In Denmark McDonalds workers get $22 an hour. The burgers don't cost any more than they do in the US. Its just the owners are making less money. Denmark has one of the smallest differences between the most paid and least paid...
Working in a small British restaurant for a while while I was a student - the tips were usually about 10%, went into a pool and we all got at least £20 per night extra on top of a goodish wage. Sometimes we got more. It was very much seen as a bonus rather than a necessity.
@someone-un7op It's British Anti-American snobbery. The service industry being a tipped profession is one of the best parts of American culture, I know people earning comfortably 75k a year in good restaurants. While the Brits earn a poor minimum wage and do an equally hard job
@@someone-un7op and can generally still accept tips. Worked somewhere that had a "no tip" policy, but you could run drinks through if a customer bought you one - backfired on the owner, as we were a good team + there'd be a few of us getting wankered at the end of our shifts every day 😂
It’s like sales tax. Many videos praise the fact that in Europe the price on the shelf is the price you pay at the till. It should be the same in a restaurant, the price on the menu should be the price you pay. I don’t mind paying for service, but if you want me to pay £12 then print £12 on the menu!! Don’t tell me it’s £10 and then expect me to guess how much you really want😂
If there's a service charge, we'll pay it, but it will put us off going back there. We usually go to the same Indian restaurant, the bill is normally around 50 quid & we'll tip a tenner because the food & service are excellent. Standard food & service probably a fiver. I'll tip a food delivery person a couple of quid, extra if the weather is terrible. Anywhere else, taxi's for example, it's a round up & keep the change situation. I think in britain we like to think of a tip as an extra reward or thank you and don't like when it's almost mandatory & making up staff wages.
If I visited the US I wouldn't tip. I don't see why it's my job to pay their wages. If all Americans stopped tipping tomorrow, nobody would take a $4 per hour job serving, and restaurants would have to pay their staff properly. Problem solved. Just yet another example of something odd in US culture, which when dug into, is due to corporate greed.
I'm a Brit went on holiday to Italy, had an average meal in a restaurant. Was thinking of tipping until the waitress wouldn't hand me my change, saying it's my tip. I was going to tip more than the change.cos its normal for us to leave a tip discreetly on the table, not hand it directly to them. She ended up with nothing. No one tells me what im doing with my hard earned money.
The self service tills at Newark airport's shops now prompt for a tip! Take a bottle of the water off a shelf, scan and pay for it yourself.. who exactly are you meant to be tipping?!
The worst is when businesses take some of the tips for themselves and short change the staff. I believe that this practise has recently been outlawed in the UK. I do like "pooling" of tips though, my daughter worked in a restaurant kitchen and all the tips the waiting and bar staff got were shared amongst all the staff, after all they're all part of the team.
I hate pooling. I worked at a place years ago that did this . I ended up working with one girl a few times, she did none of the waiting on or bar work. She spent the whole time chatting with customers . People left tips for me, as I was the only one who attended to them, and she took half. For doing sod all.
Back in 1989 I worked as a waiter and barman near an airport, for a few days I was talking to this american chap and serving him over the 2 days he was staying. We chatted and got on, he told me he was a pilot and on his last morning before checking out, he turned up in his uniform and called me over to give me a £50 tip. I told him I didn't want to accept it, but he said that because I was genuine with him and made him feel at ease. I was ecstatic over this and as you can guess, I still remember it very well as £50 in 1989 was a massive amount to get a tip. Thank you to that Pilot.
I've done bar work and that's literally the job, keep people happy - the bonus is that happy customers are much easier to deal with so win/win. That was an excellent tip back then. I've alway done alright on that front, but not that good. Look after the regulars, let them know you know they're there and work through the queue. Hell, if I had a NICE local pub, I'd do a couple shifts a week as long as I didn't have to do any cleaning.
Yep, those are the ones I mostly tip but I’ve also tipped wait staff before, mainly because I was a waitress as a young teen and getting a tip made my whole day, even though all tips were taken and (rightly so!) split between the waiter/waitress that earned it and the kitchen staff. We didn’t have to share our tips with the other wait staff. I think the boss thought it was a good incentive if wait staff only got a share of tips they personally earned because it rewarded their good service and added an incentive for improving service for those that weren’t being tipped. If I’d had to share my tips with wait staff that never got tipped themselves because of their terrible service, I’d have been annoyed! Why should they get a share of what I earned when they never earned any tips to share with me? Sharing with the kitchen I was totally cool with though because I could be an amazing waitress but I won’t ever earn a tip if the kitchen doesn’t provide me with good food to serve! Also, when I used to order takeaways, I always tipped the delivery driver at least a couple of quid. If they were extra nice/helpful, went above and beyond or the weather was utterly awful, I’d slip them a straight fiver in thanks. If I ordered on like NYE or near to Christmas, or if I was ordering for my own birthday, I’d hand them a tenner and say “Merry Christmas/Happy New Year” or explain “It’s my birthday and you brought me my treat to myself, so this is to thank you and share my happiness!” It was always fun to see the shock and then unbridled joy on people’s faces when they realised they’d been handed a ten pound note and that I was serious! I like the fact that in the UK, tipping isn’t expected or required for people to survive, it makes it a much more spontaneous and happy thing. People are always really happy to get a tip and when you get tipped really well, you’re buzzing for the rest of your shift. It’s an unexpected reward, the way a tip was always intended to be!
In Australia, tipping is also loathed and not done at all. Maybe a few restaurants might like it, then they can keep all the money billed, pay the waiters/waitresses less and put it on the customer to tip. I used to travel for work to the US, got a haircut for $8, at the time back in SA I would pay $25, so obviously the tipping culture in the US is of benefit to the shop owners.
Doing the dishes is called 'washing up' in the UK. A 'washing up bowl' is a large plastic bowl that sits inside the sink to hold the items. Americans seem mystified why they are popular in the UK despite featuring a lot on American Amazon.
Brit here, all my life I've never seen anyone use a washing up bowl. However, since my dad flooded the kitchen twice recently now by filling up the sink with dirty plates and soap water and leaving it running for some unknown habitual reason, we got a washing up bowl. When it overflows it just drains into the sink like normal. It's the simplest option.
I tried to tip once here in the UK because the dinner and service was lovely. But they refused. They said they couldn't take it because it would be unfair for the other servers that didn't serve me
Strange. Most places operate a tip pooling system where all tips are pooled and distributed equally to the various types of staff. The waiters will normally get the largest share but an agreed percentage will often go to bar staff and even kitchen staff. This evens out the luck factor of waiters getting high tipping or low tipping tables, and also rewards the whole team that is needed to provide the good customer experience that generates the tip.
@stevenmclaren2730 I wouldn't believe me either if I wasn't there haha. But it's all true. I really tried giving them that tip and they tried really hard to refuse it
@sirderam1 it was really strange yes. It was at Yates in Colchester. Although this was like 10 years ago. So not sure if they've changed their system now since then or if the restaurant is still there. Cause I haven't lived in Colchester for a while
It’s because the waiting custom is different in the U.K. we like to order eat and not have a waiter come up five times to check that we are okay and doing fine , we like to sit and enjoy a meal without a spotty teenager chewing gum checking on us every five minutes, but we tip a taxi and the barber if they are helpful or do a good job
Like others here have said I object to tipping in order to subside employers who don't pay their staff properly. I like and enjoy to tip purely to reward genuinely good service and at a rate of my own choosing.
