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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Jan 26, 2018 10:40:14 GMT -5
Only once I can think of. If the bar is almost empty, I should not be sitting with an empty glass for 10 minutes while you BS with the other staff at the opposite end. If you don’t want my money, I won’t give it to you.
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Post by cuppacoffee - slight return on Jan 27, 2018 7:01:52 GMT -5
Culturally, we don’t tip automatically where I live, but over the last decade, I’m seeing many more restaurants - especially chains - where the wait staff are very eager to “perform” being nice at you and tell you their name and make conversation and write / draw cute things on the receipt when they bring your bill so on, which I think of as a very “forced” act of what they think American service is like. If anything, that kind of makes me less inclined to tip, which is horrible, as I also suspect those are the sort of places which don’t pay their (often student-aged) workers very well. So, yeah, I’m torn - tip and encourage the sort of economy where companies pay exploitatively little or don’t tip, and screw over someone already not making much?
That said, in British pubs, I’d say if you’re going to be there a while / drinking all afternoon, simply including the person behind the bar in your first round, “...and one for yourself, mate.” (thus, “tipping” up front) works wonders for making good / attentive service for the rest of your visit more likely. Even if the bar staff doesn’t / can’t have a drink there and then, the fact that they know they’re having a drink on you when they get off does a lot to establish you as “not a complete arse.”
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Post by Shy Guy on Jan 27, 2018 8:38:49 GMT -5
Yes.
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