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Non-tipping country waiters ~"That'll be $89.95 for the chicken parm and Heineken that you ordered after you were sat for 53 minutes before I even acknowledged you."
You don't get out much, do you? It's for the better anyway. Obnoxiously loud USA tourists are annoying enough in their current numbers as it is.
I'm out all the time.
Previously I have been a waiter/bartender/manager, now travel for my new line of work, been to over 20 countries around the world...
I'd say well more qualified than the isolationist downvoters here, to have a real world view of this topic...
In fact, more experienced and qualified in likely ALL topics than the kids on here on Lemmy.
There's a lot of fucking stupid people here with all opinion and no experience.
It's a fuckin laugh most the time. Like these incel tankie types?! 😆 fucking morons.
Anyway, sorry to crash your little circle jerk.
Yeah you're full of shit.
No bud, your are full of shit.
Probably cuz you don't get out of your mom's basement, but believe that what you think should weigh on the world somehow.
Nope, the service and food still suck with tipping in many places. This is Americope.
Service and food do still suck, in some places.
Your not wrong about that.
And that's when you just tip less or don't tip.
See, tipping is like upvoting or downvoting.
— Mark Twain
Do you often smoke meth before posting here?
The irony of a bunch of armchair quarterbacks implying somebody who actually has experience in a topic, is the one who is fucked up is a god damn laugh.
You are a laugh.
MAGA mindset for sure.
I lived in the US for ten years, and abroad the rest of my life, but sure.
Think of me while you're flipping chicken, mate.
I see 10 years was long enough for you to catch the disease.
You can see how much this person has travelled the world in that they think you can find a "chicken parm" somewhere that's not the us and for that amount.
Mate, if you are paying $90 for a breaded chicken breast with some tomato and cheese, you are getting robbed by a tourist trap.
Here, what you call "chicken parm" it's simply a "cotoletta di pollo" and if you are paying for it more than 20€, you are being robbed or are being served in a chic place where you're probably paying 8€ for a bottle of water.
Btw, I went not long ago to eat in the middle of a medieval fortress, we ate starters, hand made pasta, hand made dessert, coffee and water, all for 2 people and it all went for less than 60€ in total. No tipping required.
Lol don't pretend you know.
Also, learn what a little exaggeration is.
Also, tip your waiter, and stop being a cheap cunt.
Imagine living thinking that you only get a good service if you tip. Must be tough living in 'murrica. The developed wolrd don't think waiters should live off charity so they pay a living wage. You don't need to tip if you live in a country were people are workers with rights instead of slaves.
It's not "only".
It's just most common.
Also I'm not from 'Murica.
It's more common only if your living depends on tips. If your living depends on the restaurant staying open and there are no tips, you'll have good service anyways. Because a restaurant with bad service won't stay open for long. For someone who says has seen a lot of world, you seem really closed in the 'murrican mindset of tipping.
So you've worked in the hospitality industry and recieved tips before?
So what you are saying is that to treat well the customers you are serving, you need to get tipped. Do I get it right? That... doesn't make you a good person at all. But hey, nothing is more 'murrican than putting for sale everything, even kindness.
That's what you infer?