[tpoacher]

The latest trick I've started seeing in the UK is tacking an extra "12.5% optional service charge" item on your bill.

"optional" as in, you have the right to "opt out" by embarassing yourself in public for not wantinf to pay your stated bill.

12.5% is NOT a small amount, especially when you've already paid ridiculous amounts for things that would have been far cheaper (or free) otherwise, like water!

UK wasn't even a tipping culture until very recently (at least not in the "below minimum wage" sense the US is).