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Thread ID: 128650	2013-01-06 01:25:00	Tipping in NZ - do you do it?	FoxyMX (5)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1321549	2013-01-06 01:25:00	Apparently some restaurants in Auckland, and maybe other places with high numbers of tourists, have "Service not included" on their menus or a space on the credit card receipt for guests to write their “gratuity” as though they expect or even encourage tipping. This is a practice common in London and Europe and it sounds to me that some establishments are keen to apply it here. I get that a waiter/waitress, taxi driver, etc would be a bit daft to turn down the offer of a tip but I am not keen on tipping becoming the norm here for us Kiwis. Do you or have you tipped in New Zealand when you felt that you had received especially good service?	FoxyMX (5)
1321550	2013-01-06 01:33:00	If tipping becomes established because of the influence of tourists from America etc, then it will become just another excuse to pay absolute minimum wages, because in other countries tips are regarded by employers as part of the employees wages. Edit: I generally dont tip here, but when in Rome..... I remember tipping a railway porter at Waterloo station UK with a handful of foreign coins, mainly Deutschmarken. it was all I had, he seemed pleased enough :)	Terry Porritt (14)
1321551	2013-01-06 01:34:00	I have on numerous occasion encouraged my fellow pharmacy customers to tip me whenever I think I have provided them with exceptional good customer service. In a jovial manner, of course. :p	Renmoo (66)
1321552	2013-01-06 01:51:00	Apparently some restaurants in Auckland, and maybe other places with high numbers of tourists, have "Service not included" on their menus or a space on the credit card receipt for guests to write their “gratuity” as though they expect or even encourage tipping. Who has?	pctek (84)
1321553	2013-01-06 02:15:00	If tipping becomes established because of the influence of tourists from America etc, then it will become just another excuse to pay absolute minimum wages, Not exactly stopping employers doing that now is it.	coldfront (15814)
1321554	2013-01-06 02:28:00	It is quite common now for restaurants to have a space for customers to include a gratuity in the final credit card bill printout before you authorise it to go through. I first came across it in Australia about 15 years ago, when my fellow (Aussie) diners were amused to note that I didn't know what it was all about... It has been slowly coming in here since then. I quite commonly tip taxi drivers, usually by rounding up the amount to the figure of the notes that I have - e.g. round up $27 to $30 if that is what I have on me in notes. My father was a taxi driver so I have a soft spot there. I only do it if it has been good service. No tips for the rabid cabbie that rants on with racist opinions throughout the journey of course. Similarly in restaurants - if the service has been seriously good I will tip. We recently had that sort of service in a brewery restaurant near Margaret River, WA; without my knowledge my daughter's Pommy father in law paid the bill for the whole family, then he came over to me for some cash to tip the staff because they had gone the extra mile to give us excellent service. He and his wife and my daughter have all been in the restaurant/hotel business and know how important tips were to them, mainly in recognition of their good service rather than to supplement wages. That is the only way I will tip in a restaurant - ordinary service or worse = no tips; excellent professional service = a tip.	John H (8)
1321555	2013-01-06 02:49:00	I too, tip taxi drivers, having been one myself, as long as they don't try the ol' 'Take you via Bluff' routine. Seldom tip otherwise.	KarameaDave (15222)
1321556	2013-01-06 02:59:00	You missed the most obvious reason this is appearing on the receipts! IRD	coldfront (15814)
1321557	2013-01-06 03:07:00	You missed the most obvious reason this is appearing on the receipts! IRD Nah, the primary reason it is there is to put pressure on the customer to tip. E.g. promoting guilt and embarrassment (not wanting to appear to be a cheapskate).	John H (8)
1321558	2013-01-06 03:14:00	Don't tip in NZ for the reason that Terry says. Once it become the norm they wages will drop even lower than they are now and I have been to restaurants that have the "tip" box in the bill total for you to fill in before you pay the final bill..	paulw (1826)
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