Many places in my corner of the US have done away with signing, except it seems restaurants. I wonder if they worry that the tip line amount will be disputed without signature? But no one I know ever keeps their copy of the receipts, either, unless on work expense account.
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Wow! That’s quite a story!
Wow! In the US, I imagine that would dramatically reduce or even eliminate a tip.
I still struggle with what to make of ellipsis. I imagine not saying everything I think, can help keep threads civil, and unlocked.
“New age socialist living wage?” Funny, most professional waitstaff in German restaurants receive an actual salary, which is why they don’t have to be as servile as US waitstaff. They don’t need your tip to survive. Many even have health insurance and paid days off. Imagine that!
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What is this based on?
Danny Meyers’ restaurants reinstituted tipping when they reopened during the pandemic to enable staff to benefit from customers’ anticipated excess generosity:
But as the restaurants begin rehiring today — about 95 percent of the staff has been laid off since March — he is unwilling to deny any extra compensation that might be available to employees in a time of economic crisis.
“We don’t know how often people will be eating out, we don’t know what they are going to be willing to pay,” he said. “We do know that guests want to tip generously right now.””
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hate to tell you, but the no tip thing predates covid by a whole lot.
really? so there is some difference between USA and Germany/Europe.
OMG, no one who travels would know that.
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One thing I’ve noticed in recent years, sometimes you’re asked for a signature and sometimes you’re not. Whenever I ask for a receipt, no matter where I go or what I buy, It’s like ok here you go. They don’t offer it up. That’s for sure.
What is this based on?
My point is that paying waitstaff a living wage isn’t “new age socialism” – it’s certainly not a novel concept in other developed countries.
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One thing I’ve noticed on this board is that servers and bartenders in the US anyways I cocktail waitress and bartended at one time. And believe you me, the bigger tippers got better service. And that’s a fact.
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I’ve always struggled a bit with percentages for tipping or service charge.
In the end: if I order just a burger & chips, it’s the same effort to serve etc as compared to prawn/cray fish (or aything expensive).
I do check on countries, officially, in the country I live now, tipping is illegal, but standardly done (around 10%, I let it depend on “service with a smile”)
In Europe (I am Dutch), I round up (as said in a previous post)
I’ve never previously heard of it being illegal anywhere (except where it might be interpreted as a bribe). Google now tells me that’s the case in Argentina , for example.
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Oh, everyone here tips, but I (officially) had to put up a sign with “no tipping allowed”.
So I made that real small and the staff tip box quite big.
This is when I ran a lodge.
I preferred people putting tips in the staff tip box as they would be divided equally over all staff except management. So also essential people that clients shouldn’t/wouldn’t see would share (cleaners/night guards etc).
But this wasn’t in Europe 
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Where is this? I want to visit all these countries (unless they are under control of dictators/tyrants/xenophobes etc).
I remember you mentioned your country of residence in the intro thread but can’t recall exactly which. Somewhere in Africa, maybe.
I avoid tipping countries but make an exception for those like Mexico, where it’s not in your face and the travel experiences there enrich my life so greatly.
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Zambia
Thanks.
A couple of years ago I started doing research on a future trip where I could do a safari and decided it would be Zambia. Have done it in Namibia, and S.Africa is currently not being considered.
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Just send me a pm if you need any info 
