Do you tip?

Do you tip people? Hairdressers, waiters, delivery drivers etc?

I'm curious why people do and why they don't and how you decide who does and doesn't get a tip?

Also pretty sure this topic has been done before but my memory is terrible

 

Nope. Odd times with waiters, but generally no. I've never really known it to be a thing in the UK up to now. It's completely different in UK to America as they don't/didn't have the same pay structure as us. It's an insult in America if you don't get tipped, which I thought was a bit weird, you're just doing your job. Surely it's nurses, fire,soldiers etc who deserve a tip!?

 

Tipping does my head in!!!

Went to Leeds other week with that lads for a meal for someone’s birthday, liked at bill and they’d £57 tip on the robbing ********!! We told turn to take it off and they did…….

A tip should not imo but applied straight to a bill

 

I tip in restaurants if the service hasn't been poor. Used to tip delivery drivers but now everywhere has a standard £3 minimum delivery charge I don't.

 

Went to Mexico last November and it's expected everywhere such as bars restaursntd room service taxi drivers etc.

 

In the UK very rarely nowadays. Eating out is expensive enough, and with us having a (relatively) generous minimum wage, it's a very different situation to the USA, where it's pretty much essential, otherwise the waiting staff can't afford the basic necessities. Having said that, the tipping culture in the USA is so complicated that it's led me to borderline suicide on several occasions.

 

I've got some hilarious tipping-related stories from America. They weren't funny at the time though. Extremely uncomfortable, to put it mildly!

 

I tip 10% anytime I eat somewhere with waitstaff (unless they do something bad). I don’t tip anyone else except for delivery drivers at Christmas/New Year and we paid our gardener an extra week’s wage at Christmas. I had no idea people tipped hairdressers until recently and never have. I do have one of those ‘keep you awake at night’ guilts though as a hairdresser once curled my hair on New Year’s Eve after cutting it. She spent about 45mins doing it and it looked gorgeous and it never even occurred to me for a single second to tip her. I’m hoping the fact that I was a lot younger means she wouldn’t have really expected me to.

In Florida I tip *really* generously. I hate the whole idea of enforced tipping but it’s not their fault and I want to counteract the idea of British people being bad tippers. The problem with that is that both me and Will are socially awkward and if we go back to the same place the servers start falling over themselves to be extra lovely to us and we just don’t want fuss and would actually rather be left completely alone. That’s an idea actually, next time I might tell them that they’ll get a big tip if they ignore us

 

Aye, this for sure. I've seen countless waiters say you shouldn't go out for a meal if you can't tip. I understand it's a big part of their wage, but saying someone shouldn't spend their money however they please in that regard is stupid. If you save up to go for a big family meal once a month you shouldn't be hounded at for not tipping. Alternatively, if it's a swanky restaurant/club, they can go home with thousands in tips a week!

 

Having beers and karaoke with the family right now (at home, no tipping needed!) but tomorrow I'll post a couple of absolutely nutty tipping-related tales from the USA!

 

@Chef Tyke has an amazing story about a tipping faux pas in Mexico from his skint student days, when he and his mates got chased out of a restaurant for spending their last cash on a can of coke rather than leaving a tip (they were thirsty and broke!)

 

On a cruise right now& yes I will tip at the end of it. The cabin staff, brilliant & very hard working. Bar waiters, again very hard working & let's be honest, they need to be to keep up with my demands

 

As others have said, if the service is decent I'll tip 10%. But, if they add it to the service charge as an expectation, that really gets my goat and I'll ask them to take it off, even if I then leave them the same money on the table. One thing I noticed on a recent trip to London, was that 3 of the places we visited added 15% off the bat. I didn't like that at all.

 

Most mental place I've ever been for tipping was Egypt. Everybody wants tipping for everything, all of the time. Literally, the guy who opened the aeroplane door was collecting tips off arriving passengers, then the bus driver to the terminal, the guy who holds the terminal door open. First thing I said when we got inside was "I'm off to find the gents". A bloke said "over there", pointed, then stood blocking my path with his hand out. It was just relentless.

Even more irritating was a sports bar in Covent Garden, a few years back when cash was still the main means of payment in bars. Ordered a pint, gave him a tenner, my £3 change was presented to me in an otherwise empty tip jar, which you had to reach into and retrieve your change if you didn't want to leave it as a tip. Not even table service and trying to shame you into tipping. Hard luck, lad. I'm a Yorkshireman!

 

I don't tip.
Nobody tips my wife nor daughter in the NHS. Instead, in the last 2 weeks someone has spat on my wife, someone has tried to bite my daughter and they've both been verbally abused. These people are your neighbours

 

Waiters and taxi drivers usually

 

You must be super duper duper rich if you tip taxi drivers! Costs are beyond ridiculous these days.

 

Very rarely get one - Not Rockafellar - usually 50p or a pound.Tip waiters and food prices have gone through the roof - cabs here are quite reasonable