Food & Drinks

American-Style Tipping Is Testing British Pub Culture

At UK bars, requests for gratuities are becoming more commonplace. 

Will  you be asked to tip on this pint at a London pub?

Photographer: Daniel Leal/AFP/Getty Images

For UK pubgoers, the biggest choices are generally straightforward: beer or whisky, draft or bottle, pint or half.

But now, beer-drinking Brits face a new and increasingly frequent quandary—to tip or not to tip.