Gordon Ramsay one of the first celebrity chefs to bring US-style 20% service charge to London
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gordon-ramsay-lucky-cat-service-charge-b2965474.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/gordon-ramsay-lucky-cat-service-charge-b2965474.html
26 Comments
9point6@lemmy.world · 147 pts · 123d
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
eager_eagle@lemmy.world · 84 pts · 123d
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.
underisk@lemmy.ml · 32 pts · 123d
He did increase the prices by 20%, he just did it in a way that passes the blame on to his employees.
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 123d
And where he doesn't take the loss if people refuse to pay it.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 121d
Wait you can just refuse? I thought you'd get arrested
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 121d
If someone refuses to pay the tip it doesn't affect the owner. It hurts the waiter/waitress.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 121d
I am just imagining the logistics of this.
If the table bought $100 of food and the bill added a 20% service charge, and the party puts down $100 and leaves, refusing to pay the rest, I think that is larceny and a crime, and they could be charged.
username968142@lemmy.world · 87 pts · 123d
He can go fuck himself!
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 123d
eezeebee@lemmy.ca · 48 pts · 123d
Asshole does an asshole thing. Too believable for this community.
AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 123d
Gordon Ramsey is, and always has been, a fucken cunt.
KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org · 33 pts · 122d
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.
Harvey656@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 123d
Fucking gross
xc2215x@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 122d
Not the greatest idea.
br3d@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 123d
The cost of employing staff isn't related to the cost of what people eat - it's a function of how long the restaurant is open and how busy it is. It doesn't make sense that I pay more for the staff if I order a £40 bottle of wine versus a £20 bottle. If you're going to make customers pay separately like this,it should be a cover charge per head
klymilark@walsh.fallcounty.omg.lol · 11 pts · 123d
@VetOfTheSeas We've been calling for an end of tipping for ages because it's a shit system, the fuck?
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 123d
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.
stsquad@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 123d
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.
logi@piefed.world · 16 pts · 123d
That's exactly equivalent except for the false advertising.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 122d
Why do you think this increase has anything to do with covering costs?
solrize@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 123d
No idea who Gordon Ramsay is (web search says British celebrity chef) but why is this like the Onion? It just seems like regular enshittification.
ExperiencedWinter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
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Evotech@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 121d
We found him guys! The guy under the rock!
_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 123d
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.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 123d
Put him on the execution list.
green_red_black@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 123d
Furbag@pawb.social · 3 pts · 121d
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.
otp@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 122d
Why not just raise prices 20% if it's across the board like this?