Tesla shares to rebound today and Vodafone a good long term hold, the price is low and the dividend is high. Do you tip in restaurants? I do but I don't add it to the bill or pay the "discretionary" service charge, I give cash to the waiting staff so that the owner can't steal the money. I agree with this new legislation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45701799
I tip and I do ask the waiter/waitress if they get the tip if I'm paying by card. At times the answer has been 'no' for them times...I'll give the waiter/waitress cash. I usually give 10% of the bill
Always tip in restaurants unless Service Charge added to bill. I actually thought that tips were pooled between everyone who worked in the restaurant. Looks like this plan is it just goes to Waiting Staff. Will have to make sure I go round the kitchen as well in future!
As I understand it, the tips will go to the staff, including the kitchen staff, instead of the owner. Currently many restaurants keep the tips and then distribute a portion to the staff at their discretion so the staff, in theory, could end up with **** all.
Even when you give cash it’s fairly standard for them to put it in the tips pot and it’s shared out at the managements discretion.
Inference is that the tips will be kept purely for Waiting Staff although not clear in the article the wording of new legislation.
Jewish so had my tip taken away I agree it’s totally wrong for the restaurant to keep part of the money. However I’d like some of a tip to not just go to the waitress ideally. Those poor ****s in the kitchen deserve something too.
Mine and her meal and drink came to £46.60 on Saturday. I put £50 down and left. Couldn't be arsed working out percentages, tbh.
12.5pc is service is decent, 15pc if good, 20 if really exceptional. Standard of waiters is good these days so rarely tip less than 12.5
I disagree with the concept of tipping. However in the US it is firmly entrenched and wait staff get paid well below minimum wage and rely on tips to survive. I usually tip 20%. 15% is really considered the minimum here. 20% is average tip if your wait staff did a decent job.
I get that there is a tipping culture in the US and I don't mind tipping but I still expect proper service. When we were in NYC earlier this year the taxi driver from the airport never got out of the car to help with bags, said nothing during the journey, overcharged by a couple of dollars (it's a standard fare from JFK to Manhattan) and said "don't forget the tip". I contemplated giving him nothing but thought he'd find it even more insulting if I gave him a derisory tip so he got $1. He didn't look impressed.
