Shadow79Should tipping culture be "normalized" in Europe?
https://piefed.social/c/europe/p/1905150/should-tipping-culture-be-normalized-in-europe
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rose56No, if you want to tip, you tip, no one should force you tip. I generally like to tip, but it’s up to you the person.
Riddick3001When I worked as a waiter like many years ago we often got (on average small) tips in a Northern European Pizzeria, which we equally shared among all personnel.
It really gives a nice incentive to do the extra work and you get some extra income.
Now if we eat out , which isn’t often, and the waiters make it great experience, I at times do give a tip. 1 ~ 5 %. Demands really how long we’re sitting and the establishment I mean a döner shop would be too weird. I think you just know. Some people never give tips in Europe, that’s ok too. Abroad and on Holidays it’s a matter of grasping the feeling. Some establishments get upset if you tip them, and refuse.
JohnnyEnzymeWhatever usefulness it might theoretically have, forcing customers to pay employees’ salaries has generally been an exploitative disaster in the States, and just one more feature of late-stage capitalism. Sure, it’s always possible to find some outlier jobs in which one can indeed make good coin from a tip system, but the point is that such cases are the outliers.
Señor MonoEvery European country has its own valid culture of tipping. Some consider tipping unfriendly or even hostile.
In Germany you used to gratify a special service or outstanding servers.
Sadly this gets americanized already.
Depends on the business. We’ve got a ridiculous minimum wage of 13,90€ . Most honest restaurant collect the tips and split them, so even the cooking staff receives something.
For employees the tip is tax free. Businesses owner have to pay taxes.
With the most tips being payed via card (10-25% preselectable), I doubt that the staff sees any of it.
I’ve heard that in some American restaurants, the employer withholds the server’s entire tips (aka. owner robbing them of their money just to put in their own pockets) meaning the server gets nothing. That shit is illegal in the EU if one tries to pull that off.
It is illegal but common practice.
CallMeAl (like Alan)No, absolutely not
HuudaHarkitenI support the Americans giving their money to the waiters and whatnot, I’d even encourage them to give their money to everyone they come across here.
I do not support normalizing tipping and cutting the pay of people.
CyberEggTipping is quite normalized, at least in Germany. Just not the american tipping culture that substitutes wages. But it is very normal to round up bills in gastronomy, or add some cash when someone went above and beyond expected service and stuff. Like when I order takeaway and the delivery is made by bike during unpleasant weather conditions (don’t order during dangerous weather!).
I personally like it like this as a way to appreciate extra effort. The american tipping culture I feel encourages staff to be kind of unnecessarily subservient and guests to feel superior as the staff’s income depends on a guest’s mood, basically. It tips over the power balance.
I personally like it like this as a way to appreciate extra effort. The american tipping culture I feel encourages staff to be kind of unnecessarily subservient and guests to feel superior as the staff’s income depends on a guest’s mood, basically. It tips over the power balance.
SorteKaninShort answer: No.
Long answer: Noooooooooooooooooooooo
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Not u less Europe is somehow also under the illusion that they should reduce restaurant wages to a fraction of the legal minimum.
Tipping in the US is to make up for their atrocious low wages. EU workers don’t face the same wage stagnation.
PTMThe American tipping madness had already arrived in Europe: A week ago I was in a self service restaurant. The cashier told me to push the Green button of I wanted to give a tip.
What for? I tipped myself for carrying the trays without spilling anything…
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AbrinoxusHell no!
Who the fuck even asks such a stupid question?
Let the damn businesses pay their employees accordingly to the prices they ask for. No paying you stuff (illegally) low wages and keep all the profits to yourself!
No. It’s either tipping or it’s culture, it can’t be both.
I can’t imagine the stress of living in the US and never knowing how much you’re going to pay, but also feel bad if you don’t because you know that waiter or waitress will not get paid enough if you don’t.
I prefer that people earn a living wage. Nay, a thriving wage.
ZacryonAs long as workers in the respective country are paid and are not entirely dependend on tips: no.
I also don’t get paid extra money just for doing my job that I am already being paid for. It is so weird and asymmetric that tips are a thing in gastronomy and hospitality. As if these were the only low-wage jobs that can sometimes suck a lot.
If someone is unhappy about their wage, they need to take it up with their boss or organize in a union. It is not my responsibility to pay them.
oh fucking hell no!
No. Tipping is a stupid way to underpay people and have customers foot the bill. Its a hidden food tax. Just pay the workers. Pay people
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 It shouldn’t even be normalized in the US. Tips should be reserved for going above and beyond; not for the bare fucking minimum because their employer pays them less than minimum wage.
If your business doesn’t pay a living wage so requires your staff to rely on tips, your business doesn’t have the right to continue existing
MousePotatoDoesStuffI came here to say exactly that, character for character.
I’d rather normalise a paying-the-employees-a-decent-wage culture, at the absolute least.