Waitress automatically adds the optional tip, do you......
Poll: Waitress automatically adds the optional tip, do you......
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Me and the good wife have just returned from an expensive dinner, when the waitress handed us the chip and pin jobby she had already pressed yes to accept the optional 12.5% tip.
The restaurant was quite full and tbh we didn't want to look tight and make a fuss about it so we paid and left.
The restaurant was quite full and tbh we didn't want to look tight and make a fuss about it so we paid and left.
You've forgotten the option to say "Quietly ask the waitress to restart the transaction" which is what I would personally do.
The whole point of saying "do you accept the service charge" is to give the option to the diner, not for the waiter/ess to add another 12.5% to your bill unchallenged.
The whole point of saying "do you accept the service charge" is to give the option to the diner, not for the waiter/ess to add another 12.5% to your bill unchallenged.
Edited by Frederick on Friday 8th August 20:26
R5GTTgaz said:
Me and the good wife have just returned from an expensive dinner, when the waitress handed us the chip and pin jobby she had already pressed yes to accept the optional 12.5% tip.
The restaurant was quite full and tbh we didn't want to look tight and make a fuss about it so we paid and left.
Yopu probably are paying the eaterie rather than the waitress. Tell her to cancel the card, and leave the tip in cash, then she gets it.The restaurant was quite full and tbh we didn't want to look tight and make a fuss about it so we paid and left.
rfn said:
Providing the service was acceptable, I would usually leave in the region of a 10% tip.
It was rude, however, for her to have accepted it on your behalf, perrsonally I'd have made her restart the transaction and refused to give the tip on that reasoning.
Ditto that. Usually give 10% for good service, but I will NEVER be told to give tip where its discretionary. Such actions will result in no tip whatsoever.It was rude, however, for her to have accepted it on your behalf, perrsonally I'd have made her restart the transaction and refused to give the tip on that reasoning.
eldar said:
R5GTTgaz said:
Me and the good wife have just returned from an expensive dinner, when the waitress handed us the chip and pin jobby she had already pressed yes to accept the optional 12.5% tip.
The restaurant was quite full and tbh we didn't want to look tight and make a fuss about it so we paid and left.
Yopu probably are paying the eaterie rather than the waitress. Tell her to cancel the card, and leave the tip in cash, then she gets it.The restaurant was quite full and tbh we didn't want to look tight and make a fuss about it so we paid and left.
I'd be livid. Its up to the customer to decide any level of tip, which i personally leave at my discretion and in cash. The fact that she pretty much committed you to paying 12.5% extra negates any outstanding service the rest of the staff may have provided during the evening. How busy they are is irrelevant IMO. I would call back now, and have a bleat me, pretending you have just spotted the extra on your receipt.
I love putting people in their place!
I love putting people in their place!
Edited by Digger. on Friday 8th August 20:47
Animal said:
Tips are for good service, not for doing your damn job - unless you happen to work at Simpson's, apparently! That said, it's not as if waiting staff earn that much so what's the harm in being generous?
Do your balls ache from being so totally 'on the fence' about what to do? 
Digger. said:
I'd be livid. Its up to the customer to decide any level of tip. The fact that she pretty much committed you to paying 12.5% extra negates any outstanding service the rest of the staff may have provided during the evening. How busy they are is irrelevant IMO. I would call back now, and have a bleat me, pretending you have just spotted the extra on your receipt.
I love putting people in their place!
Mrs R5 is now writing a letter and sending an email to them. I love putting people in their place!
Asked the pzza express waiter last night re the tip system via credit cards thinking it didn't actually end up in his pocket.
They do actually get the tip but it's taxed obviously. This isn't the same in all places though.
I wouldn't have paid the tip in this instance and restarted the transaction.....cheeky buggers.
They do actually get the tip but it's taxed obviously. This isn't the same in all places though.
I wouldn't have paid the tip in this instance and restarted the transaction.....cheeky buggers.
R5GTTgaz said:
Me and the good wife have just returned from an expensive dinner, when the waitress handed us the chip and pin jobby she had already pressed yes to accept the optional 12.5% tip.
The restaurant was quite full and tbh we didn't want to look tight and make a fuss about it so we paid and left.
Funny enough a chap in work this morning was talking about a similar situation to this. The resteraunt had automatically added the 12.5%, and it was written in tiny letters on the paper receipt. He only noticed whilst examining it in the car afterwards, he went back in and asked them to refund his card the 12.5%, which they did after a bit of fuss. He told them he'd have gladly tipped them more if they'd not automatically added it to his bill.The restaurant was quite full and tbh we didn't want to look tight and make a fuss about it so we paid and left.
Don't leave a tip at all if i can help it ,Mrs Fflyingdog is more charitable than i,my point is if the wages are crap as a waiter/waitress then get a better job simple.I don't get a tip when an aircraft i released for service doesn't crash.If you take a low paid job then expect low wages do not expect people who have paid the stated price for goods/services to make up your wage packet.
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