Paying a tip up front to "promote" good service and possible freebies sounds like a pay-off, nd weird to me. I'm however Norwegian, so in general the entire US system is weird to me. I've lived in the UK, and have many friends from the U.S., so I've experienced the tipping culture. Norway is like the UK in its view on tips - it's a tip- an extra gratuity for good service. I would however tip in the states because the laws are ridiculous and people need to earn a living wage. It still boggles the Brian to look at prices and try to ascertian how much it will actually be, due to hidden fees and service fees (that somehow aren't regarded as the tip, but other services?), and then the tip on top of that. I remember being in a store in Salem,MA many years ago, and the prices there were without VAT, so when I got to the register, everything was way more expensive than the prices marked on the items. Super weird. To me. I like the prices I see be reflected in the bill at the end, and I like tipping to be a show of good service. I also like people earning a minimum of the minimum wage, and the federal minimum or whatever that was - wages are wages, and tip should not be considered in that in my opinion. The idea of not having a tipping culture like the US resulting in worse service - no, it doesn't work like that. It's a job - people work their job just like everyone else - some are naturally great at it, some give extra service because it might get them something extra. But bad service leads to bad reviews, and people/restaurant owners don't want that. A job comes with expectations of professional conduct. I'm rambling, but yeah - that's my opinion 😂❤
Forcing people to beg for alms instead of paying the staff decent wages is just bizarre. Yes, I do often "round up", but just as a courtesy when I feel so inclined. And never more than 5-10 percent. This in Norway.
Back in the day, I took an evening, second job as a barman. Quite often, I would be offered to "have a drink yerself". We would charge them the price of a pint as, sensibly, I would have been steaming by the end of the night, but tips ARE given in the UK, even 20 years ago. Some nights I would make my wages in tips! Good times. One love from Scotland. 💙 🍻 🏴
I don't tip (NZ) but I've noticed that now Uber has started to ask if you'll give a tip at the same time as it asks for the feedback. Still don't do it.
Back in the late 1990's i worked for an Anglo / US company. Occasionally i had to go over to the states for work purposes, at the end of one trip my department went out for lunch, there were only 10 of us there, multiple mistakes were made, including me initially getting the totally wrong meal. Despite all the issues, we still collectively paid a large tip... I did not want to tip, but then people mentioned how the staff relied on the tip.
my cousin in Pittsburgh told me that servers are also taxed as if they had earned 20% of their declared wage income, so if they have been stiffed on the tip a bunch of times, they're actually paying the tax on tips they never got out of their earnings! It sucks so much - people don't tip so much in the UK because servers get payed the national minimum wage, if not a living wage, by their boss.
When i was out on my first works xmas do in the 80s my boss gave the 'ignorant' waitress a good tip...'would you like a tip... don't wipe your arse on broken glass' (first time id heard it so kinda made me laugh back then). I think he gave her as much 'tip' as she deserved. My haircut, btw (and I've the same amount of hair at 51 that i had at 16, thus exactly the same amount of work) costs me £10, and our local turkish barber is great, he does exactly what i want, often better than i expected, so if I've got a bit of change in my pocket ill give him that, and without even counting how much is there (could be 12 pence, could be 4 quid? Who knows) he's always very thankful and grateful and does as good a job next time if i didn't happen to have any change the previous time. Plus he's a nice guy and always has interesting things to say. But $70 ($85) is insane! When they say 'land of the free' I'm kinda scratching around to see exactly what it is that's 'free', because it seems like paying for fresh air and 'tipping' to have non-spat-on food isn't much of a free choice.
The fact that tipping started with servants is a large part of why we hate it. I work for a living. I consider myself the equal of anyone else who works. Sometimes, Americans try to offer me a tip. This shows they consider me a servant. In fact, Americans developed tipping so former slaves were not paid fairly. They are saying they consider me a slave. I refuse all tips.
For me, a big reason I don't like tipping is because I don't see why you should pay someone extra just to do their job when no one else gets that perk. I mean sure, you go to a restaurant and some young college student comes and takes your order and brings you the food and you are happy with the service. But what did they really do? Listened to you speak, write it down and then bring you what you asked for. And you praise them for doing a great job. But you aren't tipping the chef who cooked your meal. You aren't tipping the restaurant owner/ manager who is the whole reason that restaurant is open in the first place. You aren't tipping the cleaners who keep the restaurant safe to cook and consume food in. You aren't tipping the delivery driver who brought your steak to the restaurant to be cooked. You aren't tipping the farmer who grew the food you are eating. You aren't tipping the person who made the oven that was used to cook the food you consume. You aren't tipping the iron worker who prepared the iron that was used to make that oven. You aren't tipping the people who are busy making the energy that powers the ovens as well as the lighting. Why does the server get a tip when they have both, done the least amount of work to get that food on your table, but also has simply just done her job just like the chef, delivery driver, farmer, cleaner etc. It's far fairer and just common sense that all people should be given a fair wage and that is the reward they get for doing the job they are paid to do.
If your in the UK,most places the tips are pooled and each member of staff gets a sum based on the amount of hours worked vs tips recieved that week. That's my experience doing waitressing anyway.
@jmillar71110 yeah, I know some places do that. But my point was meant to extend to all professions. Not just the people behind the servers but generally people who are not in the service sector. Bin men don't get tipped. Soldiers don't get tipped. Nurses don't get tipped. Steel workers, police officers, firemen, food packers, journalists, train drivers, tailors, life guards, IT consultants, dentists etc. None of them get tipped. And yet they do their job, same as servers. I don't see why we should give servers special treatment.
We did give the staff at my youngest nieces birthday party a slightly unusual tip, part of the cake. It was big enough to feed about 100 people and even with my partner’s family and their love of cake (I don’t have a remotely sweet tooth) it was the best way to not waste it. They seemed happy enough.
Went to the US in October, they charged service charge, then tax, then wanted a tip?. This got very expensive as the food was expensive to start with. In the UK they get 10% if the service is good, nothing if the service is bad. My sister refuses to give a tip at any time. She sais 'nobody tips me at work so why should I tip them'.
Brits DO tip but it’s VERY MUCH a case of IF THEY FEEL THEYVE HAD EXTRA GOOD SERVICE. We aren’t forced to tip because we paid a mandatory minimum wage law,so staff aren’t forced to rely on tips to make up their wages. Usually there’s a ‘ tip jar’ on the counter where you pay your bill to leave a tip,it’s shared out between ALL the staff working that night. But we don’t HAVE TOO.
The thing that struck me most when I was in the US (New York to be specific) my Native Guide told me we needed to leave some cash in our hotel rooms as a tip for the people who would come in and service the room. On 'attentive service', well what you get is servers getting in your face and reminding you they are there at every opportunity and asking if 'everything is all right' every fifteen minutes.... My ideal of service is quiet competence and unintrusive awareness of the customers' needs.
Before the internet my family went to Florida on holiday. We went out for a meal, eight of us, and tipped 15% which we thought was a reasonable tip. It was a pretty good tip by UK standards at the time. The waiter chased after us into the car park asking us what had he'd done wrong. He was annoyed, we were confused. Now it makes sense!
We had multiple trip to Las Vegas and we always tipped what was relevant at the time. Over the years this moved from 15% to25%. The basic rule was if it breathed, you tipped. We didn’t really like it, but when in Rome, and we were aware it was part of the servers income. In the UK, because I waited on for years while I had a young family ( husband walked in from work, I went out to do bar or wait on)I will tip cash to the server. I am critical, having done service and silver service but I will tip at least 10% or a fiver. I met some lovely people while waiting on. Young people supplementing their student loans while studying at university and other young mothers fitting in work around child care. Hard work and long hours!
Hi seeing you and girl gone London are both former Floridians, have you thought of doing a catch up with her when comes back to visit family and friends?
Im english in the u.k. the biggest tip I left was at a pub after spending £60 on meals and drinks, I decided to tip £15 because the pub and staff are excellent. I wouldnt do it again anytime soon but I wanted to show my appreciation (the tips also get shared with the kitchen staff at that pub aswell)
If I'm in a pub and I like it I buy the bartender a beer, also helps when it's busy, but tried it in Wetherspoons and they told me it was company policy they could not accept. I asked for the tip jar and was told they didn't have one. That's a damn good policy.
