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Speaker 1: This is the Fits In with Kate Richie podcast. Tell

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Speaker 1: me what you think about this. Articles come out about

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Speaker 1: restaurants putting their own tip onto the end of the bill.

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Speaker 1: It's not a bad one. You see that the state's

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Speaker 1: are fair bit, don't you where they say gratuity included.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's already included. But we are told as

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Speaker 2: Australians that you need to put on a ten to

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Speaker 2: twenty percent tip on top of that at the end

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Speaker 2: of it.

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Speaker 1: What are you running with at the moment? What are

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Speaker 1: you going for?

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Speaker 2: I for some reason, I'm really weird when it comes

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Speaker 2: to tipping. I don't know why I do this, but

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Speaker 2: I feel like I have to tip cabbys.

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Speaker 1: You've always had a passion for the cab.

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Speaker 2: I don't know why do you tip the Uber?

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Speaker 1: And you get the option to tip an uber and

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Speaker 1: you now.

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Speaker 2: It's like, it's no, well, you don't Uber because you

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Speaker 2: don't have to do that face to face when you're

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Speaker 2: paying a cabby.

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Speaker 1: It's when you then log into the uber app it

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Speaker 1: again and it says, oh, did you want to tip

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Speaker 1: the previous drive?

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Speaker 2: And I always feel like I feel sorry for a caby.

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Speaker 1: Tax can be happy as well.

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Speaker 2: I'm so sorry mate, here you go, here's in.

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Speaker 1: Here and I've just rounded up. I'm sorry you've had

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Speaker 1: to have this pig in the back of your car.

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Speaker 1: This lady's come out and said I was at a

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Speaker 1: fine dining restaurant over the weekend and she said, I

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Speaker 1: couldn't believe it. There was seven percent added to the

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Speaker 1: bill and I had no idea. This is in circular key.

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Speaker 1: I won't name the restaurant.

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Speaker 2: See, you can't do it here unless it's a public holiday,

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Speaker 2: can you well? Service charge seven percent?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what they've gone with because I think on

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Speaker 1: a public holiday you'll see down the bottom of the

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Speaker 1: menu quite often will say there's a fifteen percent surcharge

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Speaker 1: on public holiday, which is fair enough because you're making

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Speaker 1: your staff work. Going to cost more to run a

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Speaker 1: staff member on a public holiday, you're paying them more.

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Speaker 2: So these are high end restaurants though, aren't they. So

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Speaker 2: what are we talking here? Like you've been alongs and all, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: you'll be paying the service charge that you don't even

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Speaker 2: know about.

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Speaker 1: Do you know what was you know, what's the Worster's

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Speaker 1: When we had lunch on Sunday and it was a

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Speaker 1: great lunch. This was for Jack's birthday. Anyway, they did.

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Speaker 1: They put on a great show. As a surprise of

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Speaker 1: doughnut came out with a candle in it for Jack

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Speaker 1: and everyone's saying happy birthday. And then the lady who

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Speaker 1: worked there came over and said, oh, by the way,

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Speaker 1: would like to let you know the desserts complimentary today,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much for coming along, And I went, that

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Speaker 1: is unbelievably generous, great, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Yes.

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Speaker 1: Then she came over at the end and said, we'd

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Speaker 1: like to include a tip of I have to go

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Speaker 1: heavy on the tip, and I know that I can't

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Speaker 1: go for a tenor I'm between the fifteen and twenty.

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Speaker 1: What do I do? You've given me the desserts, right,

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Speaker 1: you go to any nickoll.

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Speaker 2: Well that's what we went to.

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Speaker 3: So we had an amazing experience when we went over

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Speaker 3: to work in La Once and Curtis Stone was there

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Speaker 3: and we got to go to Curtis's restaurant, which is

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Speaker 3: unbelievable high end restaurant.

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Speaker 1: This was at Maud, wasn't it unbelievable?

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Speaker 3: Feed?

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Speaker 2: And then afterwards, how's this experience? Right? You go out

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Speaker 2: of the restaurant, you sort of USh it out of

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Speaker 2: the restaurant. It was a bit weird. And then they go, oh,

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Speaker 2: go next store and there was like this hole in

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Speaker 2: the wall next door, and you go next door and

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Speaker 2: it's like it's set up like an old lot. It's

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Speaker 2: just set up like an old library is and it's

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Speaker 2: beautiful bottles all over the wall. And then you go

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Speaker 2: in there and you have a nightcap, like you have

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Speaker 2: a few drinks. It's it's the way that he's done.

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Speaker 2: It is unbelievable. So we're there and then the waitress

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Speaker 2: comes out and goes it's all complementary Curtis because you

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Speaker 2: go on there on his show, this is all complimentary.

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Speaker 2: And we're like, what, we haven't paid for anything, No,

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Speaker 2: but then.

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Speaker 1: Should leave a tip? I ran and took an extra

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Speaker 1: bottle of wine.

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Speaker 2: Well then it's like, well we can't if we're not

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Speaker 2: going to look after Curtis. We've got to look.

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Speaker 1: After his staff because he's paying the staff.

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Speaker 2: So we were like what do we what do we do?

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Speaker 1: But the staff too, That's what you don't realize. The

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Speaker 1: staff's in the US. I mean their package is made

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Speaker 1: up of a base rate and tips. Like quite often

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Speaker 1: they'll make more money from tips than they will. Some

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Speaker 1: of them will even work just for tips, So if

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Speaker 1: you don't tip. I'm a really awkward moment where a

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Speaker 1: lady came over. She'd ordered some drinks, and then I

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Speaker 1: didn't tip her, and she came back over and then said,

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. What was wrong with the service?

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Speaker 2: They get a great life.

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Speaker 1: It's wrong with the service. Nothing, I'm just paying for

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Speaker 1: the cost of the drinks.

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Speaker 2: So well done, and thank you to Curtis. But and

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Speaker 2: we left as Starbucks voucher for everyone that worked the US.

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