I think it’s safe to say we all know about leaving a tip in food service (restaurants, food delivery) although it is not expected from you or mandatory, unlike the United States.
Are there any other places you would leave a tip for a service or even for a product?
My hairdresser asks for €23,50 but I always round it up to €25 because she always does a great job.
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Usually, the same thing…at a restaurant,or at the barber where I round up (from 9 euros to 10).
Tips are not really a big thing here.
There is usually a bowl for tips at the bar, where people put coins.. personally I sometimes buy a ‘caffè sospeso’ rather than leaving a tip,at my local bar.
Only restaurants where they take your order and serve you while seated (and only if it have been a great experience, the staff doesn’t expect you to give a tip here). Food delivery are already pricey, so no.
Only really restaurants and delivery drivers, and even then it’s not something I’d do every time. Some other places I’d maybe round up.
Obviously this is only at home, I’ll go with whatever the done thing is for whatever country I’m in at the time.
I feel pretty confident in saying that in Spain you don’t tip almost anywhere.
The only occasion that comes to mind is when you order food and it’s raining. In that case you give a few euros to the delivery guy for coming during that bad weather. But that’s the only time I can think of the idea of tipping crosses someone’s mind.
Any kind of restaurant/pub except fast foods and taxi
It’s not a tip, but I try to avoid receiving copper cents back in exchange, sometimes I also just round it up to a euro
But if I really really feel like someone has done me a favor, going out of their line, I think about 2eu is good, just for a nice coffee and a bottle of beer, or whatever. Anything more would be insulting, or patronizing in a way where it is implied that we are not equal. Also, help should be free of charge, or in a wage slave situation – coming from public institutions, because that’s what they are paid for, same goes for all politicians.
I often tip to round out bills. If I have to pay 78.95 I’ll just make it 80, it’s just easier. I tend to only tip if the service was actually great.
Never. It’s not expected here. Some places have optional tipping but I do everything in my power to stop the spreading of that silly custom here and not participate.
I tip for restaurants, bars and clubs, food deliveries, hairdressers and other cosmetic services like that.
Almost never. I used to do it more often when I paid cash, but nowadays it’s not so easy anymore. I sometimes do when presented an option to do so, but I don’t reach out and say wait I want to pay more. And I don’t have any cash at home either, so I don’t tip the delivery guy. Well, I never order food anyway.
Restaurants almost every time because there is a tip culture in Romania and thanks to that usually the service is at least decent.
Taxi and uber usually just round it up to a multiple of 5
My hairdresser, I leave a small tip there too, I’m a regular and she knows me so it’s something nice I like to do for her.
On food delivery services I personally leave a tip because I have something called “Emag genius” (~20 euros/year) basically I don’t pay any delivery for anything I order online from the store Emag and its subsidiaries so I only pay the food. Also when ordering pizza over the phone because pizza places that deliver don’t charge delivery.
In the shisha bar I trust and in my football club’s regular pub. Both had a particularly hard time during the lockdown, games were long without fans and shisha bars were closed longer and regulated harder than normal pubs. Both are a 2 or 3 living room for me so they get extra tips.
And I usually donate the deposit in the supermarket, we have extra boxes in supermarkets for that. The supermarket collects the bills and then donates the corresponding amount, currently we are donating for emergency aid for Ukrainians who have fled to Moldova.
Restaurants and maybe cafés. Can’t think of other places we do it in Denmark
I never ever leave a tip at the restaurant and i don’t know anyone who does it except in really specific and uncommon cases. It’s just something you don’t do in Italy.
However i usually leave a small tip to the food delivery employees
Maybe sometimes at fancy restaurants, like if the service is good. But that’s it.
Or if I buy flowers from a poor elderly lady at the market, then I just round up, obviously, but it’s not really tipping, it’s more like social work.
Not really no. Just in restaurants and maybe 1 or 2 euros for delivery. I’m definitely not tipping a hairdresser, they get paid well enough.
Always in any restaurant/bar/pub except fast foods. Tipping culture in these places is strong here. Otherwise various delivery/mail services or hair dressers.
Usually restaurants or the delivery driver. It’s not mandatory because they get a good wage, but if someone goes out of their way to give you a good service then they deserve a little extra. I had a woman drive out during a snowstorm for me last year, we’re used to bad weather but it’s still a pain so she got extra from me.
Food delivery person. Other places not really, mostly pay by card.
Usually nowhere – everybody in Sweden is supposed to be paid a decent wage and be in a union, and service workers do get paid a living wage. Tipping makes sense in the US but it’s a custom I absolutely don’t want to become the norm here.
I tip if something was exceptionally good, like a restaurant meal where service was great or a taxi driver doing extra work to help. I wouldn’t even think to tip delivery drivers, delivery is expensive as it is and most of the time you don’t even get to see the driver.
I always round up or leave a tip at a restaurant or a bar. There’s not a strong culture for it here, but I know that the staff really appreciates it. It means a lot more to them than most people think, although our previous government decided to tax tips to help pay for their tax cuts, so it’s not the same anymore.
Any kind of service, i.e. everything outside retail.
But rather than tipping it’s rounding up/not expecting spare change back. The american nonsense about 10% is not used.
Wanting the spare change to the last crown suggests that you’re either dissatisfied, or cheap/miserly. I saw a guy who bought a car with cash for something like 349,978 CZK and waited for the salesman to come back with the 22 crowns. Behaviour like that is sure to put you in negative light.
On the other hand, when the price of service is already rounded up, e.g. 500 CZK, it’s fine to not leave anything extra and nobody will care. But when the price will be 501 CZK, rounding it up to at least 510 is expected.
My mom taught me to tip my hairdresser and they usually have little jars for tips as well.
I can’t think of any other place (café and restaurants aside).
You guys leave a tip in food delivery? When I order food to my workplace in case I haven’t got something prepared in advance I just pay what I owe and that’s it.
I leave tips only in restaurants and only for the service. That’s the only situation I’ve been taught to leave a tip in. Last time the waitress was so nice and caring that I paid the 120% of the price instead of just 110% as usual. She definitely deserved it.
My barber has fixed prices so I pay the price and that’s it. Everything is included in it.
Almost at no places. It’s not the standard here that people base their salary on tip. Hence services is often priced in accordance with “no tip”, typically meaning more expensive than elsewhere in europe. Otherwise monetary economic is almost gone in Norway. Most people use cards or mobile phones to pay for things.. So the time when you had coins in your pocket you wanted to get rid of is gone. So tourist in norway don’t be ashamed to be hard on the tip when you’re here. Normally when eating in a restaurant you round of the bill to the the nearest “round number/whole number”.. Generally think tip is a bad thing. When abroad don’t know how the tip is handled. Do they person share it with the others or do he/she put it in his/her own pocket… ? Worst of all the US culture were it is “expected” rather than a bonus for a good job/your satisfaction.
At a café/snack bar/restaurant or at the barber’s. I only do so if I think the service was good, and if it was exceptional I leave a bigger tip.
I don’t tip anywhere unless i had a good time and the service was good.
If my barber did a good job i’ll give the dude 20 instead of 15
Or if the delivery guy is quick , one time my pizza was supposed to be at my apartment in an hour and the dude was there in 25 minutes , the “`pizza was 50 i gave him 25 on top.
My hairdresser. Like 2 euros for a 25 euros cut.
I will probably leave the change in a cafe.
Anywhere else, nothing. It is the employee’s duty to provide a fair salary to their employees.