http://www.anglotopia.net/british-travel/travel/the-anglotopia-guide-to-tipping-in-britain-and-london-ten-top-brit-tipping-tips/ A Blog for Anglophiles Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:10:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.anglotopia.net/british-travel/travel/the-anglotopia-guide-to-tipping-in-britain-and-london-ten-top-brit-tipping-tips/#comment-13852 Mik Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:39:11 +0000 http://www.anglotopia.net/?p=3753#comment-13852 last time I visited the folks in the UK and we all went out to dinner, having lived over a decade now in Seattle I automatically tend to tip. I paid the bill and tipped the waitress quite a big tip. She came back shortly after and handed me the whole tip back and told me I had given her too much money. last time I visited the folks in the UK and we all went out to dinner, having lived over a decade now in Seattle I automatically tend to tip. I paid the bill and tipped the waitress quite a big tip. She came back shortly after and handed me the whole tip back and told me I had given her too much money.

]]> http://www.anglotopia.net/british-travel/travel/the-anglotopia-guide-to-tipping-in-britain-and-london-ten-top-brit-tipping-tips/#comment-13819 Lisa Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:48:45 +0000 http://www.anglotopia.net/?p=3753#comment-13819 Here in Hartlepool I have found that sadly the tips in restaurants don't go to the staff. A friend of mine has asked at almost every restaurant in town and she said there is only one restaurant in town (the nicest one) where the waitresses can keep the tips for themselves. Otherwise if you leave a tip, it just goes into the pocket of the owners which I think is incredibly unfair. I now will ask the waitresses if they get to keep their tips, if they say yes then I give them a tip if they say no that it goes to the restaurant then I withhold it. I know this isn't the norm in Britain though and is kind of specific to Hartlepool. There are just a few men in this town who kind of hold a monopoly on the restaurant business so they take advantage by creating this policy. They take advantage of the fact that people may ask if they "accept" tips but probably won't ask if they actually get to keep them, so because people assume the tip is going to their waitress the owners get to line their pockets while their staff have to turn over their tips. Its really shameful. Here in Hartlepool I have found that sadly the tips in restaurants don’t go to the staff. A friend of mine has asked at almost every restaurant in town and she said there is only one restaurant in town (the nicest one) where the waitresses can keep the tips for themselves. Otherwise if you leave a tip, it just goes into the pocket of the owners which I think is incredibly unfair. I now will ask the waitresses if they get to keep their tips, if they say yes then I give them a tip if they say no that it goes to the restaurant then I withhold it. I know this isn’t the norm in Britain though and is kind of specific to Hartlepool. There are just a few men in this town who kind of hold a monopoly on the restaurant business so they take advantage by creating this policy. They take advantage of the fact that people may ask if they “accept” tips but probably won’t ask if they actually get to keep them, so because people assume the tip is going to their waitress the owners get to line their pockets while their staff have to turn over their tips. Its really shameful.

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