Been over to the US around 6 times the past 10 years, and first couple were a real shock with the tipping thing. Remember being in a bar and having a few drinks with mates, and the bar girl refused to serve us anymore beers because we owed around $50 in tips apparently ... was the strangest shit I ever saw. Point blank refused to sell us anymore drinks.
She was a bitch about it too, we had no idea tips were needed in bars. So we just picked up and went to another bar ... spent hundreds that night that the first place could have seen.
I did get used to it over there and will leave a tip. Though its still a very strange system ... why don't you just pay reasonable wages and put it into the price of the meal? Very odd way of doing things ... guilting customers into supplementing wages.
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