gratuity

On my first trip to the USA many moons ago. Found myself in an almost empty bar, ordered a beer, all good. Fancied a second one but barman just ignored me though it was quiet. Walked up to his end of the bar, "any chance of another beer please mate?"
"Sure, as long as I get paid buddy". This was my introduction to the tipping culture.

I don't generally tip for anything unless I get service over and above and I hardly ever, ever, ever tip taxi drivers.
Nobody ever tips me.
 
I always knock it off and leave a cash tip for the server if it's deserved , i saw somewhere that if you leave cash it legally has to go to that member of staff , if you pay the gratuity the restaurant can and often will take it .
Unfortunately where I live I have a choice of of 9 good eating places within 1 to 5 mins walk , I eat out to much and it costs a bloody fortune , saves on kitchen cleaner though :rofl:
 
Stark said:
Gov please change the spelling of your title on this post its sending me into Spelling OCD overdrive!!!!
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My lovely wife has already told me off for this :oops: at least I spelt it right in the detail :D
 
I always tip if it says service not included, if the service is good. If something went wrong, but was rectified properly, I will still tip.
I was given a brown envelope once, by a customer - after installing a machine.
I told him due to our governance rules, I could not accept it and gave it to a colleague as sponsorship for his yorkshire peaks hike.

Dewi - I did the same on our last cruise, binned off the blanket cruise tip at the purser's office, and tipped personally the people who gave us great service on the ship. A barman at a certain bar, our room attendant, and our waiters.
 
They did this in the Holiday Inn, Coventry. All very sneaky and I doubt if the workers see the money. I refuse to go there now, now thats grumpy!
 
Gov - don't think you're being too grumpy. I think an optional or discretionary gratuity doesn't have to be paid or paid in full. Sometimes I see 12.5% added to the bill as an optional gratuity and I don't feel happy paying all that for service that wasn't anything special. I do think it's important to tip those who have given really good service.
 
I will tip for good service. I will tip great for great service. But the concept of feeling obligated to tip drives me mad, the sad thing is if I don't tip then the staff are loosing out for their companies greed.
 
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