With The Cost Of Meals For Eating Out Going Up ,should People Still Tip

[gollob]

If so how much?

[TheDevil]

I'll give you a tip... Don't tip!

Over paying for a product isn't courteous, it's foolish.

[diddlydo]

It depends - where the place automatically adds on a "service charge", I don't tip. If there's no service charge and the service has been good, I leave a tip. If the service hasn't been great, no tip.

[Arrods]

I guess TheDevil has never visited the United States then?

[Deskdiary]

I never tip.

I find the whole idea of tipping to be bizarre.

A restaurant sets their prices in order to operate their business and, hopefully, provide them with a profit - therefore, given it is implicit that when I order food in a restaurant the food needs to be cooked and brought to me, it would be completely alien to me to pay more than is shown on the bill.

Same applies when I go to the barber - they set their prices to operate their business and hopefully provide them with a profit, so I pay for the advertised cost of the haircut.

I don't tip the checkout girl at Sainsbury's either!

[Arrods]

….. neither has Deskdiary?

[Apc2604]

If service is beyond just good (I expect good service and won't reward it) and someone has gone out of their way to help then I will tip.

[SlackAlice]

I only 'tip' for good service

[ummmm]

I always tip if it isn't included.

I hate service charges.
I will only tip in cash. Never on the card machine

[TheDevil]

Arrods, once when I was small, different cultures. I don't tip, that's it.

I work for my money, the people who serve me are working for their money, why should I pay extra so they earn more? People don't tip me in my profession.. Why should I tip? Seems very silly to just give more money because you feel it's customary when you've already paid a fair price for the food you've bought especially when you're just going to leave and go home and the next table will do the same.

If money is problem for the servers or chefs or establishment they should charge more for food or drinks, not expect someone to pay more by the laws of "things left unsaid".

[TheDevil]

I feel the same as DeskDiary.

[TonyV]

Arrods totally different when I was in the States, most servers could not do enough for you, to get a tip as that made up most of their wages. Bit OTT in my opinion. All to be finished of with "have a nice day" which seems to be catching on in the UK now.

[Arrods]

TheDevil - I have no problem, it's a matter of choice.

[TonyV]

ummmm if food or service is not up to standard, I have no problem in removing service charge and leaving what I think is an appropriate tip.

[Arrods]

As a matter of interest non-tippers, what happens when you dine out with people who do?

[Arrods]

That was my point TonyV.

[TheDevil]

It's not my fault USA laws force the server to pay the tip if I don't (as the consumer). It's the USA's fault for having such a stupid, unfair and cruel system of employment.

Arrods if i visited a restaurant with my other half and another couple, and the other couple paid a tip then that would be up to them. I won't be shamed or made to feel awkward over finances if I don't want to tip. If they can afford to over pay for products and services then that is at their discretion.

It's a bit like putting money into charity boxes. If a friend did I wouldn't feel obliged.

[Arrods]

I'm with you on charity boxes TheDevil. All I guess I'm saying is that I would feel 'awkward' if I didn't tip when dining out and my other diners did. Each to one's own.

I have to say I was grateful to receive a tip at Christmas when I did a paper round as a schoolboy.

[TonyV]

Arrods your customers must have appreciated you, back in the day our bin men expected a tip from my mother.

[TheDevil]

Arrods, you could see it as a Christmas tip or as a Christmas Courtesy / present.


I do understand what you're saying, 100% and if I was a rich man I would tip. However, I'm not and I think society making people feel like they have to spend more than they actually do to be polite is wrong and I personally won't partake in the custom.

A restaurant would never randomly offer me more than I ordered so why would I randomly pay more than what is expected?

[Arrods]

So did our bin men TonyV. It was a sort of protection racket; if you didn't tip them at Christmas, your rubbish wouldn't end up where it was supposed to be!