How long is acceptable to wait in the salon for your appointment?

[ThatCyanSheep]

Just that really. Currently at the salon and my stylist is running at least half an hour behind, I’ve been waiting for 25 minutes as it stands. She knows I’m here and told me to take a seat, but I’m just wondering how long you’d wait before saying something?!

This. I sent my 16yo DD in to get prom highlights whilst I was at work, and said to her, “Be sure to tell Kate to add £5 to the machine as a tip before you swipe your card.”

Rubbish. The vast majority of British people never tip.

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While I think some countries generally have a tipping culture, or not, perhaps in borderline countries it depends on the example set by those around you. I would tip the same people my parents tipped - wait staff, beauty services, hotel staff, takeaway delivery person. I learned from tv that is not customary to tip the business owner! I don't know if it would have occurred to me to tip the hairdresser if I hadn't seen my mum do it (and something for the person who washes my hair).

If I found out that tipping = quality of service, I would not be going back there!

In England, from what I have seen, tipping is not standard: some people do and some don't. I feel hairdressers nowadays are quite expensive, as yours is OP, so I wouldn't think it is particularly necessary.

I don’t know why that’s so surprising? I can’t remember a single year at school where me or my classmates got teachers presents!

I just cannot imagine someone slipping a staff member a fiver, in any of the salons I’ve been in. Who even carries cash nowadays? I’m curious about the ages and locations of posters who claim to tip hairdressers (and this being the norm), especially in cash. It is most definitely not the done thing in expensive salons!

I’m with you, OP, I don’t tip the hairdressers, the delivery drivers (LOL at the idea), even though I come from a culture where people do. I don’t tip Uber or cab drivers either.
I only tip in restaurants if both service and the food was good and I actually started to complain recently when something isn’t right as I feel the quality of food/general services provided is dropping everywhere.

@BeanQuisine you're very wrong

Rubbish.

I stopped going to my nail salon because of having to wait at leas half an hour every single time. It’s so rude! A one off is fine.
my hairdressers has a qr code to scan to an app for tipping 🙈 which does annoy me a bit!

Sometimes if the drivers are really good on uber eats when I’m in London etc I’ll tip, same with an uber. But I always go back on and do it after they’re rated me! I once tipped a “female” uber eats delivery driver about £10 before the order arrived, because it was late at night and I felt quite happy that she had accepted the order because it’s not nice to hang around outside a hotel looking for a random man. The “woman” turned up and it was quite clearly someone who had been renting the account from her, so I contacted uber eats and took the tip back! Tipping just isn’t the norm where I am.

The only tip I always give is at Christmas, $100, to the Rural Bushfire brigade. They are mostly volunteers, risking their lives for the community.

Last Christmas, first time ever, they told us they didn't need money donations because the government had given them the funds they needed.

We still gave the money saying "have a beer on us' but DH and I were gobsmacked.

But it's true. Although I accept bellboy might be a dated term (though definitely still used in many of the Asian hotels we have visited relatively recently).

I'm not saying we were given VIP treatment, just a fact that the service improves when you tip consistently.

That doesn't warrant us living on another planet.

@ThatCyanSheep honestly I'd just ignore all those telling you that you're horrendous or don't understand British culture because you don't tip a hair dresser, neither do I or many people. It's not America where they're getting pittance, they're at least on minimum wage +commission for products and are very likely over minimum wage.
Same for teachers getting gifts, if you want to, then do it, but they get wages for their work. When I was growing up it wasn't really a thing

If I stated they were horrible for not tipping the person serving them in Tesco, they would quite rightly say it's not the done thing and that person is earning a wage so why would they tip the person. Same with the hairdresser

Either this is a wind up or a lot of people are very ignorant

Service shouldn't be bad because you haven't tipped someone. Do you tip your bin man every week and would you accept if they turned up whenever they felt like it if you didn't tip?

A lot of people are very ignorant of the fact that a small number of people are stupid enough to give tips?

Possibly.

Ignorant of what exactly. If I'm paying a hair dresser £60 to trim my hair, why should I give them a tip
What makes a hair dresser more worthy of a tip than other people serving me that day in a shop, or the bin man who comes every week?
I paid them to cut my hair, they do it, I pay the agreed amount of money. Why should I slip them and extra hours worth of my wages for 30 minutes of their time?

I make sure I have money on me just in case, although they are happy to add it to bill when I pay, but I'd rather make sure it went to the trainee. Doesn't happen often as my own hairdresser/salon owner usually washes my hair. They happily take it - seems pretty normal. I'm 50s and live in a well healed area of Hampshire which seems to have a ton of hairdressers. Modern village salon but not expensive - it's £50ish for cut and blowdry.

I only carry cash for tips—I pay for everything on cards. Every now and then I hit the atm to have tipping cash in my handbag.

The difference is that most people don’t have a personal relationship with the bin men, postman or checkout worker, or chat to them much, or know their name, or care whether they get that person or someone else who's paid to work in that role. Most people do care which hairdresser they get, and stick with a particular individual.

Do you apply the same rule and never tip in restaurants? If not, why not?

I think that's terrible, good service is reliant on you tipping? That means it puts pressure on everyone else to tip.

No, we give them a tip at Christmas like many on here have said they also do.

Also not tipping doesn't mean you don't get served at all or the staff don't turn up. They are still paid by their employer. My point was that it often means you get a better service when they know you're a good tipper.

The bin example is less relevant because there isn't much a bin man can do to go above and beyond their role of emptying your bins. The "tip" in that example is more a case of saying thank you for doing such an important public service job.

I love tipping. It is part of our culture and the people saying it’s not sound very snobby.