Brother Marcus kept adding this. I kept asking for it to be removed.
Dammit. Ate here a week ago and didn’t spot this.
Another thing… many restaurants now adding 13% service instead of 12.5%.
I had an “optional tip” added to my bill the other day and the waitress had the cheek to ask why I was opting out of the tip. I hate how they try and guilt you into it. Every other European country doesn’t do tips because we have minimum wages, unlike America.
£50 discount, won’t pay a quid extra
I constantly ask them to remove the service charge and o hate they’re always trying to make you feel bad for it
I would say yes if they asked me first. Just don’t add it automatically.
What is the service charge? I thought it was another name for tip.
This is something I’m really not on board with.
The automatic tipping is one thing, but we were inclined to tip previously anyway, and personally I like not having the pressure of whether I should tip / how much.
But an unknown charity!? You can’t even verify the legitimacy of the charity from the receipt. For all you know it could be a “for profit” charity that funnels 99% of the “donations” back into the restaurant’s pocket.
Even if a legit charity, you’re letting this restaurant get credit for their charitable donations to whatever cause at the expense of their customers. If they want to support a charity they can do it themselves, you’re there to eat not support a charity. You can’t be expected to donate to every single charity that asks or we would all be penniless. We should be able to choose where our charitable donations are going.
I would remove the service charge too whilst you’re at it. Why are they charging for gravy?
It’s everywhere right now. Introducing the US tipping culture didn’t work 100%, so now it’s time to try something with charities. Not only restaurants, even places like Lidl ask you for donations on every purchase. They can pay their taxes the same way as everyone else and fund their PR with money we already spend.
I would love to know, from anyone actually associated with this stuff, does the donation go 100% to the charity? I am deeply curious about what drives restaurants etc to do this (and I reckon I see it on about 50% of bills these days). It pisses customers off and for what upside?
is it literally just so corporate can say “we facilitated £x donated, aren’t we lovely”? Because I am starting to wonder if the restaurant perhaps gets a % of the donation, or an upfront payment from the charity to put it in. That would make more sense to me, but it might also be a low stake conspiracy…
That arrogance should cost them the service charge.
Only way these owners will learn.
3.75 for a diet coke! Holy shit
Sick of this option on card readers when checking out. I wear glasses and it’s a pain to get them out of my bag to see what the issue is.
If I want to donate to a charity, I will donate to a charity. Quite getting in my face with this shit everywhere.
What’s wild is that if you look solely at what was actually consumed, the idea of that being 70 quid (without the voucher) is just… insane.
12% service charge? The cheek
I would tell them to remove that £7.66 tip for starters.
If they want to introduce American style tipping via stealth then I expect American style service. Until then that service charge is taken off my bill anywhere that tries it.
It’s the 12.5% service charges that get me. Should be illegal.
£19.91 for 2 roast dinners plus drinks! – in London!! – great deal 👀
It’s better for the charity if you do it yourself rather than through a business anyway – at least that way they’ll get Gift Aid!
Should have got rid of that service charge
I looked them up, and it’s a very worthy cause, but I did have to look them up. Those initials could have stood for a cause that I am vehemently opposed to. Unless there are clear explanations on the menu etc, I would have been dubious too
Can we all just agree that it should 100% be illegal for a business to add line items to a bill that aren’t specifically requested by the customer? Not only is it bad enough that US tipping practices are making their way to the UK, but expecting diners to play Where’s Wally to catch shit like this is ridiculous.
Another thing to look out for is the VAT which is seemingly no longer being included in menus or outside restaurants.
There’s a coffee shop I go to that’s just started to force you to decide at the card machine what tip percentage you want to give before it lets you pay.
Previously you just tapped your card and they’d bring your pastry and coffee to your table, but now if you select no tip they expect you to come back for your order and take it from the counter. Such a shame as it’s a nice little independent place that I wanted to support but I can’t be dealing with that BS.
What type of religious nut case orders a flat white with a roast beef?
