Tips. They have been the hot topic this week in the UK with major chains coming under fire for not passing on all – if any – of the discretionary service charge to the staff. There has been outrage in all quarters about this, and some dubious PR involving utilising the discretionary service charge to ensure a ‘living wage’. There have also been calls for the abolition of the tip in favour of a straight wage. Unfortunately, there is no law on the subject of discretionary service charges, and – like it or not – even the BHA’s codes of practice say that an operator can retain some of the…