Is tipping now expected in Ireland?

uck51js9zml2yt · 17-12-2015 01:08AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You leave the money there every day you're staying there, with a note saying 'HOUSEKEEPING!!!!:)'

Smile optional.

Be sure to leave it on the actual bed though, I've heard that leaving it on the pillow is supposed to intimate negative connotations.

I'm sure a supervisor will read the note and leave it there

MyStubbleItches · 17-12-2015 01:12AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

You leave the money there every day you're staying there, with a note saying 'HOUSEKEEPING!!!!:)'

Smile optional.

Be sure to leave it on the actual bed though, I've heard that leaving it on the pillow is supposed to intimate negative connotations.

I usually leave it hidden under a vase, phone, whatever with a thank you note.

The Backwards Man · 17-12-2015 01:15AM

Guillermo Muscular Theater wrote: »

I'm sure a supervisor will read the note and leave it there

I think that's pretty cynical tbh, maybe in an odd unscrupulous place, but anywhere I worked the tips went to the people they were intended for, or there would be hell to pay from me otherwise:)

XR3i · 17-12-2015 01:16AM

fly-tipping

GaryTLynch · 17-12-2015 01:22AM

Whitewinged wrote: »

I tip the hairdresser, delivery people, taxi, restaurants and also bar staff that serve you at your table.

Wow! They must have seen you coming. :-)

flas · 17-12-2015 01:33AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

When I'm back in Ireland I will tip in a restaurant if the service has been exemplary. This means the type of service that is friendly yet not overbearing. A strong knowledge of the wine list with recommendations on a wine to match each course if serving by the glass. No tattoos, silly beards or converse runners - which seems to be a look in vogue these days even in more formal restaurants. It's the type of service that comes naturally to some waiters and waitresses. The amount of the tip will vary depending on the level of service, the atmosphere of the establishment, and the quality of the food.

I always leave a €6 tip for my barber here in Frankfurt; two twenty euro notes for the combined cut and tip. I've been going to the same barber for four years now and always enjoy his company, as well as always being guaranteed a damn fine haircut that has me looking my best.

Bollocks,the Germans don't tip,bot one little fcukin bit,lived there years and have family there,it is really not done at all!I can't believe I'm replying to one of your posts,I'm a dope for doing so....

DivingDuck · 17-12-2015 01:34AM

Food delivery - about €2.

Hair - €5.

Taxis - round up to the closest €5, unless I know they're overcharging.

Restaurants - 10%-15% unless the service was poor, in which case nothing. I have a very low bar for good service (reasonably prompt, correct order taken and given, not openly unpleasant), so I can only think of two or three occasions where I haven't tipped, and those were for truly atrocious behaviour on the part of the staff. If the staff is so bad that I don't tip, I don't return. I have no doubt those who don't tip are remembered and served more than they ordered on subsequent visits.

In terms of effort required, all manual, customer-facing roles are very much on par in my view-- but if someone is going to be dealing with my food where I can't see it, I'm not going to give them incentive to treat it unkindly. It's a bribe, basically. I'm never a difficult customer; I treat people with respect, leave hotel rooms in a very similar manner to which I found them, and always leave my place setting tidy in a restaurant. With the exception of people who handle your food or your body (barber, masseuse, etc.), I don't understand why it's expected to end up shelling out more than the asking price in some situations but not others, especially in countries with a reasonable minimum wage.

It gets a bit OTT in places where they don't. I'm not a big drinker, so I wouldn't have been in bars much while abroad, and would only have ordered drink with food. In a bar on a recent trip with friends, I ordered something, handed over the correct amount, and the waiter gives me a filthy look and some variation of "Oh, so no tip?" You poured a shot from a bottle into a glass, which took all of 12 seconds, during a lull period. I didn't order an Old-Fashioned two minutes before last orders.

I have no problem with rewarding someone for going above and beyond the call of their duty, or if something ends up taking forever, but the expectation of a tip for something that is a. your actual job description, and b. took less than half a minute is absurd.

marmurr1916 · 17-12-2015 01:54AM

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

Some people are happy to get an €8 haircut. I don't judge them. I will say that you can spot the signs of an €8 haircut from a kilometre away.

I'm willing to pay a little bit extra. I'm also prepared to tip for my haircut.

