Submitted by Alicia Jesatova on Friday 20th March 2026
Published on Wednesday 22nd April 2026
Current status: Open
Open until: Thursday 22nd October 2026
Current Signatures: 164
(count is updated approximately hourly)
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Tagged with
Anxiety ~ Basics ~ Bills ~ Busy ~ Charged ~ counter ~ Culture ~ Digital ~ Drip ~ End ~ environment ~ Forced ~ Guilt ~ hospitality ~ hospitality businesses ~ Hostile ~ hostile environment ~ Payment ~ Pressure ~ Remove ~ Restaurants ~ The End ~ tips ~ Viewing ~ Voluntary
Ban default service charges and pre-set digital tip screens in hospitality
Prohibit hospitality businesses from automatically adding "discretionary" service charges to bills, and ban digital card readers from prompting customers with pre-set tip percentages before payment. We believe all tipping must be 100% voluntary and initiated by the customer.
In our view, the current tipping culture has become coercive and stressful as some restaurants routinely use "drip pricing," adding a 12.5% charge at the end of a meal, forcing customers to awkwardly ask to remove it. We think digital payment screens with pre-set tipping suggestions use psychological pressure to guilt people into tipping for basic counter service. We think this creates a hostile environment and anxiety for consumers.
If you want to sign this petition (as opposed to merely discuss it), you need to do that on the government's e-Petitions website.
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