Yet another tipping thread.

I do tip in restaurants etc, and am sucked into the higher rates when visiting my Canadian family. When I think about it though, why don't I tip the supermarket assistant, the clothing store assistant, the bus driver or the train driver, the dustbin people, the postman/woman each time they deliver mail? The list is endless. And another thought, why is it always a percentage? Did the waiter/waitress really work harder to deliver my £40 meal to me than if I'd ordered the cheaper £15 one?

ckicketyclick staff shouldn't have to rely on tips. There is a minimum wage here. Maybe you're in America?

Tipping should be your own decision not suggested by anyone else

Agree Shelflife this whole thing is getting ridiculous. The only time I would tip anyone would be if they went over and above what was expected to help me.

Tipping after paying for a guided tour -
I don't think so !!!

I do not tip
I am not mean quite the reverse but I think it’s an unfair, very unfair process and we either tip everyone who serves us in any way from the shop assistant through to the bus driver and road cleaner or we tip no one and that’s my way of seeing it

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rafichagran

I would tip. If you pay £15 it's only £3.00 and if it goes to the staff I am glad to do it.
To staff, that may not be well paid, this makes a difference.

I agree up to a point, but I think some places pay their staff less because they know that tips will top them up. It’s mean!

I will tip if given good service at an amount I feel is acceptable. I've also read about staff having to rely on tips because they are being paid so little. In these scenarios if we didn't tip then either the business owner will have no option but to pay the going rate or risk losing the staff to A better paid job. In a job years ago and we all had to hand over our tips to the boss at the end of our shifts.

That's not legal though. There's a minimum wage.

rafichagran

I would tip. If you pay £15 it's only £3.00 and if it goes to the staff I am glad to do it.
To staff, that may not be well paid, this makes a difference.

I agree up to a point, but I think some places pay their staff less because they know that tips will top them up. It’s mean!

I only tip for excellent service with a smile. I don’t think a tip should happen automatically. I don’t tip my hairdresser as he owns the business. It is becoming the norm now for restaurants to add 10% to their bill and I will always pay this unless there was a problem with service or food.

It was suggested on a recent holiday we tip the tour guide 20% we didn’t she was awful very lazy and unhelpful and many others didn’t tip her either!!

It's the Americanisation of tipping that irritates me. Over here people are paid at least the minimum wage. I don't mind adding a little to the bill in a restaurant if the service has been noticeably good. That's it though. 20% is really pushing it.

I don't care if people don't tip. I know that I do. I get a good service I tip. Good luck if they make good money.
I don't know why it annoys people as its not obligatory and if you don't want to do it dont.

I doubt very much if that £15 or £45 per person is being paid to the tour guide. And I doubt they get paid per head. They might only be paid minimum wage - £12.21 for an hour’s work irrespecive of the size of the group. If you think they have done a good job, a £3 tip isn’t excessive. A G&T in a pub can cost between £5 to £10 depending on location.

Rafichagran.
Not much.
12 people on the tour, £36.
That guide may do 6 tours a day.
The company don’t have to pay them at all at that rate.

I am so happy to be among those who thinks it has all gone too far.
Just pay people to do their job.
I read somewhere, it may have been on here, that someone was asked to tip when buying an ice cream from a street vendor.

How many working people on here get tips? No one ever tipped us.
Like I’ve said before, my hairdresser drives a fancy, electric 4 x 4.
I always tipped the plasterer, stopped when I found out he lives in a big fancy house.
No you aren’t blinking tight! I have to say though, I am becoming much more tighter.

I would tip. If you pay £15 it's only £3.00 and if it goes to the staff I am glad to do it.
To staff, that may not be well paid, this makes a difference.

A 20% tip??? Are these people for real? I think asking for tips, or adding them to the bill, is an imposition. I honestly think tipping should be stopped. There is a price on everything, and that should be the price, the whole price, and nothing but the price!
Seriously, how did this tipping lark start? It’s embarrassing for both sides.

no way £45 for a tour and then a tip, tipping's getting a bit ridiculous.

Personally I hate the whole tipping ethos. Individuals should be paid properly for their work, therefore making tipping irrelevant.