Tipping

[Yellowtail]

Here's a tip kid, don't play with matches. 

[Chris Daley]

Leave it to the yanks.

[SpaceKadet]

I never tip in restaurants. It's a bad habit instituted by the Americans. Unfortunately they brought it with them when they started traveling to Europe and Asia. I understand that in the America there are TIP APPS that will let you calculate how much you should tip. And anything below 25% is a NO-NO. So what? The restaurants in the States do not pay their staff?

 

I can understand where is comes from, where long time ago, the low level employees in the hotels and restaurants and other service establishments  were supposed to live of their tips, but nowadays?

 

In Thailand, nobody in the service industry expects tips. However, my wife still leaves the coins change in the restaurants. Sometimes, it gets really stupid, and where there is only 1 baht coin in the change, I just say "Take it!"
 

[SpaceKadet]

On 4/5/2025 at 3:07 PM, bkk6060 said:

I tip all the time. A lot of these people make about one dollar an hour.  Leaving something especially for good service I think is a nice thing to do.  

I think your mind is still in your home country. A dollar an hour is a standard minimum wage here, that can make you survive for a month and feed your family. 

We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto...

[still kicking]

On 4/22/2025 at 11:00 PM, Chris Daley said:

Leave it to the yanks.

Why? I tip in every country. And I am not a Yank