Friends didn't "tip"....bit tight?

[tvsavec]

Me and three friends went to a little family run Greek restaurant.
The bill came to around £80 for four of us.
At the end of the meal
Friend 1 put £2 on the table and I also put £2
Friend 3 said "is that for a tip"
We said yeah.....she shouts for the waiter and hands him the £4 and says thanks
They didn't bother to put a couple of pound in each

Aibu to think it's a bit tight?

To me tipping £2 Is as much of an insult.
Is that all it was worth @tvsavec .
And did the 4th person tip or not.
You don't seem to have mentioned them.

Yes they’re tight. And people saying you shouldn’t tip are also tight and making excuses.

Not tipping restaurant staff will not change the pay structure system.

Not tipping restaurant staff will not help other sector staff to get tips / paid better.

it’s not a race to the bottom.

It’s tight. End of. I hate it and would think twice about going out with people who didn’t tip.

Exactly 😂

I usually tip, unless I think the food/service was poor. Wouldn’t just someone for not tipping though. Maybe she thought the price was already steep enough for the quality.

@LyingWitchInTheWardrobe It was everything that went through sevice in the dining room, so it embraced breakfast, lunch, afternoon teas and dinner, including the KPs.

^ judge

I think I am going to start asking my boyfriend for a tip for all the meals I cook and serve to the table 😂after all its a personal service he is getting, food cooked, dished up and delivered to him

I think it's tight, and also cheeky of her to hand over the money when she hadn't contributed to it.

But if each person tipped £2 that's 10% which is £8 in total, it's hardly stingy.

No, their commission is the equivalent of the menu price of the restaurant. By 'tipping' logic they should also receive a tip

@BitOutOfPractice
Tipping when the service is bare minimum/rushed/poor and the food quality/price ratio isn’t great is a bit stupid in my opinion. What are you tipping for exactly? IMO you tip to show appreciation of a job well done. I’ll happily round up a quid for a taxi but why throw in another £10 on a £100 meal if the experience wasn’t that great on any level?

I earn £9.92 an hour working a desk job. How am I right if I don't tip my server who earns £10 per hour basic wage, with £8-£10 per hour on top with tips?

I haven't pulled these figures out of my ass btw, these rates were being advertised at the beginning of the season.

I despise people who don't tip.

*how am I tight, that should say!

I always tip out of politeness and habit I guess, but I would never judge someone for not tipping, that’s up to them.

You only tipped 2 quid yourself - up to you of course, I generally just round up unless the service is very exceptional, but I don’t know how you can get on a high horse about tipping when you were hardly generous yourself…

(ime in general) In chain restaurants waiters don’t directly receive tips if it’s paid by card, but if you give actual cash they keep it.

I worked years on min wage when it was circa 5.50 am hour but as it wasn't a restaurant never got tipped.

Why should I have been further impoverished to subsidise someone else's wage?

Really scummy people on here trying to force everyone to tip by shaming them.

Fatoaf, where's the logic in that? Surely generosity is an attribute needed to be a good lover

You haven't said why.

Despite what someone said above, most restaurants either pool the tips so the person who served you doesn't get it (or all of it) or they just nick the money altogether. And if you tip cash and the person who served you keeps it, they can lose their job. It's all wrong.

The government was supposed to be doing something about it, but it hasn't.

Yes, but some places say that if you get cash you have to put it in the general pot and then it either gets divided out, or the manager/owner takes it for themselves.

that would be 10% of her share, that's pretty standard

There is legislation coming to ensure that restaurants can’t keep tips - The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill.

I worked for the chain Brunning and Price during uni. They added all the tips up and then divided by the total number of hours worked by all of the staff (including the cleaners, pot wash, chefs etc). This produced an hourly rate for tips that we received at the end of our shift. Any tips on card were taken from the cash in the till. It was a great system, the tips for the manager were all put into a big jar which paid for extra drinks at the Christmas party on top of what was provided by the chain. The best and fairest way to do it I think!

The bit that would annoy me os that your friend collected your tip, called the waiter and passed it off as their own! What a CF!?! 🧐

Yeah it’s tight and it’s not very nice, they know the culture it tipping and the servers earn very low wages, tips are discretionary and make up th difference for them, if the service was good you should tip. I’d think less of them for not.

Never tip and never will and if they add a service charge I tell them to take it off. Pay your staff a decent salary or charge more for the meal and ill decide if I want to pay.

I could not give a toss if people have an issue with it. Get a better job if you want that extra pay, like the rest of us.