Because it matches the food!
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Correct, although tipping somebody for doing their job is not a 'custom' in my book.
Rab might well be a dickhead, I don't know him. However, with the massive costs involved with going to the WC that $3 per meal might tear into the budget of his trip, especially over 2 or 3 weeks?
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If Rab can’t afford the trip taking everything into account then Rab should probably stay home.
Don’t be like Rab.
As an example , in budgeting for an African safari, tipping guides and drivers will add $100s to that kind of vacation. You account for it when you budget the trip in the same way you account for hotels or you can probably slink off while the other tourists tip and hope that no one calls you out for being a cheap cunt.
Spoke to a tour company manager in India about this. Although they’re often the most demanding, the guides and staff LOVE white American tourists — not me unfortunately — because they’re the best tippers in the world. Brit’s? Even though they’re not as demanding, not so much!
Tipping guides and drivers on a safari is very different to tipping somebody who has just given you ham and eggs.
Agreed — but both are customary whether you like it or not.
You WILL get chased outside by a waitress demanding to know what was wrong with her service. You won’t be able to go back to an establishment you might have enjoyed.
My advice: if you’re in a bar and don’t plan to tip then open a check at the beginning of the night and keep it open. Not everywhere will allow this for non-regulars.
If you’re paying as you go and don’t tip, you’re unlikely to get served by the third round.
Fuck that bar then. The person behind the bars’ job is to keep the drinks flowing - they get paid to do that. Want your staff to get paid more? Put the fucking prices up. I’m at a bar, I want to relax. I don’t want to be doing arithmetic and wondering if I’ve offended the beer monkey.
Don’t be relying on me to make up any deficit you feel you have in your wages.
I bought a new vacuum cleaner in Curry’s yesterday. Great service. Lassie was really nice, chatty, helpful. Did she get a tip? No. Is she on a decent wage? No. Do you think I should have tipped her?
And she'll be told directly to fuck off
I guess it's a cultural thing. Maybe you take your food more seriously.
Nice one . Perhaps you can share this term with Rab so he can truly express his contempt for the working class of Boston?
Trump is a lying gangster. There, I don’t have to try and travel now as they don’t let me in now anyway.
They make the calculation for you and suggest a sum on the bill ... with a card payment you can normally just push a button and add 10, 15 or 20 per cent as the tip.
I’m sure Rab will get on just fine on his own. Incidentally, when I was younger, I spent time working in pubs that would make you void your bowels just by seeing from across the road. I know working class. But I don’t respect whining because you have a job that doesn’t pay you enough money without demanding it from me.
Makes it a tiny bit more palatable, but not enough. Good service and above merits a tip. Average and below doesn’t. Tipping whatever the service is fucking ridiculous.
No axe at all. Harry always says he wants to be Spurs top scorer, England’s top scorer etc etc . Players like that often play for the,selves. Take a free kick, Harry although he has only ever scored from 1 for us that I can remember. Just 1 more though and he’s nearer a record.
I've been to Boston, Chicago, and New York in the last 18 months. I saw very little difference in the service on offer to what I experience in Europe. The best service I've experienced was in Japan. Ironically, tipping in Japan is not culturally acceptable.
For the most part, I find that if you are open and friendly with service staff, you get a good service. I usually give a modest tip if the service is average, and a decent tip if it's good. In general, I find that I give good tips far more often than not.
That sucks.
No. Don’t.
Blow you mate.