Quote Originally Posted by Conrad View Post
Quote Originally Posted by RP33 View Post
but as far as drinks at a bar goes, what is the norm in the UK? .
That's the thing dude, we don't tip at all over here. If I sat in a pub all day and night drinking everything from cocktails to beer and never tipped a penny - nobody would think anything wrong with it. It's just not expected, if anything the bar tender would be happy I was spending so much money there.

That said you will get the odd bloke 'buy a drink' for the girl behind the bar, that's effectively a tip but not necessary nor expected.

I guess we seem like little Scrooge's to you guys but that's just the way it is for us.
interesting.. i'd be all for that way of doing things.. tipping gets pretty expensive, especially when drinking and not opening a tab..

i hate tipping for bottled beers.. like, wow, you pulled it out of the cooler and took the cap off and handed it to me.. i wouldn't pay any of my friends a dollar to do that.. at least with a cocktail they have to know how to make it and what not.. drinks are so ridiculously overpriced to begin with, when you add tip in it's so expensive..

ready, let's compare prices.. i have NO idea what prices in the UK or other areas of the US are, but for my local watering holes here we go..

this place that me and my friends go to every wednesday night (lately every other cause it's too damn expensive..)

for a sam's seasonal on tap, tall mug (23 oz) $5.50.. i think the watery shit like coors/bud etc for a tall mug is something like $4ish
for a gin/tonic it's something like $6-7 and prob a little bit more if you want tangueray or bombay or whatever..

at a reasonable bar, this place i like to go to after work on friday nights, even though i haven't been in a while.. i'd order a tall sam's seasonal and it's about $3.75 and i think that's a pretty good price cause you're technically having two beers.. so if i get there at 11:30.. and throw 3 of those back til they close an hour and a half later.. that's 6 beers for about $14-$15 when you add tip.. and you leave with a bit of a buzz.. not bad.. plus there is always a band playing, and they have that buzztime trivia thing.. so it's cool shit..