Tipping in Restaurants?
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Do you tip in restaurants?
I know we don't have a big tip culture here, but I do like to tip after a meal if it's been good service.
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I always tip in restaurants, hairdressers and when l have a manicure, I've always done it and would feel a ( tight wad ) if l didn't.. l always feel that they expect it...
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Pinkspirit I think it is time for you to stop tipping let alone this amount. I bet their other clients don't tip let alone this amount. If you are really feeling guilty say you are broke or don't have any loose change to give them.
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Depends on where I am and if it's good or not. It also depends on if its there's a service charge or not
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It depends. I don’t usually but if someone has gone out of their way to provide a really good service and I feel it’s deserved I would.
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SamGoodship £1-2.50 not £5, that’s a bit much. I get tips where I work and any amount is appreciated. It’s a choice not compulsory. A lot of people like to put small change in the pot. If we don’t get any that’s ok too, we are paid minimum wage.
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I like to tip if I feel the service has been good enough. A while back we had excellent service from a young lady who was clearly being overworked due to lack of staff but was still really good and friendly. but when we came to pay she mentioned that the ability to add a tip to the bill and pay by card wasn't working - most people were paying by card so she was loosing out on a lot of tips - felt awful for her.
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didbygraham The cheeky madam making you feel guilty by not tipping her cash only. She said, "she was losing out on a LOT OF TIPS". A lack of staff is her employer's business not yours. At least the management had some senses to use as little staff as possible.
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I don't think the sort of places I mainly go to you would tip. I think if I left a £2 tip on a wetherspoons table the chance of it still being there when one of the staff cleared my table is extremely unlikely and Hungry Horse is much the same. I did leave a tip at Pizza Express though. Is there a tipping culture for pubs? It doesn't feel like there is. There certainly isn't a tipping culture for McDonalds or Burger King (not that I use those). I don't really go to proper restaurants myself very often.
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If they already add a service charge, then no. But if they don’t, then yes, and usually as a token gesture
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It depends. If the service has been exceptional then yes we will tip a few pounds but most of the time we don't. We don't eat out often anyway.
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It really all depends on what type of restaurant I was eating in, some I do and some I don't, it really all depends on the service and food.
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Yes I tip or should I say I make my husband tip. Always a cash tip so I know it doesn’t go in the owners pocket.
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I use too, but meals and drinks are so expensive now, do we don't eat out as much as we use too
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I always tip . After working as a waitress and not getting a good wage . Tips helped especially as the tax man taxes them . Also tip my hairdresser and nail lady too
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Having been in the industry for a long time until recently I do tip and cash if possible. Card tips usually are shared and taxed. Cash tips are supposed to be declared as a second income. Historically hospitality has been a poor paid industry. Supplemented by gratuities. that said it has improved. Full time +21 min wage is now nearer £26k and skilled jobs such as a good level chef command decent wages now. sous chef £35k head chef £45-50k around here. Front of house still lagging behind though
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I always tip 10% of food cost, in restaurants as long as service was good. Won't add it to the bill unless I know it goes to the staff. Don't agree with automatic service charge and woo forbid if the American tipping culture comes over here! In the UK staff are paid to do the job not for the tip to top up poor pay.
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Don’t mind tipping for good service, but hate when it’s added to bill as much as 20%, you’re then embarrassed into leaving this amount, I was in a restaurant the other week the bill was £456 with 20% tip this is outrageous, why do we not tip milkmen every morning? They get up at 1 or 2am in all weathers but we don’t tip them, this tipping culture has come from America and it’s got worse since Covid.
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dwtmf9hn78 I am speechless at you paying the 20% tip. Did you point how much you the bill was for? therefore, you are not tipping that much. Would you have paid the tip even if you got a poor service?
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we’ve now got a culture where you’re shamed into leaving a tip, I hate it but feel embarrassed if I don’t, I’m with friends or family and don’t want the
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dwtmf9hn78 I'm sorry but I don't believe you the customer is being forced to leave a tip. No one can force you to leave a tip. I have never tip and I never will tip a waiting staff for doing their job. And that reminds me to check if the restaurant adds service charges to the bill to order as little as possible or don't order anything and leave. But I last ate out years ago, and it was different then I assumed.
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Usually yes, but when I get asked to find my own seat and order on an app I don’t feel the staff have earned a tip!
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I have a birthday voucher for Ego Mediterranean Restaurant in Sheffield where I will celebrate my birthday a week early this Friday as my daughter is home for a few day..
I get a FREE Starter, Main & Dessert when my partner or daughter orders the same, we did this the other year & it saved us £35+
It's on the edge of the Peak District near Sheffield so we have to get a taxi.
We will leave a tip..
I went to a small Mexican Restaurant for my sister's 60th last Thursday, we didn't tip as far as I know but we settled our share of the bill by sending money to my sister who had organised her birthday meal..
I always tip my hairdresser, she's done my sister & their daughter's hair, she does my sister's granddaughter's too. My hairdresser has done my daughter's hair since she was a tot & used to French Pleat it for FREE, she started charging £7 as my daughter grew up & then £10 during Covid she asked if she could charge £10, I tsaid yes, I'm surprised you haven't charged it already..My daughter is 25, she washes her own hair, our hairdresser cuts , styles & sets it..
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Unless there's a service charge added as I dislike the assumption that I'll tip, I always tip. I don't understand people who don't tbh. An extra £1 or £2 on a rare occasion out is hardly bank breaking.
I went out for a special occasion with friends last week & between us we left a ten pound tip. It's a rarity we tip so much but we felt we'd got more than our moneys worth on the deal, food & staff service to our table were exceptionally good.
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Nope not for me. I don't understand this fascination of tipping for a service etc, we're not America
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