In the UK the tips usually get held by the restaurant and are usually divided up each week and all the staff get the same amount, so service on an individual basis does not come into it. If you leave a cash tip at the table there is no guarantee the person who served you will get it, unless you track them down and give to them personally, as the person clearing the table may be different or as sometimes happens there is a shift change and the person that did serve you has gone home.
When i go to a restaurant with family / friends in the UK or Europe, we are talking, eating, telling stories and jokes for around 3 hours. I would not want to be rushing dinner and only be there for an hour. Dinner at a restaurant (in my opinion) is all about the company and the laughs, etc. Good company to food ratio = 60:40 in favour of the company and sharing good moments.
I pretty much only tip my barber these days. It's infrequent enough for me to actually see value in recognising the work they've done. Plus it's a lot easier to fix a poor meal than it is a poor haircut. Oh also if/when you come to the UK, you should totally do a collab with girl gone London
I don't really eat in restaurants alot but I tip my tattooist, uber etc. If I went to a hairdresser or nails etc I'd tip them. A tip should show appreciation of whichever service has been procured. If it was the expected of me I think I'd be different. Oh some small online businesses have the option to tip. I do tip them but not each time. 1 I will tip a little extra nearer Christmas because she's a sweetheart. Appreciation 💜
I was in Pizza Hut recently with American friends. We were shown to a table and they pointed to the QR code on the table. A waitress brought our food but they were the only interactions with staff. My friends wanted to tip, we almost had a knock down fight about it. We went on to another place for dessert and the waiter was delightful, I gave him a large tip, he called me back asking if I was sure I wanted to leave that much. Tipping otherwise known as gratuity is for good or exceptional service.
I'm British, and my tipping list is small. In the UK itself, if i buy a sandwich from my local sandwich place i might put my change in the tip jar, if i use a hotel I'll leave a few quid for the maid service at the end of the trip, also with a taxi or other times I'm paying in cash I might just tell them to keep the change. When in another country, I'll tip the coach drivers at the end of any trip with them, leave a tip for the cleaning staff at end of holiday, maybe tip any waiters after a meal. But I plan for that in my holiday budget as I know some of these people don't make a good wage in some countries.
My mother was a waitress for many years. I always tip, although I sometimes tip in cash when paying by card. Otherwise, I'm not sure if the waiting staff get the tips, and it's up to the waiting staff if they declare it for tax purposes (they legally should, but I think it's very unfair that tips get taxed).
Tips are taxed in the \UK and have to go through a payroll, no longer allowed just to keep them in cash... You must declare tips properly for tax purposes whether you are an employee or self-employed, whether you get them in cash or in another way. Tips do not count as income for national minimum wage purposes, but they do count as income for other purposes, such as tax, tax credits and universal credit.
@@JJLAReacts I mean, just tell me what the food costs, I pay and you give as much or as little to the person who brought me it as you want? I don't want to have to do calculus after every meal.
I’d tip a taxi driver, sometimes a cafe but not a regular habit. Hate service charges. They basically equate to VAT , only ever refused to pay at one London restaurant. The service wasn’t great and they failed to bring out the dish for one of my vegan friends. Restaurant wasn’t happy, but they should have delivered
Nah - your step father's $100 tip - from here it does not look like bonding, becomes friends - it looks like an entirely dry transactional relationship.
I think the closest thing to tipping I have received in any customer service jobs in UK, is while working in a pharmacy, esp at Christmas, you get bunches of flowers, boxes of chocolate, tins of biscuits and occasionally a personal Christmas/thank you card with either cash or gift card in! But then, when you think about it, that is an environment where you get to know the regulars pretty well!
If I think someone/somewhere has gone above and beyond then I'll often say "keep the change" or round my bill/payment up. That being said, many of my 'local' stores (corner shops) will charge less than actual value if it's a cash payment and only slightly over the £ 🤷♀
I remember we would tip in Thailand, but there is certainly a wealth disparity to Straya. We would tip in currency, not much from our lifestyle but a lot to them, but, we would also give really good ones who we liked, were really good, friendly and personable, we'd give them extra personal stuff like Chocolate Gold coins form Straya or Furry Friends Chocolate with Strayan animals on them or a Chocolate Yowir (back when they were good) with a little Strayan animal toy inside for his daughter. He was stoked and said it would go up on their special shelf. We insisted he give it to his daughter, He was a great driver. He suggested it was lunch time (we had forgotten) and we said we would shout him lunch and where would he like to go. He said he had already had lunch but new some very noce restr...places to eat and we asked to go to the place he would normally go, We were after all, travelling OS to eperience other cultures so we went to a locals' food hall with stalls selling really tasty local food in an open air under cover table area with local TV playing, and a few locals looking at us wondering why we were there. Olly was the best (this was 2005. I named a Siamese Fighting Fish after him he was so cool.) At a resort, we would tip the person who made up our room and they would decorate the bed immaginatively. One time our night dresses were neatly arranged on the cover in a heart shape. At another resort we really heavily tipped the room staff when they had to do an emergency bedding change after my partner....well not all thai local eating places serve food fit for westerners' tender digestive systems. We emptied our purses and gave them all the money we had. This turned out to be a mistake as that morning at sparrows fart in the moening before the sun was even thought of, my Strayan bank called to ask if we hadmade purchaces at a shop in London. We had not so they cancelled out cards for us so we would not be scammed further. It did not occur to me that that meant we had no money left for the next 2 days. All accom and fud was prepaid so no huhu but it was tight but i really never regretted such a hefty tip for those 2 lovely cleaners who stripped the heavily soiled sheets and remaid the bed, while I held my girlfriend's head on the loo. Whacky fun.
This was 10-15 years ago so may not be the same now and of course itll vary whoever you ask tbh. I worked in a pretty fancy restaurant and there were never tips (but that was before the govt got on at some restaurants for holding back tips etc so that could absolutely have been happening). But when i worked at Maccys i had a few customers ask if they could give me a tip but company policy was to not accept them if offered but it was interesting having such different experiences in polar opposite environments.
I knew from interviews and articles that tipping is expected in the US (apparently sometimes aggressively?), but had no idea about the Pullman thing, that's just evil! I can't believe that's still legally enforced instead of allowing a basic minimum wage! Interesting video... I rarely go to restaurants but definitely fall under the social misfit thing, concerned about being seen as a decent person... 🤦♂
The no tipping for a year experiment is interesting, but as you say, the risk of Visine in your food is a gamble. I can see your epitaph now; "Here lies JJLA, he didn't tip for a year, and pooped to death"! I personally really like the way the UK has gone with service charges in restaurants, where the tip is built into the final price so there is no awkwardness. It's usually about 12.5%, and of course, if you then want to tip your waiter extra, you can, but it means that there is no mental arithmetic, and no fumbling with card machines while the waiter looks on. Some people hate it, but as a fairly traitional and socially awkward Brit - to whom money is four-letter word - I love the lack of fuss and the fact that you don't even have to think about tipping.
the only people i routinely tip in the uk are food delivery drivers, and only 10%. tips shouldn't be expected, they're a reward for good service. I used to work as a server and tips meant you did a good job. I think the main time people tip is around Christmas. UK also recently passed a law to stop the establishment stealing servers tips, some used to make us pool them and split them separately, and they're not allowed to do that any more.. its why the 'service charge' is creeping in, people are less likely to tip if they already paid a service charge... but servers rarely see the 'service charge' the establishment get it.
