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Originally Posted by Barnet Flame
Yeah, I sometimes do that depending where I am. However when in Calgary or Banff, I’m usually served at a table, with a tab running, and the tip is at the end of the night or at the end of a servers shift.
In the Ireland and the UK, you usually go to the bar to order your drink and pay as you go. The bars are often busy, so for the first drink order, it is an opportunity to enhance service for later visits to the bar, by ‘buying’ the server a drink. Whether they ring in the drink or treat it as a tip, that’s up to them.
Our pub ran a system where we each had our own glasses where we’d put a bottle cap in our glass whenever one was bought and remove a cap when we consumed a drink.
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Really? When I worked in a pub there I'd be lucky to get a pound total tips in a night. I don't even remember getting a drink bought for me.