Sentence examples for tip skimming from inspiring English sources
(One silver lining: at expensive restaurants, most customers pay by credit card, curbing the scale of tip skimming, which relies on untraceable cash).
Think of it as being sort of like a tip skimmed off the top of all the money that his company makes for its investors.
Closer to our vessel, giant albatrosses fly alongside, as if guiding us through the ice flow, wing tips almost skimming over the dark and deadly waters.
Some restaurants engage in overt tip theft by skimming a percentage or set amount from their servers' tips.
She's taken on Starbucks and American Airlines (both were accused of skimming tips from workers) and sued a Massachusetts strip club and a pizza chain (the former classified its dancers as independent contractors but expected them to share their tips with managers and bouncers. The latter was a case in which kitchen staff members were forced to give back their overtime wages or lose their jobs).
Unite is planning a series of demonstrations outside Pizza Express restaurants in the coming weeks to protest the company's policy of skimming 8 per cent from tips paid to staff by credit cards.
Ten restaurant groups use similar tactics, skimming cash from the top of tips to cover admin fees.
Giraffe last month announced it was reversing its policy of skimming a 10% admin fee off tips.
By day the skimmer rests onshore, and at twilight the bird feeds, skimming calm, shallow water with the bill tip submerged; when a fish or crustacean is encountered, the upper mandible snaps down.
By following the same route, via protests, and social and old media, Unite made enough noise, without employees needing to negotiate with managers, to prompt Pizza Express to scrap its tip-skimming policy last month, and for the Government to order an inquiry into tipping practises across the industry.
The most popular books now — business guides like "Good to Great" or social explorations like "The Tipping Point" — allow the casual reader to absorb their insights in random order or while skimming whole chapters.
