Tipping - join the debate
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Do you work in a restaurant? Do the staff at your local restaurant get to keep their tips? Should service charges simply be scrapped, and staff paid higher basic wages? Are you happy to leave 10 per cent or 12.5 per cent - or more? Should these discretionary charges be added automatically to bills? Is it socially acceptable to have a service charge removed from your bill? Should breakages be paid for out of the staff's tips? Should tips go straight to the waiter or waitress who served you, or should other restaurant staff - including the chefs - be given a cut?
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I am a waitress, I get paid minimum wage (after the credit cards tips I have accumulated have been used to top up my salary). I believe that the tip earned is a reflection of the service recieved. In general customers are generous and add tips on their credit cards, little do they know that we never see this money in the form of a tip.
I have been told I will be fired on the spot if I tell customers where the "add gratuity" option on credit card machines.
This is very unfair and misleading to customers who mean well.
I hope something will be done. At this moment the manager has hired "mystery shoppers' to check up on whether we accept credit card tips or not.
I hope the loophole will change soon.