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I live in Austria and we usually do tip at restaurants did Patrick mean tipping at supermarkets or bakeries? Do you do that in the US? Is Austria just crazy or what is going on? If you live somewhere else in Europe, please tell me if you normally tip or not. He was talking about Germany specifically.
I can't speak to that. I know in the UK tipping culture isn't like the US - where it is expected - but it is far from offensive. I've never been to Europe but I have heard from people who have been specifically they were in Germany. In Ireland, I've never paid for food at a resteraunt for myself yet because I'm not a crazy person, but they include tips in food delivery. And general other things. I rarely eat out in the UK but isnt it pretty commonplace to see a "service charge" on the bill in lieu of tipping which is sucky as that money wont really go the actual waiting staff.
I always find it weird that it seems quite common in America to tip the guy delivering you fast food, I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that but maybe I just hang around with a bunch of people influenced by Scrooge McDuck growing up or something. Always been tipping in Sweden. In good team-buildy comfortable places it ends up in one big jar virtual or not that the waiting staff split. I think the reason tipping takeaway delivery and waitresses is seen as important in the US is that their minimum wage state dependent is usually not nearly enough for the person to earn a working wage.
Kinda defeats the point of having a minimum wage IMO. Always be tipping. At least I do it here in Denmark when I eat at a fancy restaurant which, if I'm out eating, that's where I go, because standards. Well, yeah sure. It's not something you NEED to do but most people I know do tip if the service isn't complete garbage. But I have never seen anybody feel "insulted" when you tip them I also spent some time in Germany.
In Cyprus tipping in restaurants is commonplace, while not necessary, it's just good manners to tip. While tipping for delivery is not expected nor done. And having traveled around half the European countries no one was ever offended at a tip in any of them, in Germany neither.
Actually Waiters sometimes get paid well below minimum wage. Waiters in my town in texas get paid around 2 to 3 dollars an hour and are expected to make their income via tips. Also minimum wage for half the country is dependent on federal government's law on minimum wage. I'm going to Spain pretty soon and from what I heard, Spaniards don't tip, but I can't say that most of Europe does the same thing. You can live on full time min wage.
You just can't do much else but live. But that's certainly the approximate reason for the low end tipping. When tipping at a nice establishment it's based on service quality. If you have shitty service, don't tip. If it's great, drop a hefty bill. The fact that they get paid below minimum wage is kinda irrelevant.
Point is, they walk home with more money every night then what the restaurant could probably afford to pay them if they were paid just a straight wage and the customer gets to reward good or bad service accordingly, and the restaurant gets to keep advertised meal prices down to get people in the door.
Win, win and win. I have a problem with tipping myself. It's not my job to pay their waiter to do his job, it should be the establishments, but economics in America are weird. The whole system around tipping can be used as a weapon — and not just against servers.
The same way that customers make snap judgments about servers — not sexy enough, not friendly enough, not fast enough — servers make similar judgments about customers. Young customers, foreign customers and, yes, customers of color all get worse service because servers often assume they will not tip.
Once when I took my mom for a birthday lunch to a New York City restaurant, we spoke Slovak during most of the meal. The server dropped the check before we could even order a dessert.
I was mortified. All of this is the reason I tip. I have been programmed — or brainwashed, if you will — to believe that I am responsible for making sure these servers have enough money at the end of the day to pay their bills. My discomfort around not tipping is a product of all that. They make us believe it has always been that way, that their business would go under if they had to pay their staff regular wages.
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