New Tipping low in resturant

[Crimson Dynamo]

I was in a Brewers Fayre restaurant recently

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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?"

:facepalm:


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:nono:

[Black Dagger]

You ****ing cheapskate.

[UserSince2005]

Agree, I aint american, I aint tipping.

[Vanessa]

I used to tip before, but not so much now :laugh:

[bots]

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

[Crimson Dynamo]

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

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


amazing

[Crimson Dynamo]

You ****ing cheapskate.

please send me £2.50 for making this thread

(paypal please)

[bots]

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.

[Crimson Dynamo]

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.


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[reece(:]

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

[Ross.]

please send me £2.50 for making this thread

(paypal please)

:joker:

[Cherie]

please send me £2.50 for making this thread

(paypal please)

:joker:

[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 :hee:

[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.

[Crimson Dynamo]

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. :nono:

[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. :idc:

[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]

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]

..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 ....

[Ammi]

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.

....:laugh:...oh go on, go on, go on, go on, go on, you can manage a 57th cuppa, can't you....

[Josy]

:joker:

[Ammi]

..I always apologise with these things as well because I don't eat/drink them myself so I have no concept of if I'm doing it right because it's so much about tasting yourself...especially with tea because I definitely know that the colour chart of mine doesn't match the colour chart of any other tea I've seen to compare..

[caprimint]

..I always apologise with these things as well because I don't eat/drink them myself so I have no concept of if I'm doing it right because it's so much about tasting yourself...especially with tea because I definitely know that the colour chart of mine doesn't match the colour chart of any other tea I've seen to compare..
Yeah, I've never been a coffee/tea drinker (I only like flavoured teas and you literally just pour the water in) and plus everyone likes it differently. A workman came to our house some years ago and I was the only person in and I offered him a drink and he said he'd like a coffee but I had to refuse it and tell him I didn't know how to make it. :facepalm:

[Livia]

I tip... but not in self-service restaurants.

[Niamh.]

I tip... but not in self-service restaurants.

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[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

I've never tipped but if I was in America I'd tip to feel American and copy the movies cause as per the movies those tips help with the rent :D

[Ammi]

I've never tipped but if I was in America I'd tip to feel American and copy the movies cause as per the movies those tips help with the rent :D

...little movie missy...:laugh:...did you see It Could Happen To You with Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda, where he couldn't give her a tip so he gave her half of his lottery ticket instead...

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

...little movie missy...:laugh:...did you see It Could Happen To You with Nicholas Cage and Bridget Fonda, where he couldn't give her a tip so he gave her half of his lottery ticket instead...

Oh yes love that movie. What are the chances of someone giving us lottery tickets eh? We should rewatch to spot what we're doing wrong :amazed:

[Lostie!]

..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..)...

:joker::joker::joker:

[MTVN]

Tipping in general is a minefield. Like should you tip the barber? If a haircut is £9 then I would normally give a tenner and say don't worry about the quid but if a haircut is £7 should I then make a point of giving £8 or tell him to keep back a pound of my change? It's all very confusing. Also never sure if I should tip a taxi driver

[Greg!]

Why are you fuming just don't tip if you don't want to. Don't let a message on a card machine get you down

[Amy Jade]

I always tip, I feel so stingy when I don't. My mum is a great tipper - not long ago we were in pizza hut at the buffett and baring in mind all the girl did was seat us, bring us a glass and the bill and my mum gave her £10 I was like wtf and she says it means a lot to them and in fairness it did make the girl smile and she was really thankfull but I thought she was being OTT.

Nobody tips me in work!

[Northern Monkey]

I only tip if the waitress is particularly hot.If she's provided me something pretty to look at while i eat instead of having to sit looking at our lasses mug then it's made my meal more enjoyable.

[Marsh.]

Tipping in general is a minefield. Like should you tip the barber? If a haircut is £9 then I would normally give a tenner and say don't worry about the quid but if a haircut is £7 should I then make a point of giving £8 or tell him to keep back a pound of my change? It's all very confusing. Also never sure if I should tip a taxi driver

I always just say "Keep one for yourself". :laugh:

[Josy]

Tipping in general is a minefield. Like should you tip the barber? If a haircut is £9 then I would normally give a tenner and say don't worry about the quid but if a haircut is £7 should I then make a point of giving £8 or tell him to keep back a pound of my change? It's all very confusing. Also never sure if I should tip a taxi driver

If it's 7 quid you just say take 8 fs Matt

[bots]

i always wait patiently for all my change, these are not low earners struggling to make a buck. They charge a price that earns them a profit. You wouldn't say ... there is that TV for 299.99 ... lets round it up to 350, so why do it for anything else ... just because they ask you where you have been on holiday this year :laugh:

[MTVN]

If it's 7 quid you just say take 8 fs Matt

Is that the done thing though, seems strange. I'm conscious of looking like I think I'm Mr Big Shot generous tipper by making a point of giving an extra pound.

