不要准备小费 日本人认为如果你给他们小费是一种侮辱。世界上有些国家不需要小费。

In other parts of Asia, a 10% tipping is enough.  Many places automatically add 10% to the bill.  You are not expected to pay any extra other than simply round it up.

Same as in UK.

Australia and New Zealand do not have tipping.

European countries the tipping is just a round up of the total payment.  For example a meal at Spain costs 32ish euro, I tell the waiter to round it up to 35 euro.  He would be very thankful.  Same for France.  Only the Italians are more greedy especially in Rome.  In other parts of Italy, just the same as in most of Europe, round up the final amount to a round figure.

The reason for the big difference between US and other (most parts of the world) is historically the Waiting staff in US is paid Very Low - they are exempt from being paid the minimum wages, and the tips made up for that.  Essentially the eatery owners transfer part of the wage expenses to the customers thru the tipping system.  The tip receiving workers are required to report the income from tips to IRS on their tax returns.  Of course the accurate fugures are very differcult to ascertain.

Tipping is among the main complains from visitors to US, the other complain is the added taxes.  In virtually all other countries in the world, the taxes are factored in the prices - What You See IS What You Pay.   On the receipt, there would be the actual price, + whatever taxes / VAT, to reach the final total you actually see the price and pay.

 

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• 还觉得是侮辱啊，那这样就不准备小费了。我冬天去Cancun 准备了100张$1。 -大王叫我来巡山00- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/21/2023 postreply 19:29:28

• 对日本人来说，是的，他们是这样想的. Cancun is Mexico! 2个完全不同的国家 -goingplaces- ♀ (756 bytes) () 02/21/2023 postreply 19:40:36

• 曰本很多餐馆有服务费的，15%左右。 -房房房- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/21/2023 postreply 19:48:01

• 一般餐馆没有服务费，主要不去高级的地方，收服务费的都是针对游客的 -betadine- ♀ (30 bytes) () 02/21/2023 postreply 23:37:52

• 对 中级以下的和以本地人為主的都没有 連百货公司頂楼的高级飧厅都没有 -goingplaces- ♀ (0 bytes) () 02/22/2023 postreply 10:08:57