Tips and Bills

A side note about restaurants:

According to Ed, tip only about 10% at restaurants here. For taxis, just round up (so a £7.50 ride becomes £8 with tip).

Also, the servers give you your bill and then come back later and have you pay at the table with a portable credit card machine. (This system was implemented so that ideally a credit card never leaves your hands.)

This also means you need to tell them what the tip to add on is.... or in my case, not. I forgot to add in the tip both times so far, and so had to go back and ask for change for the bills I had. And then place the coins in the tip jar. In both instances, I undertipped, even with that 10% threshold. Oops.

One more thing to know: "Check, please," means nothing here. It is a bill. We did not get our "check" at our lunch meal yesterday, but our "bill" came promptly 2 hours after we ate.

This is all from stuff we've gathered from our own experiences (and Ed's insight), but any of this may be also due to us being ignorant Americans.