Orikoru
Tour Winner
I just see it as one haircut. If he talks to me then I talk back, if he doesn't then I'll happily sit there in silence, it really doesn't bother me either way. Certainly don't feel I'd want to pay extra for him to talk to me.
Tipping Etiquette
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hovis
Tour Winner
I was collecting a mcdonald's once and was told to park up and wait. I witnessed a delivery driver get out of his car holding his empty delivery bag in front of him with the lid open. What I saw next has ensured I will never use these companies...... The Dirty git, whilst walking across the car park spat over the bag. I don't mean spat directly on the bag but fired his spit over the top. How much spray would have landed inside the bag!!! ?
Robster59
Tour Rookie
And that's my point. By using the delivery drivers we are adding a chain into the process of someone who is rushing around like mad trying to get the deliveries in on time. It's going to happen that people will cut corners, disobey the rules, not care. It's a chance I'm not willing to take.
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
What about the restaurant staff who may not wash their hands? Cough in the food etc?
SteveW86
Head Pro
With my hairline running away from my face I think I’ll be doing this quite soon.
Orikoru
Tour Winner
Wife did my last haircut and I didn't tip her to be honest. 
KenL
Tour Rookie
Friend of mine is a postie. Can walk 15km or more in a shift.
hovis
Tour Winner
I've Just walked my dog 14
Robster59
Tour Rookie
In fairness, now you're playing devils advocate. I can't totally take away the risk, but I can choose to minimise it. There should be more control in the cooking area than in the delivery area.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Poor mutt. ?
arnieboy
Challenge Tour Pro
I give the barber a quid and the binmen a tenner at Christmas.
SteveW86
Head Pro
Wife did my last haircut and I didn't tip her to be honest.
I let my wife loose on my hair in lockdown 1, safe to say it would have looked better if a blind man did it with a spoon
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
Guess that's what happens when you don't tip the staff and treat them bad ?
PJ87
Journeyman Pro
One thing just eat and deliveroo have I didn't know
Gift vouchers
Just got a couple as a gift one for each
Tonight's and next weekends dinner sorted
Tip using the app for deliveroo just because no cash but I'll getcash for next week
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
Before we get down to tipping, a little background on American currency.
It's been many decades since the American treasury printed $1000 and $500 bills. I think you call them "notes.'
Our largest denomination bill or note has been $100 for a long time now.
Since then, inflation has reduced the value of $100 quite a bit,
but despite that, the policy on printing larger bills has not changed.
Essentially, the American government does it's best Orwellian "Big Brother" imitation
to discourage the use of untraceable cash in all transactions.
I don't know whether the UK does the same or not.
Basically, cash is hardly used at all any more in America.
Thus, the American credit card is used NOT so much to charge big ticket items
but for ordinary every day transactions. Walking around with pockets stuffed with currency is just too inconvenient,
not to mention potentially dangerous.
I can't remember the last time I paid any interest on my cards.
I just pay them off when the bill arrives.
Thus, when I visited the UK, I obviously had some pounds sterling currency on my person,
but I figured that I'd mostly use my credit cards, which I knew would be good there as well.
Now we finally get down to tipping.
When we paid for a meal with a credit card, the credit bill didn't have any place to write in the gratuity
for the waiter or waitress. It was impossible to tip with a credit card. I had to use cash for that.
EVERY American restaurant brings you a credit card bill with an empty space on it for the customer to write in the tip.
It used to be a customary 15% for a long time, but for the past couple of decades, it's been 20%.
Thus, if my wife and I spent, to simply round things off, one hundred pounds on dinner and drinks,
I had to have a twenty pound note to leave on the table for the waiter. If I didn't have cash with me, I couldn't tip with the credit card.
Has that practice finally changed since I was last there?
Even if you don't have a tipping culture, I'm sure the wait staff still expects the fat American tourists to tip.
It's been many decades since the American treasury printed $1000 and $500 bills. I think you call them "notes.'
Our largest denomination bill or note has been $100 for a long time now.
Since then, inflation has reduced the value of $100 quite a bit,
but despite that, the policy on printing larger bills has not changed.
Essentially, the American government does it's best Orwellian "Big Brother" imitation
to discourage the use of untraceable cash in all transactions.
I don't know whether the UK does the same or not.
Basically, cash is hardly used at all any more in America.
