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.
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.
He can go fuck himself!
Not the greatest idea.
Gordon Ramsey is, and always has been, a fucken cunt.
He could pay his staff that 20% directly and leave out the middlemen.
Asshole does an asshole thing. Too believable for this community.
Fucking gross
@VetOfTheSeas We’ve been calling for an end of tipping for ages because it’s a shit system, the fuck?
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.
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.
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.
Why do you think this increase has anything to do with covering costs?
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
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.
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.
