To not tip (in the UK?)

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I've just been reading the tipping in America thread with interest, and it got me thinking about tips here in the UK.
Do you tip? I don't. Even if I think the service was lovely. They're getting paid to do their job, and if the argument is that they don't get paid much so it tops up their wages, then surely that's their employers fault - they should pay them more.
Which they're never going to do, are they, if the customers are going to pay their staff for them.
Eating out is a lot of money to people at the moment (well, it is here anyway!) so to have to pay out even more is sometimes hard.
As for hairdressers?! It wouldn't even occur to me. They get paid for the job they do.
Surely I'm not the only one who doesn't tip?
Never posted an AIBU so don't be too mean.

I only tip if part of a large group
Otherwise, no

No YANBU

I am in Ireland and I do not tip my hairdresser,my leg waxer, the taxi driver. I tip a small amount in restaurants because that has always been the culture I guess. America is different, their prices are lower. We are guilted into tpping over here even though our prices our more than theirs.

Nice welsh, nice!

Yes, I tip:

hairdresser
taxi drivers
waiting staff
bin men at Christmas
cleaner at Christmas

I think it is certainly unusual not to tip in a restaurant and possibly a little unreasonable given that it is the norm.

ps, it also feels extremely fake for me a single parent (on a tight budget if ever there was one) to be tipping people who have jobs and are in a better position financially than I am. It's just not something I am prepared to do, just to appear generous. I AM generous to my friends and family but I can't afford to be generous to strangers who are doing their job.

I always, always tip.
I also check if they get the money if I tip on my card or only if I leave cash.

I think not tipping if you can't afford it is one thing, not tipping really good service because 'why should you' is mean.

I tip in restaurants, but don't hesitate to leave nothing if the service is crap. And occasionally I'll tp hairdressers, but that depends more on how much money I have and again, I'd only do it if the service was really good.

I never tip anyone else.

YANBU to not tip, but it seems a bit mean to decide in advance that you are never going to.

I tip but will withhold if service is bad. I make a point of it in restaurants where the tip is 'helpfully' already added to the bill.

Otherwise though yes will always try to acknowledge good service.

I think YABU, it's relative.

My hairdresser does a beautiful job on my hair and is so reasonable and gets a nice tip every time.

I went to Loch Vine last week and it was lovely and so expensive! I did tip as it was a student who looked like he could be related to my own DS but was a bit 'ouch'!

"Never posted an AIBU so don't be too mean"

Way to go welsh

Sometimes I do sometimes I don't. Always pay by card and not everywhere gives the option. Not mad on leaving cash on tables.

The cost of eating out has risen markedly both because prices have gone up and because the DDs don't want kids menus any more.

If the service is good - always 10 %. If the waiter/waitress doesn't do a good job then I don't tip - as in, they forget items they are asked for several times or have an offhand attitude. If the service is very good or in a large group, more than 10%.

But then I worked as a waitress as a teenager and I know how important tips are to students who are working for minimum wage.

I eat out very occasionally. The bottom line for me is that my budget is tight and it's all a struggle and if people like welsh think i'm a tightfisted cunt then I'll live with it I guess, but what I can't live with is realising I've no money for milk and bread because I tipped a waitress 15% when 8-10% would have done well enough. The FEAR of appearing to be a tightfisted cunt is not MY BIGGEST FEAR.

You think it being your first outing into AIBU will protect you?

If you don't want to tip, then don't.

I was a waitress for years and of course the tips were handy, nobody's going to deny 'free' money is a good thing.

But I didn't ever judge a person if they didn't tip, it's purely up to them, I took the job and stayed there knowing full well what basic wages I would get per hour worked.

Non-tippers aren't stingy, tightfisted cunts, those people were our bosses bosses, the people who set our wages.

Welsh Ooh, what a charmer. Why should people automatically have to tip or get called such a lovely name (not) like you just did?!
Do other professions get the general public to pay their wages for them? No, they don't.
If people want to tip, fine. If they don't then they don't. To be called a *unt because they don't want to is ridiculous.

I tip if the service is good but only a small amount, we don't eat out at posh restaurants so I don't feel the need to go overboard with the tip. If the waiter/waitress is climbing up my arse for a tip I don't tip. Maybe I'm a bitch.

I more or less always tip 10%, even if the service hasn't been great. My dd works in the kitchen of a busy pub. She earns £4 an hour and relies on her tips. I worked in a restaurant all through Uni and relied on my tips too, the pay is abysmal.

I do leave a tip, if I cannot afford a tip, I cannot afford to eat out!

AgentZigzag was a plaintive plea for people to go gentle although fully aware not a chance in here,lol

If a service charge is included in the price of a meal I don't tip.

Also, I come from another country - we don't tip our hairdressers or beauticians. We do however 'tip' the garage attendant and the car guard.

I think minimum wage regulations have made tipping fairly pointless. The argument was that waitresses etc. were on low wages so relied on tips to make up the shortfall.

Service staff now get paid the same as shop workers, receptionists, factory workers, cleaners and hundreds of other jobs. If service is outstanding then I will tip but not if it's just good. We should expect it to be good. The lady in my local bakery is lovely but I don't give her an extra 10%.

i don't tip. i think the price stated should be the price paid.