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West Ender · 03-02-2008, 13:43

I will tip 10% for good service in a restaurant, more if the service is exceptional - both here and abroad. I don't like places that add a service charge but haven't yet had the courage to tell them to deduct it from my bill.

Why should anyone expect a tip anyway, much less impose one in the form of service charge? The whole point of their existence, be it restaurant, pub, taxi, hairdresser etc., is to serve you. The waiter in a restaurant is there to bring your food, serve it on your plate if it's silver service, put a whiff of black pepper on it from a ridiculously large pepper mill if it's Italian/Greek/Turkish. If he didn't do it, it would be a cafeteria and he wouldn't have a job. The same goes for taxi drivers, it's their job to drive you from A to B, and hairdressers are there to cut your hair.

Having said all that I would never not tip - because I'm too conventional - unless the service was bad. In that case I would tell them so - but I wouldn't wait until the end of my meal.

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West Ender Passed away 25-11-09 Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Lymm, Cheshire Posts: 2,674 Blog Entries: 147 Liked: 2 times Rep Power: 193	Re: what rules do you follow when givng a tip I will tip 10% for good service in a restaurant, more if the service is exceptional - both here and abroad. I don't like places that add a service charge but haven't yet had the courage to tell them to deduct it from my bill. Why should anyone expect a tip anyway, much less impose one in the form of service charge? The whole point of their existence, be it restaurant, pub, taxi, hairdresser etc., is to serve you. The waiter in a restaurant is there to bring your food, serve it on your plate if it's silver service, put a whiff of black pepper on it from a ridiculously large pepper mill if it's Italian/Greek/Turkish. If he didn't do it, it would be a cafeteria and he wouldn't have a job. The same goes for taxi drivers, it's their job to drive you from A to B, and hairdressers are there to cut your hair. Having said all that I would never not tip - because I'm too conventional - unless the service was bad. In that case I would tell them so - but I wouldn't wait until the end of my meal. __________________ * Some cinemas let the flying monkeys in............and some don't.