Tips row

The restaurant chain Miller & Carter Steakhouses has found itself at loggerheads with members of the Unite general union after imposing a new “Tips for tips scheme". The union says it forces waiters to give back 2% of gross sales in tips to the kitchen, bar and management (previously, they had to “tip-out” to the kitchen and bar around 20-25% of their tips). Waiters fear that they will be brought below the minimum wage by this system and are calling for a genuinely democratic fair tips committee to be elected at every restaurant without management interference, and a new tips policy (with percentage sales ruled out as an option).