Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O Henderson have revealed how much they tip in restaurants – and it’s left listeners shocked.
The radio hosts addressed the awkward new tipping system on The Kyle and Jackie O Show on Monday where a waiter hands a customer an EFTPOS machine and explains how to enter a tip.
The trend, known as tipping surveillance, sparked a conversation around how much the presenters add to their own bill at the end of a meal.
When posed with the question, Jackie, 50, revealed she usually tips between 15 and 20 per cent.
Kyle, 53, on the other hand is a lot more generous.
‘I can’t figure out the percentages because I’m no good at math,’ he quipped, adding: ‘If it’s $500, I’ll pay you $500 on tip as well.’
Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O Henderson have revealed how much they tip in restaurants – and it’s left listeners shocked. Both pictured
When asked by taken-aback newsreader Brooklyn Ross if that meant he doubled the cost, Kyle replied: ‘I’m doubling the cost. Yes, I am. I am.’
It was revealed earlier this year how Kyle had built a business empire worth a reported $100million.
The Sydney radio shock jock attributed his remarkable success to just three simple yet impactful words.
In an episode of Game Changers Radio podcast, Paul Dowsley, the first producer of The Kyle & Jackie O Show, shared the surprising secret behind Kyle’s achievements.
Dowsley was part of the team that secured a prime breakfast slot for the show on 2DayFM in 2005.
He said that he believed much of the duo’s success came down to Kyle continually repeating three words to bosses: ‘I don’t care.’
Paul and Craig Bruce, who was the show’s content director at the time, detailed a number of incidents where Kyle flipped the script on what was expected for conventional breakfast radio hosts.
The rules included keeping breaks to three minutes, to ensure news and traffic could be reported on time.
When posed with the question, Jackie, 50, revealed she usually tips between 15 and 20 per cent
Kyle, 53, on the other hand is a lot more generous. ‘I can’t figure out the percentages because I’m no good at math,’ he quipped, adding: ‘If it’s $500, I’ll pay you $500 on tip as well’
Craig recalled being told off by Kyle off-air after the shock jock was keeping live chats running for more than 20 minutes.
‘I’m not looking at the clock when the [segment] is happening, mate,’ Kyle would say.
‘I’m trying to stay in the moment. If the content is going well, I don’t care how long the news runs late by. It doesn’t mater to me.’
Craig added that he had a very specific vision of how breakfast radio show should run – a vision that was promptly thrown out the window by Kyle.
‘I had all of these paradigms which were locked in place and how a show should sound, and what a breakfast show should do – and Kyle just challenged and stomped on every single one of those,’ he said. ‘And thank God he did.’
‘I remember talking to him about the practicalities of the traffic being 20 minutes late and we’d say a motorway is blocked then by the time we air that, it’s not.
‘Kyle didn’t care. “I don’t care, that’s somebody else’s problem,” he’d say. “I don’t care”.’
Paul said that he found Kyle’s unconventional approach refreshing.
‘I’m a rule breaker as well, so I kind of loved that the news wasn’t on time, and that the talk breaks weren’t three and a half minutes, and we might skip some songs and he might say racy asides.’