I'm also from sweden. Here we all pay 13.5% tip included in the price for restaurant food. This comes from a general tax of 8% that was put on all restaurant st

I'm also from sweden. Here we all pay 13.5% tip included in the price for restaurant food. This comes from a general tax of 8% that was put on all restaurant staff a long time ago because of expected tips. This was not seen as fair because not everyone gets a share of that tip. So now we pay our staff more, we pay a decent price directly and the tip we pay to the staff (if we do) is expected to be payed tax for at the end of the year. I doubt this part happens though, not many knows they are supposed to pay tax for it. Younger waiters however seems not to know about this general tip that is baked into the bill and expect another tip on top of that. Watching too many movies from USA I guess :-)