How Much Tip Do You Leave If Not Asked?

[Doosh]

Let's say the meal came up to £40 and was a happy time and great food.

[Doosh]

How much tip do you leave to the pizza man if your order was£20?

[Doosh]

Your bin and milkman for their all year services?

[retrocop]

Isn't 10% of the total bill the norm.Bout £5 in this case.

[Zacs-Master]

Yep, approx 10%.

[TWR]

Myself, It depends on the attitude & the service of the waiter / waitress, I would say a fiver.

[hc4361]

I don't.

[Prudie]

10% for the meal, more if it's a favourite place, couple of quid to pizza delivery man whatever the price. £10 to the postman and dustmen at Xmas (or whatever they're called these days).

[ummmm]

10% unless the service/food was crap.

Don't tip the postie - It's not my fault people keep sending stuff through the post! Plus it seems to be a different postie daily. Same with the binmen, they seem to be a different crew each week.

Takeaways...depends how much change I have on me. I usually order from justeat and pay online.

[Buenchico]

I don't have hot food delivered ('cos I'm on my own and my tiny orders wouldn't normally qualify for free delivery).

I don't have a milkman. (I've not even seen a milkman around our town for at least 20 years).

I used to tip the bin men but I'm often out (or asleep) when they call, so it's not easy to do so now.

I give the staff at the launderette I use (for 'service washes') several tins of Roses choccies, to share out amongst them, each Christmas.

If a restaurant bill (in a 'proper' restaurant, not a pub) came to £40, I'd leave at least a fiver as a tip but, for a really good meal, a tenner would be more likely.

Around 20 years ago, I was on my own on Christmas Day and decided to try out an Indian-East African fusion restaurant in south London that Time Out said would be open. I had one of the dearer starters, a higher-priced main course, a dessert and two glasses of lassi. The food was all freshly-prepared to order and was possibly the best meal I've ever had. The company was delightful too, as everybody was talking to complete strangers on other tables in the restaurant. On a day when my local pub would have charged me £35 for a bog-standard turkey lunch, my bill came to £10.80 but the restaurant owner then rounded that down to a tenner! I happily paid that tenner - and left a twenty quid tip on top!

[Gavmacp]

My mother tips 10% for the food but not the wine.

[maggiebee]

About 10% for good service in a restaurant. £1 a week for my paperboy and more at Christmas. Zero for binmen - I've to take my own bin out and bring it back in again. Zero for postie - different one every day.

[ummmm]

That's actually a good idea Gav. Wine is seriously marked up.

[Samuraisan]

If there is a service charge already added, that is their tip. Otherwise about 5%.

[DTCwordfan]

between two and five pounds, the latter from what you have described. I also net off the wine.

Bin man zero, as I have to carry them 70 yards, milkman nowt as we don't have one and local moos don't have bank accounts, I don't think.

[Cloverjo]

At least 12.5% is required, I think. For a meal of £40, a tip of a fiver would be appropriate. Once, my OH left 25p on the table because a service charge had already been added, which he doesn't like.
It's better to leave nothing than 25p.

[Cloverjo]

We give the postman and the window cleaner a tenner each at Christmas.

[Baldric]

The OPer is Suspended since 1520ish

[DTCwordfan]

Evidently, he didn't tip the Ed, Balders

[Baldric]

Well, not enough anyway!

[bednobs]

yep, he really was a douche