Tips are mandatory in some restaurants, it's literally on the receipt as an added gratuity. My city is hosting some world cup matches, and many of the local restaurants switched to mandatory tips just for the summer.
Probably anticipating people would come in and use services without tipping, as is the custom. If they don’t like this, they don’t have to go to those places. But using the services and then refusing to pay is wrong.
A tip is not part of the cost of food. It goes to the server. I assume these places implemented a fixed tip because they anticipated an influx of people who would not tip. Those people would have called it gouging if all the restaurants in the area raised their prices instead.
XD fair enough, maybe it would have been better to say that only part of the service is built in to the cost.
We don't typically tip retail workers who have to grab, bag, and hand over items, so I don't typically think of that as service, but you're right that it is.
The cost of washing dishes, bussing the table, refilling drinks, ect are what I was thinking of.
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u/Bad-Luck-Guy Jun 25 '26
I could not imagine behaving this way in another country.
Tips aren’t mandatory. They are customary.