day, between November 26, 2025 and November 28, 2025. Days with too little data to publish are left out rather than filled in.

This window is too long to list day by day, so the table groups the 364 observations by calendar month. Every figure in it is a published day, named by its own date.

Share of online orders that included a tip, daily over the last 365 days, by month
MonthDays publishedFirstLast
October 202518Oct 14 — 14.5%Oct 31 — 14.2%
November 202529Nov 1 — 14.3%Nov 30 — 13.3%
December 202531Dec 1 — 12.8%Dec 31 — 17.7%
January 202631Jan 1 — 13.4%Jan 31 — 12.8%
February 202628Feb 1 — 11.7%Feb 28 — 14.4%
March 202631Mar 1 — 13.1%Mar 31 — 13.0%
April 202630Apr 1 — 13.4%Apr 30 — 13.7%
May 202631May 1 — 15.6%May 31 — 13.0%
June 202630Jun 1 — 12.1%Jun 30 — 12.5%
July 202631Jul 1 — 13.1%Jul 31 — 14.6%
August 202631Aug 1 — 14.1%Aug 31 — 11.9%
September 202630Sep 1 — 12.8%Sep 30 — 12.4%
October 202613Oct 1 — 12.4%Oct 13 — 11.9%
Share of orders that tipped, daily through October 13, 2026, from 711 restaurants and 8,791 orders on that day. The scale covers the range of the data, not zero; days with too little data to publish, and days where the incidence was not computed, are left out.

Where it publishes

A reading publishes for a place only on a day that clears 30 restaurants and 500 tipped orders there. A row that reads “not enough data” is a place that did not clear it on this day — never a zero, never an estimate.

By metro

No metro has ever published Online tip rate. It needs 30 restaurants and 500 tipped orders in one place on one day, and no metro has reached that on any day this index covers. On October 13, 2026 the largest metro sample was Atlanta, GA, with 124 tipped orders from 116 restaurants. This reading publishes nationally and for 1 state; nothing is estimated for the places it does not.

By state

No state cleared the threshold for this reading on October 13, 2026 — the most recent state figure for it is from December 25, 2025. The national reading above is computed across every state at once.

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The other readings

Every other Kwick365 reading, nationally, as of its own latest published day.

Every other Kwick365 reading, nationally, as of its own latest published day.
ReadingLatestSampleAs of
Online order ticketmedian $ per order$30.14711 restaurants, 8,791 orders
Items per online orderline items per order2.0711 restaurants, 8,791 orders
Online orders per restaurantorders per active restaurant12.4711 restaurants, 8,791 orders
In-store ticketmedian of each restaurant’s average ticket$31.451,581 restaurants, 116,524 orders
In-store orders per restaurantmedian orders per restaurant59.01,581 restaurants, 116,524 orders
Restaurants trading in storerestaurants1,5811,581 restaurants, 116,524 orders
Restaurants in the indexrestaurants1,978counted from the menu index on the build date
Median Google ratingstars out of 54.31,663 restaurants with 50 or more Google reviews
Rated 4.5 or bettershare of rated restaurants34.0%1,663 restaurants with 50 or more Google reviews

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