to think that you should not tip the waiter in small change?

[AdmiralButterfly]

I was taken for lunch and the person paying emptied their coin purse onto a plate as the tip - the amount was fine, probably about a tenner in loose change for a £70 meal, but I thought it was a bit crap for the waitress to have to carry loads of 10p and 20p pieces (and some pound coins) around in their bum bag for the rest of their shift. I did raise an eyebrow and they (the person paying) said they thought it was fine as long as the amount was ok.

Maybe you could have offered to pay the tip as a token of gratitude for the meal. I would always offer to leave the tip if my meal was being paid for by someone else. You could have left whatever you felt was suitable legal tender.

You 'raised an eyebrow' at someone who paid your lunch and tipped generously? Are you always so unpleasant?

As long as the amount is OK, as a waitress i wouldn't have minded lots of coins that made up the tip. It's the ones who leave loads of change that adds up to about 50 pence but they do it so it looks like they are leaving decent tip but they don't that annoy.

If I’m gonna tip, I’m gonna tip whatever I’ve got 🤷🏼‍♀️