London Restaurant is "Not Evil"

If you've worked in the restaurant business, you may be aware that some restaurants take all the "tips" for themselves, or in other cases, take a percentage of the tip total.

I was amused to find the concept of a "not evil" restaurant here in London.

In London, many restaurants add a 12% service charge. What's interesting is that this restaurant explicitly states that the tip amount goes to the staff, not the restaurant. This is very much the concept of "not evil" that goes into Magnatune's "50% goes to the musician", as opposed to "buy this CD, maybe the musician will get paid, but maybe not".

If you're in London and visiting the Holborn area, eat at "Cigala", a charming rustic-Italian restaurant on Lamb's Conduit.

Comments

[Seb]

Not evil, but 125% seems a bit steep.

[Nathan Jones]

London restaurant not evil, but not good with proofreading: 125%%?

[Peter Hull]

I believe %% is used as a 'per-thousand' indicator in some places... so the 125%% would be read as 125 perthousand, or 12.5 per-cent.

[Nicolas Rojas]

Is that (the restaurant keeping the tip) common practice in the UK? in Europe? Does that happen in the States/Canada? And I thought that taxing tips was evil...

[William Moore]

Another 'evil' practice in the UK is to add a service charge AND leave the credit card slip total open, encouraging your add even more.