Protesters are targeting Pizza Express for keeping 8p out of every £1 left as a credit card tip. Waiting and bar staff deserve proper tips or a decent wage
When Bob Dylan sang“You may be an ambassador to England or France, you may like to gamble, you might like to dance … But you’re gonna have to serve somebody, yes indeed you’re gonna have to serve somebody”, he may, in his Bob-like way, at the height of his Christian era, have been referring to God. But I have always interpreted these lyrics, in my own biased way, as being about work, because I feel that at some point everyone should have the experience of serving others. Not in the bureaucratic “I serve my community” way that many publics servants talk of, but by actually serving food and drink to them.
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Either we get over our embarrassment and leave decent amounts or we need to demand decent wages for those who serve us
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