> You say this is a good thing, until you go to Europe and get treated terrible service. Try Eastern Europe. You are expected to tip, and the service is usuall

> You say this is a good thing, until you go to Europe and get treated terrible service. Try Eastern Europe. You are expected to tip, and the service is usually atrociously slow (and not necessarily good in any other way either). Bad service culture is bad service culture. Where I live waiters are expected to perform their jobs properly just like everyone else.