To ask, Who do you tip and how much

[Tangerineandturquoise]

Hairdressers are my reason for asking today, I want to get my hair cut in a salon, I don't know who I tip and when or whether I should.
Prices for wet cuts are £35-70 if that helps at all?

Door men and porters at hotels, is another minefield.
Bar staff have now started having tips jars and coffee bars but I am not so sure about these especially as the concept is so new

Everyone seems to want a tip-and I do want to be fair

I never tip my hairdresser. She has a bigger (pricier) house than I do.

I always tip my hairdresser £10 but that's because she still charges me the special offer price from when the salon first opened. I figure it's win win!

Taxi drivers usually round up by a couple of quid (unless they take the piss - some don't run it through the metre etc).

Usually don't tip takeaway delivery people because of paying online but if I pay cash I tend to round up/say keep the change.

Waiting staff usually get a minimum of 10% , more if excellent service.

Furniture deliveries etc I tend to tip as we live in a block of flats with no lift. Some delivery companies state they will only deliver to the front door but in practice I've always found people are willing to bring it up to me. A tenner between them is money well spent in my mind.

I should add that I budget these tips into the costs of things and what I tip generously for are rare purchases.

I don't think I've had my hair cut for less than £50 in the last 15 years. Where on earth do you all live for it to be so cheap!?

I don't tip hairdressers or beauty therapists.

I don't tip taxis, they are extortionate round my way about £8-10 per mile.

I tip 10-15% in restaurants who don't add service.

I 'give a drink' to furniture movers, carpet layers, gardeners and some tradesmen/one off services (We call it give a drink in our trade family, just means bung em a tenner and say 'cheers have a drink on me' type thing)

I don't tip anyone for doing what I'm paying them to do. If I think they've gone that bit further, I'll tip what k can justify/think they deserve.

Putting a tip in the jar at a coffee shop for the person who made me a £3-00 cup of coffee? No chance.

I don't tip unless the service has been beyond the basics.
I worked in retail and my wife currently still does. Retail workers work their asses off serving customers (at least in the stores we work/ed in) and most of the time don't even get a thank you never mind a tip.

Unless the service is terrible I'll always tip at least 10% in a restaurant, maybe 15/20 if they are very good. I also tend to go back to the same places a lot, whether we are treated nicely is because we are regular or because of the tips i don't know, but I'm sure we've benefitted from it (tables without booking when busy, always helpful with the kids etc)

Taxi drivers and hairdressers also get a small tip 9 times out of 10, never thought about it but perhaps it's because both of those people, if they do a bad job, it will cost you (walking around with bad hair, higher fare because of detours etc)

Can't think of any other regular tipping times. Tend to take give wine and beer to the nursery staff and posty at Christmas.

Always tip my hairdresser and give the junior who washes my hair a pound or two. Always used to round up at a beauty salon and round to the nearest pound in a UK cabs. I give a 10% tip for airport runs and they've helped with suitcases and car seats. I will pay 10% for meals but in cash so the waiting staff get it. I won't pay if the service was bad. Never ever tip for delivery drivers or for coffees or in chain snack bars. If I get a penny or two in change I put it in the charity box instead.

Hairdresser's - if they've been lovely and I'm happy with my hair (v rare) £5

Bars/Pubs - always say 'take your own' which here means 10p-30p in a grotty pub up to £1 in a swanky city center bar. If particularly good service/they're looking stressed and harassed sometimes I give them more because I was a barmaid for years and I feel sorry for them.

Taxi's - will round up to the nearest pound for private hires, cabs are usually a rip off though so don't tip (and they are generally dodgy buggers here the black cab drivers)

Hotel Porters - never stayed anywhere swanky enough

Waiters - 10/15% unless they've been rude or rushed us.

Takeaway delivery's - depends if a chain then I'll round upto the pound if it's a local one (then generally not paid min wage) a couple of quid.

Once when I was bladdered I tipped a checkout lady at ASDA on Christmas eve eve

Hairdressers/manicurist/masseuse- tip if it's an employee, not if it's an owner. TBH now try to use mobile services for this, as then I know the fee is mostly about the person's time not rent on a shop front. I have regular people who I am more likely to give them something like a bottle of wine at Xmas, bring back some nice chocolate when I am on holiday etc.

Cabs- round up to nearest £, add on an extra quid or two sometimes if rounding up is only 10p. However if driver doesn't offer me my change or has taken me the scenic route then I ask for my change.

Meals- 10% for just ok service, 12.5% for standard service, 15% for good service 20% for outstanding service, 25% on New Year's Eve/Xmas or other unsocial working hours special occasion. avoid place si know keep tips liek the plague.

Bars/coffee shops- change in jar/"keep the change" of they've been chatty/friendly gone out of their way or if they are extremely busy and have managed to keep cheerful and pleasant despite being run off their feet.

But we're not in the US. This is primarily a UK site.
Also ocado, tesco, asda etc delivery drivers are told not to accept tips.

When I worked (briefly) for JS food delivery we weren't allowed to take tips (though some did).

