Tips

[McBain]

I tip.

Ill always tip the Pizza guy, and at my fave restaurant.

I wont tip all the time, but I will if I can.

Seriously, a couple of extra bucks to wait staff will make their night a bit better. It shouldnt be a rule, just a gesture of modern courtesy for good service.

 

[tezzathelezza]

I tip.

Ill always tip the Pizza guy, and at my fave restaurant.

I wont tip all the time, but I will if I can.

Seriously, a couple of extra bucks to wait staff will make their night a bit better. It shouldnt be a rule, just a gesture of modern courtesy for good service.

Check you out!

 

[GhostOfDixie]

worked in a restaurant - the owner payed (paid?) the staff out of the tips collected where he could.

its a legal thing, if you put a tip in the designated tip plate on the table, the owner has the right to take it. if you give a tip to the waiter/waitress directly, the restaurant owner has no LEGAL recourse to claim that cash.

of course, bully restaurant owners hold the power of P45 over employees, and therein lies why the law is an ass, and employees regularly snaffle what they can, as well as make the customers suffer.

How about the credit card tip, that goes to the waiters wage. And the company taking a handling charge. Is that legal?

Oh and some restaurants only pay minimum wage if the wages + tips don't equate to minimum wage. Shocking.

 

[Dylan]

I tip always. Good service gets better tips.

Standard service gets 15%. Poor service yields 5-10%. Excellent service gets 20-25%

My mom did he fair share of waitressing when she was young, and instilled it in me.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Surely it is the job of the restaurant to pay its staff, and therefore to price their food accordingly? If you seriously suggest that staff tamper with the food of those that don't tip, and then come on here questioning the integrity of staff at the club then it beggars belief.

 

[atrottel]

I generally tip (my girlfriend says I overtip) but then I worked as a cocktail barman and as a waiter in travel days.

From what I read, the UK system is disgraceful (wasn't the Independent running some campaign about that recently?).

 

[Gazdalf]

I generally tip (my girlfriend says I overtip) but then I worked as a cocktail barman and as a waiter in travel days.

From what I read, the UK system is disgraceful (wasn't the Independent running some campaign about that recently?).

I [Poor language removed] knew it. Atrottel is either brian brown or tom cruise.

 

[Basil Fawlty]

I don't mind tipping by choice. It is when it is expected is grinds my gears. tipping is to say thanks for a good job. Service included prices negates the need to provide a good service.

Good service gets a tip

bad service does not

Am i the only 1 having flashbacks to Reservoir Dogs?

 

[Gazdalf]

Am i the only 1 having flashbacks to Reservoir Dogs?

cha ching. finally. hahahaha

 

[Welton Toffee]

Last week down the local, I got a couple of drinks in and it cost like £4.55 or something. I gave a fiver but my change compartment in my wallet is uber small so I didn't want it filled with that [Poor language removed], so told the barman to keep the change.

He looked shocked like nobody had ever told him that before and was like "are you sure???" By this point I was already walking off but heard him say he'd put it in the charity box Now admittedly it wasn't a very big tip, but I found it amusing how blatantly noone had ever told him to keep the change before

Anyway, yes we do tip providing the service isn't [Poor language removed].

 

[GhostOfDixie]

Surely it is the job of the restaurant to pay its staff, and therefore to price their food accordingly? If you seriously suggest that staff tamper with the food of those that don't tip, and then come on here questioning the integrity of staff at the club then it beggars belief.

Tongue in cheek mate. But seriously, regular non-tippers can't expect to get good service if they don't tip.

And this has nothing to do with the staff at Everton. I do my job well, restaurants don't pay well, and you know it.

Anyone who has had to work in catering will understand.

 

[Sharpys top lip]

I always tip if the food an service is good. If it's [Poor language removed] food an bad service i give nothing.

When you have snotty girls with chewing gum in their mouths (it has happend) giving an awful service. Theirs no way i'd give them a tip.

But if they'v been freindly an good i give the tip straight to them unless they say their not allowed.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Tongue in cheek mate. But seriously, regular non-tippers can't expect to get good service if they don't tip.

And this has nothing to do with the staff at Everton. I do my job well, restaurants don't pay well, and you know it.

Anyone who has had to work in catering will understand.

Not really my problem though is it? Restaurant food isn't cheap when you consider the cost of the ingredients that go into making the stuff. If they can't afford to pay staff properly then I'm not sure that this is my problem. No one tips me for doing my job, I get paid if I do it well, I get sacked if I don't. Besides which, as its a restaurant and you're consuming food, surely if anyone should get a tip it's the chef?

 

[GhostOfDixie]

Not really my problem though is it? Restaurant food isn't cheap when you consider the cost of the ingredients that go into making the stuff. If they can't afford to pay staff properly then I'm not sure that this is my problem. No one tips me for doing my job, I get paid if I do it well, I get sacked if I don't. Besides which, as its a restaurant and you're consuming food, surely if anyone should get a tip it's the chef?

I'm not asking it to be your problem. But its a worldwide common that people who work in restaurants rely on tips so that they can survive. Without tips people in this country can work 40 hours a week running around, doing a hard job for £10k a year before tax.

The chef's usually get 3 or 4 pounds an hour more than the waiters, and they get a share of our tips too.

Like I say, if you have never worked in the industry then perhaps its hard for you to comment fairly.

 

[SuitsBlue]

Surely it is the job of the restaurant to pay its staff, and therefore to price their food accordingly? If you seriously suggest that staff tamper with the food of those that don't tip, and then come on here questioning the integrity of staff at the club then it beggars belief.

seeing is believing.

i was working one evening, and a bloke came into the restaurant with his girlfriend, the head waiter and the head chef didnt like him, so when he ordered the lasagne they both covered it in phlegm before adding the bechamel and bolognese.

it then got heated through (partially anyway) so half an hour later he (the bloke they didnt like) legs it into the gents and expels it. they got lucky because he just blamed the booze he had drank throughout that evening.

tipping didnt factor into that decision for food terrorism.