Today I had a haircut for £7.50, paid a tenner and took all the change :idc:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Like Marsh I say take one for yourself, but i cut my own hair now so dont tip

[Saph]

I hate it when they have it on the card machine and you click no, then hand it back and they just look at you :laugh:

[Cherie]

Like Marsh I say take one for yourself, but i cut my own hair now so dont tip

The pudding bowl cut went out a while back :omgno:

[Crimson Dynamo]

The pudding bowl cut went out a while back :omgno:

with my cows lick that is not an option

[bots]

Today I had a haircut for £7.50, paid a tenner and took all the change :idc:

:clap1:

The other side of it is that tipping originated from the upper classes tipping lower classes with a large dollop of condescension thrown in for good measure. Tipping is in fact perpetuating class division.

[Josy]

Is that the done thing though, seems strange. I'm conscious of looking like I think I'm Mr Big Shot generous tipper by making a point of giving an extra pound.

Today I had a haircut for £7.50, paid a tenner and took all the change :idc:

You are a miser.

The cheapest haircut ever and you still don't tip.

My hair costs 56 quid and I give my hairdresser the 60 :fist:

[Crimson Dynamo]

You are a miser.

The cheapest haircut ever and you still don't tip.

My hair costs 56 quid and I give my hairdresser the 60 :fist:

women get so ripped off its criminal

£56?

:joker:

[Livia]

Some lower-paid jobs have always relied on tipping. I always tip my waiter or waitress if the service has been good. I tip the girl who washes my hair (hairdressing apprentices make nothing...) but not my hairdresser as he owns the salon. If he wasn't the owner I would tip him. I always tip my cab driver - black cabs only I don't take minicabs. I'll tip someone delivering to me if they have to do something... install the washing machine they've delivered or something. No one else really... and usually 10-20% depending on what it is.

[MTVN]

You are a miser.

The cheapest haircut ever and you still don't tip.

My hair costs 56 quid and I give my hairdresser the 60 :fist:

That £7.50 is not that good value considering the haircut takes 20 minutes in which time he spends 5 minutes actually cutting hair and 15 minutes banging on about his sex life :idc:

[Crimson Dynamo]

That £7.50 is not that good value considering the haircut takes 20 minutes in which time he spends 5 minutes actually cutting hair and 15 minutes banging on about his sex life :idc:

I hope he washes his hands

:omgno:

[caprimint]

You are a miser.

The cheapest haircut ever and you still don't tip.

My hair costs 56 quid and I give my hairdresser the 60 :fist:
Mine is £55.50 and I don't even let her keep the 50p. :idc:

[Jessica.]

I used to tip the delivery driver when I ordered a takeaway with free delivery or a taxi driver if it was a long journey, other than that not really.

[Crimson Dynamo]

mayb if lower paid jobs did not rely on tipping they would fast become better paid jobs?

:think:

[Marsh.]

i always wait patiently for all my change, these are not low earners struggling to make a buck. They charge a price that earns them a profit. You wouldn't say ... there is that TV for 299.99 ... lets round it up to 350, so why do it for anything else ... just because they ask you where you have been on holiday this year :laugh:

Well, giving someone a small tip isn't the same as adding £50 onto the price of a TV, is it?

And ordinarily, the profits all get taken by the business whereas any tips go directly to the staff themselves.

[Marsh.]

women get so ripped off its criminal

£56?

:joker:

Imagine if Josy was your wife, you'd have her colour her own hair in with crayons. :nono:

[Crimson Dynamo]

Imagine if Josy was your wife, you'd have her colour her own hair in with crayons. :nono:

Are you suggesting that Josy was getting a blue rinse?

:omgno:


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[Toy Soldier]

In the US I think the wages for waiting staff are genuinely so low that tips really are how they survive so it's expected. Not leaving one then, would be making a point that the service was exceptionally poor.

In the UK however, the wages are exactly the same as many other jobs that aren't even in customer service and so "getting tips" is impossible... the pay is the pay. Personally I do tip if the service has been noticeably and genuinely (i.e. not cheesily) ABOVE average, but not otherwise :shrug: