When did Service Charges start to come into this country..?

Just another rip off term invented to extract money. I stayed in a hotel in London a while back, ordered a pizza and a coke to the room. I paid the guy the service charge and a tip, then he told me there was a £5 "tray charge". I asked him what was and he said anything delivered on a tray incurs a £5 tray charge. Told him a tray is tool to make his life easier not a luxury extra provided to enhance the enjoyment of my pizza. Wish I just told him where to stick his tray, but I was starving so paid it

Just another rip off term invented to extract money. I stayed in a hotel in London a while back, ordered a pizza and a coke to the room. I paid the guy the service charge and a tip, then he told me there was a £5 "tray charge". I asked him what was and he said anything delivered on a tray incurs a £5 tray charge. Told him a tray is tool to make his life easier not a luxury extra provided to enhance the enjoyment of my pizza. Wish I just told him where to stick his tray, but I was starving so paid it

When cock heads like Michael O'Leary decide to take something that was relatively pleasant and turn it into the worst mode of transport he set a precident that if you want something to be nice you need to be ripped off for the privelage

All sectors start to do it now, I think for once the media could actually be of use in aggresively naming and shaming companies who do this and practically advertise those who don't

Never tip! These companies are making so much off you that they should pay their staff correctly rather than hoping their customer will subsidise their business.

Plus you don't have to pay for service charge in restaurant if you feel you've had bad service or don't want to.

I like to tip the City Pizza guys and the my barber at Paul and Sons because they do their jobs well and they're really friendly. I have no problem with tipping them. However, with anything else, unless the service is exemplary I don't. I learned that lesson when my missus and I went to this restaurant in Edinburgh and in a slightly drunken state of euphoria at just getting engaged we tipped the waitress £10! She just went "oh" and put the £10 in her purse and then walked off. She didn't say thank you and it was a surprised "oh", it was a disappointed "oh".

I didn't tip our room service people either because of the tray charge. I thought "if you want a tip, get rid of the tray charge".

Unfortunately, the way the world of commerce is run now means we are all forced to act like c*nts.

it started when we let them get away with it......stiff upper lip syndrome.