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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

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1321569	2013-01-06 08:17:00	yeah i normally tell taxis keep the change too I used to, too. Until I woke up that change was often being tendered in coin for $5 or $10 amounts ...	WalOne (4202)
1321570	2013-01-06 10:20:00	I could really see IRD having a field-day trying to make everyone declare their tips so they can be taxed, it wouldnt surprise me if they said it was secondary income to tax it at a higher rate as well. I really hope it doesnt become the norm just because it happens overseas. But I guess it will come eventually.	Iantech (16386)
1321571	2013-01-06 11:13:00	I remember travelling on the Inter Island ferry between Lyttelton and Wellington during the 1960s. If you wanted service you had to tip the waiter to get looked after.	Bobh (5192)
1321572	2013-01-06 18:41:00	So....where then? Still haven't found out.	pctek (84)
1321573	2013-01-06 19:19:00	It used to be common in Greenmount, East Tamaki. However that establishment closed a while ago, so now I pay a fee to the transfer station and they do the tipping on my behalf.	R2x1 (4628)
1321574	2013-01-06 19:48:00	Any place that is worthy of a tip will get my repeat custom instead of a tip . Exactly . Tipping in England must be fairly new then, I was born there and stayed until 2001 and never tipped anyone and I don't tip here . In London many restaurants, etc add a "Service Charge" to the bill, the amount of which can vary from 5% to 15%, maybe more . If you feel that you have not received excellent service you can ask for the service charge to be removed . In one restaurant that we dined in Covent Garden they added a 10% service charge and I told my sister-in-law, who was paying the bill after we had given her our share, to ask them to remove it as the waiter did no more than take our orders and bring the food to the table which is what he is supposed to be paid to do . He barely provided the most basic of service, never mind excellent . I explained the system to her and why we shouldn't pay it but I think she thought I was mean as she paid it . Her problem, not mine . I could really see IRD having a field-day trying to make everyone declare their tips so they can be taxed, it wouldnt surprise me if they said it was secondary income to tax it at a higher rate as well . People aren't required to complete a tax return these days but if they do they are supposed to provide details of the tips and gratuities that they earn . For those who do not declare it tips are a tax-free perk, just like "cash jobs" that tradesmen do, and those who work in restaurants frequented by overseas tourists must be making a right tidy little sum .	FoxyMX (5)
1321575	2013-01-06 19:54:00	Two places in Auckland are the Soul Bar and Bistro and the Botswana Butchery. They have either a space on the credit card receipt to add a gratuity or they have "service charge not included" listed on their menu. The average New Zealander would take no notice of this but overseas visitors would be familiar with it and take it as meaning a tip is required.	FoxyMX (5)
1321576	2013-01-06 20:12:00	When in Thailand, I get bacon eggs tomato potato and toast for 90 baht (100 baht = $4) so I give 110 baht, am I generous or what?	Cicero (40)
1321577	2013-01-06 20:14:00	Tipping should not become widespread or normal here in NZ. We have a minimum wage and there are plenty of workers on it. I don't see why waiters (and waitresses) should receive tips for doing their job, which is to serve customers dining out and making their experience a pleasant one. What about the poor chef out the back slaving over a hot stove? OK, so some places pool all the tips and then divide it up but that defeats the purpose of tipping as the people who don't work as hard as others get the same rewards as those who go the extra mile. And why is it that waiters on the minimum wage should receive tips and therefore earn more than a labourer working just as hard for the same money, or harder, digging up streets or wheelbarrowing concrete all day but do not have the opportunity to earn tips? What about the supermarket check out person standing on their feet all day packing bags? Why shouldn't they get tipped as well? And the hairdresser who makes a fabulous job of turning someone's bird nest into a head of silk? Like mine does. lol :p Nah. Tipping is a bad idea except in America where waiters, etc do not receive a decent wage. Edit: I generally dont tip here, but when in Rome..... The Romans don't tip either. :D :D :D	FoxyMX (5)
1321578	2013-01-06 20:50:00	In a Hotel Bar where we were staying in the States a while ago, the Service was terrible (the old polishing the glasses type.) so we crossed off the 15% service charge.:horrified The Bar man was not at all impressed and told us so, how ever his boss came out and instructed him to not comment like that to customers. Next evening went in again and the service from the same barman was absolutely fantastic. Even to point of serving free chips.:D:D	Arnie (6624)
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