I recently found out that some restaurant chains policy is not to give tips from card payments to the staff member. So if you add a gratuity to the card payment, it's highly likely the shop-floor staff will never see it. Apparently this is quite common and legal. Where does it go? Back into their large profit margin?! So I only tip now if I have pound coins.

Which brings me onto an overheard conversation in a salon between two junior staff, one of whom was trying not to be offended by a tip that involved a customer emptying her purse and handing over coppers and silver coins.

What a minefield! Was the customer wrong to tip change? What if you actually offend the recipient and they think you have devalued their service?

So I don't tip hairdresser.. £70 with foils cut dry& styling.

And now on the rare occasion I do tip, it's a pound coins or two in case I offend!!

Most restaurants say on the menu (sometimes in v small print!) if tips on a card go to the staff and how they're divvied up. But don't be afraid to ask, if you need to.

As for the hairdresser scenario, I don't think I'd give coppers but would happily hand over a pound in 20ps or something. But I think it was a bit unprofessional of this person to talk about it to her colleague, and ungracious to be offended by it; a tip is a tip and should always, IMO, be viewed as a bonus, no matter what the size.

I've done plenty of bar and waiting work and ANYTHING was always appreciated. It's the gesture more than anything else.

Taxi, I round up to the nearest pound, or if it was something like £8.80 I'd probably give them the £10.

In cafes and restaurants I also tend to round up rather than going for 10% or whatever - so if the bill say comes to £54 I round it up to £60 but the same if it's £58 so they win some and lose some. When I can I leave the tip as cash. I don't tip at all if the service is rubbish but have never been brave enough to ask for a service charge to be removed if it was rubbish!

I don't tip anyone else and try to carry my own bags in a hotel to avoid having to tip. You pay enough in an expensive hotel for the hotel management to pay a living wage.

I own a small bar and all tips received on card or cash are devided up daily between the chef and the waiting staff. Really does vary according to nationality. My team love the American customers!

I barely tip anyone, I don't earn much above minimum wage myself so I'm not about to start handing out free money for no reason. That said, I will tip if service is exceptional, because that's what tipping exists for. It's recognition of service that goes beyond standard expectations, so only when that occurs do I tip, and then I tip generously.

I have no qualms about not giving waiting staff a tip if they do nothing but the basics of their job, same goes for hairdressers, beauticians etc. I wouldn't even begin to consider tipping a delivery person or a postman/bin man that I'm likely to have less than a minutes contact with if I see them at all, that just seems daft to me. If they don't have the opportunity to provide exceptional service, then they don't need tips.

Hairdresser- Around £5.
Food delivery- £2.
Taxi- £2 roughly.
Restaurants- All depends but around 15%. 20% at our regular place as they look after us exceptionally well.
Bar staff who have served us food usually get a drink offered.
Postman gets something for Xmas.

I tip my hairdresser because she washes as well as cuts my hair. They only charge £25 anyway so I usually give an extra £3, or £5 at Christmas.

I tip 10% in restaurants.

I tip the hand carwash blokes. They charge £10 to do inside and out and are fast and good so I give an extra £2.

I used to offer barstaff a drink but don't go to pubs often any more.

I once offered the Sainsburys driver £5 for delivering in the snow two days before Christmas but he declined emphatically. Said they weren't allowed to accept tips.

What's the difference?

I live in a tipping culture (US), but a receptionist, cashier, etc., provides a much less personal service than someone who cuts my hair or does my nails, and they don't wait on me at the level of a server at a restaurant. It's not the same, IMO. I have no idea what a lollipop lady is. Does she hand out lollipops?

I tip:
Waitstaff at restaurants
Hair stylist
Nail tech
Garbage man
Mailman
Delivery people
Porters and housekeepers at hotels

I'm sure there are others, but I can't think of any right now.

Why don't you tip cashiers in supermarkets then steff13?

Taxis - round up but at least £1 (more if longer journey/especially helpful)
Hairdresser - used to tip £5 on a £45 cut but resented it a bit as seemed 'expected', and the £45 started to feel like a rip off anyway! I tip £2/£2.50 on DS's £9.50 cut at a walk in place and they seem genuinely pleased and act like it isn't expected.
Restaurants - up to 10% if full table service. Obviously more if in US/Candada!
Take-away delivery - £2 ish

Don't really like the whole tipping thing - would rather pay more on the actual price. It has definitely put me off hairdressers/beauticians and I think I use both services less as a result.

I hate tipping but I'm getting used to how to work out how much and - crucially - how to hand it over without being awkward

Well I felt quite empowered but by this thread- I paid for my haircut and didn't tip as I often don't but didn't feel bad as knew I wasn't the only non tipper in the hair client world.
I used to have a hairdresser and he was AMAZING and (for me) expensive-but I was warned that he doesn't give second appointments to people who don't tip. My friend's wife briefed me, he did a good job though and I have never found another hairdresser who is as good.
I don't tip DS swim teacher (1:1) but I do get a small gift at Christmas
10-15% seems to jump on to restaurant bills DH often leaves a bit extra if service is very good, me not so much but we do always check that the staff receive credit card/bill payment tips otherwise we work around that.
It had never occurred to me to tip the supermarket driver, but I know abroad I have because they get paid a lot less or it's a family business.

I think we are drifting towards a tipping culture