Short trip back to UK - observations
Oct 24th 2010, 2:20 pm
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
It's their bloody menu.
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Oct 24th 2010, 2:38 pm
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
Just as well you're not here in the PNW.... I can count two, under one mile from here and both in the same shopping center.... Now that they're in grocery stores and Target you can find one everywhere....
... I never eat there because I think their food is crap, but I do like their cherry limeades....
Oct 24th 2010, 8:20 pm
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
Oct 24th 2010, 11:44 pm
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
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Oct 24th 2010, 11:59 pm
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
Fraid so.
Yeah I hate that too! They seem to be doing that at a lot of places.
The one I really hate, which I've had happen in a few places, is when you pay by card and they bring the little chip and pin machine to the table, it adds a 10 or 15% tip and asks you if you want to remove it. The first time that happened to me I'd been intending to tip and elected to remove the tip purely because I was so annoyed at such a blatent attempt to shame people into tipping - it's a lot harder to remove a tip than simply not add one.
Oct 25th 2010, 12:13 am
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
We must move in very different circles then. I visit the UK around 3-4 times a year with work for up to a couple of weeks at a time. I have never, ever encountered any expectation of a tip, let alone at a rate of 10-15% or heard this discussed by either professional colleagues or friends. I've seen tipping of perhaps around 10% where the service has been exceptionally good, or just a couple of extra quid thrown in for average service - but never any expectation as such. In my experience it's still perfectly ok not to tip at all in the UK and nobody bats an eyelid (as opposed to the US where I know some people who would have a coronary if you didn't tip even if the server had poured scalding hot soup in you lap and then punched you in the face when you asked for a cloth). UK servers are paid a wage for the service they provide unlike their US counterparts that rely on tipping.
Oct 25th 2010, 12:36 am
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
We must move in very different circles then. I visit the UK around 3-4 times a year with work for up to a couple of weeks at a time. I have never, ever encountered any expectation of a tip, let alone at a rate of 10-15% or heard this discussed by either professional colleagues or friends. I've seen tipping of perhaps around 10% where the service has been exceptionally good, or just a couple of extra quid thrown in for average service - but never any expectation as such. In my experience it's still perfectly ok not to tip at all in the UK and nobody bats an eyelid (as opposed to the US where I know some people who would have a coronary if you didn't tip even if the server had poured scalding hot soup in you lap and then punched you in the face when you asked for a cloth). UK servers are paid a wage for the service they provide unlike their US counterparts that rely on tipping.
True - minimum wage though. There used to be a practice among certain chains - now stopped - whereby they would actually pay the servers well below the minimum wage and make up the difference in their pay with with the pool of tips they had recieved.
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Oct 25th 2010, 1:00 am
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
We must move in very different circles then. I visit the UK around 3-4 times a year with work for up to a couple of weeks at a time. I have never, ever encountered any expectation of a tip, let alone at a rate of 10-15% or heard this discussed by either professional colleagues or friends. I've seen tipping of perhaps around 10% where the service has been exceptionally good, or just a couple of extra quid thrown in for average service - but never any expectation as such. In my experience it's still perfectly ok not to tip at all in the UK and nobody bats an eyelid (as opposed to the US where I know some people who would have a coronary if you didn't tip even if the server had poured scalding hot soup in you lap and then punched you in the face when you asked for a cloth). UK servers are paid a wage for the service they provide unlike their US counterparts that rely on tipping.
Oct 25th 2010, 7:32 am
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
Oct 25th 2010, 7:34 am
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Re: Short trip back to UK - observations
Local Asda pumps have had them for 4+ years now (I only know this since I've lived here for 4 years!). Several others do, not always at every pump though.
