Tipping over
The front page of The Independent today is taken up with an expose of unscrupulous restaurants which pay their waiting staff below the legal minimum wage and use customers' tips to top up the salaries.
Among those named and shamed are the likes of Pizza Express, Cafe Rouge, Strada, Cafe Uno and Chez Gerard.
I could go into a socialist-tinged rant about big corporates exploiting their workforce but Alan, my company union rep, would have a field day and I have a reputation to uphold.
Instead I'll just add this 'discovery' to the list of reasons why I don't dine at shit chain restaurants.
