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Many international fans visiting the US for the World Cup have become frustrated by the culture of tipping servers, telling the BBC that tipping fatigue has set in

England supporter Geoff Pryor said he understood tipping for good service, but he found it "weird" when buying a bottle of water and "they try to get a tip for doing nothing".

In the US, staff at some restaurants and bars are paid just over $2 (£1.50) an hour, and they expect customers to tip about 20% of the total cost of the bill so they can earn a living.


Frustrations have also been shared by hospitality staff, with one bar owner telling the BBC that many World Cup tourists have been bad tippers.

Australian supporters Chris O'Flynn and Robert McNamara told the BBC that high ticket prices for football matches have drained their finances, and paying tips is driving up expenses.

"I still find it a bit confusing why it exists... In Australia you have a flat fee, and you pay it. Here people ask for, or expect, tips. Sometimes you don't know how much you're supposed to tip," O'Flynn said.

"The way most Australians here feel is: Pay your staff a better wage. It should be on the business, not the customer, to make sure that your staff is well paid."

McNamara said they try to "abide by the customs" as visitors, but tipping has been a culture shock.

"They're expecting a tip after every drink so it gets expensive very quick. You're buying a drink and adding $5 on. It's difficult to comprehend."

Fan says the prices without tips are already expensive


Pryor, an England supporter from Norwich, is travelling around the US for the tournament. He said despite his frustrations at being asked to tip for a bottle of water, he did understand the need to tip at restaurants

"I appreciate they're not paid as much as perhaps back in the UK, but overall the service is generally good, so when it's good they deserve a good tip," he said.

Maiko Asahi and her family are visiting from Tokyo to watch Japan play in Dallas, and told the BBC that tipping is not something they do back home. "The prices without the tips are already very expensive, with tipping it is way too much," Asahi said.

Another Japanese fan, Akihiro who is travelling with his son, also complained about high prices.

"Even the cheapest meal at a restaurant still costs around $30, and when you add on a tip of say, 13-20% you end up thinking - Oh dear, I could have had another portion for that," he said.


Europeans don't tip like Americans, bar owner says

Banter, a football bar in Brooklyn, sees its fair share of British and European tourists - especially during the World Cup.

But they are notoriously bad tippers, if they tip at all, owner Chris Keller told the BBC.

"It's always the case. There's no getting around it," he said. "There's always a lack of tipping or playing ignorant like they don't know."

Keller said he's changed the system so customers with reservations have to pre-pay for drinks, including a service charge. "It's just to protect our staff," he said.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyxgjykx7lo

Hmm. What an exposee, life too can be hard in Yankee.

Well is better I beg for tips. Than be a drug mule or a syndicate or a con artist.

weird" when buying a bottle of water and "they try to get a tip for doing nothing".

I really detest the corporate begging culture.

Slow news day.

Na the same thing for nigeria every body dey expect small thing security man oh bank staff oh even the police is not left out

In the US, staff at some restaurants and bars are paid just over $2 (£1.50) an hour, and they expect customers to tip about 20% of the total cost of the bill so they can earn a living.

Frustrations have also been shared by hospitality staff, with one bar owner telling the BBC that many World Cup tourists have been bad tippers.

Lol..

Alman-Jiri USA version. The level of poverty in USA is alarming. Instead of their president to focus on that, he’s busy wasting money on frivolities..

You won’t know how overrated USA is until you arrived there. All those propaganda you do read on their media go first of all clear for your eye..

jordyspices:
Na the same thing for nigeria every body dey expect small thing security man oh bank staff oh even the police is not left out

Don't just bring Nigeria into this, if you can't discuss on the matter

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I understand tipping for good or exceptional services. Like when my barber gives me a good haircut that impresses me and I really like once in a while.


But I can't understand why I should be forced, mandated or compulsorily pay tips for service rendered all the time when someone has a company or boss who he works under and whose duty it is to make sure he gets payed or compensated adequately for his job by paying him salary or wages.


It could be the Nigerian/African in me but I never understand it.


Most Western/European countries have the culture of tipping but seems the US has taken it to a whole different level.

To me It's even more confusing and weird because there is no standard or regulated accepted amount that should be tipped!

hakeemhakeem:
Don't just bring Nigeria into this, if you can't discuss on the matter

What da Bleep is your business who or what ever I bring into the discussion okoko

"I appreciate they're not paid as much as perhaps back in the UK, but overall the service is generally good, so when it's good they deserve a good tip," he said

These guys must be suffering from bad service in that America.

In Nigeria, the service standard is expected to be good.
That's the effing reason we came to you!

If the service is great, good for you.
Great customer service leads to continuous patronage.

Tipping just depends on how the customer feels at the time.
No matter how great and exceptional your service is, it's primarily for the good of your own business.
No worker DESERVES a tip.
They DESERVE pay rise from their boss.
Saying they Deserve it, puts customers under undue pressure to guilt-tip.

PS.
Some weeks ago, I went to deliver a furniture to our client.
When we got to his apartment, I and his security man, lifted the heavy table up a 4-storey building to his living room.
He tipped the security in my presence...I stayed did the table set-up and the fellow young man only gave me Thank you.

It's not my job to take the item upstairs, but I was willing to do it... The tipping of one of us, came after the job was done.
Thank you was ok for me.
My own tip was in the service charge already.

Be willing to give exceptionally great service for just a Thank you.

However, your wages/salary should worth the effort it takes to give a great service.

Beggers everywhere

@ mods nlfpmod what is going on.

