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When I went to Finland, where tipping is forbidden by law, the service we got was on par with the service in other countries - minus some faked flirting, maybe,
by aaronetz 12y ago
When I went to Finland, where tipping is forbidden by law, the service we got was on par with the service in other countries - minus some faked flirting, maybe, which is not a loss in my opinion. I think that a system without tips will need time to adjust, so that other mechanisms will be put into place to encourage good service, like bonuses for good waiters, where "good" could be measured with voluntary feedback from customers, via a short questionnaire you get with the bill, for example.
- alister 12y agoBrazil has an interesting variation on tipping: Restaurants add a 10% service fee, but which is still optional. Therefore, servers don't have to engage in the "parasitic side-business" of generating tips since the service fee of 10% is almost guaranteed, but the customer still retains a mechanism to punish really bad service. Quoting from the article here: http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Tipping,_fraud,_and_shop_etiquette#Tipping http://brazilsense.com/index.php?title=Tipping,_fraud,_and_s... it says, "The service fee when added is still considered optional. However, Brazilians do always pay it — except when the service was poor. If the service was poor, all you have to say is Eu não vou pagar esse (I will not pay that) pointing at the service fee, and then pay just the base amount. I've seen Brazilians do exactly that when the service was bad and it didn't cause a scene."