We don't tip in uk, oz, nz, etc at anywhere except restursnts, and it's only if service was particularly good that you may do it. Service charge isn't at most places and usually it's just on public holidays and it's only some places and you know in advance. If you work at a fancier restaurant you will have a higher save anyways. But I don't know if tipping and/or service charge is considered more normal at fancier restursnts.. Regardless decent service is still expected as part of the dinning experience as well as just polite socially, because people won't come back to the restaurant if it's bad service, so you don't keep your job if you get too many complaints. If there is a issue then often you will get given a free extra or maybe even don't have to pay for your drinks or meal (i e huge delay, mix up with meal, cold meal etc.
We take cash to tip, as if you tip via card often the company will say it's funding their xmas party and they never see it. If they add on the optional service charge, I will then refuse to tip, as often these are chain resturants and the service isn't great. I'm a Lawyer and well off, and I don't need some server being snooty and looking down their nose at us, because we're not hipsters or whatever reason. If we go to Claridges which is a 7 star hotel, they add a service charge, but you get the most amazing service and dining experience. We tell our US friends not to tip everywhere in the UK. When you're in a busy pub or nightclub I always tip big on the first drink, as I then get served really quickly each time.
I don't think US food prices (in restaurants) are cheaper than in the UK - even before we take the tip into account. I might be wrong - but that's just my gut feeling from a few visits (obviously it'll partly be about where I've been, etc. but I've never gone to "high end" restaurants over there.
You should do some British music video reactions. I would love to hear some of your views on Ren, a UK musician. Also, Ren reaction videos are a license to print money/viewers!
I would suggest that when you go to a restaurant you take your reading glasses. Problem solved . Alternatively a magnifying glass, or start a trend by wearing a monocle.
In the UK I've grown up with the expectation that if I have had good service I tip in a restaurant with table service, and my hairdresser (and I guess by implication other beauty therapists should I use them) - both at about 10%. But I don't feel obligated to do either- the moment it becomes an obligation it isn't a 'tip' in my book. I do also tip Uber drivers a flat £1 as I know they only get 45% of the money I pay for the trip (which costs the same or less than other taxi firms I could have chosen). I guess if I stayed in the sort of hotel where someone carried my bags to my room I might tip........But no automatic tip for room service in general. Beyond those examples, I don't see why I should tip anyone just doing their job. If a business expects to provide a certain level of service to their customers they should be paying staff to provide that, not expecting the customer to pay their wages!
I hate the tipping out of fear culture in the US. In the uk, I usually tip a waiter/waitress plus can drivers. I wouldn’t tip anything else. Maybe my barber! My haircut is £12…. JJ’s hair cost made me feel faint!!! 😂😂😂
I'm a waitress in England. Tipping is never expected, but ALWAYS appreciated. A tip could be the difference in me walking home or being able to get a taxi. The ones that do piss me off tho are those people that have you running back and forth and going above and beyond their entire visit, and then leave a huge mess and no tip.
Brit here. If I ever do tip, it’s just whatever change I happen to have at the time. Most people give me an odd look, because they don’t expect it. At all
Tipping is still common when a group of people go to a restaurant in the UK. However, yes it will likely be 10-15%, and it is absolutely dependent on the level of service and care they felt they got. So a great server at a good restaurant can still earn a lot of extra money in tips, but staff applying for those jobs will have been assured of a good wage before ever applying - better restaurants pay better than minimum wage specifically to attract good servers who won't want to lose that job. The other side of this, of course, is that where servers give bad service nobody feels much guilt about not tipping at all. If a server has been rude, has been obviously more interested in talking to other staff than serving the customers, or otherwise done a bad job of it, they probably are getting nothing, yet still earn their wages. You'd probably never go back to that restaurant with such awful staff and no oversight, but that's on the business, not the customers. I do remember, as a kid, my mother leaving an envelope marked 'tip' on the table for one particularly awful server. Inside was a handwritten note that said "If you'd been polite, attentive, and cared about your job, there would have been money in here" - which honestly, is a pretty good tip. 🤣
My mum leaves money on the table for them to get when clearing up but if service is rotten no chance 😂😂 we are in Scotland I do tip if service is good.
I will never pay the restaurant service charge. I ask for it to be removed from the bill and then give the waiting staff a cash tip(normally 20%)for their service and attentiveness. That then goes into their pocket and they don’t have to share the tip with the money grabbing restaurant!
I'm english but my dad's side of the family is all american and my grandma supposedly got a 5k tip when she was working at a steakhouse in montana back in the 60s. Apparently there was this entitled oil baron type who asked for his steak blue who kept on sending it back because it was too well done, after about the 4th or 5th time she was that pissed off that she just grabbed a raw slice of beef and slapped it on the plate and this seemed to impress the fella.
A tip for us is basically saying, 'thank you for giving us good service,' it shouldn't be because your wages are so low, that without my tip, you cannot survive.
WOOAH hang on there gerty, as an ex barman, in the UK, if you have any sense, on a busy night you always tip the bar person with your first drink, when the queue at the bar is 5 or 6 deep, you tip, you will get served quicker......
If you tip out of fear of getting a crappy service next time, then it’s not a tip, it’s a protection racket
If they spit in my food, I'm gonna rub one out 🤣
Better tha OF.
100% agree
We tip for good service, not because the restaurant won't pay their staff properly.
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we get good service and our servers dont complain ffs. simp
Yeah, here in Scotland that's what I was thinking. Good service will always get a tip.
The reason we don't like US style tips is that it isn't a tip.....you are paying their wages....in the UK it's to reward good service
but why ? Can the employer not pay the wages, not the customer!
@@thomas-xj1hs Not under capitalism in the US!
@@thomas-xj1hsnot the way US business is set up with little government legislation
Spot on this comment
Service in the US is better than in Britain though
I would say the real difference is that the moment it is expected it isn't really a tip. The whole point of a tip is that it's something extra!
Love your matching hoodies!
I only tip in the UK when I think the person has gone above and beyond their normal duties.
i agree
In Denmark McDonalds workers get $22 an hour. The burgers don't cost any more than they do in the US. Its just the owners are making less money. Denmark has one of the smallest differences between the most paid and least paid...
Working in a small British restaurant for a while while I was a student - the tips were usually about 10%, went into a pool and we all got at least £20 per night extra on top of a goodish wage. Sometimes we got more. It was very much seen as a bonus rather than a necessity.
In Finland, offering a tip is seen as patronising, and disrespectful to a fellow professional.
Same in Spain
That because in the UK and euro we pay a proper wage.
Tipped staff in the US can earn more than twice the UK's average salary, with EASE.
@@chollisketteridge7727 yes after they've been tipped, whereas in the UK they earn a decent wage without the consumer having to pay again
@someone-un7op It's British Anti-American snobbery. The service industry being a tipped profession is one of the best parts of American culture, I know people earning comfortably 75k a year in good restaurants. While the Brits earn a poor minimum wage and do an equally hard job
@@someone-un7op and can generally still accept tips. Worked somewhere that had a "no tip" policy, but you could run drinks through if a customer bought you one - backfired on the owner, as we were a good team + there'd be a few of us getting wankered at the end of our shifts every day 😂
@@chollisketteridge7727 You completely miss the point there.
It’s like sales tax. Many videos praise the fact that in Europe the price on the shelf is the price you pay at the till. It should be the same in a restaurant, the price on the menu should be the price you pay. I don’t mind paying for service, but if you want me to pay £12 then print £12 on the menu!! Don’t tell me it’s £10 and then expect me to guess how much you really want😂
If there's a service charge, we'll pay it, but it will put us off going back there. We usually go to the same Indian restaurant, the bill is normally around 50 quid & we'll tip a tenner because the food & service are excellent. Standard food & service probably a fiver. I'll tip a food delivery person a couple of quid, extra if the weather is terrible. Anywhere else, taxi's for example, it's a round up & keep the change situation.
