Temple Bar restaurant enforces American-style tipping (we put down €70 cash and after waiting ages they called over “will you be wanting change?”)
Temple Bar restaurant enforces American-style tipping (we put down €70 cash and after waiting ages they called over “will you be wanting change?”)
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Is there cocaine in that boxty?
28 euro per boxty.
Da fuq kind of boxty costs that much?
If you’re a tourist stay away from Temple Bar! If you’re not, then you’ve been absolutely ridden. Expecting to get a 14 euro tip on top of charging 56 quid for two plates of fucking boxty? That’s enough cheek for two arses.
I think the solution is to stop giving money to businesses in Temple Bar
I love how no one’s talking about the American style tipping system and it’s all just railing against the rip-off price. Yiz aren’t wrong, mind.
25% tip is unheard of in hospitality, might have been a brain fart by the staff member thinking it was 4 euro change
Crazy price for a potato cake.
Also temple bar is full of tourists who will gladly tip because they know no better.
And now I want a boxty… but maybe a cheaper one
Does that boxty thingy come with a happy ending?
Ah Templebar: twinned with the most expensive city in Switzerland
I’ve actually started saying “sorry I’m not American”
This is becoming more and more common here in Ireland and I’m not even in Dublin
They can fuck right off with this bullshit.
At a place the other week we said yes to giving a 15% tip on the card machine, only to realise later the bill already included a 10% service charge!
Cheeky fuckers!
€28 for mashed potatoes? Ffs.
Hate tipping culture, hate those atrocious prices. Fucking hell.
56 euro for two portions of boxty? Maybe they wanted you to pay 14 quid for all the lube they had to use to fuck your asshole that hard.
28 quid for a potato cake?
It’s not just any boxty,
It’s Gaelic boxty🤣
As an American I hate tipping as well wish we just paid better and asked for more per dish really
Is that 56 euros for 2 potato pancakes? Tell me I’m mistaken please
Asking for tips in ireland is a fast way of going out of business.
A chicken fillet roll or a breakfast roll next time someone asks for something Irish. Way cheaper.
“will you be wanting change”
“Exact change”
First of all who do they really think they are to get a 20% tip. Was the service spectacular?
Next just the sheer audacity to assume.
Especially when you’ve clearly just remortgaged your house for that meal.
Con artists all involved.
It’s good that they tell you that staff get to keep their tips because the law changed in December to make sure owners couldn’t pocket tips.
We Americans do it because they lower the minimum wage to account for tips. So instead of rewarding our servers for good service, we’re subsidizing the business costs of the employer. Sorry to see this kind of expectation going on outside our country.
€56 for left over potatoes.
What else came with the “meal”?
It’s a tourist trap, geared towards attracting Americans especially.
Why would you even go there? let alone eat the food
If the general public don’t give in to it, the businesses trying to jump start tipping culture will get names as the worst employers, they’ll have a hard ass time getting staff and there’ll be a huge turnover. Fuck temple bar busineses they’re probably some of the most expensive places as is. We can look at America as a case study
Tipping is utter wank. I go to the states a lot with work and have tonnes of horror stories re:tips. My most recent was in Dulles Airport and I wanted a coffee before coming home. I went to the counter, asked for a coffee with milk. She proceeds to put an empty disposable cup on the counter, points to the coffee dispenser at the entrance and told me that’s where you make it. I went to pay by card, and the machine asked what % tip to add. I pressed “Custom” and entered 0%. She genuinely looked at the receipt in disgust and basically threw it at me.
Tipping culture in the states is just awful.
I did enough homework before I went to Dublin that I knew to avoid the temple bar. I tried to find more out of they way spots because I didn’t want to come off as the typical American tourist.. I met some really nice folks and had an amazing time there.. I found if you talked to folks and told them you didn’t want to do the typical touristy shit they would point you to some good spots. As far as tipping goes I felt weird not tipping but I was never asked to tip or made to feel like it was expected
56 euro for two fucking boxty?
Are these boxties so much more expensive because they’re some sort of pan-European Celtic boxties instead of just regular boxties (that are of Irish-origin by definition)?
Gaelic boxtie sounds like saying Mexican taco or Thai pad thai.
Well that’s theft!
Robbing cunts.
jesus christ. thanks a lot america and I guess us too (since I’m from canada). Tad bit insane for sure.
I actually worked in this restaurant for years.
I would never have kept your change assuming it was a tip, none of my co-workers would have either.
Management and the owner would have been furious at a staff member behaving like that, it just isn’t the sort of behaviour that’s ever been accepted there.
Why am I not surprised, Temple bar is basically a tourist trap and they are basically degrading Irish values
American here: tipping is an awful system. But wtf is a Boxty?
A wise man.
The USA tipping system is based on the fact that their servers are pain nothing or close to nothing and they live off their tips. Typically 20% of the bill but now Americans are giving less because they have less now. This is not the case in Ireland. If customers start tipping than establishments will use this to lower pay. Don’t tip. Just don’t. Now in the States people are asked to pay tips for no service e.g. going to the till to order and pay and collecting their own food or beverage. Americans are now griping about this. So it seems if everyone shows that they are unwilling to tip the places will stop asking.