Tipping in Restaurants?

I always tip in restaurants, hairdressers and when l have a manicure, I've always done it and would feel a ( tight wad ) if l didn't.. l always feel that they expect it...

Depends on where I am and if it's good or not. It also depends on if its there's a service charge or not

We never tip they get their wages

It depends. I don’t usually but if someone has gone out of their way to provide a really good service and I feel it’s deserved I would.

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I like to tip if I feel the service has been good enough. A while back we had excellent service from a young lady who was clearly being overworked due to lack of staff but was still really good and friendly. but when we came to pay she mentioned that the ability to add a tip to the bill and pay by card wasn't working - most people were paying by card so she was loosing out on a lot of tips - felt awful for her.

I don't think the sort of places I mainly go to you would tip. I think if I left a £2 tip on a wetherspoons table the chance of it still being there when one of the staff cleared my table is extremely unlikely and Hungry Horse is much the same. I did leave a tip at Pizza Express though. Is there a tipping culture for pubs? It doesn't feel like there is. There certainly isn't a tipping culture for McDonalds or Burger King (not that I use those). I don't really go to proper restaurants myself very often.

If they already add a service charge, then no. But if they don’t, then yes, and usually as a token gesture

It depends. If the service has been exceptional then yes we will tip a few pounds but most of the time we don't. We don't eat out often anyway.

It really all depends on what type of restaurant I was eating in, some I do and some I don't, it really all depends on the service and food.

Yes I tip or should I say I make my husband tip. Always a cash tip so I know it doesn’t go in the owners pocket.

I use too, but meals and drinks are so expensive now, do we don't eat out as much as we use too

Yes. I am not a heathen

Yes if the food and service is worth it.

I always tip . After working as a waitress and not getting a good wage . Tips helped especially as the tax man taxes them . Also tip my hairdresser and nail lady too

Having been in the industry for a long time until recently I do tip and cash if possible. Card tips usually are shared and taxed. Cash tips are supposed to be declared as a second income. Historically hospitality has been a poor paid industry. Supplemented by gratuities. that said it has improved. Full time +21 min wage is now nearer £26k and skilled jobs such as a good level chef command decent wages now. sous chef £35k head chef £45-50k around here. Front of house still lagging behind though

I always tip 10% of food cost, in restaurants as long as service was good. Won't add it to the bill unless I know it goes to the staff. Don't agree with automatic service charge and woo forbid if the American tipping culture comes over here! In the UK staff are paid to do the job not for the tip to top up poor pay.

Don’t mind tipping for good service, but hate when it’s added to bill as much as 20%, you’re then embarrassed into leaving this amount, I was in a restaurant the other week the bill was £456 with 20% tip this is outrageous, why do we not tip milkmen every morning? They get up at 1 or 2am in all weathers but we don’t tip them, this tipping culture has come from America and it’s got worse since Covid.

We never tip at all.Eating out is expensive enough without added extras to consider.

If you can afford to tip then why not

Usually yes, but when I get asked to find my own seat and order on an app I don’t feel the staff have earned a tip!

I have a birthday voucher for Ego Mediterranean Restaurant in Sheffield where I will celebrate my birthday a week early this Friday as my daughter is home for a few day..

I get a FREE Starter, Main & Dessert when my partner or daughter orders the same, we did this the other year & it saved us £35+

It's on the edge of the Peak District near Sheffield so we have to get a taxi.

We will leave a tip..

I went to a small Mexican Restaurant for my sister's 60th last Thursday, we didn't tip as far as I know but we settled our share of the bill by sending money to my sister who had organised her birthday meal..

I always tip my hairdresser, she's done my sister & their daughter's hair, she does my sister's granddaughter's too. My hairdresser has done my daughter's hair since she was a tot & used to French Pleat it for FREE, she started charging £7 as my daughter grew up & then £10 during Covid she asked if she could charge £10, I tsaid yes, I'm surprised you haven't charged it already..My daughter is 25, she washes her own hair, our hairdresser cuts , styles & sets it..

Unless there's a service charge added as I dislike the assumption that I'll tip, I always tip. I don't understand people who don't tbh. An extra £1 or £2 on a rare occasion out is hardly bank breaking.

I went out for a special occasion with friends last week & between us we left a ten pound tip. It's a rarity we tip so much but we felt we'd got more than our moneys worth on the deal, food & staff service to our table were exceptionally good.

I tip if I receive good service, but don’t feel guilty if I don’t as it’s my choice.

Nope not for me. I don't understand this fascination of tipping for a service etc, we're not America