When you dine out, what happens to a tip you leave?
Following a long-running controversy about how customers’ tips were handled in Dublin’s Ivy restaurant several years ago, another bone of contention about fairness there has arisen.
This time things are getting hot in the kitchen of the popular Dawson Street restaurant in Dublin, one of 44 outlets of a UK chain spun out of the original famed Ivy restaurant in Mayfair.
A policy on handling credit card tips in the Dublin restaurant over the past three years saw bubbling resentment among chefs and kitchen porters reach boiling point in September. For over a year, kitchen workers were the only staff in The Ivy who didn’t get a cut from customers’ tips by card.
They’ve just started getting a token share, but chefs and kitchen porters are frustrated by what they see as unfairness.
Diners in The Ivy leave
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