I bought a round of takeaway coffees yesterday in a local cafe, and was presented with a card swipe machine with three large buttons, one saying 10% tip, one 15% tip and one 25%, and a smaller one at the bottom saying no tip.
To be honest I tip a euro about half the time I get takeaway coffee in Ireland. I don’t tip usually in my usual place in Galway, but leave a decent note at Christmas.
I’m a bit perplexed at paying two, three or five quid for someone to make takeaway coffees.
Am I a bit out of whack here?
I seem to be an outlier on wedding gifts, and I wonder if I am on this too.
Back in the day when I worked on the pudding counter in the skeff I used to refuse tips because I thought ÂŁ2 an hour was a decent wage.
I’d add that I generally give the maccys I frequent a twenty at Christmas for whatever it’s worth. I was followed out of the one on princess parkway one Christmas my a young wan saying she couldn’t take it and pushing it back at me, which was really quite embarrassing as it felt like I’d tried to pay her for something untoward and people were watching 
I’m only adding this as I don’t think I’m mean,but maybe I’m being mean??
That’s a load of me bollix asking for a tip. Unlike Yankee land staff here are paid a wage… I’d tip in a restaurant no problem as you’re actually getting a service… making a coffee and asking for a tip is enough reason for me not to go back to a place. The markup on coffee is already high without the cunts being at that shit.
It has been troubling me slightly today because I felt, possibly was made to feel a bit mean, (and I’d gone out of my way a bit to support a smaller local)
What was the pudding counter in the Skeff?
We’ll be tipping the machine at the Dunnes checkout soon
The counter where I served the pudding
Tipping is for exemplary service. Frothing a bit of milk and tipping it into a shot of coffee doesn’t fit the bill for me.
I’d always tip barbers and waiters.
I was in London recently and a 20
Per cent “discretionary” service charge seemed commonplace which is a shakedown.
Barber yes. 100%
refuse it. I never pay it.
My barber used to be 16 notes and it was handy to slip him a 20 and tell him keep the change. It’s 18 now and a 2er doesnt feel adequate. He doesn’t do tap… be looking under car seats for change before going in. Last thing you want is to be judged like but you couldn’t be handing him 25 and then hanging around for 2/3 back… we live in awful hard times all the same.
That’s my answer anyway……
If only more people would do it.
It’s about 50/50 on the mainland. I don’t mind it too much tbh.
I posted up something similar recently in another thread, when some doll stuck a 20% tip on my bill for an already overpriced brunch of €18. Was watching Reservoir Dogs last night and Mr Pink had it sussed back then, like he had most things in life.
Mr Pink spoke alot of sense and had good opinions on many issues. If he had gone down a different path, I think he would have been a great success, but maybe he was anyway disappearing out the door with the gems.
I found the same in Nerja last month - every restaurant has a 10% service charge now due to people not carrying cash for tips.
Why not just add it to the price of the food to begin with
If you went up and got the food from the counter yourself could you forgo the 10%?
It’s an absolute curse. Can’t believe it’s creeping in to Ireland. You can look forward to being stared at angrily by a surly teenager who did nothing more than carry a plate thirty feet from the kitchen to your table if you dare hit skip
With practically everyone tapping to pay with their watch or phone now, I’ve noticed quite a lot of café type places tactically putting the machine in front of you on the tipping screen. You can touch the relevant part of the screen to apply a 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, other - please insert amount, or no tip. It seems a bit greedy if you’re literally grabbing a coffee to takeaway or whatever, it’s like they’re trying to shame you into tipping or embarrassing you into publicly declining to tip.
The tfk thriftys out in force tonight