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I thought it was just ai American Facebook slop. The obsession with tipping and the endless trail of British and European pointing out that tipping in pibs and bars is uniquely American.
Just been in a place selling some interesting beer. Handed the terminal for card payment with multiple tip options and a 'proceed without tipping' option hidden in small writing at the bottom.
For pouring a pint and taking two steps back and forth to the tap.
Hold the line folks. Do not let this become normal.
Think it’s already normal - in most of those coffee places there tends to be a tips jar near the till. And when you pay, as you just stated, there’s always a tip option on the card machine prior to actually paying.
I don’t actually understand why we tip waiting staff but I always add on ten per cent to the bill and I never take off the service charge. So I guess that I’m part of the problem.
Think it’s already normal - in most of those coffee places there tends to be a tips jar near the till. And when you pay, as you just stated, there’s always a tip option on the card machine prior to actually paying.
I don’t actually understand why we tip waiting staff but I always add on ten per cent to the bill and I never take off the service charge. So I guess that I’m part of the problem.
So you pay the service charge and then add on 10%?
Tipping used to be a nice thing to do, perhaps by rounding up your bill in a restaurant if the service is good, but it is now becoming an expectation. They know people will feel bad to select 'no tip' in front of the waiter. I dislike that and all 'service charges' as that should be included in the price of the meal/drink my in opinion.
If you want American - watch this about a forthcoming Lego kit. You need to watch from 34seconds in until 45 seconds
I'll not say why, I'll just leave it to you lot.
Thanks for this, it's a gem. It's definitely worth watching all of it (I had to check that I didn't have the playback speed set too fast). Ridge tiles are a hinge so that the roof folds down
Thanks for this, it's a gem. It's definitely worth watching all of it (I had to check that I didn't have the playback speed set too fast). Ridge tiles are a hinge so that the roof folds down
Who is going to tell the yanks that lego is plural?
Think it’s already normal - in most of those coffee places there tends to be a tips jar near the till. And when you pay, as you just stated, there’s always a tip option on the card machine prior to actually paying.
I don’t actually understand why we tip waiting staff but I always add on ten per cent to the bill and I never take off the service charge. So I guess that I’m part of the problem.
I don't mind a tips jar. I don't even mind a tip option on the card thing in a restaurant so long as it is straightforward and not presumed.
But not at a bar or pub when just buying drinks. Just no.
It's so weird and, oddly, they seem to feel proud of it - as if it elevates them above the rest of the world.
Mrs Zx and I have holidayed now and then at Sandals, who make a big deal of the facts that tips are included in the price, and that they operate a 'no-tipping' policy on site. In fact, it's one of the reasons we go - I don't want to carry around loose change in my budgie smugglers, and don't want the quality/speed of service to be dictated by the size of tip I offer the staff.
Anyway...
It's well known and well publicised that the no-tipping policy is robustly enforced by management. All tips have to be surrendered and end up going to the company's charitable trust. Failing to declare tips is grounds for immediate summary dismissal.
Regardless, a good chunk of Americans believe (and loudly declare on various discussion forums) that it is their God-given right to tip, and that said right supercedes company policy. They don't care that they've already paid for tips in the cost of their holiday and, at the end of the day, the staff should just be more discrete about it - it's not their fault if they get sacked.
Utter madness.
Not a prophet, or a stone-age man; just a mortal with potential of a superman.
Thanks for this, it's a gem. It's definitely worth watching all of it (I had to check that I didn't have the playback speed set too fast). Ridge tiles are a hinge so that the roof folds down
But at least I've learnt that the ribs on the cupola of St Marks Basilica are not made from wood or brick masonry but from Jurassic Park type dinosaur bones...
Strikes me it's a way for employers to dodge larger ER NI and pension contributions. Pay the staff a pittance because they will be 'topped up' by tips.
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