Tipping - How do you feel about it?

[3offTheTee]

More and more people are after tips these days. I am not just talking about in USA where it is expected and bar staff have to pay tax on expected tips.

Restaurants now have what percentage you should leave when you come to pay the bill.

Would not say I am a generous tipper but if service is good and a tip is warranted I have no problem. Also if I am likely to return.

What are your views on tipping and do we as consumers expect too much?

 

[Slab]

Tipping is fine and there’s many jobs that aren't well paid so that tips become crucial to overall earnings. Happy to keep my tipping tied to the level of service I get with now’t but a token gesture for poor service (or even naff all) and rising to a max of about 20% I think is the most I’ve ever tipped at a guess I'd say 10% is average but I don't work it out

I tend to ignore the ‘official’ tip on any bill and tip directly to the individual/s

It’s a bit weird how some trades have become synonymous with a tipping culture while other similar service based roles it isn’t prevalent at all

I don't think generally the public expect too much but clearly there's a proportion that do (even being unreasonable) but 'service with a smile' became a popular phrase for a reason

 

[Fish]

I don't like or agree with establishments that put a service charge on your bill upfront and simply expect you to pay it, it should be optional solely based on the service you have received, that's why I like to give the person that has looked after me the tip as it's a personal appreciation then of that's person's service towards me.

I usually tip but not by working anything out, percentage wise, I even tip my Chinese delivery driver even though I've paid for delivery within the bill as I don't know if that's 1 pot shared or goes to the business!

 

[Hobbit]

No problem tipping for good service. However, if an establishment has a service charge I ask them to take it off the bill. I decide the tip, not them.

 

[Tongo]

I don't like or agree with establishments that put a service charge on your bill upfront and simply expect you to pay it, it should be optional solely based on the service you have received, that's why I like to give the person that has looked after me the tip as it's a personal appreciation then of that's person's service towards me.

I usually tip but not by working anything out, percentage wise, I even tip my Chinese delivery driver even though I've paid for delivery within the bill as I don't know if that's 1 pot shared or goes to the business!

Agreed. I will happily tip someone if they've offered a good service and will happily leave a tip in B&B's for example. The enforced 'tip' doesn't promote the idea of providing good service.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

No problem tipping for good service. However, if an establishment has a service charge I ask them to take it off the bill. I decide the tip, not them.

Agree and same as Fish - on Friday we went to Coal grill and they had put on 10% service - asked them to remove it as I will decide if the service is worth a tip

 

[jdpjamesp]

More and more people are after tips these days. I am not just talking about in USA where it is expected and bar staff have to pay tax on expected tips.

Restaurants now have what percentage you should leave when you come to pay the bill.

Would not say I am a generous tipper but if service is good and a tip is warranted I have no problem. Also if I am likely to return.

What are your views on tipping and do we as consumers expect too much?

I will always tip in a restaurant if the food and service were up to scratch. What I hate is having the tip pre-calculated into the bill as a service charge. In fact I will never eat at such establishments again.
I tip at the local restaurant/take-away, from time to time, just a couple of quid. We go once a month for take away, and they know me by name. They're always throwing in freebies for us, and when we do go as a family to sit in they often give the kids ice cream on the house. It makes for an excellent customer relationship. And also means the kids want to go for out curry which is a bonus when they're picky about food. In fact on MrsP's birthday I was out unfortunately. My six year old went to his money box and got out the £2 he was saving to buy Star Wars toys with and gave it to Mummy and said he wanted to take her and our 4 year old out for a curry to celebrate her birthday. Makes the heart melt!

 

[Crazyface]

Agree and same as Fish - on Friday we went to Coal grill and they had put on 10% service - asked them to remove it as I will decide if the service is worth a tip

:angry: carp, can you do this!!!!!!? I've been to London this weekend and every place we ate did this. I hate having this enforced.

 

[ger147]

Was I the only one that thought this thread was going to be about getting your shafts cut at the tip end and not the grip end?

 

[3offTheTee]

Been for a meal tonight and they add 2 % of I pay by Credit card. It is short sighted on there part as that amount would immediately come off the rip and as a matter of principle I left sweet FA!

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

IN restaurants will almost always tip 10-15% - unless a service charge and will then often ask for that to be taken off or ask to have confirmed that it goes to the kitchen/waiting teams. Rarely tip when buying drinks at the bar in a pub.

 

[MegaSteve]

If they don't smile they don't get a tip... Simples...

Have been known to ask to have our serving person changed...
I am out for a good evening and the last thing I want is a misery attending to me...

Always used to give a Xmas tip to the likes of the milk/post/dust person...

No milky these days, postie is a different person nearly every day and rubbish collection is a shambles...
So, a few pound notes saved at this time of good cheer ...

 

[Rooter]

having worked in the catering industry many years ago, tips are a huge thing to staff. I dont agree at all with companies that keep the money or use as an excuse as to why they pay their staff XYZ. I will ask for service charges to removed if they are not going to staff, I tip my barber a few quid, if the service is good i will tip circa 10%. Thats about it. Bin men are useless lazy A holes, so they get nothing. My postie is a nice guy though, so may get him an xmas card with a few quid in!

 

[FairwayDodger]

I always feel awkward and slightly embarrassed by it anywhere other than a restaurant. I also resent it in some situations; I'd rather carry my own bag up to my room than pay some bloke to do it for me, for example.

At restaurants I usually tip about 10% unless the service was poor but I never add the tip to a card payment. I prefer to leave cash since so many restaurants pocket the tips rather than pay it to the servers.

 

[louise_a]

I have a problem with tipping, its not that I don't, but do not tip automatically.
What I feel is wrong is that employers use tipping as a reason to offer low wages.
Tipping should be for something special not as a matter of course.

 

[hovis]

I hate it when they say " would you like me to add gratuity to the bill"

Or when they hand you the card machine saying "add gratuity "

 

[freddielong]

I hate tipping if you do your job you get paid for it that should be that.

 

[Norrin Radd]

I hate tipping if you do your job you get paid for it that should be that.

yep ,totally agree :thup:

 

[Deleted member 15344]

yep ,totally agree :thup:

Do you both believe people should get paid bonuses ?

 

[Norrin Radd]

no .if the company has earned that sort of money and want to give it to the work force then put it in the wages not at christmas or the end of the financial year.
totally against all these so called bonuses going to the company directors and not the populous of the company.