[LeatherTrumpet]

I was in a Brewers Fayre restaurant recently





One where you go up to a counter and order food and give them a table number and they bring out the food when ready

When i went to pay the autocard display thing said "do you want to leave a tip?"




Are these people having a bloody laugh?

I am tipping some goon for carrying my food 15 paces?

Unbelievable cheek. If you are leaving a tip there you must be either gullible, weak or stupid or a combination of all three

[Black Dagger]

You ****ing cheapskate.

[UserSince2005]

Agree, I aint american, I aint tipping.

[Vanessa]

I used to tip before, but not so much now

[bitontheslide]

So the ordering process at those places means it doesn't warrant a tip? As everything else is the same

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

So the ordering process at those places means it doesn't warrant a tip? As everything else is the same

no waitering deserves "tipping" but having to go up and order myself and still asking for a tip?


amazing

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Black Dagger

You ****ing cheapskate.

please send me £2.50 for making this thread

(paypal please)

[bitontheslide]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

no waitering deserves "tipping" but having to go up and order myself and still asking for a tip?


amazing

i don't tip as a matter of policy unless i receive exceptional service. I don't see why anyone should get a tip for doing what they are being paid to do.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i don't tip as a matter of policy unless i receive exceptional service. I don't see why anyone should get a tip for doing what they are being paid to do.

[reece(:]

I don't tip I'm a student so seek student discount lmao.

[Ross.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

please send me £2.50 for making this thread

(paypal please)

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

please send me £2.50 for making this thread

(paypal please)

[Shaun]

Are you a parody account now LT? Seem to be all bluster lately.

[Vanessa]

I agree that if you have to go and order yourself to the counter then you shouldn't have to tip I usually tip only if i like the service. If i'm unhappy about it then no

[MTVN]

Would always tip if eating food. That said, I've had that message come up when buying drinks on card at a bar and I would certainly not tip for that

[Marsh.]

I don't see the problem with tipping people for waiting on you, especially when they're on such a sh*te wage.

But being asked for a tip or tips being automatically added onto bills like in some places of the US I find absolutely stupid and offensive.

[Vicky.]

I tip occasionally if the server has gone above and beyond duty or something (or when I get embarrassed by the amount of mess the kids leave). For just serving me? No way.

People say oh waitressing and such is so hard work they deserve tips. Well...many other jobs in society are a lot harder than waitressing and they get no tips? Cleaner and carer for example.

I don't remember where it was, but when we went to Leeds recently we went to some restaurant where they added 15% tip onto the actual bill? Cheeky ****s. Luckily I was with family so didn't want to make a fuss, and father in law was paying anyway or I would have fought against that on pure principle (nevermind the fact that this server we had to tip dropped a pint on my friends dress)

Tipping is not really a thing in the UK, or shouldn't be given everyone gets a 'fair' wage. In the likes of America where wages are peanuts and the workers wages are made up almost entirely of tips, then fair enough.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Are you a parody account now LT? Seem to be all bluster lately.

Are you just rent a quip?

You used to be a bit more..

[caprimint]

I never tip ever, I pay enough for the meal itself without giving them extra.

[Lostie!]

To each their own if people want to tip for whatever reason but I resent the idea of it being the expected thing to do. You're doing a job and you get paid for it, nobody's under any obligation to give you extra money. What about all the other jobs where people provide a valuable service for the public yet are never expected to be tipped?

And anyway, if anyone deserves the tips it's the kitchen staff.

[Ammi]

..I don't know in places where it's an 'enforced service charge' built in, does that then actually go to the staff directly or absorbed into the restaurant profits..?...I think tipping should be something that only the staff benefit from directly because it reflects the service they're giving and that service is such a part of people coming back again and again...I do tip but I do think that other valuable services are tipped as well, just maybe not in the same way...like Royal Mail workers/refuse people etc....also in our village, we collectively give gifts at Christmas time to the community police, so that's kind of their 'tip' for the service they provide but just done in a different way....

[Josy]

The card tip thing has been around for a while. I mostly always tip. I also tip taxi drivers, workmen, delivery drivers etc.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Josy

The card tip thing has been around for a while. I mostly always tip. I also tip taxi drivers, workmen, delivery drivers etc.

..yeah, I think that many people are tipped but just not always in the same way.../with anyone doing work for us, it's often with bacon sandwiches..(sorry Lostie but I do wear surgical gloves with the bacon though..)...

[Josy]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..yeah, I think that many people are tipped but just not always in the same way.../with anyone doing work for us, it's often with bacon sandwiches..(sorry Lostie but I do wear surgical gloves with the bacon though..)...

Same here Ammi, workmen and stuff will be offered a bite to eat a cuppa etc delivery men at Christmas we normally give them some beers and a fiver or something along those lines.

[Ammi]

..taxis though, Josy...how very avante garde ....