TALK OF THE TOWN: Celebrity haunt 'pockets waiters' service charge'

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London venue – which recently hosted U2 singer Bono's 61st birthday party and counts supermodels Kate Moss and Gigi Hadid among its clientele – because the cafe does not share its optional 12.

5 per cent service charge with staff. Restaurants are not allowed to keep cash tips left for waiting staff but can take the service charge – now a more popular way for customers to thank staff as the use of cash is discouraged due to Covid.

At the River Cafe, a waiter says they now only take home about £20 a week each from cash left by diners. Workers say they believe the money is classed as 'revenue' by champagne socialist Ruth, who became Baroness Rogers of Riverside when her architect husband Richard Rogers was ennobled in 1996.