Wednesday, June 24, 2009

What To Tip When There Are No Cows

Rather boring subject:
There comes a time at the end of a meal, or in our cases a rather extended reading/coffee date, when you must pay.  Easy enough, taken care of.  Then what?  Do we just saunter out into the Dutch sunshine?  Or do we leave a tip?  Frankly, this has been super stressful trying to figure out what to do.

So, we've asked around and this seems to be the case:

Denmark--tips are built into employees paycheck and you only tip a little if you "want to be nice"
Sweden--same
Germany--comparable to tipping in the US
Holland--again, built in to paychecks and it's usually the tourists who tip.  Totally acceptable to saunter away without another thought. 
Greece--you tip on the dollar.  So if your meal is 7.40 then you only tip 60 cents!  It's true.

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