Tips tips!

[tzikeh]

The tip poll--and only a week late!

This is a U.S.-centric poll. Tipping in the U.S. is very different from tipping in Europe; the results would be hopelessly skewed if it were a poll that included all nations. (I don't know if Canada's tipping etiquette is just like the U.S.; if it is, feel free to join in!)

If you find it interesting, please point friends in this direction.



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Comments

[kerri]

The etiquette may be the same in some ways, but I wouldn't regard tipping as 'necessary' as it is in the US. I don't think there's a single province that allows waiters/waitresses to be tipped less than minimum wage because they're expected to make it up in tips, a practice I understand is common in the US?

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

waiters/waitresses are commonly paid less than minimum wage because tips are 100% expected and are therefore considered part of their income, yes.

[kerri]

That's what I thought. :) So there isn't the same factor of it being 'expected', here, other than what's rubbed off from the US - we do still tip, but I don't think it's considered quite as much a breach of etiquette if you don't, because at the end of the day the wait staff still have their wage to depend on.