{"id":5201,"date":"2015-08-10T17:33:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T16:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unitelive.org\/?p=5201"},"modified":"2015-08-10T17:33:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T16:33:05","slug":"daves-dining-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/?p=5201","title":{"rendered":"Dave\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dining tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>When you tip your server at a restaurant, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d expect the full tip to be given to the server, who works hard to ensure you have a good dining experience.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nWhile most restaurants do give their servers their full tips, some chains, including Pizza Express, charge an admin fee on credit card tips.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite has argued through its fair tips campaign how this admin fee practice, which most restaurants have long ago scrapped, amounts to blatant theft. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s especially galling when so many waiters are on the minimum wage and depend on tips to put food on the table for their own families.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUnite regional officer for the hospitality sector Dave Turnbull explained this morning (August 10) on BBC Radio 5 why Pizza Express\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 excuses for pinching tips just aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t cutting it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nListen to the full interview by clicking the link below. The story begins at 27.18.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b064xckm\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b064xckm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHelp support our fair tips campaign by signing Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s petition <a href=\"https:\/\/campaign.goingtowork.org.uk\/petitions\/pizza-express-stop-pinching-staff-tips-scrap-the-8-admin-fee-on-credit-card-tips-now\">here<\/a>. And remember if you leave a tip at Pizza Express, tip in cash \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and tell restaurant management why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you tip your server at a restaurant, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d expect the full tip to be given to the server, who works hard to ensure you have a good dining experience. &nbsp; While most restaurants do give their servers their full tips, some chains, including Pizza Express, charge an admin fee on credit card tips. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24],"tags":[302],"wps_subtitle":"Unite\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dave Turnbull on BBC Radio 5 live ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5202,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5201\/revisions\/5202"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unitelive.test.igniteamt.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}