I think in britain we like to think of a tip as an extra reward or thank you and don't like when it's almost mandatory & making up staff wages.
If I visited the US I wouldn't tip. I don't see why it's my job to pay their wages.
If all Americans stopped tipping tomorrow, nobody would take a $4 per hour job serving, and restaurants would have to pay their staff properly. Problem solved.
Just yet another example of something odd in US culture, which when dug into, is due to corporate greed.
So you wouldn't tip, knowing that wait staff rely on your tip in order to make a wage? So... you're a giant a--hole, then? Got it.
Institutionalised begging I'm afraid, in my opinion. One love from Scotland. 💙 🏴 🦄
I'm a Brit went on holiday to Italy, had an average meal in a restaurant. Was thinking of tipping until the waitress wouldn't hand me my change, saying it's my tip. I was going to tip more than the change.cos its normal for us to leave a tip discreetly on the table, not hand it directly to them. She ended up with nothing. No one tells me what im doing with my hard earned money.
The self service tills at Newark airport's shops now prompt for a tip! Take a bottle of the water off a shelf, scan and pay for it yourself.. who exactly are you meant to be tipping?!
Sounds like a comedy sketch lol - maybe it’s meant for introverts who likely did have their preferred service? 😅
$70 for a mens haircut, i used to go to the barber shop round the corner and pay £7
Now I've bought some clippers and just shave it off myself 😅
The worst is when businesses take some of the tips for themselves and short change the staff. I believe that this practise has recently been outlawed in the UK. I do like "pooling" of tips though, my daughter worked in a restaurant kitchen and all the tips the waiting and bar staff got were shared amongst all the staff, after all they're all part of the team.
I hate pooling. I worked at a place years ago that did this . I ended up working with one girl a few times, she did none of the waiting on or bar work. She spent the whole time chatting with customers . People left tips for me, as I was the only one who attended to them, and she took half. For doing sod all.
@@littlemy1773 that's the other side of the coin I'm afraid.
I knew one boss who took all the tips and kept them for himself
In Britain, soliciting a tip is technically classified as Begging.
Up to 6 years in prison
Back in 1989 I worked as a waiter and barman near an airport, for a few days I was talking to this american chap and serving him over the 2 days he was staying. We chatted and got on, he told me he was a pilot and on his last morning before checking out, he turned up in his uniform and called me over to give me a £50 tip. I told him I didn't want to accept it, but he said that because I was genuine with him and made him feel at ease. I was ecstatic over this and as you can guess, I still remember it very well as £50 in 1989 was a massive amount to get a tip. Thank you to that Pilot.
I've done bar work and that's literally the job, keep people happy - the bonus is that happy customers are much easier to deal with so win/win. That was an excellent tip back then. I've alway done alright on that front, but not that good. Look after the regulars, let them know you know they're there and work through the queue. Hell, if I had a NICE local pub, I'd do a couple shifts a week as long as I didn't have to do any cleaning.
Thanks for your easy going but not too easy going' channel, it seems to really be helping me in some troubled times :-)
Good luck mate, you'll get through this
Being from the UK I'll tip my hairdresser and often taxi drivers but that's about it.
Yep, those are the ones I mostly tip but I’ve also tipped wait staff before, mainly because I was a waitress as a young teen and getting a tip made my whole day, even though all tips were taken and (rightly so!) split between the waiter/waitress that earned it and the kitchen staff. We didn’t have to share our tips with the other wait staff. I think the boss thought it was a good incentive if wait staff only got a share of tips they personally earned because it rewarded their good service and added an incentive for improving service for those that weren’t being tipped. If I’d had to share my tips with wait staff that never got tipped themselves because of their terrible service, I’d have been annoyed! Why should they get a share of what I earned when they never earned any tips to share with me? Sharing with the kitchen I was totally cool with though because I could be an amazing waitress but I won’t ever earn a tip if the kitchen doesn’t provide me with good food to serve!
Also, when I used to order takeaways, I always tipped the delivery driver at least a couple of quid. If they were extra nice/helpful, went above and beyond or the weather was utterly awful, I’d slip them a straight fiver in thanks.
If I ordered on like NYE or near to Christmas, or if I was ordering for my own birthday, I’d hand them a tenner and say “Merry Christmas/Happy New Year” or explain “It’s my birthday and you brought me my treat to myself, so this is to thank you and share my happiness!” It was always fun to see the shock and then unbridled joy on people’s faces when they realised they’d been handed a ten pound note and that I was serious!
I like the fact that in the UK, tipping isn’t expected or required for people to survive, it makes it a much more spontaneous and happy thing. People are always really happy to get a tip and when you get tipped really well, you’re buzzing for the rest of your shift. It’s an unexpected reward, the way a tip was always intended to be!
In Australia, tipping is also loathed and not done at all. Maybe a few restaurants might like it, then they can keep all the money billed, pay the waiters/waitresses less and put it on the customer to tip.
I used to travel for work to the US, got a haircut for $8, at the time back in SA I would pay $25, so obviously the tipping culture in the US is of benefit to the shop owners.
Doing the dishes is called 'washing up' in the UK. A 'washing up bowl' is a large plastic bowl that sits inside the sink to hold the items. Americans seem mystified why they are popular in the UK despite featuring a lot on American Amazon.
Oh I see, thanks for pointing that out!
Brit here, all my life I've never seen anyone use a washing up bowl. However, since my dad flooded the kitchen twice recently now by filling up the sink with dirty plates and soap water and leaving it running for some unknown habitual reason, we got a washing up bowl. When it overflows it just drains into the sink like normal. It's the simplest option.
I tried to tip once here in the UK because the dinner and service was lovely. But they refused. They said they couldn't take it because it would be unfair for the other servers that didn't serve me
I don't believe you.
@@distracted5097 really tho???? 🤔
Strange. Most places operate a tip pooling system where all tips are pooled and distributed equally to the various types of staff. The waiters will normally get the largest share but an agreed percentage will often go to bar staff and even kitchen staff. This evens out the luck factor of waiters getting high tipping or low tipping tables, and also rewards the whole team that is needed to provide the good customer experience that generates the tip.
@stevenmclaren2730 I wouldn't believe me either if I wasn't there haha. But it's all true. I really tried giving them that tip and they tried really hard to refuse it
@sirderam1 it was really strange yes. It was at Yates in Colchester. Although this was like 10 years ago. So not sure if they've changed their system now since then or if the restaurant is still there. Cause I haven't lived in Colchester for a while
It’s because the waiting custom is different in the U.K. we like to order eat and not have a waiter come up five times to check that we are okay and doing fine , we like to sit and enjoy a meal without a spotty teenager chewing gum checking on us every five minutes, but we tip a taxi and the barber if they are helpful or do a good job
Tipping is a ludicrous anachronism. It needs to stop. Just pay people a fair wage,
We usually tip 10% when we’re at a restaurant,and unless it was poor service most people tip their servers when they eat out.
Nice touch mirroring the subject you’re reacting to, clothing wise. Next step recreating the background. Next level reacting.
Like others here have said I object to tipping in order to subside employers who don't pay their staff properly. I like and enjoy to tip purely to reward genuinely good service and at a rate of my own choosing.
That’s the way it SHOULD be!
You are a perfectly handsome chap JJ, if you want to wear your glasses, DO it, be yourself. We are chilled with it. Unless they are Dame Edna style.
Paying a tip up front to "promote" good service and possible freebies sounds like a pay-off, nd weird to me.
I'm however Norwegian, so in general the entire US system is weird to me.
I've lived in the UK, and have many friends from the U.S., so I've experienced the tipping culture.
Norway is like the UK in its view on tips - it's a tip- an extra gratuity for good service.
