I find that such a wild concept to begin with.
In Germany, yeah, you don't get paid a lot as a waiter/waitress but at least minimum wage and seeing as almost everyone tips anyway even though it's not mandatory, you can actually make good money if you're doing a good job and that's how it should be.
Like, usually people vary their tip according to the service they're getting and idk, it just makes sense to me.
Yeah same. I'm gonna get downvoted for this but relying so heavily on people giving away an amount of money they decide themselves for other people to make a living in a country where a huge part of the population sees universal healthcare as too generous and unnecessary seems wild.
Of course I do understand that people who don't go to restaurants won't have to pay for tips (duh) and that's where the comparison ends. But I still find these expectations a bit illogical.
I don't disagree with you at all, I think it's a patently retarded way of doing employment - but America has a really strong culture of philanthropy. And peer pressure; the two go hand in hand, such that if you make a tonne of cash, it's almost a given that you'll use a chunk of it for charity or similar.
In Germany, yeah, you don't get paid a lot as a waiter/waitress but at least minimum wage and seeing as almost everyone tips anyway even though it's not mandatory, you can actually make good money if you're doing a good job and that's how it should be.
Like, usually people vary their tip according to the service they're getting and idk, it just makes sense to me.
Of course I do understand that people who don't go to restaurants won't have to pay for tips (duh) and that's where the comparison ends. But I still find these expectations a bit illogical.