How to tip to keep everyone happy

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

The waiter will be delighted with such a salary increase, however, not in every country.

Why tip

Tipping is the gratitude of the client to the service personnel, expressed financially.

In many countries, tea is left not only in cafes and restaurants, but also in taxis, hotels, beauty salons. In Russia, drivers and delivery workers are more often given change, permanent masters of manicure and hairdressers are given gifts on holidays, maids, refuellers are left with a small bill, for example, 100 rubles. Basically, the question of tips arises when it comes to cafes and restaurants: should you tip and how much?

Financially thanking a waiter is not just a sign of good form. Tipping is often a significant part of his earnings.

Employees of establishments can officially receive a very small salary, and they need tips to pay for housing, to buy food. However, in this matter, it is important not to fall into a moral trap: you do not have to just give money to a person for doing his job. But if he does it well, why not thank her. It's a trifle for you, he is pleased.

Sometimes money received from customers in excess of bills is summed up and divided between waiters and other service personnel who do not interact with visitors.

It happens that the service charge is included in the invoice. It is indicated on a separate line, and it is easy to find it on the check. In this case, you do not need to leave additional money. Moreover, if you do not like the service, you can ask to deduct the excess from the check. Remuneration to the waiter is the right, not the obligation of the client, and it is illegal to impose it.

How much to tea

There are no laws that govern how much to leave for tea. Tradition determines the amount of gratitude. So, in Russia, it is customary to leave about 10% of the bill in cafes and restaurants. But this does not mean that the waiter will be upset if you give him more.

10% is a very convenient amount for calculating: no calculators, no sheet of paper and a pen are needed. Just take the number from the check without any characters after the decimal point and remove the last digit from it. For example, you ate 4 500 rubles. Remove zero and get a tip of 450 rubles. Then you went into a trendy coffee shop and left 1,734 rubles there. The tip will be 173 rubles, but the amount is usually rounded - more often, upwards.

However, no one will forbid you to count exactly 173 rubles or leave any other amount.

How to tip

There are only two ways to tip.

1. Cash

Regardless of how you pay - by card or cash, it is appropriate to put a tip in the folder with the invoice after you have paid it. Leave the bills and leave with a clear conscience.

You can also, if you pay in cash, put the amount including the tip in the folder and warn the waiter that you do not need change.

In some places without waiters, tipping jars are at the checkout counter. If you like the cafe, do not forget to at least sometimes thank the employees.

2. By bank card

You shouldn't count on this method especially: cafes and restaurants offer it extremely rarely. But sometimes you can ask to be charged not only the payment for lunch, but also a certain amount for tea. You call it a number or a percentage.

You can read about such a possibility in the menu or ask the waiter directly.

How to tip abroad

USA

In the United States, waiters can work without a salary at all, but only for a tip, so it is customary to leave 15% of the bill, and this is the minimum value.

Acknowledgments will await not only in cafes and restaurants. For example, a bartender in a nightclub may simply stop taking orders if you pay exactly according to the list price. It is customary to leave a tip in a taxi, at gas stations, and in general wherever it may be appropriate.

Sweden

The tradition of tipping is not very common here. If the service personnel are grateful, it is extremely modest - with an amount of about 5% of the bill.

Italy

In Italian restaurants there is a coperto - a seat commission, as well as servizio - a service commission. Information about this should be written on each page of the menu. As a result, your bill will be several euros more, and you don't have to leave a tip.

Serbia

When you pay the waiter, then you yourself say how much change you will get back. You can also just leave a tip on the table. The standard 10% will be sufficient.

France

The usual tip here is 10-15% of the check, but, according to local law, it must be included in the bill.

Japan

Tipping is not accepted here, it is perceived as an insult. If the waiter takes the money, it’s only because he’s lost hope of explaining to you that it’s inappropriate.

Thailand

Everyone is expecting a tip from you, and it can be absolutely any amount.

Mexico

The standard here is 15%.

Germany

The waiter himself may suggest that you round off the bill, for example, from 37 to 40 euros.

Vietnam

Tipping is not part of the culture and can often be returned to you. But in general, now the Vietnamese are more favorable in this kind of gratitude.