tipping at restaurants and everywhere

[LivingAlmostLarge]

I do not like tipping in general. But worse is adding the 3.5% surcharge and not telling people about it up front. Either up front or raise the prices. I am with that guy on Yahoo, it's been eating out a lot less. It's so expensive and I do not like the surprises. I have no problem tipping the 20% they get that period. Flat fee sure. But even if the service is great I'm not tipping more. That's it. No harm no foul. But now they want tips everywhere? And surcharges?

And then there is the cleaning fee for Airbnb? And the fact they want you to strip sheets, start dishwasher, trash, etc. NO THANK YOU. Most of my friends are now heading back to hotels asap. They are also not thrilled with having to clean an airbnb and there is minimal savings nowdays. In fact if the trip is less than a week it usually costs more than a hotel. I'm curious what is going to happen with airbnb.

[Drake3287]

I’d love to see that come for a vote.

In California, service industry jobs are still required to be minimum wage (not the $2/hr things that other states pull) and there’s still surcharges and required tipping.

We were just in Europe for two weeks and I loved not having the expectation to tip everywhere. It was already built into the prices. Why can’t we do that?!

Unfortunately most of Europe is now very much tip friendly unlike just a few years ago. Although I agree service fees are already built into most European restaurant prices, after having spent a total of 4 weeks (2 trips) in Europe this summer, many of the restaurants now have a tip line on their credit card machines. They also half expect a tip the minute they know you're from a tipping country such as the US. Generally I'll simply leave a few Euros and not the normal 20% I would do here in the US. As a matter of fact, a couple of years ago while eating lunch in Florence I didn't have any coins for a tip so I didn't leave anything. Sure enough the waiter tracked me down and asked about why I hadn't left a tip. I was so surprised and taken back that I simply asked for change for a 5 and then gave him a couple of Euros.

I later wrote a negative review on Trip Advisor and the owner contacted me within hours offering an apology and almost pleading for me to delete my review. Unfortunately us American's have ruined the tipping culture in Europe.

[jenn_jenn]

They’ve definitely started adopting a more accepting tipping culture but our experience has always been that is that it is more for a reward for excellent service rather than expected and not at the same rate as in the US.

We still tipped pretty freely but when we experienced subpar service, we didn’t tip and didn’t feel bad about it. In the US, we still would have tipped 20% (and would have been expected to).

[LivingAlmostLarge]

They’ve definitely started adopting a more accepting tipping culture but our experience has always been that is that it is more for a reward for excellent service rather than expected and not at the same rate as in the US.

We still tipped pretty freely but when we experienced subpar service, we didn’t tip and didn’t feel bad about it. In the US, we still would have tipped 20% (and would have been expected to).

That is going to ruin european and asian cultures of not tipping. I'd rather have it added in

[Snicks]

I used to tip 20%+. And never thought that much about it. But, now with literally everyone wanting a tip from taking an order to handing you a cup of coffee, etc. I have reconsidered and think about my tip. Not going to just willy nilly pass out 20+% anymore like I used too.

[LivingAlmostLarge]

I used to tip 20%+. And never thought that much about it. But, now with literally everyone wanting a tip from taking an order to handing you a cup of coffee, etc. I have reconsidered and think about my tip. Not going to just willy nilly pass out 20+% anymore like I used too.

i find the tipping everywhere offensive.