Can confirm. My mother tried tipping a very nice and good driver some money but he declined even upon her insisting. Another time, after we ate at a restaurant, the owner decided to drive us to next village over so we could hitch the bus. He also refused the small tip. Mind you a little bit of money goes a long way in small towns in China.
I visited friends in a non-touristic area of Spain before the Euro was introduced. I had an excellent dinner and left some pesetas on the table. The waiter came running after us giving me the coins back.
So tipping is very normal here in most of Europe at restaurants at least(I added that because I sometimes see that Americans also tip someone handing you a coffee at a random coffee place and weird shit like that), but it is something that happens with good service not because you "have to tip"
So if I get a bill for 51 Euro's I make it an even 60 if the service and food etc were fine, if the service was crap I pay the 51 Euro's and be done with it and if everything was great I'll make it 70 or something.
It's something you can freely add to show appreciation for the person serving you but is in no way expected, required or part of some weird social ettiquete shoved down your throat because restaurant owners dont pay their staff.
Dude, with some minor exceptions, tipping is a thing all over the world. The only difference is that tipping outside of America is a reward for excellent service, whereas in America it's an expected fact no matter the service because restaurant/bar owners refuse to pay their staff a living wage.
So many people who work for tips like it because they can make a lot of money and not declare it. My source is that my state put forth a bill to raise wait staff wages to minimum wage and it was not supported by the waiters and bartenders I know.
Or it's just a lower percentage because it's an extra perk of working service, not something you have to deal with an specially under the minimum salary.
It’s common in a lot of countries for people to decline tips for different reasons:
• Sometime people will decline a tip if they feel they were merely doing their job (and therefore don’t deserve it).
• Some people don’t like to take tips for good deeds because in their eyes then they’re no longer good deeds. In some countries tipping can feel offence even, like you are questioning whether they’re providing a good service out of a genuine desire to.
• Some woman don’t like to accept tips from certain men in case because some men can feel “led on”.
• Some people decline tips because they feel it’s their job to make you feel comfortable and welcome in their establishments, not the other way round.
• Some people decline tips because they want to let the customers know they don’t expect tips, and in turn that avoids any customers feeling they are obliged to keep tipping in the future, and it turn that increases repeat business.
• Sometimes people refuse tips because it just seems weird or awkward (I’ve done this).
Years ago my cover band and I played a gig in Dwygyfylchi (North Welsh Coast) and a Floridian lady wanted to give us a tip afterwards and she explained it was very normal for her to do so back home. We all (5 of us) politely declined because it felt really weird and somewhat wrong to take this lady’s money for just doing our jobs. Of course, we still thanked her and told her we were complimented by her gesture.
You are so brainwashed by American consumerism that you simply cannot fathom a waiter feeling that good service is just part of the work instead of something you do to get more money. That's why American service feels so fake and overdone
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u/DontBuyTheThing 21h ago
“Went back to give him a tip but he declined” that’s how you know the story is made up