Is your job being a vain, pretentious twat? Because you're damn good at it!

tonycascarino · 17-12-2015 05:22AM

I don't tip & I don't feel in the slightest bit that I'm obliged to.

keysersoze0330 · 17-12-2015 05:33AM

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I prefer the cold hard cash

I don't feel one bit oppressed by people giving me money. Especially if it's sterling.

You and Hughie Mcelvaney both

EagererBeaver · 17-12-2015 06:13AM

Can someone please explain to me why it's so important to tip taxi drivers in Ireland? Their prices are absolutely extortionate in the first place. No way am I tipping someone who rips me off to begin with.

Eoin247 · 17-12-2015 06:38AM

I only tip if the service has been very good. Wages here don't take tipping for granted unlike in the USA. You shouldn't feel like you have to tip for anything.

John_Rambo · 17-12-2015 08:04AM

J Mysterio wrote: »

Wtf!

Tipping is the done thing in Dublin, particularly in restaurants. I’m from Dublin, so I tip if the service is good. It’s the same in Cork, Belfast, Waterford, Galway and other cities.

“WTF” is your problem?

Work in a restaurant an you'll quickly see who tips and who doesn't tip.

Sam Kade · 17-12-2015 08:11AM

Is tipping now expected in Ireland?
Expect not and you shall not be disappointed.

Things are expensive enough here and workers are paid a fair wage so no need for tips.

John_Rambo · 17-12-2015 08:15AM

Sam Kade wrote: »

Is tipping now expected in Ireland?
Expect not and you shall not be disappointed.

Things are expensive enough here and workers are paid a fair wage so no need for tips.

Depends on the person. Are you a farmer or from a rural area? If so, you're less likely to tip, even if the service is perfect. City people are far more likely to to tip in my experience.

CarrickMcJoe · 17-12-2015 08:19AM

Tarzana2 wrote: »

I don't understand tipping hairdressers. Hair cuts aren't cheap!

I round up for taxi, tip delivery drivers €2 or so, and tip ten percent in restaurants. I'm not entirely comfortable with tipping culture but it is what it is.

I'm like this except delivery drivers, we collect. Wife always tips the girl who washes her hair because she's usually a trainee.

murpho999 · 17-12-2015 08:37AM

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Take away? Only if delivery is free.

Taxi drivers?! With the prices they charge in Dublin?! Grumble all you want you ****, you're getting nowt more and yes, I'm waiting here until you give me the last 50c of change you left off.

Often hear this from Irish people, have you every gotten a taxi in London Paris or Amsterdam. Irish taxis are very reasonable in comparison,

Eugene Norman · 17-12-2015 09:13AM

GaryTLynch wrote: »

Wow! They must have seen you coming. :-)

I would have thought that pretty standard.

Eugene Norman · 17-12-2015 09:16AM

ceadaoin. wrote: »

I've always tipped in restaurants in ireland, I don't think its a new thing. 20% usually.

20% is about the American level for normal service. Bit excessive here.

NachoBusiness · 17-12-2015 09:19AM

Dunraven Storm, 1:50 @ Exeter.

Whitewinged · 17-12-2015 09:25AM

anothernight wrote: »

Yeah, I never thought much about it until I started typing about never tipping taxi drivers! These days I nearly always use the same local taxi driver who gives us a discount anyway (I guess it pays to be loyal) but when I use other taxi drivers and I'm by myself, I've often had the fare rounded down, both in Ireland and in England, and sometimes not just by a few cent. Maybe they just think I'm really poor. :P It's never happened when I was with other people though.

Yes this does happen. They often round it down. Never up in my experience but they don't round it down by much. Say it was 10.50 or something, they round it down to 10.00, then I round it up with my tip to 12.00.

Balmed Out · 17-12-2015 09:26AM

I'm not a big tiper but would normally tip, also give a small gift to people who have to put up and do so well with my kids such as creche staff.
My first jobs in positions that now get tips were in the mid 90s and if someone got a tip it was invariably from a foreigner but by 2000 it wasn't the norm but was fast becoming it.

EagererBeaver · 17-12-2015 09:39AM

murpho999 wrote: »

Often hear this from Irish people, have you every gotten a taxi in London Paris or Amsterdam. Irish taxis are very reasonable in comparison,

Yeah, but that's applicable to all jobs. I'd get paid a shedload more if I did my current role in London etc.

