My european mind just can't understand american tipping culture. You tip for a good service and a tip should also never be mandatory. Seen some stuff of people getting banned from restaurants because they leave no tip. If that happened to me I wouldn't want to be a customer at said restaurant anymore anyway.
A tip is earned by giving a good service. For example I've been to a restaurant, the food was great, the waiter was friendly and since we all were too full to have desserts for each of us we decided to just order 2 desserts, the waiter noticed that and made sure to split the 2 portions to make it 4 (we were 4 people). That kinda stuff is deserving of a tip.
The generous tip we gave him (20%) also noticeably made his evening.
I'm going on a cruise soon and was talking to the cruise director or whoever. They asked if I'd like to tip in advance and I said no. They told me it would be "cheaper" to tip in advance than to tip at the end. What the fuck do you mean, my optional charge is going to be cheaper at one point than another? Apparently "gratuity" is a fixed number that is chosen for you and you have no say in how much you tip?
On some (most?) cruise lines you have to physically go to the Guest Services/Guest Relations/purser's desk to have the remove the auto-gratuity charges.
The line can get absurdly long to for all the people that wait to the last minute, forget or don't know about it.
Idk, depends on what they were trying to charge I guess. I’m currently on a ship as I’m typing this that had the same thing and it was $100. I’ve had people wait on me enough that $100 is 1,000% saving me money.
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u/icswcshadow 11d ago
My european mind just can't understand american tipping culture. You tip for a good service and a tip should also never be mandatory. Seen some stuff of people getting banned from restaurants because they leave no tip. If that happened to me I wouldn't want to be a customer at said restaurant anymore anyway.
A tip is earned by giving a good service. For example I've been to a restaurant, the food was great, the waiter was friendly and since we all were too full to have desserts for each of us we decided to just order 2 desserts, the waiter noticed that and made sure to split the 2 portions to make it 4 (we were 4 people). That kinda stuff is deserving of a tip.
The generous tip we gave him (20%) also noticeably made his evening.