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Meanwhile, the trade union Unite has launched the Fair Tips charter campaign.
You should soon see fair tips stickers going up in the windows of restaurants that have signed up.
Restaurants will soon be required to tell diners whether their tips go straight to staff, in a victory for The Independent's "fair tips, fair pay" campaign.
In 2008, the Labour government bowed to The Independent's "fair tips" campaign by banning employers from counting tips towards the national minimum wage.
But the union said work would continue, with a number of other restaurants – including Ask Italian, Prezzo, Belgo, Strada, Café Rouge, Bella Italia and Zizzi – accused of not paying fair tips to staff.
Just a few days before the shutdown, their pressure resulted in one of the only substantive announcements of an otherwise dead Tory party conference – new fair tips laws.
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The union ramped up its campaign for fair tipping this year.
Tours are "free" – you just give your guide what you think is a fair tip at the end.
Some restaurants add a service charge of about 12percentt; if not, that is a fair tip in England (15percentt is generous).
As the campaign for fair tipping gathered fresh political support, Clapham House Group confirmed that staff at Tootsies and the Real Greek received only a "proportion" of the 12.5 per cent service charge automatically added to bills.
Sitting at a hotel in Brighton alongside the Unite joint general secretary, Derek Simpson, whose union has championed the fair-tips campaign, Mandelson said customers would be amazed to discover that any tips they left could be used to top up wages.
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