Irish taxis are a rip off relative to the general price of other services in the economy.

murpho999 · 17-12-2015 09:45AM

EagererBeaver wrote: »

Yeah, but that's applicable to all jobs. I'd get paid a shedload more if I did my current role in London etc.

Irish taxis are a rip off relative to the general price of other services in the economy.

No way. They are not. I live in Bray and a taxi late at night from town would cost me €35-40.
I used to live in Holland, which in general is cheaper than here, and a similar journey would cost €80-100.

Following your logic, everything in London should be 2-3 times the price of Dublin but it isn't.

EagererBeaver · 17-12-2015 09:48AM

murpho999 wrote: »

No way. They are not. I live in Bray and a taxi late at night from town would cost me €35-40.
I used to live in Holland, which in general is cheaper than here, and a similar journey would cost €80-100.

Following your logic, everything in London should be 2-3 times the price of Dublin but it isn't.

Conversely, I live in Barcelona, which is more or less about the same cost of living as Dublin, perhaps a bit lower. Taxi prices are literally less than half of what they cost at home. If you think taxis at home are reasonable, you're absolutely delusional.

Frankie5Angels · 17-12-2015 09:55AM

I'd tip in a restaurant if the service was good, but nothing nuts, just what I can afford.

I've noticed that people, particularly barbers, have started bypassing my hand, (outstretched to receive my change) to lay out the change in order of size of the notes, I suspect in the hope you'll say 'Oh, keep the two for yourself there' or something. Money goes straight into my pocket if that happens.

Same with delivery services - if they're quick in organising my change I usually hold a 1/2 euro coin in my hand to give to them anyway (particularly if it's a p1ssy night). If they're foostering, they get nothing.

Medusa22 · 17-12-2015 10:20AM

I tip 10% in restaurants and I usually tip taxi drivers a euro or two and the same goes for take away delivery people and I tip my hairdresser a couple of euro too.

The King of Moo · 17-12-2015 10:45AM

I usually just tip in restaurants, and then about 10% maximum. But if the service isn't great I might not at all.
I'd rather not tip in any situation except where someone goes far above and beyond the call of duty, but living in a small city like Galway you're going to go back to the same restaurants, and I always assume serving staff in restaurants expect a tip, so I grudgingly give one.
I'll also sometimes tip taxi drivers a euro or two if it works out easily enough (e.g. if the charge is €8 or €9 and they didn't take the scenic route I'll give them €10) but I think that is partly due to feeling stingy when they dig into their pockets to get change, which I know isn't rational.

What does annoy me is the arbitrary nature of who we tip and who we don't.
Yes in a restaurant, no in a café. Yes to a barber, no to a sales assistant who helps us in a shop by showing products and giving advice (obviously I'm generalising and you individually may tip such people).
I can understand the idea of wanting to tip people who deal with you face to face, but it irks that I've seen so many examples of people who do really crucial behind-the-scenes work that never gets recognised by the people down the line who benefit from their work.

Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »

When I'm back in Ireland I will tip in a restaurant if the service has been exemplary. This means the type of service that is friendly yet not overbearing. A strong knowledge of the wine list with recommendations on a wine to match each course if serving by the glass. No tattoos, silly beards or converse runners - which seems to be a look in vogue these days even in more formal restaurants. It's the type of service that comes naturally to some waiters and waitresses. The amount of the tip will vary depending on the level of service, the atmosphere of the establishment, and the quality of the food.

I always leave a €6 tip for my barber here in Frankfurt; two twenty euro notes for the combined cut and tip. I've been going to the same barber for four years now and always enjoy his company, as well as always being guaranteed a damn fine haircut that has me looking my best.

Do you like Phil Collins?

Asmooh · 17-12-2015 10:53AM

I don't tip anyone, i pay the price you ask me to pay and not a cent more.

SAMTALK · 17-12-2015 11:01AM

Fluorescence wrote: »

Cause even the crappest waiter is providing a more personalised service to you than most shop staff. Some shop staff go above and beyond and really help you out, and I always try to tell the manager or write in some praise if they have, but generally, waiting is more work per customer.

But surely someone working in a clothes shop and is really helpful deserves a tip on that basis... She knows about stock, what style might suit you etc but is that not all part of the job.?
In my workplace its my job to know the facts and get the work done and if theres a problem try and sort it. Do i deserve a tip so?

Is tipping now expected in Ireland?

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