Waitress calls out ‘audacious’ customer who left his phone number after giving a $0 tip: ‘That ain’t right’

@Fluffybull Yea that's what I read a few years ago. That it is frowned upon, to tip in the UK.

Here is a reply to a question on Quora:

Why aren't you supposed to tip in Europe?

We do tip. We just don’t tip as much as Americans because we have proper employment laws.

In America it’s perfectly legal to pay someone below the minimum wage if you can reasonably expect them to make back the difference in tips. Servers in the US literally depend on tips to live.

To my knowledge there’s not a single European country that allows this, and certainly the vast majority don’t. Servers benefit from the same minimum wage laws as any other career.

As a result, our tipping culture is different. It’s customary to leave small tips- if something costs 90 cents and you pay with a Euro (substitute pounds, kroner, etc. for those countries not on the Euro) most Europeans would think you were cheap if you actually took the change. You let the server keep it.

But larger tips are a reward for good service, and even then they’re smaller than in the US- in the UK, 10% of the bill is normal.

From what I remembered what I read, it was something like, it's considered rude to tip in the UK. Now whether or not that information was wrong, I don't know, but I'm finding a lot of different answers on it. Some sites say, yes tip, others say, yes but not as much as Americans tip, the answer on it seems to be varying.

@twiigss If you are depending on sites on the internet to give an accurate view of the UK there's no wonder you're getting these opinions. 😆😆

@Fluffybull How else would I know about that if I didn't read about it on the internet? I've never been to the UK, don't really have plans to go. So let me know how else I would have known lol.