Reply to: Barbers Tipping Etiquette (NSFW)

[SuperZ]

I don't like tipping as I'm a scrooge. However, it depends on the price charged and quality of service. I get my hair cut for £8 and it's always a better cut than I get when I pay £17 elsewhere in the country, therefore I pay a whole quid tip......sometimes.

I don't really believe in tipping catering related staff however. Minimum wage and all that, and should be paid decent enough by the owners. Giving you a menu and plonking food on the table is not that much of a personal service.

I don't tip parking attendants either when they give me a ticket.

[SueEllen]

Why do we still tip at all?

We are practising for when we go to the US or other countries where people rely on living on tips.

In the past it was because you knew the waitress was being paid an absolute pittance.

In the age of the minimum wage ( soon to be £9 per hour ) people should be being paid a reasonable amount for the work they are doing.

Some of the people regardless of age are apprentice on feck all per hour - so you should tip them if possible.

If you tip the waitress and the barber, why not tip the supermarket checkout staff and the Amazon delivery guy? Why not tip the barmaid each time you buy a round? Did they also not provide you a service and they are not being paid more than the minimum.

( ps : Only added the barmaid so that FLC can make some crass comment. )

I would happily tip some checkout staff and delivery people who go out of their way to be helpful. When you have had staff who barely do the minimum, though at the checkout that tends to be store dependent, it makes a real difference for someone to actually be helpful.

[tomtomagain]

Why do we still tip at all?

In the past it was because you knew the waitress was being paid an absolute pittance.

In the age of the minimum wage ( soon to be £9 per hour ) people should be being paid a reasonable amount for the work they are doing.

If you tip the waitress and the barber, why not tip the supermarket checkout staff and the Amazon delivery guy? Why not tip the barmaid each time you buy a round? Did they also not provide you a service and they are not being paid more than the minimum.

( ps : Only added the barmaid so that FLC can make some crass comment. )

[MrMarkyMark]

Mine is a young lady, she comes to the house, cuts my hair and then gives me a relaxing full body massage.

£10 for the cut, then I tip her £50 for the extras.

Works for me.

Wash, cut and bl@wjob, then

[CompulsiveArsonist]

Generally agree with rounding up but it all depends on the service, if you didn't like the service don't feel compelled to tip.

Some barber shops rent out their chairs so the barber will get to keep most of the tip perhaps that's why he is so insistent on a tip?

I usually get hair cut and beard trim, a bit of threading etc from my local (Iraqi Kurd) barber shop, usually end up paying £20 after rounding up etc.

[Paddy]

Mine is a young lady, she comes to the house, cuts my hair and then gives me a relaxing full body massage.

£10 for the cut, then I tip her £50 for the extras.

Works for me.

There is a place in Bournemouth that does that (a friend told me £40 extra)

[DimPrawn]

Mine is a young lady, she comes to the house, cuts my hair and then gives me a relaxing full body massage.

£10 for the cut, then I tip her £50 for the extras.

Works for me.

[SimonMac]

My barbers have an app system, where you book and pay in advance, does away with the tip as there is no cash exchange.

In the past a £7.50 hair cut was normally paid with a £10 and a suggestion to keep the change to keep things simple, come to mention it same with taxi's, usually rounded up to the next full note (unless I am ubering and again no need to tip).

[SueEllen]

Who here tips their barber still ? Do I just sound like a whinge bag (which is how I generally feel at the moment) ?

Yes.

Also in those situations you are suppose to round up. If the place are too stupid and have made their cuts £5, £10 etc then it's their own fecking fault they get sod all from customers.

[vetran]

She does.

wait till she manscapes you. She loves checking you are really smooth.

[vetran]

at £5 (its piece work) seems mean not to give them a £1

[Malcolm Buggeridge]

I went for a scalping in Basingstoke recently and was spoilt for choice by the number of establishments offering personal grooming services.

Most of them run by folks of middle eastern origin. Have you ever noticed how these places only do one cut no matter what you asked for?

Anyhow, just when the finishing touches were being put to the back of my neck, the Kurdish gentleman who was attending to me got very animated about Turks in response to an innocent comment I had made about being partial to baba ganoush and started waving his cut throat razor around.

It got me thinking that it is prudent, when at the mercy of such an individual, to make it very clear that a handsome contribution to the establishment's annual p*ss up will be made upon egress from the shop.

Particularly in this day and age

[WTFH]

Are you saying MF is right in calling you a massive bellend?

MF never calls me (thankfully), unlike your wife.

[FatLazyContractor]

and I like to give her a big tip.

Are you saying MF is right in calling you a massive bellend?

[WTFH]

So my local barbers (Turkish bunch) do a pretty good cut. However they are so unfriendly and ignore the customers, not even saying hello or thankyou, just talking amongst themselves in their own tongue. Oh and then expect a tip at the end, making remarks if customers don't as they are leaving.

Who here tips their barber still ? Do I just sound like a whinge bag (which is how I generally feel at the moment) ?

If they are talking in their own tongue, how do you know what the remarks are?


The Wife (tm) cuts my hair, and I like to give her a big tip.