I would however tip in the states because the laws are ridiculous and people need to earn a living wage.
It still boggles the Brian to look at prices and try to ascertian how much it will actually be, due to hidden fees and service fees (that somehow aren't regarded as the tip, but other services?), and then the tip on top of that.
I remember being in a store in Salem,MA many years ago, and the prices there were without VAT, so when I got to the register, everything was way more expensive than the prices marked on the items.
Super weird. To me.
I like the prices I see be reflected in the bill at the end, and I like tipping to be a show of good service.
I also like people earning a minimum of the minimum wage, and the federal minimum or whatever that was - wages are wages, and tip should not be considered in that in my opinion.
The idea of not having a tipping culture like the US resulting in worse service - no, it doesn't work like that. It's a job - people work their job just like everyone else - some are naturally great at it, some give extra service because it might get them something extra. But bad service leads to bad reviews, and people/restaurant owners don't want that. A job comes with expectations of professional conduct.
I'm rambling, but yeah - that's my opinion 😂❤
On our trip to the US last year. Our tour guide told us that waiters only earn around $1.50 an hour. Thats outrageous!!
Forcing people to beg for alms instead of paying the staff decent wages is just bizarre. Yes, I do often "round up", but just as a courtesy when I feel so inclined. And never more than 5-10 percent. This in Norway.
Back in the day, I took an evening, second job as a barman. Quite often, I would be offered to "have a drink yerself". We would charge them the price of a pint as, sensibly, I would have been steaming by the end of the night, but tips ARE given in the UK, even 20 years ago. Some nights I would make my wages in tips! Good times. One love from Scotland. 💙 🍻 🏴
I don't tip (NZ) but I've noticed that now Uber has started to ask if you'll give a tip at the same time as it asks for the feedback. Still don't do it.
Back in the late 1990's i worked for an Anglo / US company. Occasionally i had to go over to the states for work purposes, at the end of one trip my department went out for lunch, there were only 10 of us there, multiple mistakes were made, including me initially getting the totally wrong meal. Despite all the issues, we still collectively paid a large tip...
I did not want to tip, but then people mentioned how the staff relied on the tip.
my cousin in Pittsburgh told me that servers are also taxed as if they had earned 20% of their declared wage income, so if they have been stiffed on the tip a bunch of times, they're actually paying the tax on tips they never got out of their earnings! It sucks so much - people don't tip so much in the UK because servers get payed the national minimum wage, if not a living wage, by their boss.
When i was out on my first works xmas do in the 80s my boss gave the 'ignorant' waitress a good tip...'would you like a tip... don't wipe your arse on broken glass' (first time id heard it so kinda made me laugh back then). I think he gave her as much 'tip' as she deserved. My haircut, btw (and I've the same amount of hair at 51 that i had at 16, thus exactly the same amount of work) costs me £10, and our local turkish barber is great, he does exactly what i want, often better than i expected, so if I've got a bit of change in my pocket ill give him that, and without even counting how much is there (could be 12 pence, could be 4 quid? Who knows) he's always very thankful and grateful and does as good a job next time if i didn't happen to have any change the previous time. Plus he's a nice guy and always has interesting things to say. But $70 ($85) is insane! When they say 'land of the free' I'm kinda scratching around to see exactly what it is that's 'free', because it seems like paying for fresh air and 'tipping' to have non-spat-on food isn't much of a free choice.
The fact that tipping started with servants is a large part of why we hate it. I work for a living. I consider myself the equal of anyone else who works. Sometimes, Americans try to offer me a tip. This shows they consider me a servant. In fact, Americans developed tipping so former slaves were not paid fairly. They are saying they consider me a slave. I refuse all tips.
For me, a big reason I don't like tipping is because I don't see why you should pay someone extra just to do their job when no one else gets that perk. I mean sure, you go to a restaurant and some young college student comes and takes your order and brings you the food and you are happy with the service. But what did they really do? Listened to you speak, write it down and then bring you what you asked for. And you praise them for doing a great job. But you aren't tipping the chef who cooked your meal. You aren't tipping the restaurant owner/ manager who is the whole reason that restaurant is open in the first place. You aren't tipping the cleaners who keep the restaurant safe to cook and consume food in. You aren't tipping the delivery driver who brought your steak to the restaurant to be cooked. You aren't tipping the farmer who grew the food you are eating. You aren't tipping the person who made the oven that was used to cook the food you consume. You aren't tipping the iron worker who prepared the iron that was used to make that oven. You aren't tipping the people who are busy making the energy that powers the ovens as well as the lighting. Why does the server get a tip when they have both, done the least amount of work to get that food on your table, but also has simply just done her job just like the chef, delivery driver, farmer, cleaner etc. It's far fairer and just common sense that all people should be given a fair wage and that is the reward they get for doing the job they are paid to do.
I agree, I worked in a laundrette nobody tipped me for doing their laundry.
If your in the UK,most places the tips are pooled and each member of staff gets a sum based on the amount of hours worked vs tips recieved that week. That's my experience doing waitressing anyway.
@jmillar71110 yeah, I know some places do that. But my point was meant to extend to all professions. Not just the people behind the servers but generally people who are not in the service sector. Bin men don't get tipped. Soldiers don't get tipped. Nurses don't get tipped. Steel workers, police officers, firemen, food packers, journalists, train drivers, tailors, life guards, IT consultants, dentists etc. None of them get tipped. And yet they do their job, same as servers. I don't see why we should give servers special treatment.
We did give the staff at my youngest nieces birthday party a slightly unusual tip, part of the cake. It was big enough to feed about 100 people and even with my partner’s family and their love of cake (I don’t have a remotely sweet tooth) it was the best way to not waste it. They seemed happy enough.
Went to the US in October, they charged service charge, then tax, then wanted a tip?. This got very expensive as the food was expensive to start with. In the UK they get 10% if the service is good, nothing if the service is bad. My sister refuses to give a tip at any time. She sais 'nobody tips me at work so why should I tip them'.
Brits DO tip but it’s VERY MUCH a case of IF THEY FEEL THEYVE HAD EXTRA GOOD SERVICE. We aren’t forced to tip because we paid a mandatory minimum wage law,so staff aren’t forced to rely on tips to make up their wages. Usually there’s a ‘ tip jar’ on the counter where you pay your bill to leave a tip,it’s shared out between ALL the staff working that night. But we don’t HAVE TOO.
Washing up bowl. A plastic bowl put inside the sink to put the dishes in, rather than ptting the dished straight into the sink
The thing that struck me most when I was in the US (New York to be specific) my Native Guide told me we needed to leave some cash in our hotel rooms as a tip for the people who would come in and service the room.
On 'attentive service', well what you get is servers getting in your face and reminding you they are there at every opportunity and asking if 'everything is all right' every fifteen minutes....
My ideal of service is quiet competence and unintrusive awareness of the customers' needs.
Before the internet my family went to Florida on holiday. We went out for a meal, eight of us, and tipped 15% which we thought was a reasonable tip. It was a pretty good tip by UK standards at the time. The waiter chased after us into the car park asking us what had he'd done wrong. He was annoyed, we were confused. Now it makes sense!
We had multiple trip to Las Vegas and we always tipped what was relevant at the time. Over the years this moved from 15% to25%. The basic rule was if it breathed, you tipped. We didn’t really like it, but when in Rome, and we were aware it was part of the servers income.
In the UK, because I waited on for years while I had a young family ( husband walked in from work, I went out to do bar or wait on)I will tip cash to the server. I am critical, having done service and silver service but I will tip at least 10% or a fiver.
I met some lovely people while waiting on. Young people supplementing their student loans while studying at university and other young mothers fitting in work around child care. Hard work and long hours!
