Living as a US expat-in Argentina has painfully proven the other extreme, where the staff does not work for tips, and where firing them for anything ( even stea

Living as a US expat-in Argentina has painfully proven the other extreme, where the staff does not work for tips, and where firing them for anything ( even stealing ) will get you the owner a heavy lawsuit where you will lose 99% of the time ( due to corruption ) So they basically have ZERO incentive to do any work and therefore their default face = "Cara de culo". Intersestingly enough, as millions of new Venezuelans have immigrated, they have now become the most sought after service-industry workers, simply because they always smile, work hard, and very happy to have a job. Hopefully these market forces will have some nice overall affects on the whole.