For how expensive shit is in London it really does take the piss
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Brother Marcus kept adding this. I kept asking for it to be removed.
Dammit. Ate here a week ago and didn’t spot this.
Another thing… many restaurants now adding 13% service instead of 12.5%.
I had an “optional tip” added to my bill the other day and the waitress had the cheek to ask why I was opting out of the tip. I hate how they try and guilt you into it. Every other European country doesn’t do tips because we have minimum wages, unlike America.
£50 discount, won’t pay a quid extra
I constantly ask them to remove the service charge and o hate they’re always trying to make you feel bad for it
I would say yes if they asked me first. Just don’t add it automatically.
What is the service charge? I thought it was another name for tip.
This is something I’m really not on board with.
The automatic tipping is one thing, but we were inclined to tip previously anyway, and personally I like not having the pressure of whether I should tip / how much.
But an unknown charity!? You can’t even verify the legitimacy of the charity from the receipt. For all you know it could be a “for profit” charity that funnels 99% of the “donations” back into the restaurant’s pocket.
Even if a legit charity, you’re letting this restaurant get credit for their charitable donations to whatever cause at the expense of their customers. If they want to support a charity they can do it themselves, you’re there to eat not support a charity. You can’t be expected to donate to every single charity that asks or we would all be penniless. We should be able to choose where our charitable donations are going.
I would remove the service charge too whilst you’re at it. Why are they charging for gravy?
It’s everywhere right now. Introducing the US tipping culture didn’t work 100%, so now it’s time to try something with charities. Not only restaurants, even places like Lidl ask you for donations on every purchase. They can pay their taxes the same way as everyone else and fund their PR with money we already spend.
I would love to know, from anyone actually associated with this stuff, does the donation go 100% to the charity? I am deeply curious about what drives restaurants etc to do this (and I reckon I see it on about 50% of bills these days). It pisses customers off and for what upside?
is it literally just so corporate can say “we facilitated £x donated, aren’t we lovely”? Because I am starting to wonder if the restaurant perhaps gets a % of the donation, or an upfront payment from the charity to put it in. That would make more sense to me, but it might also be a low stake conspiracy…
That arrogance should cost them the service charge.
Only way these owners will learn.
3.75 for a diet coke! Holy shit
Sick of this option on card readers when checking out. I wear glasses and it’s a pain to get them out of my bag to see what the issue is.
If I want to donate to a charity, I will donate to a charity. Quite getting in my face with this shit everywhere.
What’s wild is that if you look solely at what was actually consumed, the idea of that being 70 quid (without the voucher) is just… insane.
12% service charge? The cheek
I would tell them to remove that £7.66 tip for starters.
If they want to introduce American style tipping via stealth then I expect American style service. Until then that service charge is taken off my bill anywhere that tries it.
It’s the 12.5% service charges that get me. Should be illegal.
£19.91 for 2 roast dinners plus drinks! – in London!! – great deal 👀
It’s better for the charity if you do it yourself rather than through a business anyway – at least that way they’ll get Gift Aid!
Should have got rid of that service charge
I looked them up, and it’s a very worthy cause, but I did have to look them up. Those initials could have stood for a cause that I am vehemently opposed to. Unless there are clear explanations on the menu etc, I would have been dubious too
Can we all just agree that it should 100% be illegal for a business to add line items to a bill that aren’t specifically requested by the customer? Not only is it bad enough that US tipping practices are making their way to the UK, but expecting diners to play Where’s Wally to catch shit like this is ridiculous.
Another thing to look out for is the VAT which is seemingly no longer being included in menus or outside restaurants.
There’s a coffee shop I go to that’s just started to force you to decide at the card machine what tip percentage you want to give before it lets you pay.
Previously you just tapped your card and they’d bring your pastry and coffee to your table, but now if you select no tip they expect you to come back for your order and take it from the counter. Such a shame as it’s a nice little independent place that I wanted to support but I can’t be dealing with that BS.
What type of religious nut case orders a flat white with a roast beef?
For how expensive shit is in London it really does take the piss
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