Hi seeing you and girl gone London are both former Floridians, have you thought of doing a catch up with her when comes back to visit family and friends?
Im english in the u.k. the biggest tip I left was at a pub after spending £60 on meals and drinks, I decided to tip £15 because the pub and staff are excellent. I wouldnt do it again anytime soon but I wanted to show my appreciation (the tips also get shared with the kitchen staff at that pub aswell)
Where can pay someone elses wages to save the business owner the cost? SHOW ME ON A MAP!
If I'm in a pub and I like it I buy the bartender a beer, also helps when it's busy, but tried it in Wetherspoons and they told me it was company policy they could not accept. I asked for the tip jar and was told they didn't have one. That's a damn good policy.
I liked the almost matching tops 🤣
In the UK the tips usually get held by the restaurant and are usually divided up each week and all the staff get the same amount, so service on an individual basis does not come into it. If you leave a cash tip at the table there is no guarantee the person who served you will get it, unless you track them down and give to them personally, as the person clearing the table may be different or as sometimes happens there is a shift change and the person that did serve you has gone home.
When i go to a restaurant with family / friends in the UK or Europe, we are talking, eating, telling stories and jokes for around 3 hours.
I would not want to be rushing dinner and only be there for an hour.
Dinner at a restaurant (in my opinion) is all about the company and the laughs, etc.
Good company to food ratio = 60:40 in favour of the company and sharing good moments.
I worked in a restaurant for 15 years best days of my life I loved the job. Made life long friends there. I do it all again tomorrow
I pretty much only tip my barber these days. It's infrequent enough for me to actually see value in recognising the work they've done. Plus it's a lot easier to fix a poor meal than it is a poor haircut.
Oh also if/when you come to the UK, you should totally do a collab with girl gone London
I don't really eat in restaurants alot but I tip my tattooist, uber etc. If I went to a hairdresser or nails etc I'd tip them.
A tip should show appreciation of whichever service has been procured.
If it was the expected of me I think I'd be different.
Oh some small online businesses have the option to tip. I do tip them but not each time. 1 I will tip a little extra nearer Christmas because she's a sweetheart. Appreciation 💜
I was in Pizza Hut recently with American friends. We were shown to a table and they pointed to the QR code on the table. A waitress brought our food but they were the only interactions with staff. My friends wanted to tip, we almost had a knock down fight about it. We went on to another place for dessert and the waiter was delightful, I gave him a large tip, he called me back asking if I was sure I wanted to leave that much. Tipping otherwise known as gratuity is for good or exceptional service.
I'm British, and my tipping list is small. In the UK itself, if i buy a sandwich from my local sandwich place i might put my change in the tip jar, if i use a hotel I'll leave a few quid for the maid service at the end of the trip, also with a taxi or other times I'm paying in cash I might just tell them to keep the change. When in another country, I'll tip the coach drivers at the end of any trip with them, leave a tip for the cleaning staff at end of holiday, maybe tip any waiters after a meal. But I plan for that in my holiday budget as I know some of these people don't make a good wage in some countries.
My mother was a waitress for many years. I always tip, although I sometimes tip in cash when paying by card. Otherwise, I'm not sure if the waiting staff get the tips, and it's up to the waiting staff if they declare it for tax purposes (they legally should, but I think it's very unfair that tips get taxed).
Tips are taxed in the \UK and have to go through a payroll, no longer allowed just to keep them in cash... You must declare tips properly for tax purposes whether you are an employee or self-employed, whether you get them in cash or in another way. Tips do not count as income for national minimum wage purposes, but they do count as income for other purposes, such as tax, tax credits and universal credit.
America, the most needlessly complicated place on the planet.
You stole my comment (lol)... Ya, 100%.
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@@JJLAReacts I mean, just tell me what the food costs, I pay and you give as much or as little to the person who brought me it as you want? I don't want to have to do calculus after every meal.
I’d tip a taxi driver, sometimes a cafe but not a regular habit.
Hate service charges. They basically equate to VAT , only ever refused to pay at one London restaurant.
The service wasn’t great and they failed to bring out the dish for one of my vegan friends.
Restaurant wasn’t happy, but they should have delivered
Nah - your step father's $100 tip - from here it does not look like bonding, becomes friends - it looks like an entirely dry transactional relationship.
Literally "big noting" himself.
We do tip taxi drivers and barbers/hairdressers in the uk and bar staff sometimes.
In the UK it can be summed us a tip equals To Indicate Pleasure.
I think the closest thing to tipping I have received in any customer service jobs in UK, is while working in a pharmacy, esp at Christmas, you get bunches of flowers, boxes of chocolate, tins of biscuits and occasionally a personal Christmas/thank you card with either cash or gift card in! But then, when you think about it, that is an environment where you get to know the regulars pretty well!
Same working for a surgical practice..lots of goodies like chocolates, bottles of wine and home-made treats at Christmas from grateful patients. 😊
If I think someone/somewhere has gone above and beyond then I'll often say "keep the change" or round my bill/payment up. That being said, many of my 'local' stores (corner shops) will charge less than actual value if it's a cash payment and only slightly over the £ 🤷♀
The only tip that is acceptable in the UK, is beer!
Usually given to construction workers at the end of a job and teachers. 🤭
@AlOh-2 yeh I've done that...had carpet fitters in all day....added a case of beer ....just a nice touch for a worker at the end of a hard day
I remember we would tip in Thailand, but there is certainly a wealth disparity to Straya.
We would tip in currency, not much from our lifestyle but a lot to them, but, we would also give really good ones who we liked, were really good, friendly and personable, we'd give them extra personal stuff like Chocolate Gold coins form Straya or Furry Friends Chocolate with Strayan animals on them or a Chocolate Yowir (back when they were good) with a little Strayan animal toy inside for his daughter. He was stoked and said it would go up on their special shelf. We insisted he give it to his daughter, He was a great driver. He suggested it was lunch time (we had forgotten) and we said we would shout him lunch and where would he like to go. He said he had already had lunch but new some very noce restr...places to eat and we asked to go to the place he would normally go, We were after all, travelling OS to eperience other cultures so we went to a locals' food hall with stalls selling really tasty local food in an open air under cover table area with local TV playing, and a few locals looking at us wondering why we were there.
Olly was the best (this was 2005. I named a Siamese Fighting Fish after him he was so cool.)
At a resort, we would tip the person who made up our room and they would decorate the bed immaginatively. One time our night dresses were neatly arranged on the cover in a heart shape.
At another resort we really heavily tipped the room staff when they had to do an emergency bedding change after my partner....well not all thai local eating places serve food fit for westerners' tender digestive systems.
We emptied our purses and gave them all the money we had.
This turned out to be a mistake as that morning at sparrows fart in the moening before the sun was even thought of, my Strayan bank called to ask if we hadmade purchaces at a shop in London. We had not so they cancelled out cards for us so we would not be scammed further. It did not occur to me that that meant we had no money left for the next 2 days. All accom and fud was prepaid so no huhu but it was tight but i really never regretted such a hefty tip for those 2 lovely cleaners who stripped the heavily soiled sheets and remaid the bed, while I held my girlfriend's head on the loo.
Whacky fun.
“Servers” you mean waitstaff. Server sounds so belittling.
Great video 👍A tip in the USA is what was called "Receiving the white man's dollar" 😮
This was 10-15 years ago so may not be the same now and of course itll vary whoever you ask tbh. I worked in a pretty fancy restaurant and there were never tips (but that was before the govt got on at some restaurants for holding back tips etc so that could absolutely have been happening). But when i worked at Maccys i had a few customers ask if they could give me a tip but company policy was to not accept them if offered but it was interesting having such different experiences in polar opposite environments.
