UK hotels adding service charge to room rate

Re:UK hotels adding service charge to room rate by mikhailt on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:47PM (#28517913)

> One US hotel CEO has publicly said that he wants guests to start tipping on room rates because otherwise he will have to increase wages.

Of course he does, tipping cost them nothing.

Tipping is not supposed to be the norm nor is it supposed to cover people's living wages.

I would be happy to tip for people that go above the line of duty but I shouldn't be tipping every worker for doing their job nor should I be guilt-tripped into doing it, especially since I need the money as well.

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Re:UK hotels adding service charge to room rate by Ekaros on Monday September 13, 2021 @06:48PM (#28517927)

Should I also go and personally give the CEO dollar? I mean that would allow company to lower his wage. I wonder if CEO would be up to this...

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Re:UK hotels adding service charge to room rate by Fogest on Monday September 13, 2021 @07:19PM (#28518166)

Don't the shareholders already kinda "tip" the CEO's in a way? A lot of the time they get performance based bonuses or extra incentives from shareholders.

Except they want to get bigger "tips" from shareholders by exploiting their workers and not paying them fairly so that they get better performance.

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Re:UK hotels adding service charge to room rate by jareklupinski on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:57PM (#28518886)

let's rename "tip" to "bonus" and really watch worlds collide :)

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Re:UK hotels adding service charge to room rate by elliekelly on Monday September 13, 2021 @08:55PM (#28518877)

I wonder how tips factor in to CPI and/or cost of living indices? If the average hotel is $100/night but most people start to tip (in order to pay hotel staff a living wage) would a one night stay go into the basket as $100 or $120?

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