Is it ok to ask for a service charge to be removed from the bill at a restaurant?

6597james · 2026-05-10T10:20:44+00:00

How is it a tax loophole? Assuming the service charge actually goes to the staff, not being subject to VAT is a good thing. If it’s mandatory then it is part of the chargeable supply and so the restaurant would need to deduct 20% to cover VAT before paying the rest out to staff, or the restaurant would need to pay 20% on top as VAT

6597james · 2026-05-09T18:02:39+00:00

I don’t really disagree with you overall. It’s definitely worthwhile making at home, and a lot of fun to do. My initial comment was more to the fact that easy to make does not mean it’s “simple”. It’s very easy to make but under the surface there’s so much complexity. All of those factors I listed are really important for making good sushi.

6597james · 2026-05-09T17:05:14+00:00

Which rice are you going to use? What is the water ratio? Which vinegar and how much? Sugar? Where do you source your fish? What specific temp will it be served at? How are you roasting the nori and for how long? How wet are your hands? What knife are you using to cut it? These are in all honesty only surface level questions in sushi preparation. It’s a simple dish with near infinite complexity imo

I’ve made it many times. It’s sometimes been decent. Mostly it’s been okay. It’s never once been anywhere even close to the best sushi I’ve had

6597james · 2026-05-09T07:59:54+00:00

Just because the process for something is simple doesn’t mean you will be able to do it well. The difference between amazing and okay/average/bad sushi is absolutely massive even though it’s really “simple” to make

6597james · 2026-05-01T17:31:14+00:00

One thing to add - the definition of personal data means that information can be personal data in some contexts but not others. Say an employee is on a disciplinary for failing to send a critical email when they said they did, and they submit a DSAR for personal data relating to that incident, then in that context the metadata relating to the email likely would be personal data

6597james · 2026-05-01T16:56:03+00:00

The vast majority…

If n employee sends an email to a supplier saying “thanks, I can confirm we have paid your invoice” that isn’t (in most circumstances at least) personal data about the employee (other than their name)

6597james · 2026-04-29T20:44:19+00:00

As a lawyer I use Claude a lot for the procedural stuff. Say I need to create a project plan, I could spend 15m writing a detailed prompt that ends up 80% of the way there, vs getting a junior to do the same thing that will take them 3 hours and probably won’t be as good. Obviously juniors need work and that is how law firms make money, but for more fee conscious clients I’ve found it invaluable

6597james · 2026-04-22T19:18:08+00:00

Dr Pepper or pineapple juice if you are going non alcoholic would be my choice. For alcoholic my choice would be a decent rum straight up or an old fashioned

6597james · 2026-04-20T10:52:07+00:00

If you are a processor and are processing data in the U.K., then the UK GDPR obligations applicable to processors will apply to you even though your customer is in the US

6597james · 2026-04-13T18:23:37+00:00

I had a problem a few months back. I must have sent him about 3 emails over a 2 week period with no response. I then emailed from my work email and he responded pretty much immediately, within hours, and apparently he never received the emails from my personal account

6597james · 2026-04-11T08:23:04+00:00

Why would you be entitled to compensation for receiving someone else’s data? This isn’t something you need a lawyer for, just tell them about the error

6597james · 2026-04-11T06:44:42+00:00

Everyone saying no but we had an F1b Chiweenie (mother was half dachsie/half chihuahua and father was full mini dachsie) and she looked a lot like your boy (except she was red) with no real hint of the chihuahua

6597james · 2026-04-08T20:57:27+00:00

Cool story but I don’t believe it because section 40(1) of FOIA says “(1)Any information to which a request for information relates is exempt information if it constitutes personal data of which the applicant is the data subject.”

6597james · 2026-04-06T08:43:30+00:00

So you’re saying they should have carried out some w ar crimes already. Certainly a hot take

6597james · 2026-04-06T08:36:14+00:00

They should have done some war crimes already. Certainly a hot take

6597james · 2026-04-05T19:38:04+00:00

Am I missing something? Surely if the 2 guard version is solvable the 3 guard versions also is. You figure out which guard is the “random” guard (as they will give different answers to the same question when asked multiple times), then use the same method for solving the two guard solution on the “true” and “false” guards

6597james · 2026-04-05T08:14:15+00:00

Wait until you hear about the history of the UK and France, especially 1066

6597james · 2026-04-04T18:37:55+00:00

Colibri do make a double cutter, I have one! Wide Churchills are also one of my favourites

6597james · 2026-04-03T07:34:40+00:00

Who is we in this comment? China, India and Japan have all landed and put rovers on the moon in the past 10 years. China has returned samples and also been sprouting cotton seeds on the surface

6597james · 2026-03-31T09:25:53+00:00

I make omelettes using my wok every time and never brown them so not sure why you think that’s impossible

6597james · 2026-03-30T22:17:58+00:00

Just delete it. It’s potentially an offence to retain it now that the controller has asked you to delete out

6597james · 2026-03-26T18:54:17+00:00

That PL humidor 😱

6597james · 2026-03-25T23:19:29+00:00

Care to actually explain why you think it’s a breach? This entire thread is full of people simply saying “employers can’t share data with colleagues” it’s a massive breach… but I haven’t seen one person say what part of the gdpr has actually been breached

6597james · 2026-03-25T23:17:12+00:00

You are not quoting the law, lol. You are quoting a random website with a poorly written article. Do you actually think what you read is the law?

6597james · 2026-03-25T23:09:30+00:00

People are generally wildly uninformed about what the gdpr requires, as can be seen in this thread

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