To think we should all stop tipping now?

I don’t tip my hairdresser all the time just sometimes. I keep telling her she should put her prices up (she and 2 friends own the salon) but they don’t.

Restaurants almost always add service charge to the bill and sometime if bad service we don’t pay it (rare).

Nothing to do with tips just making a point I won’t actually be getting £11.44

I work in a school and because I have the holidays it takes at least 2.50 PER HOUR out of my wages to pay for the holidays …so that means my hourly rate is brought down by at least 2.50 an hour

I wasn’t tipping anyway most times. It doesn’t make sense here.

Another one of those things British have blindly imported from America. The main reason they do it in there is because they’re not paying the staff minimum wage. So their tips make up the wages from what I understand?

I used to work in a call centre making minimum wage and as a TA doing difficult work in school and would never get tips, yet I’d be expected to pay a tip at a restaurant when the person is getting paid the same as me or more - no chance!

If I receive exceptionally good service I might occasionally tip, like the Uber drive who I had an excellent conversation with while I was travelling in his car for an hour in America or the waiter who kept tnr restaurants open and didn’t rush me and my boyfriend despite the fact it was only us two in the whole evening! But I don’t do it routinely no. My hairdresser has high enough prices and she even charges more if she has to spend more time Doing something eg. Detangling your hair which is fair enough but I’m not going to add a tip on top of that.

And I’ve noticed companies make the option for tipping everywhere now - like places where you have counter service. It’s ridiculous. If you want to pay your workers more do that.

I hate tipping. I never know how much and feel everything is dear enough.

But you don’t need to tip here? It’s totally a personal choice. No one cares if you do or don’t. So… stop if you want or keep going if you want or make a choice on a case by case basis.

I spent a lot of time working in hospitality when I was younger and don't get me wrong, tips were great, but it's such an odd culture in this country (compared to, say, the US, where it's understood that tips go towards an individual's take-home pay. I think that's wrong, but that's probably an argument for another day).

Why do we habitually tip waiters, but not checkout assistants? Or taxi drivers, but not bus drivers? Beauticians, but not the man or woman who cleans the changing rooms at the gym?

I'll still tip my hairdresser who earns more than minimum wage, and taxi drivers and take away delivery drivers. Because I want to.