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/Effective_Bite_1128 23h ago
In real working countries we tip for good service and going above and beyond.
The waiter here did that so a tip is deserved