"How can the government intervene in a private business?" One way they can do this is through the OFT, Trades Descriptions, and so on. If a restaurant sells a steak for £20, and I choose to pay that, it's fine. But if they advertise it for £18, and I give the waitress a £2 tip, but the company then takes that "to cover their operating costs and bump up staff wages", then this is misrepresentation. They are advertising a steak for £18 but secretly charging a further £2 that I didn't know about. Extensive coverage on this issue in the Sunday press. Some restaurants are also insisting that waiting staff hand over all their personal cash tips at the end of the evening to go into a common pot. Also examples of restaurants charging waiting staff a fixed % of their table sales, to be handed over to the company each week. If they haven't made enough tips to cover this, it comes out of their hourly wages (£6.50 an hour in many cases). I am not a lawyer, but all this smacks of misrepresentation, even if it's not technically illegal or a breach of employment regulations. But it does seem like sailing close to the wind. And it should be stopped.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
Staff Tips	21/08/15 12:36:00	Mark Gormley
Re:Staff Tips	21/08/15 13:08:00	Ed Yelland
Re:Staff Tips	21/08/15 13:14:00	Dan Murphy
Re:Re:Staff Tips	21/08/15 15:12:00	David Roberts
Re:Re:Re:Staff Tips	21/08/15 15:31:00	Dan Murphy
Re:Re:Re:Re:Staff Tips	21/08/15 15:48:00	Paul Garnham
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Staff Tips	21/08/15 15:53:00	Dan Murphy
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Staff Tips	22/08/15 23:56:00	Jim Lawes
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Staff Tips	23/08/15 09:09:00	Vanessa Smith
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Staff Tips	23/08/15 11:01:00	Dan Murphy
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Staff Tips	23/08/15 12:14:00	Vanessa Smith

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