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Default Tipping in the UK. New code of practice

James Silverton > wrote:

>Hello All!


> Barney wrote, with the above subject, in rec.travel .europe on Fri, 26
>Mar 2010 09:54:06 -0700 (PDT):


>> http://www.bis.gov.uk/files/file52948.pdf


>!8 pages of stuff but it does indicate that British, unlike
>American, workers must receive the standard minimum wage,
>*exclusive* of tips.


I notice the phrase "all cash tips go to staff" being used.

I have learned that in UK, servers often get nothing from
tips put on a credit card, that this is a gift to the management.

Steve