Posted: 4/2/2016 10:42:34 AM EDT
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When in New Zealand I discovered - thanks to a perplexed cabdriver - that Kiwis don't generally tip.
Well I'm leaving for London today and I'm wondering if the British tip like Americans, differently or not at all. |
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. |
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. I don't really know what you just said so I'm pissed off. |
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. what the fuck did you just say? |
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It depends.
When you eat, look on the receipt. Sometimes a service charge is already included. Other times a suggested tip is posted at the bottom just like here in the states. You can tip for a pint if you feel, but it's not expected. You don't have to tip drivers. I do business over in London/Oxford quite a bit. Just got back from a trip just two weeks ago. It's still cold there. Hope you packed some warm clothes. |
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what the fuck did you just say? Quoted:
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. I'll tip a dollar or so as long as it's warranted. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. I like big, floppy titties and will leave tips proportional to a server's big, floppy tittiednes. what the fuck did you just say? |
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Quoted: what the fuck did you just say? Quoted: Quoted: I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. what the fuck did you just say? |
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Damn mate. Try to speak English. |
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You typically don't tip in Europe. They actually get paid for their work by the owner. Same for many other countries.
America and Americans are fookin idiotic when it comes to tipping, it is completely out of control. Give bad service, get your ass fired, that is the way it should work, not holding customers [especially repeat] hostage. I don't go out much, I don't find, locally, outside of a couple places, the food is good enough, nor the service exceptional enough to warrant not cooking myself. Tits and bad service still means a shitty tip. If my coffee cup is empty then I consider it shitty service if that goes on more then 5 minutes. I WILL get up and refill it myself, that usually causes consternation with the waitstaff.......... 
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I don't really know what you just said so I'm pissed off. Quoted:
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. I don't really know what you just said so I'm pissed off. I will attempt to translate. If in a small cafe with the wife or by myself i'll leave a UK dollar in the container [by the cash register] assuming i've ordered close to 10 UK dollars worth or more of food. In a restaurant or after a bar meal i will tip any from 10-15 percent depending on "whole in the wall quality" [not sure??], service, and breast size of the waitress. |
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what the fuck did you just say? Quoted:
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. what the fuck did you just say? Big tits. |
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You typically don't tip in Europe. They actually get paid for their work by the owner. Same for many other countries. America and Americans are fookin idiotic when it comes to tipping, it is completely out of control. Give bad service, get your ass fired, that is the way it should work, not holding customers [especially repeat] hostage. I don't go out much, I don't find, locally, outside of a couple places, the food is good enough, nor the service exceptional enough to warrant not cooking myself. Tits and bad service still means a shitty tip. If my coffee cup is empty then I consider it shitty service if that goes on more then 5 minutes. I WILL get up and refill it myself, that usually causes consternation with the waitstaff..........
Totally agree. Now pizza and taco shops have cups by the register. |
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Damn mate. Try to speak English. Quoted:
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Damn mate. Try to speak English. Made sense to me. |
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Quoted: I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Say that shit to my face. |
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Quoted: Huh. I never would have thought. I kinda was under the impression that tipping was universal. The area is very tourist driven and a lot of the tourists are Germans that do not tip. Many feel it is the servers job to "serve" them but don't realize the servers wages are low and the tips make up the difference to get to a living wage. |
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Only time I tipped in Ireland was when somebody went above and beyond Example - we went to an after dark bar in a small village. The patrons liked us because we were Americans, and they didn't often see foreigners. The bar an kept the place open for an extra hour after closing to talk with us and served several drinks on the house. He was shocked when I tried to give him a measly 20 euro tip. After I explained it was because he had effectively worked for an hour without getting paid, he accepted it |
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Quoted: I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. |
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Quoted: Totally agree. Now pizza and taco shops have cups by the register. Quoted: Quoted: You typically don't tip in Europe. They actually get paid for their work by the owner. Same for many other countries. America and Americans are fookin idiotic when it comes to tipping, it is completely out of control. Give bad service, get your ass fired, that is the way it should work, not holding customers [especially repeat] hostage. I don't go out much, I don't find, locally, outside of a couple places, the food is good enough, nor the service exceptional enough to warrant not cooking myself. Tits and bad service still means a shitty tip. If my coffee cup is empty then I consider it shitty service if that goes on more then 5 minutes. I WILL get up and refill it myself, that usually causes consternation with the waitstaff.......... Totally agree. Now pizza and taco shops have cups by the register. They are asking for a tip so I give them one. |
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Common language my ass. |
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. If I didn't watch Wheeler Dealers all the time I'd ask what language you're speaking.
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Common language my ass. Quoted:
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Common language my ass. I understood every word of this, but I'm a bit of an Anglophile.
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I understood every word of this, but I'm a bit of an Anglophile. Quoted:
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Common language my ass. I understood every word of this, but I'm a bit of an Anglophile. So did I, but I used to play WoW with a bunch of Aussies when I was working night shift and picked up some basic understanding of non-American English. Only word that threw me for a second was scran. 
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Yeahhhh, going to need a translation. |
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. 
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Quoted: So did I, but I used to play WoW with a bunch of Aussies when I was working night shift and picked up some basic understanding of non-American English. Only word that threw me for a second was scran. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Common language my ass. I understood every word of this, but I'm a bit of an Anglophile. So did I, but I used to play WoW with a bunch of Aussies when I was working night shift and picked up some basic understanding of non-American English. Only word that threw me for a second was scran. Yep I understood all of it, but then again my great-grandma was born in Glasgow and I used to have to translate her for her neighbors when she got in a mood, which was all the time, it especially confused them when they'd ask me what language she was speaking and I'd say "English. She only goes to Gaelic when she's really pissed off and you're not quite there yet..." I used to play Dark Age of Camelot many moons ago and I was an insomniac, played Midgard (which was Viking-y) as my faction. So because of the side I picked and the times I was on I used to have a healthy command of Swedish and Norwegian smack talk and swearing since played a lot with those guys. As for the Danes though, well no one could fucking understand anything they said unless they spoke in English...not even other Danes. |
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Is a quid like a qualude? Quoted:
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. I think a quid is some kind of cephalopod. So he's leaving (presumably small) octopi in aquariums placed for that use. |
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Edit: I did some reading. |
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I wish our politicians were that straightforward. |
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I understood every word of this, but I'm a bit of an Anglophile. Quoted:
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I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. Common language my ass. I understood every word of this, but I'm a bit of an Anglophile. Same here. |
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Quoted: I tip, short of fast food joints. If in a small cafe with the missus or by myself I'll pop a quid or so in the pot (often by the till) assuming Ive ordered close to a tenners worth or more of nosh. In a restaurant or after a pub meal I will tip anywhere from 10-15% depending on scran quality, service, and serving person mammarial fortitude. They like tits in UK? I thought that was a USA thing. |