I knew from interviews and articles that tipping is expected in the US (apparently sometimes aggressively?), but had no idea about the Pullman thing, that's just evil! I can't believe that's still legally enforced instead of allowing a basic minimum wage!
Interesting video... I rarely go to restaurants but definitely fall under the social misfit thing, concerned about being seen as a decent person... 🤦♂
The no tipping for a year experiment is interesting, but as you say, the risk of Visine in your food is a gamble. I can see your epitaph now; "Here lies JJLA, he didn't tip for a year, and pooped to death"!
I personally really like the way the UK has gone with service charges in restaurants, where the tip is built into the final price so there is no awkwardness. It's usually about 12.5%, and of course, if you then want to tip your waiter extra, you can, but it means that there is no mental arithmetic, and no fumbling with card machines while the waiter looks on. Some people hate it, but as a fairly traitional and socially awkward Brit - to whom money is four-letter word - I love the lack of fuss and the fact that you don't even have to think about tipping.
the only people i routinely tip in the uk are food delivery drivers, and only 10%. tips shouldn't be expected, they're a reward for good service. I used to work as a server and tips meant you did a good job. I think the main time people tip is around Christmas. UK also recently passed a law to stop the establishment stealing servers tips, some used to make us pool them and split them separately, and they're not allowed to do that any more.. its why the 'service charge' is creeping in, people are less likely to tip if they already paid a service charge... but servers rarely see the 'service charge' the establishment get it.
We don't tip in uk, oz, nz, etc at anywhere except restursnts, and it's only if service was particularly good that you may do it. Service charge isn't at most places and usually it's just on public holidays and it's only some places and you know in advance. If you work at a fancier restaurant you will have a higher save anyways. But I don't know if tipping and/or service charge is considered more normal at fancier restursnts..
Regardless decent service is still expected as part of the dinning experience as well as just polite socially, because people won't come back to the restaurant if it's bad service, so you don't keep your job if you get too many complaints. If there is a issue then often you will get given a free extra or maybe even don't have to pay for your drinks or meal (i e huge delay, mix up with meal, cold meal etc.
I live in the UK and I do. Not everywhere and only if they deserve it but I tip the barber, taxi driver, fast food delivery guy etc.
We take cash to tip, as if you tip via card often the company will say it's funding their xmas party and they never see it.
If they add on the optional service charge, I will then refuse to tip, as often these are chain resturants and the service isn't great. I'm a Lawyer and well off, and I don't need some server being snooty and looking down their nose at us, because we're not hipsters or whatever reason.
If we go to Claridges which is a 7 star hotel, they add a service charge, but you get the most amazing service and dining experience.
We tell our US friends not to tip everywhere in the UK.
When you're in a busy pub or nightclub I always tip big on the first drink, as I then get served really quickly each time.
my 1st visit to usa it drove me nuts..nothing is the price you see from shopping to eating out lol your always adding something to the total
Crazy . My brother in law was in New York and told the people in the shop how rediculous it was 😅
Tipping is bribery....and only that. I never tip when im buying a washing machine.
I don't think US food prices (in restaurants) are cheaper than in the UK - even before we take the tip into account. I might be wrong - but that's just my gut feeling from a few visits (obviously it'll partly be about where I've been, etc. but I've never gone to "high end" restaurants over there.
You should do some British music video reactions. I would love to hear some of your views on Ren, a UK musician. Also, Ren reaction videos are a license to print money/viewers!
I would suggest that when you go to a restaurant you take your reading glasses. Problem solved . Alternatively a magnifying glass, or start a trend by wearing a monocle.
Most men's hair cuts are £10 to £20 pounds but women's cut colour or perm etc range from£15 to £150 etc
In the UK I've grown up with the expectation that if I have had good service I tip in a restaurant with table service, and my hairdresser (and I guess by implication other beauty therapists should I use them) - both at about 10%. But I don't feel obligated to do either- the moment it becomes an obligation it isn't a 'tip' in my book.
I do also tip Uber drivers a flat £1 as I know they only get 45% of the money I pay for the trip (which costs the same or less than other taxi firms I could have chosen). I guess if I stayed in the sort of hotel where someone carried my bags to my room I might tip........But no automatic tip for room service in general.
Beyond those examples, I don't see why I should tip anyone just doing their job. If a business expects to provide a certain level of service to their customers they should be paying staff to provide that, not expecting the customer to pay their wages!
I hate the tipping out of fear culture in the US. In the uk, I usually tip a waiter/waitress plus can drivers. I wouldn’t tip anything else. Maybe my barber! My haircut is £12…. JJ’s hair cost made me feel faint!!! 😂😂😂
I'm a waitress in England.
Tipping is never expected, but ALWAYS appreciated.
A tip could be the difference in me walking home or being able to get a taxi.
The ones that do piss me off tho are those people that have you running back and forth and going above and beyond their entire visit, and then leave a huge mess and no tip.
Just to add, there is no service charge where I work
The people who demand most from you generally give less in return. ❤
You pay $70 for a haircut?! I pay £15
Ugh 😩
You pay £15???? Leeds Market, Old style barber, £5. Admittedly tip on top
Brit here. If I ever do tip, it’s just whatever change I happen to have at the time. Most people give me an odd look, because they don’t expect it. At all
I think it's quite common in restaurants here , I've always left a tip and know all my friends do too 😊
Tipping is still common when a group of people go to a restaurant in the UK. However, yes it will likely be 10-15%, and it is absolutely dependent on the level of service and care they felt they got. So a great server at a good restaurant can still earn a lot of extra money in tips, but staff applying for those jobs will have been assured of a good wage before ever applying - better restaurants pay better than minimum wage specifically to attract good servers who won't want to lose that job.
The other side of this, of course, is that where servers give bad service nobody feels much guilt about not tipping at all. If a server has been rude, has been obviously more interested in talking to other staff than serving the customers, or otherwise done a bad job of it, they probably are getting nothing, yet still earn their wages. You'd probably never go back to that restaurant with such awful staff and no oversight, but that's on the business, not the customers.
I do remember, as a kid, my mother leaving an envelope marked 'tip' on the table for one particularly awful server. Inside was a handwritten note that said "If you'd been polite, attentive, and cared about your job, there would have been money in here" - which honestly, is a pretty good tip. 🤣
My mum leaves money on the table for them to get when clearing up but if service is rotten no chance 😂😂 we are in Scotland I do tip if service is good.
Servers in the UK get a wage that they can live on, maybe not live well but survivable. We tip good service
I will never pay the restaurant service charge. I ask for it to be removed from the bill and then give the waiting staff a cash tip(normally 20%)for their service and attentiveness. That then goes into their pocket and they don’t have to share the tip with the money grabbing restaurant!
Montana $4 !!! What? I know there is F'k all in Montana but still .... Love the matching tops by the way
I'm english but my dad's side of the family is all american and my grandma supposedly got a 5k tip when she was working at a steakhouse in montana back in the 60s. Apparently there was this entitled oil baron type who asked for his steak blue who kept on sending it back because it was too well done, after about the 4th or 5th time she was that pissed off that she just grabbed a raw slice of beef and slapped it on the plate and this seemed to impress the fella.
A tip for us is basically saying, 'thank you for giving us good service,' it shouldn't be because your wages are so low, that without my tip, you cannot survive.
WOOAH hang on there gerty, as an ex barman, in the UK, if you have any sense, on a busy night you always tip the bar person with your first drink, when the queue at the bar is 5 or 6 deep, you tip, you will get served quicker......
In the UK i tip my barber and I tip tip for table service 10%.
5% tip max in uk . Oh & by the way jj $70 for that hair cut… dang ..I’ll fly over and do it for $20 uk price bro .
A lot of tipping in the Uk in my opinion is rounding like if it’s £4.80 we just give them £5 and say keep the change