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Went to Murmur for lunch last week with Mrs McT. Restaurant was almost full with a nice buzzy atmosphere - had the lunch menu 2 courses for £15, 3 for £20. I started with charred marrow, baron bigod (cheese) sauce and pickled fennel. The marrow was not particularly charred and seemed a bit...

There's a very good reason for that. If you take reservations for tables that are obviously better than the others in a restaurant - outside in nice weather, great view etc - then every single customer will ask to be sat in them and be disappointed when told that they are already booked so you...

But whilst people continue to tip then the tips become an expected part of a waiter's income. What the service charge for large groups does is precisely what you are saying - it is the owner putting in a mechanism to stop the waitstaff's income from being at the whim of the customer. One...

But you're not really paying extra - you are just having the tip that you have already said you would have left formalised. You are only paying extra if you don't usually leave a decent tip. As Clamp said, this is about protecting waitstaff's income when the risk of low/no tip is not...

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Because in places without a service charge the waiters depend on tips for a good part of their income. If a waiter serves 4 couples it is unlikely that more than one or two will leave very low tips or not tip at all and there is a good chance that one or two tables will leave a larger tip than...