To leave a £1.60 tip?

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Went out to our local pizzeria. Service was fine but they forgot to bring our olives to start. There was a service charge of 10%. Bill came to £43.40. So I said to the waiter, alright, maybe it £45?

So £1.60 tip plus £4.34 service. DP has chastised me all the way home and said how I embarrassed him. I should have left nothing yada yada.

In Italy or Spain, you only ever leave a few coins as a tip. So I presumed it would be fine to do with italians at a pizzeria!

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6 quid on 40? Before the service charge. That's fine. And I'm quite a good tipper.

I thought the service charge was the tip.

Well, I personally would not have left a tip at all ... It's the 21st century. There's no need to give a tip to anyone, as virtually everybody in unskilled labour in every job is on the same minimum wage. Nobody's on £1.50 an hour anymore, while other people are on £4.50 an hour. So there's absolutely no need to tip.

You don't tip the checkout operator in Tesco, or the cleaner in the toilet you use in the shopping centre, or the delivery driver who brings your packages from Amazon, so why tip people bringing the pizza to your table?

I agree with your partner, You did not need to leave a tip at all. And especially not with there being a (very cheeky) service charge of four pounds something!

The service charge is the tip? So you left 6 quid?

I wouldn't leave a tip on top of a service charge for a meal for two, but I also think service charges for two people are stupid in the first place.

Surely when a service charge is added you don't need to leave a tip on top? Isn't that the whole point?

A service charge is a tip. 🤦‍♀️

And in the UK everyone gets paid minimum wage so there is no mandatory socially acceptable minimum. Are you in the UK? You can leave whatever you feel like, even zero.

I don’t tip if there’s a service charge - it’s the same thing in my mind. So you left a little more than I would have. I think it’s fine.

I would have thought the service charge was the tip and what you left was just bonus tip

You left two tips.

Rounding up is fine, though you only need to tip when there's no service charge (unless the service was exceptional, and even then I wouldn't add anything to the service charge - I'd just thank them)

You don't need to leave a tip in the UK ever.

The whole point of service charges is to add an extra fee and hope that customers will feel too embarrassed and awkward to ask for it to be removed and the bill corrected.

Service charges are not quite the same as tips in that the money doesn't necessarily go to your particular serving staff. So if you wanted to recognise good service by an individual, a tip is more likely to do that.

You don’t need to tip! Do you have to pay a service charge ?

Are these questions?

It's fine. You just left a little extra. Your DP is overreacting hugely - he sounds like the kind of person who ruins an evening over nothing?

Your DH is a prick.

Service charge on its own is fine, as it is the tip, as is bumping a bit like you did. Totally fine. you tipped £6 rather that the lesser amount they had added.

Your husband sounds very unpleasant!

Service charge is the tip. Service charges irritate me. I waitressed for 20 years on and off, so I appreciate a tip, but I hate service charges. Quite often, I'd tip far more than the service charge is but won't if its assumed.

We went to a pub restaurant place in London, they had the damned cheek to add the service charge. We sent back dds food twice. My food was incomplete.
Dh was fuming and demanded the service charge was removed and we’d give a tip if we saw fit. We didn’t, we paid for the awful food and left zero.

Service charge is a tip. If I had good service I’d always leave 10%

I hate when people say oh but staff in Tesco don’t get tips. It’s all part and parcel of their job.

having worked in a shop and worked in Hospitality, hospitality is 100% a much harder job work wise. You don’t stop. I’ve worked in shops and you can skive, that does not happen in hospitality. Hospitality is full on from the minute you start until the minute you finish, most of these staff are 16, 17 &18 who are paid much less than a 23 yr old on minimum age for doing the exact same job.

Your DH's sentiment is spot on. If you can afford it you should tip well but he's not right to berate you. There was nothing stopping him opening his own wallet.

If service is included I don’t tip.