Tight friends taking my tip to cover their meal costs

[alid117]

Just been out for a meal with group of friends & some of their friends for a shared birthday. Lovely evening all agreed at start just to pay for what we have to eat and drink as some driving and some not - quite organised. Four out of the 14 of us worked out our share plus £5 tip added on each (great service from staff) then pasted on the receipt down to next lot. At the end heard one of the girls go to the waiter ‘sorry it’s not a huge tip’ and when asked how much had they left was told just £6!!! WTF!!! I was literally gagged by friend who didn’t want a scene...CF alert!

Disgusting behaviour

There really is no end to some people’s cheek. Cheeky tight b’s but more fool your friend for not letting you say anything. A quick what happened to our £20 tip would have been ok

Maybe I'm coming over as a tight arse now, but I wouldnt say £6 is a small amount.
I mean yes it's not a lot, but it's certainly not a little either. If they got that off every table. They wouldn't be doing so bad

they effectively stole your money, you didn't need to make a scene to say it, this is why people like that keep doing shit like this, people keep letting them

I wouldn’t want to go out with them again. Surprised no one said anything.

I would say £6 out of a table is a small amount awwlook*

Table of 14

It was a meal for 14 people! Unless they dined at McDonalds, it's an incredibly mean tip. I've had people do this to me, OP, so now I always chuck my share for the meal in, and then at the end announce "And £xx for the tip from me". Usually everyone else then chips in for the tip.

wow that is so cheeky! Next time keep your tip separate and hand it directly to the staff.

Sorry I think I read that wrong. Your friend took money from everyone to pay for her food. Instead of passing on the money for the tip Have I got that right.
If so That's not just cheeky fuckeryness. It's stealing.

£6 is a small amount if you have eaten £50 worth of food.

I think you need to contact the people who left less than the cost of the food they ate and ask them to return the shortfall of what they actually ate to what they paid so that it can be returned to the other diners.

They have stolen.

So either no one else put a little tip in and someone else didn't pay enough or a few people have basically had a free meal! I'd have had to say something! Everyone has the choice to tip, but they don't have the right to use money others have given for themselves!

I probably would have shouted down the table 'well £5 was from me, £5 from Jill, £5 from Mary, £5 from Bill - I demand a recount!'.

But then I only hate I will thing more than meanness and that's stealing.

Disgusting. I used to eat out with someone who never left a tip even for great service. It's just mean and frankly quite embarrassing. Yours is even worse. Just awful behaviour.

Disgusting behaviour. I have a very close group of friends and we’ve known each other since school. One girl was told in no uncertain terms that she was no longer welcome at our get to togethers after regularly pulling shit like this. If it was a case of lack of funds then I’d be more sympathetic but we knew 110% that this wasn’t the case.

YANBU

Everyone agreed to pay for what they used and they didn’t Cheeky As Fuck. They have effectively stolen your money!

£6 between 14 is only 42 pence tip per person so they have stolen £4.58 from you and your 3 friends, never mind what anyone else tipped

So that’s £60 missing - a few people put nothing in? Unless not many people put a £5 tip in? I think that’s more likely. If I was asked to pay my share plus a tip at a large group meal I would add a couple of quid. I wouldn’t tell anyone what tip they had to put in. And if anyone told me I had to put a fiver in I wouldn’t be impressed and would prob refuse. A fiver is a lot per person.

That is stealing, plain and simple.

Awlook, at least £20 was put in as a tip by the OP and the friends with her. It was then nicked by the people further down.

Scummy!

WHY does no one ever say anything to fuckers like this? I'll never understand that. All 14 of you sat there po-faced and let your so-called mates rip you off and the server, too? This is how people get away with this. These people are NOT friends. Friends don't steal off you. Can't believe no one's called them and still no one's saying anything to them. If you lay down like a rug, don't be surprised if people wipe their feet on you.

That's theft op, not bad manners.

And don't let this turn into a "we never tip and that's fine" thread these people reasonably and decently decided to tip and a thief stole that tip. Simple as that.

Maybe I'm coming over as a tight arse now, but I wouldnt say £6 is a small amount.
I mean yes it's not a lot, but it's certainly not a little either. If they got that off every table. They wouldn't be doing so bad

So missing the point and beside which it sounds like a decent size group so proportionally it doesn't sound great.
I wouldn't have been able to keep quiet in my friend's tried to rip me and my other friends off.

Did you agree on tips beforehand? Not everyone agrees with tipping.

Yi can't quite believe what I have read. Someone has stolen £14 ( or more if more people added some tips). I'm sure if someone didn't have cash on them, you would have lent it to them, but to steal it!