Thus, the American credit card is used NOT so much to charge big ticket items
but for ordinary every day transactions. Walking around with pockets stuffed with currency is just too inconvenient,
not to mention potentially dangerous.
I can't remember the last time I paid any interest on my cards.
I just pay them off when the bill arrives.
Thus, when I visited the UK, I obviously had some pounds sterling currency on my person,
but I figured that I'd mostly use my credit cards, which I knew would be good there as well.
Now we finally get down to tipping.
When we paid for a meal with a credit card, the credit bill didn't have any place to write in the gratuity
for the waiter or waitress. It was impossible to tip with a credit card. I had to use cash for that.
EVERY American restaurant brings you a credit card bill with an empty space on it for the customer to write in the tip.
It used to be a customary 15% for a long time, but for the past couple of decades, it's been 20%.
Thus, if my wife and I spent, to simply round things off, one hundred pounds on dinner and drinks,
I had to have a twenty pound note to leave on the table for the waiter. If I didn't have cash with me, I couldn't tip with the credit card.
Has that practice finally changed since I was last there?
Even if you don't have a tipping culture, I'm sure the wait staff still expects the fat American tourists to tip.
KenL
Tour Rookie
Old thread alert.
Yes, you can add a tip when paying with a card.
I usually try and tip in cash to make sure the staff get it.
Yes, you can add a tip when paying with a card.
I usually try and tip in cash to make sure the staff get it.
@Ye Olde Boomer a few things here. Many restaurants will add a service charge to your bill automatically, ie a tip. This means no extra tip is necessary. If they do add the service charge then the option to add a tip via card doesn't come up.
If you want to add a tip, mention it the waiter as they bring the card machine across. They will add the amount at that point, before the machine is passed to you to input your code.
Equally, a tip isn't compulsory over here. No one is going to chase you down the road if you don't tip
. Tip, don't tip, either is fine.
If you want to add a tip, mention it the waiter as they bring the card machine across. They will add the amount at that point, before the machine is passed to you to input your code.
Equally, a tip isn't compulsory over here. No one is going to chase you down the road if you don't tip
. Tip, don't tip, either is fine.
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
Thanks. That's good to know if I get to come back.
Tashyboy
Please don’t ask to see my tatts 👍
YOB, my grief with tipping, or should I say service charge is it is now accepted that there will be a service charge, whether the service is rammel or very good. Again a service charge is usually a percentage of the total meal. Why? A steak costs £20 and a chip butty costs £5. The waiter still does the same amount of trips to the table but you pay more for the steak delivery. Why? I get a lift to the restaurant on a bus. Do I tip the driver.
I don’t mind tipping if the service is good but for it to be Accepted that it’s the norm that a percentage of your meal cost is topping up the bill has never been right in my eyes.
PS, a PP was telling me that his Missis had an afternoon Tea up the Shard with their daughter. They asked for half the sandwiches to not have butter on them. They all arrived with butter. They asked for a glass of water. It never came. At the end the bill came with a hefty service charge. Basically they said “ we’re not paying it” the manager was called over and he asked why. Again he was not impressed. She said “ if you paid as much attention to service as you did the complaint there would be no problems. They got poor service and yet they were expected to tip.
I don’t mind tipping if the service is good but for it to be Accepted that it’s the norm that a percentage of your meal cost is topping up the bill has never been right in my eyes.
PS, a PP was telling me that his Missis had an afternoon Tea up the Shard with their daughter. They asked for half the sandwiches to not have butter on them. They all arrived with butter. They asked for a glass of water. It never came. At the end the bill came with a hefty service charge. Basically they said “ we’re not paying it” the manager was called over and he asked why. Again he was not impressed. She said “ if you paid as much attention to service as you did the complaint there would be no problems. They got poor service and yet they were expected to tip.
Ye Olde Boomer
Well-known member
Might explain the fewer smiles on English wait staff.@Ye Olde Boomer a few things here. Many restaurants will add a service charge to your bill automatically, ie a tip. This means no extra tip is necessary. If they do add the service charge then the option to add a tip via card doesn't come up.
If you want to add a tip, mention it the waiter as they bring the card machine across. They will add the amount at that point, before the machine is passed to you to input your code.
Equally, a tip isn't compulsory over here. No one is going to chase you down the road if you don't tip
All kidding aside, the waitresses at least are often more pleasant than on the continent.
The waiters not so much.
American wait staff can be overbearing.
You can't leave because they keep refilling your coffee cup!
That's free in America.
