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Restaurants in the UK will soon have to all tips to their staff. The UK Prime Minister Theresa May new plans that will it illegal for restaurants to keep the tips by customers. For decades, many restaurants have most of the tips customers to their credit card payments or the money customers put in tip jars. Some restaurants the tips as part of a worker's pay. Many people in England are angry about this. Restaurant workers are among the lowest paid staff in Britain and many of them on tips to survive. The food and drink industry in the UK huge. There are over 150,000 hotels, bars and restaurants in the UK. These about two million people.

Many waiting staff in the UK happy that the new law is in. They said they were fed up with international chain restaurants the money that was meant for waiters. The staff also said restaurant managers often used the tips to help for the chefs and kitchen staff. Workers at the TGI Fridays restaurant chain on strike earlier this year because of low pay. Prime Minister May said the new law would sure restaurant workers are treated fairly. She said: "That's why we will tough new legislation to that workers get to all of their tips." A spokeswoman for the restaurant industry said a new law was unnecessary because the industry makes sure working conditions fair.