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"U don't have to pay it though! They can't legally take gratuities if u don't want to pay them! I think! "unfortunatly if it says on meny compulsary service charge you do , lol, and i keep forgetting to check , lol,  | |||
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"Do love a nice bit of cheese! On my crackers that is! Xx "it will give you nightmares | |||
"U don't have to pay it though! They can't legally take gratuities if u don't want to pay them! I think! "It all depends upon whether the wording on any menus, bills and other literature states that the service charge is discretionary or mandatory. If it says that the service charge is mandatory then legally - as the wording implies - you have to pay it*. Saying that, if a restaurant has stated that a service charge is mandatory, then the owner has to pay National Insurance Contributions on the service charge portion as well as the employees' salaries. Where a restaurant states that a service charge is discretionary, then there is no legal requirement for NICs to be paid. They are, therefore, more rewarding for the staff... although they're not guaranteed. . . . . * however, legally you are also entitled, under certain circumstances, to not pay what a restaurant has charged you. Briefly speaking, when you enter a restaurant and sit down at a table you are entering into a contract with the restaurant owner. Your part of the contract is concerned with you accepting the prices advertised and confirming you have the means to pay for the food you're ordering. The restaurant owner's part of the contract, however, concerns supplying you with food, and that food has to be fit for purpose (i.e. won't make you ill), and also that any advertising they've done isn't misleading. If you feel that the restaurant owner did not uphold his part of the contract, e.g. the food was unsafely cooked or had gone off, or it didn't in any way resemble the pictures on the menu, or they didn't give you what you'd ordered / what was described, then you are fully entitled to claim they are in breach of contract and that, as a result, you will not be paying the bill as you have subsequently been relieved from the contract. You can't just walk out of a restaurant, however, without paying. That's classed as theft! Similarly, you have to be able to demonstrate that you were fully able to pay the original price of the food had it been to your standards, otherwise you are in breach of contract (as you didn't have sufficient funds to pay for it in the first place). It's also very difficult to claim that a restaurant is in breach of contract by serving you shit food, if you've eaten the whole lot... so make sure you keep some of it, to be used as evidence, if you do ever decide to do this.  | |||
"U don't have to pay it though! They can't legally take gratuities if u don't want to pay them! I think!
It all depends upon whether the wording on any menus, bills and other literature states that the service charge is discretionary or mandatory.
If it says that the service charge is mandatory then legally - as the wording implies - you have to pay it*. Saying that, if a restaurant has stated that a service charge is mandatory, then the owner has to pay National Insurance Contributions on the service charge portion as well as the employees' salaries.
Where a restaurant states that a service charge is discretionary, then there is no legal requirement for NICs to be paid. They are, therefore, more rewarding for the staff... although they're not guaranteed.
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* however, legally you are also entitled, under certain circumstances, to not pay what a restaurant has charged you.
Briefly speaking, when you enter a restaurant and sit down at a table you are entering into a contract with the restaurant owner. Your part of the contract is concerned with you accepting the prices advertised and confirming you have the means to pay for the food you're ordering. The restaurant owner's part of the contract, however, concerns supplying you with food, and that food has to be fit for purpose (i.e. won't make you ill), and also that any advertising they've done isn't misleading.
If you feel that the restaurant owner did not uphold his part of the contract, e.g. the food was unsafely cooked or had gone off, or it didn't in any way resemble the pictures on the menu, or they didn't give you what you'd ordered / what was described, then you are fully entitled to claim they are in breach of contract and that, as a result, you will not be paying the bill as you have subsequently been relieved from the contract.
You can't just walk out of a restaurant, however, without paying. That's classed as theft! Similarly, you have to be able to demonstrate that you were fully able to pay the original price of the food had it been to your standards, otherwise you are in breach of contract (as you didn't have sufficient funds to pay for it in the first place). It's also very difficult to claim that a restaurant is in breach of contract by serving you shit food, if you've eaten the whole lot... so make sure you keep some of it, to be used as evidence, if you do ever decide to do this. "If it was't shit food when it went in it certainly will be on the way out. | |||
"Do love a nice bit of cheese! On my crackers that is! Xx it will give you nightmares"Ah but when I wake p shaking and upset someone will need to sooth those nightmares and replace them with something fun! Xx | |||
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" if there is, eat somewhere else" Having spent a few years in catering when I was younger including waiting table in restaurants I would never eat somewhere with a service charge And never tip anyone Tight? No not really what's the difference that makes catering a tipable trade to any other? Xx  | |||
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