Take my word for it Brits, don’t let this toxic tipping culture sneak in. Once it’s in place it will be impossible for it to go away.
If anyone adds a 20% tip on my bill in this country, I’m asking for the whole thing to be removed.
Especially at a high end restaurant. Absolute embarrassment that an establishment like that can’t pay their staff properly and have to make them pan handle the customers.
Failed country behaviour
and it’s not like their customers care that much about price, they could increase their prices by 20% and have just as many people showing up. But nope, they decide to introduce a shameful tipping culture instead.
He did increase the prices by 20%, he just did it in a way that passes the blame on to his employees.
And where he doesn’t take the loss if people refuse to pay it.
Wait you can just refuse? I thought you’d get arrested
If someone refuses to pay the tip it doesn’t affect the owner. It hurts the waiter/waitress.
I am just imagining the logistics of this.
If the table bought $100 of food and the bill added a 20% service charge, and the party puts down $100 and leaves, refusing to pay the rest, I think that is larceny and a crime, and they could be charged.
He can go fuck himself!
He could pay his staff that 20% directly and leave out the middlemen.
Meanwhile U.S. restaurants are shutting down by the thousands because people stop coming due to the tacked on tips and fees sometimes doubling the cost of the meal. Don’t let him wipe you guys out too.
Gordon Ramsey is, and always has been, a fucken cunt.
Asshole does an asshole thing. Too believable for this community.
Not the greatest idea.
Fucking gross
The cost of employing staff isn’t related to the cost of what people eat - it’s a function of how long the restaurant is open and how busy it is. It doesn’t make sense that I pay more for the staff if I order a £40 bottle of wine versus a £20 bottle. If you’re going to make customers pay separately like this,it should be a cover charge per head
If it’s mentioned up front and fixed then it’s fine. One way or another the restaurant needs to cover it’s costs and it’s either done via inflating the price of the food or a fixed service fee.
What I hate is a discretionary tip suggestion because suddenly I’m made to be responsible for how much the staff get.
it’s either done via inflating the price of the food or a fixed service fee.
That’s exactly equivalent except for the false advertising.
Why do you think this increase has anything to do with covering costs?
@VetOfTheSeas We’ve been calling for an end of tipping for ages because it’s a shit system, the fuck?
No idea who Gordon Ramsay is (web search says British celebrity chef) but why is this like the Onion? It just seems like regular enshittification.
We found him guys! The guy under the rock!
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For those outside the US, this is what we’re dealing with:
Coffee shops and bakeries are asking for a 20% tip for ringing up self-service items brought to the checkout counter. Restaurants want a 20% tip to simply run food to the table after people stand in long lines to place their order. Buffets are adding 20% tips to the bill just for providing water.
This was slowly introduced and enough people left tips despite the requests being absurd that it’s now done everywhere. Next up: Tip the AI for its hard work.
I hope Ramsey gets his ass handed to him.
Put him on the execution list.
