Wu Guo
Speaking of the tip of the United States, it is really difficult to say.I remember when I first arrived in the United States 20 years ago, a American friend mentioned that he was working as a waiter in a restaurant in the restaurant in his studies. He occasionally encountered a meal and received the service, but did not give a tip customer.Eating with another American friend, the gentleman opened his wallet, checked a tip computing table, and carefully filled the reasonable tip under the rules under the rules under the bill.During the period of studying, the author, including the author,, has experienced the experience of working in restaurants in restaurants, is no stranger to tip.
I do n’t know when it starts, the recommended tip of the suggestion based on the consumption amount starts on the restaurant billing, but it is convenient for customers.This preset tip percentage is generally divided into three gears: 15%, 18%, and 20%.Fill in the amount by yourself, and then count the total amount, even if the payment is paid; but there is also a problem, if it is calculated at the after -tax consumption, it is equivalent to paying the sales tax part to the service staff as a "tip."In the past, some articles that discussed tips were disagreed, and they believed that it should be calculated based on the actual consumption of the pre -tax.Of course, the difference here may sometimes be ignored.
In the United States, debates on tip issues are often other aspects.For example, if the significance of tip is to subsidize low -income waiters, should the restaurant increase the treatment of the waiter, and then put the cost into the price, instead of letting customers take tips by themselves, and try their best to this?In addition, if the meals are delicious and satisfy customers, it is the chef's credit. Why can't the chef get a tip?
More importantly, if the original intention of tip is to recognize high -quality services, then if the customer is completely dissatisfied with the service, it really has the right to refuse to pay tip.However, this approach has lost its real operation, because there is no objective standard for good service and bad service, and those who provide services will probably not think that they should not be tip; if they ca n’t get it, they may also be like American friends that yearRush out to settle the account.These factors should not be responsible for being slow to serve and the dishes are not well done.The end result is often a peaceful person. Regardless of whether you are satisfied and not satisfied, you are honest.
In many fast -food and self -service restaurants in the United States, the table service provided by the store is almost zero, but the printed collection is also listed in the tip to choose from the above three grades.When the POS machine of some new fast food restaurants is paid when customers swipe their cards, they will automatically prompt to enter tips, but more, especially old -fashioned chain fast food restaurants such as McDonald's and Burger King, there is no this option.Customers can also choose not to give this item, but it is inevitable embarrassed.In the restaurant where ordering, customers can use cash to pay tip, stay on the table and directly collect them by the waiter. They can also pay tips when swiping the card, and then the boss will transfer the tip from the cashier toThe boss also stole this tip, which eventually triggered a lawsuit and became a news case.
The boss himself and waiter also collect tip?
There is still a situation in some small Chinese restaurants, that is, the boss serves himself because he cannot hire someone to be a waiter.Water and other services to maintain their livelihoods, and the boss has its own profits to earn. Once the boss also has a waiter, should you make a tip of the profit with?
The author feels that the US tip has been in the initial inspiration of high -quality services, and also supports the role of some students who rely on tips to live and even subsidize tuition fees. It has evolved to everything, and must be paid. As for whether the service is high -quality, it is second.
In fact, most of the meals are left and left without time to communicate with the waiter with time. There is no special requirement for the service.Candlelight dinner is romantic, from appetizing dishes to desserts after meals, it will not fall, and then with a polite and decent waiter.
Of course, in some high -end restaurants, the waiter is very professional and enthusiastic, carefully and thoughtful, and it is really worthy of tipping.However, according to the author's East Asian thinking, it is better to increase the price of vegetables or charge the service fee, because you don't have to have the pressure of "how much to give" and the trouble of calculation.
The waiter and customer relationship based on the tip of more or less and unclean, it is a bit or less distorted, because it is too direct in terms of money. On the one hand, it is an incentive mechanism.Causes the waiter to a certain snobbish psychology of different customers.
The situation in other areas is different.I remember that when I ate in Hong Kong in Hong Kong, my friends who asked the guests only left all the change they were looking for, probably charged as a tip, and it seemed very friendly.Dining at restaurants in Taiwan, only one time I encountered an experience of automatically added 15%service fee on the bill. Probably because of some dining table services for meals, many other restaurants were ordered by themselves.fee.In mainland China, the restaurant in a better hotel sometimes has the practice of automatically adding service fees.The quota service fee is much simplified compared to the US tip, and it is also a good way.
When I arrived in Australia, I found that there is no tipping rule here, but the quality of restaurants is not bad at all.A exchange student from Australia had explained that there was a tip of a tip that used to be abolished later.In Melbourne, whether it is the Chinese restaurant, the Thai restaurant, or the local barbecue bar, there is no lack of services because the cancellation tip is canceled.The author does experience basic services, high -quality dishes, and a pleasant dining experience that does not need to calculate and consider tips.
The author puts a tip in the hotel in Melbourne according to American habits. When he returned, he found that the cleaning staff of the rooms had no criminal in autumn. They might think it was a change that customers had forgotten.
Of course, then, then, the tips of the United States are deeply rooted. Except for me, I sometimes look at the evaluation of the evaluation of the views of the foreigners, and it is difficult to change it. Some local people do not care much.Half of the price is not unusual.During the study of many Americans, or when the middle age needs to make a living, they have experience in the restaurant. They have a special sympathy for restaurant service staff. Such excess tips have been similar to charity after empathy.
In American Social News, some students who work in restaurants accidentally obtained a legend of a customer's $ 1,000 tip.As for those fast -food restaurants that do not talk about many services, they can only be understood as a "small fee" fast food restaurant. As long as customers accept the service, they should be expressed.The class that serves the society with physical strength to obtain more psychological balance through additional income.True gold and silver are better than thousands of words. This may be a simple and straightforward side of American culture.
The author is an associate professor at the Department of History of the Academy of Academy in the United States
The customs of the United States are deeply rooted, and some local people do not care very much. It is not unusual to give the tip almost half of the price of vegetables.During the study of many Americans, or when the middle age needs to make a living, they have experience in the restaurant. They have a special sympathy for restaurant service staff. Such excess tips have been similar to charity after empathy.
