By Fraser Knight.

I’m not in the habit of ordering a beer at 8.30 am on a Tuesday, but this was a story that our breakfast audience had to hear, so I obliged.

A new ‘stealth tax’ - or discretionary service charge - on pints ordered at the bar.

More specifically, at the Well & Boot on the balcony of Waterloo Station.

As someone who studied and spent my early 20s in Glasgow, where a pint of Tennent’s was rarely more than £3.50, I knew the move to London - and the inflation of the years that have passed - would see that cost increase.

But when we’re now adding 4% onto every order, even when we’ve carried it to our table........

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