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Charon QC — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:01:34 +0000

I had a quick look through my email inbox about half an hour ago to discover that i had been selected at random to win a competition – a free T-shirt with my picture on it. Of course, the hope is that I’ll order substantial numbers of these glorified vests. I have sent off my design and hope, soon, to be the proud possessor of a vest with my picture on it. I was going to add the text “Are you looking at me?” below the image – but this was ‘verboten’.

Tips in restaurants
Reading my tabloid of choice over breakfast this morning I discovered that there are a number of very greedy restaurant chains who are paying waiting staff below the minimum charge and using tips to make up their wages – or worse, keeping the discretionary service charge or cash tips for themselves. There are, to be fair, good restaurants who pay a decent wage and allow staff to keep tips or share in the collective tip box.

Frankly, it is a disgrace that restaurants and gastropubs rely on tips to pay staff and I do not approve at all of any restaurant or chain keeping discretionary service charge or tips for themselves.

So, armed with the knowledge provided by the tabloid I have called several restaurants up to enquire if they keep tips. I am toying with the idea of doing a detailed article on this issue and, perhaps, doing some podcasts with restauranteurs who do / who don’t keep tips for themselves.

I feel like a mini crusade. Your thoughts on this would be most welcome…

New Consilio Blog

Charon QC — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 03:41:32 +0000

We have moved the Consilio Editor blog to a new address:

http://consilioeditor.wordpress.com

Consilio Editorial

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New Consilio Blog