Tipping

Rocker · January 2015

As in restaurants or cafes. We usually leave around 10% of the cost. What is the usual tip in the UK?

DesVegas · January 2015

10% is good (if they deserve a tip that is, it's not automatic)

d8m · January 2015

Don't eat yellow snow.

CabbageCat · January 2015

Round up to the nearest tenner but not less than 10%. I would have to be very badly treated to leave a bad tip (or no tip). I go for regular meals with my mate and his kid and the bill always seems to end up about £56. £60 seems slightly stingy and £65 seems overly generous. That's when you need some assorted shrapnel to bulk it out a bit.

Taxi drivers get less because they're taxi drivers and deserve only misery.

Pizza boy gets f*ck all because I pay in advance online nowadays. Suckers.

richardhomer · January 2015

d8m;480809" said:
Don't eat yellow snow.

Never put a bonfire out with your face....

guitarfishbay · January 2015

CabbageCat said:

Taxi drivers get less because they're taxi drivers and deserve only misery.
Pizza boy gets f*ck all because I pay in advance online nowadays. Suckers.

This will make me unpopular but this is why I disagree with tipping culture in the UK. We tip in as far as I can see one industry, this seems unfair to me. Being a restaurant server is not the only lower paid (on average) service industry job, so why do those guys get performance pay but nobody else? Convention, pure and simple. And again, by convention, if you pay first you don't tip.

I'm not ignorant to the pricing/wage arguments, but I think they're largely pointless because the default position is 10% and everyone just accepts it and you get stick for arguing against it, even if you have reason to not tip (beyond just an ideological position).

I do tip, sometimes, but it is not my default position, and I don't see why it should be.

PolarityMan · January 2015

Well alot of salaried jobs do have performance pay although it is certainly rare for me to get as much as 10% (it has only approaches that the year before a promotion).

Doesn't get paid by the customer directly mind you.

Fretwired · January 2015

If giving a tip is discretionary [no service charge] then I only tip if the service was good and only ever in cash to the person who served me - the better the service the higher the tip. It pays dividends when I walk into a place on a busy Friday night ...

And take your glasses - my wife managed to give a £45 tip on a £75 meal once [left her glasses at home] .. we were popular the next time we went back.

guitarfishbay · January 2015

PolarityMan said:

Well alot of salaried jobs do have performance pay although it is certainly rare for me to get as much as 10% (it has only approaches that the year before a promotion).

Doesn't get paid by the customer directly mind you.

I'm not anti performance pay, before anyone thinks that.

I just think it is an unequal convention when it comes to service industry jobs. As already highlighted, if you pay first you don't tip by convention, also most don't tip outside of food industry front of house as far as I can tell.

Also, most people I've known just do it on autopilot regardless.

jonnyburgo · January 2015

My mate is a chef in a restaurant, sweating his bollocks of 14 hour days and all tips go to front of house, not fair.

Iamnobody · January 2015

I don't tip. I pay on card most places anyway...

randomhandclaps · January 2015

CabbageCat said:

Pizza boy gets f*ck all because I pay in advance online nowadays. Suckers.

The practice of tipping delivery folk confuses me. I don't tip a waiter or waitress for basic service, I tip them for continued good service beyond what might be the minimum expectation of their job role. When a delivery guy he brings the pizza (or like) to the door, knocks, then hands me the food. That is the bare minimum of their job role. In fact if he missed out any of those steps he wouldn't have actually delivered it. Not one has ever offered to come in and dish up or get the kids to wash their hands.

lloyd · January 2015

Don't tip bad service, don't be a purse emptier (a load of 2p's and 1p's etc-that's rude).

I worked in the service industry for a while-for the tips really, made good money but I was in high end places. It's an overlooked career and looked down upon in this country which is a shame. You're tipped because you're on a low wage, working when everyone else is not and its customer facing(being nice to people while they're generally behaving like idiots) on the back of a 16 hour day.

Tip bar staff and get to know them a bit and you'll get served first, be generally treated better, have a nicer experience and get the odd freebie, wouldn't have to be much either....

randomhandclaps · January 2015

lloyd said:

Tip bar staff and get to know them a bit and you'll get served first,

I've noticed tits and a low cut top work at least equally as well also.

Hootsmon · January 2015

when I worked at the hospital I used tae tip the canteen staff and a request of smaller portions for future visits

chillidoggy · January 2015

randomhandclaps said:

lloyd said:

Tip bar staff and get to know them a bit and you'll get served first,

I've noticed tits and a low cut top work at least equally as well also.

I see the weekend is upon us.

Strat_a_tat_tat · January 2015

lloyd said:

You're tipped because you're on a low wage, working when everyone else is not and it's customer facing(being nice to people while they're generally behaving like idiots).

Sounds like playing guitar for a covers band at a pub gig...

Low wage... yes... especially compared with cost of kit, cost of strings, rehearsal rooms, repairs to cables etc

Working when everyone else is not... yes

Customer facing... being nice to people while they're generally behaving like idiots... oh yes, yes, yes...

...spilling beer on your pedalboard... repeatedly requesting a: the song you already played 10 mins ago b: something 'really rocking' by Max Bygraves... falling against your amp and knocking it off its stand (cue sound of expensive glass tubey things breaking).

... and still we don't get tips... the odd punter may buy you a pint (a rare thing in these economic downturn days... and if they do, I always buy them one back)... some pubs may let you have the odd drink... and on a very, very rare occasion, the odd pub may give you a few extra pounds (always gobsmacking and a bit touching).

lloyd · January 2015

randomhandclaps;481005" said:
lloyd said:

Tip bar staff and get to know them a bit and you'll get served first,

I've noticed tits and a low cut top work at least equally as well also.

I never did that-firstly because they think they're gonna get served so it puts them down a peg or two, secondly I liked to keep them there to look at a bit longer!

Strat_a_tat_tat · January 2015

lloyd said:

randomhandclaps;481005" said:
lloyd said:

Tip bar staff and get to know them a bit and you'll get served first,

I've noticed tits and a low cut top work at least equally as well also.
I never did that-firstly because they think they're gonna get served so it puts them down a peg or two, secondly I liked to keep them there to look at a bit longer!

You show great wisdom. Taking lateral thinking to a whole new level

chillidoggy · January 2015

It's worse in the US, particularly in the restaurants, they expect to be tipped a minimum of 15-20%. No-ome has ever given me a tip for doing whatever job I've been paid to do, but I think the restaurateurs should pay staff appropriately, stick their prices up a little, and then we don't have to face the embarrassment at bill time.

ROOG · January 2015

randomhandclaps said:

I've noticed tits and a low cut top work at least equally as well also.

I must try this next time.

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