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Quote Jimenez at 27 Aug 2015 12.15pm

Indeed Ray. A Barman in a decent Midtown bar working say 11am to 6pm would get about -00 a shift + can make 0-00 in Tips. A waitress can easily make /400 a shift that's about 1200 quid a week


My wife used to bartend while she was at college. $400 nights were the norm (she took the busy, late shifts on Fridays and Saturdays).

 


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Here's an article about it, which handily lists quite a few of these w***ers companies and how bad their additional charges are.

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Edited by Stuk (04 Sep 2015 1.44pm)

 


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There's no real culture of tipping in Britain and given the level of the minimum wage I for one don't tip when I'm there.

When home here in SA I always tip 10% because most waiting staff are paid a small retainer and then rely on their tips for an income.

 


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Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 1.47pm

There's no real culture of tipping in Britain and given the level of the minimum wage I for one don't tip when I'm there.

When home here in SA I always tip 10% because most waiting staff are paid a small retainer and then rely on their tips for an income.


Isn't there?
Everyone I know tips - at a minimum
* Restaurants
* Barbers/hairdressers
* Cab drivers

 

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Quote npn at 04 Sep 2015 1.59pm

Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 1.47pm

There's no real culture of tipping in Britain and given the level of the minimum wage I for one don't tip when I'm there.

When home here in SA I always tip 10% because most waiting staff are paid a small retainer and then rely on their tips for an income.


Isn't there?
Everyone I know tips - at a minimum
* Restaurants
* Barbers/hairdressers
* Cab drivers

Agreed.

I just tipped my barber a fiver. Food deliveries also get tips from me.

 


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Quote Stuk at 04 Sep 2015 2.08pm

Quote npn at 04 Sep 2015 1.59pm

Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 1.47pm

There's no real culture of tipping in Britain and given the level of the minimum wage I for one don't tip when I'm there.

When home here in SA I always tip 10% because most waiting staff are paid a small retainer and then rely on their tips for an income.


Isn't there?
Everyone I know tips - at a minimum
* Restaurants
* Barbers/hairdressers
* Cab drivers

Agreed.

I just tipped my barber a fiver. Food deliveries also get tips from me.

That's all a recent develpoment, historically it was pretty much cabbies and maybe hairdressers being tipped, not waiting staff.

I waitered and did barwork whilst at university in the early 90s and never expected a tip despite working in a silver service restaurant.

Edited by sa_eagle (04 Sep 2015 4.15pm)

 


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Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 4.13pm

Quote Stuk at 04 Sep 2015 2.08pm

Quote npn at 04 Sep 2015 1.59pm

Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 1.47pm

There's no real culture of tipping in Britain and given the level of the minimum wage I for one don't tip when I'm there.

When home here in SA I always tip 10% because most waiting staff are paid a small retainer and then rely on their tips for an income.


Isn't there?
Everyone I know tips - at a minimum
* Restaurants
* Barbers/hairdressers
* Cab drivers

Agreed.

I just tipped my barber a fiver. Food deliveries also get tips from me.

That's all a recent develpoment, historically it was pretty much cabbies and maybe hairdressers being tipped, not waiting staff.

I waitered and did barwork whilst at university in the early 90s and never expected a tip despite working in a silver service restaurant.


Edited by sa_eagle (04 Sep 2015 4.15pm)


Been that way all my life and I wouldn't say I'm "recent".

Bars however can sod off. When you queue for an age to pay for a (generally) over-priced drink and they've only had to walk about two steps to grab/open a bottle.

I don't consider that a service worthy of a tip, no matter how many little silver dishes you try and put my change on instead of just handing it to me.

 


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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 04 Sep 15 4.31pm

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Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 4.13pm

Quote Stuk at 04 Sep 2015 2.08pm

Quote npn at 04 Sep 2015 1.59pm

Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 1.47pm

There's no real culture of tipping in Britain and given the level of the minimum wage I for one don't tip when I'm there.

When home here in SA I always tip 10% because most waiting staff are paid a small retainer and then rely on their tips for an income.


Isn't there?
Everyone I know tips - at a minimum
* Restaurants
* Barbers/hairdressers
* Cab drivers

Agreed.

I just tipped my barber a fiver. Food deliveries also get tips from me.

That's all a recent develpoment, historically it was pretty much cabbies and maybe hairdressers being tipped, not waiting staff.

I waitered and did barwork whilst at university in the early 90s and never expected a tip despite working in a silver service restaurant.


Edited by sa_eagle (04 Sep 2015 4.15pm)


Been that way all my life and I wouldn't say I'm "recent".

Bars however can sod off. When you queue for an age to pay for a (generally) over-priced drink and they've only had to walk about two steps to grab/open a bottle.

I don't consider that a service worthy of a tip, no matter how many little silver dishes you try and put my change on instead of just handing it to me.

Good service at a bar I'm happy to 'buy one for the barman'. Doesn't happen very often, but occasionally you'll come across such good customer service from bar staff.

What I do object to is 'service charges included' and the expectation of a tip without any effort. With deliveries, if they charge for delivery, then I never tip - Ironically this usually works out worse for them in my case than the tip used to be.


 


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jamiemartin721 Flag Reading 04 Sep 15 4.31pm

Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 1.47pm

There's no real culture of tipping in Britain and given the level of the minimum wage I for one don't tip when I'm there.

When home here in SA I always tip 10% because most waiting staff are paid a small retainer and then rely on their tips for an income.

Minimum wage in the UK is below the cost of a living wage in the UK.


 


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Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 4.13pm

Quote Stuk at 04 Sep 2015 2.08pm

Quote npn at 04 Sep 2015 1.59pm

Quote sa_eagle at 04 Sep 2015 1.47pm

There's no real culture of tipping in Britain and given the level of the minimum wage I for one don't tip when I'm there.

When home here in SA I always tip 10% because most waiting staff are paid a small retainer and then rely on their tips for an income.


Isn't there?
Everyone I know tips - at a minimum
* Restaurants
* Barbers/hairdressers
* Cab drivers

Agreed.

I just tipped my barber a fiver. Food deliveries also get tips from me.

That's all a recent develpoment, historically it was pretty much cabbies and maybe hairdressers being tipped, not waiting staff.

I waitered and did barwork whilst at university in the early 90s and never expected a tip despite working in a silver service restaurant.

It depends on what you call recent as tipping in restaurants has been the norm ever since I started working in the mid sixties

 

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Quote jamiemartin721 at 04 Sep 2015 4.31pm

Good service at a bar I'm happy to 'buy one for the barman'.

In the old days when you bought a drink for the bartender he/she used to have a half and raise it as a 'Thank You' to the customer. Never see this anymore, perhaps because it might be deemed unacceptable to be seen drinking behind the bar.Think now they put the money in their pocket instead of purchasing a drink.


 

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Quote jamiemartin721 at 04 Sep 2015 4.31pm

Good service at a bar I'm happy to 'buy one for the barman'.

In the old days when you bought a drink for the bartender he/she used to have a half and raise it as a 'Thank You' to the customer. Never see this anymore, perhaps because it might be deemed unacceptable to be seen drinking behind the bar.Think now they put the money in their pocket instead of purchasing a drink.


I think it is some of the companies that run pubs nowadays; they're just restaurants. I offered the barman a drink and was refused.

Probably drinking at work?

 


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