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It's a VAT, but it's a choose your own VAT, and it's based on what the service is worth to you. The customary amount is 20%, but a lot of people go between 15% and 20%, with my average take home being around 13% because of the people that don't tip. So, choose your VAT. In the end, when adjusted for the cost of living, eating out in the EU is about the same as eating out in the US and adding a tip. The tip is just already included in the meal cost. If we could all agree to do that in the US, then it would be fine, but we can't, so it isn't done. It's part of the establishment at this point, and change is something hard to sort out across 330 Million people all at once.
No idea why you're being downvoted so much, you're absolutely on point for US restaurants. I've served in them, I've managed them (still didn't fucking get paid doing that)
And this press the union button bullshit above is insane. Restaurants have like a 5% success rate already, if they can just yeet entire Starbucks/Walmart locations on a whim, how the fuck do you guys think that's going to go with a restaurant?
Unionizing may be the best route, but we have to stop pretending it's a walk in the park to do.
I'm getting downvoted by the same people who think that it's OK to pirate all the current running TV shows and movies. Everyone is selfish, everyone wants it for free.
There's no problem with piracy if you never ever ever intend to subscribe to a streaming service though. Give me the option to pay for DRM-free .mkv files with differing qualities and bit rates and I'd consider not pirating, provided the prices are reasonable.
Whatever helps you sleep at night.