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    Playing Ping Pong with staff tips
    April 5, 2024April 5, 2024 HardensBytes

    Dim sum group Ping Pong has come under fire for introducing a 15% “brand fee” to replace tips – a move seen as circumventing a new law coming into force this summer that forces restaurants to give service charges to staff. Ping Pong, which operates five outlets across London, most notably beside the Festival Hall […]

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    Hospitality leaders write to Government to ask for tips to be added to furlough scheme
    May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 HardensBytes

    Some of the restaurant industries biggest names have called on the Government to include tronc, service charge, and tips in its furlough scheme. The likes of Hawskmoor’s Will Beckett and Corbin and King’s Jeremy King said the exclusion of such pay awards has caused “real and serious hardship”. The letter has been written by WMT […]

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