So in the US we have tipping as part of the custom when we eat inside a restaurant but when I was in places like China, you usually leave nothing. Does your country have a tipping custom and does it make sense?
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/22/leaving-a-tip-is-an-american-custom-why-thats-a-problem.html
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This is making me think back to my time in Germany. I still don't remember if they wanted tips, but we Yanks left them anyway as the service was so good.
I will never forget the girl I had at a local diner. Despite never having served me before, she:
You can bet she deserved the $20 I left her. I've never had service like that anywhere else. People like that deserve our support.
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In Brasil we have something that we call "the 10%". It's a custom to add 10% of the total amount on the check (some places "suggest" 15%).
It's not mandatory to do so, but if you don't it's either because you really didn't like the service or you are just being rude.
I don't think it makes a lot of sense because we don't tip the waiter directly. It's added to the check and we pay the full amount and I know for a fact that a lot of places take a huge cut of that tip that is supposedly for the waiters, as their base wages are not that high.
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I think that's nice. In the US, some people tip and others don't. In the nicer places, its almost expected that you tip but you can tip less if you don't like the service. But in the lower-end places, people just don't tip sometimes.
In the US, if the waiters don't get enough to match the minimum wage, the manager/owner is expected to pay the others. But if tips are good, the manager can avoid paying out that portion.
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That's an interesting system.
What I don't like about what we have here is that sometimes the waiters end up with a very low portion of the "tips".
But yea, in lower-end places it's not as usual here either
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I know when I was younger and worked in the restaurant industry while in school, the wait staff always complained about Canadians and Europeans who rarely tipped anything. If they did, it was a buck.
They simply did not understand the concept since it is not in their countries.
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It happens in the US as well. My parents ran a low-end Chinese restaurant in the past and sometimes those people don't tip either. Then again, they are people living on the edge and buy the cheapest thing to fill their stomach.
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Here in Nigeria, tipping is not common as things get expensive and most people barely afford their meals before even thinking of tipping.
People who tip most like have something attached, it's either they want to feel big among others or they want to attract attention from the particular waitress or the person offering them services.
Almost nothing is done for free here, though there are still some people with clean heart but very few
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Yea I know China has zero tipping custom so it's not everywhere. Even in the US, people tend not to tip in the lower-end stores so I understand that they do not have the spare money to do so.
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Exactly
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