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> While American style tipping is odd to me as a European How is American-style tipping different to, say, German? Being from neither, but having visited both.
by taejo 13y ago
> While American style tipping is odd to me as a European
How is American-style tipping different to, say, German? Being from neither, but having visited both... did I do it wrong?
- ojii 13y agoCan't speak for Germany, but for Switzerland. In Switzerland, it's okay to not tip. You would usually tip at a restaurant though if the service was good. At a bar, you might opt to tip to round up the price, so say a beer costs X.70 CHF you'd pay X+1 CHF. If service was bad, I wasn't happy with the food, or anything else bothered me, I won't tip. I wouldn't tip anywhere else other than a bar or a restaurant, except very occasionally a taxi driver if they did an absolutely amazing job (this happened maybe once, twice in my life).
- taejo 13y agoMy German text explicitly distinguishes Swiss and German tipping culture. It agrees that rounding up is correct in Switzerland, and says to add 10% (and potentially round up after that) in Germany.