Do you tip?

I tipped a cabbie yesterday. Rounded up £8.70 to a tenner.. Nice lad, offered to help with my shopping..

 

I never tip if a restaurant adds it automatically to the bill, otherwise it depends on service, food etc.

In Austria I'm a regular in a heaving après ski bar which is open from 2pm until 7:30pm. It's cash only, no cards or tabs. The drinks service is totally automated, draught drinks are measured and recorded, bottles/cans are in drawers with weight sensors, so all sales are automatically recorded. Nothing is sold which cannot be automatically added up. As a result, at closing time the computer knows exactly the value of drinks sold.

Most people round up when paying, so if a beer is €4.50 generally people would pay €5 etc. At the end of the evening the cash is added up and compared with the computer calculated turnover. The difference is shared equally between all the staff, including the glass washers, collectors, bouncers and DJ, as well as the actual bar staff. They generally make about €250 each on a good evening. The actual wages they get is largely irrelevant. It's a great system because the staff get exactly what the customers have tipped.

 

Yup i'm a tipper, if i ger a taxi, pizza, hair cut, whatever, i'll always round it up to the nearest pound.

 

yes, I'm a cash tipper - rounding up amounts.

Last tip was to the guy who did the successful MOT test on my ancient motor - was convinced it would fail - I know he didn't do anything special but I was a happy chappy!
Also tip the mechanic who services ancient motor and has kept said motor and me on the road for many years - well done Ian at Crows Garage Pogmoor.
And at Christmas time I take wine to various people who have provided good service during the year.

 

I don’t tip unless service has been smashing. This goes back to when I worked a few years as a glass collector, working up a sweat all night rushing around the bars and nightclubs, cutting my hands on picking up bottles and glasses off the floor in bars to keep people safe and never receiving a penny of a tip whilst the bar staff took money for simply pulling a pint or two and standing about.

Added to that, my personal view is that (certainly in the past) establishments used tipping as an excuse to keep pay rates unrealistically low and that by tipping I was exacerbating the poor pay problem and this not helping the service staff in the long run.

Oh and the old practice of chain restaurants sending tips to the in coming balance sheet!

I’m sure that times have changed on a couple of these points now, but it’s already in my mind set now.

 

I'm sure the service staff are really thankful for your principled stand on their behalf.

 

Totally agree - nothing wrong with 'generosity of spirit.'
My student daughter works as a waitress - excellent at her job - customers tip her and ask her to make sure she gets the tip but of course it goes in the 'pot.'

 

No but in my opinion expecting a tip for doing your job and family criticising people for not tipping you for doing your job is a bit ****.

 

Me too

 

You can also expect a decent rate of pay for doing your job but many don't get it. And people saying that not tipping forces employers to pay decent wages....well it doesn't work.

 

So should we tip the bar staff at Oakwell too? They get crap pay. Tip the cashier at Tesco? Why is it that certain industries expect tips and try to shame people into tipping but you wouldn't dream of doing it in other industries who also have bad pay?

 

I like to think so sir! Maybe I’ve contributed single handedly my to the introduction of the minimum wage? I know it doesn’t show me in the best light, but I’m just being honest. They charge enough in these places to pay properly.

 

Yep, you probably should tip the bar staff a few coppers at Oakwell.
It's quite simple in my eyes ST. In places where you know the waiting staff are likely on very low wages and are reliant on tips to make a decent wage it's pretty niggardly to not do so. You're effectively acknowledging the problem but refusing to do anything about it. There's loads of other people on low pay where we can't do anything about it. With waiting staff we can.

 

I think it’s all down to individual people, there’s no right or wrong, if you don’t want to tip then you shouldn’t feel bad about been a tight fisted Scrooge of a human being

 

In all seriousness my Mrs works at Cannon Hall farm, all week she works in the farm shop (no tips) on Friday she works in the shop then in the evening she does the bistro where it’s a 15 hour shift, she will take a customers food and drink order, serve them all night including their drinks to the table, basically they don’t have to move, she does get tips from 90% of customers but it’s certainly not a requirement, it’s just a thank you for getting looked after.