Scots Taffer on 2/7/2013 at 03:25
The whole "Scots are stingy" thing is an extension of the basic principle that they are quite frugal as a people, historically. This leads to seeing expensive items as wasteful and a general cautiousness about money that can be misread.
The stereotype does get taken too far and can be used pejoratively about Scottish attitudes to tipping, generosity and so on. However Scots people are generally very welcoming and generous (unless you're English), but it does operates under quite a strict set of criteria that can be rather socially bewildering. As an expat I now view most of these "unwritten rules" with a level of disdain that I reserve for the English.
Haha just kidding, Scots don't hate the English.
Everyone does.
Fafhrd on 2/7/2013 at 08:47
Quote Posted by Raven
I have heard $1 per drink... But also alternatively $2-$3
Only if you're trying to nail the bartender, but it probably still won't work.
Briareos H on 2/7/2013 at 08:51
tipping systematically for drinks feels so repulsive to my feeble european mind
Raven on 2/7/2013 at 17:30
Quote Posted by Fafhrd
Only if you're trying to nail the bartender, but it probably still won't work.
That is hilarious considering from whom I got the advice.
I know that will have exactly been the case! :laff:
june gloom on 2/7/2013 at 18:30
Here's some advice: fix the typo in the thread title before ZB's* head explodes.
* actually me, but ZB makes a nice stand-in
PigLick on 2/7/2013 at 18:34
haha I did not even see that until you mentioned it.
Yakoob on 3/7/2013 at 03:06
Didn't we already have a tipping discussion not too long ago?
Anyway, the "15%" is what I always heard, so I usually go in the 10-20% range depending on quality of my service. Still, I think tipping itself is stupid and would much prefer the employers actually paid their waiters proper wages but hey, maybe one day...
