Tipping Servers and Bartenders?

In some bars now the card machines are set up so you can’t pay until you’ve answered the question, “Do you want to add a tip on?”

I’d often be happy to bang a few quid on if I thought the money was going to actually end up in the pocket of the girl who’d been serving me.

But it just seems more likely I’d be paying some huge company £7.00 for a pint instead of the £6.00 they’re already ripping you off for.
 
Stephen230 said:
In some bars now the card machines are set up so you can’t pay until you’ve answered the question, “Do you want to add a tip on?”

I’d often be happy to bang a few quid on if I thought the money was going to actually end up in the pocket of the girl who’d been serving me.

But it just seems more likely I’d be paying some huge company £7.00 for a pint instead of the £6.00 they’re already ripping you off for.
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A few years ago I was involved in a big multi-national meeting down in Portsmouth. About 20 of us ended up going out for evening meal in one of the quayside restaurants, and when it came to paying the bill we ended up tipping the waitress £400 because she'd been absolutely faultless all night, despite the place being really busy. She actually burst into tears and couldn't thank us enough.
 
Trevor Morley's Tache said:
A few years ago I was involved in a big multi-national meeting down in Portsmouth. About 20 of us ended up going out for evening meal in one of the quayside restaurants, and when it came to paying the bill we ended up tipping the waitress £400 because she'd been absolutely faultless all night, despite the place being really busy. She actually burst into tears and couldn't thank us enough.
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Well I just hope she got to keep it all.

There was a story in the Evening News a while ago about a chain restaurant in Didsbury I think. Maybe Frankie & Benny’s or TGI Fridays, I forget now.

But anyway, the company were only allowing the staff to keep their own tips on a sliding scale percentage wise, related to performance. The rest was going to the company.

I’ve discreetly given waitresses cash tips in the past and told them that’s for them. And then seen them sticking it in a box behind the bar. Probably scared of getting caught pocketing it if the company policy is they must be pooled.
 
Stephen230 said:
Well I just hope she got to keep it all.

There was a story in the Evening News a while ago about a chain restaurant in Didsbury I think. Maybe Frankie & Benny’s or TGI Fridays, I forget now.

But anyway, the company were only allowing the staff to keep their own tips on a sliding scale percentage wise, related to performance. The rest was going to the company.

I’ve discreetly given waitresses cash tips in the past and told them that’s for them. And then seen them sticking it in a box behind the bar. Probably scared of getting caught pocketing it if the company policy is they must be pooled.
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She did; we checked beforehand.
 
denislawsbackheel said:
Few years ago now but I’ll never forget this twat’s disgraceful behaviour until he was called out and changed due to bad publicity.

www.theguardian.com

Michel Roux Jr admits restaurant staff get no share of service charge

TV chef who apologised for not paying minimum wage says charge at Le Gavroche in London is treated ‘as revenue’
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
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The whole Roux family are a bunch of cunts.

They've always paid poverty wages whilst coining it in. There's more honesty at McDonald's and Burger King.

I wouldn't give them the steam off my piss, only very silly people eat at establishments like that.
 
I never tip in pubs. Most of the barmaids where I go are useless, slow or rude so they don’t deserve it.

Waiting staff are different because that’s actual service and they don’t tend to sit staring at their phone all night.
 
Eccles Blue said:
When they ask about the service charge I always ask if they actually receive it or does it go to the firm/brewery. If they say brewery/firm I give it to them separately.
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Give it separately anyway. I've to save all my card machine reports and till reports and any tip amount that there's a paper trail for (in Ireland at least) the staff have to pay income tax on. I used to let the staff add it to card and take cash from the till in equal amount but the legislation changed this year so the only thing they can keep 100% of is a cash tip.
 
aguero93:20 said:
Give it separately anyway. I've to save all my card machine reports and till reports and any tip amount that there's a paper trail for (in Ireland at least) the staff have to pay income tax on. I used to let the staff add it to card and take cash from the till in equal amount but the legislation changed this year so the only thing they can keep 100% of is a cash tip.
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All my bars are cash only… staff get very good tips :-)
 
With the advent of card payments, I will usually give a one pound coin tip if I buy a few drinks, but only if the server is pleasant, snotty fucks get fuck all.
 
stonerblue said:
same all across the catering trade
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Correct but places with a £210 set menu should never be paying minimum wage let alone less than that. If you can't afford to pay staff decent wages whilst running a restaurant in Mayfair, shut up shop and fuck off or put your hands in your own pocket until you can.
 
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