Way too many people in here speaking for “Europe”. I live in Europe as well, and here tipping at a restaurant or a delivery driver is 100% expected. It isn’t usually as much as the US, but tipping exists here as well.
Also, when in Rome… plenty of people here get upset at Americans for not following cultural norms, seems fair to get upset at people visiting America for not doing the same.
We tip if we go out for a family meal and the service is good, which it almost always is. If it’s not, then no tip. The wage is, by law, nearly $17 an hour, so they get paid regardless, and if they do a good job, they get more. I was a waiter in Edinburgh, and it was clear to me that the more attentive I was, the better chances I had of a tip. It was the incentive. I was a student at the time and had other student colleagues who brought their moods to the table and were annoyed when they got little to no tip.
However, if I was in the US where they basically need the tips to earn a living wage then I’d always tip.
In Belgium, you pay over the internet before the order is placed. There isn’t a way to tip unless you throw some coins when they deliver it. Which nobody does.
Delivery drivers get paid by the company, not the customers.
Hungary. We order our groceries online and the app lets you tip right as you order. For prepared hot food, we often don’t order through one of the major services… we in fact try to order direct from the restaurant whenever we can so they don’t lose on a commission to a service we really don’t need, and in this case we always tip the delivery person. In restaurants, at a minimum you’re pretty much expected to at least round the bill up the nearest 1k forint for a nice sit-down meal, more is common. Some places have mandatory service charge similar to what some places in the US do. Again, we aren’t talking the expected 15-20% of the US, but tipping is certainly expected for some services here. Cabs, barbers, lots of services.
The bigger point to me is that Europeans, rightly, get upset when American tourists refuse to comply with cultural norms they don’t agree with… it’s just as pig headed when European tourists to the US refuse to do the same in my opinion. It’s being a bad guest.
Way too many people in here speaking for “Europe”. I live in Europe as well, and here tipping at a restaurant or a delivery driver is 100% expected. It isn’t usually as much as the US, but tipping exists here as well.
Also, when in Rome… plenty of people here get upset at Americans for not following cultural norms, seems fair to get upset at people visiting America for not doing the same.
We tip if we go out for a family meal and the service is good, which it almost always is. If it’s not, then no tip. The wage is, by law, nearly $17 an hour, so they get paid regardless, and if they do a good job, they get more. I was a waiter in Edinburgh, and it was clear to me that the more attentive I was, the better chances I had of a tip. It was the incentive. I was a student at the time and had other student colleagues who brought their moods to the table and were annoyed when they got little to no tip.
However, if I was in the US where they basically need the tips to earn a living wage then I’d always tip.
What country are you speaking of?
In Belgium, you pay over the internet before the order is placed. There isn’t a way to tip unless you throw some coins when they deliver it. Which nobody does.
Delivery drivers get paid by the company, not the customers.
It’s not unknown to have a lill’ jar at the countertop for tipping though. But yeah it’s definitively not the obnoxious crap like in the US.
Hungary. We order our groceries online and the app lets you tip right as you order. For prepared hot food, we often don’t order through one of the major services… we in fact try to order direct from the restaurant whenever we can so they don’t lose on a commission to a service we really don’t need, and in this case we always tip the delivery person. In restaurants, at a minimum you’re pretty much expected to at least round the bill up the nearest 1k forint for a nice sit-down meal, more is common. Some places have mandatory service charge similar to what some places in the US do. Again, we aren’t talking the expected 15-20% of the US, but tipping is certainly expected for some services here. Cabs, barbers, lots of services.
The bigger point to me is that Europeans, rightly, get upset when American tourists refuse to comply with cultural norms they don’t agree with… it’s just as pig headed when European tourists to the US refuse to do the same in my opinion. It’s being a bad guest.