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If i did eat in these places i would give the tip directly to the waiter/waitress and tell them to pocket it not share it as i am tipping for their good service not everyone else behind the scenes.
 
When I first went to the States in the 80's, we were told that tipping was expected and you would be looked down upon if you failed to tip adequately. In the UK at that time tipping rarely took place, reserved for escellent service.

Now we are in a halfway house, where it is becoming the norm in some situations but not others. I usually tip in barbers', taxis and restaurants, but it is based on the service received.
 
I have never understood the tipping in some jobs but not others there are plenty of people on the minimum wages who work unsocial hours in service/retail sectors who never see a tip in a life time such as shops/supermarkets etc who go that extra mile and will leave their tills to show or get you that product you could not find and thats just one off the top of my head. Good service is part of their job its upto the restaurant owners to pay a little bit more and not having them relying on tips and by the way as said not all owners let them keep the tips I thin k a recent court case outlined this if I remember. Rant over
 
We always tip the bin men/women then if you ask them to take an extra couple of bags they always do.

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I think my main problem is the expectation that people tip in restaurants but would never tip in a shop regardless of quality of service received.

I have provided excellent service when working in retail and the customer would never have thought to tip. where as average service in restaurants, people always tip. (not bitter at all...)
 
We used to Chippy but since its got to private tender they will not take anything extra. When I was a kid in the 60's it was always common to give the bin men a tip at Crimbo but as I have said they will not take anything that is not in the bin, maybe different in your area. Talking off tips the most worthy although not many of them left were the paperboys and girls who would get up before school and brave the weather to deliver your Daily
 
Tip in restarurants and barbers, very rareky in taxis - as more often they don't say even a word to me.

All my tips are always in cash and either left on the table or given directly to a server. Owners taking share of it is just a robbery.
But if I recieve poor service, no tip.
I usually tip 10%

When I was younger I worked in a restaurant, where head waiter took payments and tips - end of the week he shared those with us - unfortunetally not fairly - for example he took £100 and we, normal waiters got £20 - that was around 2005, so not that long ago.
The service charge, as not being tip is really annoying, as some restarurant just add this to your bill with notifing. On many occasion when raised with waiter I was told it is optional - but if not notice, people just pay what bill total is.
 
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don't ever put for MP Chippy as that tipping will come back and haunt you especially in the Daily Mail Lol
 
I will cash tip the server at a restaurant if the service was good and I tend to drop my barber and the guys who help my little one at Warhammer enough to get a round of drinks in at Christmas. I did not realise however that people have started tipping takeaway delivery folk... Never knew that was a thing, but that ain't happening.
 
I worked as a kitchen porter weekends as a teenager, in various places including a hotel and restaurants. One place, though, was a golf club. On a normal day the waitresses would keep the tips, but sometimes when events were on we were stupidly busy. Everyone felt the heat, chefs, KPs, waitresses, bar staff, the lot. On these days the managers pooled the tips and divvied them up between all of us at the end of the day, and usually buy us a pint too. I tell you what, after a hectic non-stop lunch and dinner service, often going on well after midnight to clear the backlog in the kitchen and get it clean for breakfast service, long after the waitresses went home, I really appreciated the managers recognising that we had gone above and beyond and give us that extra tenner and a pint. Most the waitresses didn't mind either, at least none of the experienced ones. They understood that good service isn't just a smile and being the calm exterior to the madness in the kitchen, it was about teamwork and making sure than when they were low on something, or needed something done quickly, they could let us know and we'd help them out even though we had a million other things to do.

There is one other place I tip though, and that's at a busy bar. Not because I feel sorry for the barman/barmaid, although I do, but because half the time when they clock you at the bar, you find yourself being served a fair bit sooner than you would have if you hadn't tipped.
 
I've worked in hospitality my whole life, starting from the most important job that is pot wash. I have to agree with iainm, that when the chips are down it takes the whole team to pull you out of the proverbial and that the entire team need the recognition for a good service not just well mannered front of house staff and if any tips are rendered throughout the the evening they are shared between the entire team. I couldn't do the job that i'm doing now without every one below me and this needs to be recognised.
 
I work in retail, delivering home shopping we rarely get a tip however heavy the shopping or how polite/courteous and helpful we are. It's just one of those things I get paid for doing my job, simple.
 
I work in retail, delivering home shopping we rarely get a tip however heavy the shopping or how polite/courteous and helpful we are. It's just one of those things I get paid for doing my job, simple.
We get our shopping through Ocado, and I got chatting to one - was really surprised, one of the main issue on the road is toilet - I would never have problem for guys/gals like him to use my toilet. But on some occasions apparently people are not that kind - and they have to find out at a petrol station and so on.

But yeah, I was never sure if tipping drivers is a thing
 
Tipping is weird. Waitstaff do not make a living wage here and rely on tips. Taxis work that way too. Why not pay a living wage in the first place?

In a decent-quality restaurant, you can have 15+ waitstaff working for a low wage plus tips and six, properly paid kitchen staff to handle large volume. The 15, if paid a living wage, would make those menu prices significantly higher. Either you pay up front or you tip.
What's been going on here for the past ten years, maybe more, is places putting out tip jars where the employees are getting paid a living wage (or what their value is). I don't tip in those instances. It comes across as begging and a wee bit offensive. I haven't seen it at McDonald's yet.

I wouldn't have a problem if everyone was paid on commission; in other words, you got paid for how much production actually occurred. I used to work in a place where I out-produced everyone I worked with by a ridiculous amount--80% by actual measurement. I thought, "Why should I do 80% of the work and watch my five coworkers loaf?" I slowed down to their speed for about five minutes but I couldn't keep at it. Basically, I was having fun working fast/at my pace and seeing how much I could get accomplished.
 

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