The way to vote with your wallet on this is to not go to the restaurant, not to still go and then be an asshole to the underpaid staff.
To be fair, a lot of this probably isn’t even intentional. Tipping just isn’t nearly as much of a thing in Europe and people just forget.
And also these people being tourists are usually not people with access to a kitchen to cook their own shit in, so unless you wanna cook instant noodles in your hotel room kettle you’re kind of bound to places that serve you food.
You can blame the europeans here for not knowing or even intentionally not conforming, but tipping being a heavily debated difference between US and EU catering culture is really old news and all these pub owners also could’ve just factored the tip into the price they already inflated for this event anyway.
You can’t blame people for thinking their 15 dollar beer includes the service.
So it still just circles back around to stingy employers if you ask me.
To be fair, a lot of this probably isn’t even intentional. Tipping just isn’t nearly as much of a thing in Europe and people just forget. And also these people being tourists are usually not people with access to a kitchen to cook their own shit in, so unless you wanna cook instant noodles in your hotel room kettle you’re kind of bound to places that serve you food.
You can blame the europeans here for not knowing or even intentionally not conforming, but tipping being a heavily debated difference between US and EU catering culture is really old news and all these pub owners also could’ve just factored the tip into the price they already inflated for this event anyway. You can’t blame people for thinking their 15 dollar beer includes the service.
So it still just circles back around to stingy employers if you ask me.