Ironfaceman:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyxgjykx7lo

BBC and nonsense! What is confusing about tipping 15%-20%?

Nigerians have taken their bad behavior to the US

Nigerians don teach USA folks beggy beggy shittts.

Has it gotten so bad for Trump's USA?

did a job worth 780 usd for an american client two years ago and she tipped about 150, the nigerian in me was shocked, but who am I to say no

Tipping is a culture in US and in Canada.
Its commonly seen in restaurants and stores.

It comes with the POS

That’s one thing I’ve never understood despite how long I’ve been here

I’ve never ever understood why tipping is almost compulsory and if you don’t do it, they make you look like a criminal

I’ve never ever understood and may never understand the rationale behind compulsory tipping in America

Axis313:
Has it gotten so bad for Trump's USA?

Tipping has been around for about 50 years now. Why make it about Trump?

If you can’t tip get of US it’s their culture. No be by force to go restaurant go eat.

You can propaganda all you like but the facts are wicked


One of the broken records in the ongoing fifa world cup is that over 3.5 spectators has be record which is the highest surpassing previous record of US 1994.

From 1994 to 2026, there has been 13 world cup, yet it took a US cohost world the break the record held by US 1994.

Kobojunkie:
BBC and nonsense! What is confusing about tipping 15%-20%?

Lol, we go for lunch ..

Total 120 dollars
Tax : 12 dollars
Tipping : 20% or even more… maybe 24 to 35 dollars

Total : 156 to 165 dollars

You will be wondering how you ended up with bills about 160 dollars

Omoawoke:
➜That’s one thing I’ve never understood despite how long I’ve been here. I’ve never ever understood why tipping is almost compulsory and if you don’t do it, they make you look like a criminal. I’ve never ever understood and may never understand the rationale behind compulsory tipping in America

. Even with information at your fingertips, you refuse to access and claim it for yourself?

Omoawoke:
➜Lol, we go for lunch ..
Total 120 dollars
Tax : 12 dollars
Tipping : 20% 24 dollars
Total : 156 dollars
You will be wondering how you ended up paint about 160 dollars

. There's an alternative! Stay home and cook your meals yourself! It is simple! Eating out no be by force!

After close to 40 years of living in the US, I'm not not comfortable with the idea of tipping.
It gets on my nerves and I tip as little as possible or nothing if I don't get excellent service.
The worst part is they are now asking for tips for even carry out orders, buy things that no one really served you.
Why should I tip just for handing over what I paid for?

Gotocourt:
Nigerians don teach USA folks beggy beggy shittts.

No, there is a tipping system in the US which is different from other nations. Customer's are expected to tip service providers, especially those within the minimum wage bracket or below, and such tips are factored into their total income. If it doesn't meet up with the minimum wage, employers are expected to pay the difference.
Most of the time, the claim is that customers are only charged for the product the company is offering, that services in giving you such product isn't included in the charge.
Eg, on Uber, you can tip a driver at the end of a trip, some drivers will even demand for it which is legitimate in their system. For instance, you are carrying excess luggage, or lot's of items, the driver uses about 5 to 10mins extra just to pick you up, that's a service not included in the fare, it is expected that you tip for it. Here, the driver will negotiate the ride instead of waiting for the tip.
You entered a restaurant in a place like VI, there is every tendency that the waiters are paid minimum wage which can't get any accommodation around, so they have to travel from outskirts to serve you, as no one that is comfortable enough to rent an apartment in such area is willing to do such job, the tipping system expects that you appreciate their coming to such location to serve you, even though you are paying for the product (meal) already.
The system is used to protect small businesses so they can break even by having enough hands to meet demand without having to use all funds for salary apym6

Different countries, different cultures

Osidazz19:
After close to 40 years of living in the US, I'm not not comfortable with the idea of tipping.

It is OK to eat at home if you are uncomfortable with tipping. I personally don't like to eat out, so in a year, I may do it like 5 times or less. When I do, however, I like to calculate to make sure I have some money for tips before I do.

Tipping culture goes as far back to when slavery was abolished in the US.

The newly emancipated slaves were barely being paid for menial jobs they could get .

Some chose to outrightly work for themselves on small plots of land .

Those who couldn't afford land or were not bestowed land by their former slave masters had to work on same plantations for next to nothing.

This led to many former slaves refusing to work unless they were paid descent wages.

To counter this, the Dixie south passed laws that made being unemployed illegal. This is the so-called Niggardly laws which was passed to criminalise unemployment in the emancipated slave population.

The Federal govt saw where this was going and knew the unrepentant Dixie south wanted to continue slavery by all means by forcing freed slaves to work for next to nothing .

So the US federal govt passed laws mandating a minimum wage and made it illegal to work for free.

To counter this, most of the Dixie south decided to arrest as much of the freed men to work in prison plantations and have freed women work as housemaids and waiters who were paid for their services in room and board (for maids) and those waiting on tables on tips.

Tipping culture has it's deep roots in American slavery and most waiters/waitresses were mostly coloured folks up till the 70s when young white college students needed extra money.

People forget that America was founded on genocide and slavery .

Fought a civil war over slavery as an institution.

Miscegenation was a criminal offense up till the 60s in most states in the south .

And America only ended racial apartheid in the 60s.

America is not the holy land most people think it is and there are still relics of that slave legacy as we can see with tipping culture, the Prison industrial complex and the free labour it extracts from imprisoned people, section 8 segregated housing , this tipping culture .

America still maintains that forced labour aka slavery is still valid but on the condition that the individuals subjected to such are imprisoned.