Meh, if it’s completely voluntary then there’s no real harm, it’s not really any different to card machines that prompt you to add a tip if you want. Now that fewer and fewer people carry cash, if you don’t have something like this then there’s less opportunity to leave a tip if you want to.
What I really can’t stand is when bills include a tip by default, meaning that you have to specifically ask them to remove it if you don’t want to pay it.
Ok, thanks for sharing.
Never tip through the app. Tip the waiter or waitress directly with cash.
Just tip if you think they’re deserving of it. No need for the profanity or to be weird and post it on here like you’re on Facebook.
I’d rather this than the usual
“YOUR BILL INCLUDES A 20% TIP JUST BECAUSE LOL”
that a lot of restaurants do nowadays, which really fucks me off.
This seems like a really harmless way to ask for tips
Not sure why you think it’s such an imposition
Why waiters and not check out staff in supermarkets or nurses?
I follow local customs abroad but we dont need this shit here.
We have minimum wage laws.
I think it might be a post generally about tipping culture, not the fact that the establishment asked with a qr code.
That’s just how I understand it though 🙂
This is far better than having it added to your bill and the only mention is the tiniest small print of ^(oh btw we are adding 20% to this because we want to make more money)
If you didn’t want to leave one, don’t. Its optional.
Don’t be an arsehole towards probably minimum wage staff
Assuming this is because you don’t trust them to hand the tips over to the waiters/waitresses, or because they don’t go to a specific one but shared amongst the group?
When I worked at a hotel as a student, they took all of our tips under the pretense that they would be equally split amongst all staff, as that was the only fair way. Some shifts naturally received more tips than others. More likely to get a tip from a customer when they’ve had a few drinks in the evening, as opposed to during the breakfast buffet. However, the money never materialised with our wages, can only imagine it fell into an accounting black hole.
What’s the issue here? Genuinely asking because I’m not sure what part of this you object to
This didn’t go how op thought it would go.
I had my hair cut and saw one of these QR codes in the toilets and wanted to tip. And so I did.
Next month I noticed a fee of £29.99 from a company I didn’t know. I wasn’t well at the time (as in hospital unwell) and didn’t do anything at that point. But then it happened again, and I contacted my bank. On further inspection, the fee of £29.99 had been traced back to the day I scanned that QR code, the fee starting at that point. I got it all back as it was a “service” I had not agreed to or used. I now don’t scan QR codes to tip anyone anymore! Apparently it’s a known scam and isn’t the fault of the company asking for the tips, it’s a malware attached to the service that runs the tipping thing. Even the bank people hadn’t been aware it was possible, it was investigated by the fraud team and they were who did the research.
Service charge needs to fuck off as well.
Fuck tipping staff. Do your job for your money you negotiate with your boss, don’t guilt people into giving you more. Absolute leeches.
Twice in the last few months I’ve asked to have tips taken off and one of the wait staff I over heard calling me a prick… but seriously its discretionary, they are being paid a wage, Ive worked in a bar but I wasn’t harassing for tips..
Pay living wages. Tips are not bonuses: Restaurants use them to pay less than living wages and then expect tips to make up the difference.
Tipping culture exists to benefit restaurant owners and make workers desperate.
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Meh, if it’s completely voluntary then there’s no real harm, it’s not really any different to card machines that prompt you to add a tip if you want. Now that fewer and fewer people carry cash, if you don’t have something like this then there’s less opportunity to leave a tip if you want to.
What I really can’t stand is when bills include a tip by default, meaning that you have to specifically ask them to remove it if you don’t want to pay it.
Ok, thanks for sharing.
Never tip through the app. Tip the waiter or waitress directly with cash.
Just tip if you think they’re deserving of it. No need for the profanity or to be weird and post it on here like you’re on Facebook.
I’d rather this than the usual
“YOUR BILL INCLUDES A 20% TIP JUST BECAUSE LOL”
that a lot of restaurants do nowadays, which really fucks me off.
This seems like a really harmless way to ask for tips
Not sure why you think it’s such an imposition
Why waiters and not check out staff in supermarkets or nurses?
I follow local customs abroad but we dont need this shit here.
We have minimum wage laws.
I think it might be a post generally about tipping culture, not the fact that the establishment asked with a qr code.
That’s just how I understand it though 🙂
This is far better than having it added to your bill and the only mention is the tiniest small print of ^(oh btw we are adding 20% to this because we want to make more money)
If you didn’t want to leave one, don’t. Its optional.
Don’t be an arsehole towards probably minimum wage staff
Assuming this is because you don’t trust them to hand the tips over to the waiters/waitresses, or because they don’t go to a specific one but shared amongst the group?
When I worked at a hotel as a student, they took all of our tips under the pretense that they would be equally split amongst all staff, as that was the only fair way. Some shifts naturally received more tips than others. More likely to get a tip from a customer when they’ve had a few drinks in the evening, as opposed to during the breakfast buffet. However, the money never materialised with our wages, can only imagine it fell into an accounting black hole.
What’s the issue here? Genuinely asking because I’m not sure what part of this you object to
This didn’t go how op thought it would go.
I had my hair cut and saw one of these QR codes in the toilets and wanted to tip. And so I did.
Next month I noticed a fee of £29.99 from a company I didn’t know. I wasn’t well at the time (as in hospital unwell) and didn’t do anything at that point. But then it happened again, and I contacted my bank. On further inspection, the fee of £29.99 had been traced back to the day I scanned that QR code, the fee starting at that point. I got it all back as it was a “service” I had not agreed to or used. I now don’t scan QR codes to tip anyone anymore! Apparently it’s a known scam and isn’t the fault of the company asking for the tips, it’s a malware attached to the service that runs the tipping thing. Even the bank people hadn’t been aware it was possible, it was investigated by the fraud team and they were who did the research.
Service charge needs to fuck off as well.
Fuck tipping staff. Do your job for your money you negotiate with your boss, don’t guilt people into giving you more. Absolute leeches.
Twice in the last few months I’ve asked to have tips taken off and one of the wait staff I over heard calling me a prick… but seriously its discretionary, they are being paid a wage, Ive worked in a bar but I wasn’t harassing for tips..
Pay living wages. Tips are not bonuses: Restaurants use them to pay less than living wages and then expect tips to make up the difference.
Tipping culture exists to benefit restaurant owners and make workers desperate.
Just pay your staff properly