He can go fuck himself!
He could pay his staff that 20% directly and leave out the middlemen.
Fucking gross
If anyone adds a 20% tip on my bill in this country, I’m asking for the whole thing to be removed.
Especially at a high end restaurant. Absolute embarrassment that an establishment like that can’t pay their staff properly and have to make them pan handle the customers.
Failed country behaviour
and it’s not like their customers care that much about price, they could increase their prices by 20% and have just as many people showing up. But nope, they decide to introduce a shameful tipping culture instead.
He did increase the prices by 20%, he just did it in a way that passes the blame on to his employees.
And where he doesn’t take the loss if people refuse to pay it.
Wait you can just refuse? I thought you’d get arrested
If someone refuses to pay the tip it doesn’t affect the owner. It hurts the waiter/waitress.
Asshole does an asshole thing. Too believable for this community.
Gordon Ramsey is, and always has been, a fucken cunt.
If it’s mentioned up front and fixed then it’s fine. One way or another the restaurant needs to cover it’s costs and it’s either done via inflating the price of the food or a fixed service fee.
What I hate is a discretionary tip suggestion because suddenly I’m made to be responsible for how much the staff get.
Why do you think this increase has anything to do with covering costs?
it’s either done via inflating the price of the food or a fixed service fee.
That’s exactly equivalent except for the false advertising.
On the one hand that sucks. On the other hand only afluant rich people can afford a Gordon Ramsy Restaurant correct?
Put him on the execution list.
Meanwhile U.S. restaurants are shutting down by the thousands because people stop coming due to the tacked on tips and fees sometimes doubling the cost of the meal. Don’t let him wipe you guys out too.
Not the greatest idea.
If I go somewhere and they try to add 20% extra to my bill, they’re not getting paid anything at all and I’m leaving immediately. I might even put in an order and walk out just to spite them. That would permanently lose me as a customer for sure.
Fortunately I’ve only encountered it twice so far, both times we walked out and made sure they understood why they lost our business.
For those outside the US, this is what we’re dealing with:
Coffee shops and bakeries are asking for a 20% tip for ringing up self-service items brought to the checkout counter. Restaurants want a 20% tip to simply run food to the table after people stand in long lines to place their order. Buffets are adding 20% tips to the bill just for providing water.
This was slowly introduced and enough people left tips despite the requests being absurd that it’s now done everywhere. Next up: Tip the AI for its hard work.
I hope Ramsey gets his ass handed to him.
Take my word for it Brits, don’t let this toxic tipping culture sneak in. Once it’s in place it will be impossible for it to go away.
@VetOfTheSeas We’ve been calling for an end of tipping for ages because it’s a shit system, the fuck?
