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Generation games
Our columnist is all in favour of leaving a tip, but let him make that choice – and pay it in cash. It’s just not British otherwise…
by MARK PALMER
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We’re in a terrible muddle on the tipping front. And it’s getting worse by the day, in part because no one – except, perhaps, Jacob Rees-Mogg – carries cash about his or her person. This means we are careering down the American route whereby a whole raft of businesses that in the old days never would have expected tips, now add gratuity prompts on their card payment machines. It’s a tyranny of sorts.