This cafe bill comes with a hint for splitting the costSubmitted by qwertymanman t3_11bjq2r in mildlyinteresting
BillyShears2015 t1_ja01ub8 wrote
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Do European’s not understand that gratuity and a tip is the same thing? Is that why they’re always bitching about about US tip culture?
SunliMin t1_ja0etrq wrote
Technically they are different things though
Tip = Voluntary, and can be any amount. You can tip 1%, 10%, 30%, etc
Gratuity = Automatically added extra amount
When you decide to give you waiter 20%, that's a tip. When the restaurant enforces a 20% mandatory addition to pay their staff, that's gratuity
The culture differences is that in America (and Canada), tips are expected, and not tipping is very disrespectful. In the EU, tipping is not expected. It doesn't mean some places won't try to swindle you and charge gratuity, but it isn't the norm, and it upsets customers since they likely wouldn't have tipped on their own
England is also very different from the rest of the EU. Their culture is the hybrid of EU and North America. Similar to how Canadians use both metric and imperial, UK does as well for example
BillyShears2015 t1_ja0fms5 wrote
Right….so if American restaurants just started adding gratuity printed to the ticket all of y’all’s asinine complaints would stop huh? Give me a break.
RockRevolutionary182 t1_ja1nol2 wrote
Ok that was interesting. I've always hated the metric system but now I wish we were using it only in the US It makes things so much simpler. When they made up the imperial system Dad a meeting with all the smartest dudes and they were like dude how could we look superior to all the people? So the one dude said why don't we make measurements super hard and confusing. They did things like to abbreviate inch let's make it two lines up top and for foot one it'll confuse them because logically you would think 2 lines would be feet and 1 inches because 2 is larger. Then another dude was like dudddddde let's break it down so you can say different numbers in different ways and they all mean the same thing. Example 1/2 " is the same as 32/64 it's the same as 4/8 and 16/32. My dudes that is how the imperial system was born. When they got done with that they named themselves the Democrats.
lawfulkitten1 t1_ja0zx46 wrote
even in the US it's different. places that charge gratuity for large parties generally won't let you remove it, but if you go to that same restaurant as a party of 1-2 they might default to 0% tip and you can choose what amount you want to tip (including nothing)
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